Flo Milli Remains Atop TikTok Billboard Top 50, MGMT Breaks Into Top 10
Flo Milli’s “Never Lose Me” ranks at No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart for a second week, while He Is We’s “I Wouldn’t Mind” vaults to No. 2 on the ranking dated Jan. 27.
The TikTok Billboard Top 50 is a weekly ranking of the most popular songs on TikTok in the United States based on creations, video views and user engagement. The latest chart reflects activity Jan 15-21. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50.
“Never Lose Me” attains a second week at No. 1 concurrent with continued gains on streaming services that report to the Billboard Hot 100 and its genre-based charts. The song, released in November 2023, tops 10 million official U.S. streams for the first time, jumping 24% from 9.9 million to 12.1 million streams Jan. 12-18, according to Luminate. As such, the song leaps 42-37 on the Hot 100 as the tally’s greatest gainer in streaming.
As previously reported, “Never Lose Me” is largely driven by a variety of trends, with a more recent theme being uploads highlighting the “never had a bitch like me” lyric.
He Is We’s “I Wouldn’t Mind” has also been previously highlighted, following its debut on the Jan. 20 survey at No. 8. A sped-up edition of the 2010 track continues to drive the most attention, with the song’s TikTok uploads spanning a viral dance trend, POV videos and more. The song concurrently sports a 16% gain in official U.S. streams to 2.5 million.
A few more previously covered songs – Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor,” Cordelia’s “Little Life” and Project Pat’s “Choose U” – round out the top five, with the latter two reaching the top five for the first time.
“Choose U” isn’t the only place where you’ll find Project Pat in the top 10. “Good Googly Moogly,” featuring DJ Paul and Juicy J, joins the track in the top 10 by vaulting 18-7.
The main trend for “Good Googly Moogly” on TikTok features creators ogling someone, showing surprise at a passerby or other eyebrow-raising reactions, set to the “good googly moogly” line in the 2006 track’s chorus. Some more recent uploads with higher volume of interactions on the platform include photos and videos of users’ newborn babies, showing how people announced the birth of their children vs. how the child actually looked like when they were born.
Project Pat becomes the fifth different act to land more than one song in the TikTok Billboard Top 50’s top 10 in a single week since the ranking’s September 2023 inception. Nicki Minaj has done so three times, while Lana Del Rey, Kanye West and Drake have accomplished the feat once apiece.
One final song appears in the chart’s top 10 for the first time: MGMT’s “Time to Pretend,” which debuts at No. 9. The lead track from the duo’s 2007 breakout Oracular Spectacular, “Time to Pretend’s” overarching trend involves creators using the same or similar photos, both with the same caption – but using different emojis to represent that the same phrase can mean different things for one’s life.
“Time to Pretend” was MGMT’s first Billboard-charting song when it peaked at No. 23 on the Alternative Airplay survey in May 2008. The song snagged 1.8 million official U.S. streams in the latest tracking week, a 28% gain.
Just outside the TikTok Billboard Top 50’s top 10, Muni Long’s “Made for Me” debuts at No. 12. Its trend highlights the song’s “Twin/ where have you been? / nobody knows me like you do” lyric, with users making videos with friends, family or significant others. Long herself has also posted TikToks lip-synching to the song, as have Chloe, That Girl Lay Lay and more.
“Made for Me” debuts on the Hot 100 dated Jan. 27 at No. 93, Long’s third appearance on the ranking and first solo since breakthrough “Hrs and Hrs” peaked at No. 16 in February 2022.
Ariana Grande’s “Yes, And?,” which debuts at No. 1 on the Hot 100, makes an appearance on the TikTok Billboard Top 50, bowing at No. 23. It’s Grande’s third song on the tally since it began and first non-holiday entry, as “Santa Tell Me” and “Last Christmas” comprised her previous appearances.
See the full TikTok Billboard Top 50 here and on the TikTok app. You can also tune in each Friday to SiriusXM’s TikTok Radio (channel 4) to hear the premiere of the chart’s top 10 countdown at 3 p.m. ET, with reruns heard throughout the week.
Kevin Rutherford
Billboard
