[4] The longest running number one song on the chart is currently "Million Dollar Baby" by Tommy Richman, which stayed at the top for ten consecutive weeks.
[5] The video-sharing platform TikTok gained global popularity in the year 2019, and surpassed 2 billion mobile downloads worldwide in October 2020.
[6][7] TikTok has allowed many music artists to gain a wider audience, and has spawned several viral hit songs.
[8][9][10] Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the platform has also launched many songs that failed to garner initial commercial success into sleeper hits.
[13][8][14] A more recent example being 2023's "Paint the Town Red" by Doja Cat, which also topped the US Billboard Hot 100 after going viral on TikTok and became a worldwide hit.