Music news: Want it trending? Put it on TikTok!
For a song to become a hit, it used to have to be played on radio stations every hour of every day.
Remember sitting in the car flipping through radio channels and just hearing the same song on repeat? That’s how music would go viral. Not anymore.
In 2025, for a song to be a hit, you just need to upload it to social media platform TikTok, sing along or do a silly little dance, and boom - it’s a hit.
Music News Blitz writer Evie Scroggie explains more…
Talent scouting
New artists are no longer being scouted out by record labels at talent shows or open mic nights.
The new talent scouts are the TikTok users, if they hear something they like, they blow it up.
Record labels simply need to log into TikTok and take a look at what’s trending that day, if it’s a new music artist gaining a lot of popularity, they know to keep them on their radar.
10 seconds is all you need
The majority of TikTok videos are around the 10 second mark, so that’s really all these creators need.
Let’s be realistic, we’ve all got that one song we learnt from TikTok where we know that one part from the video but never the whole song.
As long as the music uploaded has a great chorus or a catchy verse that can be cut into a short video, you’re golden. And if it doesn’t have one - make one.
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The revival of the old
It’s not just the new music that can go viral on TikTok. Quite often songs that came out decades ago get a second shot in the charts due to blowing up again on TikTok.
The charts can act like a time machine, driving around listening to music on the radio that you heard several years beforehand.
One day, a boy on a skateboard randomly decided to use Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” in the background of his video, and suddenly it’s the new Gen Z album and gets launched back to the top of the charts.
Basically, what I’m saying here is, if you’re an artist and you want to get your music out there, post it on TikTok.
Forget sending it to a record label, forget those open mics - make a 10-second video with the best part of the song and hit post. You’ll be viral before you know it.
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