The TikTok app has a large library of sounds and songs that creators can use in the background of their videos. The app's sound functionality has allowed certain songs to become used in explosively ...

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Some songs that go viral on TikTok are easy enough to explain. Sometimes a catchy, Top 40 song is featured in a viral video and then becomes its own meme. But what happens when a little known song ...

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"Do it for the Vine" was the unofficial slogan of the now-defunct, once wildly popular short-form video app Vine. You'd hear people shout it from behind their phone cameras as they filmed their ...

TikTokers are obsessed with a new song by rapper Civ called "1 AM," and it's all thanks to an AI bear. For the last month, ...

The "I got the horses in the back" meme has gone viral thanks to "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X. The song has inspired TikTok users to do the Yeehaw Challenge. TikTok users have turned the song "Old ...

The "Pretty Boy Swag" meme on TikTok is inspiring people to turn themselves into their favourite pop culture figures and it's the app's best trend yet. TikTok is on its way to becoming the new Vine ...

Jess Glynne’s track Hold My Hand has been named TikTok's UK song of the year a decade after its release, thanks to the viral "nothing beats a Jet2 holiday" trend. The 2015 hit has long been tied to ...