Bad Bunny’s “DTMF” becomes the first song to debut at No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart since August 2024, bowing atop the Jan. 18-dated survey.
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. 6-12. Activity on TikTok is not included in Billboard charts except for the TikTok Billboard Top 50.
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“DTMF” starts at No. 1 after the release of its parent album, Debi Tirar Mas Fotos, on Jan. 5. It’s the fifth song since the ranking’s inception to debut atop the tally, following FamousSally and YB’s “Wassup Gwayy” (Sept. 23, 2023), Playboi Carti’s “Sky” (Oct. 7, 2023), Bobby Caldwell’s “What You Won’t Do for Love” (Feb. 24, 2024) and Clean Bandit’s “Symphony,” featuring Zara Larsson (Aug. 31, 2024).
It’s also Bad Bunny’s first No. 1 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50, which began in September 2023. His previous best, “Monaco,” peaked at No. 5 in November 2023.
“DTMF” benefits from uploads referencing the song’s lyrics (DTMF is an acronym for the album’s title, which translates to “I should take more photos”), with users lamenting the losses of relatives, pets and relationships with photos and videos of their own. Bad Bunny himself posted a video on TikTok reacting to the trend.
“DTMF” concurrently debuts at No. 38 on the Billboard Hot 100 despite just five days of tracking (Jan. 5-9), earning 11 million official U.S. streams in that span, according to Luminate. It’s expected to sport a sizable gain on the Billboard charts dated Jan. 25 (Jan. 10-16), following its first full week of tracking.
The song reigns over a pair of previous TikTok Billboard Top 50 No. 1s in Stepz’s “Rock” and M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes” at Nos. 2 and 3, respectively, while the top four is rounded out by a newcomer to the region in Braelyn Rankins, Theo Somolu, Aaron Pierre and Kelvin Harrison Jr.’s “I Always Wanted a Brother” from the Mufasa: The Lion King film.
After debuting at No. 10 on the Jan. 11 ranking, “I Always Wanted a Brother” lifts six spots as creators continue to hone in on the “What did you say about my brother?” verse, sung by Taka/Scar voice actor Harrison, and the way the word “brother” is sung, though some instead utilize the eponymous “I always wanted a brother” refrain.
The scene has spawned lip synchs, animation edits and dances, with the song rising another 44% in streams to 4.5 million in the week ending Jan. 9.
G3, the artist name of basketball player LiAngelo Ball, snags the other top 10 debut on the TikTok Billboard Top 10 dated Jan. 18 with “Tweaker,” which bows at No. 6. Released Jan. 10, “Tweaker” became Ball’s first Hot 100 appearance, debuting at No. 29 on the Jan. 18 list via 12.4 million streams.
There’s not yet a highly centralized trend surrounding “Tweaker” on TikTok; users are generally quoting its “I might swerve, bend that corner, whoa” chorus, featuring dances, reaction videos, lip synchs, car footage and more.
There’s one other newcomer to the TikTok Billboard Top 50’s top 10: Flawed Mangoes’ “Dramamine,” which vaults 20-7 in its fifth week on the survey.
“Dramamine” is a cornerstone of what’s known as Hopecore TikTok, which generally consists of inspirational messages/quotes, videos and the like.
Ethel Cain’s “Strangers” is looming directly outside the top 10, starting at No. 11. Despite Cain releasing a new album, Perverts, on Jan. 8, “Strangers” is actually from her previous album, 2022’s Preacher’s Daughter. The TikTok-viral edition of the song is a pitched-up edit, with many users ranking the ways in which Cain sings the lyric “Am I making you feel sick?” toward the end.
See the full TikTok Billboard Top 50 here. 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.
