Lizzo Is TikTok’s High Artist of the Yr – Billboard

Think about Lizzo the undisputed queen of TikTok. On Tuesday (Dec. 6), the social media platform revealed in its year-end report that the singer held the title for many video views of the yr.

“Viral sensation,” Lizzo put it merely when retweeting a report of the information. The Grammy winner was adopted in Nos. 2 by means of 5 by Bella Poarch, Unhealthy Bunny, Charlie Puth and Doja Cat, whereas Selena Gomez, Nessa Barrett, Yung Gravy, Billie Eilish and Meghan Trainor rounded out the highest 10.

Moreover, Lizzo’s choreography for “About Rattling Time” finally landed at No. 7 on the record of TikTok’s most viral moments of the yr.

The favored app additionally helped many a newcomer break by means of this yr and launched its countdown of the highest 10 rising artists of the yr and their hit songs, together with Ice Spice (“Munch [Feelin’ U]”), JVKE (“Golden Hour”), GloRilla (“F.N.F.”) and Benson Boone (“Stars”). TikTok additionally performed a significant function in Steve Lacy incomes his first No. 1 with “Unhealthy Behavior,” the preliminary explosion of Latto’s “Massive Power,” Omar Apollo touchdown his first-ever Sizzling 100 hit with “Evergreen,” and Muni Lengthy bounding into the highest 20 with “Hrs and Hrs.”

In different Lizzo-related information, the singer launched her yuletide cowl of Stevie Marvel’s “Sometime at Christmas” solely on Amazon Music in latest weeks — which to date has cracked the Sizzling 100 at No. 94 (chart dated Dec. 10) — and opened up in a brand new interview concerning the racism she’s skilled throughout the pop music trade.

Learn Lizzo’s response to her newest TikTok achievement under.