Chilean artists FloyyMenor and Cris MJ top TikTok’s summer chart –

Earlier this year, various music services published their ‘Songs of the Summer’ list based on their predictions of the tracks that would be sunnytime smashes. Now with autumn drawing nearer, it’s time to see what the *actual* hit tracks were for summer 2024.

TikTok got the ball rolling with some charts yesterday. Chilean artists FloyyMenor and Cris MJ’s ‘Gata Only’ collaboration has been used for 15m creations (videos) on TikTok this summer. That makes it not just the biggest Latin track in the world, but the biggest overall (and globally) on TikTok in recent months.

There’s a strong LatAm showing in TikTok’s global chart. Dominican duo El Alfa and Nfasis; Mexican pair Luis R Conriquez and Neton Vega; and Colombian star Karol G all made the top 10, with Brazilian singer Pabllo Vittar a featured artist on another track in the list.

Tinashe’s ‘Nasty’, which we recently profiled in our Behind The Single slot, was the biggest US track in the chart at number two, with songs by Tommy Richman, Billie Eilish, Sabrina Carpenter and Lay Bankz also making the top 10.

The Latin American surge is much more than a one-platform thing, of course. ‘Gata Only’ is currently the 10th biggest track on Spotify with 29.5m weekly streams, while Karol G’s ‘Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido’ (10th in the TikTok summer chart) is fifth on Spotify with 39.1m weekly streams.

Karol is also the biggest Latin artist on YouTube right now with 153m weekly views of her music there, making her the sixth most-streamed artist on the platform globally. ‘Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido’ is the biggest track in YouTube’s latest weekly global chart, followed by ‘Gata Only’ at number two.

One interesting difference between TikTok and YouTube can be seen from the latter’s weekly chart of the most popular songs being used in YouTube Shorts videos – the most direct comparison to TikTok’s ranking metric. The respective top 10s are almost entirely different: Sevdaliza, Pabllo Vittar and Yseult’s ‘Alibi’ is the only track to appear in both at the time of writing.

That’s something to ponder, but at the wider level, summer hits are summer hits – when they blow up on one platform, that success often spreads to the others. The fact that this year Latin American tracks are continuing to be such a prominent presence reflects the continent’s continued creative clout in the modern music industry.