official chart TikTok Billboard Top 50: Paper Planes 2x #1, La La La #3, Always Wanted A Brother #10

[Hector]

"Paper Planes" nabs its second week at No. 1 after initially rising to the top of the Dec. 28, 2024-dated list. Its ascension is tied to a dance trend featuring the tune, which reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2008. It earned 4.2 million official U.S. streams toward the Billboard charts in the week ending Jan. 2, according to Luminate, good for No. 9 on the Hot Alternative Songs chart.

 

Why is "End of Beginning" back? At the end of the song's first verse, Djo's Joe Keery asks, "Remember 24?" Though the lyrics in question reference being 24 years old, TikTok users flipped the script to refer to the year 2024, with some instructing viewers to start playing the song at a certain time on Dec. 31, 2024, so that they'd hear "Remember 24?" right as 2025 began.

 

Naughty Boy's "La La La," featuring Sam Smith, reaches a new peak of No. 3 on the TikTok Billboard Top 50 after leaping into the top 10 for the first time on the Jan. 4 ranking. The song remains driven by a trend featuring two or more people, with one creator lip-synching in the foreground and others dancing or acting out a scene in the background.

 

"La La La" concurrently debuts at No. 101 on the Billboard Global 200, and it sports a 12% jump in U.S. official streams to 3.7 million in the week ending Jan. 2. The tune peaked at No. 19 on the Hot 100 in 2014.

 

And at No. 10, "I Always Wanted a Brother" from the new film Mufasa: The Lion King bows as the week's top debut. The song went viral on TikTok at the tail end of 2024 (the movie was released on Dec. 20, 2024) as users highlighted the way that Scar (voiced by Theo Somolu as a cub) sings the word "brother" (as well as the animation of said singing). It's since been utilized in lip-synching content as well.

 

La La La  Always wished that was an even bigger hit 11 years ago.

[Yog]

1 hour ago, Hector said:

La La La  Always wished that was an even bigger hit 11 years ago.

Because Sam had SWM & INTLO hogging the spotlight and charting, La La La was a global hit but didn't have the time for itself if that makes sense, glad to see it receiving it's flowers.