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In June 2016, Musical.ly had over 90 million registered users, up from 10 million a year earlier. [4] By the end of May 2017, the app had reached over 200 million users. [5] ByteDance Ltd. acquired Musical.ly Inc. on November 10, 2017, and merged it into TikTok on August 2, 2018. At the same time, Musical.ly Inc. changed its name to TikTok Inc. [6]
TikTok was launched in the international market in September 2017. [33] On 9 November 2017, ByteDance spent nearly $1 billion to purchase Musical.ly , a startup headquartered in Shanghai with an overseas office in Santa Monica, California , next to Los Angeles .
[39] [40] [41] By March 2016, "Tik Tok" had sold 6.8 million downloads. [42] As of January 2025, the song has accumulated over 1.4 billion streams on the music streaming service Spotify . In 2024, "Tik Tok" was certified 12× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for selling twelve million equivalent units.
Before Khaby Lame became the most-followed TikTok user on 22 June 2022, Charli D'Amelio was the most-followed TikTok user. D'Amelio became the most-followed TikTok user on 25 March 2020 at 41.4 million followers, surpassing the previous record-holder, Loren Gray . [ 39 ]
The song was released on July 28, 2016, accompanied with a dance music video. It spread to the Chinese video website Bilibili and quickly became viral in China, leading to various spoofs and mimicking dances. [142] [143] As of 27 June 2020, the video received 63 million views on YouTube.
After a viral mashup featuring "Make Your Own Kind of Music" with a clip from the 2022 film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent became a meme on TikTok, the song was used in 46,000 videos. [14] It continued to go viral in TikTok trends throughout 2023.
First released to the public in September 2016, Douyin (Chinese: 抖音; pinyin: Dǒuyīn), previously named A.me, is the Chinese version of TikTok. The application is a short-form video social media platform that differs from its international counterpart version by having more advanced features. [ 76 ]
The TikTok Billboard Top 50 is a chart published weekly by Billboard in the United States. It ranks the most popular songs on the social media platform TikTok in the United States based on a combination of total creations, video views and user engagement on the platform.