Thanks to Tik Tok what is old is new again

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Proving that essentially all of pop history is now fair game for a TikTok revival, one of the biggest-growing streaming hits of 2022 now belongs to Nixon-era one-hit wonder Edison Lighthouse, with their bubblegum smash “Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes).”

The song, which reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1970, has seen an explosion in its streaming consumption after the song started getting adapted into a TikTok meme of users posting clips and photos of themselves to accompany the song’s lyrics — usually the opening lines, “She ain’t got no money/ Her clothes are kinda funny/ Her hair is kinda wild and free/ Oh but love grows where my Rosemary goes…”

Over the 10-day period from Dec. 25 to Jan. 3, the song received a combined 2.705 million on-demand audio streams, according to MRC Data. That number is up from a mere 170,000 on-demand audio streams from the prior 10-day period (Dec. 15-24), a staggering growth of 1,490%. The song has also moved onto Spotify’s daily US top 200 chart, just outside the top 100 as of Tuesday’s (Jan. 4) listing.

It’s hardly the first time a hit from the ’70s has gone viral enough on TikTok to impact the charts anew in the 2020s: Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams,” of course, achieved such a revival following its appearance in a massively popular video by user doggface208 that the 1977 Hot 100 No. 1 hit re-entered the chart in Oct. 2020, eventually climbing back as high as No. 12. But while “Dreams” has proven one of the most enduring, oft-covered hits from the era — from a beloved group of Rock and Roll Hall of Famers — “Love Grows” and Edison Lighthouse bear a more modest legacy, albeit one that still includes a number of covers, and appearances in hit 21st century movies like Shallow Hal and The Kissing Booth.

Tik Tok is a complete abomination...
...Worst of all are the geniuses pretending to have a mental disorder that they clearly know nothing about.

Tik Tok is a complete abomination and I hate it with every fiber of my being. Horrible acting, grotesque facial expressions, people trying to be funny or edgy but failing miserably at it. Worst of all are the geniuses pretending to have a mental disorder that they clearly know nothing about. Tik Tok is proof that the human race is hopelessly doomed.

I don't do Tic Toc, but when I play 70s songs on YouTube, the comments section is usually full of statements like "I'm 19 years old and I love this song!".

I think Tik Tok is one of the reasons the human race *deserves* extinction.

LOL! I'll second that.

The human race deserved extinction since the millennium hit due to the state of politics, environment, & world affairs. Tik Tok is just sprinkles on top of icing on top of cake. There is aLOT more pressing issues to worry about than Tik Tok. Tik Tok is mostly just another symptom of a MUCH more serious problem. BTW I remember the Trump administration & other politicians talking about banning Tik Tok in the US due to it being owned by the Chinese & the Chinese caused Covid or something. IDK what the reasoning of Tik Tok being owned by the Chinese has to do with why it should be banned except some people believe that the Chinese intentionally caused Covid. Yet those same politicians think it is perfectly acceptable for US big business to outsource jobs to the Chinese child labor force instead of hiring Americans & paying any taxes to the US government

i've not a clue as to what tiktok even is.

It's a social media app where people post little video clips.

Apparently it's also owned by some Chinese company and may be full of spyware.

And I've heard that the videos it presents to you are all dictated by the first several videos you ever watch - then it locks in on some simple algorithm and shows you the same sort of themed stuff forever - new content, but same genre.