Sensing that this could be the source of the streaming spike, I downloaded the app and created an account. It wasn’t until I logged into YouTube that I started seeing a lot of comments mentioning “TikTok.” I had heard of this app, but only that lots of teens use it and Trump wanted to ban it or something. I tried to look around but found nothing on Instagram, nothing on Twitter/Facebook. I finally said to myself, “all right, I’ve gotta figure out what the hell is happening.” I didn’t think much of it I didn’t notice any additional traffic on Instagram, I figured it must be some fluke. In early February, my song “I Hear a Symphony” jumped up inexplicably to 10k daily streams-double it’s normal baseline. Like many indie artists, I keep pretty regular tabs on my Spotify streaming numbers (any artist who says they don’t do this is lying). My song “I Hear a Symphony” has exploded in recent weeks and no one is more surprised than me.
Going viral on TikTok feels like getting struck by lighting. Here is how he described the recent wave, In His Own Words: It was inspiring that he really seemed to overstate his lack of awareness of TikTok (he doesn’t have kids, so…) prior to it catapulting him.
Fry - if you haven’t been following the viral trends - blew up when “ I Hear A Symphony” became the next internet thing.įry told us this very wild story regarding the song - one that he buried on the end of an album in 2017 - all of a sudden becoming a viral sound and his life getting turned upside down from his spotify streams going crazy to labels calling him non stop. Through a mutual friend, American Songwriter was introduced to Cody Fry.