World News – UK – Sea Shanty storms UK top 40 after TikTok madness

A sailor’s song from the 19th The 20th century has found a spot in the UK’s top 40 as traditional sea shanties enjoy a new wave of popularity thanks to the popular short video app TikTok

The song “Wellerman” by The Longest Johns, a band from Bristol in the west of England, is now on No 37, in the official table that takes into account streaming music

The song is also viral at No. 1 on Spotify’s 50, which includes social media shares, in the US and UK, as well as at No. 2 global

“Wellerman” was probably made in the middle of the 19th Written in the early 1900s in New Zealand and tells the story of sailors waging an epic battle with a whale they are hunting

The traditional genre caught attention during the lockdown, particularly due to a Scottish postman, Nathan Evans, who posted his performance of “Wellerman” on TikTok last year, the video has now been viewed more than 8 million times, starting a global trend called “ShantyTok” from “

Music stars picked up the trend and performed their own versions, pop singers Gary Barlow and Ronan Keating sang it together, while composer Andrew Lloyd Webber made a TikTok video of himself playing keyboard accompaniment

Attributes the song’s popularity to Lockdown, Evans says that shanties were originally sung to “bring everyone together,” and this hits a chord when people are isolated

“Especially at this time when everyone is stuck at home, they do their remote work – they can join in, and that brings everyone together,” he said this week

Evans has now signed a record deal with Polydor and released his own version of “Wellerman” as a single this week

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