{"id":2192713,"date":"2025-12-09T20:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2192713"},"modified":"2025-12-09T20:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:04:10","slug":"how-katseye-reinvigorated-a-60-year-old-song-with-tiktoks-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-katseye-reinvigorated-a-60-year-old-song-with-tiktoks-help\/","title":{"rendered":"How KATSEYE Reinvigorated a 60-year-old Song with TikTok’s Help"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tConnie Francis was 87 years old when she posted her first TikTok<\/a> earlier this year, marveling at an impossible second act: a song she\u2019d recorded in 1962 \u2013 the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis \u2013 was suddenly climbing the charts for the first time and soundtracking millions of videos for an audience born decades after it was recorded. Meanwhile, a girl group with members from four continents was being celebrated as the biggest artist on the planet this year, two years after forming as a band. Welcome to music in 2025.<\/p>\n

\n\tKATSEYE has been crowned TikTok\u2019s Global Artist of the Year 2025, cementing their status as the biggest band on the platform and one of the most influential pop acts in the world today. Formed in 2023 with six members hailing from the U.S., South Korea, Switzerland, and the Philippines, the group has achieved the almost-impossible in an increasingly fragmented music landscape: genuine global reach. In just two years, they\u2019ve amassed over 15 million TikTok followers<\/a>, landed their first Grammy nominations (Best New Artist and Best Pop Duo\/Group Performance), and built the kind of fervent, participatory fanbase that drives music culture the world over.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe had an unforgettable year on TikTok, and it was all because of the EYEKONS who showed up for us every single day,\u201d KATSEYE said in a statement. \u201cYou turned our songs, our moments, and our chaos into something truly global.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat chaos became content gold. Their track \u201cGnarly\u201d emerged as one of TikTok\u2019s Songs of 2025, with its infectious choreography being adopted by everyone from LE SSERAFIM to Camila Cabello. \u201cGabriela\u201d went viral on TikTok<\/a>, racking up 2.4 million TikTok creations on its way to becoming a top-10 Spotify global track and earning a Grammy nod. And their iconic collaboration with Gap, soundtracked with \u201cMilkshake\u201d by Kelis? Over 150 million views on TikTok alone, with a dance recreated by American social media personality and dancer Charli D\u2019Amelio<\/a> and millions of others.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut if KATSEYE represents TikTok\u2019s power to build new stars, then Connie Francis represents something equally remarkable: its ability to breathe new life into older music for a new generation.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cPretty Little Baby,\u201d a sweet, uptempo pop tune, recorded in 1962 by the late, great Connie Francis, became TikTok\u2019s most unexpected viral phenomenon of the year. At its peak, the track was driving over 600,000 daily creations, as users paired it with wholesome pet videos, family moments, and tender relationship clips \u2013 all soundtracked by Francis crooning \u201cpretty little baby, I\u2019m so in love with you.<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd celebrities poured fuel on the fire of its popularity: Kylie Jenner\u2019s video with daughter Stormi racked up over 100 million views<\/a>. Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, Kim Kardashian, Ariana Grande, Shaq, and Jimmy Fallon all joined the trend. The result? A 63-year-old song hit number one on the TikTok Top 50 in both the U.S. and UK, climbed to number 67 on Spotify\u2019s Global Top 100, and became Francis\u2019s most-streamed song ever with 130 million streams on Spotify..<\/p>\n

\n\tFrancis herself joined TikTok to thank fans, calling the revival \u201ca dream come true.\u201d In her first post, she marveled: \u201cTo think that a song I recorded 63 years ago is captivating new generations of audiences is truly overwhelming for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThis duality \u2013 to surface the very best of new music while introducing older music to new generations \u2013 defined TikTok\u2019s 2025. Eight of the year\u2019s ten Billboard number ones had viral TikTok moments first, from Alex Warren\u2019s \u201cOrdinary\u201d to Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s \u201cManchild.\u201d Catalogue tracks like Jess Glynne\u2019s \u201cHold My Hand\u201d and Black Eyed Peas\u2019 \u201cRock That Body\u201d were discovered by new fans for the first time. Doechii\u2019s 2019 demo of Anxiety became a Billboard top-10 smash hit, thanks to the Fresh Prince of Bel Air-inspired dance trend, featuring Will Smith himself.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n\tThe platform also continued championing emerging talent through initiatives like Behind the Breakthrough, which shines a light on the best new emerging talent that got its big break on TikTok, such as Ravyn Lenae\u2019s \u2018Love Me Not\u2019<\/a>, which went to number five on the Billboard Hot 100.<\/p>\n

\n\tTikTok\u2019s critics have long questioned whether the platform is influencing music and culture in a healthy and diverse way. But 2025 offered a compelling answer: when a newly minted girl group and a 63-year-old track can both dominate cultural conversation, the old rules simply don\u2019t apply anymore. The algorithm doesn\u2019t care about your release date. It only cares if you connect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n