Key Background. Sped-up remixes of songs blew up on TikTok last year, and some label executives have embraced the trend as a marketing opportunity, Billboard reported.After a fan-made sped-up ...

Sped-Up Songs Are Taking Over TikTok and Driving Songs Up the Charts 11/10/2022 It’s likely that no one is playing more sped-up remixes on the air than SiriusXM’s TikTok Radio, which launched ...

If you use TikTok, you're used to hearing popular songs remixed and sped up. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcasted on July 18, 2024. Find that audio here.

Sped-up songs, mashups and slowed versions are really TikTok’s way of giving that to people.” The sped-up sound has musical roots going back to the mid 2000s, when it originated as a subgenre ...

With sped-up versions of popular songs taking over TikTok and boosting Spotify streams, music industry experts DJ 4Korners and Reanna Cruz look at what’s fuelling this need for speed — and how ...

But its viral hook of "Oh no / Oh no/ Oh no, no, no, no, no" is taken from the '60s hit "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" by The Shangri-Las, then sped up.Coincidentally, the song was later covered ...

From SZA's "Kill Bill" to Steve Lacy's "Bad Habit," sped-up songs are all over TikTok. Here's how they're changing our music listening habits, and the music industry.

The trend of sped-up music is not just limited to TikTok; it’s solidified its place in recreational listening. We no longer just want the best songs, we want the best bits of the best songs ...

Instead of balking at the existence of the sped-up remix, it’s worth understanding where this “new” sound comes from, and how there might be more to it than just shorter attention spans.

Sped up songs: why are music fans becoming captivated by quick TikTok hits? The recent influx of sped-up remixes intended for TikTok have helped push certain songs to the top of the charts.

“Sped up songs are becoming insanely popular,” says Tyler Blatchley, co-founder of the label Black 17 Media, which has producers working on pell-mell renditions of many major-label tracks.

Sped-up listening emerged in the early 2000s as “nightcore”, launched by a Norwegian DJ duo of the same name, who sped up a song’s pitch and speed.