He uploads a video clip for it to Youtube with scenes from video game Red Dead Redemption but the song is also on Apple Music and Spotify which all contribute to the official charts these days. He uploads it to soundcloud listed as a new genre “country trap”, blending two genres, country music and trap music, an off shoot of Southern hip hop from the early 2000’s. In December 2018, a 19yo dude living in Atlanta Georgia with his sister not paying bills writes a 1 min 53 sec song called Old Town Road. That was until this week when the Chinese 15 second video platform Tik Tok, known as Douyin inside the People's Republic of China blew the roof off the US country music charts, then the Billboard Top 100 itself, playing an integral role in elevating the biggest song on the planet, Old Town Road by Lil Nas X to it's current preeminence. But outside China, these platforms are finding a tougher struggle to have as much impact. This week we witnessed a Chinese social platform play an integral part in the Billboard Top 100 Charts and nobody is talking about it.įrom Alibaba's TMall and Taobao platforms, to Tencent's WeChat, Chinese digital platforms have transformed daily life inside China.

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