The popular song “Water” by Tyla, a 21-year-old singer from South Africa, has entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week. This achievement comes after the song gained a lot of attention and became trendy on TikTok for several weeks.
This is the first song by a musician from South Africa to reach the US singles chart by themselves since Hugh Masekela’s song “Grazing in the Grass” in 1968.
I am a girl from South Africa who was born and grew up in Johannesburg. “This is nuts,” Tyla posted on Twitter Monday evening.
The musician’s song first appeared at 67th place and has caused the TikTok water dance challenge to become popular. As a result, the song has been used in over 500,000 videos on the app.
Amapiano is a type of music from South Africa that you can dance to.
The Billboard Hot 100 is a list of the most popular songs in the US that is published every week by the magazine called Billboard.
Billboard revealed that Tyla is joining the list on Monday night, before the complete list for this week comes out on Tuesday.
Water has already made a lot of achievements on Spotify and YouTube.
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South Africa’s Tyla makes historic entry on US Billboard
