Pinkpantheress Says There’s a ‘Sensitive’ Reason Why Its Hard for Artists To Get a Hit on TikTok Today |
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Pinkpantheress Says There’s a ‘Sensitive’ Reason Why Its Hard for Artists To Get a Hit on TikTok Today
PinkPantheress addresses the state of music today and why it’s so much harder to get popular on TikTok these days.
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The most surefire way to get a hit today is through online virality. Gone are the days of radio discerning whether or not they’ll blast a song at you every hour. Instead, the song has to pull that trick on your social media algorithms.
You love this song, right? Here it is on every post on TikTok, X, and Instagram. TikTok especially has the secret formula, where you can get lost for hours, satisfying dopamine hits with every scroll. Artists like PinkPantheress made the most of the platform, her bite-sized songs swirling in our heads for days.
It’s Not Easy to Get a TikTok Hit Anymore, according to PinkPantheress
However, the problem seems to be that there........