RESOLVING THE LEDGER
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See the full story · 1 sourcesWelcome to Billboard Pro’s Trending Up newsletter, where we take a closer look at the songs, artists, curiosities and trends that have caught the music industry’s attention. Some have come out of nowhere, others have taken months to catch on, and all of them could become ubiquitous in the blink of a TikTok clip. This week: The seemingly imminent return of Tate McRae gets fans buzzing again, while Tove Lo and Justin Timberlake both see decade-old hits return to the pop forefront thanks to viral trends.
Tate McRae Gets Fans Buzzing With Golden Lollapalooza Moment & Teased Return
Following a breathlessly packed 2025 run, Tate McRae was relatively quiet for the first half of 2026, without any new releases or live dates (outside of an appearance at Billboard ‘s Women in Music event in April. But in August, she seems deadset on making up for dormant time. She appeared at a pair of festivals on back-to-back nights to start the month — Osheaga on Aug. 1 and Lollpalooza on Aug. 2 — including a much-buzzed-about moment to close the latter set where she quickly dipped herself in gold body paint. And she also began teasing new visuals on her Instagram account, leading fans to believe that a new era is imminent.
As a result of all the increased attention surrounding McRae — after a long period of dormancy, relatively speaking — many fans returned to her discography on DSPs. For the five days after her two festival dates (Aug. 3-7), her complete catalog totaled over 38.3 million official on-demand U.S. streams, up nearly six million and 18% from just under 32.6 million streams she racked up across the same five-day period the prior week (July 27-30), according to Luminate. Her well-earned break appears to have been well-timed in once again whetting the pop world’s appetite, and it wouldn’t be surprising to see her take advantage of it with a big new release in the year’s final months. — ANDREW UNTERBERGER
TikTok Remix & Dance Trend Boost 22Jay’s “Talking Bodiez” — And Tove Lo’s 2015 Original
It’s been over a decade since Tove Lo hit No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Talking Body,” and now its streams have resurged following a viral TikTok remix and accompanying dance trend.
On July 17, TikTok user @/kjtheproducer4 premiered an ebullient trap remix of “Talking Body” with the caption, “I’ll remix anything.” Almost instantly, TikTok fell in love with the remix, helping the video reach over 7.4 million views in under a month. The accompanying sound now plays in over 201,000 posts, while Tove Lo’s “Talking Body” TikTok sound has surged to over 1.9 million views. By July 30, TikTok user @/realz4y combined a few Dallas-sourced “bend” moves for a dance challenge that also went viral. His Aug. 8 post of the choreography currently boasts over 5.8 million views and 700,000 likes.
According to Luminate, “Bodiez” earned a negligible amount of official on-demand U.S. streams during the week of July 31-Aug. 2, with that number exploding by 10,439% to over 16,400 official on-demand U.S. streams two weeks later (Aug. 7-10). As for Tove Lo’s original, “Talking Body” logged 1.9 million official on-demand U.S. streams during the week of July 24-30, with that number jumping nearly 40% to over 2.65 million official streams the following week (July 31-Aug. 6).
With Tove Lo giving KJ the Producer her co-sign — underneath the TikTok post of his remix, she wrote, “Turned my banger into a different banger” — there’s no telling just how far this remix can go. — KYLE DENIS
Jay-Z 30 Celebrations & Dance Trend Lift Justin Timberlake’s ‘Suit & Tie’
13 years later, the people are still swooning over “Suit & Tie.”
Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z ‘s 2013 collaboration is experiencing a streaming revival thanks to a new TikTok dance trend — as well as younger audience’s general rediscovery of the Brooklyn MC thanks to his stadium-headlining Jay-Z 30 celebrations.
On July 31, TikTok user @/vicmixes1 shared a mashup of “Suit & Tie” and Trey Songz’s “All We Do,” focusing on Jay-Z’s verse and JT’s “oooh ahhh” ad-libs. That post currently boasts over 620,000 views, and by Aug. 5, user @/realz4y — yes, the same high school football player who created the “Talking Bodiez” dance trend — used the sound for yet another dance challenge . That post has since hit over 325,000 views, inspiring hundreds of other users to put their own spin on the dance.
Earlier in the month (July 10) — the same day as the first JAŸ 30 show at Yankee stadium — user @/zodyorr shared a two-person dance challenge set to the original version of “Suit & Tie,” which collected over one million views. The official “Suit & Tie” TikTok sound currently plays in over 1.9 million TikTok posts and 63,000 Instagram Reels .
“Suit & Tie” earned over 915,000 official on-demand U.S. streams during the week of June 19-25. Six weeks alter (July 31-Aug. 6), plays for “Suit” have surged 103% to over 1.8 million official on-demand U.S. streams, according to Luminate. Already a Hot 100 top 10 hit (No. 3), maybe this revival can bring “Suit & Tie” back to Billboard’s all-genre Streaming Songs chart. – KD
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