{"id":108934,"date":"2023-10-10T16:18:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T16:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/10\/10\/sas-tyla-makes-historic-us-billboard-hot-100-debut\/"},"modified":"2023-10-10T16:18:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T16:18:01","slug":"sas-tyla-makes-historic-us-billboard-hot-100-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/10\/10\/sas-tyla-makes-historic-us-billboard-hot-100-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s Tyla makes historic US Billboard Hot 100 debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><p>Tyla is also the youngest South African musician to feature on the US&#8217;s Billboard Hot 100 list<\/p><div id=\"article-text\">\n                        \n\n                        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The viral hit Water by 21-year-old South African singer Tyla has made this week\u2019s Billboard Hot 100, after trending for several weeks on TikTok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is the first solo song by a South African musician to make it to the US singles chart since jazz legend Hugh Masekela\u2019s 1968 Grazing in the Grass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m a South African girl born and raised in Johannesburg. This is crazy,\u201d Tyla tweeted on Monday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Amapiano musician\u2019s song debuted at number 67 and has inspired the viral water dance challenge on TikTok, resulting in it being used more than 500,000 times in videos posted on the app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amapiano is a South African style of electronic dance music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Billboard Hot 100 is the most popular music ranking chart in the US, published each week by Billboard magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Billboard announced Tyla\u2019s entry on Monday night, ahead of the release of this week\u2019s full list on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Water has already broken several other records on Spotify and YouTube.<\/p>\n \n                               <p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>      \n                <!-- Post Tags -->\n                \n\n                         \n                                             \n                    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyla is also the youngest South African musician to feature on the US&#8217;s Billboard Hot 100 list The viral hit Water by 21-year-old South African singer Tyla has made this week\u2019s Billboard Hot 100, after trending for several weeks on TikTok. 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