Russ and Tion Wayne score Tiktoks UK song of 2021 with their hit “Body”.
The song was a record-breaking track that took the UK drill genre to an international level that it previously hadn’t reached, the track was the first Drill track to ever go number 1 in the UK and had a continuous run of 3 weeks at the yop of the UK charts.
The track had help from the remix which featured 3x3E1, ZT, Buggzy Malone, Fivio Foreign, Darkoo, Buni and Ardee, whose lyrics “Have you seen the state of her body(Mad) if I beat it I ain’t wearing a johnny. Adeola wanna roll with a geezer” had a big influence on the virality of the moment, with people using the sound on Tiktok and other apps. The remix currently sits on 79 million youtube views with the original sitting on a still respectable 60 million views.
The Hashtag #bodyremix has more than 200 million views on the app, BBC 1xtra broke the news and were told by the rappers behind the hit that “Tiktok is the new thing, man.” ”It’s great to see everyone get together and make trends go viral. Everyone got involved, We appreciate it.”
Body’s virality made it an international track, the song went number 1 not only in the UK but in Australia, Ireland and New Zealand, as well as this the track went 2x platinum in Australia, platinum in Canada, gold in Denmark, platinum in Italy, gold in Portugal and platinum in the UK. The song didn’t only go viral online but became an international hit.
Since the release of the track, Tion has gone on to release his debut album Green With Envy which featured the chart-topping track as well as tracks alongside the likes of Arrdee, Polo G, NSG, D-block Europe, Raye, Afro B, Davido, 6lack, Joe Black, Rimzee, Scorcher and Potter Payper. A project that debuted 5th on the official charts, Tion also went to feature on the remix of Ed Sheeran’s chart-topper “Bad Habits” which sat at number one for 11 weeks and featured a remix with Tion Wayne, Central Cee and Fumez the engineer.
Russ hasn’t been as active since the release of “Body” having dropped appeared on 4 singles, 3 of which were the rappers solo singles and one which featured Raye and wewantwraiths and was a single by producer duo Dabeatfreaks. Russ singles were titled “6:30” which currently sits on just over 9.5 million Spotify streams, “Exciting” with 4 million Spotify streams and “Baby Shark” which currently has 24 million Spotify streams.
