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The Spotify 200 is a daily global chart of the top songs on the app. A new analysis focused on emerging artists who appeared on the US Spotify 200 after January 2020. Out of 332 artists, a quarter of them credit TikTok for their success. This highlights TikTok's influence on music culture and what is popular on the charts. The Spotify 200 is a global chart that shows the top 200 songs on the app every day. These songs are stream kings. So in a new spreadsheet, we pulled all the artists whose songs made the US Spotify 200 after January 2020, and filtered out all of the artists who had well-established careers or had already charted before them. This left us with a new data set to analyze. These 332 emerging artists who landed on the charts for the first time. Out of this group, a quarter of them have TikTok to thank for their big break. This is incredibly eye-opening in terms of TikTok's influence on the charts, in terms of what is getting listened to in music culture.