Ashnikko's "Stupid"

About

Ashnikko's "Stupid" is a single released in July 2019 by American-born rapper Ashnikko. The track which is the off the artist's third album "Hi, It's Me" gained notoriety through its common usage in TikTok videos. Many compared the song's rise to fame to Lil Nas X's Old Town Road.

Origin

On July 12th, 2019, Ashnikko released the track "Stupid" to Soundcloud (shown below). The song gained over 1.5 million plays and 46,700 likes in three months.

Spread

On September 21st, 2019 Ashnikko heard that her track was being used frequently on TikTok by Twitter^[2] user @feistysin (shown below, left). On September 30th, Ashnikko reacted on Twitter^[3] to her song hitting the viral 50 playlist on Spotify (shown below, right). Haulix^[4] and Cool Accidents^[1] published articles about the popularity of the song on TikTok.

On October 3rd, Ashnikko upload a TikTok video of herself watching another TikTok upload in which someone comments on the dance trend associated with her song (shown below, left). The video accumulated over 37,200 likes and 400 shares in a month. On October 16th, 2019, Ashnikko uploaded another TikTok in which she uses her own song (shown below, right). The video gained over 1.5 million likes and 32,500 shares in 20 days.

On October 18th, Genius uploaded a video of Ashnikko explaining the meaning behind her lyrics (shown below, left). The video garnered over 2.2 million views in two weeks. On October 22nd, Ashnikko release the official video for the song which gained over 4.4 million views in ten days (shown below, right).

On October 28th, Miley Cyrus uploaded a TikTok video in which she dances to "Stupid" (shown below). The video accumulated over 1.9 million likes and 54,700 shares in three days.

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