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The Official Chart: First Look, which airs on BBC Radio 1 today between 6pm – 7pm, offers a first glance of the Top 20 ahead of Friday’s Official Singles Chart Top 100. The chart is based on preliminary sales and early streaming reports.
Nathan Evans’ Wellerman ft. 220 Kid and Billen Ted is taking on Lil Nas X’s Montero (Call Me By Your Name) for this week’s Number 1 single following the latter’s tight Number 1 debut.
Wellerman is in the lead on today’s First Look but it’s set to be another close race, with the two tracks just 500 chart sales apart after 48 hours.
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New meets old in a viral trend which mixes modern music with mediaeval sounds
Shakira’s sultry 2006 dance hit Hips Don’t Lie got the bardcore treatment by being set to mediaeval sounds.PHOTO: REUTERS
Bored during lockdown in Germany, Singaporean engineer Stanley Yong (above) decided to set Shakira s sultry 2006 dance hit Hips Don t Lie to mediaeval instruments, which went viral.PHOTO: STANLEY YONG
A visual in the mediaeval Bayeux Tapestry style for a bardcore cover by Elise Roth of WAP by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion.PHOTO: ELISE ROTH, VOCALIST/YOUTUBE
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Shakira, but make it mediaeval: Bardcore takes today s music back in time
Bardcore has given the mediaeval treatment to modern hits from Foster The People s Pumped Up Kicks to Kelis Milkshake.PHOTO: STANTOUGH/YOUTUBE
A visual in the mediaeval Bayeux tapestry style for a bardcore cover by Stantough of Hips Don t Lie by Shakira.PHOTO: STANTOUGH/YOUTUBE
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Nathan Evans
Evans rose to viral fame earlier this month after posting TikTok videos performing traditional sea shanties the type of work song originally sung by sailors on large merchant ships.
Nathan Evans, the Scottish singer and former postman behind TikTok s sea shanty craze, has sailed his way to a record deal with Universal s Polydor Records, the U.K.-based label confirmed Friday (Jan. 22).
Evans rose to viral fame earlier this month after posting TikTok videos performing traditional sea shanties, which are a type of folk song originally sung by sailors on large merchant ships. The clips, including his popular rendition of New Zealand whaling ballad Soon May the Wellerman Come, spurred a TikTok phenomenon whereby users have been creating EDM remixes of sea shanties, performing skits dressed up as sailors and creating sea shanties of their own.
Nathan Evans, the Scottish singer and former postman behind TikTok's "sea shanty" craze, has sailed his way to a record deal with Universal's Polydor Records.