with one singer in leeds. so this is how busking works in 2021. a crowd of around 30 people in the centre of leeds on a weekday morning. but tens of thousands watching all round the world live on tiktok. you can see people in the comments. like, hi from germany, hi from the philippines, america. itjust, like, brings everyone together really. liv harland is 23 and from york. this is on my spotify. # what does it look like in heaven.# at the start of the year, she decided to change how she busked. now when she travels to london or manchester to take
0ur entertainment correspondent colin paterson hit the streets with one singer in leeds. so this is how busking works in 2021. a crowd of around 30 people in the centre of leeds on a weekday morning. but tens of thousands watching all round the world live on tiktok. you can see people in the comments. like, hi from germany, hi from the philippines, america. itjust, like, brings everyone together really. liv harland is 23 and from york. this is on my spotify. # what does it look like in heaven.# at the start of the year, she decided to change how she busked. now when she travels to london or manchester to take to the streets, she also goes live online.
to release her own songs on spotify. i want to kind of be an artist, really. and that is very, very possible with the platform i built on social media. so the power of social media is crazy. you don t have to go on x factor these days to get recognised. i m bursting with pride. ijust can t. i actually can t take it in how well she s doing and how positive and bubbly she is. and i m so proud. but i was rather getting in the way. so to explain to people watching on tiktok, this is for bbc breakfast, we re doing a piece on liv and how busking has changed. this feels very meta. yeah. explaining to tiktok what s going out on bbc breakfast. yeah. it s crazy that s even happening, to be honest. and the numbers were large. i had 80,000 views within just short of half an hour and 1,500 new followers. wowee! just from like a short little live. yes, online busking is big business. shall we say goodbye? yeah. see you later.
it s almost a healing song for me. this is so different to busking of the past, isn t it? yeah. do you know what? it s good. i m not sure how she s not been picked up before. i absolutely love her to death. liv has now quit herjob in a kindergarten to concentrate on music full time. it s the online busking, which helped to secure a manager and a deal to release her own songs on spotify. i want to kind of be an artist, really. and that is very, very possible with the platform i built on social media. so the power of social media is crazy. you don t have to go on x factor these days to get recognised. i m bursting with pride. ijust can t. i actually can t take it in how well she s doing and how positive and bubbly she is. and i m so proud. but i was rather getting in the way. so to explain to people watching on tiktok, this is for bbc breakfast, we re doing a piece on liv and how busking has changed. this feels very meta. yeah.
of the past, isn t it? yeah. do you know what? it s good. i m not sure how she s not be picked up before. i absolutely love her to death. liv has now quit herjob in a kindergarten to concentrate on music full time. it s the online busking, which helped to secure a manager and a deal to release her own songs on spotify. i want to kind of be an artist, really. and that is very, very possible with the platform i built on social media. so the power of social media is crazy. you don t have to go on x factor these days to get recognised. i m bursting with pride. ijust can t. i actually can t take it in how well she s doing and how positive and bubbly she is. and i m so proud. but i was rather getting in the way. so to explain to people watching on tiktok, this is for bbc breakfast, we re doing a piece on liv and how busking has changed. this feels very meta. yeah. explaining to tiktok what s going out on bbc breakfast. yeah. it s crazy that s even happening, to be honest. and the numbers wer