The Sea Shanty Tik Tok craze which has Grimsby connections
With its strong maritime history the town is strongly linked to more than a couple of shanties
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This year has already sprung a few surprises suggesting it might be every bit as unusual as 2020 - including the entry of Sea Shanties into the UK Top 40.
In amongst some of the more worrying and serious news happening at the moment, seeing traditional seafaring songs are making a return using the social media power of Tik Tok has a heart-warming edge to it.
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The U.K. group, whose song Wellerman kicked off the shanty trend on TikTok, was the subject of a transatlantic bidding war.
U.K. folk group The Longest Johns, whose song “Wellerman” kicked off the TikTok sea shanty trend after it was covered by Scottish singer Nathan Evans on the platform, have signed global recording and touring deals with Universal Music’s Decca Records and UTA, respectively.
The recording agreement, a partnership between Decca in the U.K. and Verve Records in the U.S., covers multiple albums,
Billboard has confirmed. Decca/Verve and UTA beat out multiple major labels and live agents to sign the group, who became the subject of a transatlantic bidding war.