“Million Dollar Baby” by Tommy Richman

Tommy Richman had barely a track record when he started floating snippets of "Million Dollar Baby" on TikTok, and by the time the full song dropped on April 26, 2024, an audience was already waiting. He wrote it himself, with a production crew of Max Vossberg, Jonah Roy, MannyVelli, Sparkheem, Kavi and Gidi, and it came out through ISO Supremacy, PULSE Records and Concord.

It was his breakthrough, and a big one: straight in at number two on the Hot 100, number one in Australia, New Zealand and Latvia, top ten across a long list of other countries, and ten straight weeks atop Billboard's TikTok Top 50 from May, the longest run any song had managed there. Critics went for its singular, catchy sound and Richman's voice, and some tipped it early as a song of the summer.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.