How Lil Nas X Took ‘Old Town Road’ From TikTok Meme to No. 1 | Diary of a Song
Why the open web links it
Examines how Lil Nas X leveraged TikTok and genre fusion to turn 'Old Town Road' into a chart-topping hit.
Linked by 9 independent sites, 4 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including wikipedia.org, salesforce.com, berklee.edu, mla.org, thespinoff.co.nz.
Cited in 3 Wikipedia articles, including TikTok, Old Town Road, TikTok Billboard Top 50.