Billboard

Nathan Evans’ Sea Shanty ‘Wellerman’ Sails Onto Billboard Global Charts

Nathan Evans takes his sea shanty "Wellerman" from Tiktok to the Billboard Global charts. By Eric Frankenberg The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts launched in September and ...
Elite Daily

These Sea Shanty TikToks Are The Hot Trend You Didn't See Coming

Break out your pirate telescope, because sea shanties are the hot trend you didn't see coming. This TikTok fad, which began with Scottish singer Nathan Evans, is beyond catchy and an art form in ...
The Conversation

ShantyTok: is the sugar and rum line in Wellerman a reference to slavery?

Amid the global media coverage of the pandemic and Donald Trump’s final days as US president, an unexpected music genre went viral on TikTok: traditional sea shanties, spurring what has become known ...
The Conversation

The viral ‘Wellerman’ sea shanty is also a window into the remarkable cross‑cultural whaling history of Aotearoa New Zealand

In a year of surprises, one of the more pleasant was the recent runaway viral popularity of 19th century sea shanties on TikTok. A collaborative global response to pandemic isolation, it saw singers ...
NME

Viral sea shanty hit ‘The Wellerman’ to be sold as NFTs

'The Wellerman' remix NFT. Credit: Press. The viral remix of sea shanty hit ‘The Wellerman’ is set to be sold as a VIP collection of NFTs. Back in January, Scottish postman Nathan Evans released an ...