'Wellerman' streams on Spotify have increased 7000% since sea shanties exploded on TikTok. ... Black Flag" soundtrack), "The Scotsman" by Hair of the Dog, ...

TikTok is currently overrun with people singing “The Wellerman,” a sea shanty about the New Zealand whaling industry. Packed with 19th-century nautical slang, the lyrics aren’t exactly Top ...

From Wellerman to Drunken Sailor, sea shanties are attracting the attention of landlubber TikTokers. "It went wild. I don't really know what happened," says the guy at the center of it all.

Why else would people say things like “2021 is the year of the sea shanty,” or post memes about how “The Wellerman” has become part of the soundtrack of our current state of acute global ...

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 ...

He's a postman no more: Nathan Evans, whose "Wellerman" rendition birthed the sea-shanty TikTok sensation, says he's been signed by Polydor Records.

"The Wellerman," a sea shanty, has a meaning that is both curious and historical—it was born in New Zealand 150 years ago. Let's investigate more here.

A leading maritime music scholar marvels at the virality of #ShantyTok, as a nation of teens and 20-somethings howl about sugar and tea and rum.

You know, sea shanties -- the 18th century songs of sailors laboring on merchant ships. They've taken over TikTok, thanks to Nathan Evanss.

Nathan Evans had no idea when he uploaded a cover of “The Wellerman,” a whaling song with a shanty beat, that it would help touch off, well, a sea shanty tidal wave. Mr. Evans, a Scottish ...