12345678 Song TikTok Challenge

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About

12345678 Song TikTok Challenge refers to a vocal warm-up created by TikTokers Viva Acappella (@vivaacappella) in mid-2024. The 12345678 song repeats a string of successive numbers, removing and adding the first number, reading in full, "12345678 2345678 345678 45678 5678 678 78 8." After reaching "8," the sequence reverses backward to the original "12345678" sequence. After the video went viral, users treated the song like a TikTok challenge and posted memes about the song's catchiness.

Origin

On June 22nd, 2024, TikToker^[1] @vivaacappella posted a video of two women doing a vocal warm-up and counting exercise in which they sang a song repeating a string of successive numbers, removing and adding the first number, reading in full, 12345678 2345678 345678 45678 5678 678 78 8." After reaching "8," the sequence reverses back to the original "12345678" sequence. Over nine days, the video received roughly 30.7 million plays and 3.8 million likes (shown below).

@vivaacappella This was never going to work with the whole choir. Two of us put in the hours to nail it! #vocalwarmup #rhythmexercise #rhythm #choirwarmup #singingwarmup #counting #countingexercise #syncopation @Allwell Obi(A-CLEF) ♬ 12345678 – Viva Acappella

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Others on the platform started using the original video's TikTok sound^[2] for their content. For instance, on June 22nd, 2024, TikToker^[3] @_asia704 posted a video of himself dancing to the song, gaining over 523,600 plays and 107,700 likes in nine days (shown below, left).

On June 24th, TikToker^[4] @kavo3x posted a video in which he ranked each lyric of the song, gaining over 8.3 million plays and 1 million likes in a week (shown below, right).

@_asia704 Nah cs why it hit 😭😭🔥 (dc:me🙋🏽‍♀️) #fypシ゚viral #fypp #dance #viral ♬ 12345678 – Viva Acappella

@kavo3x 7, 8 🔥🔥 #fyp ♬ 12345678 – Viva Acappella

On June 25th, 2024, TikToker^[5] @ricklanemusic21 posted a Jersey club remix of the song, receiving roughly 3 million plays and 438,500 likes in six days (shown below, left).

Singing the song became a TikTok challenge in the following week, evident in a video posted by TikToker^[6] @jamesetshona on June 29th, who recreated the song in French, receiving over 2.3 million plays and 205,900 likes in two days (shown below, right).

@ricklanemusic21 ngl This one tuff!!! #12345678song #remix #viral #foryoupage #fyp #jerseyremix #drill #newyork #viralsound #12345678 ♬ 12345678_Jersey club_drill REMIX – RIZZA MUSIC