Last week musician Cody Fry noticed that one of his songs was starting to go viral.

I was walking in the woods one day.

It was just all the sudden that got used in a Chinese reality television program

and then maybe a couple celebrities used it in a post and it was just like off to the races.

His song Things You Said was blowing up. In a single day almost 800,000 people shared it.

To me, the scale was just astronomical.

It was mind-blowing.

Right.

So we're talking streaming numbers that were more than my whole catalog streams in a day.

Cody says that he's had a viral song before and it massively changed his career.

And the last time I played in Indianapolis, it was for like 28 people at the White Rabbit Cabaret Club. Now I'm playing Indianapolis in their symphony hall with their orchestra, which is just, so I mean it's really hard to overstate the

impact these moments can have for an artist because it sort of like grows everything

all at once. Do you make money from having songs on Tik-Tok?

So my understanding is that I do make a little money from Tik-Tok, but it's not very much.

Cody says that the most he's ever made in one month from Tik-Toc payouts is a couple hundred dollars.

Still, when he heard about what was happening with his song, he was thrilled.

But just as his numbers were really starting to climb, something

unexpected happened. Cody's music vanished from Tik-Tock.

I'm pretty sure it happened overnight from the 31st of January to February 1st.

I think when I woke up the next day most videos were muted I thought no this is like the opposite of Christmas morning.

Everyone was someone came and took away all my gifts.

Oh, yeah. Oh, you're laughing, but it's like, it's that you know that like you have to laugh what can you do what can you do but laugh it's just you have to.

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