The song, jointly credited to Nathan Evans and remixers 220 Kid and Billen Ted by the Official Charts Company (OCC), reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart and number 1 on sales. From Wellerman to Drunken Sailor, sea shanties are attracting the attention of landlubber TikTokers. It … Because of its origins on TikTok, the trend of performing sea shanties like "Soon May the Wellerman Come" on social media has been called "ShantyTok". Lifestyle Sea shanty TikTok: what is a Wellerman, who is Nathan Evans - and why #ShantyTok is trending during Covid-19 The songs were usually used to inspire camaraderie among shipworkers – … Wellerman - Sea Shanty is a popular song by N A T H A N E V A N S S | Create your own TikTok videos with the Wellerman - Sea Shanty song and explore 40K … I don't really know what happened," says the guy at the center of it all. "2021 is the year of the sea shanty," Twitter user @Beertheist declared in a viral tweet on Monday, reposting a TikTok that showed 23-year-old Promise Uzowulu reacting to his brother, 21-year-old Frankline Uzowulu, playing "The Wellerman" in the car. TikTok star behind 'Wellerman' sea shanty craze quits job as mailman "Oh my God, I was a postman on Friday. In the final week of 2020, Nathan Evans, a 26-year-old Scottish postman and aspiring musician, shared a video of himself on TikTok, singing a sea shanty called “Soon May the Wellerman … I have just signed to the biggest record label in the world," Evans told fans on TikTok. Wellerman (Sea Shanty) is a cover of The Longest Johns – Wellerman created by Nathan Evans. The Wellington Sea Shanty Society recorded Soon May The Wellerman Come on their 2013 album, Now That’s What I Call Sea Shanties Vol 1, and again in 2018. All of them were links to a TikTok video of several guys singing a song, a sea shanty from the 19th century called “Wellerman,” using TikTok’s duet feature. "It went wild. The song was originally posted on TikTok, and it … TikTok is currently overrun with people singing “The Wellerman,” a sea shanty about the New Zealand whaling industry. Scottish postman, @nathanevanss’ life changed overnight when he posted a TikTok video of him singing the famous sea shanty The Wellerman. The video broke open a dam for sea shanties to become a Twitter sensation as well. Wellerman, a sea shanty from the 19th century, has gone viral on TikTok thanks to a scottish folk singer, creating Shanty Tok in the process. No, you haven’t accidentally started listening to Blackbeard’s playlist, you’ve stumbled upon Sea Shanty TikTok - welcome aboard!.