WASHINGTON — What is old is new again. Sea shanties, the centuries-old seafaring tunes, have exploded on TikTok and other social media apps. Videos with #seashanty have been watched 2.8 billion times ...

There have definitely been some interesting TikTok trends that have happened in the last year. They usually have more to do with trendy new dance moves or viral songs, but this time TikTok has revived ...

It seems like there's always a new TikTok sensation that has the Internet buzzing, but not many of them can be traced back hundreds of years. The sea shanty trend is an exception, since the same ...

What do you do with a drunken sailor? Put him on TikTok and make him a sensation. A recent trend on the video-sharing app has many people discovering and loving sea-shanties—and sounding like they're ...

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. Erin ...

When I woke up last Friday morning, I realized I had several messages. All of them were links to a TikTok video of several guys singing a song, a sea shanty from the 19th century called “Wellerman,” ...

In addition to its usual dance trends and viral songs, TikTok has now resurrected the centuries-old tradition of sea shanties. The Encyclopedia Brittanica defines a sea shanty as a “sailors’ work song ...

The man who put centuries-old folk songs into the social-media spotlight is now sailing into stardom with a record deal and a new single — based on the sea shanty that ushered in the most ...

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 Beach Boys had the most successful sea shanty of the rock era with their 1966 single, "Sloop John B." As new musical genres gain popularity, they are often acknowledged with their own ...

Argh, the latest trend in pandemic distraction may be - shiver me timbers - sea shanties. (SOUNDBITE OF VIDEO) UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Singing) There once was a ship that put to sea, and the name of ...