'Pretty Little Baby': 1962 Connie Francis Song is 2025 Smash Hit
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More than 60 years after its release, Connie Francis' Pretty Little Baby becomes TikTok’s most-used global song of the year as millions embrace the vintage track.
TikTok named it the platform’s Top Global Song of 2025. The track, which never cracked the Billboard Hot 100, is resonating today with legions of new fans around the world. According to TikTok’s year-end report, the song was used in more than 28.4 million videos in 2025 alone and, further demonstrating the extraordinary power and reach of social media, those
videos generated a whopping 69 billion views.
The platform described it as “the perfect soundtrack for wholesome videos featuring family members, pets, relationships and flowers” and the song's surge in popularity started in May, when it topped the TikTok Music Charts with more than 1.3 million posts. The unexpected revival deeply moved Francis (who died in July), who admitted she barely remembered recording the song. "It's a dream come true. To think that kindergarten kids now know my name and my music? It’s just thrilling!” she exclaimed.
Francis later joined TikTok herself, addressing fans directly in her first post on the platform. “I’m flabbergasted and excited about the huge buzz my 1962 recording of ‘Pretty Little Baby’ is making all over the world,” she said, adding that its renewed popularity was “truly overwhelming.”
Connie Francis was an American singer and actress, and one of the top-charting female vocalists of the late 1950s and early 1960s, amassing over 100 million records sold - placing her among the best-selling music artists in history. Pretty Little Baby originally appeared on Francis’ album Connie Francis Sings Second Hand Love & Other Hits and was one of 40 songs she recorded during several sessions over four days in August 1961. Although it was never a chart hit in its original run, TikTok’s embrace has turned it into her most-streamed song.
