ATLANTA — Atlanta’s rising country star Lily Rose found love among TikTok followers in the fall of 2020 with her song “Villain,” which then topped the iTunes sales chart late that year. Within two months, she signed a major record label deal with Big Loud and Republic.
In a sense, she is hardly an overnight sensation, plugging away playing shows on the road the past decade. But TikTok was a major gamechanger.
“I amassed 850,000 followers in seven months,” said Rose, who graduated from Atlanta’s St. Pius X Catholic School in 2011 and is now a Nashville resident. “It changed my life tremendously. Things went from 0 to 500.”
