Jess Glynne: Singer secures British TikTok song of 2025

Georgia Levy-Collinsand

Jordan Kenny,BBC Newsbeat

Getty Images Jess Glynne Is Singing Into A Microphone And Wearing A Short Black Suit Jacket. She Has Long Curly Red Hair. — Glynne’s 2015 song Hold My Hand features in viral Jet2 ad

Ready for this? Hold My Hand by Jess Glynne has been named TikTok song of the year in the UK thanks to the viral ‘nothing beats a Jet2holiday’ trend.

The 2015 hit has been associated with the company’s vacation ads over the years, but it gained new life when TikTok users began using the audio to make a joke about their vacation failures, travel chaos, and mishaps.

After claiming the title of TikTok’s global and British song of the summer earlier this year, the song has gone on to soundtrack around 6.6 million videos on the platform, according to TikTok.

The British singer originally released the song over a decade ago and it became her first chart-topping single.

It’s been ‘crazy’

The 36-year-old Londoner told BBC Newsbeat that she “feels blessed” to land the TikTok title this year.

“It’s an amazing feeling knowing that 10 years later, a song that means so much to me and was such a big part of my journey into music and earning my stripes as a solo artist, and 10 years later being able to celebrate over and over again throughout this year, it’s been crazy,” he said.

Jess said the trend has given the song “new life” and the “joy” she gets from the song has made it one of her favorites to perform.

The pop star revealed she once had to listen to herself on the plane when she went on a Jet2 holiday to the Greek island of Corfu with her family.

“I was a little nervous, I was sitting in the front next to my mother; it was actually quite fun,” she remembers.

Ywaaaaaaqabaaacauwaow== | Stuff Unknown — Hold My Hand was number one in the UK for three weeks in 2015

Getty Images Jess Is Wearing A Dark Orange Strapless Dress. She Wears Large Gold And Pearl Dangling Earrings. She Has Long Red Hair That Reaches Her Shoulders And Blue Eyes. — Hold My Hand was number one in the UK for three weeks in 2015

Despite being part of the internet meme that was all over everyone’s TikTok feed this summer, Jess said hers tends to look a little different.

Typically, when scrolling through the app, the singer stops at cooking videos, cat compliments, and moments where he catches people falling.

But the star admitted that her favorite Jet2 Holiday videos are when parents get their kids to say the famous voice-over line “nothing better than a Jet2 holiday.”

However, his all-time favorite take on the trend featured a man receiving a surprise in his hotel room.

“He went to open the curtain and the window was very small, that really tickled me, it was like a prison cell,” he said.

Jess said the trend’s popularity has shown her how important social media can be for artists and she now sees it as an “amazing way to interact with people.”

“To see how the song has reconnected with the younger generation and everyone has heard it for the first time, it’s really amazing to see,” he added.

The signee rose to fame in 2014 following her appearance on Clean Bandit’s hit Rather Be, followed by her collaboration with Route 94 on My Love, both reaching number one in the UK charts.

She then released her debut album, I Cry When I Laugh, in 2015, which also reached number one.

Her follow-up, Always In Between, also topped the charts in 2018, and she released her self-titled third album last year, which peaked at number six.

Posts on TikTok using Hold My Hand audio have been viewed more than 80 billion times, according to the social media platform.

It also landed second place in the Top 20 Global TikTok Songs of 2025.

But it is not the only old song that the platform has reintroduced this year through trends.

Users rediscovered songs like Rihanna’s Breakin’ Dishes from 2007, Radiohead’s Let Down from 1997 and Black Eyed Peas’ Rock That Body, released in 2010.

But Pretty Little Baby, by the late Connie Francis, beat them all to claim TikTok’s global song of the year, six decades after its release in 1962.

The song was used more than 28 million times and was often featured on the soundtrack of healthy pet, family, and relationship videos.