The Viral Verb Song on TikTok

On March 8th, I had around 16K followers on TikTok. I posted several videos that night, and within a few days, one of them landed over 4 million views. My following rapidly grew, scaling over 30,000 in a matter of weeks. It’s been an honoring and humbling experience to say the least! This Viral Verb Song has received so much love. Today I’m proud to offer it to you in a new way.

The Story Behind the Songs

If you’ve followed my page for awhile, you know The Viral Verb song isn’t the first of my tunes. I’ve been rewriting the lyrics to popular songs for years in order to add community and engagement to the classroom. Music and writing are two of my side passions, so this was the perfect way to combine them.

When first starting out with songs, I wrote them solely for my classroom. I loved how much my students enjoyed them and would share the videos with my family and friends. I felt the songs were special, but every time I shared a video, the validation was far beyond my expectations. It was then I began sharing them on my Instagram as well.

After sharing several songs on Instagram, the number of requests for the lyrics became overwhelming. One of my followers that suggested I list my songs in my Teachers Pay Teachers Store. This thought had never occurred to me before. “Would people really pay for lyrics?” I wondered. It turns out, they would!

Songs are my Specialty

The Classroom Songs Growing Bundle became my consistent Best Seller by a long shot. Every time I shared song videos from class they outperformed my other content. It was clear they were indeed, my specialty! This was so encouraging to me and gave me drive to continue creating songs.

The Viral Verb Song Surprise

My social media platforms have always grown slow, but steadily over the years. I’m always amazed when I see new content creators soar, because that has just not been my personal experience. Comparison can be tricky for me in this regard. I celebrate every creators growth, but sometimes it can be a hard pill to swallow! I have to remind myself the number is not what is important. Further, the amount of control I have over that number is limited.

I think I’ve always expected (and hoped) that if any of my content went viral, it would be one of the songs. These are near and dear to my heart, so I’m so glad it happened this way. Though I’ve had content perform well over the years, I’ve never experienced it to the magnitude as with the Verb Song.

In fact, I’d recently written a math song I was sure would outshine the Verb Song tenfold. It turns out, for whatever the reasons, the Verb Song caught on. I’ll link the video below so you can watch for yourself!

@mrsmunchsmunchkins

Our new Verb Tenses Song 🎶 #makelearningfun #tiktokteacher #classroomideas #readingteacher #teacherideas #teachertok #teachersoftiktok #2ndgrade

♬ original sound – Mrs. Munch’s Munchkins

A New Offer

Since the success of the video above, I’ve received numerous requests for it to be sold as a single in my TPT Store. While already accessible via the Class Songs Growing Bundle and the Learning Songs Set, many were only interested in this song specifically.

Initially, I didn’t like the thought of this idea. Personally, I don’t feel The Viral Verb Song is any better than another song in the bundle, its just more popular! I didn’t want to sell the song separately and devalue the other song bundles in any way.

But then I started getting a few messages around this theme:

“Hi Melody! I’m a speech pathologist at an elementary school. Many of the students on my case load are struggling with the concept of verbs and I’d love to add your song to my practice. I don’t have a use for your other songs at this time. Is there any way you would sell it separately?”

After a few of those, the decision became clear.

Introducing “Class Song Solo: The Viral Verb Song”

You can now purchase the Viral Verb Song alone in this “Solo Song” product! Though of course, the bundles are still the best value (especially if more than one song is of interest to you,) this is perfect for those wanting to give songs a try or who only have use for this song in particular.

Not sure how to begin introducing class songs? Not to fear, I have a past blog post on that I’ll link here!

I hope your class will enjoy singing this tune as much as my students and I have!

Additional posts you might enjoy:

• Don’t Miss the Magic: Why You Need Class Songs
• Make the Magic: How to Introduce Class Songs
• Advice for Parent Teacher Conferences