"Water" is a song by South African singer Tyla, released through Fax and Epic Records on 28 July 2023 as the lead single from her upcoming debut EP. The song went viral with a "dance challenge" on TikTok, and made Tyla set a historic debut on the Billboard Hot 100. She became the youngest-ever South African and the first South African soloist in 55 years to enter the US Billboard Hot 100, following Hugh Masekela's "Grazing in the Grass" in 1968. The song has reached number one in New Zealand and the top ten in Australia, Denmark, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, South Africa, Ireland and Sweden. Background The song gained traction on TikTok in August 2023 when Tyla began posting herself doing a dance to the song that was choreographed by South African dancer Litchi, which involves shaking one's hips and kicking one's legs before pouring water down their back in time to the lyrics "Make me sweat, make me hotter, make me lose my breath, make me water". Commercial performance "Water" became Tyla's first song to enter the UK Singles Chart, where it entered the top 10 in October 2023. The song debuted at number 67 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on the chart dated 14 October 2023, becoming Tyla's first entry on the chart. She became the youngest-ever South African and the first South African soloist in 55 years to enter the Hot 100, following Hugh Masekela's "Grazing in the Grass" in 1968. Charts

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Notable quotes

“The challenge of securing safe and plentiful water for all is one of the most daunting challenges faced by the world today. . . . Too often, where we need water we find guns.”
— Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General, as quoted in "Watching the World", in Awake! magazine (8 November 2008)
“[Water] is one of the most investigated of all chemicals, but it is still the least understood ... nothing is as complex in its behaviour.”
— John Emsley, cited in Awake! magazine, 8/22, 2000.
“The water of Zamzam is a cure for whatever (ailment) it is taken for.”
— Muhammad Biharul Anwar, Volume 96, Page 245
“Verily, in the beginning this [world] was water.”
— Yajnavalkya, Satapatha Brahmana (SB XI 1, 6, 1). Quoted from Kazanas, N. (2009). Indo-Aryan origins and other Vedic issues. Chapter 8
“Counsel in the heart of a man is as deep waters, but the man of discernment is one that will draw it up.”
— Book of Proverbs 20:5.
“Est in aqua dulci non invidiosa voluptas.”
— There is no small pleasure in sweet water.

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Notable quotes

“The challenge of securing safe and plentiful water for all is one of the most daunting challenges faced by the world today. . . . Too often, where we need water we find guns.”
— Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General, as quoted in "Watching the World", in Awake! magazine (8 November 2008)
“[Water] is one of the most investigated of all chemicals, but it is still the least understood ... nothing is as complex in its behaviour.”
— John Emsley, cited in Awake! magazine, 8/22, 2000.
“The water of Zamzam is a cure for whatever (ailment) it is taken for.”
— Muhammad Biharul Anwar, Volume 96, Page 245
“Verily, in the beginning this [world] was water.”
— Yajnavalkya, Satapatha Brahmana (SB XI 1, 6, 1). Quoted from Kazanas, N. (2009). Indo-Aryan origins and other Vedic issues. Chapter 8
“Counsel in the heart of a man is as deep waters, but the man of discernment is one that will draw it up.”
— Book of Proverbs 20:5.
“Est in aqua dulci non invidiosa voluptas.”
— There is no small pleasure in sweet water.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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Overview

"Water" is a song by South African singer Tyla, released through Fax and Epic Records on 28 July 2023 as the lead single from her upcoming debut EP. The song went viral with a "dance challenge" on TikTok, and made Tyla set a historic debut on the Billboard Hot 100. She became the youngest-ever South African and the first South African soloist in 55 years to enter the US Billboard Hot 100, following Hugh Masekela's "Grazing in the Grass" in 1968. The song has reached number one in New Zealand and the top ten in Australia, Denmark, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, South Africa, Ireland and Sweden. Background The song gained traction on TikTok in August 2023 when Tyla began posting herself doing a dance to the song that was choreographed by South African dancer Litchi, which involves shaking one's hips and kicking one's legs before pouring water down their back in time to the lyrics "Make me sweat, make me hotter, make me lose my breath, make me water". Commercial performance "Water" became Tyla's first song to enter the UK Singles Chart, where it entered the top 10 in October 2023. The song debuted at number 67 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on the chart dated 14 October 2023, becoming Tyla's first entry on the chart. She became the youngest-ever South African and the first South African soloist in 55 years to enter the Hot 100, following Hugh Masekela's "Grazing in the Grass" in 1968. Charts

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

"Water" is a song by South African singer Tyla, released through Fax and Epic Records on 28 July 2023 as the lead single from her upcoming debut EP. The song went viral with a "dance challenge" on TikTok, and made Tyla set a historic debut on the Billboard Hot 100. She became the youngest-ever South African and the first South African soloist in 55 years to enter the US Billboard Hot 100, following Hugh Masekela's "Grazing in the Grass" in 1968. The song has reached number one in New Zealand and the top ten in Australia, Denmark, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, South Africa, Ireland and Sweden.