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Have we reached peak shanty yet? You might think that Nickelback getting involved is the death knell. But seemingly not, as the latest TikTok fad is still resulting in deals aplenty.Today it’s the turn of The Longest Johns, who hit the UK top 40 on Friday with their version of nineteenth century song ‘Soon May The Wellerman Come’.

TikTok star Nathan Evans has gone from postman to Polydor in a very short amount of time.

TikTok sea shanty craze has quit his job as a postman after his single crashed into the Top 10.Nathan Evans, 26, helped bring exposure to the craze on the social media app with his version of ‘Wellerman’.The track was a cover of The Longest Johns’ version of the 19th-century sea shanty ‘Soon May The Wellerman Come’. The Bristol band’s version also went viral on TikTok last year.Evans has since released ‘Wellerman’ as an official single after signing a record deal with Polydor.

timelessly chic fisherman sweaters.The trend apparently began with Scottish musician and mail carrier Nathan Evans, 26, who shares solo performances of today’s hits and folk music on TikTok. A recent clip of Evans’ rendition of “Soon May the Wellerman Come,” originally shared in December, has since been scooped by a number of other songmen of social media, each of whom added their own harmonies to the buoyant ditty.