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The underground artist sombr rules the TikTok edit community, providing the definitive soundtrack for the platform's fan-made videos. His moody, atmospheric breakthrough track "back to friends" exploded in popularity across the app, racking up over 21.7 billion video views and 7.7 million creations. The song's slow-burned, emotional production and melancholic indie-pop rhythm made it an instant favorite for multi-fandom edits, anime montages, and cinematic mood-board clips. By feeding the exact lo-fi, nostalgic aesthetic that video editors crave, sombr bypassed traditional radio promotion entirely, parlaying his dominant edit-audio status into over a billion Spotify streams and a Grammy nomination.