They've done it: The Tyets, duo from Mataró, north of Barcelona, have now earned a platinum disc with their huge 2023 hit, Coti x coti, which has accumulated more than 13 million plays on Spotify. It's remarkable, but the massive number of listens is just the icing on the cake of the real achievement: they have managed to take Catalonia's traditional sardana dance - a marvellous cultural element but with a somewhat staid and sober image - and fuse it into a song which became first a nightclub floor-filler and now a cançó d'estiu, a song of the summer for 2023. The composition, mixing reggaeton and sardana rhythms, is now totting up close to a million listeners a month on Spotify. The two Catalan musicians behind it, Oriol de Ramon and Xavier Coca, are truly surprised by the reception of this hit, and have taken the opportunity to announce new tracks on the way. "We have nothing but good words. Thanks for everything. The tour is going crazy, so is the record, and we have new tracks in the cocktail shaker that I'm sure you'll be burning very soon."
When Coti x coti plays at The Tyets' concerts, or comes on in a nightclub, it's not unusual for groups of young people to form the traditional circle and practice this Catalan group dance among the disco lights... it has been a 2023 musical phenomenon in Catalonia, and perhaps has even given the sardana a new impulse.
@elnacionalcat 🎤🤙🏼 The Tyets han presentat el seu nou disc, 'Epic Solete', davant d'un public entregadíssim que ha omplert la sala Apolo De l'1 al què, The Tyets són actualment la banda més en forma i popular de l'escena musical catalana? L'únic fet irrefutable és que The Tyets han sabut donar vida amb un decàleg de hits incontestables. 🔗 Llegeix la crònica sencera a ElNacional.cat #elnacionalcat #thetyets #cotixcoti #concert #Barcelona #epicsolete ♬ Coti x Coti - The Tyets
Above, the atmosphere at the Apolo night club in Barcelona when The Tyets (from tiet, a diminutive of "uncle" in Catalan) presented their first album Epic Solete earlier this year. Below, the official clip for the platinum disc tune.
Meanwhile, the song La Platja, by Catalan group Stay Homas, and also with the collaboration of The Tyets, has also just made the Top 10 list of the most viral songs on Spotify Spain. In June, the Mataró duo broke the record for monthly listeners on Spotify with their first album Épic Solete, which crossed the one million mark - calculated based on the total number of Spotify users who have listened to at least one song by a specific artist in the last 28 days. While other Catalan artists like Rosalía, Serrat, Rigoberta Bandini and Bad Gyal had already reached the one million mark, The Tyets became the first to do so with a repertoire mostly in Catalan... and Coti x Coti isn't the only song worthy of a million listens on The Tyets' album: check out Bailoteo, Olívia, El Tonteo, or Clar que t'he trobat a faltar.