Megan Thee Stallion’s freestyle “Thin Ice” is the early-stage TikTok play of the first week of November 2026, climbing fast from a small base while bigger sounds sit at their peak. Virlo, in its TikTok trends update last updated on 5 November 2026, calls “Thin Ice” the notable early-stage entry of the week, at roughly 1,200 TikTok videos. That figure is an estimate from Virlo’s third-party research, and Virlo notes that its own sounds endpoints returned an error during that refresh, so the count should be treated as an early reading, not a settled total. Megan first dropped it on YouTube on Tuesday 20 October, as part of her “Tina Tuesday” series, in which she has released a new freestyle every Tuesday. The video pairs sharp bars with bold catsuit looks, and the chorus of the Limp Bizkit track serves as the intro before Megan starts rapping.
Streams jumped 152 per cent in three days
Billboard’s Trending Up column, as reported by Kazi Magazine, gives the clearest measure of the surge. The song racked up 98,000 streams on Saturday 24 October, after it reached streaming services, then climbed to 174,000 on Sunday, and 247,000 on Monday, a 152 per cent gain in all. Billboard adds that the song reached the top 20 on Apple Music’s real-time chart and the top 10 on Shazam’s US Top 200, and credits the climb to the song and its video spreading “to all corners of the internet”, with “thousands of TikTok videos” in the mix. LaineyGossip, in a column published in the first week of November, describes the TikTok trend using the song as anime characters from various shows creating a back-and-forth with two of them, all set to the chorus. That format fits the track: the Limp Bizkit chorus is instantly recognisable, the freestyle is angry and confident, and the two-character face-off gives the clip a simple visual structure.
Why an early-stage sound matters
Virlo’s point about “Thin Ice” is a practical one for creators. Most of the biggest sounds in early November are at peak, which means participation still works but only with a specific angle. The opportunity, Virlo says, is in the two sounds still marked early and rising, including a Megan Thee Stallion single sitting under 2,000 videos. “Thin Ice” is that single. Posting to a sound at 1,200 videos is a different bet from posting to a sound at a million videos: there is less competition, but also less proof that the format will last. The song’s own story supports that bet. It arrived without the pressure of a chart campaign, as a freestyle in a weekly series, and its rise has been driven by listeners rather than by a label push.
