The Smooth Criminal Dance is TikTok’s duo dance of the week — two people, one routine, and an estimated 14 million views, in a format that pairs Michael Jackson’s classic with the AI-template wave sweeping the platform.
JumpOnTheTrend’s 7 November 2026 table puts the Smooth Criminal Dance duos at about 14 million views, read on 7 November. Videosi’s 2 November list also names “Smooth Criminal AI” among the trends spreading that week, though it gives no count. As with the Jisoo Addicted Dance, two trackers agree on the trend’s status and only one gives a figure — and this draft is flagged as single-source for that number.
Duos are the week’s format
The Smooth Criminal Dance is a duo, and that is the week’s pattern. Can I Ride is a duo. Ba Ba Ba is a duo. The Jisoo Addicted Dance is a duo. TikTok’s dances this week are built for two people, and the Smooth Criminal version adds a song everyone already knows to a format everyone can copy: two people, one routine, and a lean that the original made famous.
The AI angle matters too. Videosi lists it as “Smooth Criminal AI”, which puts it in the same wave as the Like JENNIE AI template and the Jisoo Addicted Dance AI — established songs and dances, remade as templates that let anyone star in the video. The human version and the AI version travel together, and the view count covers both.
Fourteen million, one tracker
Fourteen million views is a large number for a dance that is, at its heart, two people doing a routine to a song from 1988. The figure comes from one tracker, and the draft says so. What the two trackers agree on is that the trend is spreading, and spreading fast enough to be named among the week’s movers on 2 November and still climbing on 7 November.
The song’s age is the point. A track from 1988 does not need introducing, and a dance built on it does not need explaining — the audience already knows the lean, the hat and the beat. The duos format does the rest, turning a solo routine into a shared one. Fourteen million views, one tracker, and a song that has been waiting nearly forty years for its TikTok moment.
