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Key Takeaways

• Doechii’s “Nervousness” has earned over $1 million in 2025 after going viral.
• The monitor samples Gotye and Luiz Bonfá, whose publishers are additionally cashing in.
• Initially recorded in 2020, “Nervousness” discovered new life by means of a re-release and cultural timing.

Sampling can significantly repay, particularly when it’s executed by somebody as gifted as Doechii. Her TikTok-viral monitor “Anxiety,” constructed round Gotye’s mega-hit “Someone That I Used to Know,” introduced in roughly $1.165 million in 2025 alone, in accordance with a Billboard report revealed Tuesday (June 10).

The determine accounts for each grasp and publishing royalties. Because the outlet additional famous, the publishers behind Gotye and the late Brazilian icon Luiz Bonfá, whose 1967 monitor “Seville” laid the muse for each hits, might stroll away with as much as $72,000 apiece.

“Nervousness” formally hit streaming platforms in March, practically 5 years after Doechii first recorded it for her “Coven Music Session” collection on YouTube. “Sleepy Hallow sampled that, it received accepted, after which that music blew up, and now individuals are discovering the unique model on TikTok,” she explained to her followers on the time.

Since then, Doechii has clearly parlayed the second into one thing a lot greater. The visible companion for “Nervousness” paid homage to Gotye’s unique “Someone That I Used to Know” video, and she or he launched a psychological well being hub known as Nervousness Is Watching Me.

2025 has been nothing in need of an enormous yr for Doechii, who not too long ago took residence Finest Feminine Hip Hop Artist on the 2025 BET Awards. Throughout her acceptance speech, she used her platform to name out Donald Trump and the U.S. authorities amid the continued protests in Los Angeles. “Individuals are being swept up and torn from their households, and I really feel prefer it’s my duty as an artist to make use of this second to talk up for all oppressed folks,” the Tampa native stated.

As some may recall, “Nervousness” additionally earned her Social Music of the Yr at the AMAs in Could, following her win for Finest Rap Album with Alligator Bites By no means Heal on the Grammys in February. Along with her debut studio album anticipated to reach earlier than the yr ends, it looks like nothing — and we imply completely nothing — is getting in the way in which of Doechii’s rise.