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A mostly-forgotten song gets used in a prominent movie, TV show, video game, or commercial. Suddenly, it is everywhere. Other shows, movies, and commercials start to use it. A lot. It is back on the radio, maybe even back on the charts. The original album it came from sells like hotcakes. Somewhere, a songwriter makes a lot of unexpected money. Also known as the "Guitar Hero effect" — via the phenomenon of old songs finding a new audience by their inclusion in the game. Can be helped along by Watch It for the Meme, at least in the case of Rick Astley. Particularly successful examples may eventually become Standard Snippets. Might overlap with Breakaway Pop Hit, and often creates a Newbie Boom. See also The Red Stapler and Song Association, which sometimes involves this as well. Also compare Colbert Bump. Covered Up is when a song is brought back into prominence (well, kind of) because someone else in the music industry referenced it. Ironically, if this works really well, the song can remain popular after the work that revived it has been forgotten about. |
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That catchy "Pumps Your Blood" song used in a 2004 St. Joseph aspirin commercial was originally from the 1979 Happy Days episode "Potsie Quits School". | |
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Fight Club re-popularized The Pixies' song "Where Is My Mind?", which was played over the climax. | |
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Metallica's thrash metal classic, "Master of Puppets" was featured in the season 4 finale, which like "Running Up that Hill", got a big boost in popularity, which caused the song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time, whereas the song didn't chart when it was originally released in 1986. | |
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The trailer for Fallout 76 catapulted John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" to meme status overnight. | |
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Bojack Horseman did this to a few songs, notably The Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses", Nina Simone's cover of Janis Ian's "Stars", and a number of semi-obscure indie tunes. | |
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The song "Skinnamarink" ("Skinnamarink-a-dinky-dink, skinnamarink-a-doo") dates back to 1910, but is best remembered now as the ending theme of the Canadian children's show Sharon, Lois, and Bram's Elephant Show — so much, in fact, that its follow-up series adopted the name Skinnamarink TV. | |
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"I Like To Move It," thanks to the remixed version in Madagascar. | |
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The Dark Souls III trailer included the song "In The Woods Somewhere" by Hozier, which promptly boosted the song's popularity on YouTube. | |
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So many songs have found new life after being used in Rock Band and Guitar Hero that it's easier to just say that rock as an entire genre has been revived by these games. In their live shows, however, DragonForce refer to "Through the Fire and Flames" as "The song that made Guitar Hero famous". | |
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"In The Street" introduced the mainstream late 90s audience of That '70s Show to the music of cult musician Alex Chilton and Big Star. | |
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Somewhat related: Elvis Presley's "A Little Less Conversation" was mostly forgotten, and didn't even make the top 40 when originally released (it only peaked at #69). Then in 2002, it was remixed by Junkie XL for a Nike TV commercial, got featured in other commercials and soundtracks, and became a #1 hit in many countries. It's now a standard number in Elvis impersonator acts in Las Vegas. It is also used as the theme song to the TV show Las Vegas. And then the remix itself was probably caused by the song having been featured in Ocean's Eleven - itself a remake of 1960 eponymous film - in 2001. | |
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SiIvaGunner in particular is great for this - The Flintstones theme, "Snow Halation" and "We Are Number One" have all entered the pantheon of meme songs thanks to them. | |
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"Mr. Sandman", especially the Four Aces version, may be forever associated with Back to the Future (though at least its usage ensures everyone will remember what decade it's from). The version by The Chordettes regained some exposure via (and is now often associated with) the Halloween film series. |
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Although it was already a Christmas standard by this time, Wham's "Last Christmas" topped the British music charts for the first time in 2020, the year Dash & Lily was released. | |
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Some of the songs on Grey's Anatomy and American Idol weren't obscure but became far more popular after having been used. | |
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Corona's "Rhythm of the Night" got a boost when it was featured in Grand Theft Auto V. | |
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Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" saw an uptick in listenership from 1978 on, thanks to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978). | |
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While not a big example like the above, both Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! were responsible for a popularity spike on jazz band The Heavy overseas, thanks to the featured songs "Short Change Hero", "How Do You Like Me Now" and "What Makes A Good Man". | |
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Similarly, while "Bohemian Like You" was already The Dandy Warhols' biggest hit, its popularity surged after it was featured during the chase scene in Flushed Away, to the extent that the comments on any given video of the song will be full of people quoting said scene. | |
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Guilty Gear Isuka brings us "Might is Right but Tight." You may know it better as I Wanna Be the Guy's Game Over (Press 'R' to try again) theme. The Menu Theme for IWBTG is the character select screen for Isuka, and the first gameplay music is "Home Sweet Grave". | |
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Another Queen example: "We Are The Champions" in Revenge of the Nerds. | |
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For better or worse, the trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) did this for Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise". In fact, it caused an AMV of the song posted in 2007 to skyrocket in views and prompted the user who made it to edit a comment he'd made at that point to say "12 years from now...there will be a live-action Sonic movie based on my video." The film itself would bring a lot of attention to The Poppy Family's "Where Evil Grows" thanks to a scene where Dr. Robotnik dances to it. |
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"Monster" by Imagine Dragons surged back into the iTunes top 100 once it was used in a Daniel Bryan promo. | |
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And the big Eliot/Shaun relationship scene in Scrubs. The song was featured in a few scenes ("My Journey") since JD insisted that Turk and Carla should have a Journey cover band at their wedding. | |
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Rick and Morty briefly renewed interest in Nine Inch Nails' original recording of "Hurt" upon its usage in the season 2 finale "The Wedding Squanchers". At that point, the song had been mostly Covered Up by Johnny Cash. The show also brought a revival to alt-rock band Blonde Redhead's song "For the Damaged Coda" after it was used in the episode "Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind," and subsequently many memes. |
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Spotify streams of Linda Ronstadt's "Long Long Time" jumped almost 5000% immediately after the third episode (which used it as a pivotal song for the central romance) aired. | |
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As with any proper GTA imitator, Saints Row is no exception. Each subsequent game brings back a good ten or eleven songs through the classic rock station: the biggest ones include "Take On Me", mostly because of the sing-alongs; "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", thanks in no small part to the game's hammed up antagonist; and "The Boys Are Back In Town". The last one didn't even have to be on the in-game radio. It was, plus an entire level practically devoted to the song. | |
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The Last of Us (2023): Depeche Mode's "Never Let Me Down Again", a deep cut off their 1987 LP Music for the Masses, more than tripled in streams after it was used at the very end of the first episode. Spotify streams of Linda Ronstadt's "Long Long Time" jumped almost 5000% immediately after the third episode (which used it as a pivotal song for the central romance) aired. |
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This is especially true for a lot of the great, classic New Wave tracks selected for the games. As an example, Vice City alone introduced a brand new generation to Romeo Void's "Never Say Never", "Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Tears for Fears's "Pale Shelter", "(I Just) Died in Your Arms" by Cutting Crew, INXS's "Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain)", and "Life's What You Make It" by Talk Talk, amongst other musical gems. | |
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"My Sharona" by The Knack was a big hit in 1979 and regained popularity in 1994 when it was featured in Reality Bites. It only reached #94 on its second go-around, but the film's soundtrack reached #13 and propelled the song back into the public consciousness in a big way. It was the introduction to the song for many people who were born around the time it was originally released. The 2011 J. J. Abrams sci-fi film Super 8 also may have reintroduced this song to more recent generations. |
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Happened again with BioShock Infinite. How much are you willing to bet that not a whole lot of people knew about "Beast" by Nico Vega before the Beast of America trailer came out? | |
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World Of War Craft Machinima "Dude Where's My Mount?" renewed interest in the Butthole Surfers' "Dracula from Houston" when they used it as their intro. | |
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"Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets received a major bump in 1974 thanks to it being used both as the theme for American Graffiti and the TV series Happy Days. As a result, the 20-year-old recording returned to the Billboard Top 40 in the US and also returned to the charts in the UK. (Not to mention also being featured on the top-selling American Graffiti soundtrack album.) | |
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The Grand Theft Auto games have re-popularized the songs featured on their soundtracks. It was even the (former) Trope Namer for Song Association. This is especially true for a lot of the great, classic New Wave tracks selected for the games. As an example, Vice City alone introduced a brand new generation to Romeo Void's "Never Say Never", "Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Tears for Fears's "Pale Shelter", "(I Just) Died in Your Arms" by Cutting Crew, INXS's "Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain)", and "Life's What You Make It" by Talk Talk, amongst other musical gems. The songs Vice City is most remembered for by UK fans are The Pointer Sisters' "Automatic" and Aneka's "Japanese Boy" due to their obscurity but the fact they are always playing when you go into the Malibu bar. Corona's "Rhythm of the Night" got a boost when it was featured in Grand Theft Auto V. When the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI featured Tom Petty's "Love is a Long Road", it reached #5 on the iTunes singles charts, and its Spotify streams exploded by over 36,000%. |
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Billy Vera's "At This Moment" went from being a little-known song released in 1981 to the #1 song for 15 weeks in 1987 after it was played on Family Ties. | |
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Before that, it was the film Monster. | |
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If anyone born after about 1970 knows the theme song from Rawhide outside of the show itself, then it would be probably thanks to The Blues Brothers movie. (Unless they remember it from An American Tail: Fievel Goes West...which used the Blues Brothers version). It also brought "Minnie the Moocher" by Cab Calloway back into the public consciousness. The film did this for blues, rhythm & blues, soul, and jazz in general, and Aretha Franklin, Cab Calloway, and James Brown in particular. In fact, most of the musicians who appeared in that film credit it with saving their careers. |
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Speaking of "Baba O'Riley", it got introduced to yet another generation of listeners in 2015 through its use in the trailers for The Peanuts Movie. | |
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Blue Swede's "Hooked on a Feeling" was used for the trailer of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), and quickly returned to the iTunes Top 100 after that. Related to the Quentin Tarantino example above, it had been previously used on the soundtrack of Reservoir Dogs. Also see the entry for Ally McBeal below under Television. On top of that, this has happened to most if not all of the songs featured in Star-Lord's Awesome Mix Tapes. A big case was Vol. 2 with Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah's "Lake Shore Drive", a regional hit whose writer thanked James Gunn for giving it worldwide exposure The use of "Creep" by Radiohead (in the form of an unplugged version) in the emotionally tear jerking opening sequence of Vol. 3 led to an uptick in streams and YouTube comments for the 30-year-old tune. Ditto for fellow Vol. 3 soundtrack cuts "Crazy on You" by Heart (which gave way to the "Bro thinks he's Adam Warlock" meme), EHAMIC's "Koinu no Carnival" (a Vocaloid cover of "Minute Waltz"), and Florence + the Machine's "Dog Days Are Over", which capped off the trilogy on such a high note that Florence herself posted a video of herself reacting to said scene with Tears of Joy. Another Marvel movie, Captain Marvel (2019), boosted many 90s alternative rock songs featured in its soundtrack, such as Hole's "Celebrity Skin", No Doubt's "Just a Girl" and Garbage's "Only Happy When It Rains". |
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On top of that, this has happened to most if not all of the songs featured in Star-Lord's Awesome Mix Tapes. A big case was Vol. 2 with Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah's "Lake Shore Drive", a regional hit whose writer thanked James Gunn for giving it worldwide exposure | |
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Another Marvel movie, Captain Marvel (2019), boosted many 90s alternative rock songs featured in its soundtrack, such as Hole's "Celebrity Skin", No Doubt's "Just a Girl" and Garbage's "Only Happy When It Rains". | |
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"Goodbye Horses" by Q. Lazzarus was plucked from obscurity by The Silence of the Lambs, and is now mainly associated with an iconic scene in that film. It was from the soundtrack to Married to the Mob, and had never been released as a single. | |
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The titular theme song of The Never Ending Story saw an 825% increase in Spotify streams after it was featured in the season 3 finale. | |
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Another Ink Spots song, "It's a Sin to Tell A Lie", appears in Fallout: New Vegas, but it's Bill Kenny's solo version rather than the original. In addition, FNV's Radio New Vegas features Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, Marty Robbins, Nat King Cole, etc. | |
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"Don't You Forget About Me" is in the same boat as its fellow '80s anthem "Don't Stop Believin'" thanks to its usage in countless TV shows and movies, such as The Handmaid's Tale and a Breakfast Club-themed episode of The Goldbergs. It was also memorably parodied by How It Should Have Ended (see Web Original below). | |
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Nina Simone's "Sinnerman", which got a big push in 1999 when it was used in the remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, then remixed as a club hit that was played in 2003's Cellular and the 2006 Miami Vice remake, as well as used as the theme song for the XTC cell phone. It was also featured in Person of Interest, which brought up a mini resurgence leading to appearances in The Blacklist and Sherlock. It is used to illustrate a bad man cleverly outwitting the good guys in a way the audience can admire. |
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While it's never exactly been obscure per se, Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" is back at the forefront of pop culture's noggin thanks to The Sopranos series finale and its appearance in an episode of Family Guy involving a karaoke bar. It was also helped by being featured prominently on Glee. Before that, it was the film Monster. And the big Eliot/Shaun relationship scene in Scrubs. The song was featured in a few scenes ("My Journey") since JD insisted that Turk and Carla should have a Journey cover band at their wedding. People forget that this song was far from Journey's greatest hit when they were active, but it is now the song they're best remembered for, and to people who weren't around during Journey's prime, it's probably the only song they know by them. |
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Fallout 4 promotional materials have included another Ink Spots song, "It's All Over But the Crying", and one action demo reel featured "Atomic Bomb Baby" by The Five Stars. | |
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Elite Beat Agents not only did this for Chicago's "You're the Inspiration", it caused the song to be reevaluated overall. Before, it had been known as one of the cheesiest songs the band ever recorded and a symbol of how sappy '80s rock ballads could be. Then the game used it for the level "A Christmas Gift", easily the most emotional and heart-wrenching moment in the entire game. Cue an entire generation of gamers struggling to hold back tears when they remember what happened in that level. | |
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Batman and Harley Quinn has introduced a number of people to the song "Don't Pull Your Love" by Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds. | |
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Like they did with BioShock, 2K Marin has made people look for "Don't Lie To Me" by Stompy Jones when it was used in The Bureau: XCOM Declassified trailer. | |
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Laurie Anderson's "O Superman" became popular again after it was used in a commercial (the skydiving one) for HTC smartphones. | |
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Another of Tarantino's films, Pulp Fiction, gave a big shot in the arm to Dick Dale's career by featuring Dale's version of 'Misirlou'. For that matter, Dale's amped-up cover of the song in 1961 is large part of why it is well-known today. | |
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From the original game: How many people born after, say, 1980 would know Bobby Darin's "Beyond the Sea" and other such songs? Some would know "Beyond the Sea" from Finding Nemo — but this also qualifies for the trope (and Covered Up, since it's sung by Robbie Williams). It's also popularized a number of Billie Holiday's minor singles, among other songs on its soundtrack. | |
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On an episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks Gary Jules was mocked by Chris Moyles for "being responsible for Tears for Fears getting back together." Kind of hypocritical when you consider who he almost single-handedly revived the career of. | |
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"Fly Me To The Moon" was revived in Bayonetta (sort of, it's known as "That Evangelion song" in Japan). | |
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Darude's "Sandstorm" skyrocketed in popularity after being subjected to Memetic Mutation starting with its popularity on Twitch. There, people constantly asked what song was playing, and the meme took off from there. While the meme was soon Condemned by History due to how annoying it was, especially among YouTube commenters who wanted to know the actual title of a song, it led to renewed interest in Darude's career, and eventually led to Darude (with vocalist Sebastian Rejman as well) representing Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019. | |
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Same for the Fallout series for even earlier tunes (The Ink Spots' repertoire, Cole Porter's "Anything Goes"...), usually thanks to the fact that the tunes chosen can either set up Soundtrack Dissonance or Suspiciously Apropos Music, depending on what you're doing at the time. A number of Ink Spots songs also appeared in the BioShock series. Another Ink Spots song, "It's a Sin to Tell A Lie", appears in Fallout: New Vegas, but it's Bill Kenny's solo version rather than the original. In addition, FNV's Radio New Vegas features Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, Marty Robbins, Nat King Cole, etc. Fallout 4 promotional materials have included another Ink Spots song, "It's All Over But the Crying", and one action demo reel featured "Atomic Bomb Baby" by The Five Stars. The trailer for Fallout 76 catapulted John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" to meme status overnight. |
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The Canadian band Faunts was relatively unknown until a Canadian-made game by the name of Mass Effect used their song "M4 (Part II)" as the credits theme. They got another bump when Mass Effect 3 used another of their songs, "Das Malefitz", for that game's credits theme. And a new generation has been introduced to Johnny Cash through the Mass Effect: Andromeda trailer, featuring "Ghost Riders in the Sky". |
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The short-lived Eurodance group Uniq were all but unheard of outside Japan and their native Finland until their 1999 single "Amore" was featured in In the Groove 2 in 2005. | |
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"I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" by Scottish band The Proclaimers. Originally released in 1988, it was fairly successful in the UK and Australia. When the song was included in the soundtrack of the 1993 film Benny & Joon, it became a worldwide sensation, flying all the way to #3 in the US. | |
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Chris Isaak's "Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing" went mostly unnoticed upon release. Then it started being used on the trailers and TV spots for Eyes Wide Shut (as well as one of the movie's scenes) and even warranted a sexy music video. | |
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It's hard to listen to the "Hoedown" movement of Aaron Copland's ballet Rodeo and think of anything but "Beef: It's what's for dinner!" | |
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It was also helped by being featured prominently on Glee. | |
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Israel Kamakawiwoʻole's arrangement of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" after it was used in a Rice Krispies commercial around 2007. It was also in Glee and IMAX Hubble 3D. In Germany, the recording shot up the singles charts when a medium-sized local series used it to contemplate a Green Aesop week. In 2020, it hit the iTunes charts in the US after Google featured it in a Google Doodle marking what would have been the artist's 61st birthday. The acapella act Straight No Chaser also mashed it up with Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours". |
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A memorable performance of Odyssey's "Native New Yorker" on The Masked Singer by Lips a.k.a. Wendy Williams boosted the mostly-forgotten song's popularity. | |
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WALL•E did this for the musical Hello, Dolly!, which received a 2009 tour (the last tour prior to that was in 1996). | |
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To a lesser extent, Top Gun did this to "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'". | |
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The 1963 song "Doo Wah Diddy Diddy" by The Exciters enjoyed renewed popularity after it was featured as a military cadence in the 1981 comedy Stripes. | |
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The Blacklist has boosted a number of songs: Johnny Cash's "When the Man Comes Around" got a boost after it was used for the scene where Red carries out a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. The Other Lives song "Great Sky", which is only available on an EP, owes the bulk of its popularity to the fact it was used in the second-season finale. Little Scream's "The Lamb" enjoyed a bump after "The Director" in which it plays during a climatic shootout. |
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The usage of licensed music on Regular Show has made several songs popular again, such as "Hangin' Tough" by New Kids on the Block and "Lies" by the Thompson Twins. | |
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Joker did this with Gary Glitter's original version of "Rock and Roll (Part 2)", long after Glitter and his music vanished from the public eye following a series of pedophilia scandals. | |
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The 1950s song "You Always Hurt The One You Love" (most associated with the Mills Brothers) was used prominently in Blue Valentine. The song was performed by one of the main characters and that version was used in the official trailers. It also did this to an extremely obscure, unreleased demo song called "You and Me" by Penny and the Quarters. Here's the full story. |
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Wayne's World did this for Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody." It reached number 2 in the US because of this. Freddie Mercury's untimely passing a few months prior also helped. Another Queen example: "We Are The Champions" in Revenge of the Nerds. |
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"After the Ball" dates back to 1892, but is now most commonly associated with revivals of Show Boat. | |
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Another Batman example is Batman & Robin which people got people to look for Snow Misers song in The Year Without a Santa Claus. | |
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The anime adaptation of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure used Real Song Theme Tunes for its ending themes, with the songs used getting a major boost in popularity. These songs include "Roundabout" by Yes (which got easily the biggest boost of all thanks to its use in the "To Be Continued..." meme), "Walk Like an Egyptian" by The Bangles, "Last Train Home" by Pat Metheny, "I Want You" by Savage Garden, "Freek'n You" by Jodeci, and "Modern Crusaders" by Enigma. The latter◊ four◊ even◊ saw◊ re-releases in Greatest Hits Albums featuring artwork from the anime on the covers. | |
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"When I Fall In Love" was 40 years old when Sleepless in Seattle was released. | |
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Saturday Night Live: There was a sketch about this: a fake commercial for a compilation album of songs that both parents and teens could enjoy together because of their re-emergence in commercials. For example, "Good Vibrations", which Mom remembers from listening to Beach Boys records as a kid, and daughter recognizes as the theme from a Sunkist ad. Loverboy's "Working for the Weekend" will forever be associated with the 1990 sketch featuring Patrick Swayze and Chris Farley auditioning to be Chippendale's dancers. Haddaway's "What Is Love" is widely associated with the "Roxbury Guys" sketches, where Steve (Will Ferrell) and Doug (Chris Kattan) Butabi (and the guest host in some sketches) try and fail to hit on women in dance clubs due to their poor sense of personal space. |
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Nico's "These Days" after it was in The Royal Tenenbaums. The K-Mart commercial didn't hurt either. Jackson Browne, the song's writer and guitarist, had to re-learn it before he could start playing it live again when people started requesting to hear it. | |
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Seal's "Kiss from a Rose" had an unspectacular chart run when it was released as a single from his 1994 album Seal II. It was re-issued the next year as the first single from the Batman Forever soundtrack and proceeded to top the US and Australian charts and win Record of the Year at the 1996 Grammys. More recently, it's been revitalized by being featured prominently in an episode of Community. | |
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UB40's "Red Red Wine" had been a #1 hit in the UK in 1983 and got to a respectable #34 on the Billboard Hot 100 in America the next year. In June of 1988, a DJ named Guy Zapoleon at KZZP in Phoenix, Arizona played it on his show as part of a recurring feature called "Would've Been, Should've Been", where he spotlighted songs from the past that he thought deserved to be bigger hits than they were. After getting a huge response, Zapoleon convinced A&M Records to re-release it, and it reached #1 on the Hot 100. Then a game of Follow the Leader ensued in 1989, where DJs started picking obscure songs from earlier in The '80s and started pushing them. While the results were mixed, this rush produced another #1 hit ("When I'm With You" by Sheriff, from 1983), and a couple of other fairly big hits of recharted songs ("Where Are You Now?" by Jimmy Harnen and Synch from 1986, and "Into the Night" by Benny Mardones from 1980, which KZZP once again played a big role in reviving). | |
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Stranger Things has revived a number of '80s hits: The titular theme song of The Never Ending Story saw an 825% increase in Spotify streams after it was featured in the season 3 finale. Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)" charted in the top 10 in several countries after it was featured multiple times in season 4. In the United States, the song only reached #30 during its first go-around in 1985, only for it to reach a far higher peak in 2022. Around the same time, the 1983 ditty "Pass the Dutchie" by Musical Youth also got a big boost from its appearance in season 4, landing a slot on multiple Spotify viral charts. Metallica's thrash metal classic, "Master of Puppets" was featured in the season 4 finale, which like "Running Up that Hill", got a big boost in popularity, which caused the song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time, whereas the song didn't chart when it was originally released in 1986. |
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Robot Unicorn Attack did this for Erasure's "Always". | |
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The song was previously revived in the UK's consciousness by the Matt Lucas and Peter Kay cover for Comic Relief in 2007, which gave the Proclaimers their first (and only) #1 single. | |
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"Mississippi Queen" by Mountain went through this twice. The first time was when it was featured in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, and the second time was when it was featured in the Regular Show episode "Weekend at Benson's" a few years later. | |
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M3GAN: The Skatt Bros.' 1979 disco hit "Walk the Night" scores the scene where the film's titular Robot Girl villain starts dancing before killing David. The song quickly became a Halloween staple after that. The trailers for the film used Taylor Swift's "It's Nice to Have a Friend" and Bella Poarch's "Dolls", both of which also came to be identified with the film. Sia's "Titanium" also enjoyed a boost from the film thanks to a scene where M3GAN sings the song to Cady as she goes to bed. |
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Thanks to The Mask, people nowadays know the "Cuban Pete" song more than the eponymous 1946 film it originally came from. | |
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Many millennials will know the Tiny Tim cover of "Living in the Sunlight, Loving in The Moonlight" from the very first episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. | |
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Tetris: The Grand Master, thanks to a series of skill demonstrations at Games Done Quick. | |
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"Magic Carpet Ride" by Steppenwolf is now mainly associated with Star Trek: First Contact, despite having been around for 28 years prior. Beastie Boys' 1994 rap rock jam "Sabotage" has regained some cultural relevance in recent years since its notable appearance in Star Trek (2009) (J. J. Abrams is apparently a big Beastie Boys fan). It then made more and more appearances in film and TV, such as Horrible Bosses, a 2016 episode of Family Guy and made a major Call-Back to the 2009 film in Star Trek Beyond. |
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For a lot of fans, "Say That We're Sweethearts Again" is now pretty much synonymous with Harley Quinn after she performed it in the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Harlequinade". The 1944 film Meet The People the song is originally from is largely forgotten today, and many don't realise at first that the song was not created for the show. | |
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Pretty much any song featured on "The Weather" from Welcome To Nightvale | |
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"Do You Believe in Magic?" by Lovin Spoonful is by no means an obscure song. But then it was used in The Pyro's happy dream sequence... | |
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The trailers for Suicide Squad (2016) did this to The Bee Gees' "I Started A Joke" and, to a lesser extent, "Bohemian Rhapsody." | |
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Tom Jones' "What's New Pussycat" got a popularity boost after John Mulaney ran it into the ground. The other Jones song namedropped in the video, "It's Not Unusual" would count as well, but it was already revived thanks to the Carlton Dance. | |
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" Doctor Who striked again in late 2023 this time thanks to the Toymakers diegetic use of the iconic Spice Girls Spice Up Your Life duing a chaotic dance scene. Naturally comments on all of the song's youtube video's referenced that moment VERY soon after the episode dropped. | |
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Men in Black got people into Elvis Presley's cover of "Promised Land". | |
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In America, the theme from The Magnificent Seven is always linked to Marlboro commercials (at least, back when cigarette commercials were legal in the U.S.). | |
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Tones on Tail's single "Go!" received its greatest exposure in the 2008 commercial by the Ford Motor Company for the Mercury Mariner. | |
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Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" received newfound attention in 2005 after being used in a certain notorious shock video. | |
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Several classic rock songs used in Call of Duty: Black Ops, plus The Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter", which was used in the commercial for the game, experienced a rise in popularity and iTunes sales. | |
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The Human League's "(Keep Feeling) Fascination" was revived in a Verizon smartphone commercial, and as a Softer and Slower Cover by Rob Crow in a Kingsford Charcoal commercial. | |
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*NSYNC's "It's Gonna Be Me" resurfaces close to the end of every April thanks to the Memetic Mutation "It's gonna be May". | |
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Badfinger's "Baby Blue" re-entered the iTunes top charts after its use at the very end of the series finale of Breaking Bad. | |
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"As Time Goes By" will forever be known as the song Sam played (and played again) in Casablanca, but it dates back to 1931 when it was introduced in an unremarkable and now-obscure Broadway show called Everybody's Welcome. (Since Casablanca was released in the middle of a long recording strike, radio stations were forced to turn to older recordings of the song.) | |
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The Batman gave a boost to Nirvana's "Something in the Way", as well as the band in general. "Something in the Way" was never released as a single, so when it charted in August 2020 following the trailer's launch, it was the first time it had done so. After the film opened, Billboard reported a 1,508% increase in streams and 1,888% in downloads, hitting #2 on Rock Streaming Songs and Rock Digital Sales and #27 on the overall streaming songs chart, 21 years after its debut. By proxy, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and Nevermind also re-entered the charts, and many Nirvana singles also saw significant gains. Another Batman example is Batman & Robin which people got people to look for Snow Misers song in The Year Without a Santa Claus. |
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The version by The Chordettes regained some exposure via (and is now often associated with) the Halloween film series. | |
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"Heat Waves" by Glass Animals gained a massive boost in popularity due to being the inspiration for a fanfiction of the same name about Minecraft YouTubers Dream and GeorgeNotFound, with said fanfiction being frequently brought up in the two's livestreams. | |
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In 2011, the song "conflict" by siromaru and cranky won the music game simfile contest THE BMS OF FIGHTERS 2011 -Intersection of conflict-. While obviously the most popular song of the contest, it wasn't terribly well-known until it was added to Cytus in 2014 that the song started to gain attention outside of Japan. By 2019, "conflict" had been officially (as in, not in a simfile-based game as an unofficial song) added to over twenty different rhythm games including big-name games such as SOUND VOLTEX, CHUNITHM, and Pump It Up, making it one of the most well-known songs in the pan-Asian rhythm game community. | |
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The film of Amadeus caused people to want to hear more of Antonio Salieri's work, and sparked an interest in Salieri's music, the likes of which had not been seen since the man himself was alive. | |
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Also sprach Zarathustra from 2001: A Space Odyssey — but only the first minute and a half. To a lesser degree, Johann Strauss II's Blue Danube Waltz, which is now widely known as "that space music". | |
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Ben E. King's "Stand By Me" climbed up to #4 on the Billboard Top 100 charts back in 1961. Then about 25 years later, the movie Stand by Me was released and the song made its way back into the charts topping at #9 on the US Billboard charts. | |
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Gyorgy Ligeti's "Requiem" was put back on the map by its use in trailers and ads for Godzilla (2014), although it was first popularized in the aforementioned 2001. | |
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Russian Doll repeatedly uses Harry Nilsson's "Gotta Get Up" due to its "Groundhog Day" Loop structure, and the song saw its online plays rise by 2466%! | |
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Wednesday went above and beyond and did this with a song that wasn't even featured on the show. While Wednesday Addams' dance scene in the fourth episode originally used The Cramps' "Goo Goo Muck", the version that went viral on TikTok swapped it out for a sped-up remix of Lady Gaga's "Bloody Mary". It proved popular enough that not only did Gaga record her own version of the dance, but she released "Bloody Mary" as the official sixth single from Born This Way, an album that came out eleven years prior — and it became a charting hit! | |
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When the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI featured Tom Petty's "Love is a Long Road", it reached #5 on the iTunes singles charts, and its Spotify streams exploded by over 36,000%. | |
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Back to Pixar, they introduced a lot of people to the band AJR, who had a song of theirs featured in the teaser for Soul. | |
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Sia's "Titanium" also enjoyed a boost from the film thanks to a scene where M3GAN sings the song to Cady as she goes to bed. | |
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The ever-popular "Tetris A-Type theme" is an arrangement of Korobeiniki. | |
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Free Guy did this to Mariah Carey's "Fantasy". | |
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Also used in a popular Gears of War TV ad. | |
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Family Guy: Have you heard the word? The bird is the word! "Rock Lobster" by The B-52s ("Screams of Silence") and "Shipoopi" from the Broadway musical The Music Man ("Patriot Games") also got a revival from this show. And amusingly enough, Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" also appeared in the show on the episode "Meet the Quagmires". A week after the episode aired, some random anon decided to play a little prank on /v/... |
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The Garfield Movie gave a little life to "Fly As Me" by Silk Sonic, the tandem of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, which was never released as a single but still used in the first two trailers for the film. | |
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American Idol will do this for a song, especially after a very good performance. Heart's "Alone" was performed by Carrie Underwood in the fourth season to great acclaim, and then surfaced on albums by Celine Dion and (previous Idol contestant) Clay Aiken not long after, on Glee a few years later, and several times on later seasons of Idol by luckless female contestants trying to outdo her. | |
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Spy Hunter (1983) revived Henry Mancini's theme music from the by-then forgotten series Peter Gunn; to the point where it was more commonly known as "The Spy Hunter Theme". | |
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Ghost (1990) famously revived "Unchained Melody", and with it, The Righteous Brothers' careers. The song went to #1 on the UK charts following the film's release; higher than it had gone there when it was first released. Then in 1995, it charted again in the UK, as performed by Robson Green and Jerome Flynn in the series Soldier, Soldier. | |
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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle revived Big Mountain's cover of "Baby, I Love Your Way" (which coincidentally, had also been made for a movie back in 1994). | |
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Inception and Edith Piaf's "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien". | |
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