Adele — Set Fire to the Rain

The power ballad centerpiece of 21 is broadly charting today across 40 country and platform charts, back after a brief gap. "Set Fire to the Rain" was always the outlier on 21 — where most of the album leaned on spare piano arrangements, this one arrives with lush strings and a building orchestral swell that made it one of the more radio-ready tracks Adele has recorded. It reached number one in the US in 2012 and was voted by Billboard readers as their favorite chart-topper of that year. The song picked up a Grammy for Best Pop Solo Performance in 2013 for its Live at the Royal Albert Hall recording, and has appeared in promos for the final season of Rescue Me and the series Ringer. 21 remains one of the best-selling albums in US chart history, which keeps its singles in permanent streaming rotation — this kind of re-entry is less a comeback than a reminder that the catalog never really left.