Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe

Call Me Maybe is broadly charting across 104 country and platform charts today, returning after a three-week absence. The 2012 single — originally written as a folk song before its genre was reshaped into the bubblegum-pop earworm that made Jepsen a household name — reached number one in more than 19 countries on its initial release and became the best-selling single of that year, moving over 18 million copies globally. Its structural simplicity, a held-back verse releasing into a hook that lands like a door swinging open, has kept it unusually resilient to the passage of time. Brooklyn Nine-Nine used it for a running gag in Season 3, the kind of low-stakes cultural embedding that keeps a song circulating long after its chart cycle ends. Jepsen's subsequent critical reputation — built on the cult-beloved E•MO•TION and its satellites — has also reframed this track retroactively as the opening move of a more interesting career than it first appeared.