Christina Perri — a thousand years

The wedding-ballad staple written for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 is back in broad rotation, appearing on 100 country and platform charts today after nearly four weeks off. Perri wrote the song with producer David Hodges specifically for the film, and it was later re-recorded with Steve Kazee for the Breaking Dawn – Part 2 soundtrack — a sync lineage that has kept it in circulation for fourteen years. Its second life runs through anime, too: TikTok creators have paired it with Frieren fan edits, folding the eternal-love theme into montages about a character who outlives everyone she loves. That thematic elasticity — Twilight vows, wedding aisles, mourning montages — is what keeps returning it to the global charts. Its trajectory here is cyclical rather than sustained; expect it to recede and reappear again.