Coldplay — Viva La Vida

Coldplay's baroque-pop anthem is back across the global charts after a three-week absence, appearing on 102 country and platform charts today. Built on a string-driven ostinato and Chris Martin's abdicated-king narration — a lyric threaded with French Revolution and Christian imagery — the track was the commercial peak of the band's fourth album, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends. It hit number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart and took Song of the Year at the 2009 Grammys, per Genius. Its afterlife has been sturdy, from the Super Bowl 50 halftime show to a closing-episode sync in Suits, noted by fans on Reddit. Eighteen years on, it remains one of the most durable stadium hooks of the century's first decade.