Guns N' Roses — Sweet Child O' Mine

Slash's opening riff is back across the global charts, appearing on 56 country and platform charts today after a seven-week absence. The Appetite for Destruction cut remains Guns N' Roses' only US number one, per Wikipedia, and its circus-melody guitar figure — a rehearsal-room accident, drummer Steven Adler told Metal Wani — has proven the most portable thing in the band's catalog. The song's screen life has kept it in circulation for decades: it soundtracked the climactic ring walk in The Wrestler and, more recently, appeared in Thor: Love and Thunder, where GNR-superfan director Taika Waititi used it in the film's marketing, Songfacts notes. A durable rock anthem with an air of melancholy under the sleaze, broadly charting again today.