Hans Zimmer, Klaus Badelt, Lisa Gerrard, Gavin Greenaway, The Lyndhurst Orchestra — Now We Are Free

The closing theme from Ridley Scott's Gladiator is back across the global charts after a 72-day absence, appearing on 129 country and platform lists today. Lisa Gerrard's wordless, invented-language vocal — sung over the Lyndhurst Orchestra and built from Zimmer and Klaus Badelt's score — accompanied the film's final image of Maximus walking into the afterlife, and it has lived on as one of cinema's most durable requiem cues. Zimmer, a two-time Academy Award winner for The Lion King and Dune, has seen the piece endure as a staple of grief montages and memorial reels. Its broad resurgence this week keeps a 26-year-old film score circulating far beyond its origin as end-credits music.