Hans Zimmer — Tennessee

The Pearl Harbor score is back on the global charts, with "Tennessee" — Zimmer's elegiac centrepiece from the 2001 Michael Bay war epic — tracked across 42 country and platform charts today. The piece is a slow-building orchestral lament built around muted brass and strings, written to underscore the film's depiction of small-town American life before the 1941 attack; it has remained one of Zimmer's most-streamed non-action cues since the album's release. Zimmer himself is currently in the cultural conversation as the sole composer on Euphoria season three, following Labrinth's departure from the show — attention that tends to pull listeners back through his broader catalog. "Tennessee" sits at the quieter, more elegiac end of two decades of film scoring that spans The Lion King to Dune, and its streaming durability has always tracked inversely to the film's critical reputation.