Lynyrd Skynyrd — Sweet Home Alabama

The Southern-rock standard is back on 84 country and platform charts after a month-long absence, the aftershock of a summer chart run that began around Independence Day. Per Forbes, the track climbed to No. 1 on Billboard's Rock Streaming Songs in mid-July — hundreds of weeks into its life — as July Fourth playlists and World Cup excitement pushed both it and Journey back onto the Billboard Hot 100 after decades away. Written in 1974 as a retort to Neil Young's "Southern Man" and "Alabama," the song's "Turn it up" opener and rolling three-chord riff have made it a durable feel-good sync for films. Its return this week is the tail of that holiday surge, not a fresh event — worth noting as the seasonal spike settles.