Nirvana — Smells Like Teen Spirit

The grunge anthem that reorganized mainstream rock is back across the charts after a six-week absence, appearing on 119 country and platform charts today. Its most recent live moment came in February, when surviving members Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl and Pat Smear reunited with Post Malone to perform the song for Saturday Night Live's 50th-anniversary celebration — the kind of tentpole reunion that keeps a catalog cut in circulation long after broadcast. The lead single from 1991's Nevermind, it has passed 2.93 billion Spotify streams, per Chartmasters, the fifth-highest total among classic-rock songs. Kurt Cobain built it on the quiet-verse, loud-chorus dynamic that defined a decade of alternative rock. Broadly present again today, three decades on.