Petra Marklund — Händerna mot himlen

A Swedish-language anthem from a singer better known abroad as the Eurodance act September is broadly charting today, tracked across 99 country and platform charts after an eleven-day gap. Released in 2012 as the lead single from Marklund's album Inferno, the track marked her pivot from English-language club pop to native-language songwriting under her own name, and it landed: it was certified 6× Platinum as of May 2015, per Wikipedia. The song's surging build and crowd-sized chorus made it a fixture of Sweden's summer sing-along circuit — Marklund went on to host the SVT institution Allsång på Skansen. Built for mass unison, it has logged over 117 million Spotify streams. Its breadth across the charts today is worth a second look.