The Cranberries — Zombie

Thirty-two years after Dolores O'Riordan wrote it alone on tour, responding to the 1993 IRA bombing in Warrington that killed two children, Zombie is broadly charting across 142 country and platform charts today. The song is a protest track rooted in specific grief — O'Riordan's yodeling vocal attack and the churning, distorted guitar build were unusual enough for mainstream alt-rock radio in 1994 that Island Records nearly shelved it; it went on to become one of the decade's defining rock singles. One German-language roundup notes that 2026 marks the 30th anniversary of No Need to Argue, the album on which the song appeared, and cites surging Spotify activity. The track has also accumulated a long placement history, including a sync in Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead (2021) and an appearance in Yellowjackets, each reintroducing it to audiences who weren't alive when it charted. At over 1.5 billion Spotify streams, the song long ago crossed from catalog curio into permanent rotation — the current broad presence reflects a catalog that simply does not stop finding new listeners.