The Lumineers — Ho Hey
Trending since · peaked at 92 charts
The folk-rock singalong that turned a foot-stomping call-and-response into a 2012 ubiquity is back across the global charts after a brief gap, tracked across 92 country and platform charts today. Written by frontman Wesley Schultz and drummer Jeremiah Fraites as a kiss-off to disinterested concertgoers in New York, the track was the lead single from the band's self-titled debut and spent eighteen non-consecutive weeks atop Billboard's Rock Songs chart, per Wikipedia. Its durability owes much to early TV placement, soundtracking episodes of The Vampire Diaries, Bones, and Hart of Dixie, according to Last.fm. The Hollywood Reporter has documented how 2000s and 2010s catalog hits keep resurfacing on streaming via short-form hooks — and few choruses are as built for that as this one's wordless "Ho! Hey!" chant.