The Police — Every Breath You Take

Sting's most enduring composition is broadly charting again today, tracked across 74 country and platform charts after a summer lull. The signature song of the Police, drawn from 1983's Synchronicity, topped the Billboard Hot 100 for eight weeks and remains one of the most-played tracks in radio history, with over nine million spins logged, per Genius. Its afterlife has been unusually durable: the track's biggest streaming-era resurgence came when it soundtracked the Snow Ball dance between Eleven and Mike in Stranger Things season two, a placement that won Best Musical Moment at the 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards, according to Wikipedia. That scene reintroduced the song to Gen Z and seeded its TikTok life. Its return to broad presence follows a familiar pattern for the track — dormant, then everywhere.