Vance Joy — Riptide

An eleven-year-old ukulele-driven single from Australian singer-songwriter James Keogh is back across the global charts, tracked across 68 country and platform charts today after a month-long dip. The song remains one of the most durable folk-pop crossovers of the 2010s — a stream-of-consciousness lyric Keogh has said "came together" almost by accident, per Genius, riding a bright, looping progression that has proven endlessly resyncable. Its afterlife is a placement résumé: a trailer for the 2014 film The Giver, Netflix's 13 Reasons Why, and Grey's Anatomy season 14, per what-song, plus a 2020 ToyotaCare campaign cataloged on IMDb. It has been a wedding-playlist fixture and a summer perennial ever since Keogh opened Taylor Swift's 1989 tour. Warm weather tends to bring it back.