Night We Met, Evergreen and other 2010 songs that became dormant hits

When the list of the most successful songs of 2024 on Top Lists, broadcasts and social media were recently discovered, they included the expected hits and some evergreen classics. But between them was sprinkled another type of hit song.

A number of songs that failed to make a huge impact when they were first released, mainly in 2010, that have emerged and made strong favorites.

The growth of these slow hits in recent years is “one of the most fascinating trends at the moment,” says Stuart Dedge, head of knowledge at Music Ally.

Here is our guide for the biggest sleep hits of 2010.

This reached the top 20 countries in the US, but lost the UK 40’s Top. She has been snowing on social media and is now the seventh song most broadcast in the history of Spotify, spending more than three years in total in her daily global 50. Say the California group The autumn theme made it a “accidental seasonal hit”, and is also adopted as a bisexual hymn.

The Champagne Coast did not first rank, but the glamorous refrain of British singer Dev Hynes “Come in my bedroom” was used in the voice column of Euphoria television show in 2019, and then the song exploded last summer. it Was The oldest song most popular on the platform in 2024 and the sixth in total on the Billboard end of the end of the year. Finally reached the Top 20 in MB in July.

Evergreen is only 87 seconds tall and did not order initially but made The main song for “Hopecore” videos. providing positivity and optimism fragments in tiktok last year. He spent 35 weeks in the 60 best countries in the United Kingdom in 2024 and was in the overall 100th year of the year.

Published in Voice Column 13 Reasons Why, this song did not reach the best 40s in the UK or US, but the delicate duo of Eilish with Khalid is now its most broadcast song and 14th on the list of all times of Spotify. Among other things it seems to be, good to get you asleep.

I Wanna be Yours was on the Hit AM album, but reached only 99 in the MB as a song. However, last year she had more spotify playing than any other old song over a decade. Tiktok users have chosen the melodramatic choir to convey their romantic statements.

The nice but beautiful cover of the Hard Rock Group Disturbed of Simon’s classic and Garfunkel has already spent eight months in the best 60s of the MB in the past year, aided by a remix dance and a trend Tiktok jump.

See you again did not order at that time, but rose to tiktok (where else?), With an excerpt that turned into a personality quiz (does you sing along with “OK OK” of Tyler or “La” of Invited vocalist Kali Uchis la la la “?). The song finally reached the number 21 in 2023 and was the 19th most broadcast song in Spotify in the US in 2024.

Songs of all ages have been reappeared for several years, of course.

Many were hits to start. Mr. BrightSide from The Killers (2004) is a fixative while Kate Bush is running up in that hill (1985) and Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s murder on the dance runway (2001) climbed to the Top List thanks to TV soundtracks and films.

But when it comes to songs that were not so big, 2010 dominates the first time.

One reason is that people who grew up in those years are presenting their favorite tunes to others, according to Sarah Klobova by analysts of Chartmetrical musical data.

“This resurrection is a pioneer from these older Gen Z listeners (in the middle of the 20s). But when they start to create these trends, you also have younger Gen ZS and even Gen Alpha (youngest and most adolescents down) that they are listening to these songs.

Dedge agrees: “Many of the influencers in countries like Tiktok are several years older, so they are probably using songs from 2010 who have followed their teens.”

The cruel summer of Taylor Swift (2019) can even be described as a sleeping hit – not published as an official single at the time, but eventually reached the number one in 2023 and was the fifth largest song of 2024 in general in Apple Music.

Others, however, are not so obvious hits. From a musical point of view, most sound quite restrained and atmospheric – they are exciting soundtrack songs and not optimistic songs or blood hymns.

“These are not songs that have been published with the intention of being a pop hit,” says Kloboves.

“To avoid colliding with pop music or pop stars, but sometimes it all sounds alike. But I think many of these songs are very different from what you can usually hear in the main course,” she says.

“I think that’s why listeners really resonate with them because they are a little unique and of different sounds.”

Eight other sleeping strokes:

• Pink + White by Frank Ocean (2016)
• No Role Modelz by J Cole (2014)
• Jocelyn Flores by XXXTentation (2017)
• Everything I want from the kodaline (2012)
• LOVERS ROCK FROM GIRL TV (2014)
• Space Song from Beach House (2015)
• Apocalypse from cigarette after sex (2017)
• Freaks by Surf Curse (2013)

Many of these songs owe their delayed success to Tiktok and songs that promote “a kind of emotional reaction” to the listener, believes the head of the UK platform partnerships, Toyin Mustapha.

“Is to have something that resonates emotionally. This can be a lyric. It can be the way the instrument lands.”

And our relationship with music has changed. When packing songs with clips on social media, fans are choosing them as soundtracks for evocative moments.

“It is no longer passive hearing,” Mustapha adds. “People are truly active participants in culture. And they are active because they are taking this music and are essentially reimaging it in their own way.”

Discography labels try to help make catalog songs turn into dormant hits, but this usually happens organically thanks to fans, Dedge says.

“One of the things you can see is that it is songs that give yourself a feeling or humor. It is often a special verse from the song that is followed and becomes viral,” he says.

“There seems to be no rhyme or reason for him, except they suddenly feel important to someone in a way that other people appreciate.”

Sometimes, it is simply that a wonderful song did not get the attention it deserved at the time: “Part of it is just that a brilliant song can be connected to people, no matter how long it was done.”