The consultants assist us rank the 20 reveals that artists and publishers are most seeking to get their songs onto in 2024.
High 20 Synch Exhibits
Lyanne Natividad
Because the debut of MTV over 40 years in the past, getting your tune on tv has been practically as vital to music promotion as getting your tune on the radio. MTV (after which later VH1 and BET) have been the nationwide radio stations, assured to immediately develop your viewers and grant you entry to the monoculture. Within the 2020s, music movies have all however disappeared from tv, however getting on TV stays practically as essential and probably career-changing. Now, nevertheless, artists are seeing their fortunes modified by high-leverage placements in TV reveals — they usually’re not taking place on MTV and BET, however on HBO and FX, and streaming providers like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime.
After all, all TV reveals weren’t created equal on the subject of music publicity. Some TV reveals are nationwide phenomena however exist to this point exterior the same old world of pop music {that a} synch on them barely registers with their viewers, in the event that they even function any synchs in any respect. And different reveals are principally unfamiliar to viewers exterior of their core cult viewers, however have such a giant reference to that viewers that getting a tune on there generally is a main difference-maker, each when it comes to short-term windfall and long-term impression. After which there are the reveals with each a faithful following and a large cultural imprint, the place getting on one might you lead you straight to the Billboard charts — even for those who’ve by no means been on one earlier than, or haven’t been in many years.
With all this in thoughts, Billboard has put collectively its first-ever listing of essentially the most beneficial reveals for putting tune synchs — when it comes to the outcomes they produce after airing, not when it comes to licensing payouts. We decided our rankings based mostly on cultural impression, demonstrable streaming success and information from Billboard‘s Tunefind-powered High TV Songs chart — and maybe most significantly, on testimony from the parents in music publishing whose job it’s to position their artists’ songs on reveals, whose phrases you will discover in our write-ups. We’re attempting to be as present as doable with this listing, so whereas we do have some reveals on right here which were on for awhile and/or don’t have a presently scheduled return date, we didn’t embrace something that isn’t anticipated (or at the least rumored) to return to air sooner or later.
Have a look beneath at our listing of the 20 reveals everybody desires to be featured on proper now.
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Reacher
Picture Credit score: ©Amazon/Courtesy Everett Assortment Amazon Prime’s adaptation of the Jack Reacher novels to an motion TV collection has turn into an unsurprising streaming hit, and the present’s traditional rock- and blues-dominated soundtrack has been one of many huge the reason why. Songs from Howlin’ Wolf and The Rolling Stones packed the primary season, whereas the second season began to combine in some spiky alt-rock standbys from the likes of Speaking Heads and Toadies.
Signature Synch: Within the tense climactic scene to the second season’s penultimate episode, the titular Reacher (Alan Ritchson) surrenders himself to antagonist Shane Langston (Robert Patrick) as Soul Coughing’s “Tremendous Bon Bon” rumbles pensively within the background — a placement that led to a 342% streaming achieve for the tune for the week following the episode’s debut, in response to Luminate.
Highest-Peaking High TV Songs Hit: Lynyrd Skynyrd, “Easy Man” (No. 2, Jan. 2024)
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Fallout
Picture Credit score: Everett Assortment One other Amazon Prime adaptation, this one of many post-apocalyptic role-playing online game franchise that’s existed in some kind or one other since 1997. Set over 270 years sooner or later, Fallout follows the sport collection’ lead by really that includes pop music that principally dates again to the Forties and ’50s, with its pilot that includes requirements by the likes of Nat “King” Cole and Perry Como, in addition to a pair of early nation classics by Johnny Money.
Signature Synch: The Ink Spots’ love tune “I Don’t Need to Set the World on Hearth” — which soundtracked a number of early entries within the Fallout collection — performs over the top credit of the present’s second episode, and led to the 86-year-old tune doubling in streams to over one million weekly performs inside weeks of its airing.
Highest-Peaking High TV Songs Hit: The Ink Spots, “I Don’t Need to Set the World on Hearth” (No. 1, Apr. 2024)
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Virgin River
Picture Credit score: ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Assortment At a time when Netflix has turn into famously stingy with renewals, this collection based mostly on romance novelist Robyn Carr’s Virgin River books has had notable longevity, with a sixth season presently in manufacturing. The drama a couple of small city midwife in Northern California attracts closely on music to drive the emotion of the collection. Typically Virgin River dips into the catalogs of established artists like Bryan Adams and Norah Jones, however extra typically the present’s soundtrack has prominently spotlighted impartial singer-songwriters like Ben Wagner and Katie Barbato. “Prior to now yr or so, our expertise has been eager to have their songs positioned in reveals like Virgin River,” says Marni Condro, Vice President in Movie & TV at Common Music Publishing Group.
Signature Synch: With enormous vinyl gross sales and viral TikTok moments, Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 traditional Rumours has been as related as ever lately, with songs discovering outstanding synchs in Wednesday, Daisy Jones & The Six, Tremendous Pumped and Outer Vary. Months after band member Christine McVie’s 2022 loss of life, one in every of her signature Rumours cuts, “Songbird,” was prominently featured in a season 5 episode of Virgin River named after the tune. A number of episodes later, the tune grew to become a recurring motif through a canopy by Jake Etheridge.
Highest-Peaking High TV Songs Hit: Earth Wind & Hearth, “September” & Lizzo, “Good as Hell” (each No. 1; Sept. 2023 and Nov. 2020, respectively)
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True Detective
Picture Credit score: Courtesy Picture Whereas music synchs had not essentially been a serious a part of the primary three seasons of HBO’s hit 2010s thriller serial True Detective, they performed a a lot bigger function within the present’s Alaska-set fourth installment (subtitled Evening Nation), which debuted in early 2024 and starred Jodie Foster and Kali Reis. The season led to large Shazam returns for haunting indie ballads from Jim James, Mazzy Star and Marika Hackman (masking Lykke Li’s “I Comply with Rivers”), and in addition included an unlikely traditional pop synch within the Beatles’ model of “Twist & Shout,” which recurred all through the season.
Signature Synch: Essentially the most head-turning tune utilization in Evening Nation was nonetheless actually Billie Eilish’s spooky 2019 hit “Bury a Pal,” used because the present’s opening credit theme — which Condro calls an “extremely memorable” placement.
Highest-Peaking High TV Songs Hit: Mazzy Star, “Into Mud” (No. 3, Feb. 2024)
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The Umbrella Academy
Picture Credit score: ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Assortment The Umbrella Academy sprang from the thoughts of an precise rock star, so it’s not stunning that music performs a key function within the Netflix superhero collection. Primarily based on a Darkish Horse Comics title created by My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Manner, the surreal sci-fi story spans many years and contains time jumps. Appropriately, The Umbrella Academy — which returns for a fourth and ultimate season in August — contains a full of life mixture of older tracks by Aretha Franklin and The Lovin’ Spoonful, together with up to date bands like The Struts and The Heavy. The present’s ensemble solid contains R&B icon Mary J. Blige, who lined Faces’ traditional rock staple “Keep With Me” for the present’s first season, whereas Manner himself provided a spin on Simon & Garfunkel’s “Hazy Shade of Winter.”
Signature Synch: ‘80s different staples like The Treatment and Billy Idol are a bedrock factor of The Umbrella Academy’s soundtrack. The present’s music nerd pedigree is epitomized, nevertheless, by “The Order of Demise,” a extra obscure 1984 album observe by the John Lydon-led post-punk outfit Public Picture Ltd. –which appeared in a season 2 episode, in addition to in different buzzy dramas like Mr. Robotic and Trade.
Highest-Peaking High TV Songs Hit: KISS, “I Was Made for Lovin’ You” (No. 1, Aug. 2020)
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Love Island
Picture Credit score: Courtesy Picture “Past the scripted reveals, you’ve got the truth powerhouse of Love Island, which has tens of millions of viewers,” says Kat Basolo, Vice President of Inventive Synch at Kobalt concerning the several types of reveals that may drive synch curiosity. “Whereas the charges aren’t as profitable for one of these present, the publicity to such a large viewers has helped skyrocket streaming numbers for songs used throughout the present.” A globally widespread courting actuality franchise with over 20 worldwide variations and spinoffs, Love Island has turn into a fixture of American TV, with the U.S. model streaming on Peacock and the unique British collection additionally pulling in stateside viewers on Hulu. The American collection has licensed over 1800 songs since premiering in 2019, from evergreen hits by Kool & The Gang and Britney Spears to up to date acts like Lizzo and Tones And I.
Signature Synch: Sabrina Carpenter’s 2019 album observe “ Me,” which predates her newer Scorching 100 breakout success by years, has turn into one in every of her most streamed songs thanks largely to its TV synch makes use of — together with season 5 of Love Island and its 2023 spinoff Love Island Video games.
Highest-Peaking High TV Songs Hit: Billie Eilish, “Dangerous Man” (No. 5, June 2003)
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Shrinking
Picture Credit score: ©Apple TV/Courtesy Everett Assortment Apple TV+’s signature comedy, Ted Lasso, ran its course with a 3rd and ultimate season final yr. However co-creator Invoice Lawrence already has one other heartstring-tugging sitcom for the streamer. Shrinking stars Jason Segel and Harrison Ford as therapists, and like Ted Lasso, memorable needle drops have been a giant a part of the present’s allure. “I positively keep in mind robust buzz and exercise following the makes use of we landed on Shrinking,” says Marty Silverstone, President of World Sync at Main Wave. “That’s a present that makes use of music actually, very well.”
Signature Synch: Shrinking continuously options Gaby (Jessica Williams) singing alongside together with her automotive radio — and within the present’s most generally mentioned scene from the fourth episode, her co-worker Paul (Ford) catches a journey with Gaby and joins in her singalong with Sugar Ray’s 1999 hit “Each Morning.” Ford personally selected the tune for the scene, and Sugar Ray frontman Mark McGrath was thrilled: “My jaw fell to the ground,” McGrath informed Stereogum after the episode aired final yr. “You license a tune, you don’t know the way they’re going to make use of it. Not often does somebody sing it a cappella together with the observe… And barely is that individual Han Solo.”
Highest-Peaking High TV Songs Hit: Rosa Linn, “Snap” (No. 1, Mar. 2023)
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Bridgerton / Queen Charlotte
Picture Credit score: ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Assortment Gray’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes signed a profitable improvement take care of Netflix in 2017. And Netflix shortly reaped the rewards of that deal when the primary Shondaland collection below the deal, the historic romance Bridgerton, quickly grew to become Netflix’s most watched unique collection upon its 2021 debut. Becoming the present’s frothy, playful tackle Regency-era excessive society, Bridgerton’s soundtrack closely options orchestral renditions of 21st century pop songs just like the Vitamin String Quartet’s takes on Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Subsequent” and Billie Eilish’s “Dangerous Man.” A well-liked prequel spinoff, 2023’s Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, continued that musical theme, and the primary collection returned for a 3rd season on Could sixteenth.
Signature Synch: Upping the ante from Bridgerton’s established string quartet covers, Common Music’s staff helped Queen Charlotte launch with a serious star showing on the orchestral re-recording of one in every of her greatest recognized songs. “Queen Charlotte’s World Orchestra collaborated with Alicia Keys on her large hit ‘If I Ain’t Acquired You.’ It was built-in seamlessly in each the present and advertising and marketing marketing campaign,” says Marni Condro. “We knew the success of Bridgerton. We knew this was going to be one thing highly effective.”
Highest-Peaking High TV Songs Hit: JPOLND, “The Finish” (No. 2, Jan. 2021)
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Gray’s Anatomy
Picture Credit score: Christopher Willard/ABC through Getty Photographs One of many reveals that first helped cement synch placement as an important factor of the trendy music business — again within the mid-to-late ’00s, on the peak of the iTunes period — ABC medical drama Gray’s Anatomy helped flip singles by artists like The Fray, Snow Patrol and Anna Nalick into stateside smashes. However not solely is the present nonetheless going robust on Thursday nights practically twenty years later, it nonetheless has main impression with its soundtrack selections. “Let’s present just a little love for a superb quaint Gray’s Anatomy placement,” says Jonathan Palmer, Senior Vice President of Inventive Synch at BMG. “That may nonetheless assist break an artist or reactivate a listing.”
Signature Synch: Most likely nonetheless The Fray’s “Find out how to Save a Life” within the season two (2006) episode “Superstition,” which helped to outline not solely the present’s musical candy spot, however ensured that piano-led pop-rock would stick as one of many dominant sounds on VH1 and high 40 radio for a strong two-three yr interval within the late ’00s.
Highest-Peaking High TV Songs Hit: Anson Seabra, “Walked By means of Hell”; SHAED, “Trampoline”; Andy Grammer, “Don’t Give Up on Me” (all No. 1s; Mar. 2021, Mar. 2020 and Oct. 2019, respectively)
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Beef
Picture Credit score: ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Assortment The soundtrack to Netflix’s Beef, heavy on ’90s and early ’00s alt-rock radio staples, each added to the present’s ceaseless stress and emotionally fraught environment, and helped to floor the present’s characters and story in a standard musical language. And whereas many reveals of its ilk would both play it protected with can’t-miss classics of the period or use it as an opportunity to point out off the depths of their interval CD collections, Beef principally opted for giant hits by bands not as continuously repped for in 2024 — like Bush, Hoobastank and Grant Lee Buffalo — leading to numerous unexpectedly resonant musical moments of revived curiosity. (The present’s award-winning first season was designed as a mini-series, however in response to reviews, is being reworked presently for a possible second season.)
Signature Synch: Smashing Pumpkins’ traditional Siamese Dream deep reduce “Mayonaise” soundtracking the season’s closing hospital montage is well one of the indelible synch moments of the last decade.
Highest-Peaking High TV Songs Hit: Incubus, “Drive” (No. 2, Apr. 2023)
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You
Picture Credit score: ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Assortment When You debuted on the Lifetime community in 2018, it was an odd little cult present, a psychological thriller from the attitude of a captivating and clever stalker and assassin, Joe (Penn Badgley). Shifting to Netflix a yr later, You turn into an unlikely hit, thanks partly to a classy fashionable rock soundtrack of up-and-coming bands and established acts like Radiohead and Vampire Weekend. With its fifth and ultimate season presently in manufacturing, You is a sizzling commodity for music licensing, partly as a result of musicians themselves watch it. “Artists and songwriters are real followers, which makes touchdown a synch placement [on You] that rather more thrilling and rewarding,” says Basolo.
Signature Synch: The darkly romantic songs Invoice Dess data below the identify Two Ft that grew to become a viral sensation on SoundCloud are an ideal aesthetic match for You, with songs showing in each the third and fourth seasons. The bluesy “Love is a Bitch,” an early single from Two Ft’s pre-major label DIY days, soundtracks a scene of a socialite unsuccessfully making an attempt to seduce Joe.
Highest-Peaking High TV Songs Hit: Taylor Swift, “Exile” (No. 1, Oct. 21)
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The White Lotus
Picture Credit score: Courtesy Picture As one of the acclaimed and buzzed-about reveals on TV, HBO’s The White Lotus might simply be a career-maker for no matter pop or indie acts it wished to function. However Mike White’s hotel-themed serial primarily options music genuine to its locale, with its Sicily-set second season principally that includes traditional Italian singers like Domenico Modugno and Fabrizio De André. That isn’t stopping publishers from attempting to position their songs on White Lotus, although: UMPG boasts that they have been capable of place 14 songs on the second season via their Italian workplace, whereas Main Wave’s Marty Silverstone (who refers back to the present as “a trophy”) says he was chasing down Italian variations of songs owned by PW to attempt to get them on the present.
Signature Synch: The most important musical second in White Lotus thus far remains to be the usage of composer Cristobal Tapia De Veer’s “Renaissance” in its second season’s opening credit — a theme which grew to become one thing of a cultural phenomenon, resulting in a whole lot of 1000’s of weekly streams and even an expert home remix.
Highest-Peaking High TV Songs Hit: La rappresentante di lista, “Ciao Ciao” (No. 5, Dec. 2022)
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Yellowjackets
Picture Credit score: ©Showtime Networks Inc./Courtesy Everett Assortment A horror-leaning thriller thriller about characters who’re endlessly caught within the mid-’90s after struggling quite a lot of horrific and inexplicable traumas as teenagers, the music to Showtime’s Yellowjackets is appropriately fixated on the post-grunge period each in its flashbacks and current-day scenes. Given the present’s predominantly feminine solid, explicit emphasis is placed on the female-led alt rock of the interval: Artists like Gap, Tori Amos, Stomach, Rubbish and The Cranberries, whose songs all add to the present’s fevered depth, and have loved bumps in consumption on account of the publicity. “For ‘90s classic repertoire, we’re wild about “Yellowjackets,” in fact,” says BMG’s Jonathan Palmer.
Signature Synch: PJ Harvey’s enigmatically foreboding and vividly atmospheric “Down by the Water,” used throughout a bonfire scene within the present’s pilot episode, brilliantly set the tone for the music within the collection to return.
Highest-Peaking High TV Songs Hit: The Cranberries, “Zombie” (No. 4, Could 2023)
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Wednesday
Picture Credit score: ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Assortment The Addams Household jumped from the pages of The New Yorker to primetime tv in 1964, and the creepy and kooky household of monsters has been a popular culture fixture ever since. And the franchise has reached one more new technology with a by-product starring Jenna Ortega as a teenage Wednesday Addams. Wednesday’s 2022 debut season on Netflix was a right away hit, due to director Tim Burton’s trademark morbidly campy aesthetic and an omnivorous soundtrack, starting from Roy Orbison to Dua Lipa.
Signature Synch: Wednesday’s fourth episode featured an immediately iconic college dance scene with Ortega slicing a rug to cult band The Cramps’ 1981 cowl of the rockabilly obscurity “Goo Goo Muck.” Streaming numbers soared not only for the Cramps observe, but in addition for Woman Gaga’s “Bloody Mary,” which was featured in a well-liked TikTok edit of the scene.
Highest-Peaking High TV Songs Hit: Seashore Home, “Area Tune” (No. 3, Nov. 2022)
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The Summer time I Turned Fairly
Picture Credit score: ©Amazon/Courtesy Everett Assortment With Taylor Swift on the top of superstardom proper now, loads of reveals are clamoring to make use of her songs, from You to The Good Physician. However Amazon Prime’s hit collection based mostly on a trilogy of younger grownup novels by Jenny Han, The Summer time I Turned Fairly, has made Swift’s music into nearly a recurring character, a continuing comforting voice that appears to relate the story. Different artists like Lana Del Rey and Gin Blossoms seem within the present’s tune rating, however Swift is ever-present. “By way of the reveals that I’m always getting requested about from writers and artists they usually actually wanna be part of – it’s typically within the YA area,” says Condro. “And it is sensible that you’ve a built-in viewers, and a teenage viewers, and a music-buying viewers.”
Signature Synch: Over a yr earlier than Swift launched 1989 (Taylor’s Model), a re-recording of her 2014 album, “This Love (Taylor’s Model)” made its debut within the trailer for the primary season of The Summer time I Turned Fairly. Within the collection, the tune soundtracks a pivotal second, the primary kiss between Conrad (Christopher Briney) and Stomach (Lola Tung).
Highest-Peaking High TV Songs Hit: Weapons N’ Roses, “Candy Baby O’ Mine” (No. 1, July 2023)
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The Final of Us
Picture Credit score: Courtesy Picture Music was baked into HBO’s adaptation of online game collection The Final of Us from the very first episode, with the pilot establishing the plot level of characters speaking to one another over the airwaves through coded tune alternatives. However the first season’s musical alternatives shortly grew past that soundtrack framing gadget, with picks that helped construct its characters and make for a few of the decade’s most unforgettable TV moments. “I feel the most effective type of surprises are those the place you don’t anticipate that it’s gonna [make a huge impact],” says Wende Crowley, SVP of Movie/TV for Sony Music Publishing — who positioned Depeche Mode’s “By no means Let Me Down Once more” within the pilot episode, resulting in a 221% streaming achieve for the 1987 synth-rock traditional. “Nobody anticipated The Final of Us was gonna do what it did, nevertheless it was such an amazing mover for the tune and for the catalog.”
Signature Synch: Nobody who ever watched the “Lengthy, Lengthy Time” episode will probably quickly neglect about its use of Linda Ronstadt’s 1970 ballad of the identical identify — with the tune serving because the emotional centerpiece for essentially the most tearjerking tv love story that completely no one noticed coming, ensuing within the tune changing into a chart-topping hit once more in 2023.
Highest-Peaking High TV Songs Placement: a-ha, “Tackle Me” (No. 1, Feb. 2023)
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The Bear
Picture Credit score: ©FX Networks/Courtesy Everett Assortment With two rapturously acclaimed seasons below its belt and its third go-round set to kick off in late June, FX on Hulu’s The Bear is among the many most beloved reveals on TV or streaming proper now — and its soundtrack is a giant a part of that. With a different however coherent set of tunes primarily centered on earnest ’80s and ’90s rock — the type you could possibly see the present’s 30- and 40-something, Chicago-bred characters having grown up on — however mixing within the occasional traditional rock deep reduce and well timed large pop hit (with even Taylor Swift making a memorable S2 look), The Bear exemplifies the idea of music serving as a further character on a TV present. “Our purchasers and their reps love The Bear, and so will we,” says Silverstone. “It’s a present leaning into catalog in actually fascinating methods.”
Signature Synch: If it’s not that cathartic Richie singalong to “Love Story (Taylor’s Model),” it’s most likely the usage of R.E.M.’s minor hit “Unusual Currencies” as a form of recurring love theme for protagonist Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) and longtime crush Claire (Molly Gordon) in Season Two — featured in a brand new remix that even bought a brand new video and digital launch on account of its Bear utilization.
Highest-Peaking High TV Songs Hit: Wonderful Younger Cannibals, “She Drives Me Loopy” (No. 7, June 2023)
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Yellowstone
Picture Credit score: ©Paramount Community/courtesy Everett Assortment In a enterprise that historically chased younger and concrete viewers, Yellowstone stands out as a large red-state hit that skews older. Likewise, Taylor Sheridan’s Paramount Community drama about Montana ranchers has additionally turn into a critical tastemaker in genres that scripted TV hardly ever highlights, prominently that includes younger neo-traditionalist artists like Zach Bryan and Jackson Dean earlier than nation radio embraced them. Yellowstone’s ultimate handful of episodes will start airing in November, however with two spinoffs already on the air and three extra in manufacturing, Sheridan’s reveals will probably proceed to be massively worthwhile and influential for years to return.
Signature Synch: “For conventional and up to date nation, it’s all about Yellowstone, which helped launch our personal Lainey Wilson to stardom,” says Palmer. Wilson was nonetheless an impartial artist when one in every of her early singles, “Workin’ Time beyond regulation,” appeared in Yellowstone’s season 2 premiere. Since then, Wilson has racked up a half dozen extra Yellowstone synchs — whereas additionally carving out an performing function on the present, as aspiring nation singer Abby — in addition to a string of Nation Airplay No. 1s and a Grammy.
Highest-Peaking High TV Songs Hit: Lainey Wilson, “Watermelon Moonshine” (No. 1, Dec. 2022)
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Stranger Issues
Picture Credit score: ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Assortment Stranger Issues, a supernatural romp via the fictional city of Hawkins, Indiana, has been one in every of Netflix’s largest hits because it first premiered in 2016. And with its Eighties setting, Stranger Issues has turn into a boon for any artist with a big catalog of older hits, with the present continuously that includes nostalgic outdated MTV hits in addition to less-obvious needle drops from the Me Decade. Metallica’s 1986 tune “Grasp of Puppets,” an eight-minute thrash-metal masterpiece from earlier than the band crossed over to mainstream stardom, belatedly grew to become a Scorching 100 high 40 hit in 2022. And it wasn’t even essentially the most notable streaming sensation from the fourth season of Stranger Issues. “It’s injected a brand new bloodline into some older songs from the ‘80s,” says Scott Cresto, Govt Vice President of Synchronization Licensing & Advertising at Reservoir.
Signature Synch: “Operating Up That Hill” was Kate Bush’s largest American hit in 1985, peaking at No. 30 on the Scorching 100, a far cry from the British artwork pop icon’s chart-topping success in her homeland. The tune’s outstanding placement in a number of episodes of the fourth season of Stranger Issues, nevertheless, propelled “Operating” again up the charts greater than ever in 2022, with the tune reaching a brand new Scorching 100 peak of No. 3. The location probably even performed a task in Bush lastly getting inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame in 2023.
Highest-Peaking High TV Songs Hit: Metallica, “Grasp of Puppets” & Kate Bush, “Operating Up That Hill” (each No. 1; July 2022 and Could-June 2022, respectively)
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Euphoria
Picture Credit score: Eddy Chen/HBO Different reveals may’ve been accountable for greater particular person tune bumps this decade, however nearly each writer Billboard talked to for this listing had the identical reply about what present their purchasers are most continuously asking about getting featured on in 2024: HBO’s Euphoria. (“That present comes up in each assembly with each author I discuss to,” says Condro.) No TV present proper now’s as culture-shifting or as instantly impactful as Sam Levinson’s sensory-overload teen melodrama, and no present contains a wider swath of music on its soundtrack — from ’70s and ’80s high 40 hits and different deep cuts to haunting modern-day R&B and screechingly futuristic hyper-pop — with each tune featured someway seeming to revenue equally from the publicity.
Signature Synch: Many to select from, however maybe none extra telling than Gerry Rafferty’s 1978 high 20 Scorching 100 soft-rock hit “Proper Down the Line,” which grew to become maybe the least-predictable streaming hit of 2022 after being featured in a suspenseful scene at a drug seller’s condominium within the season two premiere.
Highest-Peaking High TV Songs Hit: Labrinth & Zendaya, “I’m Drained”; Gerry Rafferty, “Proper Down the Line”; Billie Eilish & Rosalía, “Lo Vas a Olvidar”; Labrinth & Zendaya, “All for Us” (all No. 1; Feb.-Mar. 2022, Jan. 2022, Jan. 2021 and Aug. 2019, respectively)