Teardrop

Momentum

This song has not appeared on a Rotation chart, so it has no score and no receipts. The rank history below is the ledger; a score is only published once the momentum run puts it on a chart.

Why it's here

Massive Attack originally intended Madonna to sing the song, but turned her down in favour of Cocteau Twins singer Elizabeth Fraser, whose ethereal vocals became one of pop's great what-ifs. [1] It became the group's highest-charting single and only UK top-10 hit, and was later certified Platinum by the BPI. [2] The song has served as the opening theme for the US TV show House and the Australian series The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, and its music video features a foetus singing in the womb. [3]

In culture

Every place this record has lived. A solid chip states a fact and carries the citation that earns it; a dashed one is a connection somebody drew, and carries their name instead.

• Written by Andrew Vowlessource
• Covered Anneke van Giersbergen & Danny Cavanaghsource
• Covered Civil Twilightsource
• Covered Eklipsesource
• Covered Elbowsource
• Written by Elizabeth Frasersource
• Covered fox capture plansource
• Written by Grant Marshallsource
• Covered José Gonzálezsource
• Sampled by Kas:st, Lost Soulssource
• Samples Les McCann, Sometimes I Crysource
• Remixed by Massive Attack & Elizabeth Fraser, Teardrop (Mazaruni vocal mix 2)source
• Remixed by Massive Attack & Elizabeth Fraser, Teardrop (Underdog vocal mix #3)source
• Remixed by Massive Attack feat. Liz Frazer, Teardrop (Underdog mix)source
• Remixed by Massive Attack, Teardrop (Coldwall corruption)source
• Remixed by Massive Attack, Teardrop (Future Funk Squad remix)source
• Remixed by Massive Attack, Teardrop (Mad Professor Mazaruni instrumental)source
• Remixed by Massive Attack, Teardrop (Mad Professor Mazaruni vocal mix)source
• Remixed by Massive Attack, Teardrop (Minilogue remix)source
• Remixed by Massive Attack, Teardrop (Scream Team remix)source
• Remixed by Massive Attack, Teardrop (Sream Team remix)source
• Remixed by Massive Attack, Teardrop (Underdog Instr mix #2)source
• Covered Newton Faulknersource
• Covered ONAIRsource
• Written by Robert Del Najasource
• Covered Simple Mindssource
• Sampled by The Collective, Teardropsource
• Covered The Kookssource
• Covered Vitamin String Quartetsource
• Covered Wallis Birdsource

Across markets · earliest pickup first

Every date here is the date the source chart covers, never the date we fetched it. Sources publish on different lags: the Spotify mirror runs about two days behind, TurnTable publishes weekly.

1. MarketFirst seenLatestDaysPeakRank path
2. Estoniaee · deezer2026-07-202026-07-20#361#36
   —
3. Japanjp · deezer2026-07-292026-07-30#82#8
   #8
4. Malaysiamy · deezer2026-07-292026-07-30#652#25
   #65
5. Algeriadz · applemusic2026-07-292026-07-29#711#71
   —
6. Singaporesg · deezer2026-07-302026-08-01#702#40
   #70
7. Thailandth · deezer2026-08-112026-09-11#875#36
   #87
8. Lithuanialt · deezer2026-08-122026-08-12#501#50
   —
9. Irelandie · shazam · 1 city2026-08-202026-08-25#336#24
   #33
10. Show all 12 markets

City pickups

City charts record their parent country as the market, so these do not add to the market count above. One line per country: how many of its rooms picked the song up, and the best of them.

1. ie 1 city · best #24 dublin
2. no 1 city · best #10 oslo

Listen

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Editions

No published edition carries this song yet. Every edition it appears in will be listed here and stay listed: an edition is immutable, so a citation to one never rots.