Everybody Wants To Rule The World

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

"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" was released on 18 March 1985 as the third single from Tears for Fears' album Songs from the Big Chair and went on to top the US Billboard Hot 100, making it the duo's signature catalogue title that keeps re-entering global charts decades later. [1] The track climbed the American singles chart alongside its parent album after peaking at No. 2 in Britain in April 1985, and it has remained the band's most widely licensed and covered song since. [2] Tears for Fears remain an active touring act with concert dates listed for 2026, which keeps the 1985 single in circulation as their set-closing standard. [3]

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. United Statesus · deezer shazam spotify · 6 cities2026-06-172026-09-10#5075#23
   #50
3. United Kingdomgb · deezer shazam spotify · 2 cities2026-06-172026-09-12#4682#30
   #46
4. New Zealandnz · applemusic spotify2026-06-172026-09-12#8871#74
   #88
5. Australiaau · shazam spotify2026-06-192026-09-10#6952#39
   #69
6. Canadaca · shazam spotify · 1 city2026-06-202026-09-10#10156#44
   #101
7. Irelandie · deezer shazam spotify · 1 city2026-06-212026-09-12#9963#23
   #99
8. Costa Ricacr · deezer shazam spotify2026-07-202026-09-10#19547#3
   #195
9. Chilecl · deezer shazam spotify · 1 city2026-07-202026-09-12#955#6
   #9
10. Show all 51 markets

Worldwide feeds · not markets

A source's own worldwide chart. These are feeds, not places, so they are kept out of the market count above.

1. MarketFirst seenLatestDaysPeakRank path
2. Global feedglobal · deezer spotify2026-06-192026-09-12#8559#53
   #85
3. World feedworld · shazam2026-07-202026-09-02#6244#51
   #62

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. us 6 cities · best #23 orlando
2. br 2 cities · best #38 rio de janeiro
3. gb 2 cities · best #35 brighton
4. ar 1 city · best #36 buenos aires
5. ca 1 city · best #44 london
6. cl 1 city · best #33 santiago
7. ie 1 city · best #50 dublin
8. pe 1 city · best #28 lima

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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.