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Everybody Wants To Rule The World by Tears For Fears · musicrank

Cover of Everybody Wants To Rule The World by Tears For Fears

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Everybody Wants To Rule The World

TTears For Fears

From Songs From The Big Chair (Super Deluxe Edition)

#174never chartednot charting nownot charting now

Worldwide: —; Outside the joined top 100
Charting in: 16countries; 35 charts on Spotify, YouTube, Shazam, Apple Music, iTunes, and Billboard
Peak: #1; Billboard United States · Jun 8, 1985
Lifetime streams: 2.719B; +1.4M a day on Spotify
YouTube views: 233.6M; 797.4K likes · +401.7K a day

Around the world

On 35 charts today, in 16 countries and worldwide

Chart	Spotify	YouTube	Shazam	Apple	iTunes	Billboard
Worldwide	Spotify: 174, down 5					Billboard: 89, up 38
🇬🇧United Kingdom	Spotify: 102, down 3	YouTube: 68, down 19	Shazam: 68, up 20		iTunes: 82, down 27
🇮🇪Ireland	Spotify: 167, down 19	YouTube: 53, up 10	Shazam: 78, up 33
🇲🇽Mexico			Shazam: 169, up 16		iTunes: 56, new
🇧🇷Brazil			Shazam: 60, down 5	Apple Music: 77, down 7
🇦🇺Australia	Spotify: 195, down 7	YouTube: 72, down 17
🇳🇿New Zealand	Spotify: 168, down 6	YouTube: 85, up 10
🇨🇱Chile	Spotify: 170, new		Shazam: 102, up 1
🇺🇸United States	Spotify: 172, down 6		Shazam: 163, up 1
🇶🇦Qatar					iTunes: 3, new
🇸🇻El Salvador		YouTube: 77, no change
🇦🇷Argentina			Shazam: 79, down 4

Lifetime streams

Spotify's own play count for this song, each time we checked

So far: 2,719,578,705; streams, as of Oct 4, 2026
A day: +1,404,667; streams a day, over the 8 days between two readings
Next milestone: 3 billion; around Apr 22, 2027, at this rate

Credits & details

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Tears For FearsLead artist

ISRC: GBF088590110
Listed on: SpotifyYouTubeDeezerShazamApple MusiciTunesBillboardKKBOX