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A Radiohead song from 1997 is on the Hot 100 charts, thanks to TikTok


"Let Down" broke into the Billboard Hot 100 nearly 30 years after its release, marking just the fourth Radiohead song to enter the charts.

Thanks to an unexpected surge in popularity on TikTok, Radiohead now has its fourth-ever song on the Billboard Hot 100: the morosely gorgeous track “ Let Down ” from the 1997 album OK Computer. I first encountered this trend when my TikTok algorithm served me — an obsessive Philadelphia Phillies and Radiohead fan — with a video that seemed like it could have been created in a lab to make me cry. The song got a boost when it was used to score a scene in the season 1 finale of “The Bear,” and in May, a music TikTok account posted an edit of “Let Down” that includes vocals from a large chorus.

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