Welcome back to Hit Parade, a podcast of Pop Chart History from Slate magazine about the hits from coast to coast. I'm Chris Malanfi, chart analyst, pop critic, and writer of

Slates, Why is this song number one series? On our last episode, we talked about

second chance hits, singles that did nothing or even flopped on the charts on first release, before a catalyst, a movie, a boost in artist fame, a radio deja. a

movie a boost in artist fame a radio DJ a social meme turned them into smashes

everyone from the Beatles to Prince, Guns and Roses to Taylor Swift has had one of these so-called

Bringbacks. And now, in part two, I'm about to count down a dozen of my favorite second chance hits.

So, before I run through these 12 second chance hits, as usual when I start one of our periodic hit parade countdowns,

a reminder that this list is more art than science, as with my previous rankings of legacy hits or Billboard hits of the year,

chart data does factor in, but the end result is still largely subjective. Also, I'm not including on this

countdown any second chance hit we've already discussed in depth on prior

hit parade episodes even though these songs would

totally qualify. These are hits like Yubi 40's Red Red Wine the subject of our pilot episode of hit parade.

Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody discussed in depth in our posthumous hits episode.

Mama Via let me go.

The Elzebub as astone for me, for me.

And Kate Bush's running up that hill, the touchstone for our TV Tunes episode.

For the full story on these massive second chance hits, please go back to these prior hit

parade shows. Finally, one thing that makes second chance hits hard to compare is not all of them were issued the first time as actual standalone singles.

Many started out as album cuts.

So in general in this ranking,

songs that were issued as 45s

and actually flopped on the Hot 100 the first time rank a bit higher than those that didn't

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