Evanescence is currently sitting atop the iTunes U.S. Top Songs chart with their 2003 hit “Bring Me To Life.” The thing that makes this so unusual is that no one really knows how and why this happened.

The band’s social media channels commented on the news saying, “19 years and still going strong! Bring Me To Life is #1 on iTunes. Thank you for the love!”

Kworb.net shows Evanescence beat out some stiff competition to be the top song on iTunes’ U.S. song chart. Some of the artists/tracks they beat out included Nicki Minaj’s “Super Freaky Girl” and Harry Styles’s “As It Was.”

Of course, this still leaves the question as to why a song released 19 years ago is topping an iTunes chart seemingly at random. A number of outlets have hypothesized the reason. Loudwire notes, “Twitter can’t seem to figure it out either, though there is a bit of speculation surrounding the news. One user noted that it was the answer to yesterday’s Heardle puzzle — which plays brief snippets of a song until players guess what it is.”

Currently, “Bring Me To Life” hasn’t become a random trend on TikTok. It hasn’t even been used in a TV series or film, similar to the effect Stranger Things had on Metallica’s “Master of Puppets.”

Eventually, someone will get to the bottom of this. This is the internet, after all.

33 Rock/Pop Music Videos with Over 1 Billion Views on YouTube

• Scorpions - 'Wind of Change' (1 billion views)

• Bon Jovi - 'Livin' On A Prayer' (1 billion views)

• Red Hot Chili Peppers - 'Californication' (1.01 billion views)

• Audioslave - 'Like a Stone' (1.04 billion views)

• Evanescence - 'Bring Me To Life' (1.13 billion views)

• Cyndi Lauper - 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun' (1.14 billion views)

• Metallica - 'Nothing Else Matters' (1.20 billion views)

• Whitney Houston - 'I Will Always Love You' (1.35 billion views)

• AC/DC - 'Thunderstruck' (1.22 billion views)

• Rick Astley - 'Never Gonna Give You Up' (1.34 billion views)

• Bon Jovi - 'It's My Life' (1.21 billion views)

• The Cranberries - 'Zombie' (1.31 billion views)

• a-ha - 'Take On Me' (1.60 billion views)

• Guns N' Roses - 'November Rain' (2 billion views)

• Nirvana - 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' (1.60 billion views)

• Queen - 'Bohemian Rhapsody' (1.57 billion views)

• Linkin Park - 'In The End' (1.48 billion views)

• Coldplay - 'Paradise' (1.66 billion views)

• Imagine Dragons - 'Radioactive' (1.42 billion views)

• 4 Non Blondes - 'What's Up' (1.46 billion views)

• twenty one pilots - 'Heathens' (1.98 billion views)

• Guns N' Roses - 'Sweet Child O' Mine' (1.47 billion views)

• Linkin Park - 'Numb' (1.92 billion views)

• Imagine Dragons - 'Believer' (2.36 billion views)

• Coldplay - 'Hymn For the Weekend' (1.82 billion views)

• Imagine Dragons - 'Thunder' (1.93 billion views)

• Europe - 'The Final Countdown' (1.08 billion views)

• Coldplay - 'The Scientist' (1.08 billion views)

• Michael Jackson - 'Billie Jean' (1.29 billion views)

• System of a Down - 'Chop Suey!' (1.23 billion views)

• twenty one pilots - 'Ride' (1.35 billion views)

• Coldplay - 'Adventure of a Lifetime' (1.39 billion views)

• twenty one pilots - 'Stressed Out' (2.62 billion views)

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