The pop-rock classic landed at No. 23 on Billboard’s Rock Streaming Songs chart for the week ending June 6, 2026. The song’s re-entry onto Billboard's chart comes the same week that the song hit No. 1 in 1985. “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” originally hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on June 8, 1985.
In an interview with Pitchfork, Hughes revealed that "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" was written and recorded in a week after Orzabal played two simple chords on his acoustic guitar while in the studio.
While the writing and recording were easy, the song’s theme of power and greed during the Cold War was serious business. “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” became Tears for Fears’ career-defining anthem as well as an anthem for the state of the world.
“I think a lot of these songs, now that I’ve listened back to them, are kind of just as poignant as they were then, but just towards different people, different areas of the world,” he said in 2017. “Back when we were doing Songs From the Big Chair and ‘Everybody Wants to Rule the World,’ we were really discussing the Cold War. But it was the U.S. and Russia then, and now the concern is more the U.S. and Korea. I find that fascinating.”
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