Jeff Buckley has posthumously achieved his first US Hot 100 hit single, with the track Lover, You Should Have Come Over entering at No 97 this week. The song's success comes 29 years after the singer's death, propelled by a new generation of listeners discovering Buckley's music on TikTok.
The viral trend on the social media platform has driven fans to streaming services, where the song has gained enough plays to chart. Lover, You Should Have Come Over is an acoustic ballad lamenting a broken relationship, with lyrics such as "All my blood for the sweetness of her laughter" and "she's the tear that hangs inside my soul for ever".
The track features on Grace, Buckley's sole studio album, released in 1994. The album initially peaked at No 82 in the US but became a cult favourite among college students, eventually earning platinum status. Buckley died in 1997 after accidentally drowning in the Mississippi River, and a compilation of his unfinished second album was released the following year as Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk.
Buckley is not the only 90s alternative act to chart belatedly thanks to TikTok: Radiohead's Let Down, from 1997's OK Computer, charted for the first time in 2025. TikTok's Year in Music report stated that eight of the ten US No 1 singles of 2025 had a viral moment on TikTok first, and all 13 UK No 1 singles went viral on the platform.
