Nearly 40 years after its release, Fleetwood Mac’s “Everywhere” is one of the top 200 songs in the world.
The melodic nugget enters the Billboard Global 200 dated April 18 at No. 188 led by 9.6 million streams worldwide April 3-9, according to Luminate. Boosting its profile in recent years, it has soundtracked ads for Chevrolet and PayPal (the latter featuring Will Ferrell giving his all to hit its high notes).
The track arrived on Fleetwood Mac’s 1987 album Tango in the Night. Released as its fourth single, it rose to No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1988, becoming the most recent of the band’s 16 top 20 hits. The song was written by the group’s Christine McVie, who sang lead vocals on it, and co-produced by Lindsey Buckingham. The LP features the act’s classic lineup of the pair along with Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and Stevie Nicks.
On the Adult Contemporary chart, “Everywhere” became Fleetwood Mac’s second of three No. 1s, directly following the set’s “Little Lies.”
Since the Global 200 launched in September 2020, Fleetwood Mac has now charted four songs on the survey, first reaching No. 10 that October with the revived “Dreams,” which brought the band to No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 1977. The song ranks at No. 40 on the latest Global 200 with 19.2 million streams worldwide.
Two other ‘70s songs prominent in the group’s catalog have hit new Global 200 highs this year: “Landslide” reached No. 123 in January and “The Chain” climbs to a new No. 102 best on the latest ranking.
Artists who have covered “Everywhere” include The Corrs, Niall Horan and Anne-Marie, Chaka Khan, Lissie and Hayley Sabella, the lattermost of whom praised the composition to Billboard in 2018 as “pop music at its best. Whenever that song comes on, it just makes me feel good.
“Lyrically, it frames falling in love with giddiness, but also with a degree of anxiety and discomfort,” the singer-songwriter mused. “‘Something’s happening, happening to me/ My friends say I’m acting peculiarly/ Come along, baby, you better make a start/ You better make it soon before you break my heart’ … As sweet as the sentiment is, ‘I want to be with you everywhere’ is more of a nervous confession than a bold proclamation. I love that. It’s very human, very believable.”
