A weird thing happened in September 2022. Mary On A Cross, a three-year-old Ghost song that originally appeared on the B-side of 2019’s Seven Inches Of Satanic Panic single, entered the US Billboard Top 100, unexpectedly giving the Swedish band their biggest hit yet.
Its belated success was down to one thing: TikTok. A few weeks earlier, a TikTokker named @editingtherapy had used a slowed-down version of the song to soundtrack a compilation of scenes from Stranger Things. The connection to the hyper-successful Netflix show pulled people in, but it was Mary On A Cross that caught their attention. On the back of its inclusion in the original clip, the song itself soon went viral, eventually appearing in more than 300,000 videos and clocking up a staggering one billion hashtag views.
“I think it was my daughter who spotted it first,” Ghost frontman Tobias Forge tells “She said, ‘I heard
