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“Square Hammer” by Ghost
From the EP Popestar (2016)
“Square Hammer” by Ghost appears on 4 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2016 and 2019. It was first released in 2016 on the EP Popestar. Its best result is #10 on the SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2016. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #135 hard rock song of 2017 and #123 of the '10s.
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Ghost put "Square Hammer" out through Loma Vista on September 16, 2016, the lead single from Popestar, the Swedish rock band's second EP. Tobias Forge takes the vocal, the playing is credited only to a Group of Nameless Ghouls, and even the songwriting goes to "A Ghoul Writer", which is about as committed to the mystique as a band can get. Tom Dalgety produced, recorded and mixed it, with Niels Nielsen and Markus Krona engineering.
It's a chorus big enough for the back row of an arena, and it connected. In January 2017 it went to number one on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, making Ghost the first Swedish band to top it, and NXT TakeOver: San Antonio adopted it as one of its official themes.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 10 | SiriusXM Octane National (SiriusXM satellite radio) | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2016 | 30 |
| 2017 | 93 | 98KUPD Phoenix, AZ | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2017 | 98 |
| 2017 | 90 | 99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT | 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2017 | 99 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 64 | 93X | 93X Top 93 Songs of the Decade (2010s) | 93 |
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