“Down” by Marian Hill

"Down" first surfaced in 2016 on Act One, the debut album from Marian Hill, the electronic duo of Samantha Gongol and Jeremy Lloyd, and it caught fire only after Apple dropped it into an AirPods commercial. That made it a sleeper: in January 2017 it debuted at the top of Billboard's Top TV Commercials chart, then crept onto the Hot 100 at number 99 and kept climbing until it peaked at 21, with 17 weeks on the chart all told.

Gongol and Lloyd wrote it, and Lloyd mixed it with Tony Maserati. It's a slow, slinky thing in C minor at 85 beats per minute, cycling through four descending chords. In the video, Gongol sings in an elevator papered with pink flowers as it sinks, while Lloyd plays keyboard on the roof of the car.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.