Swedish rock outfit Ghost has ushered in the end of 2025 with one of their biggest commercial achievements yet: their breakout track “Mary On A Cross” has officially been certified Platinum in the United Kingdom after selling over 600,000 units there.
Originally released in 2019 as part of Ghost’s Seven Inches Of Satanic Panic EP, the song has experienced an extraordinary resurgence years after its debut. While it was a fan favourite from the start, its popularity exploded in 2022 when a remixed version went viral on TikTok, introducing the track to a whole new generation of listeners.
That social-media driven spark helped “Mary On A Cross” become Ghost’s most streamed and commercially successful song. As of December 21, 2025, the track had moved enough units in the U.K. to meet the British Phonographic Industry’s Platinum threshold. In the United States, it had already reached Double Platinum status earlier in November for surpassing two million equivalent units sold.
Growth on streaming platforms has been equally remarkable. The song has attracted hundreds of millions of plays on Spotify alone — with numbers still climbing — and is widely expected to surpass one billion total streams in the near future.
Ghost mastermind Tobias Forge has previously shared how the track’s viral trajectory came as a surprise, even to him. He once recalled that it was his own daughter who first alerted him to the song’s sudden popularity on TikTok, before label executives brought him in to show him the full data behind its rapid ascent in 2022.
A Year of Momentum for Ghost
2025 has been a breakthrough year for Ghost beyond this single. The band released Skeletá, an album that critics and fans alike have praised — including being named Album of the Year by Metal Hammer. Alongside studio success, Forge and the band toured extensively, packing arenas across North America and Europe, consolidating their status as one of rock’s most compelling contemporary acts.
With the track now Platinum in the U.K. and Double Platinum in the U.S., “Mary On A Cross” has become one of the definitive rock singles of the decade — a song whose life and growth were driven as much by online culture as by traditional music discovery avenues.
