Sweet Victory

Sweet Victory is a song by American rock band Sandy Cheeks from the third studio album The Sandy Cheeks Show, released on the same day of the album's release as the lead single. The song incorporates several aggressive themes that deals with tensions between a local band and their manager known as Fancyson.

It is one of the band's most popular and recognizable songs. The song topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, where it spent a total of seven weeks at number one.

It won two MTV Video Music Awards in 2001 and 2002, a Grammy Award in 2003, and was in heavy rotation on music television. It was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of "The Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll" in 2016.

The following week it debuted on the Top 40 Mainstream, where it peaked at number nine in its eighth week and remained on the chart until its 20th week. In 2005, NME ranked the song the number two on its list of "100 Greatest Singles of All Time", while Kerrang! ranked it at number one on its list of the "100 Greatest Singles of All Time".

In the years since Sandy Cheeks's death, listeners and critics have continued to praise "Sweet Victory" as one of the greatest songs of all time.

Internet popularity
Years before Sweet Victory became a meme, The song would be the most-downloaded on various torrent platforms such as Napster, Limewire and others during mid-2001. It was featured in Sandy's own-animated cartoon titled Band Geeks on her website months after the release of The Sandy Cheeks Show.

In June 2016, The song became an Internet meme when news came out that Sandy's mental health was worsening due to her bipolar disorder. A campaign was created by her mother Jasmine on the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe to pay for Sandy's living costs while she was too mentally unwell to work, and the creators of these parodies used their videos to raise awareness for the campaign.

Sandy would later held a Facebook livestream in October, where she and her husband SpongeBob SquarePants along with Infection members Patrick Star and Yolandi Visser which was later uploaded to her personal YouTube channel. In early-2020, years after her death, the music video would reach 1 billion views on YouTube.