The song was used in the film
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life in 2016. The song was featured in the trailer for the 2018 film
Midnight Sun, starring
Bella Thorne and
Patrick Schwarzenegger. In 2020, the song went viral on
TikTok, with a slowed down version, and a remix version made by DragoKG. It has been in more than 289.7K videos on TikTok as of March 23, 2021. As a result of the viral popularity of "Spirits" on TikTok, on September 10, 2020, the band re-released an official lyric video to the song more than five years since it was released to
YouTube, which received more than 837K views as of March 23, 2022. A bittersweet
nostalgia themed clip comparing then and now footage of famous celebrities has been used on social media websites using this song. In January 2023, "Spirits" was used in the Apple TV+ series
Shrinking in the first episode, "Coin Flip". The same year in June, the song was used in the Netflix animated series ''
This World Can't Tear Me Down'' by
Zerocalcare, at the end of the sixth episode, "No Place for You". ==Charts==