For about a week in 1964, a bossa nova tune was bigger than songs by the Beatles.

The melancholy pop gem “The Girl From Ipanema,” penned by a Brazilian songwriting team, enchanted listeners around the globe after an English-language version was recorded in 1963.

The opening lyrics:

Tall and tan and young and lovely The girl from Ipanema goes walking And when she passes, each one she passes Goes “Aah” …

More than 50 years later, with a little bit of help from the Rio Olympics, the song is once again in demand.

Spotify reported this week that “The Girl From Ipanema” was streamed more than 40,000 times the day after it accompanied the Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen as she strutted across the stage during the opening ceremony of the Olympics on Aug. 5.

That streaming number represented a 1,200 percent increase, Spotify said.

Much of the spike came from users who searched for the song themselves, a spokeswoman for Spotify said. Several covers of the tune were included in the count. But a version of the song credited to the poet Vinicius de Moraes, one of its two Brazilian creators, appeared on a Rio playlist that was promoted by Spotify, where some new listeners may have found it, the spokeswoman said.