How Many More Years Midnight", described by Phillips as "the most different record I ever heard", was probably recorded at a different session. Phillips had not yet set up Sun Records and regularly leased his recordings to the Chess label in Chicago. The record was issued as Chess 1479 on 15 September 1951, with "Moanin' at Midnight" as the A-side and "How Many More Years" as the B-side. "Moanin' at Midnight" entered the R&B chart on 10 November 1951, and was followed four weeks later by "How Many More Years", which became the more popular side and rose to no.4 on the chart. The
Do You Hear the People Sing? protesters who have interrupted TTIP congresses as flashmobs singing the song. The song was also used in support of the Maidan protests by Ukraine 2020, who released a music video for the song on YouTube. In 2016, the song was used as a protest song in South Korea's nationwide Park Geun-hye resignation movement. On September 16, 2016, during his presidential campaign, Donald Trump used the song in a rally in Miami under the parody title "Les Déplorables", a response to Hillary Clinton's controversial "basket of deplorables" label. Do You Hear the People Sing? "Do You Hear the People Sing?" ("À