Top 100 Songs
Dave’s Music Database lists are determined by song’s appearances on best-of lists as well as chart success, sales, radio airplay, streaming, and awards. Songs which hit #1 on various charts are noted. (Click for codes to singles charts.)
DMDB Top 1%:
1. Hey Jude (1968) B #1 US, UK
2. I Want to Hold Your Hand (1963) B #1 US, UK
3. Yesterday (1965) B #1 US
4. Let It Be (1970) B #1 US
5. She Loves You (1963) B #1 US, UK
6. A Day in the Life (1967) B
7. Eleanor Rigby (1966) B 1 UK
8. Can’t Buy Me Love (1964) B #1 US, UK
9. Penny Lane (1967) B #1 US
10. Get Back (1969) B #1 US, UK
11. We Can Work It Out (1965) B #1 US, UK
12. Ebony and Ivory (with Stevie Wonder, 1982) #1 US, UK
13. Paperback Writer (1966) B #1 US, UK
14. Say, Say, Say (with Michael Jackson, 1983) #1 US
15. Day Tripper (1965) B #1 UK
16. Silly Love Songs (1976) W #1 US
17. I Saw Her Standing There (1963) B
18. Maybe I’m Amazed (1970)
19. Band on the Run (1973) W #1 US
DMDB Top 2%:
20. And I Love Her (1964) B
21. My Love (1973) W #1 US
22. The Long and Winding Road (1970) B #1 US
23. Hello Goodbye (1967) B #1 US, UK
24. Love Me Do (1962) B #1 US
25. Michelle (1965) B
26. Mull of Kintyre (1977) W #1 UK
27. Live and Let Die (1973) W
28. Lady Madonna (1968) B
29. Coming Up (live, 1980) W #1 US
30. All My Loving (1963) B
31. Blackbird (1968) B
32. Eight Days a Week (1964) B #1 US
33. Wonderful Christmas Time (1979)
DMDB Top 5%:
34. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (1968) B
35. With a Little Luck (1978) W #1 US
36. Jet (1973) W
37. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey (with Linda McCartney, 1971) #1 US
38. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) B
39. Here, There and Everywhere (1966) B
40. Got to Get You into My Life (1966) B
41. Four Five Seconds (with Rihanna & Kanye West, 2015)
42. Listen to What the Man Said (1975) W #1 US
43. Let ‘Em In (1976) W
44. Another Day (1971)
45. The Girl Is Mine (with Michael Jackson, 1982)
46. Back in the U.S.S.R. (1968) B
47. No More Lonely Nights (1984)
48. Helter Skelter (1968) B
49. Goodnight Tonight (1979) W
50. Junior’s Farm (1974) W
DMDB Top 10%:
51. Take It Away (1982)
52. She’s a Woman (1964) B
53. Helen Wheels (1973) W
54. Hi, Hi, Hi (1972) W
55. Magical Mystery Tour (1967) B
56. Drive My Car (1965) B
57. P.S. I Love You (1962) B
58. She’s Leaving Home (1967) B
59. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End/Her Majesty (1969) B
60. Pipes of Peace (1983) #1 UK
61. Mary Had a Little Lamb (1972) W
62. My Brave Face (1989)
63. Venus and Mars Rock Show (1975) W
64. Spies Like Us (1985)
DMDB Top 20%:
65. Oh! Darling (1969) B
66. So Bad (1983)
67. Hope of Deliverance (1992)
68. The Fool on the Hill (1967) B
69. Birthday (1968) B
70. The World Tonight (1997)
71. Girls’ School (1977) W
72. Getting Closer (1979) W
73. Press (1986)
74. Arrow Through Me (1979) W
75. When I’m 64 (1967) B
76. Give Ireland Back to the Irish (1972) W
77. This One (1989)
78. Here Today (1982)
79. I’ve Had Enough (1978) W
80. Letting Go (1975) W
81. Let Me Roll It (1973) W
82. Figure of Eight (1989)
83. C Moon (1972) W
84. Rocky Racoon (1968) B
85. London Town (1978) W
86. Long Tall Sally (1964) B
87. Dance Tonight (2007)
88. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five (1973) W
89. Ever Present Past (2007)
90. Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey (1964) B
91. Sally G (1974) W
92. I’m Down (1965) B
93. Getting Better (1967) B
94. Waterfalls (1980) W
95. Fixing a Hole (1967) B
96. Put It There (1989)
97. Mrs. Vandebilt (1973) W
Beyond the DMDB Top 20%:
98. Ball Room Dancing (1982)
99. Freedom (2001)
100. You Never Give Me Your Money (1969) B
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First posted 6/18/2012; last updated 6/26/2022. | 
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