Sunday, April 20, 2025

The Top Songs of All Time

Dave’s Music Database – Songs:

The Top 1 and 2%

This is the granddaddy of song lists. It has been created by aggregating hundreds of best-of song lists alongside chart figures, radio and video airplay, sales data, and various honors and awards. While individual lists have idiosyncrasies because of the publiciations or institutions behind them, this list aims to represent as many genres and eras as possible in the history of recorded music.

To call this “the top songs of all time” is a bit of a misnomer. It’s primarily a list of the top songs in the history of recorded music: from 1890 to the present. Still, that’s a much wider swath than most supposedly “best of all time” lists cover.

Songs are listed in chronological order; dates in parentheses are for the song’s first chart appearance unless noted otherwise. Click on a song title to see its DMDB page with more details such as general information about the song, videos, lyrics, links to buy songs, chart stats, sales figures, and awards.

Note: this was originally a top 1000 list, but has been expanded to two categories – the top 1% and top 2% – each with more than 1000 songs. Originally these were listed as two separate posts, but now they’ve been consolidated into one page. Each year from 1890 to present has been listed with the top 1% songs first and then the top 2% songs after that. Prior to 1890 and the pre-recorded music era, songs are listed by songwriters (m=music, w=words) and publishing years.

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Pre- 1800

1800-1889

1890-1899

1900-1909

1910-1919

1920-1929

1930-1939

1940-1949

1950-1959

1960-1969

1970-1979

1980-1989

1990-1999

2000-2009

2010-2019

2020-2029

Pre-1800


Top 1%

  • writer(s) unknown “Greensleeves” (1580)
  • Thomas d’Urfey (m), Frederick Thomas Nettleingham (w) “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” (1706)
  • Robert Burns (adapted by) “Auld Lang Syne” (1711)
  • George Frideric Handel (m), Isaac Watts (w), Lowell Mason (arranged) “Joy to the World” (1719)
  • writer(s) unknown “Baa Baa Black Sheep” (1744)
  • writer(s) unknown “London Bridge is Falling Down” (1744)
  • writer(s) unknown “O Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles)” (1751)
  • Dr. Richard Schukburgh (w), traditional (m) “Yankee Doodle (aka ‘Yankee Doodle Went to Town’)” (1754)
  • Charles Bradlee (w), unknown (m) “The Alphabet Song” (1761)
  • John Newton (w) “Amazing Grace” (1779)
  • Philip Phile (m), Joseph Hopkinson (w) “Hail Columbia (The President’s March)” (1789)

Top 2%

  • unknown “Coventry Carol” (1534)
  • unknown “Three Blind Mice” (1609)
  • Dr. Theodore Baker (translated and arranged by) “We Gather Together (Thanksgiving Prayer)” (1630)
  • unknown “The Grand Old Duke of York” (1642)
  • unknown “Rain, Rain, Go Away” (1687)
  • unknown “Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake, Baker’s Man” (1698)
  • anonymous “A Froggie Went A-Courtin’” (1700)
  • unknown “Old King Cole” (1708)
  • traditional “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow” (1709)
  • writer(s) unknown “What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor?” (1740)
  • traditional “Sing a Song of Sixpence” (1744)
  • traditional “God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman” (1760)
  • Augustus Montague Toplady (w), Thomas Hastings (m) “Rock of Ages” (1763)
  • John Dickinson (w), William Boyce (m) “The Liberty Song (In Freedom We’re Born)” (1768)
  • unknown “Frère Jacques (Are You Sleeping?)” (1780)
  • Frederic Austin, traditional “Twelve Days of Christmas” (1780)
  • unknown “Bingo (B-I-N-G-O)” (1780)
  • unknown “Humpty Dumpty” (1797)

1800-1889


Top 1%

  • Jane Taylor (w), unknown (m) “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” (1806)
  • Francis Scott Key (w), John Stafford Smith (m) “The Star-Spangled Banner” (1814)
  • Joseph Mohr (w), Franz Gruber (m), John Freeman Young (English translation) “Silent Night, Holy Night (Stille Nacht, Heilge Nacht)” (12/24/1818)
  • Franz Schubert (m), Walter Scott (w) “Ave Maria” (1825), Johann Sebastian Bach and Charles Gounod (m) “Ave Maria” (1859)
  • Davies Gilbert “The First Noel” (1823)
  • John Howard Payne (w), Sir Henry Rowley Bishop (m) “Home Sweet Home” (1823)
  • Ernst Anschütz (w), "Ach Tannenbaum" (m) “O Christmas Tree (O Tannenbaum)” (1824)
  • Samuel Francis Smith (w), traditional (m) “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” (1831)
  • Carl Sandburg “Skip to My Lou” (1832)
  • Cool White (w) “Buffalo Gals Will You Come Out Tonight” (1844)
  • Adolphe Adam and John Sullivan Dwight (composers) “O Holy Night (Minuit, Chrétiens)” (1847)
  • Stephen Foster (m/w) “Oh! Susanna” (1847)
  • traditional “Jimmy Crack Corn (The Blue Tail Fly)” (1848)
  • Stephen Foster (m/w) “Camptown Races (Gwine to Run All Night)” (1850)
  • Stephen Foster (m/w) “The Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)” (1851)
  • Stephen Foster (m/w) “I Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair” (1854)
  • Felix Mendelssohn (m), Charles Wesley (w) “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” (1855)
  • Richard Milburn (m), Septimus Winner as Alice Hawthorne (w) “Listen to the Mocking Bird (aka “The Mocking Bird”)” (1856)
  • James S. Pierpont (m/w) “Jingle Bells” (1857)
  • John Henry Hopkins Jr. (m/w) “We Three Kings of Orient Are” (1857)
  • Daniel Decatur Emmett (m/w) “Dixie” (1859)
  • Julia Ward Howe (w) and William Steffe (m) “The Battle Hymn of the Republic (aka ‘Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!’)” (1861)
  • George F. Root (composer) “The Battle Cry of Freedom” (1862)
  • Louis Lambert as Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore (m/w) “When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again” (1863)
  • Percy Montrose “Clementine” (1863)
  • Stephen Foster (m/w) “Beautiful Dreamer” (1864)
  • Lewis Redner (m), Phillips Brooks (w) “O Little Town of Bethlehem” (1868)
  • traditional “She’ll Be Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain” (1870)
  • Wallace Willis, Henry Thacker Burleigh (arranged by) “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” (1872)
  • Dr. Brewster M. Higley (w), Daniel E. Kelly (m) “Home on the Range” (1873)
  • Thomas P. Westendorf (m/w) “I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen” (1875)
  • Henry C. Work (m/w) “Grandfather’s Clock” (1876)
  • James Ramsey Murray (m) and Charles H. Gabriel (w) “Away in a Manger” (1882)

Top 2%

  • James Sanderson (m), Albert Gamse (w) “Hail to the Chief” (1810)
  • traditional/George Washington Dixon, Bob Farrell, Otto Bunnell “Turkey in the Straw” (1820)
  • Ernst Anschütz (w), “Ach Tannenbaum” (m) “O Christmas Tree (O Tannenbaum)” (1824)
  • unknown “The Hokey Pokey” (1826)
  • Lowell Mason (m), Sarah Josepha Hale (w) “Mary Had a Little Lamb” (1830)
  • unknown “I Saw Three Ships” (1833)
  • unknown (w/m) “Shenandoah” (1837)
  • traditional “On Top of Old Smoky” (1841)
  • traditional “This Old Man (Nick Nack Pattiwack)” (1842)
  • Daniel Decatur Emmett “Old Dan Tucker” (1843)
  • Daniel Decatur Emmett “Polly Wolly Doodle (All the Day)” (1843)
  • Rev. Edmund Hamilton Sears (w) and Richard Storrs Willis (m) “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” (1850)
  • John Mason Neale (w), traditional (m) “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” (1851)
  • Eugene Raymond (adapted) “Pop Goes the Weasel” (1852)
  • Eliphalet Oram Lyte “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” (1852)
  • Stephen Foster (m/w) “My Old Kentucky Home” (1853)
  • John Kelly, later adapted by Don George “The Yellow Rose of Texas” (1853)
  • Rev. H.D.L. Webster (w), Joseph Philbrick Webster (m) “Lorena” (1857)
  • Felix Mendelssohn (composer) “Wedding March from Midsummer’s Night Dream” (1858)
  • John Mason Neale (w) “Good King Wenceslas” (1860)
  • Annie Chabers-Ketchum (w), Henry “Harry” Macarthy (m) “The Bonnie Blue Flag” (1861)
  • James Chadwick (paraphrased), Edward Shippen Barnes (arranged), “Gloria” (music) “Angels We Have Heard on High” (1862)
  • Thomas Oliphant (w), Nos Galan (m) “Deck the Halls” (1862)
  • Robert Lowry (composer) “Shall We Gather at the River?” (aka “Beautiful River” and “Hanson Place”) (1864)
  • Septimus Winner (m/w) “O Where, O Where Has My Little Dog Gone” (1864)
  • William Chatterton Dix (w), “Greensleeves” (m) “What Child Is This?” (1865)
  • John Wesley Work (composer) “Go Tell It on the Mountain” (1865)
  • George Leybourne & Alfred Lee “The Man on the Flying Trapeze” (1867)
  • traditional “Michael Row the Boat Ashore” (1867)
  • Johannes Brahms (composer) “Brahms’ Lullaby (Wiegenleid) (aka “Cradle Song”) (1868)
  • Sanford F. Bennett (w), Joseph Philbrick Webster (m) “In the Sweet By-and-By” (1868)
  • Billy Reeves (w), Frank Campbell (m), and Rollin Howard (arranger) “Shoo Fly Don’t Bother Me” (1869)
  • Sabine Baring-Gould (w) and Sir Arthur Sullivan (m) “Onward Christian Soldiers” (1871)
  • Hartius Bonar (w), Charles Crozat Converse (m) “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” (1876)
  • traditional “Alouette” (1879)
  • Luiji Denza (m) “Funicili Funicula” (1880)
  • Charles E. Pratt “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean” (1881)
  • unknown “The Farmer in the Dell” (1883)
  • Effie I. Canning (m/w) “Rock-a-Bye Baby” (1884)
  • Carl Boberg (w) “How Great Thou Art” (1885)
  • Reginald DeKoven (m), Clement Scott (w) “Oh Promise Me” (1889)


1890


Top 1%

  • U.S. Marine Band “Semper Fidelis” (8/2/1890)
  • U.S. Marine Band “The Washington Post March” (9/13/1890)
  • none

Top 2%

  • U.S. Marine Band “The Thunderer” (10/25/1890)

1891


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • George Washington Johnson “The Whistling Coon” (7/11/1891)
  • John Yorke Atlee “Home Sweet Home” (10/17/1891)
  • George J. Gaskin “Drill, Ye Terriers, Drill” (12/5/1891)

1892


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Manhansett Quartette “Sally in Our Alley” (5/7/1892)
  • Charles Marsh “Throw Him Down, McCloskey” (6/18/1892)
  • Gilmore’s Band “The Star-Spangled Banner” (7/2/1892)
  • Russell Hunting “Michael Casey at the Telephone” (7/9/1892)
  • Russell Hunting “Michael Casey Taking the Census” (10/6/1892)
  • Dan Quinn “Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me a Bow Wow” (12/31/1892)

1893


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Dan Quinn “The Bowery” (1/28/1893)
  • George J. Gaskin “Oh Promise Me” (3/4/1893)
  • Jules Levy “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” (7/8/1893)
  • Len Spencer “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny” (10/17/1893)
  • George J. Gaskin “The Fatal Wedding” (11/18/1893)

1894


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • George J. Gaskin “Sweet Marie” (2/3/1894)
  • United States Marine Band “The Liberty Bell” (3/10/1894)
  • Edward M. Favor “Say Au Revoir, But Not Goodbye” (4/14/1894)

1895


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • John Philip Sousa’s Band “El Capitan March” (1/15/1895)
  • George J. Gaskin “The Sidewalks of New York” (3/2/1895)
  • J.W. Myers “The Sidewalks of New York” (4/13/1895)
  • Len Spencer “The Bully” (aka “Dat New Bully”) (4/25/1895)
  • J.W. Myers “Just Tell That You Saw Me” (8/1/1895)
  • Sousa’s Band “The Washington Post March” (8/3/1895)
  • Dan Quinn “The Little Lost Child” (11/2/1895)

1896


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • George J. Gaskin “The Sunshine of Paradise Alley” (1/4/1896)
  • George J. Gaskin “She May Have Seen Better Days” (2/15/1896)
  • Len Spencer “You’ve Been a Good Old Wagon But You’ve Done Broke Down” (9/5/1896)
  • George J. Gaskin “Down in Poverty Row” (9/12/1896)
  • Dan Quinn “In the Baggage Coach Ahead” (11/7/1896)
  • traditional “Red River Valley” (1896)

1897


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • George J. Gaskin “A Hot Time in the Old Town” (1/2/1897)
  • Len Spencer “A Hot Time in the Old Town” (1/23/1897)
  • Len Spencer “My Gal Is a High-Born Lady” (2/20/1897)
  • Dan Quinn “My Mother Was a Lady” (3/27/1897)
  • George J. Gaskin “Sweet Rosie O’Grady” (4/10/1897)
  • J.W. Myers “Goodbye Dolly Gray” (6/5/1897)
  • Tom Turpin “Harlem Rag” (1897)

1898


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Steve Porter “On the Banks of the Wabash” (1/8/1898)
  • George J. Gaskin “She Was Bred in Old Kentucky” (7/9/1898)
  • George J. Gaskin “My Old New Hampshire Home” (12/3/1898)
  • Vess Ossman “At a Georgia Camp Meeting” (12/10/1898)
  • James Thornton (music/words) “When You Were Sweet Sixteen” (1898)

1899


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Athur Collins “I Guess I’ll Have to Telegraph My Baby” (3/18/1899)
  • George J. Gaskin “My Wild Irish Rose” (5/6/1899)
  • William F. Hooley “Gypsy Love Song (Slumber on, My Little Gypsy Sweetheart)” (7/15/1899)
  • Len Spencer “Smoky Mokes” (10/21/1899)
  • Dan Quinn “Curse of the Dreamer” (10/21/1899)
  • Arthur Collins “I’d Leave My Happy Home for You” (12/2/1899)
  • Arthur Collins “Hello Ma Baby” (1899)
  • Len Spencer “Hello Ma Baby” (1899)
  • Eubie Blake “Charleston Rag” (1899)


1900


Top 1%

Top 2%


1901


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Jere Mahoney “For Old Times’ Sake” 1/31/1901)
  • John Philip Sousa “American Patrol” (3/2/1901)
  • Big Four Quartet “Goodbye Dolly Gray” (3/30/1901)
  • Harry MacDonough “When the Harvest Days Are Over, Jessie, Dear” (5/11/1901)
  • Harry MacDonough “Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder” (10/12/1901)
  • Will Denny “Any Old Place I Hang My Hat Is ‘Home Sweet Home’” (12/14/1901)
  • Scott Joplin “Sunflower Slow Drag” (1901)

1902


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Bert Williams with George Walker “Good Morning, Carrie” (1/4/1902)
  • J.W. Myers “Way Down in Old Indiana” (5/17/1902)
  • Harry MacDonough “The Mansion of Aching Hearts” (9/13/1902)
  • J.W. Myers “In the Good Old Summertime” (10/25/1902)
  • William H. Thompson “The Rosary” (12/27/1902)
  • Edward Teschmacher (w), Helen Guy as Guy d’Hardelot (m) “Because” (1902)
  • Scott Joplin “Elite Syncopations” (1902)

1903


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Mina Hickman “Come Down, Ma Evening Star” (1/17/1903)
  • Sousa’s Band with Harry MacDonough & S.H. Dudley “In the Good Old Summertime” (3/28/1903)
  • Byron G. Harlan “Always in the Way” (11/14/1903)
  • Scott Joplin “Weeping Willow” (1903)

1904


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Billy Murray “Under the Anheuser Busch” (2/20/1904)
  • Billy Murray “Navajo” (3/12/1904)
  • Bryon G. Harlan with Frank Stanley “Blue Bell” (5/14/1904)
  • Frank Stanley with Corinne Morgan “Listen to the Mocking Bird (aka “The Mocking Bird”)” (8/27/1904)
  • Billy Murray “Alexander (Don’t You Love Your Baby No More?)” (9/10/1904)
  • Billy Murray “Teasing (I Was Only Teasing You)” (11/5/1904)

1905


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Billy Murray “Come Take a Trip in My Airship” (1/4/1905)
  • Byron G. Harlan “Would You Care?” (9/30/1905)
  • Haydn Quartet “Grandfather’s Clock” (10/28/1905)
  • Billy Murray “Everybody Works But Father” (12/23/1905)

1906


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Corinne Morgan with Haydn Quartet “How’d You Like to Spoon with Me?” (1/6/1906)
  • Billy Murray “Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway” (2/10/1906)
  • Haydn Quartet with Harry MacDonough “Will You Love Me in December As You Do in May?” (2/24/1906)
  • Henry Burr “Love Me and the World Is Mine” (8/30/1906)
  • Bryon G. Harlan “The Good Old U.S.A.” (9/15/1906)
  • Len Spencer & Ada Jones “Peaches and Cream” (10/6/1906)

1907


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Bert Williams “He’s a Cousin of Mine” (1/19/1907)
  • Haydn Quartet with Harry MacDonough “My Wild Irish Rose” (8/3/1907)
  • Enrico Caruso “Pagliacci, Act I: Vesti La Giubba (On with the Play) (LEONCAVALLO)” (8/10/1907)
  • Frank Stanley & Henry Burr “Red Wing (An Indian Fable)” (9/7/1907)
  • Harry Lauder “I Love a Lassie (My Scotch Bluebell)” (11/9/1907)
  • Ada Jones & Billy Murray “Let’s Take an Old-Fashioned Walk” (11/9/1907)

1908


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Billy Murray “Under Any Old Flag at All” (2/1/1908)
  • Alan Turner “As Long As the World Rolls On” (2/8/1908)
  • Elise Stevenson “Are You Sincere?” (7/11/1908)
  • Ada Jones & Billy Murray “When We Are M-A-R-R-I-E-D” (8/1/1908)
  • Edward Meeker “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (10/17/1908)
  • Haydn Quartet “Sunbonnet Sue” (10/31/1908)
  • Harvey Hindermeyer “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (11/21/1908)
  • Scott Joplin “Pineapple Rag” (1908)

1909


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Frank Stanley & Elise Stevenson “Good Evening, Caroline” (1/2/1909)
  • Ada Jones & Billy Murray “Shine on, Harvest Moon” (5/15/1909)
  • Ada Jones & the Victor Light Orchestra Co. “The Yama Yama Man” (7/31/1909)
  • Ada Jones “I’ve Got Rings on My Fingers” (11/6/1909)  


1910


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Billy Murray “Carrie (Carrie Marry Harry)” (1/15/1910)
  • Harry MacDonough “Where the River Shannon Flows” (2/12/1910)
  • Harry MacDonough & Lucy Isabelle Marsh “Every Little Movement” (9/3/1910)
  • Ada Jones & American Quartet “Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon” (9/3/1910)
  • Henry Burr “Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland” (11/12/1910)
  • Bert Williams “Play That Barber-Shop Chord” (12/24/1910)

1911


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • John McCormack “Mother Machree” (2/11/1911)
  • John McCormack “I’m Falling in Love with Someone” (6/3/1911)
  • Cecil Fanning “A Perfect Day” (9/16/1911)
  • Arthur Clough & Brunswick Quartet “Down by the Old Mill Stream” (10/28/1911)
  • Billy Murray “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (11/11/1911)
  • Billy Murray “Camptown Races (Gwine to Run All Night” (11/11/1911)

1912


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Victor Military Band “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (1/13/1912)
  • Arthur Collins & Bryon G. Harlan “Everybody’s Doing It Now” (2/3/1912)
  • Al Jolson “That Haunting Melody” (3/16/1912)
  • Prince’s Orchestra “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (4/13/12)
  • Henry Burr & Albert Campbell “When I Was Twenty-One and You Were Sweet Sixteen” (5/11/1912)
  • Alan Turner “Till the Sands of the Desert Grow Cold” (12/14/1912)

1913


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Peerless Quartet “The Ghost of the Violin” (1/25/1913)
  • Walter Van Brunt “The Green Grass Grew All Around” (4/19/1913)
  • Al Jolson “The Spaniard That Blighted My Life” (5/24/1913)
  • Henry Burr & Albert Campbell “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine” (6/21/1913)
  • Charles Harrison “Peg O’ My Heart” (11/8/1913)

1914


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Victor Military Band “That International Rag” (1/24/1914)
  • American Quartet “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” (3/21/1914)
  • Arthur Collins & Bryon G. Harlan “I Love the Ladies” (5/16/1914)
  • Peerless Quartet “If I Had My Way I’d Live Among the Gypsies” (5/23/1914)
  • Peerless Quartet “This Is the Life” (5/23/1914)
  • Eldia Morris “I Want to Go Back to Michigan (Down on the Farm)” (11/7/1914)
  • Henry Burr “When You’re a Long, Long Way from Home” (11/21/1914)
  • American Quartet “It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary” (11/28/1914)
  • American Quartet “When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose” (12/26/1914)

1915


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • American Quartet “Chinatown, My Chinatown” (2/20/1915)
  • Olive Kline (as Alice Green) & Edward Hamilton “Hello Frisco!” (9/8/1915)
  • Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan “Alabama Jubilee” (9/11/1915)
  • James Harrison & James Reed “There’s a Long, Long Trail” (12/18/1915)
  • James F. Harrison (as Frederick J. Wheeler) “Keep the Home Fires Burning” (12/18/1915)

1916


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • John McCormack “Somewhere a Voice Is Calling” (1/22/1916)
  • Billy Murray “I Love a Piano” (4/8/1916)
  • Prince’s Orchestra “Hello Hawaii, How Are You?” (4/8/1916)
  • Harry MacDonough “THe Girl on the Magazine” (4/15/1916)
  • Henry Burr “Goodbye, Good Luck, God Bless You (Is All That I Can Say)” (6/10/1916)
  • Billy Murray & Edna Brown “Play a Simple Melody” (8/19/1916)
  • Marguerite Farrell “If I Knock the ‘L’ Out of Kelly, It Would Still Be Kelly to Me” (9/23/1916)
  • Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan “Oh How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wachi Woo (That’s Love in Honolulu)” (10/21/1916)
  • Orpheus Quartet “Turn Back the Universe and Give Me Yesterday” (11/11/1916)
  • Walter Van Brunt “I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen” (12/9/1916)

1917


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Elsie Baker “The Missouri Waltz (Hush-a-Bye Ma Baby)” (3/10/1917)
  • Original Dixieland Jazz Band “Livery Stable Blues” (4/15/1917)
  • Van & Schenck “For Me and My Gal” (5/26/1917)
  • American Quartet “Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!” (6/23/1917)
  • Conway’s Band “Indiana” (9/22/1917)
  • American Quartet “Goodbye Broadway, Hello France!” (9/26/1917)
  • Peerless Quartet “Over There” (10/13/1917)
  • Nora Bayes with Joseph Pasternach’s Orchestra “Over There” (11/3/1917)
  • Prince’s Orchestra “Beale Street Blues” (11/17/1917)

1918


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Irving Kaufman & the Columbia Quartet “Hail! Hail! The Gang’s All Here” (3/2/1918)
  • Al Jolson with Prince’s Orchestra “I’m All Bound Round with the Mason Dixon Line” (3/23/1918)
  • Arthur Collins with Bryon G. Harlan “Darktown Strutters’ Ball” (3/30/1918)
  • Henry Burr “I’m Sorry I Made You Cry” (6/15/1918)
  • Al Jolson & Charles Prince’s Orchestra “Hello Central, Give Me No Man’s Land” (7/13/1918)
  • Lewis James (as Robert Lewis) “The Daughter of Rosie O’Grady” (9/14/1918)
  • Enrico Caruso “Over There” (10/19/1918)

1919


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Arthur Fields “Ja Da (Ja Da, Ja Da, Jing Jing Jing)” (3/8/1919)
  • Al Jolson “I’ll Say She Does” (8/9/1919)
  • Van & Schenck “Mandy” (12/6/1919)  


1920


Top 1%

  • Ben Selvin “Dardanella” (1/24/1920)
  • Al Jolson “Swanee” (5/8/1920)
  • Ted Lewis “When My Baby Smiles at Me” (5/29/1920)
  • Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra “Whispering” (10/30/1920)
  • Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra “The Japanese Sandman” (11/13/1920)
  • Charles Harrison “I’ll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time” (11/13/1920)
  • Al Jolson & Charles Prince’s Orchestra “Avalon” (11/27/1920)
  • Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds “Crazy Blues” (12/11/1920)

Top 2%

  • Eddie Cantor “You’d Be Surprised” (2/14/1920)
  • Elizabeth Spencer & Charles Hart “Let the Rest of the World Go By” (2/28/1920)
  • Edith Day “Alice Blue Gown” (4/17/1920)
  • Billy Murray “I’ll See You in C-U-B-A” (5/29/1920)
  • Frank Crumit “Oh by Jingo! Oh by Gee! You’re the Only Girl for Me” (7/24/1920)
  • John Steel “The Love Nest” (8/21/1920)
  • Marion Harris “St. Louis Blues” (8/28/1920)
  • Van & Schenck “After You Get What You Want, You Don’t Want It” (10/9/1920)
  • Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra “Wang Wang Blues” (12/4/1920)

1921


Top 1%

  • Eddie Cantor “Margie” (2/5/1921)
  • U.S. Naval Academy Band “Anchors Aweigh” (2/26/1921)
  • Marion Harris “Look for the Silver Lining” (4/23/1921)
  • Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra “My Mammy” (5/7/1921)
  • Van & Schenck “Ain’t We Got Fun?” (8/13/1921)
  • Ted Lewis “All by Myself” (8/15/1921)
  • Ray Miller & His Orchestra “The Sheik of Araby” (11/18/1921)
  • Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra “Say It with Music” (11/21/1921)
  • Isham Jones “Wabash Blues” (12/10/1921)

Top 2%

  • Original Dixieland Jazz Band “Palesteena (Lena from Palesteena)” (3/5/1921)
  • Marion Harris “I Ain’t Got Nobody” (6/4/1921)
  • Zez Confrey “Kitten on the Keys” (6/4/1921)
  • Paul Whiteman “Song of India” (8/27/1921)
  • Vernon Dalhart “Tuck Me to Sleep in My Old ‘Tucky Home” (12/10/1921)

1922


Top 1%

  • Al Jolson “April Showers” (1/28/1922)
  • Fanny Brice “My Man (Mon Homme)” (2/11/1922)
  • Fanny Brice “Second Hand Rose” (2/18/1922)
  • Marion Harris “I’m Just Wild about Harry” (10/21/1922)
  • Ed Gallagher & Al Shean “Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean” (10/28/1922)
  • Henry Burr “My Buddy” (11/4/1922)
  • Ben Selvin “Chicago (That Toddlin’ Town)” (11/11/1922)
  • Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra “Three O’Clock in the Morning” (11/18/1922)
  • Peerless Quartet “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans” (12/16/1922)
  • Al Jolson “Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo’bye)” (12/23/1922)

Top 2%

  • Ted Lewis “Ma, He’s Making Eyes at Me” (1/21/1922)
  • Al Jolson & Charles Prince’s Orchestra “Angel Child” (5/6/1922)
  • Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra “Do It Again” (6/3/1922)
  • Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra “Stumbling” (7/1/1922)
  • Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra “Hot Lips (He’s Got Hot Lips When He Plays Jazz)” (9/2/1922)
  • Lambert Murphy “I Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair” (11/25/1922)
  • Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra “I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise” (12/9/1922)

1923


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Paul Whiteman “Crinoline Days” (3/17/1923)
  • Paul Whiteman “Parade of the Wooden Soldiers” (4/7/1923)
  • Dolly Kay with Frank Westphal’s Orchestra “You’ve Got to See Mama Ev’ry Night or You Can’t See Mama at All” (4/28/1923)
  • Paul Whiteman “Bambalina” (6/2/1923)
  • Ernest Hare & Billy Jones “Barney Google” (7/21/1923)
  • Isham Jones “Swingin’ Down the Lane” (8/4/1923)
  • Bessie Smith “Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home” (9/1/1923)
  • Billy Murray with Ed Smalle “That Old Gang of Mine” (9/23/1923)
  • Eddie Cantor “No No Nora” (11/17/1923)
  • W.C. Handy (Handy’s Memphis Blues Band) “St. Louis Blues” (11/24/1923)

1924


Top 1%

  • Arthur Gibbs & His Gang “Charleston” (1/5/1924)
  • Al Jolson with Isham Jones Orchestra “California Here I Come” (5/3/1924)
  • Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra “What’ll I Do?” (7/5/1924)
  • Isham Jones “It Had to Be You” (7/19/1924)
  • Vernon Dalhart “The Prisoner’s Song” (10/3/1924)
  • Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra /George Gershwin “Rhapsody in Blue” (10/18/1924)
  • Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra “Somebody Loves Me” (11/1/1924)

Top 2%

  • Ted Weems Orchestra “Somebody Stole My Gal” (2/16/1924)
  • Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra “Linger Awhile” (2/16/1924)
  • Al Jolson with Isham Jones’ Orchestra “The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else” (5/10/1924)
  • Isham Jones “Nobody’s Sweetheart” (6/7/1924)
  • Isham Jones “Spain” (6/21/1924)
  • Eddie Cantor “Charley, My Boy” (11/15/1924)
  • Vincent Lopez “I Want to Be Happy” (12/13/1924)

1925


Top 1%

  • Al Jolson “All Alone” (1/3/1925)
  • Marion Harris “Tea for Two” (1/24/1925)
  • Aileen Stanley “Everybody Loves My Baby” (2/7/1925)
  • Isham Jones with Ray Miller & Frank Bessinger “I’ll See You in My Dreams” (3/14/1925)
  • Paul Whiteman “Oh, Lady Be Good” (4/4/1925)
  • Cliff Edwards “Fascinating Rhythm” (4/11/1925)
  • Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong “St. Louis Blues” (6/13/1925)
  • Ben Bernie “Sweet Georgia Brown” (6/27/1925)
  • Eddie Cantor “If You Knew Susie Like I Know Susie” (7/18/1925)
  • Gene Austin with Billy Carpenter “Yes Sir, That’s My Baby” (8/1/1925)
  • Ben Selvin “Manhattan” (10/24/1925)

Top 2%

  • Paul Whiteman “Indian Love Call” (2/28/1925)
  • Blossom Seeley “Alabamy Bound” (5/16/1925)
  • Fred Waring “Collegiate” (7/25/1925)
  • Isham Jones “Remember” (12/12/1925)

1926


Top 1%

  • George Olsen and His Orchestra “Who?” (1/30/1926)
  • Al Jolson “I’m Sitting on Top of the World” (3/13/1926)
  • Gene Austin with Nat Shilkret “Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue” (3/27/1926)
  • George Olsen “Always” (4/24/1926)
  • Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra with Franklyn Baur “Valencia (A Song of Spain)” (6/26/1926)
  • Gene Austin “Bye Bye, Blackbird” (7/31/1926)
  • Jan Garber with Benny Davis “Baby Face” (9/25/1926)
  • Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra with Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylord, & Austin Young “The Birth of the Blues” (11/20/1926)

Top 2%

  • Ben Bernie with Arthur Fields “Sleepy Time Gal” (2/20/1926)
  • George Olsen & Fran Frey “Horses” (6/12/1926)
  • “Whispering” Jack Smith “Gimme a Little Kiss (Will Ya? Huh?)” (6/26/1926)
  • Al Jolson “When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin’ Along” (9/18/1926)
  • Roger Wolfe Kahn “Mountain Greenery” (9/18/1926)
  • Johnny Marvin “Breezin’ Along with the Breeze” (10/9/1926)
  • The Revelers “The Blue Room” (10/9/1926)
  • Johnny Hamp “Black Bottom” (12/4/1926)

1927


Top 1%

  • Gertrude Lawrence “Someone to Watch Over Me” (2/5/1927)
  • Ben Selvin “Blue Skies” (4/9/1927)
  • Bernie with Scrappy Lambert & Billy Hillpot “Ain’t She Sweet?” Ben (4/30/1927)
  • Roger Wolfe Kahn “Sometimes I’m Happy” (7/9/1927)
  • Whisperin’ Jack Smith “Me and My Shadow” (7/16/1927)
  • Paul Whiteman with the Rhythm Boys “Side by Side” (7/30/1927)
  • Sophie Tucker “I Ain’t Got Nobody” (9/3/1927)
  • Guy Lombardo with Weston Vaughan “Charmaine!” (9/10/1927)
  • Red Nichols “Ida! Sweet As Apple Cider” (11/12/1927)
  • Gene Austin “My Blue Heaven” (12/3/1927)

Top 2%

  • Paul Whiteman with Jack Fulton “In a Little Spanish Town (T’was on a Night Like This)” (1/1/1927)
  • Gertrude Lawrence & Oscar Shaw “Do Do Do” 2/5/1927)
  • Gene Austin & Nat Shilkret’s Orchestra “Tonight You Belong to Me” (2/26/1927)
  • Frankie Trumbauer “Singin’ the Blues” (3/25/1927)
  • Ruth Etting “Deed I Do” (4/9/1927)
  • Nat Shilkret “I Know That You Know” (4/23/1927)
  • George Olsen with Bob Borger, Fran Frey, & Bob Rice “At Sundown When Love Is Calling Me Home” (5/14/1927)
  • Paul Whiteman “It All Depends on You” (6/4/1927)
  • Gene Austin with Nat Shilkret’s Orchestra “Forgive Me” (6/25/1927)
  • Roger Wolfe Kahn & Henry Garden “Russian Lullaby” (7/16/1927)
  • Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians “The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi” (10/8/1927)
  • Hoagy Carmichael & His Pals “Stardust” (recorded 10/31/1927)
  • George Olsen with Bob Borger “The Best Things in Life Are Free” (10/29/1927)
  • George Olsen “The Varsity Drag” (11/5/1927)

1928


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Bix Beiderbecke “In a Mist” (2/11/1928)
  • Ben Selvin (as the Broadway Nitelites) “Thou Swell” (2/18/1928)
  • Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra with Jack Fulton “Together” (3/10/1928)
  • Paul Whiteman with Al Rinker, Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylord, & Austin Young “My Heart Stood Still” (3/17/1928)
  • Helen Morgan “Bill” (4/21/1928)
  • Ben Bernie & Vaughn Deleath “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man” (6/30/1928)
  • Fred Waring & Tom Waring “Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life” (7/21/1928)
  • Helen Kane with Leonard Joy “I Wanna Be Loved by You” (11/17/1928)
  • Seger Ellis “When You're Smiling, the Whole World Smiles with You” (11/24/1928)
  • Ben Slevin & Jack Palmer “You’re the Cream in My Coffee” (12/15/1928)

1929


Top 1%

  • Ruth Etting “Love Me or Leave Me” (2/2/1929)
  • Eddie Cantor “Makin’ Whoopee” (2/9/1929)
  • Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees “Honey” (3/30/1929)
  • Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra with Jack Fulton “Lover, Come Back to Me” (4/13/1929)
  • Maurice Chevalier & Leonard Joy’s Orchestra “Louise” (6/8/1929)
  • Ethel Waters “Am I Blue?” (7/20/1929)
  • Cliff Edwards (aka Ukulele Ike) “Singin’ in the Rain” (7/27/1929)
  • Nick Lucas “Tip Toe Through the Tulips” (9/28/1929)
  • Thomas "Fats" Waller “Ain’t Misbehavin’” (11/9/1929)

Top 2%

  • Irving Aaronson & His Commanders with Jack Armstrong “Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love” (1/5/1929)
  • Gene Austin with Nat Shilkret’s Orchestra “She’s Funny That Way” (1/12/1929)
  • Clarence “Pine Top” Smith “Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie” (2/9/1929)
  • Gene Austin with Nat Shilkret “Carolina Moon” (2/9/1929)
  • Helen Kane “Button Up Your Overcoat” (3/23/1929)
  • Nat Shilkret with Scrappy Lambert “You Were Meant for Me” (5/4/1929)
  • Leo Reisman with Ran Weeks “With a Song in My Heart” (5/25/1929)
  • Leo Reisman & Lew Conrad “The Wedding of the Painted Doll” (5/25/1929)
  • Bob Haring & the Copley Plaza Orchestra “Pagan Love Song” (6/22/1929)
  • Bessie Smith & Jimmie Cox “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out” (8/31/1929)
  • Al Jolson with Bob Haring’s Orchestra “Liza (All the Cloud’s’ll Roll Away” (9/14/1929)
  • Paul Whiteman with Bing Crosby “Great Day” (12/14/1929)
  • Paul Whiteman with Bing Crosby “Without a Song” (12/21/1929)
  • Ruth Etting “More Than You Know” (12/21/1929)  


1930


Top 1%

  • Harry Richman “Puttin’ on the Ritz” (2/15/1930)
  • Leo Reisman & His Orchestra “What Is This Thing Called Love?” (2/15/1930)
  • Ben Selvin “Happy Days Are Here Again” (3/1/1930)
  • Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees “Stein Song (University of Maine)” (3/15/1930)
  • Ted Lewis & His Band “On the Sunny Side of the Street” (4/5/1930)
  • Ruth Etting “Exactly Like You” (5/3/1930)
  • Fred Waring with Clare Hanlon “Little White Lies” (8/16/1930)
  • Ted Weems “My Baby Just Cares for Me” (10/4/1930)
  • Duke Ellington with the Rhythm Boys “Three Little Words” (10/18/1930)
  • Don Azpiazu with Antonio Machin “The Peanut Vendor (El Manisero)” (11/8/1930)
  • Red Nichols with Dick Robertson “Embraceable You” (11/22/1930)
  • Red Nichols “I Got Rhythm” (12/6/1930)

Top 2%

  • Leo Reisman “You Do Something to Me” (2/1/1930)
  • Red Nichols “Strike Up the Band” (2/1/1930)
  • Louis Armstrong “St. Louis Blues” (2/8/1930)
  • Ruth Etting “Ten Cents a Dance” (5/3/1930)
  • Nat Shilkret & Lewis James “Dancing with Tears in My Eyes” (6/21/1930)
  • Nat Shilkret with Phil Dewey, Frank Luther, & Leo O’Rourke “Get Happy” (7/5/1930)
  • McKinney’s Cotton Pickers & George Thomas “If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight” (8/16/1930)
  • Isham Jones “Stardust” (9/13/1930)
  • Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra with Jack Fulton “Body and Soul” (10/11/1930)
  • Guy Lombardo & Carmen Lombardo “You’re Driving Me Crazy! (What Did I Do?)” (11/29/1930)
  • Louis Armstrong “Memories of You” (11/29/1930)
  • Jeanette MacDonald “Beyond the Blue Horizon” (1930)

1931


Top 1%

  • Duke Ellington & His Orchestra “Mood Indigo” (2/14/1931)
  • Libby Holman “Love for Sale” (2/21/1931)
  • Cab Calloway “Minnie the Moocher” (3/21/1931)
  • Wayne King with Ernie Birchill “Dream a Little Dream of Me” (4/4/1931)
  • Bing Crosby with the Victor Young Orchestra “Out of Nowhere” (4/25/1931)
  • Wayne King with Ernie Birchill “Goodnight, Sweetheart” (10/17/1931)

Top 2%

  • Ted Lewis”Just a Gigolo” (1/31/1931)
  • Gus Arnheim with Bing Crosby “I Surrender Dear” (2/21/1931)
  • Jack Denny with Rob May “Nevertheless I’m in Love with You” (6/13/1931)
  • Fred Waring & Clare Hanlon “I Found a Million-Dollar Baby in a Five-and-Ten-Cent Store” (7/4/1931)
  • Gus Arnheim with Donald Novis “Sweet and Lovely” (7/25/1931)
  • Kate Smith “When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain” (9/12/1931)
  • Rudy Vallee “Life Is ust a Bowl of Cherries” (9/12/1931)
  • Rudy Vallee “As Time Goes By” (9/19/1931)
  • Louis Armstrong “Lazy River” (recorded 11/3/1931)
  • Louis Armstrong “Stardust” (12/19/1931)

1932


Top 1%

  • Bing Crosby with the Mills Brothers “Dinah” (1/9/1932)
  • Leo Reisman with Frances Maddux “Paradise” (1/23/1932)
  • Louis Armstrong “All of Me” (2/20/1932)
  • Duke Ellington “It Don’t Mean a Thing if It Ain’t Got That Swing” (2/27/1932)
  • Ted Lewis & His Band “In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town” (6/4/1932)
  • Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “How Deep Is the Ocean?” (10/29/1932)
  • Rudy Vallee “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” (11/26/1932)
  • Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman’s Orchestra “Night and Day” (12/17/1932)
  • Paul Whiteman with Irene Taylor “Willow Weep for Me” (12/17/1932)

Top 2%

  • Kate Smith with Guy Lombardo’s Orchestra “River Stay ‘Way from My Door” (1/2/1932)
  • Bing Crosby “Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day” (1/16/1932)
  • Louis Armstrong “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” (3/12/1932)
  • George Olsen & Paul Small “Say It Isn’t So” (9/17/1932)
  • Bing Crosby & Anson Weeks Orchestra “Please” (10/8/1932)
  • Leo Reisman with Frank Luther “Alone Together” (11/5/1932)
  • Bing Crosby “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” (11/19/1932)
  • Cab Calloway “I’ve Got the World on a String” (11/19/1932)
  • Jack Denny with Paul Small “The Song Is You” (12/31/1932)

1933


Top 1%

  • Don Bestor with Dudley Mecum “Forty-Second (42nd) Street” (3/18/1933)
  • Paul Whiteman with Jack Fulton “Lover” (4/22/1933)
  • Ethel Waters “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” (5/20/1933)
  • Duke Ellington & His Orchestra “Sophisticated Lady” (5/27/1933)
  • Ted Lewis “Lazy Bones” (7/15/1933)
  • George Olsen with Joe Morrison “The Last Round-Up” (7/29/1933)
  • Leo Reisman with Frank Luther “Yesterdays” (11/25/1933)

Top 2%

  • Bing Crosby with Guy Lombardo’s Orchestra “You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me” (2/11/1933)
  • Louis Armstrong “I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues” (2/25/1933)
  • Leo Reisman with Harold Arlen “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” (3/25/1933)
  • Dick Powell “The Gold Diggers’ Song (We’re in the Money)” (6/24/1933)
  • Bing Crosby with the Jimmy Grier Orchestra “Shadow Waltz” (7/1/1933)
  • Eddy Duchin & Lew Sherwood “I Cover the Waterfront” (7/1/1933)
  • Ray Noble & Al Bowlly “Love Is the Sweetest Thing” (7/15/1933)
  • Charles Agnew & His Stevens Hotel Orchestra with Stanley Jacobsen “Don’t Blame Me’ (8/19/1933)
  • Ray Noble with Al Bowlly “The Old Spinning Wheel” (10/21/1933)
  • Leo Reisman & His Orchestra with Clifton Webb “Easter Parade” (10/28/1933)
  • Don Bestor & His Orchestra with Florence Case, Frank Sherryl, & Charles Yontz “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” (10/28/1933)
  • Bing Crosby with Lennie Hayton’s Orchestra “Home on the Range” (11/4/1933)
  • Paul Whiteman with Bob Lawrence “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” (12/9/1933)

1934


Top 1%

  • Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood “Let’s Fall in Love” (2/10/1934)
  • Benny Goodman “Moonglow” (6/16/1934)
  • Ray Noble Orchestra with Al Bowlly “The Very Thought of You” (7/7/1934)
  • Leo Reisman & His Orchestra “The Continental (You Kiss While You’re Dancing)” (10/6/1934)
  • Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “Stars Fell on Alabama” (10/27/1934)
  • Duke Ellington “Solitude” (10/27/1934)
  • Guy Lombardo “Winter Wonderland” (12/1/1934)
  • Sons of the Pioneers “Tumbling Tumbleweeds” (12/15/1934)

Top 2%

  • Walter O’Keefe “The Man on the Flying Trapeze” (1/6/1934)
  • Enric Madriguera with Patricia Gillmore “The Carioca” (2/24/1934)
  • Duke Ellington & His Orchestra “Cocktails for Two” (5/5/1934)
  • Ted Fio Rito with Muzzy Marcellino “I’ll String Along with You” (5/12/1934)
  • Jan Garber & Fritz Heibron “All I Do Is Dream of You” (6/2/1934)
  • Bing Crosby & Irving Aaronson “Love in Bloom” (8/4/1934)
  • J. Fred Coots & Haven Gillespie (writers) “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” (first recorded: 10/24/1934)
  • Paul Whiteman with Peggy Healy & John Hauser “You’re the Top” (11/24/1934)
  • Bing Crosby with the George Stoll Orchestra “June in January” (11/24/1934)
  • Paul Whiteman with Ramona Davies “Anything Goes” (12/22/1934
  • Shirley Temple “On the Good Ship Lollipop” (from the movie Bright Eyes, released 12/28/1934)
  • Ray Noble with Al Bowlly “Isle of Capri” (12/29/1934)

1935


Top 1%

  • Ethel Merman “I Get a Kick Out of You” (1/5/1935)
  • Thomas “Fats” Waller “Honeysuckle Rose” (2/9/1935)
  • Dorsey Brothers with Bob Crosby “Lullaby of Broadway” (4/6/1935)
  • Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman Orchestra “Cheek to Cheek” (8/3/1935)
  • Little Jack Little “I’m in the Mood for Love” (8/17/1935)
  • The Carter Family “Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By)” (8/24/1935)
  • Teddy Wilson “Sweet Lorraine” (10/19/1935)
  • Richard Himber & Stuart Allen “Just One of Those Things” (11/30/1935)
  • Bing Crosby “Silent Night” (12/21/1935)

Top 2%

  • Glen Gray with Kenny Sargent “Blue Moon” (1/5/1935)
  • Glen Gray with Kenny Sargent “When I Grow Too Old to Dream” (2/9/1935)
  • Eddy Duchin & Lew Sherwood “Lovely to Look At” (3/9/1935)
  • Eddy Duchin & Lew Sherwood “I Won’t Dance” (3/9/1935)
  • Bing Crosby with George Stoll’s Orchestra “Soon” (3/16/1935)
  • Boswell Sisters with the Dorsey Brothers “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (4/20/1935)
  • Tom Coakley & Carl Ravazza “East of the Sun and the West of the Moon” (6/29/1935)
  • Fats Waller “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter” (6/29/1935)
  • Duke Ellington “In a Sentimental Mood” (7/13/1935)
  • Fred Astaire with Johnny Greer’s Orchestra “Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails” (8/10/1935)
  • Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood “You Are My Lucky Star” (10/12/1935)
  • Guy & Carmen Lombardo “Red Sails in the Sunset” (10/26/1935)
  • Tommy Dorsey with Edythe Wright “The Music Goes ‘Round and ‘Round” (12/21/1935)

1936


Top 1%

  • Tommy Dorsey “I’m Getting Sentimental Over You” (2/29/1936)
  • Benny Goodman with Helen Ward “Goody Goody” (2/29/1936)
  • Benny Goodman with Helen Ward “These Foolish Things Remind Me of You” (6/27/1936)
  • Thomas “Fats” Waller “It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie” (6/27/1936)
  • Benny Goodman “Stompin’ at the Savoy” (7/11/1936)
  • Fred Astaire with Johnny Green & His Orchestra “The Way You Look Tonight” (8/29/1936)
  • Fred Astaire with Johnny Green & His Orchestra “A Fine Romance (A Sarcastic Love Song)” (8/29/1936)
  • Billie Holiday “Summertime” (9/12/1936)
  • Robert Johnson “Cross Road Blues (aka ‘Crossroads’)” (recorded 11/27/1936)
  • Bing Crosby with George Stoll’s Orchestra “Pennies from Heaven” (11/28/1936)
  • Ray Noble Orchestra “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” (12/5/1936)

Top 2%

  • Tommy Dorsey with Cliff Weston “Alone” (1/11/1936)
  • Fred Astaire with Johnny Greer’s Orchestra “Let’s Face the Music and Dance” (3/7/1936)
  • Hal Kemp with Maxine Grey “There’s a Small Hotel” (4/18/1936)
  • Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly “Is It True What They Say About Dixie” (5/30/1936)
  • Paul Whiteman “My Romance” (6/20/1936)
  • Andy Kirk & Pha Terrell “Until the Real Thing Comes Along” (7/4/1936)
  • Shep Fields & Charles Chester “Did I Remember?” (8/22/1936)
  • Bing Crosby with Jimmy Dorsey’s Orchestra “I’m an Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande” (8/29/1936)
  • Shep Fields & Dick Robertson “Easy to Love” (10/31/1936)
  • Eddy Duchin with Jerry Cooper “It’s De-Lovely” (11/14/1936)
  • Leo Reisman “It Ain’t Necessarily So” (12/14/1936)

1937


Top 1%

  • Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra with Jack Leonard “Marie” (3/13/1937)
  • Bing Crosby with Lani McIntire & His Hawaiians “Sweet Leilani” (4/3/1937)
  • Guy & Carmen Lombardo “September in the Rain” (4/10/1937)
  • Fred Astaire with Johnny Green & His Orchestra “They Can’t Take That Away from Me” (4/17/1937)
  • Hal Kemp with Bob Allen “Where or When” (5/15/1937)
  • Duke Ellington “Caravan” (7/3/1937)
  • Shep Fields with Bob Goday “That Old Feeling” (8/7/1937)
  • Count Basie “One O’Clock Jump” (9/18/1937)
  • Tommy Dorsey “Once in a While” (10/23/1937)

Top 2%

  • Guy Lombardo “Boo Hoo” (3/13/1937)
  • Bing Crosby with Jimmy Dorsey’s Orchestra “Too Marvelous for Words” (4/3/1937)
  • Fred Astaire with Johnny Greer’s Orchestra “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” (4/17/1937)
  • Guy Lombardo & Lebert Lombardo “It Looks Like Rain in Cherry Blossom Lane” (5/15/1937)
  • Tommy Dorsey with Jack Leonard “In the Still of the Night” (10/16/1937)
  • Frances Langford with Victor Young’s Orchestra “Harbor Lights” (10/23/1937)
  • Sammy Kaye with Tommy Ryan “Rosalie” (10/23/1937)
  • Fred Astaire & Ray Noble’s Orchestra “Nice Work if You Can Get It” (11/13/1937)
  • Fred Astaire & Ray Noble’s Orchestra “A Foggy Day in London Town” (11/13/1937)
  • Bing Crosby & Connee Boswell with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)” (11/20/1937)
  • Shep Fields with Bob Goday “Thanks for the Memory” (12/25/1937)

1938


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Larry Clinton with Bea Wain “Love Is Here to Stay” (2/5/1938)
  • Seven Dwarfs “Whistle While You Work” (2/12/1938)
  • Adriana Caselotti “Someday My Prince Will Come” (2/19/1938)
  • Sammy Kaye with Tommy Ryan “Love Walked In” (3/19/1938)
  • Duke Ellington “I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart” (3/26/1938)
  • Red Norvo with Mildred Bailey “Says My Heart” (6/4/1938)
  • Tommy Dorsey with Edythe Wright “Music, Maestro, Please!” (6/18/1938)
  • Larry Clinton with Bea Wain “You Go to My Head” (7/23/1938)
  • Larry Clinton with Bea Wain “My Reverie” (8/13/1938)
  • Bing Crosby & Connee Boswell with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (8/20/1938)
  • Fred Astaire with Ray Noble’s Orchestra “Change Partners” (8/27/1938)
  • Larry Clinton & Bea Wain “Heart and Soul” (10/1/1938)
  • Fats Waller “Two Sleepy People” (11/12/1938)

1939


Top 1%

  • Walter Huston “September Song” (1/28/1939)
  • Larry Clinton with Bea Wain “Deep Purple” (2/4/1939)
  • Kate Smith “God Bless America” (4/8/1939)
  • Glen Gray “Sunrise Serenade” (4/8/1939)
  • The Ink Spots “If I Didn’t Care” The Ink Spots (4/15/1939)
  • Benny Goodman with Martha Tilton “And the Angels Sing” (4/22/1939)
  • Will Glahe “Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out the Barrel)” (5/6/1939)
  • Woody Herman “At the Woodchoppers’ Ball” (5/13/1939)
  • Billie Holiday “Strange Fruit” (7/22/1939)
  • Glenn Miller Orchestra “Moonlight Serenade” (7/29/1939)
  • Judy Garland “Over the Rainbow” (9/9/1939)
  • Harry James with Frank Sinatra “All or Nothing at All” (recorded 9/17/1939, charted 6/19/1943)
  • Glenn Miller Orchestra “In the Mood” (10/7/1939)
  • Shep Fields with Hal Derwin “South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)” (10/7/1939)
  • Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra “Cherokee (Indian Love Song)” (10/14/1939)
  • Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra with Jack Leonard “All the Things You Are” (12/16/1939)

Top 2%

  • Kay Kyser with Harry Babbitt, Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, & Ish Kabibble “Three Little Fishies (Itty Bitty Poo)” (5/6/1939)
  • Glenn Miller’s Orchestra with Ray Eberle “Stairway to the Stars” (6/17/1939)
  • Glenn Miller’s Orchestra “The Little Brown Jug” (6/17/1939)
  • Cab Calloway “Hep! Hep! The Jumpin’ Jive” (7/29/1939)
  • Glenn Miller’s Orchestra with Ray Eberle “Over the Rainbow” (8/19/1939)
  • Larry Clinton & Bea Wain “Over the Rainbow” (8/19/1939)
  • Bob Crosby with Teddy Grace “Over the Rainbow” (9/16/1939)
  • Bing Crosby “What’s New?” (10/12/1939)
  • Frankie Masters “Scatter-Brain” (10/21/1939)
  • Tommy Dorsey with Jack Leonard “Indian Summer” (12/9/1939)
  • Gene Autry “Back in the Saddle” (1939)  


1940


Top 1%

  • Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra “Body and Soul” (1/27/1940)
  • Benny Goodman with Mildred Bailey “Darn That Dream” (1/27/1940)
  • Jimmie Davis “You Are My Sunshine” (recorded 2/5/1940)
  • Cliff Edwards “When You Wish Upon a Star” (2/17/1940)
  • Glenn Miller Orchestra “Tuxedo Junction” (2/24/1940)
  • Lionel Hampton “Flying Home” (5/11/1940)
  • Glenn Miller Orchestra “Fools Rush in Where Angels Fear to Tread” (6/15/1940)
  • Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra & The Pied Pipers “I’ll Never Smile Again” (6/29/1940)
  • Glenn Miller “The Nearness of You” (6/29/1940)
  • Artie Shaw & His Orchestra “Frenesi” (7/27/1940)
  • Benny Goodman with Helen Forrest “Taking a Chance on Love” (recorded 11/29/40, charted 4/24/1943)

Top 2%

  • Kate Smith “The Last Time I Saw Paris” (1/11/1940)
  • Duke Ellington “Do Nothin’ Till You Hear from Me” (recorded 3/15/1940, charted 1/22/1944)
  • Glenn Miller with Marion Hutton “The Woodpecker Song” (4/6/1940)
  • Glenn Miller “Imagination” (5/11/1940)
  • Glenn Miller “Pennsylvania 6-5000” (7/6/1940)
  • Judy Garland “I’m Nobody’s Baby” (7/20/1940)
  • Bing Crosby “Only Forever” (9/28/1940)
  • Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys “New San Antonio Rose” (11/30/1940)

1941


Top 1%

  • Artie Shaw & His Orchestra “Stardust” (1/18/1941)
  • Benny Goodman with Louise Tobin “There’ll Be Some Changes Made” (1/25/1941)
  • The Andrews Sisters “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” (3/1/1941)
  • Artie Shaw & His Orchestra “Dancing in the Dark” (3/8/1941)
  • Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly & Helen O’Connell “Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)” (3/15/1941)
  • Harry James with Dick Haymes “I’ll Get by As Long As I Have You” (recorded 4/7/1941, charted 4/15/1944)
  • Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly & Helen O’Connell “Green Eyes (Aquellos Ojos Verdes)” (5/17/1941)
  • Duke Ellington & His Orchestra“Take the ‘A’ Train” (7/26/1941)
  • Glenn Miller Orchestra with Tex Beneke & the Four Modernaires “Chattanooga Choo Choo” (9/13/1941)
  • Billie Holiday “God Bless the Child” (10/18/1941)
  • Woody Herman “Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol’ Me)” (12/6/1941)

Top 2%

  • Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra “Oh Look at Me Now” (3/1/1941)
  • Tommy Dorsey with the Pied Pipers “Let’s Get Away from It All” (5/3/1941)
  • Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly “Maria Elena” (5/17/1941)
  • Sammy Kaye “Daddy” (5/24/1941)
  • Tommy Dorsey with Jo Stafford & Sy Oliver “Yes Indeed!” (7/5/1941)
  • Ernest Tubb “Walking the Floor Over You” (8/23/1941)
  • Horace Heidt with Larry Cotton, Donna Wood, & Don Juans “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire” (9/13/1941)
  • Duke Ellington with Ivie Anderson “I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good” (10/11/1941)

1942


Top 1%

  • Glenn Miller Orchestra “A String of Pearls” (1/3/1942)
  • Judy Garland with Gene Kelly “For Me and My Gal” (1/24/1942)
  • Glenn Miller Orchestra with Ray Eberle & The Modernaires “Moonlight Cocktail” (2/7/1942)
  • The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra with Bob Eberly & Helen O’Connell “Tangerine” (3/28/1942)
  • Glenn Miller Orchestra “Skylark” (4/4/1942)
  • Glenn Miller Orchestra with Marion Hutton, Tex Beneke, & The Modernaires “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else But Me” (4/11/1942)
  • Kay Kyser with Harry Babbitt & Julie Conway “Jingle, Jangle, Jingle” (7/4/1942)
  • Glenn Miller Orchestra with Tex Beneke & Marion Hutton “I’ve Got a Gal in Kalamazoo” (8/1/1942)
  • Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers “White Christmas” (10/3/1942)
  • The Mills Brothers “Paper Doll” (10/24/1942)
  • Dooley Wilson “As Time Goes By” (11/26/1942)

Top 2%

  • Ray Alvino with Bill Schallen & Skeets Herfurt “Deep in the Heart of Texas” (2/14/1942)
  • Woody Herman “I’ll Remember April” (3/21/1942)
  • Benny Goodman with Peggy Lee “Jersey Bounce” (3/28/1942)
  • Harry James “Sleepy Lagoon” (4/18/1942)
  • Kay Kyser with Glee Club “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition” (10/17/1942)
  • Freddy Martin “White Christmas” (10/17/1942)
  • Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra & The Pied Pipers “There Are Such Things” (10/24/1942)
  • Charlie Spivak “White Christmas” (11/7/1942)
  • Gordon Jenkins with Bob Carroll “White Christmas” (11/14/1942)
  • Harry James with Helen Forrest “I Had the Craziest Dream” (11/21/1942)

1943


Top 1%

  • Harry James with Helen Forrest “I’ve Heard That Song Before” (1/16/1943)
  • The Ink Spots “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” (1/23/1943)
  • Glenn Miller Orchestra with Skip Nelson “That Old Black Magic” (2/20/1943)
  • Dick Haymes with The Song Spinners “You’ll Never Know” (5/8/1943)
  • Duke Ellington “Perdido” (5/22/1943)
  • Al Dexter & His Troopers “Pistol Packin’ Mama” (6/19/1943)
  • Bing Crosby with Trudy Erwin “People Will Say We’re in Love” (6/19/1943)
  • Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers “Sunday, Monday or Always” (8/21/1943)
  • Bing Crosby with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” (12/4/1943)

Top 2%

  • Benny Goodman with Peggy Lee “Why Don’t You Do Right?” (1/2/1943)
  • Dinah Shore “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To” (1/23/1943)
  • Xavier Cugat “Brazil (Aquarela Do Brasil)” (1/23/1943)
  • The Song Spinners “Comin’ in on a Wing and a Prayer” (6/19/1943)
  • Bing Crosby with Trudy Erwin & Sportsmen Glee Club “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’” (10/9/1943)
  • Glen Gray with Eugenie Baird “My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart?)” (11/27/1943)
  • The Andrews Sisters “Shoo-Shoo Baby” (12/25/1943)

1944


Top 1%

  • Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly & Kitty Kallen “Bésame Mucho (Kiss Me Much)” (1/1/1944)
  • Nat “King” Cole “Straighten Up and Fly Right” (4/15/1944)
  • Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “I’ll Be Seeing You” (4/22/1944)
  • Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes “Long Ago and Far Away” (4/22/1944)
  • Woody Guthrie “This Land Is Your Land” (recorded 4/25/1944)
  • Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra & Williams Brothers Quartet “Swinging on a Star” (5/13/1944)
  • Judy Garland “The Trolley Song” (11/18/1944)
  • Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters “Don’t Fence Me In” (11/25/1944)
  • Judy Garland with Georgie Stoll’s Orchestra “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” (12/30/1944)

Top 2%

  • The Merry Macs “Mairzy Doats” (2/5/1944)
  • Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “I Love You” (3/4/1944)
  • The Mills Brothers “You Always Hurt the One You Love” (6/3/1944)
  • Dinah Shore “I’ll Walk Alone” (7/8/1944)
  • Jo Stafford “It Could Happen to You” (7/29/1944)
  • Frank Sinatra “White Christmas” (12/30/1944)

1945


Top 1%

  • The Andrews Sisters “Rum and Coca Cola” (1/6/1945)
  • Johnny Mercer with the Pied Pipers “Ac-Cent-Tchu-ate the Positive” (1/6/1945)
  • Hal McIntyre with Ruth Gaylor “My Funny Valentine” (2/24/1945)
  • Johnny Mercer with Jo Stafford & the Pied Pipers “Candy” (2/24/1945)
  • Les Brown with Doris Day “Sentimental Journey” (3/3/1945)
  • Tommy Dorsey “Opus One” (3/3/1945)
  • Woody Herman “Laura” (4/14/1945)
  • Billie Holiday with Camarata’s Orchestra “Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)” (5/5/1945)
  • Johnny Mercer with the Pied Pipers “On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe” (7/14/1945)
  • Perry Como with the Russell Case Orchestra “If I Loved You” (7/28/1945)
  • Ella Fitzgerald with the Delta Rhythm Boys “It’s Only a Paper Moon” (8/15/1945)
  • Perry Como with the Russell Case Orchestra “Till the End of Time” (8/18/1945)
  • Dick Haymes “It Might As Well Be Spring” (11/17/1945)
  • Vaughn Monroe “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” (12/22/1945)

Top 2%

  • Harry James with Kitty Kallen “I’m Beginning to See the Light” (1/27/1945)
  • The Pied Pipers with Paul Weston “Dream (When You’re Feeling Blue)” (3/10/1945)
  • Vaughn Monroe Orchestra “There! I’ve Said It Again” (3/17/1945)
  • Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five “Caldonia Boogie” (5/12/1945)
  • Bing Crosby with the Les Brown Trio “It’s Been a Long, Long Time” (10/13/1945)
  • Bing Crosby with Carmen Cavallaro’s Orchestra “I Can’t Begin to Tell You” (10/27/1945)
  • Dizzy Gillespie “Salt Peanuts” (11/24/1945)
  • Charlie Parker with Miles Davis & Dizzy Gillespie “Ko-Ko” (recorded 11/26/1945)

1946


Top 1%

  • Dizzy Gillespie “A Night in Tunisia” (2/22/1946)
  • The Ink Spots “The Gypsy” (5/4/1946)
  • Nat “King” Cole “Get Your Kicks on Route 66” (6/8/1946)
  • Margaret Whiting with Paul Weston’s Orchestra “Come Rain or Come Shine” (6/15/1946)
  • Louis Jordan “Choo Choo Ch’ Boogie” (8/17/1946)
  • Nat “King” Cole Trio “I Love You for Sentimental Reasons” (10/9/1946)
  • Nat “King” Cole “The Christmas Song” (11/23/1946)

Top 2%

  • Frankie Carle with Marjorie Hughes “Oh! What It Seemed to Be” (1/26/1946)
  • Perry Como “Prisoner of Love” (3/30/1946)
  • Eddy Howard “To Each His Own” (6/29/1946)
  • Frank Sinatra “Five Minutes More” (8/3/1946)
  • Kay Kyser with Michael Douglas “Ole Buttermilk Sky” (9/21/1946)
  • Ethel Merman “There’s No Business Like Show Business” (9/30/1946)
  • James Baskett “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” (movie release: 11/12/1946)

1947


Top 1%

  • Ted Weems with Elmo Tanner “Heartaches” (3/1/1947)
  • The Harmonicats “Peg O’ My Heart” (4/26/1947)
  • Tex Williams “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! That Cigarette” (7/5/1947)
  • Francis Craig with Bob Lamm “Near You” (8/9/1947)
  • Vaughn Monroe Orchestra “Ballerina” (11/8/1947)
  • Thelonious Monk “Round Midnight” (recorded 11/21/1947)

Top 2%

  • Frankie Laine “That’s My Desire” (3/22/1947)
  • Red Ingle with Jo Stafford “Temptation (Tim-Tay-Shun)” (6/14/1947)
  • Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (9/22/1947)
  • T-Bone Walker “Call It Stormy Monday” (11/30/1947)

1948


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Mahalia Jackson “Move on Up a Little Higher” (1/24/1948)
  • Peggy Lee “Manana Is Soon Enough for Me” (1/24/1948)
  • Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers “Now Is the Hour (Maori Farewell Song)” (1/31/1948)
  • Perry Como “Because” (3/13/1948)
  • Margaret Whiting “A Tree in the Meadow” (7/14/1948)
  • Doris Day “It’s Magic” (7/17/1948)
  • Dizzy Gillespie “Manteca” (9/25/1948)
  • Kay Kyser with Harry Babbitt and Gloria Wood “On a Slow Boat to China” (10/23/1948)
  • Evelyn Knight “A Little Bird Told Me” (11/20/1948)
  • Spike Jones & His City Slickers with George Rock “All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth” (11/27/48)
  • Les Brown “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm” (12/25/1948)

1949


Top 1%

  • John Lee Hooker “Boogie Chillen” (1/8/1949)
  • Blue Barron “Cruising Down the River” (1/29/1949)
  • Hank Williams “Lovesick Blues” (3/5/1949)
  • Vaughn Monroe Orchestra “Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)” (4/23/1949)
  • Perry Como “Some Enchanted Evening” (4/30/1949)
  • Johnny Mercer with Margaret Whiting “Baby It’s Cold Outside” (5/14/1949)
  • Vic Damone “You’re Breaking My Heart” (6/18/1949)
  • Frank Sinatra “One for My Baby and One More for the Road” (album cut: 6/20/1949; re-recorded: 6/25/1958)
  • Frankie Laine with Judd Conlon’s Rhythmaires & Harry Gellar’s Orchestra “That Lucky Old Sun” (8/27/1949)
  • Hank Williams “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (11/26/1949)
  • Gene Autry “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (12/3/1949)

Top 2%

  • Frank Sinatra “Autumn in New York” (1/29/1949)
  • Perry Como with the Fontane Sisters and the Mitchell Ayres Orchestra “A – You’re Adorable (The Alphabet Song)” (4/9/1949)
  • Margaret Whiting with Jimmy Wakely “Slipping Around” (9/10/1949)
  • The Andrews Sisters with Gordon Jenkins’ Orchestra “I Can Dream, Can’t I?” (9/24/1949)
  • Frankie Laine & the Muleskinners “Mule Train” (11/12/1949)
  • Leroy Anderson & His “Pops” Concert Orchestra “Sleigh Ride” (12/24/1949)  


1950


Top 1%

  • Anton Karas “The Third Man Theme” (1/28/1950)
  • Bill Snyder “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” (4/22/1950)
  • Nat “King” Cole “Mona Lisa” (6/10/1950)
  • Goodnight Irene” The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins’ Orchestra (7/1/1950)
  • Tennessee Waltz” Patti Page (11/18/1950)

Top 2%

  • Red Foley “Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy” (1/21/1950)
  • Teresa Brewer “Music! Music! Music!” (2/4/1950)
  • Gordon Jenkins Orchestra with Eileen Wilson “My Foolish Heart” (2/18/1950)
  • The Andrews Sisters “I Wanna Be Loved by You” (5/13/1950)
  • Hank Snow “I’m Movin’ On” (7/1/1950)
  • The Andrews Sisters with Gordon Jenkins’ Orchestra “There Will Never Be Another You” (9/27/1950)
  • Edith Piaf “La Vie En Rose” (10/21/1950)
  • Gene Autry & the Cass County Boys with Carl Cotner’s Orchestra “Frosty the Snowman” (12/9/1950)

1951


Top 1%

  • Hank Williams “Cold, Cold Heart” (2/2/1951)
  • Les Paul & Mary Ford “How High the Moon” (3/31/1951)
  • Nat “King” Cole “Too Young” (4/14/1951)
  • Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats “Rocket 88” (5/12/1951)
  • Tony Bennett “Because of You” (6/23/1951)
  • Tommy Edwards “It’s All in the Game” (9/15/1951)
  • Johnnie Ray & the Four Lads “Cry” (11/24/1951)

Top 2%

  • The Dominoes “Sixty Minute Man” (8/25/1951)

1952


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Lloyd Price “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” (5/17/1952)
  • Al Martino “Here in My Heart” (5/17/1952)
  • Vera Lynn “Auf Wiederseh’n Sweetheart” (6/14/1952)
  • Hank Williams “Jambalaya on the Bayou” (8/16/1952)
  • Tex Ritter “High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh, My Darlin’)” (9/20/1952)
  • Perry Como & the Ramblers with Mitchell Ayres’ Orchestra “Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes” (12/6/1952)

1953


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Patti Page “The Doggie in the Window” (1/31/1953)
  • Frankie Laine “I Believe” (2/21/1953)
  • The Drifters “Money Honey” (10/31/1953)
  • Dean Martin “That’s Amore” (11/14/1953)

1954


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Perry Como “Wanted” (3/6/1954)
  • Muddy Waters “Hoochie Coochie Man” (3/13/1954)
  • Kitty Kallen “Little Things Mean a Lot” (4/17/1954)
  • The Four Aces with Jack Pleis’ Orchestra “Three Coins in the Fountain” (5/22/1954)
  • Rosemary Clooney “Hey There” (7/17/1954)
  • Sarah Vaughan “S’ Wonderful” (recorded 11/12/1954)

1955


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Ray Charles “I Gotta Woman” (1/22/1955)
  • Bill Hayes “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” (2/14/1955)
  • Elvis Presley “Mystery Train” (7/21/1955)
  • Muddy Waters “Mannish Boy” (7/30/1955)
  • Dean Martin “Memories Are Made of This” (11/21/1955)
  • Johnny Cash “Folsom Prison Blues” (studio version) (12/15/1955)

1956


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Howlin’ Wolf “Smokestack Lightning” (3/17/1956)
  • Gogi Grant “The Wayward Wind” (4/28/1956)
  • Chuck Berry “Roll Over Beethoven” (6/9/1956)
  • Doris Day “Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera Sera)” (6/22/1956)
  • Sonny James “Young Love” (12/22/1956)

1957


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Harry Belafonte “The Banana Boat Song (Day-O)” (1/12/1957)
  • The Dell-Vikings “Come Go with Me” (2/16/1957)
  • The Diamonds “Little Darlin’” (3/16/1957)
  • Julie London “Cry Me a River” (4/5/1957)
  • Nat “King” Cole “When I Fall in Love” (4/20/1957)
  • Debbie Reynolds “Tammy” (7/20/1957)
  • Johnny Mathis “Chances Are” (8/12/1957)
  • Frank Sinatra “All the Way” (9/23/1957)
  • Chuck Berry “Rock and Roll Music” (11/4/1957)
  • Laurie London “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” (11/9/1957)
  • Elvis Presley “Blue Christmas” (album cut: 10/15/1957, single: 12/5/1964)
  • Bobby Helms “Jingle Bell Rock” (12/23/1957)

1958


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • The Chantels “Maybe” (1/6/1958)
  • Little Richard “Good Golly Miss Molly” (1/31/1958)
  • Connie Francis “Who’s Sorry Now?” (2/3/1958)
  • The Monotones “Book of Love” (3/22/1958)
  • The Platters “Twilight Time” (3/24/1958)
  • The Coasters “Yakety Yak” 5/31/1958)
  • The Big Bopper “Chantilly Lace” (8/4/1958)
  • The Teddy Bears “To Know Him Is to Love Him” (9/22/1958)
  • Jackie Wilson “Lonely Teardrops” (11/17/1958)
  • Ritchie Valens “Donna” (11/24/1958)
  • The Crests “Sixteen Candles” (11/24/1958)
  • Lloyd Price “Stagger Lee” (11/24/1958)
  • David Seville & the Chipmunks “The Chipmunk Song” (12/1/1958)

1959


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Frankie Avalon “Venus” (2/9/1959)
  • The Skyliners “Since I Don’t Have You” (2/14/1959)
  • Dion & the Belmonts “A Teenager in Love” (4/18/1959)
  • Dinah Washington “What a Diff’rence a Day Makes” (5/9/1959)
  • The Drifters “There Goes My Baby” (6/1/1959)
  • Miles Davis with Bill Evans “Blue Green” (album cut: 10/3/1959)
  • Miles Davis “All Blues” (album cut: 10/3/1959)
  • Ella Fitzgerald “But Not for Me” (10/16/1959)
  • Jim Reeves “He’ll Have to Go” (12/17/1959)  


1960


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Barrett Strong “Money (That’s What I Want)” (1/25/1960)
  • Elvis Presley “Stuck on You” (3/23/1960)
  • Brenda Lee “I’m Sorry” (5/27/1960)
  • Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs “Stay” (9/17/1960)
  • The Miracles “Shop Around” (9/27/1960)

1961


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Patsy Cline “I Fall to Pieces” (4/3/1961)
  • Bobby Lewis “Tossin’ and Turnin’” (4/24/1961)
  • Ray Charles “Hit the Road Jack” (9/4/61)
  • Mr. Acker Bilk “Stranger on the Shore” (11/30/1961)
  • Dion “The Wanderer” (12/4/1961)

1962


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • The Shirelles “Soldier Boy” (3/19/1962)
  • John Lee Hooker “Boom Boom” (5/26/1962)
  • The Tornadoes “Telstar” (8/30/1962)
  • The Crystals “He’s a Rebel” (9/8/1962)
  • Frank Ifield “I Remember You” (9/8/1962)
  • The Beatles “Love Me Do” (10/5/1962)
  • The Drifters “Up on the Roof” (11/3/1962)
  • The Miracles “You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me” (11/9/1962)

1963


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • The Beatles “Please Please Me” (1/11/1963)
  • Henry Mancini “The Days of Wine and Roses” (1/19/1963)
  • The Drifters “On Broadway” (3/16/1963)
  • The Beach Boys “Surfin’ U.S.A.” (3/23/1963)
  • The Crystals “Da Doo Ron Ron (When He Walked Me Home)” (4/20/1963)
  • Kyu Sakamoto “Sukiyaki” (5/4/1963)
  • Lesley Gore “It’s My Party” (5/4/1963)
  • Little Stevie Wonder “Fingertips (Part 2)” (5/21/1963)
  • Jimmy Gilmer & the Fireballs “Sugar Shack” (9/21/1963)
  • Gerry & the Pacemakers “You’ll Never Walk Alone” (10/10/1963)
  • John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman “Lush Life” (1963)

1964


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • The Beatles “I Saw Her Standing There” (1/13/1964)
  • The Beatles “All My Loving” (3/28/1964)
  • The Dixie Cups “Chapel of Love” (4/16/1964)
  • Dionne Warwick “Walk on By” (4/16/1964)
  • The Beach Boys “I Get Around” (5/23/1964)
  • The Drifters “Under the Boardwalk” (6/27/1964)
  • Manfred Mann “Do Wah Diddy Diddy” (7/18/1964)
  • The Zombies “She’s Not There” (7/31/1964)
  • The Four Tops “Baby, I Need Your Loving” (8/14/1964)
  • The Shangri-La’s “Leader of the Pack” (10/10/1964)
  • The Kinks “All Day and All of the Night” (10/23/1964)
  • Marvin Gaye “How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You” (11/4/1964)
  • Them “Gloria” (11/6/1964)

1965


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • The Who “I Can’t Explain” (1/15/1965)
  • John Coltrane “Acknowledgement (A Love Supreme, Part 1)” (album cut: 1/31/1965)
  • Martha & the Vandellas “Nowhere to Run” (2/2/1965)
  • Jr. Walker & the All Stars “Shotgun” (2/13/1965)
  • The Beatles “Eight Days a Week” (2/15/1965)
  • The Yardbirds “For Your Love” (2/28/1965)
  • Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs “Wooly Bully” (4/2/1965)
  • Bob Dylan “Subterranean Homesick Blues” (4/3/1965)
  • The Beach Boys “California Girls” (7/12/1965)
  • The Lovin’ Spoonful “Do You Believe in Magic?” (8/21/1965)
  • Barry McGuire “Eve of Destruction” (8/21/1965)
  • The Beatles “Day Tripper” (12/3/1965)
  • The Beatles “Michelle” (album cut: 12/3/1965)
  • The Beatles “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)” (album cut: 12/3/1965)
  • Stevie Wonder “Uptight (Everything’s Alright)” (12/11/1965)

1966


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Bobby Fuller Four “I Fought the Law” (1/14/1966)
  • Nancy Sinatra “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” (1/22/1966)
  • SSgt Barry Sadler “The Ballad of the Green Berets” (2/5/1966)
  • The Isley Brothers “This Old Heart of Mine” (2/19/1966)
  • The Beatles “Nowhere Man” (2/21/1966)
  • The Mamas & the Papas “Monday Monday” (4/9/1966)
  • The Lovin’ Spoonful “Summer in the City” (7/14/1966)
  • The Beach Boys “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” (7/18/1966)
  • Donovan “Sunshine Superman” (7/30/1966)
  • The Beatles “Yellow Submarine” (8/5/1966)
  • Jimmy Ruffin “What Becomes of the Broken Hearted” (8/6/1966)
  • The Association “Cherish” (8/27/1966)
  • ? & the Mysterians “96 Tears” (8/27/1966)
  • The Count Five “Psychotic Reaction” (9/2/1966)
  • The Supremes “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” (10/29/1966)
  • Spencer Davis Group “Gimme Some Lovin’” (11/3/1966)
  • Otis Redding “Try a Little Tenderness” (12/3/1966)
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Hey Joe” (12/16/1966)

1967


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • The Doors “The End” (album cut: 1/4/1967)
  • The Rolling Stones “Ruby Tuesday” (1/13/1967)
  • The Velvet Underground & Nico “I’m Waiting for the Man” (album cut: 3/12/1967)
  • Frank Sinatra & Nancy Sinatra “Somethin’ Stupid” (3/18/1967)
  • The Young Rascals “Groovin’” (4/22/1967)
  • Frankie Valli “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You” (5/13/1967)
  • The Association “Windy” (5/27/1967)
  • Scott McKenzie “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” (5/27/1967)
  • The Beatles “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” (album cut: 6/2/1967)
  • Dusty Springfield “The Look of Love” (7/22/1967)
  • The Small Faces “Itchycoo Park” (8/9/1967)
  • The Association “Never My Love” (8/25/1967)
  • Lulu “To Sir with Love” (9/2/1967)
  • The Youngbloods “Get Together” (9/2/1967)
  • Sam & Dave “Soul Man” (9/9/1967)
  • Strawberry Alarm Clock “Incense and Peppermints” (9/29/1967)
  • The Who “I Can See for Miles” (10/7/1967)
  • Glen Campbell “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” (10/21/1967)
  • The Beatles “Hello Goodbye” (11/24/1967)
  • The Beatles “I Am the Walrus” (11/24/1967)
  • Aretha Franklin “Chain of Fools” (12/9/1967)
  • Paul Mauriat “Love Is Blue” (12/16/1967)
  • Leonard Cohen “Suzanne” (album cut: 12/27/1967)

1968


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Sly & the Family Stone “Dance to the Music” (2/10/1968)
  • Simon & Garfunkel “Scarborough Fair/Canticle” (2/23/1968)
  • The Beatles “Lady Madonna” (3/15/1968)
  • Bobby Goldsboro “Honey” (3/23/1968)
  • Herb Alpert “This Guy’s in Love with You” (5/11/1968)
  • The Doors “Hello, I Love You” (6/21/1968)
  • The Rascals “People Got to Be Free” (7/13/1968)
  • Aretha Franklin “I Say a Little Prayer” (7/26/1968)
  • Iron Butterfly “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” (8/24/1968)
  • Jeannie C. Riley “Harper Valley P.T.A” (8/24/1968)
  • Cream “White Room” (9/28/1968)
  • The Supremes “Love Child” (9/30/1968)
  • Joe Cocker “With a Little Help from My Friends” (10/2/1968)
  • Steppenwolf “Magic Carpet Ride” (10/5/1968)
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)” (album cut: 10/16/1968, released 10/23/1970)
  • Dusty Springfield “Son of a Preacher Man” (11/23/1968)
  • The Beatles “Blackbird” (album cut: 11/25/1968)
  • Tommy James & The Shondells “Crimson and Clover” (12/14/1968)
  • The Foundations “Build Me Up Buttercup” (12/21/1968)

1969


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • The Zombies “Time of the Season” (2/8/1969)
  • The MC5 “Kick Out the Jams” (2/22/1969)
  • The Who “Pinball Wizard” (3/7/1969)
  • The Beatles “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (3/8/1969)
  • Simon & Garfunkel “The Boxer” (4/5/1969)
  • The Edwin Hawkins Singers with Dorothy Combs Morrison “Oh Happy Day” (4/26/1969)
  • Elvis Presley “In the Ghetto” (5/3/1969)
  • Stevie Wonder “My Cherie Amour” (5/31/1969)
  • Zager & Evans “In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)” (6/21/1969)
  • Bob Dylan “Lay Lady Lay” (7/12/1969)
  • The Temptations “I Can’t Get Next to You” (7/30/1969)
  • The Stooges “I Wanna Be Your Dog” (album cut: 8/5/1969)
  • The Band “The Night They Drove Ol’ Dixie Down” (9/22/1969)
  • Merle Haggard “Okie from Muskogee” (10/11/1969)
  • The Band “Up on Cripple Creek” (10/18/1969)
  • The Supremes “Someday We’ll Be Together” (11/1/1969)
  • B.B. King “The Thrill Is Gone” (12/27/1969)  


1970


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Sly & the Family Stone “Thank You Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin” (1/3/1970)
  • Creedence Clearwater Revival “Who’ll Stop the Rain” (1/24/1970)
  • John Lennon “Instant Karma (We All Shine On)” (2/21/1970)
  • Norman Greenbaum “Spirit in the Sky” (2/21/1970)
  • Van Morrison “Moondance” (3/14/1970)
  • The Beatles “The Long and Winding Road” (5/11/1970)
  • Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young “Teach Your Children” (6/5/1970)
  • Joni Mitchell “Big Yellow Taxi” (6/6/1970)
  • Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young “Ohio” (6/20/1970)
  • Stevie Wonder “Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours” (6/20/1970)
  • James Brown “Get Up, I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine” (7/18/1970)
  • Diana Ross “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” (8/8/1970)
  • Carpenters “We’ve Only Just Begun” (9/12/1970)
  • Black Sabbath “Iron Man” (album cut: 9/18/1970, charted 1/29/1972)
  • Velvet Underground “Sweet Jane” (album cut: Sept. 1970)
  • Loretta Lynn “Coal Miner’s Daughter” (10/5/1970)
  • Grateful Dead “Truckin’” (11/1/1970)
  • Lynn Anderson “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden” (11/7/1970)
  • Santana “Black Magic Woman” (11/7/1970)
  • Led Zeppelin “Immigrant Song” (11/14/1970)
  • Tony Orlando & Dawn “Knock Three Times” (11/21/1970)
  • Stephen Stills “Love the One You’re With” (11/28/1970)

1971


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Sammi Smith “Help Me Make It Through the Night” (1/16/1971)
  • Creedence Clearwater Revival “Have You Ever Seen the Rain” (1/30/1971)
  • Marvin Gaye “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology Song)” (6/10/1971)
  • Bee Gees “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart” (6/19/1971)
  • Joni Mitchell “A Case of You” (album cut: 6/22/1971)
  • Joni Mitchell “River” (album cut: 6/22/1971)
  • The Doors “Riders on the Storm” (7/2/1971)
  • The Who “Behind Blue Eyes” (10/30/1971)
  • Sly & the Family Stone “Family Affair” (11/6/1971)
  • Led Zeppelin “Black Dog” (12/2/1971)

1972


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Cat Stevens “Morning Has Broken” (1/1/1972)
  • Yes “Roundabout” (1/4/1972)
  • Gary Glitter Gary Glitter “Rock and Roll Part 2” (3/3/1972)
  • Led Zeppelin “Rock and Roll” (3/11/1972)
  • The Staple Singers “I’ll Take You There” (4/1/1972)
  • David Bowie “Starman” (4/14/1972)
  • The Rolling Stones “Tumbling Dice” (4/14/1972)
  • Looking Glass “Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl)” (6/2/1972)
  • The Hollies “Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress” (6/17/1972)
  • Johnny Nash “I Can See Clearly Now” (6/24/1972)
  • Roxy Music “Virginia Plain” (8/19/1972)
  • Seals & Croft “Summer Breeze” (9/9/1972)
  • Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” (9/30/1972)
  • America “Ventura Highway” (10/13/1972)
  • Elton John “Crocodile Rock” (10/27/1972)
  • Lou Reed “Perfect Day” (11/17/1972)
  • David Bowie “Ziggy Stardust” (11/24/1972)
  • David Bowie “The Jean Genie” (11/24/1972)
  • Todd Rundgren “Hello It’s Me” (11/72)

1973


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • The O’Jays “Love Train” (1/13/1973)
  • Elton John “Daniel” (1/20/1973)
  • The Stooges “Search and Destroy” (album cut: 2/7/1973)
  • Charlie Rich “Behind Closed Doors” (2/10/1973)
  • Stealers Wheel “Stuck in the Middle with You” (3/3/1973)
  • Paul McCartney & Wings “My Love” (3/23/1973)
  • Eagles “Desperado” (album cut: 4/17/1973)
  • Paul McCartney & Wings “Live and Let Die” (6/1/1973)
  • Led Zeppelin “Over the Hills and Far Away” (6/9/1973)
  • Bob Dylan “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” (7/13/1973)
  • Golden Earring “Radar Love” (8/4/1973)
  • Stevie Wonder “Higher Ground” (8/18/1973)
  • Eddie Kendricks “Keep on Truckin’” (8/18/1973)
  • Charlie Rich “The Most Beautiful Girl” (9/22/1973)
  • Sweet “Ballroom Blitz” (9/22/1973)
  • Steve Miller Band “The Joker” (10/20/1973)
  • Stevie Wonder “Living for the City” (11/10/1973)
  • Jim Croce “Time in a Bottle” (11/16/1973)
  • Wizzard “I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday” (12/8/1973)
  • Slade “Merry Xmas Everybody” (12/15/1973)

1974


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Pink Floyd “Time” (2/4/1974)
  • David Bowie “Rebel Rebel” (2/15/1974)
  • Joni Mitchell “Help Me” (3/2/1974)
  • Dolly Parton “I Will Always Love You” (3/11/1974)
  • ZZ Top “La Grange” (3/30/1974)
  • Paul McCartney & Wings “Band on the Run” (4/8/1974)
  • George McCrae “Rock Your Baby” (5/11/1974)
  • Bachman-Turner Overdrive “Takin’ Care of Business” (5/18/1974)
  • Elton John “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me” (5/20/1974)
  • Eric Clapton “I Shot the Sheriff” (7/13/1974)
  • Barry White “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe” (7/27/1974)
  • Harry Chapin “Cat’s in the Cradle” (9/29/1974)
  • Queen “Killer Queen” (10/26/1974)
  • Barry White “You’re the First, the Last, My Everything” (11/2/1974)
  • Barry Manilow “Mandy” (11/9/1974)
  • The Doobie Brothers “Black Water” (11/15/1974)
  • Eagles “Best of My Love” (11/30/1974)
  • LaBelle “Lady Marmalade” (12/14/1974)
  • Joe Cocker “You Are So Beautiful” (12/28/1974)

1975


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • David Bowie “Young Americans” (2/21/1975)
  • David Bowie “Fame” (2/21/1975)
  • Elton John “Philadelphia Freedom” (2/24/1975)
  • KC & the Sunshine Band “Get Down Tonight” (3/29/1975)
  • Aerosmith “Sweet Emotion” (5/19/1975)
  • Eagles “One of These Nights” (5/30/1975)
  • Willie Nelson “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” (7/19/1975)
  • KC & the Sunshine Band “That’s the Way I Like It” (8/2/1975)
  • Aerosmith “Walk This Way” (8/28/1975)
  • War “Low Rider” (9/13/1975)
  • Eagles “Lyin’ Eyes” (9/13/1975)
  • Pink Floyd “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” (album cut: 9/15/1975)
  • Paul Simon “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” (12/12/1975)
  • The Four Seasons “December 1963 (Oh What a Night)” (12/27/1975)

1976


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Fleetwood Mac “Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win)” (3/5/1976)
  • Elvin Bishop with Mickey Thomas “Fooled Around and Fell in Love” (3/5/1976)
  • Paul McCartney & Wings “Silly Love Songs” (4/1/1976)
  • Diana Ross “Love Hangover” (4/3/1976)
  • Thin Lizzy “The Boys Are Back in Town” (5/15/1976)
  • England Dan & John Ford Coley “I’d Really Love to See You Tonight” (6/12/1976)
  • Bee Gees “You Should Be Dancing” (7/2/1976)
  • Manfred Mann’s Earth Band “Blinded by the Light” (8/6/1976)
  • Gordon Lightfoot “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” (8/26/1976)
  • Rose Royce “Car Wash” (10/23/1976)
  • Queen “Somebody to Love” (11/20/1976)
  • Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band “Night Moves” (12/4/1976)
  • Barbra Streisand “Evergreen (Love Theme from ‘A Star Is Born’)” (12/11/1976)
  • Kansas “Carry on Wayward Son” (12/11/1976)
  • Al Stewart “Year of the Cat” (12/11/1976)
  • Thelma Houston “Don’t Leave Me This Way” (12/18/1976)

1977


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Kenny Rogers “Lucille” (1/29/1977)
  • The Trammps “Disco Inferno” (3/5/1977)
  • Marvin Gaye “Got to Give It Up” (3/15/1977)
  • Peter Gabriel “Solsbury Hill” (3/21/1977)
  • Jimmy Buffett “Margaritaville” (3/26/1977)
  • Stevie Wonder “Sir Duke” (4/2/1977)
  • Weather Report “Birdland” (album cut: 4/2/1977)
  • Andy Gibb “I Just Want to Be Your Everything” (4/23/1977)
  • Fleetwood Mac “Don’t Stop” (4/30/1977)
  • Elvis Costello “Alison” (5/21/1977)
  • Commodores “Easy” (5/28/1977)
  • Heart “Barracada” (5/28/1977)
  • Crystal Gayle “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” (7/9/1977)
  • The Modern Lovers “Roadrunner” (7/16/1977)
  • Iggy Pop “Lust for Life” (8/29/1977)
  • Linda Ronstadt “Blue Bayou” (9/10/1977)
  • Bing Crosby & David Bowie “Peace on Earth/The Little Drummer Boy” (9/11/1977)
  • Player “Baby Come Back” (10/1/1977)
  • Fleetwood Mac “You Make Loving Fun” (10/7/1977)
  • Paul McCartney & Wings “Mull of Kintyre” (11/11/1977)
  • Eric Clapton “Cocaine” (Nov. 1977)
  • Eric Clapton “Lay Down Sally” (12/13/1977)

1978


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Kate Bush “Wuthering Heights” (1/6/1978)
  • Kansas “Dust in the Wind” (1/16/1978)
  • Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings “Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” (1/21/1978)
  • Electric Light Orchestra “Mr. Blue Sky” (1/28/1978)
  • Talking Heads “Psycho Killer” (2/18/1978)
  • The B-52’s “Rock Lobster” (4/30/1978)
  • Donna Summer “Last Dance” (5/13/1978)
  • The Undertones “Teenage Kicks” (6/15/1978)
  • The Cars “Just What I Needed” (6/17/1978)
  • Exile “Kiss You All Over” (7/8/1978)
  • The Who “Who Are You?” (7/14/1978)
  • Meat Loaf “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” (8/12/1978)
  • Funkadelic “One Nation Under a Groove” (8/19/1978)
  • The Rolling Stones “Beast of Burden” (9/9/1978)
  • The Buzzcocks “Ever Fallen in Love” (9/23/1978)
  • Bee Gees “Too Much Heaven” (11/10/1978)

1979


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Queen “Don’t Stop Me Now” (2/10/1979)
  • Supertramp “The Logical Song” (3/24/1979)
  • Cheap Trick “I Want You to Want Me (live)” (4/21/1979)
  • Anita Ward “Ring My Bell” (5/12/1979)
  • Donna Summer “Bad Girls” (5/26/1979)
  • The Cure “Boys Don’t Cry” (6/15/1979)
  • Herb Alpert “Rise” (6/30/1979)
  • Gary Numan “Cars” (8/21/1979)
  • The Buggles “Video Killed the Radio Star” (9/10/1979)
  • The Police “Message in a Bottle” (9/21/1979)
  • Styx “Babe” (9/28/1979)
  • Little River Band “Cool Change” (10/19/1979)
  • Rupert Holmes “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” (10/20/1979)
  • Kenny Rogers “Coward of the County” (11/17/1979)
  • Paul McCartney “Wonderful Christmastime” (12/1/1979)  


1980


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Split Enz “I Got You” (1/21/1980)
  • Rush “The Spirit of Radio” (2/9/1980)
  • The Clash “Train in Vain (Stand by Me)” (2/12/1980)
  • The Romantics “What I Like About You” (2/16/1980)
  • The Jam “Going Underground” (3/10/1980)
  • Bette Midler “The Rose” (3/22/1980)
  • Paul McCartney & Wings “Coming Up (live)” (4/11/1980)
  • Frank Sinatra “Theme from “New York, New York”“ (5/3/1980)
  • Billy Joel “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me” (5/13/1980)
  • Olivia Newton-John “Magic” (5/23/1980)
  • Christopher Cross “Sailing” (6/14/1980)
  • David Bowie “Ashes to Ashes” (8/1/1980)
  • Devo “Whip It” (8/13/1980)
  • Barbra Streisand “Woman in Love” (8/29/1980)
  • Willie Nelson “On the Road Again” (8/30/1980)
  • Pat Benatar “Hit Me with Your Best Shot” (9/15/1980)
  • The Police “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” (9/19/1980)
  • Bruce Springsteen “Hungry Heart” (10/21/1980)
  • Motörhead “Ace of Spaces” (10/27/1980)
  • Daryl Hall & John Oates “Kiss on My List” (11/15/1980)

1981


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • John Lennon “Woman” (1/9/1981)
  • Blondie “Rapture” (1/12/1981)
  • Bill Withers & Grover Washington Jr. “Just the Two of Us” (2/7/1981)
  • Smokey Robinson “Being with You” (2/14/1981)
  • Rush “Tom Sawyer” (2/28/1981)
  • Squeeze “Tempted” (6/20/1981)
  • The Specials “Ghost Town” (6/20/1981)
  • R.E.M. “Radio Free Europe” (7/8/1981)
  • Christopher Cross “Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do)” (8/15/1981)
  • The Go-Go’s “Our Lips Are Sealed” (8/15/1981)
  • Depeche Mode “Just Can’t Get Enough” (9/7/1981)
  • Earth, Wind & Fire “Let’s Groove” (10/3/1981)
  • Daryl Hall & John Oates “I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)” (11/13/1981)

1982


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • The Go-Go’s “We Got the Beat” (1/23/1982)
  • The Jam “A Town Called Malice” (1/29/1982)
  • A Flock of Seagulls “I Ran (So Far Away)” (3/27/1982)
  • Toto “Rosanna” (3/31/1982)
  • John Cougar Mellencamp “Hurts So Good” (4/24/1982)
  • Steve Miller Band “Abracadabra” (5/29/1982)
  • Chicago “Hard to Say I’m Sorry” (6/5/1982)
  • Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force “Planet Rock” (6/12/1982)
  • Alan Parsons Project “Eye in the Sky” (7/3/1982)
  • Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes “Up Where We Belong” (7/22/1982)
  • The Gap Band “You Dropped a Bomb on Me” (8/7/1982)
  • Daryl Hall & John Oates “Maneater” (10/16/1982)
  • Billy Idol “White Wedding” (11/27/1982)
  • The Weather Girls “It’s Raining Men” (12/4/1982)

1983


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • U2 “New Year’s Day” (1/1/1983)
  • Def Leppard “Photograph” (2/5/1983)
  • Prince “Little Red Corvette” (2/9/1983)
  • Journey “Faithfully” (4/16/1983)
  • Spandau Ballet “True” (4/23/1983)
  • Quiet Riot “Cum on Feel the Noize” (4/23/1983)
  • Violent Femmes “Blister in the Sun” (album cut: April 1983)
  • Men Without Hats “The Safety Dance” (6/25/1983)
  • The Police “King of Pain” (7/9/1983)
  • Talking Heads “Burning Down the House” (7/23/1983)
  • UB40 “Red Red Wine” (8/20/1983)
  • Madonna “Holiday” (9/7/1983)
  • Billy Joel “Uptown Girl” (9/24/1983)
  • Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson “Say, Say, Say” (10/3/1983)
  • Yes “Owner of a Lonely Heart” (10/8/1983)
  • John Cougar Mellencamp “Pink Houses” (10/29/1983)
  • The Smiths “This Charming Man” (10/31/1983)
  • Nena “99 Red Balloons” (12/10/1983)

1984


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Bryan Adams “Heaven” (1/28/1984)
  • The Scorpions “Rock You Like a Hurricane” (2/28/1984)
  • The Cars “Drive” (6/2/1984)
  • Twisted Sister “We’re Not Gonna Take It” (6/2/1984)
  • Ray Parker, Jr. “Ghostbusters” (6/16/1984)
  • Frankie Goes to Hollywood “Two Tribes” (6/18/1984)
  • Prince & the Revolution “Let’s Go Crazy” (7/18/1984)
  • Dead or Alive “You Spin Me Around Like a Record” (12/1/1984)
  • REO Speedwagon “Can’t Fight This Feeling” (12/31/1984)

1985


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Madonna “Crazy for You” (3/1/1985)
  • Tears for Fears “Head Over Heels” (6/10/1985)
  • Mr. Mister “Broken Wings” (8/24/1985)
  • John Cougar Mellencamp “Small Town” (9/14/1985)
  • Whitney Houston “How Will I Know” (11/13/1985)

1986


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Robert Palmer “Addicted to Love” (2/8/1986)
  • Whitney Houston “Greatest Love of All” (3/18/1986)
  • Madonna “Papa Don’t Preach” (6/11/1986)
  • Steve Winwood “Higher Love” (6/14/1986)
  • Bon Jovi “You Give Love a Bad Name” (8/23/1986)
  • The Smiths “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out” (album cut: 6/16/1986, released 10/12/1992)
  • Europe “The Final Countdown” (11/1/1986)
  • New Order “Bizarre Love Triangle” (11/15/1986)

1987


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Starship “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” (1/30/1987)
  • Prince “Sign ‘O’ the Times” (2/18/1987)
  • Randy Travis “Forever and Ever, Amen” (3/25/1987)
  • Heart “Alone” (5/15/1987)
  • Suzanne Vega “Luka” (5/23/1987)
  • Los Lobos “La Bamba” (6/27/1987)
  • Billy Idol “Mony Mony (live)” (9/11/1987)
  • The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl “Fairytale of New York” (11/23/1987)

1988


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Michael Jackson “Man in the Mirror” (1/9/1988)
  • Midnight Oil “Beds Are Burning” (2/20/1988)
  • Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock “It Takes Two” (4/16/1988)
  • N.W.A. “Straight Outta Compton” (7/10/1988)
  • Def Leppard “Love Bites” (7/16/1988)
  • N.W.A. “Fuck tha Police” (album cut: 8/9/1988)
  • Bobby Brown “My Prerogative” (8/23/1988)
  • Jane’s Addiction “Jane Says” (8/23/1988)
  • Phil Collins “A Groovy Kind of Love” (9/2/1988)
  • Tone Loc “Wild Thing” (12/3/1988)
  • Guns N’ Roses “Patience” (12/24/1988)
  • Sonic Youth “Teenage Riot” (12/24/1988)
  • Mike + the Mechanics “The Living Years’ (12/31/1988)

1989


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Metallica “One” (1/10/1989)
  • Bangles “Eternal Flame” (2/3/1989)
  • Pixies “Monkey Gone to Heaven” (3/20/1989)
  • De La Soul “Me, Myself and I” (4/1/1989)
  • Soul II Soul “Back to Life (How Ever Do You Want Me)” (5/31/1989)
  • Depeche Mode “Personal Jesus” (8/29/1989)
  • Billy Joel “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (9/18/1989)
  • Neil Young “Rockin’ in the Free World” (9/23/1989)
  • Technotronic “Pump Up the Jam” (9/30/1989)
  • The Stone Roses “Fools Gold” (11/13/1989)
  • Marcia Griffiths “Electric Slide (Electric Boogie)” (12/9/1989)
  • Alannah Myles “Black Velvet” (12/9/1989)  


1990


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Faith No More “Epic” (1/30/1990)
  • Digital Underground “The Humpty Dance” (2/17/1990)
  • Roxette “It Must Have Been Love” (4/6/1990)
  • Deee-Lite “Groove Is in the Heart” (8/18/1990)
  • The Black Crowes “Hard to Handle” (9/1/1990)
  • AC/DC “Thunderstruck” (9/10/1990)

1991


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • The Scorpions “Wind of Change” (1/20/1991)
  • Extreme “More Than Words” (3/2/1991)
  • Right Said Fred “I’m Too Sexy” (7/27/1991)
  • Naughty by Nature “O.P.P.” (7/27/1991)
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers “Give It Away” (9/4/1991)
  • Celine Dion & Peabo Bryson “Beauty and the Beast” (11/6/1991)
  • Michael Jackson “Black or White” (11/11/1991)

1992


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Vanessa Williams “Save the Best for Last” (1/25/1992)
  • Nirvana “Lithium” (2/8/1992)
  • Metallica “Nothing Else Matters” (3/14/1992)
  • Pearl Jam “Even Flow” (4/6/1992)
  • k.d. lang “Constant Craving” (4/27/1992)
  • Brooks & Dunn “Boot Scootin’ Boogie” (5/23/1992)
  • Rage Against the Machine “Killing in the Name” (11/2/1992)
  • Pearl Jam “Black” (12/26/1992)

1993


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Snow “Informer” (1/9/1993)
  • Ice Cube “It Was a Good Day” (2/27/1993)
  • 4 Non Blondes “What’s Up?” (3/11/1993)
  • Collective Soul “Shine” (3/19/1993)
  • Stone Temple Pilots “Plush” (3/20/1993)
  • UB40 “Can’t Help Falling in Love” (5/1/1993)
  • Soul Asylum “Runaway Train” (5/15/1993)
  • Sting “Fields of Gold” (5/15/1993)
  • Blind Melon “No Rain” (7/24/1993)
  • The Breeders “Cannonball” (8/9/1993)
  • Nirvana “Heart-Shaped Box” (8/30/1993)
  • Smashing Pumpkins “Today” (9/25/1993)
  • Pearl Jam “Daughter” (10/30/1993)
  • Bryan Adams with Sting & Rod Stewart “All for Love” (11/19/1993)
  • Celine Dion “The Power of Love” (11/27/1993)

1994


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Beastie Boys “Sabotage” (1/28/1994)
  • Green Day “Longview” (2/1/1994)
  • Blur “Girls and Boys” (3/7/1994)
  • Warren G with Nate Dogg “Regulate” (4/15/1994)
  • Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories “Stay (I Missed You)” (4/22/1994)
  • Nine Inch Nails “Closer” (5/7/1994)
  • Elton John “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” (5/20/1994)
  • Wet Wet Wet “Love Is All Around” (5/21/1994)
  • The Notorious B.I.G. “Juicy” (8/20/1994)
  • Stone Temple Pilots “Interstate Love Song” (8/20/1994)
  • Blur “Parklife” (8/22/1994)
  • Weezer “Buddy Holly” (9/7/1994)
  • Silverchair “Tomorrow” (9/16/1994)
  • The Cranberries “Zombie” (9/19/1994)
  • Live “Lightning Crashes” (9/24/1994)
  • Boyz II Men “On Bended Knee” (11/1/1994)
  • Pearl Jam “Better Man” (12/3/1994)
  • Madonna “Take a Bow” (12/6/1994)
  • Rednex “Cotton Eye Joe” (12/17/1994)

1995


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Montell Jordan “This Is How We Do It” (2/11/1995)
  • Joan Osborne “One of Us” (2/21/1995)
  • Bryan Adams “Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?” (4/4/1995)
  • The Rembrandts “I’ll Be There for You” (5/1/1995)
  • Underworld “Born Slippy” (5/1/1995)
  • Radiohead “Fake Plastic Trees” (5/9/1995)
  • Everything But the Girl “Missing (dance remix)” (8/28/1995)

1996


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Tracy Chapman “Give Me One Reason” (1/20/1996)
  • Alanis Morissette “You Learn” (2/24/1996)
  • The Prodigy “Firestarter” (3/18/1996)
  • Fugees “Killing Me Softly” (3/2/1996)
  • Bone Thugs-N-Harmony “Tha Crossroads” (5/11/1996)
  • Eric Clapton “Change the World” (6/14/1996)
  • The Wallflowers “One Headlight” (10/5/1996)
  • Jewel “You Were Meant for Me” (10/15/1996)
  • R. Kelly “I Believe I Can Fly” (11/8/1996)

1997


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Shawn Colvin “Sunny Came Home” (2/1/1997)
  • Third Eye Blind “Semi-Charmed Life” (3/29/1997)
  • The Notorious B.I.G. “Hypnotize” (4/26/1997)
  • Tim McGraw & Faith Hill “It’s Your Love” (5/10/1997)
  • LeAnn Rimes “How Do I Live” (5/23/1997)
  • Sarah McLachlan “Building a Mystery” (7/5/1997)
  • Jewel “Foolish Games” (7/8/1997)
  • Radiohead “Karma Police” (8/6/1997)
  • Chumbawumba “Tubthumping” (8/11/1997)
  • Shania Twain “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” (11/15/1997)
  • Robbie Williams “Angels” (12/1/1997)
  • Will Smith “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It” (12/12/1997)

1998


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Madonna “Ray of Light” (5/9/1998)
  • Barenaked Ladies “One Week” (6/20/1998)
  • Sixpence None the Richer “Kiss Me” (7/14/1998)

1999


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Smash Mouth “All Star” (5/8/1999)
  • Christina Aguilera “Genie in a Bottle” (5/21/1999)
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers “Scar Tissue” (5/25/1999)
  • Savage Garden “I Knew I Loved You” (9/28/1999)
  • Faith Hill “Breathe” (10/9/1999)
  • Santana with the Product G&B “Maria Maria” (12/17/1999)  


2000


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Papa Roach “Last Resort” (3/7/2000)
  • Britney Spears “Oops!...I Did It Again” (3/27/2000)
  • Creed “With Arms Wide Open” (4/8/2000)
  • Matchbox 20 “Bent” (4/21/2000)
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers “Californication” (6/17/2000)
  • Lifehouse “Hanging by a Moment” (8/16/2000)
  • Shaggy with Ricardo “Rik Rok” Ducent “It Wasn’t Me” (10/27/2000)
  • Daft Punk “One More Time” (11/30/2000)

2001


Top 1%

Top 2%


2002


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Ashanti with Ja Rule “Foolish” (1/19/2002)
  • Vanessa Carlton “A Thousand Miles” (2/22/2002)
  • The White Stripes “Fell in Love with a Girl” (2/25/2002)
  • Miss “Misdemeanor” Elliott “Work It” (9/14/2002)
  • R. Kelly “Ignition (remix)” (11/2/2002)
  • Coldplay “The Scientist” (11/4/2002)
  • Christina Aguilera “Beautiful” (11/15/2002)

2003


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Black Eyed Peas with Justin Timberlake “Where Is the Love?” (5/23/2003)
  • Jet “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” (8/25/2003)
  • Linkin Park “Numb” (9/8/2003)
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Maps” (10/31/2003)

2004


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Maroon 5 “This Love” (1/27/2004)
  • Kanye West “Jesus Walks” (2/21/2004)
  • DJ Casper (aka Mr. C the Slide Man) “Cha Cha Slide” (3/27/2004)
  • Jay-Z “99 Problems” (4/24/2004)
  • Tim McGraw “Live Like You Were Dying” (6/5/2004)
  • Black Eyed Peas “Let’s Get It Started” (6/22/2004)
  • Maroon 5 “She Will Be Loved” (7/2/2004)
  • Green Day “American Idiot” (8/21/2004)
  • Snoop Dogg with Pharrell Williams “Drop It Like It’s Hot” (9/11/2004)
  • U2 “Vertigo” (10/3/2004)
  • Mario “Let Me Love You” (10/9/2004)

2005


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • 50 Cent with Olivia “Candy Shop” (1/29/2005)
  • The Pussycat Dolls with Busta Rhymes “Don’t Cha” (4/29/2005)
  • Green Day “Wake Me Up When September Ends” (6/13/2005)
  • Nickelback “Photograph” (8/20/2005)
  • Madonna “Hung Up” (10/17/2005)

2006


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • The Fray “How to Save a Life” (3/26/2006)
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers “Dani California” (4/4/2006)
  • Nelly Furtado “Say It Right” (11/5/2006)

2007


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Avril Lavigne “Girlfriend” (2/27/2007)
  • Cupid “Cupid Shuffle” (5/26/2007)
  • Timbaland with Keri Hilson & D.O.E. “The Way I Are” (6/10/2007)
  • Sara Bareilles “Love Song” (6/19/2007)
  • Rihanna “Don’t Stop the Music” (9/7/2007)

2008


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Rihanna “Take a Bow” (3/23/2008)
  • Kid Rock “All Summer Long” (4/5/2008)
  • Rihanna “Disturbia” (6/14/2008)
  • Katy Perry “Hot N Cold” (7/5/2008)
  • T.I. “Whatever You Like” (7/29/2008)
  • Pink “So What” (8/17/2008)
  • Kings of Leon “Sex on Fire” (9/6/2008)
  • T.I. with Rihanna “Live Your Life” (9/27/2008)

2009


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Beyoncé “Halo” (1/20/2009)
  • Owl City “Fireflies” (8/22/2009)  


2010


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Justin Bieber with Ludacris “Baby” (1/18/2010)
  • Usher with will.i.am “OMG” (3/22/2010)
  • Eminem “Not Afraid” (4/29/2010)
  • Taio Cruz “Dynamite” (5/30/2010)
  • Pink “Raise Your Glass” (10/6/2010)

2011


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Jennifer Lopez with Pitbull “On the Floor” (2/8/2011)
  • Katy Perry with Kanye West “E.T.” (2/16/2011)
  • Adele “Set Fire to the Rain” (3/12/2011)
  • Nicki Minaj “Super Bass” (5/8/2011)
  • David Guetta with Sia “Titanium” (8/13/2011)
  • Jay-Z with Kanye West “Niggas in Paris” (8/27/2011)
  • One Direction “What Makes You Beautiful” (9/11/2011)
  • Christina Perri “A Thousand Years” (10/18/2011)
  • The Black Keys “Lonely Boy” (10/26/2011)
  • Kelly Clarkson “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” (11/12/2011)

2012


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Maroon 5 with Wiz Khalifa “Payphone” (4/16/2012)
  • Flo Rida “Whistle” (4/24/2012)
  • Maroon 5 “One More Night” (6/19/2012)
  • Taylor Swift “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” (8/13/2012)
  • Adele “Skyfall” (10/5/2012)
  • Bruno Mars “When I Was Your Man” (12/22/2012)
  • Rihanna with Mikky Ekko “Stay” (12/22/2012)

2013


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Imagine Dragons “Demons” (1/26/2013)
  • Justin Timberlake “Mirrors” (2/11/2013)
  • Vance Joy “Riptide” (3/22/2013)
  • Eminem & Rihanna “The Monster” (10/29/2013)

2014


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Sia “Chandelier” (3/17/2014)
  • Ariana Grande with Iggy Azalea “Problem” (4/28/2014)
  • Walk the Moon “Shut Up and Dance” (9/10/2014)
  • Fetty Wap “Trap Queen” (12/15/2014)

2015


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” (1/7/2015)
  • Major Lazer with DJ Snake & MØ “Lean On” (3/2/2015)
  • Silentó “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” (3/14/2015)
  • Shawn Mendes “Stitches” (3/15/2015)
  • Taylor Swift with Kendrick Lamar “Bad Blood” (5/17/2015)
  • Desiigner “Panda” (12/15/2015)

2016


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • The Chainsmokers with Daya “Don’t Let Me Down” (2/5/2016)
  • Beyoncé “Formation” (2/6/2016)
  • Calvin Harris & Rihanna “This Is What You Came For” (4/29/2016)
  • Twenty One Pilots “Heathens” (6/16/2016)
  • James Arthur “Say You Won’t Let Go” (9/9/2016)
  • Rae Sremmurd with Gucci Mane “Black Beatles” (9/13/2016)
  • Migos with Lil Uzi Vert “Bad and Boujee” (10/28/2016)

2017


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Imagine Dragons “Believer” (1/31/2017)
  • Sam Hunt “Body Like a Back Road” (2/18/2017)
  • Portugal. The Man. “Feel It Still” (3/3/2017)
  • Imagine Dragons “Thunder” (4/27/2017)
  • DJ Khaled with Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper, & Lil Wayne “I’m the One” (4/28/2017)

2018


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Zedd with Maren Morris & Grey “The Middle” (1/23/2018)
  • Post Malone with Ty Dolla Sign “Psycho” (2/23/2018)
  • Juice Wrld “Lucid Dreams” (3/13/2018)
  • Drake “Nice for What” (4/6/2018)
  • Cardi B with Bad Bunny & J. Balvin “I Like It” (4/21/2018)
  • Childish Gambino “This Is America” (5/5/2018)
  • Panic! At the Disco “High Hopes” (5/23/2018)
  • Marshmello with Bastille “Happier” (8/17/2018)
  • Travis Scott with Drake “Sicko Mode” (8/18/2018)
  • Halsey “Without Me” (10/4/2018)

2019


Top 1%

Top 2%

2020


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Megan Thee Stallion with Beyoncé “Savage” (remix) (3/28/2020)
  • DaBaby with Roddy Ricch “Rockstar” (4/17/2020)
  • Xiao Zhan “Spotlight” (4/25/2020)
  • 24K Goldn with Iann Dior “Mood” (7/24/2020)
  • Cardi B with Megan Thee Stallion “WAP” (8/7/2020)
  • BTS “Dynamite” (8/21/2020)

2021


Top 1%

Top 2%


2022


Top 1%

Top 2%

  • Rema with Selena Gomez “Calm Down” (2/11/2022)
  • Lizzo “About Damn Time” (4/14/2022)
  • Steve Lacy “Bad Habit” (6/29/2022)
  • Noah Kahan “Stick Season” (7/8/2022)
  • Sam Smith with Kim Petras “Unholy” (9/22/2022)
  • Taylor Swift “Anti-Hero” (10/21/2022)
  • SZA “Kill Bill” (12/21/2022)
  • SZA “Snooze” (12/24/2022)

2023


Top 1%

  • Miley Cyrus “Flowers” (1/12/2023)

Top 2%


2024


Top 1%

  • none

Top 2%


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First posted 4/4/2012; last updated 4/20/2025.