There are more than 105,000 songs in Dave’s Music Database. Songs are ranked based on chart peaks, sales, radio airplay, streaming figures, and video plays. Also factored in are multiple music awards and appearances on best-of lists. Here are the top 100 songs of all time based on Dave’s Music Database:
1. Bing Crosby “White Christmas” (1942)
2. The Beatles “Hey Jude” (1968)
3. The Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (1965)
4. Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You” (1992)
5. Bill Haley & His Comets “We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock” (1954)
6. The Police “Every Breath You Take” (1983)
7. Michael Jackson “Billie Jean” (1982)
8. Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody” (1975)
9. Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)
10. John Lennon “Imagine” (1971)
11. The Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (1963)
12. Aretha Franklin “Respect” (1967)
13. Simon & Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (1970)
14. The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” (1966)
15. Marvin Gaye “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1968)
16. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (1911)
17. Bryan Adams “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” (1991)
18. Eagles “Hotel California” (1977)
19. Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone” (1965)
20. Bee Gees “Stayin’ Alive” (1977)
21. Bobby Darin “Mack the Knife” (1959)
22. Judy Garland “Over the Rainbow” (1939)
23. Elton John “Candle in the Wind 1997 (Goodbye England’s Rose)” (1997)
24. Otis Redding “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay” (1968)
25. The Beatles “Yesterday” (1965)
26. Elvis Presley “Heartbreak Hotel” (1956)
27. Elvis Presley “Don’t Be Cruel” (1956)
28. Sinéad O’Connor “Nothing Compares 2 U” (1990)
29. Celine Dion “My Heart Will Go On” (1997)
30. Don McLean “American Pie” (1971)
31. Led Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven” (1971)
32. Elvis Presley “Hound Dog” (1956)
33. OutKast “Hey Ya!” (2003)
34. Fred Astaire “Night and Day” (1932)
35. Adele “Rolling in the Deep” (2010)
36. Al Jolson “Swanee” (1920)
37. Black Eyed Peas “I Gotta Feeling” (2009)
38. Mark Ronson with Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk!” (2014)
39. The Animals “The House of the Rising Sun” (1964)
40. Derek and the Dominos “Layla” (1970)
41. Ed Sheeran “Shape of You” (2017)
42. The Beatles “Let It Be” (1970)
43. Gene Austin “My Blue Heaven” (1927)
44. Eminem “Lose Yourself” (2002)
45. Glenn Miller Orchestra “In the Mood” (1939)
46. Ben E. King “Stand by Me” (1961)
47. Artie Shaw & His Orchestra “Begin the Beguine” (1938)
48. Guns N' Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine” (1988)
49. Fred Astaire “Cheek to Cheek” (1935)
50. Roy Orbison “(Oh) Pretty Woman” (1964)
51. The Righteous Brothers “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” (1964)
52. Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (1908)
53. Luis Fonsi with Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber “Despacito” (2017)
54. Elvis Presley “Jailhouse Rock” (1957)
55. American Quartet “Over There” (1917)
56. The Righteous Brothers “Unchained Melody” (1965)
57. Billy Murray “You’re a Grand Old Flag (aka “The Grand Old Rag”)” (1906)
58. Abba “Dancing Queen” (1976)
59. Gotye with Kimbra “Somebody That I Used to Know” (2011)
60. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts “I Love Rock and Roll” (1981)
61. Ethel Waters “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” (1933)
62. Chuck Berry “Johnny B. Goode” (1958)
63. Chubby Checker “The Twist” (1960)
64. Bruce Springsteen “Born to Run” (1975)
65. Prince “When Doves Cry” (1984)
66. Procol Harum “A Whiter Shade of Pale” (1967)
67. Paul Whiteman “Whispering” (1920)
68. Artie Shaw “Stardust” (1941)
69. Bessie Smith & Louis Armstrong “St. Louis Blues” (1925)
70. R.E.M. “Losing My Religion” (1991)
71. Gloria Gaynor “I Will Survive” (1978)
72. Stevie Wonder “Superstition” (1972)
73. The Doors “Light My Fire” (1967)
74. Marvin Gaye “What’s Going On” (1971)
75. The Kingsmen “Louie Louie” (1963)
76. Peerless Quartet “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” (1911)
77. Pharrell Williams “Happy” (2013)
78. Al Jolson “April Showers” (1922)
79. Usher with Lil’ Jon & Ludacris “Yeah!” (2004)
80. Pink Floyd “Another Brick in the Wall Part II” (1979)
81. Gene Autry “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (1949)
82. Elton John “Your Song” (1970)
83. The Temptations “My Girl” (1964)
84. Haydn Quartet “Sweet Adeline (You’re the Flower of My Heart)” (1904)
85. Adele “Hello” (2015)
86. Bing Crosby “Pennies from Heaven” (1936)
87. U.S.A. for Africa “We Are the World” (1985)
88. Patti Page “Tennessee Waltz” (1950)
89. Billy Murray “Give My Regards to Broadway” (1905)
90. Rod Stewart “Maggie May” (1971)
91. Lionel Richie & Diana Ross “Endless Love” (1981)
92. Van Morrison “Brown-Eyed Girl” (1967)
93. Fred Astaire “The Way You Look Tonight” (1936)
94. Gnarls Barkley “Crazy” (2006)
95. Haydn Quartet “In the Good Old Summertime” (1903)
96. American Quartet “Moonlight Bay” (1912)
97. Harry MacDonough with Miss Walton “Shine on, Harvest Moon” (1909)
98. Billy Murray with Haydn Quartet “By the Light of the Silvery Moon” (1910)
99. Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road” (2018)
100. Los Del Rio “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)” (1995)
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First posted 5/28/2008; last updated 4/3/2021. | 
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