Mojo is a monthly UK magazine first published in October 1993. While they haven’t always named a “song of the year” they have done multiple best-of lists. Based on 15 of those lists (see links at bottom of page), here are the best songs of each year from 1955 to 2005.
- 1955: Little Richard “Tutti Frutti”
- 1956: Elvis Presley “Heartbreak Hotel”
- 1957: Buddy Holly & the Crickets “That’ll Be the Day”
- 1958: Chuck Berry “Johnny B. Goode”
- 1959: Ray Charles “What’d I Say”
- 1960: The Shadows “Apache”
- 1961: Del Shannon “Runaway”
- 1962: Booker T. & the MG’s “Green Onions”
- 1963: The Ronettes “Be My Baby”
- 1964: The Righteous Brothers “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’”
- 1965: The Miracles “The Tracks of My Tears”
- 1966: Ike & Tina Turner “River Deep, Mountain High”
- 1967: Aretha Franklin “Respect”
- 1968: Marvin Gaye “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”
- 1969: The Jackson 5 “I Want You Back”
- 1970: Simon & Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water”
- 1971: Marvin Gaye “What’s Going On”
- 1972: Stevie Wonder “Superstition”
- 1973: Stevie Wonder “Living for the City”
- 1974: Kraftwerk “Autobahn”
- 1975: Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody”
- 1976: Sex Pistols “Anarchy in the U.K.”
- 1977: Sex Pistols “God Save the Queen”
- 1978: The Dils “I Hate the Rich”
- 1979: Dead Kennedys “California Über Alles”
- 1980: Martha & the Muffins “Echo Beach”
- 1981: Ultravox “Vienna”
- 1982: Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five “The Message”
- 1983: The Smiths “This Charming Man”
- 1984: Frankie Goes to Hollywood “Two Tribes”
- 1985:
- 1986: Run-D.M.C. with Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler & Joe Perry “Walk This Way”
- 1987: Phuture “Acid Tracks”
- 1988: A Guy Called Gerald “Voodoo Ray”
- 1989: The La’s “There She Goes”
- 1990: Sinéad O’Connor “Nothing Compares 2 U”
- 1991: Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
- 1992: Radiohead “Creep”
- 1993: Beck “Loser”
- 1994: Oasis “Live Forever”
- 1995: Pulp “Common People”
- 1996: Manic Street Preachers “A Design for Life”
- 1997: The Verve “Bittersweet Symphony”
- 1998: Britney Spears “Baby One More Time”
- 1999: Rage Against the Machine “Sleep Now in the Fire”
- 2000: Asian Dub Foundation “Real Great Britain”
- 2001: The White Stripes “Fell in Love with a Girl”
- 2002: The Libertines “What a Waster”
- 2003: The Darkness “Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End)”
- 2004: Franz Ferdinand “Take Me Out”
- 2005: Arctic Monkeys “I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor”
- 2006: Camera Obscura “Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken”
Mojo Song Lists:
- Readership Top 100 Tracks of the ‘90s (3/97)
- 100 Greatest Psychedelic Classics (6/97)
- 100 Greatest Singles of All Time (8/97)
- Readers’ All Time Top 100 Singles (12/97)
- 100 Greatest Songs of All Time (8/00)
- 100 Punk Scorchers (10/01)
- The 100 Singles You Must Own (5/03)
- Epic Rock Tracks (4/04)
- 100 Greatest Protest Songs (5/04)
- 50 Greatest U.S. Punk Tracks (11/05)
- The 50 Greatest British Tracks Ever (3/06)
- Big Bangs: 100 Records That Changed the World (albums and singles list, 6/07)
- 80 from the ‘80s (8/07)
- The Indie Top 50 (albums and singles, 3/08)
- 100 Greatest Motown Tracks (2/09)
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