TSORT: Songs of the Year, 1900-2021

TSORT Songs of the Year: 1900-2021

TSORT offers an aggregate of as many as 138 charts, although the number of charts becomes more sparse the farther back they stretch. Nonetheless, the site offers a page indicating songs of the year from 1900 to present. Check out other “songs of the year” lists here. 2021: Lil Nas X “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” 2020: Dua Lipa “Don’t Start Now” 2019: Billie Eilish “Bad Guy” 2018: Drake “God’s Plan” (2018) 2017: Ed Sheeran “Shape of You” 2016: Drake with WizKid & Kyla “One Dance” 2015: Adele “Hello” 2014: Pharrell Williams “Happy” 2013: Robin Thicke with T.I. & Pharrell Williams “Blurred Lines” 2012: Gotye with Kimbra “Somebody That I Used to Know” 2011: Rihanna with Calvin Harris “We Found Love” 2010: Ke$ha “Tik Tok” 2009: Lady Gaga “Poker Face” 2008: Leona Lewis “Bleeding Love” 2007: Rihanna with Jay-Z “Umbrella” 2006: Shakira with Wyclef Jean “Hips Don’t Lie” 2005: Madonna “Hung Up” 2004: Usher with Lil’ Jon & Ludacris “Yeah!” 2003: OutKast “Hey Ya!” 2002: Eminem “Lose Yourself” 2001: Kylie Minogue “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” 2000: Madonna “Music” 1999: Britney Spears “Baby One More Time” 1998: Celine Dion “My Heart Will Go On” 1997: Elton John “Candle in the Wind 1997 (Goodbye England’s Rose)” 1996: Spice Girls “Wannabe” 1995: Coolio with L.V. “Gangsta’s Paradise” 1994: Ace of Base “The Sign” 1993: UB40 “Can’t Help Falling in Love” 1992: Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You” 1991: Bryan Adams “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” 1990: Sinéad O’Connor “Nothing Compares 2 U” 1989: Madonna “Like a Prayer” 1988: Phil Collins “A Groovy Kind of Love” 1987: Whitney Houston “I Wanna Dance with Somebody Who Loves Me” 1986: Berlin “Take My Breath Away” 1985: U.S.A. for Africa “We Are the World” 1984: Stevie Wonder “I Just Called to Say I Love You” 1983: Irene Cara “Flashdance...What a Feelin’” 1982: Survivor “Eye of the Tiger” 1981: Kim Carnes “Bette Davis Eyes” 1980: Pink Floyd “Another Brick in the Wall Part II” 1979: Blondie “Heart of Glass” 1978: Bee Gees “Stayin’ Alive” 1977: Eagles “Hotel California” 1976: Abba “Dancing Queen” 1975: Billy Swan “I Can Help” 1974: Carl Douglas “Kung Fu Fighting” 1973: The Rolling Stones “Angie” 1972: Don McLean “American Pie” 1971: George Harrison “My Sweet Lord” 1970: The Beatles “Let It Be” 1969: The Archies “Sugar, Sugar” 1968: The Beatles “Hey Jude” 1967: Procol Harum “A Whiter Shade of Pale” 1966: Frank Sinatra “Strangers in the Night” 1965: The Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” 1964: The Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand” 1963: Trini Lopez “If I Had a Hammer” 1962: Ray Charles “I Can’t Stop Loving You” 1961: Ben E. King “Stand by Me” 1960: Elvis Presley “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” 1959: Bobby Darin “Mack the Knife” 1958: The Kingston Trio “Tom Dooley” 1957: Elvis Presley “Jailhouse Rock” 1956: Doris Day “Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera)” 1955: Bill Haley & His Comets “We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock” 1954: Doris Day “Secret Love” 1953: Les Paul & Mary Ford “Vaya Con Dios (May God Be with You)” 1952: Jo Stafford “You Belong to Me” 1951: Nat “King” Cole “Too Young” 1950: Nat “King” Cole “Mona Lisa” 1949: Vaughn Monroe “Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)” 1948: Dinah Shore & Her Harper Valley Boys “Buttons and Bows” 1947: : Francis Craig with Bob Lamm “Near You” 1946: Frank Sinatra “Five Minutes More” 1945: Les Brown with Doris Day “Sentimental Journey” 1944: Bing Crosby “Swinging on a Star” 1943: The Mills Brothers “Paper Doll” 1942: Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers & the John Scott Trotter Orchestra “White Christmas” 1941: Glenn Miller with Tex Beneke & the Four Modernaires “Chattanooga Choo Choo” 1940: Glenn Miller “In the Mood” 1939: Judy Garland “Over the Rainbow” 1938: Artie Shaw “Begin the Beguine” 1937: Count Basie “One O’Clock Jump” 1936: Bing Crosby “Pennies from Heaven” 1935: Fred Astaire with Ginger Rogers & Leo Reisman’s Orchestra “Cheek to Cheek” 1934: Leo Reisman “The Continental (You Kiss While We’re Dancing)” 1933: Ethel Waters “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” 1932: Fred Astaire “Night and Day” 1931: Cab Calloway “Minnie the Moocher (The Ho De Ho Song)” 1930: Harry Richman “Puttin’ on the Ritz” 1929: Eddie Cantor “Makin’ Whoopee” 1928: Jimmie Rodgers “Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas)” 1927: Hoagy Carmichael & His Pals “Stardust” 1926: Gene Austin “Bye Bye Blackbird” 1925: Ben Bernie “Sweet Georgia Brown” 1924: Paul Whiteman with George Gershwin “Rhapsody in Blue” 1923: Bessie Smith “Down Hearted Blues” 1922: Fanny Brice “My Man (Mon Homme)” 1921: Marion Harris “I Ain’t Got Nobody” 1920: Al Jolson “Swanee” 1919: Marion Harris “After You’ve Gone” 1918: Original Dixieland Jazz Band “Tiger Rag” 1917: Nora Bayes “Over There” 1916: John McCormack “Somewhere a Voice Is Calling” 1915: Olive Kline (as Alice Green) & Edward Hamilton “Hello Frisco!” 1914: Heidelberg Quintet “By the Beautiful Sea” 1913: Chauncy Olcott “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” 1912: Al Jolson “That Haunting Melody” 1911: Sophie Tucker “Some of These Days” 1910: Louise Homer “America the Beautiful” 1909: Fisk Jubilee Singers “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” 1908: Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” 1907: Enrico Caruso “Pagliacci Act 1: Vesti La Giubba (On with the Play)” 1906: Bert Williams “Nobody” 1905: Billy Murray “Give My Regards to Broadway” 1904: Haydn Quartet “Sweet Adeline (You’re the Flower of My Heart)” 1903: Haydn Quartet “In the Good Old Summertime” 1902: Byron Harlan & Frank Stanley “Tell Me, Pretty Maiden” 1901: John Philip Sousa “The Stars and Stripes Forever” 1900: Jere Mahoney “When You Were Sweet Sixteen” Resources/Related Links: Dave’s Music Database: “‘Songs of the Year’ lists” TSORT.info “Song Years Chart” First posted 4/13/2019; last updated 11/22/2022.