Saturday, January 28, 2023

Miley Cyrus “Flowers” debuted at #1

Flowers

Miley Cyrus

Writer(s): Miley Cyrus, Gregory Aldae Hein, Michael Pollack (see lyrics here)

Released: January 12, 2023

First Charted: January 28, 2023

Peak: 18 BB, 118 BA, 15 DG, 14 ST, 110 RR, 157 AC, 117 A40, 110 UK, 115 UK, 112 AU, 10 DF (Click for codes to charts.)

Sales (in millions): 7.0 US, 1.8 UK, 16.23 world (includes US + UK)

Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 1097.22 video, 2563.81 streaming

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About the Song:

“Flowers” became the biggest hit of Miley Cyrus’s career. It was her second time to ascend to the top of the Billboard Hot 100, following “Wrecking Ball” a decade earlier. When she first topped the charts, she was 21 years old but already a veteran of the music industry. She starred in the Disney TV series Hannah Montana from 2006 to 2011, playing a pop star who maintains a secret identity as a more normal person.

In the real world, she started collecting hits under the “Hannah Montana” banner but then launched her career as Miley Cyrus, achieving success with “Party in the U.S.A.” (#2, 2009), “The Climb” (#4, 2009), and eventually the #1 hit “Wrecking Ball” in 2013. As of this writing, 2023’s “Flowers” was her tenth of eleven top-10 hits.

“Flowers,” the lead single from her eight studio album Endless Summer Vacation, topped the charts in 38 countries WK and became the fastest song in Spotify history to reach one billion streams (112 days). WK It won Grammys for Record of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.

The lyrics follow the protaganist’s efforts after a breakup to celebrate her independence and realize she is responsible for her own happiness. They make reference to her real-life relationship with actor Liam Hemsworth, who she married in 2018 and divorced in 2020. The song interpolates the melody from Gloria Gaynor’s 1978 women’s empowerment anthem “I Will Survive” WK and adapts some of the lyrics from Bruno Mars’ 2013 chart-topper “When I Was Your Man.” SF

Consequence.com’s Mary Siroky said “Flowers” sounds like “if the hazy, peaceful California tone of ‘Malibu’ were to be applied to a dance pop track.” WK The Guardian’s Alexis Petridis compared the song’s “shimmering electric guitar and understated yacht-rock mood” to Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 classic album Rumours. WK

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USA: #1 Pop Songs, 1920-1929

USA’s #1 Pop Songs:

1920-1929

These are the #1 pop songs on the United States pop charts from 1920 to 1929. Songs could have hit #1 on either of these charts:

The date indicates the song’s first appearance at #1, regardless of which chart it was. The act associated with the song is then listed. The Gardner book does not indicate specific artists, so the artists identified here are those which also hit #1 on another chart, are the highest-ranked version according to Dave’s Music Database, or are spotlighted as the top version by Gardner.

Then come the letter codes indicating which charts the song topped. The number following that is the number of weeks at #1. The Gardner charts are monthly and not weekly so the #of weeks has been adjusted by multiplying the song’s number of months at #1 by 4. Meanwhile the Sharon Mawer charts are bi-weekly (dated the first and fifteenth of the month) so to reflect a more accurate depiction of how many weeks the song spent at #1, the original # was doubled.

Click here to access a full list of #1 songs from 1890 to present. See other chart-based lists here.

1920:

  1. 1/15: Elizabeth Spencer & Charles Hart “Let the Rest of the World Go By” (GA: 12, SM: 8)
  2. 1/17: Al Jolson “I’ve Got My Captain Working for Me Now” (PM: 2)
  3. 1/31: Ben Selvin “Dardanella” (PM: 13, SM: 6, GA: 4)
  4. 5/1: Ted Lewis “When My Baby Smiles at Me” (PM: 7, SM: 2)
  5. 5/1: Edith Day “Alice Blue Gown” (PM: 1)
  6. 5/8: Al Jolson “Swanee” (PM: 9, SM: 4, GA: 4)
  7. 6/15: Henry Burr “Rose of Washington Square” (GA: 4, SM: 4)
  8. 7/15: Art Hickman “Hold Me” (GA: 8, PM: 3)
  9. 9/15: John Steel “The Love Nest” (GA: 8, PM: 4, SM: 4)
  10. 9/25: Marion Harris “St. Louis Blues” (PM: 3)
  11. 10/15: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “Whispering” (PM: 11, SM: 10, GA: 8)
  12. 10/16: Art Hickman “The Love Nest” (PM: 2)
  13. 12/11: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “The Japanese Sandman” (PM: 2)

1921:

  1. 1/1: Al Jolson “Avalon” (GA: 4, SM: 2)
  2. 1/29: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “Wang Wang Blues” (PM: 6)
  3. 2/1: Gene Rodemich “Margie” (GA: 8, SM: 8)
  4. 2/28: Eddie Cantor “Margie” (GA: 8, PM: 5)
  5. 2/28: Al Jolson “Yoo-Hoo” (GA: 4)
  6. 4/1: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “Bright Eyes” (SM: 6, GA: 4)
  7. 4/16: Al Jolson “O-H-I-O (O-My! O!)” (PM: 4)
  8. 5/14: Marion Harris “Look for the Silver Lining” (PM: 3)
  9. 5/15: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “My Mammy” (GA: 8, SM: 6, PM: 5)
  10. 7/1: Van & Schenck “Ain’t We Got Fun?” (SM: 6, GA: 4, PM: 2)
  11. 7/8: Nora Bayes “Make Believe” (PM: 3)
  12. 7/30: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “Cherie” (PM: 6)
  13. 8/15: Ted Lewis “All by Myself” (SM: 10, GA: 8, PM: 4)
  14. 8/31: Billy Jones as Victor Roberts “Peggy O’Neil” (GA: 1)
  15. 9/24: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “Song of India” (PM: 5)
  16. 11/1: Ted Lewis “Ma, He’s Making Eyes at Me” (GA: 4, SM: 4)
  17. 11/26: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “Say It with Music” (GA: 8, SM: 6, PM: 5)
  18. 12/31: Isham Jones “Wabash Blues” (PM: 6, SM: 2)

1922:

  1. 2/1: Al Jolson “April Showers” (PM: 11, SM: 2)
  2. 2/15: Ray Miller “The Sheik of Araby” (SM: 8, GA: 4)
  3. 3/25: Fanny Brice “My Man” (PM: 1)
  4. 4/15: Ray Miller “On the Gin-Gin-Ginny Shore” (GA: 4, SM: 2)
  5. 5/1: Al Jolson “Angel Child” (PM: 5, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  6. 6/1: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “Three O’Clock in the Morning” (SM: 14, GA: 12, PM: 8)
  7. 6/10: Isham Jones “On the Alamo” (PM: 4)
  8. 7/1: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “Stumbling” (SM: 8, GA: 8, PM: 6)
  9. 7/8: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “Do It Again” (PM: 2)
  10. 9/2: Ernest Hare & Billy Jones “Mr. Gallagher & Mr. Shean” (GA: 8, PM: 2)
  11. 9/16: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “Hot Lips” (PM: 6)
  12. 10/28: Gallagher & Shean “Mr. Gallagher & Mr. Shean” (GA: 8, PM: 6, SM: 4)
  13. 12/9: Henry Burr “My Buddy” (SM: 2, PM: 1)

1923:

  1. 1/1: Van & Schenck “Carolina in the Morning” (GA: 8, SM: 8, PM: 3)
  2. 1/6: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise” (PM: 1)
  3. 1/13: Al Jolson “Toot Toot Tootsie (Goo’bye)” (PM: 4)
  4. 3/1: Nora Bayes “Lovin’ Sam, the Sheik of Alabam’” (SM: 2)
  5. 3/15: Paul Specht “When Hearts Are Young” (GA: 4, SM: 2)
  6. 4/1: Marion Harris “Aggravatin’ Papa” (GA: 4, SM: 4)
  7. 4/7: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “Parade of the Wooden Soldiers” (PM: 7)
  8. 5/1: Sophie Tucker “You’ve Got to See Mama Ev’ry Night or You Can’t See Mama at All” (GA: 4, SM: 2)
  9. 5/15: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “Bambalina” (SM: 2, PM: 1)
  10. 5/26: Carl Fenton “Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses” (PM: 3)
  11. 6/1: Isham Jones “Who’s Sorry Now” (GA: 4, SM: 4)
  12. 6/23: Art Landry “Dreamy Melody” (PM: 3)
  13. 7/1: Billy Jones “Yes! We Have No Bananas” (SM: 10, GA: 8, PM: 5)
  14. 7/14: Bessie Smith “Down Hearted Blues” (PM: 4)
  15. 7/31: Ben Selvin “Yes! We Have No Bananas” (GA: 8, PM: 2)
  16. 8/11: Isham Jones “Swingin’ Down the Lane” (PM: 6)
  17. 9/15: Henry Burr “Just a Girl That Men Forget” (GA: 4, SM: 2)
  18. 10/1: Billy Murray & Ed Smalle “That Old Gang of Mine” (GA: 8, SM: 8, PM: 6)
  19. 12/1: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “I Love You” (SM: 10, GA: 8)
  20. 12/22: Eddie Cantor “No, No, Nora” (PM: 2)

1924:

  1. 1/5: Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians “Sleep” (PM: 5)
  2. 1/26: Arthur Gibbs “Charleston” (PM: 1)
  3. 2/15: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “Linger Awhile” (GA: 8, SM: 6, PM: 4)
  4. 2/16: Wendell Hall “It Ain’t Gonna Rain No Mo’” (GA: 8, PM: 6, SM: 4)
  5. 3/29: Ted Weems “Somebody Stole My Gal” (PM: 5)
  6. 4/1: Al Jolson “California, Here I Come!” (PM: 6, SM: 6, GA: 4)
  7. 6/15: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “What’ll I Do?” (SM: 16, GA: 12, PM: 5)
  8. 7/19: Isham Jones “Spain” (PM: 2)
  9. 9/6: Isham Jones “It Had to Be You” (PM: 5)
  10. 10/11: Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians “Memory Lane” (PM: 5)
  11. 10/15: International Novelty Orchestra with Billy Murray “Charley, My Boy” (GA: 4, SM: 4)
  12. 11/15: Al Jolson “I Wonder What’s Become of Sally?” (GA: 12, SM: 8, PM: 3)
  13. 12/6: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “Somebody Loves Me” (PM: 5)

1925:

  1. 1/10: Al Jolson “All Alone” (SM: 12, GA: 8, PM: 5)
  2. 2/7: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “All Alone” (PM: 3)
  3. 2/28: Marion Harris “Tea for Two” (PM: 3)
  4. 3/21: Johm McCormack “All Alone” (PM: 2)
  5. 4/4: Isham Jones with Ray Miller’s Orchestra “I’ll See You in My Dreams” (PM: 7, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  6. 5/15: Blossom Seeley “Alabamy Bound” (GA: 4, SM: 2)
  7. 5/23: Ted Lewis “O! Katharina” (PM: 1)
  8. 5/30: Vernon Dalhart “The Prisoner’s Song” (PM: 12, GA: 8, SM: 8)
  9. 6/15: Gene Austin “Yearning Just for You” (GA: 4, SM: 4)
  10. 7/4: Ben Bernie “Sweet Georgia Brown” (PM: 5)
  11. 7/15: Eddie Cantor “If You Knew Susie” (GA: 8, PM: 5, SM: 4)
  12. 8/15: Fred Waring “Collegiate” (GA: 4, SM: 4)
  13. 9/12: Gene Austin with Billy Carpenter “Yes Sir! That’s My Baby” (SM: 8, PM: 7, GA: 4)
  14. 10/31: Ben Selvin “Oh, How I Miss You Tonight” (PM: 3)
  15. 11/15: Isham Jones “Remember” (SM: 6, GA: 4, PM: 1)
  16. 11/21: Ben Selvin “Manhattan” (PM: 4)
  17. 11/30: John McCormack “Moonlight and Roses Bring Mem’ries of You” (GA: 1)

1926:

  1. 2/13: George Olsen “Who?” (PM: 6)
  2. 3/15: Cliff Edwards “Dinah” (SM: 2)
  3. 3/27: Ben Bernie “Sleepy Time Gal” (PM: 4)
  4. 4/17: Al Jolson “I’m Sitting on Top of the World” (PM: 2)
  5. 4/30: George Olsen with Fran Frey, Bob Rice, & Edward Joyce “Always” (GA: 12, SM: 10, PM: 3)
  6. 4/30: Vincent Lopez “Always” (GA: 12, PM: 2)
  7. 5/22: Gene Austin “Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue” (PM: 1)
  8. 6/15: Gene Austin with Fran Frey “Horses” (SM: 4)
  9. 6/19: “Whispering” Jack Smith “Gimme a Lil’ Kiss, Will Ya, Huh?” (PM: 2)
  10. 7/3: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra with Franklyn Baur “Valencia (A Song of Spain)” (PM: 11, GA: 8, SM: 4)
  11. 7/31: Al Jolson “I’d Climb the Highest Mountain if I Knew I’d Find You” (GA: 4)
  12. 9/4: Gene Austin “Bye Bye, Blackbird” (GA: 4, SM: 4, PM: 3)
  13. 10/2: Al Jolson “When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob-Bob-Bobbin’ Along” (PM: 2)
  14. 10/15: Jan Garber with Benny Davis “Baby Face” (PM: 6, SM: 6, GA: 4)
  15. 11/27: Johnny Marvin “Breezin’ Along with the Breeze” (PM: 2)
  16. 12/1: Johnny Hamp “Black Bottom” (SM: 2)
  17. 12/11: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “The Birth of the Blues” (PM: 4)
  18. 12/15: Henry Burr “Because I Love You” (GA: 4, SM: 2)

1927:

  1. 1/1: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra with Jack Fulton “In a Little Spanish Town” (SM: 10, GA: 8, PM: 8)
  2. 3/5: Sophie Tucker with Ted Lewis “Some of These Days” (PM: 5)
  3. 3/15: Ben Selvin “Blue Skies” (GA: 8, SM: 6, PM: 2)
  4. 4/9: Gene Austin “Tonight You Belong to Me” (PM: 3)
  5. 5/1: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “It All Depends on You” (GA: 4, SM: 4)
  6. 5/14: Ben Bernie “Ain’t She Sweet?” (PM: 4)
  7. 6/1: Nick Lucas “I’m Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover” (GA: 4, SM: 4)
  8. 6/11: George Olsen “At Sundown (When Love Is Calling Me Home)” (PM: 3)
  9. 7/1: Roger Wolfe Kahn “Russian Lullaby” (GA: 4, SM: 4, PM: 3)
  10. 7/2: Moran & Mack “Two Black Crows – Parts 1 & 2 (The Early Bird Catches the Worm)” (PM: 5)
  11. 8/1: “Whispering” Jack Smith “Me and My Shadow” (GA: 4, PM: 4, SM: 4)
  12. 8/6: Gene Austin “Forgive Me” (PM: 1)
  13. 9/1: Guy Lombardo “Charmaine!” (SM: 10, GA: 8, PM: 7)
  14. 11/15: Ben Selvin “Miss Annabelle Lee (Who’s Wonderful, Who’s Marvelous)” (GA: 4, SM: 2)
  15. 11/19: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “My Blue Heaven” (PM: 1)
  16. 11/26: Red Nichols “Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider” (PM: 3)
  17. 12/1: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “Just a Memory” (GA: 4, SM: 4)
  18. 12/17: Gene Austin “My Blue Heaven” (PM: 13, GA: 8, SM: 8)

1928:

  1. 3/1: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “Among My Souvenirs” (SM: 6, GA: 4, PM: 4)
  2. 4/14: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “Together” (GA: 4, PM: 2, SM: 2)
  3. 4/28: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “Ol’ Man River” (PM: 1)
  4. 5/1: Gene Austin “Ramona” (GA: 12, SM: 12, PM: 8)
  5. 5/5: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “Ramona” (GA: 12, PM: 3)
  6. 7/21: Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians “Laugh, Clown, Laugh!” (PM: 1)
  7. 7/28: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “My Angel (Angela Mia)” (GA: 8, PM: 6)
  8. 8/1: Vincent Lopez “My Angel (Angela Mia)” (GA: 8, SM: 8)
  9. 9/8: Gene Austin “Jeannine (I Dream of Lilac Time)” (GA: 8, SM: 6, PM: 5)
  10. 10/13: Cliff Edwards as Ukelele Ike “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love” (PM: 1)
  11. 10/20: Al Jolson “Sonny Boy” (PM: 12, GA: 8, SM: 8)
  12. 12/1: Al Jolson “There’s a Rainbow Round My Shoulder” (PM: 2)

1929:

  1. 1/15: Ben Selvin with Jack Palmer “You’re the Cream in My Coffee” (SM: 2)
  2. 1/26: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “Sweethearts on Parade” (GA: 4, SM: 4, PM: 3)
  3. 2/16: Gene Austin “Carolina Moon” (PM: 7, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  4. 3/1: Ruth Etting “I’ll Get by As Long As I Have You” (SM: 2)
  5. 3/23: George Olsen with Ethel Sutta “A Precious Little Thing Called Love” (PM: 2, SM: 4)
  6. 4/15: Rudy Vallee “Weary River” (GA: 4, SM: 2)
  7. 4/20: Rudy Vallee “Honey” (PM: 8, SM: 2)
  8. 5/31: Leo Reisman “The Wedding of the Painted Doll” (GA: 8, PM: 4, SM: 4)
  9. 7/1: Bob Haring with the Copley Plaza Orchestra “Pagan Love Song” (GA: 8, SM: 8, PM: 4)
  10. 8/10: Cliff Edwards as Ukelele Ike “Singin’ in the Rain” (PM: 3)
  11. 8/31: Al Jolson “Little Pal” (PM: 5)
  12. 9/1: Ethel Waters “Am I Blue?” (GA: 8, SM: 6, PM: 2)
  13. 10/15: Nick Lucas “Tip Toe Through the Tulips” (SM: 12, PM: 10, GA: 8)
  14. 12/28: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “Great Day” (PM: 2)

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Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Shania Twain: Top 40 Songs

Shania Twain

Top 40 Songs

Country singer Shania Twain was born Eileen Regina Edwards on August 28, 1965, in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Her self-titled debut album in 1993 went nowhere, peaking at #67 on the country chart and not even making the pop chart.

However, her sophomore album, 1995’s The Woman in Me, sold 20 million copies worldwide, making it one of the top 100 albums of all time. Her next album, 1997’s Come on Over, sold twice that number, putting it in the top ten of all time. When her next album, 2002’s Up!, was certified for eleven million, it made her the only female artist in history to have three consecutive albums certified diamond by the Recording Industry Assocation of America (RIAA).

It would be fifteen years before she released another album, 2017’s Now. It was her fifth #1 country album. During her hiatus, she dealt with Lyme disease and dysphonia as well as a 2010 divorce with Mutt Lange, who had produced her trio of ten-million-selling albums. 2023 marked the release of her sixth studio release, Queen of Me.

For a complete list of this act’s DMDB honors, check out the DMDB Music Maker Encyclopedia entry.

Click here to see other acts’ best-of lists.

Awards:

Top 40 Songs

Dave’s Music Database lists are determined by song’s appearances on best-of lists, appearances on compilations and live albums by the featured act, and songs’ chart success, sales, radio airplay, streaming, and awards. Songs which hit #1 on various charts are noted. (Click for codes to singles charts.)

DMDB Top 1%:

1. You’re Still the One (1997)

DMDB Top 2%:

2. Man! I Feel Like a Woman! (1997)

DMDB Top 5%:

3. From This Moment On (with Bryan White, 1997)
4. That Don’t Impress Me Much (1997)
5. Forever and for Always (2002)

DMDB Top 20%:

6. I’m Gonna Getcha Good! (2002)
7. Any Man of Mine (1995)
8. If You’re Not in It for Love, I’m Outta Here (1995)
9. Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under? (1995)
10. You’ve Got a Way (1997)

Beyond the DMDB Top 20%:

11. Up! (2002)
12. Party for Two (with Mark McGrath or Billy Currington, 2004)
13. Come on Over (1997)
14. Don’t Be Stupid, You Know I Love You (1997)
15. It Only Hurts When I’m Breathing (2002)
16. Don’t (2004)
17. Honey, I’m Home (1997)
18. Love Gets Me Every Time (1997)
19. She’s Not Just a Pretty Face (2002)
20. Endless Love (with Lionel Richie, 2012)

21. When You Kiss Me (2002)
22. Today Is Your Day (2011)
23. You Win My Love (1995)
24. Rock This Country (1997)
25. Life’s About to Get Good (2017)
26. God Bless This Child (1995)
27. No One Needs to Know (1995)
28. Waking Up Dreaming (2022)
29. Ka-Ching (2002)
30. Thank You Baby for Makin’ Someday Come So Soon (2002)

31. I Ain’t No Quitter (2004)
32. When (1997)
33. Coat of Many Colors (with Alison Krauss & Union Station, 2003)
34. Shoes (2005)
35. The Woman in Me Needs the Man in You (1995)
36. What Made You Say That (1993)
37. Dance with the One That Brought You (1993)
38. Home Ain’t Where His Heart Is (1995)
39. You Lay a Whole Lot of Love on Me (1993)
40. Giddy Up! (2023)

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Thursday, January 19, 2023

Book: Songs That Made a Mark

Songs That Made a Mark:

100 of Mark Whitaker’s Favorites

For Christmas 2022, I told my brother I’d make a book – just for him – of 100 of his favorite songs. We worked together to come up with the list offered here. Songs are not ranked; they are listed alphabetically by the recording acts. While the book is not available for purchase, all the songs are listed here with links to dedicated Dave’s Music Database pages, each with information about the song’s chart, sales, and airplay statistics as well as links to awards won by the songs, videos, and lyrics.

Click here to see other lists from critics and individuals and here to see other lists from publications and/or organizations.

Spotify Playlist:

You can listen to all these songs via the Spotify playlist Songs That Made a Mark.

1. Ace “How Long” (1974)
2. Adele “Skyfall” (2012)
3. Aerosmith “Janie’s Got a Gun” (1989)
4. Alabama “Mountain Music” (1982)
5. Animal Logic “I’m Sorry Baby (I Want You in My Life)” (1989)
6. Asia “Heat of the Moment” (1982)
7. Asia “Only Time Will Tell” (1982)
8. Asia “Don’t Cry” (1983)
9. The Beatles “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (1968)
10. Pat Benatar “Shadows of the Night” (1982)

11. Clint Black “Killin’ Time” (1989)
12. David Bowie “Changes” (1971)
13. Boyz II Men “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday” (1991)
14. Garth Brooks “> Unanswered Prayers” (1990)
15. Kate Bush “This Woman’s Work” (1988)
16. Johnny Cash “Hurt” (2002)
17. Harry Chapin “Cat’s in the Cradle” (1974)
18. Chic “Le Freak” (1978)
19. Chicago “If You Leave Me Now” (1976)
20. Eric Clapton “Wonderful Tonight” (1977)

21. Eric Clapton “Tears in Heaven” (1992)
22. Phil Collins “In the Air Tonight” (1981)
23. Commodores “Three Times a Lady” (1978)
24. Robert Cray “Smoking Gun” (1986)
25. Bing Crosby with David Bowie “Peace on Earth/The Little Drummer Boy” (1977)
26. Crowded House “Don’t Dream It’s Over” (1986)
27. Crowded House “Better Be Home Soon” (1988)
28. Charlie Daniels Band “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” (1979)
29. Def Leppard “Photograph” (1983)
30. Depeche Mode “Somebody” (1984)

31. Dennis DeYoung “Desert Moon” (1984)
32. Eagles “Take It Easy” (1972)
33. Eagles “Desperado” (1973)
34. Foreigner “Waiting for a Girl Like You” (1981)
35. Peter Gabriel “Biko” (1980)
36. Genesis “Mama” (1983)
37. Hootie & the Blowfish “Only Wanna Be with You” (1995)
38. Billy Joel “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)” (1977)
39. Billy Joel “The Stranger” (1977)
40. Billy Joel with Ray Charles “Baby Grand” (1986)

41. Elton John “Candle in the Wind” (1973) / “Candle in the Wind 1997 (Goodbye England’s Rose)” (1997)
42. Journey “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)” (1983)
43. Journey “Faithfully” (1983)
44. Journey “Ask the Lonely” (1983)
45. Kansas “Carry on Wayward Son” (1976)
46. Kansas “Dust in the Wind” (1977)
47. Jonny Lang “Lie to Me” (1997)
48. Led Zeppelin “The Battle of Evermore” (1971)
49. John Lennon “Imagine” (1971)
50. Huey Lewis & the News “Naturally” (1986)

51. Linkin Park “In the End” (2000)
52. Little River Band “Lonesome Loser” (1979)
53. Nick Lowe “Cruel to Be Kind” (1979)
54. Manfred Mann’s Earth Band “Blinded by the Light” (1976)
55. Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder “Ebony and Ivory” (1982)
56. John Cougar Mellencamp “Rain on the Scarecrow” (1985)
57. Metallica “One” (1989)
58. Metallica “Nothing Else Matters” (1992)
59. Mike + the Mechanics “Silent Running” (1985)
60. Mike + the Mechanics “The Living Years” (1988)

61. Mr. Mister “Broken Wings” (1985)
62. Night Ranger “Four in the Morning” (1985)
63. OutKast “Hey Ya!” (2003)
64. The Alan Parsons Project “Old and Wise” (1982)
65. The Alan Parsons Project “Let’s Talk About Me” (1985)
66. Dolly Parton “Jolene” (1973)
67. Pearl Jam “Jeremy” (1991)
68. Steve Perry “Oh Sherrie” (1984)
69. The Police “Roxanne” (1978)
70. The Police “Message in a Bottle” (1979)

71. Elvis Presley “Can’t Help Falling in Love” (1961)
72. Prince & the Revolution “Purple Rain” (1984)
73. Queen “We Will Rock You” / “We Are the Champions” (1977)
74. Queensrÿche “Empire” (1990)
75. Queensrÿche “Silent Lucidity” (1991)
76. The Rainmakers “Downstream” (1986)
77. Bonnie Raitt “Nick of Time” (1989)
78. R.E.M. “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” (1987)
79. REO Speedwagon “Can’t Fight This Feeling” (1984)
80. Lionel Richie “Hello” (1984)

81. Lionel Richie “Say You Say Me” (1985)
82. Kenny Rogers “Coward of the County” (1979)
83. Rush “Free Will” (1980)
84. Kenny Wayne Shepherd “Blue on Black” (1998)
85. Rick Springfield “Affair of the Heart” (1983)
86. Bruce Springsteen “Dancing in the Dark” (1984)
87. Squeeze “Tempted” (1981)
88. Styx “Come Sail Away” (1977)
89. Styx “Renegade” (1978)
90. Tears for Fears “Mad World” (1982) / Michael Andrews & Gary Jules “Mad World” (2002)

91. Toto “Africa” (1982)
92. Toto “Stranger in Town” (1984)
93. Tina Turner “We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)” (1985)
94. Bonnie Tyler “Total Eclipse of the Heart” (1983)
95. U2 “Sunday Bloody Sunday” (1983)
96. U2 “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” (1987)
97. Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble “The Sky Is Crying” (1985)
98. Madisen Ward & the Mama Bear “Silent Movies” (2015)
99. Stevie Wonder “Superstition” (1972)
100. Stevie Wonder “Isn’t She Lovely” (1977)

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Jeff Beck: Top 30 Songs

Jeff Beck

Top 30 Songs

Jeff Beck was born on June 24, 1944, in Wallington, Surrey, England. He died on January 10, 2023 at age 78. He is considered one of the best and most influential guitarists of all time, being credited with how his experimentation with feedback, distortion, and fuzz tone opened the door for psychedelic rock. All Music Guide’s Stephen Thomas Erlewine called him “as innovative as Jimmy Page, as tasteful as Eric Clapton, and nearly as visionary as Jimi Hendrix.”

He became well-known as a guitarist with the Yardbirds from 1965 to 1967 before forming his own group, The Jeff Beck Group, which lasted from 1967 to 1972. The next year he recorded an album with bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice, both of Vanilla Fudge. He then became a solo artist, largely recording instrumental albums.

He only released three solo albums in the 1980s, but in 1984 he worked with The Honeydrippers, a one-time supergroup which also featured Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and Nile Rodgers. In the ‘90s, he played guitar on a number of projects, including Jon Bon Jovi’s solo album Blaze of Glory (1990), Roger Waters’ Amused to Death (1992), Kate Bush’s The Red Shoes (1993), and Paul Rodgers’ Muddy Water Blues (1993).

He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds in 1992. He was inducted a second time as a solo artist in 2009. He won eight Grammys from 1985 to 2010.

For a complete list of this act’s DMDB honors, check out the DMDB Music Maker Encyclopedia entry.

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Check out the podcast Remembering Jeff Beck, 1944-2023, based on this list. Debut: January 18, 2023, at 7pm CST. New episodes based on Dave’s Music Database lists are posted every Tuesday at 7pm CST.

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Top 30 Songs

Dave’s Music Database lists are determined by song’s appearances on best-of lists, appearances on compilations and live albums by the featured act, and songs’ chart success, sales, radio airplay, streaming, and awards. Songs which hit #1 on various charts are noted. (Click for codes to singles charts.)

DMDB Top 5%:

1. Shapes of Things (Yardbirds, 1966)
2. Heart Full of Soul (Yardbirds, 1965)

DMDB Top 10%:

3. Rockin’ at Midnight (The Honeydrippers, 1984)

DMDB Top 20%:

4. Happenings Ten Years Time Ago (Yardbirds, 1966)
5. People Get Ready (with Rod Stewart, 1985)
6. Over Under Sideways Down (Yardbirds, 1966)
7. Beck’s Bolero (Jeff Beck Group, 1967)
8. I Ain’t Superstitious (Jeff Beck Group, 1968)
9. I’m a Man (Yardbirds, 1965)
10. Ol’ Man River (Jeff Beck Group, 1968)

Beyond the DMDB Top 20%:

11. Down So Long (live with Sting from Live for Life, 1986)
12. Freeway Jam (1975)
13. ‘Cause We’ve Ended Up As Lovers (1975)
14. Hi-Ho Silver Lining (1967)
15. Goo Goo Barabajagal (Love Is Hot) (Donovan with the Jeff Beck Group, 1969)
16. Plynth (Water Down the Drain) (Jeff Beck Group, 1969)
17. Tallyman (1967)
18. I’ve Been Drinking (Jeff Beck Group, 1968)
19. Manic Depression (with Seal, 1993)
20. She’s a Woman (1975)

21. Evil Hearted You (Yardbirds, 1965)
22. Love Is Blue (L'Amour Est Blue) (Jeff Beck Group, 1968)
23. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (1976)
24. Like a Rolling Stone (with Seal, 2012)
25. Going Down (Jeff Beck Group, 1972)
26. Gets Us All in the End (1985)
27. Still I’m Sad (Yardbirds, 1965)
28. Train Kept A-Rollin’ (Yardbirds, 1965)
29. A Day in the Life (1998)
30. Scatter Brain (1975)

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First posted 1/17/2023; last updated 1/19/2023.

 
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