Saturday, November 29, 2025

The Top 100 Songs of Pre-Recorded Music History

Pre-Recorded Music History:

Top 100 Songs

The history of recorded music is generally marked as beginning with the introduction of the phonograph by Thomas Edison in 1877. With a few exceptions, this list focuses on music written before that era. These are songs which have been around 150 years or more and have entered the public conscience because of the song itself instead of its performance by a specific artist. This list consists of Christmas songs, children’s songs and nursery rhymes, hymns, and patriotic songs. Song titles are followed by their years of publication.

Click here to see other song lists focused on specific eras.

DMDB Top 1%:

1. “America the Beautiful” (1895)
2. “When the Saints Go Marching In” (1896)
3. “The Star-Spangled Banner” (1814)
4. “Amazing Grace” (1779)
5. “The Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)” (1851)
6. “Happy Birthday to You” (1893)
7. “The Battle Hymn of the Republic (aka ‘Glory! Glory! Hallelujah)” (1861)
8. “Oh! Susanna” (1847)
9. “Home on the Range” (1874)
10. “Yankee Doodle (aka ‘Yankee Doodle Went to Town’)” (1754)

11. “Listen to the Mocking Bird (aka “The Mocking Bird”)” (1856)
12. “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” (1863)
13. “Dixie” (1859)
14. “God Save the King” (1740) / “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” (1831)
15. “Home Sweet Home” (1823)
16. “Jingle Bells” (1857)
17. “Camptown Races (Gwine to Run All Night)” (1850)
18. “Auld Lang Syne” (1796)
19. “Scarborough Fair” (1891)
20. “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” (1894)

21. “Baa Baa Black Sheep” (1744) / “Alphabet Song (The ABC Song)” (1761) / “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” (1806)
22. “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” (1706)
23. “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” (1872)
24. “Clementine (aka ‘Oh My Darling Clementine’)” (1884)
25. “On Top of Old Smoky” (1841)
26. “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain” (1899)
27. “Jimmy Crack Corn (The Blue Tail Fly)” (1848)
28. “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean” (1881)
29. “Silent Night, Holy Night (Stille Nacht, Heilge Nacht)” (1818)
30. “Joy to the World” (1719)

31. “O Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles)” (1751)
32. “Rock-a-Bye Baby” (1884)
33. “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” (1855)
34. “Ave Maria” (Schubert/Scott: 1825, J.S. Bach/Gounod: 1859)
35. “The Battle Cry of Freedom” (1862)
36. “Buffalo Gals (Buffalo Girls Will You Come Out Tonight)” (1844)
37. “Michael Row the Boat Ashore” (1867)
38. “Greensleeves” (1580) / “What Child Is This?” (1865)
39. “Shenandoah” (1837)
40. “Skip to My Lou” (1832)

41. “The Man on the Flying Trapeze” (1868)
42. “London Bridge Is Falling Down” (1744)
43. “Mary Had a Little Lamb” (1830)
44. “Away in a Manger” (1882)
45. “O Where, O Where Has My Little Dog Gone” (1864)
46. “A Froggie Went A-Courtin’” (1700)
47. “Polly Wolly Doodle (All the Day)” (1843)
48. “Rock of Ages” (1763)
49. “O Holy Night (Minuit, Chrétiens)” (1847)
50. “Pop Goes the Weasel” (1852)

51. “Row Row Row Your Boat” (1852)
52. “The First Noel” (1823)
53. “The Yellow Rose of Texas” (1853)
54. “O Little Town of Bethlehem” (1868)
55. “Grandfather’s Clock” (1876)
56. “Frère Jacques (Are You Sleeping?)” (1780)
57. “We Three Kings of Orient Are” (1857)
58. “Beautiful Dreamer” (1864)
59. “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” (1850)
60. “I Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair” (1854)

61. “I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen” (1875)
62. “Hail Columbia (The President's March)” (1789)
63. “In the Sweet By-and-By” (1868)
64. “Old Dan Tucker” (1843)
65. “Lorena” (1857)
66. “The Twelve Days of Christmas” (1780)

DMDB Top 2%:

67. “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” (1760)
68. “This Old Man (Nick Nack Paddiwak)” (1842)
69. “Onward Christian Soldiers” (1871)
70. “Alouette” (1879)

71. “What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor?” (1740)
72. “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow” (1709)
73. “Frankie and Johnny” (1899)
74. “Shoo Fly Don’t Bother Me” (1869)
75. “Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho” (1865)
76. “Hail to the Chief” (1820)
77. “Bingo (B-I-N-G-O)” (1780)
78. “We Gather Together (Thanksgiving Prayer)” (1630)
79. “Old King Cole” (1708)
80. “Go Tell Aunt Rhody” (1752)

81. “Deck the Halls” (1862)
82. “Go Tell It on the Mountain” (1865)
83. “Blow the Man Down” (1849)
84. “How Great Thou Art” (1885)
85. “The Hokey Pokey” (1826)
86. “Three Blind Mice” (1609)
87. “Humpty Dumpty” (1797)
88. “Brahm’s Lullaby (Wiegenlied) (aka ‘Cradle Song’)” (1868)
89. “The Farmer in the Dell” (1883)
90. “Hickory Dickory Dock” (1744)

91. “Ring Around the Rosie” (1881)
92. “Turkey in the Straw” (1820)
93. “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” (1851)
94. “O Christmas Tree (O Tannenbaum)” (1824)
95. “Rain, Rain, Go Away” (1687)
96. “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” (1876)
97. “Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake, Baker's Man” (1698)
98. “Over the River and Through the Woods” (1844)
99. “Angels We Have Heard on High” (1862)
100. “Coventry Carol” (1534)

Resources/Related Links:

Dave’s Music Database: Song Lists by Era
The Top 100 Songs of the Pre-Rock Era, 1890-1953
The Top 100 Songs of the Rock Era, 1954-1999
The Top 100 Songs of the Digital Era, 2000-2019
DMDB Music Maker Encyclopedia

Originally posted 6/30/2021. Last updated 11/29/2025.

1890-1899: Top 100 Songs

Top 100 Songs of the Decade:

1890-1899

These are the songs which kicked off the recorded music era and the debut of charts to track the popularity of songs. Often a song’s popularity in this era had more to do with sheet music than specific recorded performances by individual artists. As such, there are multiple songs repeated here.

Rankings are figured by combining sales figures, chart data, airplay, awards, and appearances on best-of lists.

Check out other “songs of the decade” lists here.

DMDB Top 1%:

1. Katharine Lee Bates (lyrics) & Samuel A. Ward (music) “America the Beautiful” (1895)
2. George J. Gaskin “After the Ball” (1893)
3. James M. Black & Katharine E. Purvis (songwriters) “When the Saints Go Marching In” (1896)
4. Arthur Collins “Hello Ma Baby” (1899)
5. Patty S. Hill & Mildred J. Hill (composers) “Happy Birthday to You” (1893)
6. Scott Joplin “Maple Leaf Rag” (1899)
7. Billy Golden “Turkey in the Straw” (1891)
8. John Philip Sousa “The Stars and Stripes Forever” (1897)
9. Dan Quinn “Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two)” (1893)
10. Len Spencer “Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-De-Ay” (1892)

11. Dan Quinn “A Hot Time in the Old Town” (1896)
12. “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” (1894)
13. Dan Quinn “The Sidewalks of New York” (1895)
14. Dan Quinn “The Band Played On” (1895)
15. Edison Male Quartette “My Old Kentucky Home” (1898)
16. George J. Gaskin “On the Banks of the Wabash” (1897)
17. Frank Kidson (first published by) “Scarborough Fair” (1891)
18. traditional “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain” (1899)
19. John Yorke Atlee “Listen to the Mocking Bird (aka “The Mocking Bird”)” (1891)
20. Len Spencer “The Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)” (1892)

21. U.S. Marine Band “The Washington Post March” (1890)
22. Dan Quinn “At a Georgia Camp Meeting” (1898)
23. traditional “Red River Valley” (1896)
24. Silas Leachman “Dem Golden Slippers” (1894)
25. Vess Ossman “Yankee Doodle (aka ‘Yankee Doodle Went to Town’)” (1894)
26. Albert Campbell “My Wild Irish Rose” (1899)
27. Len Spencer “Hello Ma Baby” (1899)
28. Len Spencer “Mr. Johnson, Turn Me Loose” (1897)
29. John Yorke Atlee “After the Ball” (1893)
30. George J. Gaskin “Drill, Ye Terriers, Drill” (1891)

31. George Washington Johnson “The Laughing Song” (1891)
32. George J. Gaskin “Break the News to Mother” (1898)
33. U.S. Marine Band “Semper Fidelis” (1890)

DMDB Top 2%:

34. Arthur Collins “I’d Leave My Happy Home for You” (1899)
35. Jules Levy “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” (1893)
36. Len Spencer “A Hot Time in the Old Town” (1897)
37. George J. Gaskin “Oh Promise Me” (1893)
38. George J. Gaskin “My Old New Hampshire Home” (1898)
39. George J. Gaskin “The Fatal Wedding” (1893)
40. Gilmore’s Band “The Star-Spangled Banner” (1892)

41. Sousa’s Band “El Capitan March” (1895)
42. J.W. Myers “The Sidewalks of New York” (1895)
43. Dan Quinn “In the Baggage Coach Ahead” (1896)
44. George J. Gaskin “The Sidewalks of New York” (1895)
45. Tom Turpin (writer) “Harlem Rag” (1897)
46. Steve Porter “On the Banks of the Wabash” (1898)
47. United States Marine Band “The Liberty Bell” (1894)
48. Dan Quinn “The Little Lost Child” (1895)
49. J.W. Myers “Just Tell Them That You Saw Me” (1895)
50. Len Spencer “Smoky Mokes” (1899)

51. James Thornton (music/lyrics) “When You Were Sweet Sixteen” (1898)
52. George J. Gaskin “Sweet Rosie O’Grady” (1897)
53. George J. Gaskin “Down in Poverty Row” (1896)
54. John Yorke Atlee “Home Sweet Home” (1891)
55. U.S. Marine Band “The Thunderer” (1890)
56. Arthur Collins “I Guess I'll Have to Telegraph My Baby” (1899)
57. Dan Quinn “Curse of the Dreamer” (1899)
58. George Washington Johnson “The Whistling Coon” (1891)
59. Bill Dooley “Frankie and Johnny” (1899)
60. Vess Ossman “Yankee Doodle (aka ‘Yankee Doodle Went to Town’)” (new version, 1897)

61. George J. Gaskin “My Wild Irish Rose” (1899)
62. Eubie Blake “Charleston Rag” (1899)
63. George J. Gaskin “A Hot Time in the Old Town” (1897)
64. Sousa’s Band “The Star-Spangled Banner” (1898)
65. Len Spencer “The Bully (aka ‘Dat New Bully’)” (1895)
66. Emile Berliner “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” (1890)
67. Len Spencer “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny” (1893)
68. Dan Quinn “Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me a Bow Wow” (1892)
69. Edward M. Favor “Say Au Revoir, But Not Goodbye” (1894)
70. Manhansett Quartette “Sally in Our Alley” (1892)

71. Len Spencer “You’ve Been a Good Old Wagon But You’ve Done Broke Down” (1896)
72. Edward M. Favor “Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two)” (1894)
73. J.W. Myers “Goodbye Dolly Gray” (1897)
74. Emile Berliner “Auld Lang Syne” (1890)
75. Sousa’s Band “The Washington Post March” (1895)
76. Harry MacDonough & S.H. Dudley “Mid the Green Fields of Virginia” (1899)
77. Issler’s Orchestra “Tiger Rag” (1895)
78. Vess Ossman “At a Georgia Camp Meeting” (1898)
79. George J. Gaskin “Sweet Marie” (1894)
80. J.W. Myers “Two Little Girls in Blue” (1893)

81. Vess Ossman “Whistling Rufus” (1899)
82. Russell Hunting “Michael Casey Taking the Census” (1892)
83. Roger Harding “On the Banks of the Wabash” (1898)
84. Russell Hunting “Michael Casey at the Telephone” (1892)
85. Joe Belmont “Listen to the Mocking Bird (aka “The Mocking Bird”)” (1899)
86. Billy Golden “Bye Bye My Honey” (1898)
87. Len Spencer “My Gal Is a High-Born Lady” (1897)
88. Charles Marsh “Throw Him Down, McCloskey” (1892)
89. George J. Gaskin “The Sunshine of Paradise Valley” (1896)
90. George J. Gaskin “She Was Bred in Old Kentucky” (1898)

91. George J. Gaskin “She May Have Seen Better Days” (1896)
92. William F. Hooley “Gypsy Love Song (Slumber on, My Little Gypsy Sweetheart)” (1899)
93. Dan Quinn “The Bowery” (1893)

DMDB Top 5%:

94. Russell Hunting “Michael Casey As a Physician” (1891)
95. Dan Quinn “And Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back” (1894)
96. Manhansett Quartette “The Picture Turned to the Wall” (1892)
97. Manhansett Quartette “The Old Oaken Bucket” (1894)
98. Dan Quinn “My Mother Was a Lady” (1897)
99. Thomas Bott “Love’s Old Sweet Song” (1892)
100. Steve Porter “My Creole Sue” (1899)

Resources/Related Links:

Dave’s Music Database: “‘Songs of the Decade’ lists”
Dave’s Music Database: “‘Albums of the Decade’ lists”

First posted 7/27/2018; last updated 11/29/2025.

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.

Quick Links:

You can navigate quickly to different points on this list by clicking on any of the below:

Pre-1800

Top 1%

writer(s) unknown “Greensleeves” (1580)
anonymous “A Froggie Went A-Courtin’” (1700)
Thomas d’Urfey (m), Frederick Thomas Nettleingham (w) “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” (1706)
Robert Burns (adapted by) “Auld Lang Syne” (1796)
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)
Augustus Montague Toplady (w), Thomas Hastings (m) “Rock of Ages” (1763)
John Newton (w) “Amazing Grace” (1779)
Frederic Austin, traditional “Twelve Days of Christmas” (1780)
unknown “Frère Jacques (Are You Sleeping?)” (1780)
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)
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)
unknown “Hickory Dickory Dock” (1744)
traditional “Sing a Song of Sixpence” (1744)
traditional “God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman” (1760)
John Dickinson (w), William Boyce (m) “The Liberty Song (In Freedom We’re Born)” (1768)
unknown “Bingo (B-I-N-G-O)” (1780)
unknown “Humpty Dumpty” (1797)

1800-1849

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)
Lowell Mason (m), Sarah Josepha Hale (w) “Mary Had a Little Lamb” (1830)
Samuel Francis Smith (w), traditional (m) “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” (1831)
Carl Sandburg “Skip to My Lou” (1832)
unknown (w/m) “Shenandoah” (1837)
traditional “On Top of Old Smoky” (1841)
Daniel Decatur Emmett “Old Dan Tucker” (1843)
Daniel Decatur Emmett “Polly Wolly Doodle (All the Day)” (1843)
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)

Top 2%

Lester A. Walton/C. Lucky Roberts “Billy Boy” (1800)
unknown “The Wayfaring Stranger” (1807)
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)
unknown “I Saw Three Ships” (1833)
traditional “This Old Man (Nick Nack Pattiwack)” (1842)
unknown “Blow the Man Down” (1849)

1850-1859

Top 1%

Stephen Foster (m/w) “Camptown Races (Gwine to Run All Night)” (1850)
Rev. Edmund Hamilton Sears (w) and Richard Storrs Willis (m) “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” (1850)
Stephen Foster (m/w) “The Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)” (1851)
Eliphalet Oram Lyte “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” (1852)
Eugene Raymond (adapted) “Pop Goes the Weasel” (1852)
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)
Rev. H.D.L. Webster (w), Joseph Philbrick Webster (m) “Lorena” (1857)
Daniel Decatur Emmett (m/w) “Dixie” (1859)

Top 2%

John Mason Neale (w), traditional (m) “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” (1851)
traditional “Sweet Betsy from Pike” (1851)
Stephen Foster (m/w) “My Old Kentucky Home” (1853)
John Kelly, later adapted by Don George “The Yellow Rose of Texas” (1853)
Felix Mendelssohn (composer) “Wedding March from Midsummer’s Night Dream” (1858)

1860-1869

Top 1%

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)
Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore (w), unknown (m) “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” (1863)
traditional “Michael Row the Boat Ashore” (1863)
Stephen Foster (m/w) “Beautiful Dreamer” (1864)
Septimus Winner (m/w) “O Where, O Where Has My Little Dog Gone” (1864)
George Leybourne & Alfred Lee “The Man on the Flying Trapeze” (1867)
Sanford F. Bennett (w), Joseph Philbrick Webster (m) “In the Sweet By-and-By” (1868)
Lewis Redner (m), Phillips Brooks (w) “O Little Town of Bethlehem” (1868)

Top 2%

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)
William Chatterton Dix (w), “Greensleeves” (m) “What Child Is This?” (1865)
John Wesley Work (composer) “Go Tell It on the Mountain” (1865)
Jay Roberts (copyrighted by) “Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho” (1865)
Johannes Brahms (composer) “Brahms’ Lullaby (Wiegenleid) (aka “Cradle Song”) (1868)
Billy Reeves (w), Frank Campbell (m), and Rollin Howard (arranger) “Shoo Fly Don’t Bother Me” (1869)

1870-1879

Top 1%

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” (1874)
Thomas P. Westendorf (m/w) “I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen” (1875)
Henry C. Work (m/w) “Grandfather’s Clock” (1876)

Top 2%

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)

1880-1889

Top 1%

Charles E. Pratt “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean” (1881)
James Ramsey Murray (m) and Charles H. Gabriel (w) “Away in a Manger” (1882)
Effie I. Canning (m/w) “Rock-a-Bye Baby” (1884)
Percy Montrose “Clementine” (1884)

Top 2%

Luiji Denza (m) “Funicili Funicula” (1880)
unknown “The Farmer in the Dell” (1883)
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)
Emile Berliner “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” (1890)

1891

Top 1%

George Washington Johnson “The Laughing Song” (4/4/1891)
John Yorke Atlee “Listen to the Mocking Bird (aka “The Mocking Bird”)” (8/22/1891)
Billy Golden “Turkey in the Straw” (10/17/1891) Frank Kidson “Scarborough Fair” (1891)

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%

Len Spencer “Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-De-Ay” (1/30/1892)
Len Spencer “The Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)” (8/13/1892)

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%

George J. Gaskin “After the Ball” (4/29/1893)
John Yorke Atlee “After the Ball” (7/8/1893)
Dan Quinn “Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two)” (9/16/1893)
Patty S. Hill & Mildred J. Hill (songwriters) “Happy Birthday to You” (1893)

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%

Vess Ossman “Yankee Doodle (aka ‘Yankee Doodle Went to Town’)” (6/2/1894)
Silas Leachman “Dem Golden Slippers” (6/30/1894)
traditional “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” (1894)

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%

Dan Quinn “The Sidewalks of New York” (2/8/1895)
Dan Quinn “The Band Played On” (8/24/1895)
Katherine Lee Bates (lyrics) & Samuel A. Ward (music) “America the Beautiful” (1895)

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%

Dan Quinn “A Hot Time in the Old Town” (12/12/1896)
James M. Black & Katharine E. Purvis (composers) “When the Saints Go Marching In” (1896)
traditional “Red River Valley” (1896)

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)

1897

Top 1%

John Philip Sousa “The Stars and Stripes Forever” (7/3/1897)
George J. Gaskin “On the Banks of the Wabash” (11/6/1897)

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 “Mr. Johnson, Turn Me Loose” (1/30/1897)
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)
Vess Ossman “Yankee Doodle (aka ‘Yankee Doodle Went to Town’)” (new version, 1897)
Tom Turpin “Harlem Rag” (1897)

1898

Top 1%

Edison Male Quartet “My Old Kentucky Home” (1/22/1898)
George J. Gaskin “Break the News to Mother” (4/2/1898)
Dan Quinn “At a Georgia Camp Meeting” (11/5/1898)

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%

Arthur Collins “Hello Ma Baby” (4/15/1899)
Len Spencer “Hello Ma Baby” (4/29/1899)
Albert Campbell “My Wild Irish Rose” (6/17/1899)
Scott Joplin “Maple Leaf Rag” (published 8/10/1899)
traditional “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain” (1899)

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)
Bill Dooley “Frankie and Johnny” (1899)

1900

Top 1%

Steve Porter “A Bird in a Gilded Cage” (5/26/1900)
George J. Gaskin “When You Were Sweet Sixteen” (11/10/1900)

Top 2%

Vess Ossman “The Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)” (1/27/1900)
Arthur Collins “Mandy Lee” (2/3/1900)
Arthur Collins “Ma Tiger Lily” (8/4/1900)
Albert Campbell “Ma Blushin’ Rosie” (12/29/1900)
Johnson & Johnson “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (1900)

1901

Top 1%

Big Four Quartet “Goodbye Dolly Gray” (3/30/1901)
Harry MacDonough with Grace Spencer “Tell Me, Pretty Maiden” (4/27/1901)
Bryon G. Harlan “Hello Central, Give Me Heaven” (8/3/1901)

Top 2%

Jere Mahoney “For Old Times’ Sake” 1/31/1901)
John Philip Sousa “American Patrol” (3/2/1901)
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%

Len Spencer “The Arkansaw Traveler” (3/1/1902)
J.W. Myers “On a Sunday Afternoon” (4/19/1902)
Arthur Collins “Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home” (7/12/1902)
Arthur Collins “Under the Bamboo Tree” (12/9/1902)
Arthur Collins & Bryon G. Harlan “Down Where the Wurzburger Flows” (12/20/1902)
Scott Joplin “The Entertainer” (published 12/29/1902)

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%

Haydn Quartet “In the Good Old Summertime” (2/28/1903)
Harry MacDonough “Hiawatha (His Song to Minnehaha)” (7/4/1903)
Arthur Collins “Any Rags?” (12/5/1903)
George Alexander “Mighty Like a Rose (aka "Mighty Lak a Rose")” (12/19/1903)

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%

Haydn Quartet “Bedelia” (1/9/1904)
Richard Jose “Silver Threads Among the Gold” (2/6/1904)
Haydn Quartet with Corinne Morgan “Toyland” (6/11/1904)
Billy Murray “Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis” (7/23/1904)
Haydn Quartet “Sweet Adeline (You’re the Flower of My Heart)” (10/15/1904)

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)
Haydn Quartet “The Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)” (8/6/1904)
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%

Billy Murray “Yankee Doodle Boy” (2/25/1905)
Henry Burr “In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree” (4/22/1905)
Arthur Collins “The Preacher and the Bear” (6/3/1905)
Billy Murray “Give My Regards to Broadway” (6/17/1905)
Billy Murray “In My Merry Oldsmobile” (10/14/1905)

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)
Louise Homer “The Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)” (10/28/1905)
Billy Murray “Everybody Works But Father” (12/23/1905)
Dr. Alfred B. Smith “If You’re Happy and You Know It” (1905)

1906

Top 1%

Bryon G. Harlan “Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie” (2/3/1906)
Billy Murray “You’re a Grand Old Flag (aka “The Grand Old Rag”)” (5/5/1906)
Bert Williams “Nobody” (7/14/1906)

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)
Edmund L. Guber “The Caissons Go Rolling Along” (1906)

1907

Top 1%

Bryon G. Harlan “My Gal Sal” (2/5/1907)
Bryon G. Harlan “School Days (When We Were a Couple of Kids)” (5/11/1907)
Billy Murray “Harrigan” (9/14/1907)

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%

Victor Orchestra “The Glow-Worm” (5/16/1908)
Ada Jones & Billy Murray “Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine” (9/12/1908)
Haydn Quartet “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (10/24/1908)

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%

Harry MacDonough & Miss Walton “Shine on, Harvest Moon” (4/10/1909)
Henry Burr “I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now” (9/4/1909)
Haydn Quartet “Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet” (12/11/1909)

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%

Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet “By the Light of the Silvery Moon” (4/9/1910)
American Quartet with Billy Murray “Casey Jones” (6/18/1910)

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)
unknown “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” (1910)

1911

Top 1%

Ada Jones & Billy Murray with American Quartet “Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine” (3/15/1911)
Arthur Collins & Bryon G. Harlan “Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey (I Never Knew Any Girl Like You)” (3/25/1911)
Sophie Tucker “Some of These Days” (7/8/1911)
Arthur Collins and Bryon G. Harlan “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (9/16/1911)
Peerless Quartet “I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad” (9/23/1911)
Peerless Quartet “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” (11/4/1911)
Harry MacDonough “Down by the Old Mill Stream” (12/11/1911)
Billy Murray & the American Quartet “Oh, You Beautiful Doll” (12/16/1911)

Top 2%

John McCormack “Mother Machree” (2/11/1911)
Arthur Clough “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” (5/6/1911)
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%

Arthur Collins & Bryon G. Harlan “Everybody’s Doing It Now” (2/3/1912)
American Quartet “Moonlight Bay” (3/9/1912)
Bob Roberts “Ragtime Cowboy Joe” (7/13/1912)
Elsie Baker “I Love You Truly” (8/31/1912)
Heidelberg Quintet “Waiting for the Robert E. Lee” (9/15/1912)
Billy Murray & Ada Jones “Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee” (10/19/1912)

Top 2%

Victor Military Band “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (1/13/1912)
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%

Ada Jones “Row Row Row!” (1/4/1913)
Arthur Collins & Bryon G. Harlan “When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam’” (2/8/1913)
Henry Burr “When I Lost You” (4/5/1913)
Chauncey Olcott “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” (6/21/1913)
Al Jolson “You Made Me Love You (I Didn’t Want to Do It)” (9/20/1913)
Chauncey Olcott “Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That’s an Irish Lullaby)” (12/20/1913)

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%

Heidelberg Quintet “By the Beautiful Sea” (7/18/1914)
Arthur Collins & Bryon G. Harlan “The Aba Daba Honeymoon” (10/1/1914)
Prince’s Orchestra “Ballin’ the Jack” (10/15/1914)
Prince’s Orchestra “The Memphis Blues” (11/7/1914)

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%

John McCormack “It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary” (1/16/1915)
Alma Gluck “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny” (2/20/1915)
American Quartet “Chinatown, My Chinatown” (2/20/1915)
Peerless Quartet “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier” (4/17/1915)
George MacFarlane “A Little Bit of Heaven (Shure, They Call It Ireland)” (5/1/1915)
Harry MacDonough & Olive Kline “They Didn't Believe Me” (11/13/1915)

Top 2%

Alma Gluck & Efrem Zimbalist “The Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)” (6/19/1915)
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%

Henry Burr “M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me)” (2/12/1916)
Billy Murray “Pretty Baby” (10/7/1916)

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)
Prince’s Orchestra “The Star-Spangled Banner” (7/22/1916)
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%

Victor Military Band “Poor Butterfly” (2/17/1917)
Elsie Baker “The Missouri Waltz (Hush-a-Bye Ma Baby)” (3/10/1917)
Knickerbocker Quartet “Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile” (4/14/1917)
Anna Wheaton with James Harrod “Till the Clouds Roll By” (8/11/1917)
American Quartet “Over There” (9/29/1917)
Original Dixieland Jazz Band “Darktown Strutters’ Ball” (10/13/1917)

Top 2%

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%

Ernestine Schumann-Heink “Danny Boy” (1/19/1918)
Henry Burr “Just a Baby’s Prayer at Twilight (For Her Daddy Over There)” (4/20/1918)
Billy Murray “K-K-K-Katy (The Stammering Song)” (6/1/1918)
Al Jolson “Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody” (8/10/1918)
Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra with Harry MacDonough “Smiles” (8/10/1918)
Original Dixieland Jazz Band “Tiger Rag” (8/17/1918)
Arthur Fields “Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning” (10/12/1918)
Charles Harrison “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows” (11/8/1918)

Top 2%

Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan “The Old Grey Mare (Whiffle Tree)” (1/12/1918)
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%

Marion Harris “After You’ve Gone” (1/18/1919)
Henry Burr & Albert Campbell “Till We Meet Again” (2/15/1919)
Nora Bayes “How Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down on the Farm After They’ve Seen Paree?” (3/15/1919)
Henry Burr “Beautiful Ohio” (5/17/1919)
John Steel “A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody” (9/20/1919)
Ben Selvin “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles” (10/18/1919)
Henry Burr “Oh! What a Pal Was Mary” (10/25/1919)

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)
A. Tregina (arranged) “The Marines’ Hymn” (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 with the Criterion Trio “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%

Van & Schenck “Carolina in the Morning” (1/1/1923)
Bessie Smith “Down Hearted Blues” (6/9/1923)
Jelly Roll Morton “King Porter Stomp” (recorded 7/17/1923)
Billy Jones “Yes! We Have No Bananas” (7/21/1923)
Benny Krueger “I Cried for You” (9/29/1923)
Wendell Hall “It Ain’t Gonna Rain No Mo’” (11/23/1923)

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)
Blossom Seeley “Alabamy Bound” (5/16/1925)
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)
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)
Geoff Love (adapted) “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” (1927)

1928

Top 1%

Gene Austin “My Melancholy Baby” (1/7/1928)
Jimmie Rodgers “Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas)” (1/27/1928)
Marion Harris “The Man I Love” (2/3/1928)
Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra with Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylord, & Austin Young “Among My Souvenirs” (2/4/1928)
Paul Robeson “Ol’ Man River” (4/20/1928)
Gene Austin with Nat Shilkret and Viola Klaiss “Ramona” (5/19/1928)
Fred Waring & Tom Waring “Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life” (7/21/1928)
Ben Pollack with Franklyn Baur “Sweet Sue, Just You” (7/28/1928)
The Carter Family “Wildwood Flower” (8/11/1928)
Louis Armstrong “West End Blues” (8/15/1928)
Cliff Edwards “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love” (9/15/1928)
Al Jolson “Sonny Boy” (10/13/1928)

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)
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 (The Ho De Ho Song)” (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)
Alan Price/traditional “The House of the Rising Sun” (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)
Erskin Hawkins “The Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)” (7/3/1937)
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%

The Andrews Sisters “Bei Mir Bist Du Schöen (Means That You’re Grand)” (1/1/1938)
Bunny Berigan “I Can’t Get Started” (1/29/1938)
Benny Goodman “Don’t Be That Way” (3/12/1938)
Benny Goodman “Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)” (4/9/1938)
Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb & His Orchestra “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” (6/18/1938)
Larry Clinton with Bea Wain “You Go to My Head” (7/23/1938)
Artie Shaw & His Orchestra “Begin the Beguine” (9/3/1938)
Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys “Wabash Cannonball” (11/24/1938)
Bing Crosby “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby” (12/3/1938)
Al Donahue with Paula Kelly “Jeepers Creepers” (12/10/1938)

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 “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)
Ray Noble “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (9/10/1938)
Larry Clinton & Bea Wain “Heart and Soul” (10/1/1938)
Fats Waller “Two Sleepy People” (11/12/1938)
Benny Goodman with Martha Tilton “This Can’t Be Love” (12/17/1938)

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%

Mary Martin with Eddy Duchin’s Orchestra “My Heart Belongs to Daddy” (1/7/1939)
Dolly Dawn & Her Dawn Patrol “O Where, O Where Has My Little Dog Gone” (1/21/1939)
Louis Armstrong “When the Saints Go Marching In” (4/1/1939)
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)
Verna Hills “The Wheels on the Bus” (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 & His Orchestra 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)
The Pied Pipers with Paul Weston “Dream (When You’re Feeling Blue)” (3/10/1945)
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)
Bing Crosby with the Les Brown Trio “It’s Been a Long, Long Time” (10/13/1945)
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)
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 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)
Freddy Martin with Glenn Hughes “Doin’ What Comes Naturally” (6/22/1946)
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%

Art Mooney “I’m Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover” (1/24/1948)
Nat “King” Cole with Frank DeVol’s Orchestra “Nature Boy” (4/17/1948)
Pee Wee Hunt Orchestra “Twelfth Street Rag” (6/28/1948)
Dinah Shore and Her Harper Valley Boys “Buttons and Bows” (9/18/1948)

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 “Ghost 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)
Burl Ives with Captain Stubby & the Buccaneers “Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)” (2/12/1949)
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%

Kay Starr “Wheel of Fortune” (2/16/1952)
Rosemary Clooney “Tenderly” (3/1/1952)
Jo Stafford “You Belong to Me” (8/9/1952)
Jimmy Boyd with Norman Luboff’s Orchestra “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” (12/6/1952)

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%

Patti Page “The Doggie in the Window” (1/31/1953)
Hank Williams “Your Cheatin’ Heart” (2/21/1953)
Percy Faith with Felicia Sanders “Where Is Your Heart (Song from ‘Moulin Rouge’)” (4/4/1953)
Duke Ellington “Satin Doll” (6/13/1953)
Les Paul & Mary Ford “Vaya Con Dios (May God Be with You)” (6/20/1953)
The Orioles “Crying in the Chapel” (8/22/1953)
Doris Day “Secret Love” (10/9/1953)

Top 2%

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%

Big Joe Turner “Shake, Rattle and Roll” (5/8/1954)
Bill Haley & His Comets “We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock” (5/10/1954)
The Chords “Sh-Boom” (7/3/1954)
Elvis Presley “That’s All Right, Mama” (released 7/19/1954)
The Chordettes “Mr. Sandman” (10/11/1954)
The Penguins “Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)” (10/19/1954)
Erroll Garner Trio “Misty” (10/23/1954)
The McGuire Sisters “Sincerely” (12/20/1954)

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%

Perez “Prez” Prado “Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White” (1/31/1955)
Bo Diddley “Bo Diddley” (5/7/1955)
Fats Domino “Ain’t That a Shame (aka "Ain’t It a Shame")” (5/14/1955)
Mitch Miller “The Yellow Rose of Texas” (7/11/1955)
The Platters “Only You (And You Alone)” (7/30/1955)
Roger Williams “Autumn Leaves” (8/1/1955)
The Four Aces “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” (8/1/1955)
Chuck Berry “Maybellene” (8/6/1955)
Tennessee Ernie Ford “Sixteen Tons” (11/12/1955)
Little Richard “Tutti Frutti” (11/26/1955)
The Platters “The Great Pretender” (12/17/1955)

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%

Count Basie “April in Paris” (1/14/1956)
Elvis Presley “Heartbreak Hotel” (1/27/1956)
Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers “Why Do Fools Fall in Love?” (2/10/1956)
Carl Perkins “Blue Suede Shoes” (3/3/1956)
Little Richard “Long Tall Sally” (3/30/1956)
Johnny Cash “I Walk the Line” (5/1/1956)
Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps “Be-Bop-A-Lula” (6/15/1956)
The Platters “My Prayer (Avant de Mourir)” (6/29/1956)
Elvis Presley “Don’t Be Cruel” (7/27/1956)
Elvis Presley “Hound Dog” (7/27/1956)
The Five Satins “In the Still of the Nite (I’ll Remember)” (8/25/1956)
Elvis Presley “Love Me Tender” (9/28/1956)
Fats Domino “Blueberry Hill” (9/29/1956)
Guy Mitchell “Singing the Blues” (10/20/1956)

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%

Elvis Presley “All Shook Up” (3/30/1957)
Jerry Lee Lewis “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” (4/15/1957)
Pat Boone “Love Letters in the Sand” (5/4/1957)
The Everly Brothers “Bye Bye Love” (5/13/1957)
Buddy Holly & the Crickets “That’ll Be the Day” (5/27/1957)
Elvis Presley “Let Me Be Your Teddy Bear” (6/11/1957)
Paul Anka “Diana” (6/29/1957)
The Everly Brothers “Wake Up Little Susie” (9/2/1957)
Sam Cooke “You Send Me” (9/7/1957)
Elvis Presley “Jailhouse Rock” (9/24/1957)
Buddy Holly & the Crickets “Peggy Sue” (10/21/1957)
Danny & the Juniors “At the Hop” (11/18/1957)
Jerry Lee Lewis “Great Balls of Fire” (11/23/1957)
Bobby Helms “Jingle Bell Rock” (12/23/1957)
Peggy Lee “Fever” (12/21/1957)

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)

1958

Top 1%

The Champs “Tequila” (2/17/1958)
Chuck Berry “Johnny B. Goode” (3/1958)
The Everly Brothers “All I Have to Do Is Dream” (4/14/1958)
Domenico Modugno “Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blue)” (7/7/1958)
Eddie Cochran “Summertime Blues” (7/21/1958)
The Kingston Trio “Tom Dooley” (9/29/1958)
The Platters “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” (11/17/1958)
Ritchie Valens “La Bamba” (11/24/1958)
Brenda Lee “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” (11/24/1958)
Harry Simeone Chorale “The Little Drummer Boy” (12/22/1958)

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%

Wilbert Harrison “Kansas City” (4/3/1959)
Johnny Horton “The Battle of New Orleans” (4/6/1959)
The Flamingos “I Only Have Eyes for You” (5/4/1959)
Ray Charles “What’d I Say” (7/6/1959)
Bobby Darin “Mack the Knife” (8/24/1959)
The Isley Brothers “Shout” (9/7/1959)
Dave Brubeck Quartet “Take Five” (recorded 9/21/1959, charted 7/29/1961)
Miles Davis “So What” (album cut: 10/3/1959)
Marty Robbins “El Paso” (10/26/1959)

Top 2%

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers “Moanin’” (Jan. 1959)
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%

Percy Faith “Theme from ‘A Summer Place’” (1/11/1960)
The Everly Brothers “Cathy’s Clown” (4/18/1960)
Roy Orbison “Only the Lonely” (5/23/1960)
Elvis Presley “It’s Now or Never” (7/5/1960)
Chubby Checker “The Twist” (7/18/1960)
The Drifters “Save the Last Dance for Me” (8/26/1960)
Ray Charles “Georgia on My Mind” (9/5/1960)
Elvis Presley “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” (11/1/1960)
Etta James “At Last” (11/15/1960)
The Shirelles “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” (11/21/1960)

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%

The Marcels “Blue Moon” (2/27/1961)
Del Shannon “Runaway” (3/6/1961)
Ben E. King “Stand by Me” (4/21/1961)
Roy Orbison “Crying” (8/7/1961)
The Marvelettes “Please Mr. Postman” (8/21/1961)
Dion “Runaround Sue” (9/18/1961)
Jimmy Dean “Big Bad John” (9/22/1961)
Elvis Presley “Can’t Help Falling in Love” (10/1/1961)
Henry Mancini with Audrey Hepburn “Moon River” (10/7/1961)
Patsy Cline “Crazy” (10/9/1961)
The Tokens “The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh)” (10/17/1961)
Gene Chandler “Duke of Earl” (12/29/1961)

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%

Tony Bennett “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” (2/2/1962)
Ray Charles “I Can’t Stop Loving You” (4/30/1962)
Little Eva “The Loco-Motion” (6/30/1962)
The Four Seasons “Sherry” (8/10/1962)
The Contours “Do You Love Me?” (8/10/1962)
Booker T. & the MG’s “Green Onions” (8/11/1962)
The Four Seasons “Big Girls Don’t Cry” (10/12/1962)

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%

The Chiffons “He’s So Fine” (2/1/1963)
The Beatles “Twist and Shout” (album cut: 3/22/1963, single: 3/2/1964)
Johnny Cash “Ring of Fire” (4/19/1963)
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas “Heat Wave” (7/10/1963)
The Kingsmen “Louie Louie” (8/8/1963)
Bob Dylan “Blowin’ in the Wind” (8/13/1963)
The Ronettes “Be My Baby” (8/23/1963)
The Beatles “She Loves You” (8/23/1963)
The Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (11/29/1963)

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)
Pete Seeger “We Shall Overcome” (recorded 6/8/1963)
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%

Louis Armstrong “Hello, Dolly!” (2/14/1964)
The Beatles “Can’t Buy Me Love” (3/16/1964)
Mary Wells “My Guy” (3/28/1964)
Disneyland Boys Choir “It’s a Small World After All” (4/22/1964)
Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto “The Girl from Ipanema” (6/6/1964)
The Supremes “Where Did Our Love Go” (6/17/1964)
The Animals “The House of the Rising Sun” (6/19/1964)
The Beatles “A Hard Day’s Night” (7/10/1964)
The Beatles “And I Love Her” (7/20/1964)
Martha Reeves & the Vandellas “Dancing in the Street” (7/31/1964)
The Kinks “You Really Got Me” (8/4/1964)
Roy Orbison “(Oh) Pretty Woman” (8/15/1964)
Frank Sinatra “Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)” (album cut, 8/22/1964)
The Supremes “Baby Love” (10/3/1964)
Petula Clark “Downtown” (11/12/1964)
The Beatles “I Feel Fine” (11/23/1964)
The Righteous Brothers “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” (12/12/1964)
The Temptations “My Girl” (12/21/1964)
Sam Cooke “A Change Is Gonna Come” (12/22/1964)

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%

Roger Miller “King of the Road” (1/29/1965)
The Supremes “Stop! In the Name of Love” (2/8/1965)
The Impressions “People Get Ready” (2/13/1965)
Julie Andrews “My Favorite Things” (album cut, 3/20/1965)
Bob Dylan “The Times They Are A-Changin’” (3/27/1965)
The Beatles “Ticket to Ride” (4/9/1965)
The Byrds “Mr. Tambourine Man” (4/12/1965)
Four Tops “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)” (4/23/1965)
The Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (6/12/1965)
The Miracles “The Tracks of My Tears” (6/23/1965)
Wilson Pickett “In the Midnight Hour” (6/26/1965)
The Righteous Brothers “Unchained Melody” (7/10/1965)
Sonny & Cher “I Got You Babe” (7/10/1965)
James Brown “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” (7/15/1965)
The Beatles “Help!” (7/19/1965)
Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone” (7/24/1965)
The Beatles “Yesterday” (9/13/1965)
The Byrds “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)” (10/1/1965)
The Rolling Stones “Get Off of My Cloud” (10/2/1965)
The Who “My Generation” (11/4/1965)
James Brown “I Got You (I Feel Good)” (11/5/1965)
Simon & Garfunkel “The Sounds of Silence” (11/20/1965)
The Beatles “We Can Work It Out” (12/3/1965)
The Beatles “In My Life” (album cut: 12/3/1965)
The Mamas and the Papas “California Dreamin’” (12/8/1965)

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%

The Byrds “Eight Miles High” (3/14/1966)
Percy Sledge “When a Man Loves a Woman” (4/9/1966)
The Troggs “Wild Thing” (4/22/1966)
The Temptations “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” (5/3/1966)
The Rolling Stones “Paint It Black” (5/6/1966)
Frank Sinatra “Strangers in the Night” (5/7/1966)
The Beatles “Paperback Writer” (5/27/1966)
Ike & Tina Turner “River Deep, Mountain High” (5/28/1966)
The Beach Boys “God Only Knows” (7/18/1966)
The Supremes “You Can’t Hurry Love” (7/25/1966)
The Beatles “Eleanor Rigby” (8/5/1966)
Four Tops “Reach Out (I’ll Be There)” (8/18/1966)
The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” (10/10/1966)
The Monkees “I’m a Believer” (12/3/1966)
Otis Redding “Try a Little Tenderness” (12/3/1966)
Buffalo Springfield “For What It’s Worth” (12/23/1966)

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)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Hey Joe” (12/16/1966)

1967

Top 1%

The Turtles “Happy Together” (2/11/1967)
The Beatles “Strawberry Fields Forever” (2/13/1967)
The Beatles “Penny Lane” (2/13/1967)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Purple Haze” (3/17/1967)
Jefferson Airplane “Somebody to Love” (4/1/1967)
Aretha Franklin “Respect” (4/10/1967)
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” (4/20/1967)
The Doors “Light My Fire” (4/30/1967)
The Kinks “Waterloo Sunset” (5/5/1967)
Procol Harum “A Whiter Shade of Pale” (5/25/1967)
Jefferson Airplane “White Rabbit” (5/25/1967)
The Beatles “A Day in the Life” (album cut: 6/1/1967, single: 9/16/1978)
Van Morrison “Brown-Eyed Girl” (6/24/1967)
The Beatles “All You Need Is Love” (7/7/1967)
Bobbie Gentry “Ode to Billie Joe” (7/21/1967)
The Box Tops “The Letter” (8/4/1967)
Jackie Wilson “Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher and Higher” (8/5/1967)
The Miracles “The Tears of a Clown” (album cut: 8/29/1967, charted 8/1/1970)
Aretha Franklin “You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman” (9/7/1967)
Louis Armstrong “What a Wonderful World” (10/14/1967)
The Monkees “Daydream Believer” (10/25/1967)
The Moody Blues “Nights in White Satin” (11/10/1967)
Cream “Sunshine of Your Love” (12/22/1967)

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%

Otis Redding “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay” (1/8/1968)
Simon & Garfunkel “Mrs. Robinson” (4/5/1968)
Johnny Cash “Folsom Prison Blues (live)” (4/30/1968)
The Rolling Stones “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” (5/24/1968)
Steppenwolf “Born to Be Wild” (6/21/1968)
The Band “The Weight” (8/8/1968)
The Beatles “Hey Jude” (8/26/1968)
The Beatles “Revolution” (8/26/1968)
Big Brother & The Holding Company “Piece of My Heart” (8/30/1968)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience “All Along the Watchtower” (9/2/1968)
Tammy Wynette “Stand by Your Man” (9/20/1968)
Marvin Gaye “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (10/30/1968)
Glen Campbell “Wichita Lineman” (11/1/1968)
Sly & the Family Stone “Everyday People” (11/30/1968)
The Rolling Stones “Sympathy for the Devil” (12/6/1968)

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)
Harry Nilsson “Everybody’s Talkin’” (8/3/1968)
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%

Creedence Clearwater Revival “Proud Mary” (1/18/1969)
The 5th Dimension “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” (3/8/1969)
Frank Sinatra “My Way” (3/21/1969)
The Beatles with Billy Preston “Get Back” (4/11/1969)
Creedence Clearwater Revival “Bad Moon Rising” (4/16/1969)
The Archies “Sugar, Sugar” (5/24/1969)
Neil Diamond “Sweet Caroline” (6/14/1969)
The Rolling Stones “Honky Tonk Women” (7/4/1969)
The Rolling Stones “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” (7/4/1969)
David Bowie “Space Oddity” (7/11/1969)
Elvis Presley “Suspicious Minds” (8/26/1969)
The Beatles “Here Comes the Sun” (album cut: 10/1/1969)
Crosby, Stills & Nash “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” (10/4/1969)
The Beatles “Something” (10/6/1969) /
The Beatles “Come Together” (10/6/1969)
The Jackson 5 “I Want You Back” (10/7/1969)
Creedence Clearwater Revival “Fortunate Son” (10/24/1969)
B.J. Thomas “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” (10/31/1969)
Led Zeppelin “Whole Lotta Love” (11/7/1969)
The Rolling Stones “Gimme Shelter” (album cut: 11/28/1969, charted 11/28/1998)

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%

Simon & Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (1/26/1970)
The Jackson 5 “ABC” (2/24/1970)
The Beatles “Let It Be” (3/6/1970)
The Guess Who “American Woman” (3/21/1970)
Paul McCartney “Maybe I’m Amazed” (4/17/1970)
Carpenters “They Long to Be Close to You” (5/14/1970)
Free “All Right Now” (5/15/1970)
Mungo Jerry “In the Summertime” (6/6/1970)
Joni Mitchell “Big Yellow Taxi” (6/6/1970)
Edwin Starr “War” (6/10/1970)
The Kinks “Lola” (6/12/1970)
Black Sabbath “Paranoid” (8/7/1970)
The Jackson 5 “I’ll Be There” (8/28/1970)
James Taylor “Fire and Rain” (9/12/1970)
Elton John “Your Song” (11/21/1970)
George Harrison “My Sweet Lord” (11/28/1970)

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)
Neil Young “Cinnamon Girl” (4/20/1970)
The Beatles “The Long and Winding Road” (5/11/1970)
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young “Teach Your Children” (6/5/1970)
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)
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young “Our House” (9/19/1970)
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%

The Temptations “Just My Imagination Running Away with Me” (1/14/1971)
Marvin Gaye “What’s Going On” (1/17/1971)
Janis Joplin “Me and Bobby McGee” (1/30/1971)
Three Dog Night “Joy to the World” (3/5/1971)
Derek & the Dominos “Layla” (3/20/1971)
John Denver “Take Me Home, Country Roads” (4/3/1971)
The Rolling Stones “Brown Sugar” (4/16/1971)
Carole King “It’s Too Late” (4/16/1971)
James Taylor “You’ve Got a Friend” (5/29/1971)
The Rolling Stones “Wild Horses” (6/12/1971)
The Who “Won’t Get Fooled Again” (6/25/1971)
T-Rex “Get It On (Bang a Gong)” (7/2/71)
Bill Withers “Ain’t No Sunshine” (7/3/1971)
Rod Stewart “Maggie May” (7/17/1971)
Isaac Hayes “Theme from Shaft” (9/24/1971)
John Lennon “Imagine” (10/11/1971)
Harry Nisson “Without You” (10/11/1971)
The Who “Baba O’Riley” (10/23/1971)
Led Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven” (album cut: 11/8/1971, charted 11/24/2007)
America “A Horse with No Name” (11/12/1971)
Don McLean “American Pie” (11/19/1971)
Al Green “Let’s Stay Together” (11/27/1971)
David Bowie “Life on Mars?” (album cut: 12/17/1971, released 6/22/1973)
John Lennon & Yoko Ono “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” (12/17/1971)

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%

David Bowie “Changes” (1/7/1972)
Neil Young “Heart of Gold” (1/29/1972)
Elton John “Tiny Dancer” (2/7/1972)
Gilbert O’Sullivan “Alone Again (Naturally)” (2/18/1972)
Roberta Flack “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” (2/25/1972)
Elton John “Rocket Man (I Think It’s Gonna Be a Long Time)” (4/14/1972)
Bill Withers “Lean on Me” (4/15/1972)
Alice Cooper “School’s Out” (4/26/1972)
Eagles “Take It Easy” (5/1/1972)
Mott the Hoople “All the Young Dudes” (7/28/1972)
The Temptations “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone” (9/28/1972)
Carly Simon “You’re So Vain” (11/8/1972)
Lou Reed “Walk on the Wild Side” (11/8/1972)
Stevie Wonder “Superstition” (11/11/1972)

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)
Pipes & Drums & Military Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards “Amazing Grace” (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%

Roberta Flack “Killing Me Softly with His Song” (1/20/1973)
Tony Orlando & Dawn “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree” (2/3/1973)
Stevie Wonder “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” (3/17/1973)
Pink Floyd “Money” (5/7/1973)
Deep Purple “Smoke on the Water” (5/26/1973)
Marvin Gaye “Let’s Get It On” (6/15/1973)
Aerosmith “Dream On” (6/27/1973)
Lynyrd Skynyrd “Free Bird” (album cut: 8/13/1973, charted 11/16/1974)
The Allman Brothers Band “Ramblin’ Man” (8/17/1973)
The Rolling Stones “Angie” (8/20/1973)
Gladys Knight & the Pips “Midnight Train to Georgia” (8/25/1973)
Elton John “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” (9/7/1973)
Dolly Parton “Jolene” (10/15/1973)
Barbra Streisand “The Way We Were” (10/20/1973)
Billy Joel “Piano Man” (11/2/1973)

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)
Grand Funk Railroad “We’re an American Band” (7/21/1973)
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%

Terry Jacks “Seasons in the Sun” (1/5/1974)
Elton John “Bennie and the Jets” (2/4/1974)
Lynyrd Skynyrd “Sweet Home Alabama” (7/21/1974)
Olivia Newton-John “I Honestly Love You” (8/3/1974)
Bachman-Turner Overdrive “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” (9/21/1974)
Carl Douglas “Kung Fu Fighting” (10/12/1974)
Bob Marley & the Wailers “No Woman, No Cry” (album cut: 10/25/1974, live version charted 9/27/1975)

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)
Ace “How Long” (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%

Bob Dylan “Tangled Up in Blue” (1/20/1975)
Led Zeppelin “Kashmir” (album cut: 2/24/1975, charted 11/24/2007)
Kiss “Rock and Roll All Nite” (4/2/1975)
Captain & Tennille “Love Will Keep Us Together” (4/5/1975)
Van McCoy “The Hustle” (4/19/1975)
10cc “I’m Not in Love” (5/10/1975)
Glen Campbell “Rhinestone Cowboy” (5/26/1975)
Bruce Springsteen “Born to Run” (8/25/1975)
Bruce Springsteen “Thunder Road” (album cut: 8/25/1975)
Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody” (10/31/1975)
Pink Floyd “Wish You Were Here” (11/20/1975)

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)
Eagles “Take It to the Limit” (12/20/1975)
The Four Seasons “December 1963 (Oh What a Night)” (12/27/1975)

1976

Top 1%

Ramones “Blitzkrieg Bop” (Feb. 1976)
Rod Stewart “Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright)” (6/5/1976)
Wild Cherry “Play That Funky Music” (6/19/1976)
Elton John with Kiki Dee “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” (6/21/1976)
Blue Öyster Cult “Don’t Fear the Reaper” (7/31/1976)
Chicago “If You Leave Me Now” (8/6/1976)
Abba “Dancing Queen” (8/16/1976)
Boston “More Than a Feeling” (9/11/1976)
Sex Pistols “Anarchy in the U.K.” (11/26/1976)

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%

Fleetwood Mac “Go Your Own Way” (1/1/1977)
Eagles “Hotel California” (2/26/1977)
Fleetwood Mac “Dreams” (3/24/1977)
Sex Pistols “God Save the Queen” (5/27/1977)
Donna Summer “I Feel Love” (6/4/1977)
The Emotions “Best of My Love” (6/11/1977)
Debby Boone “You Light Up My Life” (8/16/1977)
Commodores “Brick House” (8/27/1977)
David Bowie “Heroes” (9/23/1977)
“How Deep Is Your Love” Bee Gees (9/24/1977)
Queen “We Will Rock You” (10/7/1977)
Queen “We Are the Champions” (10/7/1977)
Billy Joel “Just the Way You Are” (11/12/1977)
Bee Gees “Stayin’ Alive” (12/10/1977)

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%

Bee Gees “Night Fever” (2/3/1978)
Gerry Rafferty “Baker Street” (2/3/1978)
Eric Clapton “Wonderful Tonight” (3/10/1978)
Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta “You’re the One That I Want” (4/1/1978)
The Police “Roxanne” (4/7/1978)
Andy Gibb “Shadow Dancing” (4/15/1978)
Dire Straits “Sultans of Swing” (5/19/1978)
The Rolling Stones “Miss You” (5/10/1978)
Commodores “Three Times a Lady” (6/8/1978)
Little River Band “Reminiscing” (7/22/1978)
Ramones “I Wanna Be Sedated” (album cut: 9/21/1978)
Chic “Le Freak” (10/21/1978)
Village People “YMCA” (10/21/1978)
Kenny Rogers “The Gambler” (10/28/1978)
Rod Stewart “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?” (11/18/1978)
Earth, Wind & Fire “September” (11/18/1978)
Gloria Gaynor “I Will Survive” (12/16/1978)

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%

Blondie “Heart of Glass” (1/3/1979)
The Doobie Brothers “What a Fool Believes” (1/20/1979)
Sister Sledge “We Are Family” (4/4/1979)
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band “Old Time Rock and Roll” (4/7/1979)
Donna Summer “Hot Stuff” (4/20/1979)
Charlie Daniels Band “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” (5/21/1979)
Chic “Good Times” (6/16/1979)
The Knack “My Sharona” (6/23/1979)
Michael Jackson “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” (7/10/1979)
AC/DC “Highway to Hell” (7/27/1979)
The Sugarhill Gang “Rapper’s Delight” (10/13/1979)
Queen “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”(10/20/1979)
Michael Jackson “Rock with You” (11/3/1979)
The Pretenders “Brass in Pocket (I’m Special)” (11/17/1979)
Pink Floyd “Another Brick in the Wall Part II” (11/23/1979)
The Clash “London Calling” (12/7/1979)

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%

Blondie “Call Me” (2/16/1980)
Lipps Inc. “Funkytown” (3/22/1980)
George Jones “He Stopped Loving Her Today” (4/12/1980)
Pink Floyd “Comfortably Numb” (6/23/1980)
Joy Division “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (6/28/1980)
Diana Ross “Upside Down” (7/12/1980)
Queen “Another One Bites the Dust” (8/16/1980)
AC/DC “You Shook Me All Night Long” (8/19/1980)
Ozzy Osbourne “Crazy Train” (9/13/1980)
Kenny Rogers “Lady” (9/29/1980)
Kool & the Gang “Celebration” (10/18/1980)
John Lennon “Just Like Starting Over” (10/20/1980)
Dolly Parton “9 to 5” (11/3/1980)
REO Speedwagon “Keep on Loving You” (11/4/1980)
AC/DC “Back in Black” (12/13/1980)

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%

Phil Collins “In the Air Tonight” (1/5/1981)
Talking Heads “Once in a Lifetime” (2/2/1981)
Rick Springfield “Jessie’s Girl” (3/21/1981)
Kim Carnes “Bette Davis Eyes” (3/28/1981)
Lionel Richie & Diana Ross “Endless Love” (7/4/1981)
Soft Cell “Tainted Love” (8/1/1981)
Rick James “Super Freak” (8/1/1981)
The Rolling Stones “Start Me Up” (8/14/1981)
Journey “Don’t Stop Believin’” (8/15/1981)
J. Geils Band “Centerfold” (9/13/1981)
Foreigner “Waiting for a Girl Like You” (9/25/1981)
The Police “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” (9/25/1981)
Olivia Newton-John “Physical” (10/3/1981)
Men at Work “Down Under” (10/23/1981)
Queen with David Bowie “Under Pressure” (10/26/1981)
The Human League “Don’t You Want Me?” (11/27/1981)
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts “I Love Rock and Roll” (12/12/1981)

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%

Journey “Open Arms” (1/15/1982)
Willie Nelson “Always on My Mind” (3/6/1982)
Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder “Ebony and Ivory” (3/29/1982)
Duran Duran “Hungry Like the Wolf” (5/15/1982)
Survivor “Eye of the Tiger” (6/5/1982)
The Clash “Should I Stay Or Should I Go” (6/5/1982)
The Clash “Rock the Casbah” (6/11/1982)
Dexy’s Midnight Runners “Come on Eileen” (6/25/1982)
John Cougar “Jack and Diane” (6/26/1982)
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five “The Message” (7/24/1982)
Modern English “I Melt with You” (8/82)
Culture Club “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me” (9/18/1982)
Prince “1999” (9/24/1982)
Marvin Gaye “Sexual Healing” (10/16/1982)
Toto “Africa” (10/30/1982)

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%

Michael Jackson “Billie Jean” (1/2/1983)
Eurythmics “Sweet Dreams Are Made of This” (1/21/1983)
Michael Jackson “Beat It” (2/3/1983)
Bonnie Tyler “Total Eclipse of the Heart” (2/19/1983)
New Order “Blue Monday” (3/7/1983)
David Bowie “Let’s Dance” (3/17/1983)
U2 “Sunday Bloody Sunday” (3/21/1983)
Irene Cara “Flashdance...What a Feelin’” (4/2/1983)
The Police “Every Breath You Take” (5/13/1983)
Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton “Islands in the Stream” (8/27/1983)
Lionel Richie “All Night Long (All Night)” (8/31/1983)
Culture Club “Karma Chameleon” (9/17/1983)
Frankie Goes to Hollywood “Relax” (10/24/1983)
Cyndi Lauper “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” (11/6/1983)
Michael Jackson “Thriller” (11/12/1983)
Van Halen “Jump” (12/21/1983)

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%

Kenny Loggins “Footloose” (1/11/1984)
Cyndi Lauper “Time After Time” (1/27/1984)
Lionel Richie “Hello” (2/25/1984)
Phil Collins “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)” (2/25/1984)
Tina Turner “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” (5/1/1984)
Bruce Springsteen “Dancing in the Dark” (5/3/1984)
Wham! “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” (5/14/1984)
Prince “When Doves Cry” (5/16/1984)
Lee Greenwood “God Bless the U.S.A.” (5/26/1984)
Bruce Springsteen “Born in the U.S.A.” (6/23/1984)
George Michael “Careless Whisper” (7/24/1984)
Stevie Wonder “I Just Called to Say I Love You” (8/18/1984)
The Smiths “How Soon Is Now?” (8/20/1984)
U2 “Pride (In the Name of Love)” (9/4/1984)
Prince & the Revolution “Purple Rain” (9/21/1984)
Aha “Take on Me” (10/19/1984)
Don Henley “The Boys of Summer” (10/26/1984)
Madonna “Like a Virgin” (10/31/1984)
Foreigner “I Want to Know What Love Is” (11/13/1984)
Tears for Fears “Shout” (11/19/1984)
Band Aid “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” (12/3/1984)
Wham! “Last Christmas” (12/3/1984)
Bryan Adams “Summer of ‘69” (12/8/1984)

Top 2%

Bryan Adams “Heaven” (1/28/1984)
The Scorpions “Rock You Like a Hurricane” (2/28/1984)
Night Ranger “Sister Christian” (3/10/1984)
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%

Simple Minds “Don’t You Forget about Me” (2/23/1985)
USA for Africa “We Are the World” (3/7/1985)
Tears for Fears “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” (3/16/1985)
Madonna “Into the Groove” (4/27/1985)
Dire Straits “Money for Nothing” (6/1/1985)
Huey Lewis & the News “The Power of Love” (6/28/1985)
Kate Bush “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)” (8/5/1985)
Pet Shop Boys “West End Girls” (10/28/1985)
Lionel Richie “Say You Say Me” (11/1/1985)
Dionne Warwick & Friends (Elton John, Gladys Knight, & Stevie Wonder) “That's What Friends Are For” (11/9/1985)

Top 2%

Bruce Springsteen “I’m on Fire” (2/6/1985)
Madonna “Crazy for You” (3/1/1985)
Bruce Springsteen “Glory Days’ (5/25/1985)
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%

Prince & the Revolution “Kiss” (2/5/1986)
Peter Gabriel “Sledgehammer” (4/26/1986)
Berlin “Take My Breath Away” (6/21/1986)
Peter Gabriel “In Your Eyes” (6/21/1986)
Run-D.M.C. with Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler & Joe Perry “Walk This Way” (7/4/1986)
Bangles “Walk Like an Egyptian” (9/1/1986)
Crowded House “Don’t Dream It’s Over” (10/20/1986)
Bon Jovi “Livin’ on a Prayer” (10/25/1986)
Beastie Boys “You Gotta Fight for Your Right to Party” (12/20/1986)

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)
Lionel Richie “Dancing on the Ceiling” (7/11/1986)
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%

Salt-N-Pepa “Push It” (3/8/1987)
U2 “With or Without You” (3/14/1987)
U2 “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” (3/28/1987)
U2 “Where the Streets Have No Name” (4/4/1987)
Whitney Houston “I Wanna Dance with Somebody Who Loves Me” (4/30/1987)
Whitesnake “Here I Go Again” (5/30/1987)
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes “I’ve Had the Time of My Life” (7/10/1987)
Rick Astley “Never Gonna Give You Up” (7/27/1987)
R.E.M. “The One I Love” (8/24/1987)
R.E.M. “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” (9/5/1987)
Def Leppard “Pour Some Sugar on Me” (9/8/1987)
INXS “Need You Tonight” (9/23/1987)
Guns N’ Roses “Welcome to the Jungle” (9/28/1987)
The Cure “Just Like Heaven” (10/5/1987)
George Michael “Faith” (10/12/1987)

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%

Tracy Chapman “Fast Car” (4/6/1988)
Guns N’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine” (6/11/1988)
Bobby McFerrin “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” (7/30/1988)
Poison “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” (10/12/1988)
The La’s “There She Goes” (10/31/1988)
Guns N’ Roses “Paradise City” (11/30/1988)

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%

Bette Midler “Wind Beneath My Wings” (2/18/1989)
Madonna “Like a Prayer” (2/27/1989)
Tom Petty “Free Fallin’” (5/6/1989)
Young M.C. “Bust a Move” (5/22/1989)
The B-52’s “Love Shack” (6/20/1989)
Public Enemy “Fight the Power” (6/24/1989)
Phil Collins “Another Day in Paradise” (11/4/1989)

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%

MC Hammer “U Can’t Touch This” (1/13/1990)
Sinéad O’Connor “Nothing Compares 2 U” (1/20/1990)
Depeche Mode “Enjoy the Silence” (2/5/1990)
Madonna “Vogue” (3/20/1990)
Mariah Carey “Vision of Love” (5/15/1990)
Garth Brooks “Friends in Low Places” (8/6/1990)
Vanilla Ice “Ice Ice Baby” (9/8/1990)
C + C Music Factory “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)” (11/17/1990)

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%

R.E.M. “Losing My Religion” (2/19/1991)
Natalie Cole with Nat “King” Cole “Unforgettable” (6/15/1991)
Bryan Adams “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” (6/29/1991)
Pearl Jam “Alive” (7/7/1991)
Metallica “Enter Sandman” (7/29/1991)
Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (9/10/1991)
Guns N’ Roses “November Rain” (9/28/1991)

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%

Pearl Jam “Jeremy” (1/2/1992)
U2 “One” (1/4/1992)
Eric Clapton “Tears in Heaven” (1/11/1992)
Nirvana “Come As You Are” (1/18/1992)
Kris Kross “Jump” (2/6/1992)
Red Hot Chili Peppers “Under the Bridge” (2/15/1992)
Billy Ray Cyrus “Achy Breaky Heart” (3/23/1992)
Sir Mix-a-Lot “Baby Got Back” (4/11/1992)
House of Pain “Jump Around” (5/5/1992)
Boyz II Men “End of the Road” (6/30/1992)
Radiohead “Creep” (9/21/1992)
Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You” (11/3/1992)
Dr. Dre with Snoop Doggy Dogg “Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang” (11/19/1992)
Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle “A Whole New World” (11/21/1992)

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%

Beck “Loser” (3/8/1993)
R.E.M. “Everybody Hurts” (4/15/1993)
Janet Jackson “That’s the Way Love Goes” (4/20/1993)
Tag Team “Whoomp! There It Is” (5/7/1993)
Mariah Carey “Dreamlover” (7/27/1993)
Meat Loaf “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)” (9/5/1993)
Mariah Carey “Hero” (10/15/1993)
Israel Kamakawiwo’ole “Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World” (album cut: 11/1/1993, single charted 3/20/2004)
Nirvana “All Apologies” (12/4/1993)
Ace of Base “The Sign” (12/21/1993)

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%

Bruce Springsteen “Streets of Philadelphia” (2/2/1994)
Sheryl Crow “All I Wanna Do” (4/4/1994)
All-4-One “I Swear” (4/15/1994)
Soundgarden “Black Hole Sun” (4/23/1994)
Green Day “Basket Case” (7/16/1994)
Seal “Kiss from a Rose” (7/18/1994)
Boyz II Men “I’ll Make Love to You” (8/5/1994)
Oasis “Live Forever” (8/8/1994)
Jeff Buckley “Hallelujah” (8/23/1994 as album cut, 12/20/2008 as single)
Mariah Carey “All I Want for Christmas Is You” (10/29/1994)

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)
Elton John “Circle of Life” (8/9/1994)
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%

Pulp “Common People” (5/22/1995)
TLC “Waterfalls” (5/29/1995)
Alanis Morissette “You Oughta Know” (6/17/1995)
Coolio with L.V. “Gangsta’s Paradise” (8/8/1995)
Mariah Carey “Fantasy” (9/1/1995)
Los Del Rio “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)” (9/2/1995)
Oasis “Wonderwall” (10/30/1995)
Mariah Carey with Boyz II Men “One Sweet Day” (11/3/1995)
Smashing Pumpkins “1979” (11/25/1995)
Tupac Shakur (2pac) with Dr. Dre & Roger Troutman “California Love” (12/28/1995)

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%

Alanis Morissette “Ironic” (1/6/1996)
Oasis “Don’t Look Back in Anger” (2/19/1996)
Celine Dion “Because You Loved Me” (2/20/1996)
Oasis “Champagne Supernova” (2/24/1996)
No Doubt “Don’t Speak” (4/15/1996)
Donna Lewis “I Love You Always Forever” (4/16/1996)
Spice Girls “Wannabe” (7/20/1996)
Blackstreet with Dr. Dre & Queen Pen “No Diggity” (7/29/1996)
Toni Braxton “Un-Break My Heart” (10/18/1996)

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%

Savage Garden “Truly, Madly, Deeply” (3/3/1997)
Hanson “Mmmbop” (3/28/1997)
Blur “Song 2” (4/7/1997)
Puff Daddy with Faith Evans & 112 “I’ll Be Missing You” (5/23/1997)
Radiohead “Paranoid Android” (5/26/1997)
The Verve “Bitter Sweet Symphony” (6/16/1997)
Foo Fighters “Everlong” (8/2/1997)
Elton John “Candle in the Wind 1997 (Goodbye England’s Rose)” (9/6/1997)
Natalie Imbruglia “Torn” (11/8/1997)
Green Day “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” (11/29/1997)
Celine Dion “My Heart Will Go On” (12/8/1997)

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%

Shania Twain “You’re Still the One” (1/24/1998)
Goo Goo Dolls “Iris” (4/7/1998)
Brandy & Monica “The Boy Is Mine” (5/15/1998)
Aerosmith “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” (5/29/1998)
Lauryn Hill “Doo Wop (That Thing)” (8/10/1998)
Britney Spears “Baby One More Time” (10/9/1998)
Cher “Believe” (10/19/1998)
Eminem “My Name Is” (12/27/1998)

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%

TLC “No Scrubs” (2/2/1999)
Lonestar “Amazed” (3/22/1999)
Ricky Martin “Livin’ La Vida Loca” (3/23/1999)
Backstreet Boys “I Want It That Way” (4/12/1999)
Lou Bega “Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of…)” (4/19/1999)
Santana with Rob Thomas “Smooth” (6/26/1999)
Destiny’s Child “Say My Name” (12/4/1999)

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)
Blink-182 “All the Small Things” (10/16/1999)
Santana with the Product G&B “Maria Maria” (12/17/1999)

2000

Top 1%

3 Doors Down “Kryptonite” (1/11/2000)
N Sync “Bye Bye Bye” (1/11/2000)
Lee Ann Womack “I Hope You Dance” (3/25/2000)
Eminem “The Real Slim Shady” (4/18/2000)
Coldplay “Yellow” (6/26/2000)
Madonna “Music” (8/4/2000)
Destiny’s Child “Independent Women” (9/4/2000)
U2 “Beautiful Day” (9/9/2000)
Eminem with Dido “Stan” (10/7/2000)
OutKast “Ms. Jackson” (10/24/2000)

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%

Train “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)” (2/17/2001)
Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott “Get Ur Freak On” (2/17/2001)
Alicia Keys “Fallin’” (4/2/2001)
Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Mya, & Pink “Lady Marmalade” (4/14/2001)
Nickelback “How You Remind Me” (7/28/2001)
Linkin Park “In the End” (8/25/2001)
Kylie Minogue “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” (9/8/2001)
The Strokes “Last Nite” (10/23/2001)

Top 2%

Staind “It’s Been Awhile” (4/7/2001)
System of a Down “Chop Suey” (8/4/2001)
Enrique Iglesias “Hero” (9/14/2001)
Pink “Get the Party Started” (10/9/2001)
Alan Jackson “Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning” (11/24/2001)
Cliff Richard “Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World” (12/1/2001)

2002

Top 1%

Avril Lavigne “Complicated” (4/13/2002)
Nelly “Hot in Herre” (5/4/2002)
Eminem “Without Me” (5/11/2002)
Norah Jones “Don’t Know Why” (5/25/2002)
Nelly with Kelly Rowland “Dilemma” (7/6/2002)
Eminem “Lose Yourself” (10/5/2002)
Coldplay “Clocks” (11/30/2002)
50 Cent “In Da Club” (12/28/2002)

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%

Evanescence with Paul McCoy “Bring Me to Life” (1/25/2003)
The White Stripes “Seven Nation Army” (3/7/2003)
Johnny Cash “Hurt” (3/8/2003)
Beyoncé with Jay-Z “Crazy in Love” (5/20/2003)
OutKast “Hey Ya!” (9/19/2003)
The Killers “Mr. Brightside” (9/29/2003)

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” (9/22/2003)

2004

Top 1%

Usher with Lil’ Jon & Ludacris “Yeah!” (1/3/2004)
Britney Spears “Toxic” (1/9/2004)
Franz Ferdinand “Take Me Out” (1/12/2004)
Hoobastank “The Reason” (2/14/2004)
Green Day “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” (10/16/2004)
Kelly Clarkson “Since U Been Gone” (11/16/2004)

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%

Plain White T’s “Hey There Delilah” (album cut: 1/25/2005, single release: 5/9/2006)
Gwen Stefani “Hollaback Girl” (3/15/2005)
Mariah Carey “We Belong Together” (3/29/2005)
Gorillaz with De La Soul “Feel Good Inc.” (4/30/2005)
James Blunt “You’re Beautiful” (5/30/2005)
Daniel Powter “Bad Day” (6/27/2005)
Kanye West with Jamie Foxx “Gold Digger” (7/5/2005)
Arctic Monkeys “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor” (10/9/2005)

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%

Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats” (2/18/2006)
Shakira with Wyclef Jean “Hips Don’t Lie” (2/28/2006)
Gnarls Barkley “Crazy” (3/13/2006)
Nelly Furtado with Timbaland “Promiscuous” (4/25/2006)
One Republic with Timbaland “Apologize” (4/30/2006)
Snow Patrol “Chasing Cars” (6/3/2006)
Justin Timberlake “Sexyback” (7/14/2006)
Beyoncé “Irreplaceable” (10/23/2006)
Amy Winehouse “Rehab” (10/23/2006)

Top 2%

Dixie Chicks “Not Ready to Make Nice” (3/25/2006)
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%

Rihanna with Jay-Z “Umbrella” (3/29/2007)
Fergie “Big Girls Don’t Cry (Personal)” (5/5/2007)
Soulja Boy Tell’em “Crank That (Soulja Boy)” (6/30/2007)
Kanye West with Daft Punk “Stronger” (7/22/2007)
Alicia Keys “No One” (9/8/2007)
Flo Rida with T-Pain “Low” (10/6/2007)
Leona Lewis “Bleeding Love” (10/19/2007)

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%

M.I.A. “Paper Planes” (2/11/2008)
Jason Mraz “I’m Yours” (2/12/2008)
Lil’ Wayne with Static Major “Lollipop” (3/13/2008)
Lady Gaga with Colby O’Donnis “Just Dance” (4/8/2008)
Katy Perry “I Kissed a Girl” (5/13/2008)
Coldplay “Viva La Vida” (5/24/2008)
Taylor Swift “Love Story” (9/12/2008)
Lady Gaga “Poker Face” (9/23/2008)
Kings of Leon “Use Somebody” (10/4/2008)
Beyoncé “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” (10/12/2008)
Black Eyed Peas “Boom Boom Pow” (11/12/2008)
Taylor Swift “You Belong with Me” (11/22/2008)

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%

Flo Rida & Ke$ha “Right Round” (1/18/2009)
Black Eyed Peas “I Gotta Feeling” (6/16/2009)
Miley Cyrus “Party in the U.S.A.” (8/4/2009)
Ke$ha “Tik Tok” (8/7/2009)
Lady Antebellum “Need You Now” (8/11/2009)
Train “Hey, Soul Sister” (8/11/2009)
Jay-Z with Alicia Keys “Empire State of Mind” (9/19/2009)
Lady Gaga “Bad Romance” (10/26/2009)

Top 2%

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

2010

Top 1%

Katy Perry with Snoop Dogg “California Gurls” (5/11/2010)
Eminem with Rihanna “Love the Way You Lie” (7/3/2010)
Bruno Mars “Just the Way You Are (Amazing)” (8/7/2010)
Cee-Lo Green “Fuck You (aka “Forget You”)” (9/11/2010)
Foster the People “Pumped Up Kicks” (9/14/2010)
Rihanna “Only Girl in the World” (9/25/2010)
Bruno Mars “Grenade” (10/16/2010)
Katy Perry “Firework” (10/26/2010)
Adele “Rolling in the Deep” (11/29/2010)

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%

Adele “Someone Like You” (1/24/2011)
LMFAO with Lauren Bennett & GoonRock “Party Rock Anthem” (1/25/2011)
Lady Gaga “Born This Way” (2/11/2011)
Pitbull with Ne-Yo, Afrojack, & Nayer “Give Me Everything” (4/10/2011)
Maroon 5 with Christina Aguilera “Moves Like Jagger” (6/21/2011)
Gotye with Kimbra “Somebody That I Used to Know” (7/5/2011)
LMFAO “Sexy and I Know It” (7/30/2011)
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with Ray Dalton “Can’t Hold Us” (8/16/2011)
Carly Rae Jepsen “Call Me Maybe” (9/20/2011)
Fun. with Janelle Monáe “We Are Young” (9/20/2011)
Rihanna with Calvin Harris “We Found Love” (9/22/2011)

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%

Imagine Dragons “Radioactive” (4/2/2012)
The Lumineers “Ho Hey” (4/21/2012)
Psy “Gangnam Style” (7/15/2012)
Passenger “Let Her Go” (7/24/2012)
Florida Georgia Line with Nelly “Cruise” (8/6/2012)
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with Wanz “Thrift Shop” (8/27/2012)
Rihanna “Diamonds” (9/27/2012)
Bruno Mars “Locked Out of Heaven” (10/1/2012)

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%

Pink with Nate Ruess “Just Give Me a Reason” (2/6/2013)
Robin Thicke with T.I. & Pharrell Williams “Blurred Lines” (3/26/2013)
Daft Punk with Pharrell Williams “Get Lucky” (4/27/2013)
Lorde “Royals” (6/3/2013)
One Republic “Counting Stars” (6/14/2013)
Avicii with Aloe Blacc “Wake Me Up!” (6/17/2013)
Katy Perry “Roar” (8/10/2013)
John Legend “All of Me” (8/12/2013)
Miley Cyrus “Wrecking Ball” (8/25/2013)
Hozier “Take Me to Church” (9/16/2013)
Katy Perry with Juicy J “Dark Horse” (9/17/2013)
Pitbull with Ke$ha “Timber” (10/7/2013)
Magic! “Rude” (10/10/2013)
Pharrell Williams “Happy” (11/21/2013)
Idina Menzel “Let It Go” (11/25/2013)

Top 2%

Imagine Dragons “Demons” (1/26/2013)
Justin Timberlake “Mirrors” (2/11/2013)
Vance Joy “Riptide” (3/22/2013)
Arctic Monkeys “Do I Wanna Know? “6/19/2013)
Eminem & Rihanna “The Monster” (10/29/2013)

2014

Top 1%

Iggy Azalea with Charli XCX “Fancy” (2/17/2014)
Sam Smith “Stay with Me” (4/14/2014)
OMI “Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix)” (5/19/2014)
Meghan Trainor “All About That Bass” (6/2/2014)
Taylor Swift “Shake It Off” (8/18/2014)
Ed Sheeran “Thinking Out Loud” (9/24/2014)
Taylor Swift “Blank Space” (10/27/2014)
Mark Ronson with Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk!” (11/10/2014)

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

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Maroon 5 “Sugar” (1/13/2015)
Wiz Khalifa with Charlie Puth “See You Again” (3/17/2015)
Twenty One Pilots “Stressed Out” (4/28/2015)
The Weeknd “The Hills” (5/27/2015)
The Weeknd “Can’t Feel My Face” (6/8/2015)
Drake “Hotline Bling” (8/22/2015)
Justin Bieber “What Do You Mean?” (8/28/2015)
Lukas Graham “7 Years” (9/18/2015)
Adele “Hello” (10/23/2015)
Justin Bieber “Sorry” (10/25/2015)
Justin Bieber “Love Yourself” (11/9/2015)

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)
Thomas Rhett “Die a Happy Man” (9/28/2015)
Desiigner “Panda” (12/15/2015)

2016

Top 1%

Rihanna with Drake “Work” (1/27/2016)
Sia with Sean Paul “Cheap Thrills” (2/11/2016)
Drake with Wizkid & Kyla “One Dance” (4/5/2016)
Justin Timberlake “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” (5/6/2016)
Pinkfong! “Baby Shark” (6/17/2016)
The Chainsmokers with Halsey “Closer” (7/29/2016)
The Weeknd with Daft Punk “Starboy” (9/22/2016)
Bruno Mars “That’s What I Like” (12/10/2016)

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%

Ed Sheeran “Shape of You” (1/6/2017)
Luis Fonsi with Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber “Despacito” (1/12/2017)
The Chainsmokers with Coldplay “Something Just Like This” (2/22/2017)
Kendrick Lamar “Humble” (3/30/2017)
Cardi B “Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)” (6/16/2017)
Camila Cabello with Young Thug “Havana” (8/3/2017)
Post Malone with 21 Savage “Rockstar” (9/15/2017)
Lizzo “Truth Hurts” (9/19/2017)
Ed Sheeran with Beyoncé “Perfect” (9/26/2017)
Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line “Meant to Be” (10/24/2017)

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

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Drake “God’s Plan” (1/19/2018)
Maroon 5 with Cardi B “Girls Like You” (5/30/2018)
Drake “In My Feelings” (7/10/2018)
Lady Gaga with Bradley Cooper “Shallow” (9/27/2018)
Post Malone with Swae Lee “Sunflower” (10/18/2018)
Ariana Grande “Thank U, Next” (11/3/2018)
Lewis Capaldi “Someone You Loved” (11/8/2018)
Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road” (12/3/2018)

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)
5 Seconds of Summer “Youngblood” (4/12/2018)
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%

Ariana Grande “7 Rings” (1/18/2019)
Billie Eilish “Bad Guy” (3/29/2019)
Tones and I “Dance Monkey” (5/10/2019)
Shawn Mendes with Camila Cabello “Señorita” (6/21/2019)
Post Malone “Circles” (8/30/2019)
The Weeknd “Blinding Lights” (11/29/2019)

Top 2%

Jonas Brothers “Sucker” (3/1/2019)
Dua Lipa “Don’t Start Now” (10/31/2019)
Harry Styles “Watermelon Sugar” (11/30/2019)
Roddy Ricch “The Box” (12/6/2019)

2020

Top 1%

The Weeknd with Ariana Grande “Save Your Tears” (4/4/2020)
Glass Animals “Heat Waves” (6/29/2020)
Dua Lipa with DaBaby “Levitating” (10/17/2020)

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%

Olivia Rodrigo “Drivers License” (1/8/2021)
Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars & Anderson.Paak) “Leave the Door Open” (3/5/2021)
Olivia Rodrigo “Good 4 U” (5/14/2021)
The Kid Laroi with Justin Bieber “Stay” (7/9/2021)
Adele “Easy on Me” (10/8/2021)

Top 2%

Lil Nas X “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” (3/26/2021)
Justin Bieber with Daniel Caesar & Giveon “Peaches” (3/30/2021)
BTS “Butter” (5/21/2021)
Ed Sheeran “Bad Habits” (6/25/2021)
Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow “Industry Baby” (7/23/2021)

2022

Top 1%

Harry Styles “As It Was” (3/31/2022)

Top 2%

Rema with Selena Gomez “Calm Down” (2/11/2022)
Jack Harlow “First Class” (4/8/2022)
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%

Morgan Wallen “Last Night” (1/31/2023)
Teddy Swims “Lose Control” (6/23/2023)
Olivia Rodrigo “Vampire” (6/30/2023)
Billie Eilish “What Was I Made For?” (7/13/2023)
Zach Bryan with Kacey Musgraves “I Remember Everything” (9/6/2023)

2024

Top 1%

Shaboozey "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" (4/12/2024)

Top 2%

Benson Boone “Beautiful Things” (1/18/2024)
Beyoncé “Texas Hold ‘Em” (2/11/2024)
Hozier “Too Sweet” (3/29/2024)
Chappell Roan “ Good Luck, Babe!” (4/5/2024)
Sabrina Carpenter “Espresso” (4/11/2024)
Kendrick Lamar “Not Like Us” (5/4/2024)
Post Malone & Morgan Wallen “I Had Some Help” (5/10/2024)
Billie Eilish “Birds of a Feather” (5/29/2024)
Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars “Die with a Smile” (8/16/2024)

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