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Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Pop Culture Madness: Songs of the Year (1898-2024)

Pop Culture Madness:

Songs of the Year, 1898-2024

Pop Culture Madness bills itself as having charts which reflect continued popularity of songs, not just what was popular in its time. As such, their choices for best songs each year are often songs which never hit #1 on the charts. They have annual charts dating from 1955 to the present. With lists for 1900-1919 and another for the 1800s, that span can be stretched back to 1898.

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

2024: Chappell Roan “Hot to Go!”
2023: Miley Cyrus “Flowers”
2022: Harry Styles “As It Was”
2021: Dua Lipa with DaBaby “Levitating”
2020: The Weeknd “Blinding Lights”
2019: Post Malone with Swae Lee “Sunflower”
2018: Ed Sheeran with Beyoncé “Perfect”
2017: Ed Sheeran “Shape of You”
2016: The Chainsmokers with Halsey “Closer”
2015: Walk the Moon “Shut Up and Dance”
2014: Taylor Swift “Shake It Off”
2013: Robin Thicke with T.I. & Pharrell Williams “Blurred Lines”
2012: Psy “Gangnam Style”
2011: LMFAO with Lauren Bennett & Goon Rock “Party Rock Anthem”
2010: Katy Perry “Firework”
2009: Black Eyed Peas “I Gotta Feeling”
2008: Beyoncé “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”
2007: Cupid “Cupid Shuffle”
2006: Justin Timberlake “Sexyback”
2005: Gwen Stefani “Hollaback Girl”
2004: Usher with Lil’ Jon & Ludacris “Yeah!”
2003: Beyoncé with Jay-Z “Crazy in Love”
2002: Kelly Clarkson “A Moment Like This”
2001: Mr. C the Slide Man “Cha-Cha Slide”
2000: The Baha Men “Who Let the Dogs Out”
1999: Smash Mouth “All Star”
1998: Aerosmith “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing”
1997: Aqua “Barbie Girl”
1996: Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta “The Grease Megamix”
1995: Rednex “Cotton Eye Joe”
1994: Shery Crow “All I Wanna Do”
1993: Haddaway “What Is Love?”
1992: Sir Mix-a-Lot “Baby Got Back”
1991: Natalie Cole with Nat “King” Cole “Unforgettable”
1990: Marcia Griffiths “Electric Slide (Electric Boogie)”
1989: The B-52’s “Love Shack”
1988: Def Leppard “Pour Some Sugar on Me”
1987: Bon Jovi “Livin’ on a Prayer”
1986: Dionne Warwick with Elton John, Gladys Knight, & Stevie Wonder “That's What Friends Are For”
1985: Starship “We Built This City”
1984: Michael Jackson “Thriller”
1983: The Weather Girls “It’s Raining Men”
1982: The Sugarhill Gang “Apache (Jump on It)”
1981: Journey “Don’t Stop Believin’”
1980: AC/DC “You Shook Me All Night Long”
1979: Village People “Y.M.C.A.”
1978: Donna Summer “Last Dance”
1977: Abba “Dancing Queen”
1976: Wild Cherry “Play That Funky Music”
1975: KC & the Sunshine Band “Get Down Tonight”
1974: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Sweet Home Alabama”
1973: Marvin Gaye “Let’s Get It On”
1972: Gary Glitter “Rock and Roll Part 2”
1971: James Taylor “You’ve Got a Friend”
1970: The Jackson 5 “I’ll Be There”
1969: The Foundations “Build Me Up Buttercup”
1968: Otis Redding “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay”
1967: Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”
1966: Frank Sinatra “Summer Wind”
1965: The Righteous Brothers “The Righteous Brothers “Unchained Melody”
1964: The Beatles “Twist and Shout”
1963: Boots Randolph & His Combo “Yakety Sax (Benny Hill Theme)”
1962: Dick Dale “Misirlou”
1961: Etta James “At Last”
1960: Chubby Checker Chubby Checker “The Twist”
1959: Bobby Darin “Mack the Knife”
1958: The Champs “Tequila”
1957: Elvis Presley “Jailhouse Rock”
1956: Elvis Presley “Don’t Be Cruel”/“Hound Dog”
1955: Tennessee Ernie Ford “Sixteen Tons”
1954: Bill Haley & His Comets “We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock”
1953:
1952:
1951: Tommy Edwards “It’s All in the Game”
1950:
1949: Vaughn Monroe “Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)”
1948: Art Mooney “I’m Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover”
1947: Nat “King” Cole “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)”
1946: Johnny Mercer “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah”
1945: Les Brown with Doris Day “Sentimental Journey”
1944: Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's an Irish Lullaby)”
1943: Alfred Drake “Oklahoma!”
1942: Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers & the John Scott Trotter Orchestra “White Christmas”
1941: Artie Shaw “Stardust”
1940: Cliff Edwards “When You Wish Upon a Star”
1939: Judy Garland “Over the Rainbow”
1938: Seven Dwarfs “Whistle While You Work”
1937: Count Basie “One O’Clock Jump”
1936: Bing Crosby “Pennies from Heaven”
1935: Shirley Temple “On the Good Ship Lollipop”
1934: Guy Lombardo “Winter Wonderland”
1933: Dick Powell “The Gold Digger’s Song (We’re in the Money)”
1932: Fred Astaire “Night and Day”
1931: Ted Lewis “Just a Gigolo”
1930: Ben Selvin “Happy Days Are Here Again”
1929: Louis Armstrong “When You’re Smiling”
1928: Bertolt Brecht “Mack the Knife”
1927: Nick Lucas “I’m Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover”
1926: Vincent Lopez “Show Me the Way to Go Home”
1925: Ben Bernie “Sweet Georgia Brown”
1924: Al Jolson “California Here I Come”
1923: Paul Whiteman “I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise”
1922: Al Jolson “April Showers”
1921: Marion Harris: “I Ain’t Got Nobody”
1920: Al Jolson “Swanee”
1919: Al Bernard “St. Louis Blues”
1918: Ernestine Schumann-Heink “Danny Boy”
1917: Douglas Furber & A. Emmett Adams (writers) “The Bells of St. Mary’s”
1916: Harry B. Smith & Victor Herbert “You Belong to Me”
1915: John McCormack “It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary”
1914: Kenneth J. Alford (aka Frederick Joseph Ricketts) (writer) “Colonel Bogey March”
1913: Chauncey Olcott “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling”
1912: Arthur Collins with Bryon G. Harlan “I’m Going Back to Dixie (aka ‘I Want to Be in Dixie’)”
1911: Victor Herbert “March of the Toys”
1910: Evan Williams “Because”
1909: Haydn Quartet Haydn Quartet “Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet”
1908: Billy Murray with Haydn Quartet “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”
1907: Billy Murray “Harrigan”
1906: Billy Murray “You’re a Grand Old Flag (aka “The Grand Old Rag”)”
1905: Billy Murray “Yankee Doodle Boy”
1904: Billy Murray “Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis”
1903: Dan Quinn “The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous”
1902: Edward Elgard (writer) “Pomp and Circumstance”
1901: Charles H. Loomis, Allan M. Hirsch, & G.L. Atwater Jr. (writers) “Yale Boola! (March and Two Step)”
1900: Paul Dresser (writer) “Give Us Just Another Lincoln”
1899: Cal Stewart “Uncle Josh in Society”
1898: Billy Golden “Bye Bye My Honey”

Resources/Related Links:

Dave’s Music Database: “‘Songs of the Year’ lists”
Pop Culture Madness

First posted 4/12/2019; last updated 12/31/2024.

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

ASCAP: Songs of the Year (1914-2024)

ASCAP:

Songs of the Year, 1914-2024

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) formed in 1914. They are a membership association of more than 930,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers. In honor of their 100th birthday, they created a list of their top 100 songs as well as a list of the songs of the year from 1914 to 2013.

This page includes all of the songs on that list as well as awards for Pop Song of the Year. I can’t find an official list of the latter, but have compiled those songs to receive the award from 2005 to 2023.

FYI – ASCAP identifies the songs by the songwriters, not the performers, but I have identified the performer associated with the highest-ranked version of the song even if that version doesn’t correspond with the referenced year.

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

ASCAP Award for Pop Song of the Year:

2024: Rema & Selena Gomez “Calm Down”
2023: The Kid Laroi with Justin Bieber “Stay”
2022: Dua Lipa with DaBaby “Levitating”
2021: Post Malone “Circles”
2020: Jonas Brothers “Sucker”
2019: Zedd “The Middle”
2018: Ed Sheeran “Shape of You”
2017: Justin Bieber “Love Yourself”
2016: Walk the Moon “Shut Up and Dance”
2015: John Legend “All of Me”
2014: Robin Thicke with T.I. & Pharrell Williams “Blurred Lines”
2013: Fun with Janelle Monáe “We Are Young”
2012: Adele “Someone Like You”
2011: Train “Hey, Soul Sister”
2010: Coldplay “Viva La Vida”
2009: Alicia Keys “No One”
2008: Fergie “Big Girls Don’t Cry (Personal)”
2007: Ne-Yo “So Sick”
2006: Mariah Carey “We Belong Together”
2005: OutKast “Hey Ya!”

ASCAP Song of the Year (2014 List):

2013: Bruno Mars “Locked Out of Heaven”
2012: Rihanna with Calvin Harris “We Found Love”
2011: LMFAO with Lauren Bennett & GoonRock “Party Rock Anthem”
2010: Beyoncé “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”
2009: The Fray “You Found Me”
2008: Leona Lewis “Bleeding Love”
2007: Fergie “Big Girls Don’t Cry (Personal)”
2006: Sean Paul “Temperature”
2005: Green Day “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”
2004: Hoobastank “The Reason”
2003: Uncle Kracker with Dobie Gray “Drift Away”
2002: Puddle of Mudd “Blurry”
2001: Train “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)”
2000: Brian McKnight “Back at One”
1999: Sixpence None the Richer “Kiss Me”
1998: Backstreet Boys “As Long As You Love Me”
1997: The Wallflowers “One Headlight”
1996: Celine Dion “Because You Loved Me”
1995: Martin Page “In the House of Stone and Light”
1994: All-4-One / John Michael Montgomery “I Swear”
1993: UB40 “Can’t Help Falling in Love”
1992: Genesis “Hold on My Heart”
1991: Amy Grant “Baby Baby”
1990: Alannah Myles “Black Velvet”
1989: Bette Midler “Wind Beneath My Wings”
1988: George Michael “Father Figure”
1987: U2 “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”
1986: Berlin “Take My Breath Away”
1985: John Cougar Mellencamp “Small Town”
1984: George Michael “Careless Whisper”
1983: Eurythmics “Sweet Dreams Are Made of This”
1982: John Cougar Mellencamp “Jack and Diane”
1981: Phil Collins “In the Air Tonight”
1980: REO Speedwagon “Keep on Loving You”
1979: The Doobie Brothers “What a Fool Believes”
1978: Billy Joel “My Life”
1977: Eagles “Hotel California”
1976: The Four Seasons “December 1963 (Oh What a Night)”
1975: Peter Frampton “Baby I Love Your Way”
1974: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Sweet Home Alabama”
1973: Brooks & Dunn “My Maria”
1972: Eagles “Take It Easy”
1971: Rod Stewart “Maggie May”
1970: The Jackson 5 “I’ll Be There”
1969: The Beatles “Come Together”
1968: Louis Armstrong “What a Wonderful World”
1967: Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”
1966: The Mamas & the Papas “California Dreamin’”
1965: The Beatles “Yesterday”
1964: The Temptations “My Girl”
1963: The Beatles “She Loves You”
1962: The Contours “Do You Love Me?”
1961: Elvis Presley “Can’t Help Falling in Love”
1960: Elvis Presley “It’s Now or Never”
1959: Percy Faith “Theme from A Summer Place”
1958: The Skyliners “Since I Don’t Have You”
1957: Buddy Holly & the Crickets “That’ll Be the Day”
1956: Johnny Mathis “Wonderful Wonderful”
1955: Doris Day “Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera Sera)”
1954: The Chordettes “Mr. Sandman”
1953: Bill Haley & the Comets “We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock”
1952: Nat “King” Cole “When I Fall in Love”
1951: Natalie Cole with Nat “King” Cole “Unforgettable”
1950: Nat “King” Cole “Mona Lisa”
1949: Gene Autry & Pinafores “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
1948: Lenny Welch “Since I Fell for You”
1947: Francis Craig Orchestra with Bob Lamm “Near You”
1946: Nat “King” Cole “Get Your Kicks on Route 66”
1945: Bobby Darin “Beyond the Sea”
1944: Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra & Williams Brothers Quartet “Swinging on a Star”
1943: Dick Haymes & the Song Spinners “You’ll Never Know”
1942: Glenn Miller Orchestra with Tex Beneke & Marion Hutton “I’ve Got a Gal in Kalamazoo”
1941: Glenn Miller with Tex Beneke & the Four Modernaires “Chattanooga Choo Choo”
1940: Glenn Miller “In the Mood”
1939: Glenn Miller “Moonlight Serenade”
1938: Judy Garland “Over the Rainbow”
1937: Shep Fields & Bob Goday “Thanks for the Memory”
1936: Benny Goodman Orchestra “Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)”
1935: Patty S. Hill & Mildred J. Hill (songwriters) “Happy Birthday to You”
1934: The Flamingos “I Only Have Eyes for You”
1933: Duke Ellington “Sophisticated Lady”
1932: Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman’s Orchestra “Night and Day”
1931: Dooley Wilson “As Time Goes By”
1930: Wayne King with Ernie Birchill “Dream a Little Dream of Me”
1929: Eddie Cantor “Makin’ Whoopee”
1928: Bobby Darin “Mack the Knife”
1927: Artie Shaw “Stardust”
1926: Gene Austin “Bye Bye Blackbird”
1925: Ben Bernie Orchestra “Sweet Georgia Brown”
1924: Paul Whiteman with George Gershwin “Rhapsody in Blue”
1923: Isham Jones “Swingin’ Down the Lane”
1922: Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra “Three O’Clock in the Morning”
1921: Nora Bayes “Make Believe”
1920: Paul Whiteman Orchestra “Whispering”
1919: Marion Harris “After You’ve Gone”
1918: Charles Harrison “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows”
1917: American Quartet “Over There”
1916: Billy Murray “Pretty Baby”
1915: Olive Kline (as Alice Green) with Edward Hamilton “Hello Frisco!”
1914: Heidelberg Quintet “By the Beautiful Sea”

Resources/Related Links:

Dave’s Music Database: “Lists from other publications and/or organizations”
ASCAP.com
ASCAP.com (2/13/2014). “ASCAP Celebrates 100th Birthday with Top Songs Lists”

First posted 5/18/2023; last updated 5/8/2024.

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