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Sunday, April 23, 2023

The World's All-Time Best-Selling Songs

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The World’s All-Time Best Sellers

This list is a compiled from a variety of sources for sales figures (see complete source list here), but they are generally estimates since there is no official agency to track worldwide sales. As such, it is highly possible that some of these sales figures have been inflated by record companies or other vested parties, but this list does at least offer some idea of the world’s best-selling songs.

On top of that, these figures don’t always strictly represent sales. Especially in the 21st century, additional figures – such as the number of times songs were streamed via Spotify, YouTube or other services – have been factored into official certifications. That means a song certified for 10 million in sales may not have actually “sold” that many copies.

If you have your doubts about some of these songs belonging on this list, you’re not alone. I realize my knowledge of music beyond U.S. shores is limited, but if songs like Thelma Aoyama’s “Soba ni lur ne”, Utada Hikaru’s “Flavor of Life”, Kiseki’s “Greeeen”, Andre Brasseur’s “Early Bird”, and Machiko Soga’s “Oba-Q Ondo” are truly that monstrous in sales, shouldn’t I have at least heard of them? Oh well. I just report the lists. I don’t make these figures up (even if someone else does).

Note: in the event of ties, songs are ranked according to overall DMDB points.

Check other lists based on charts, sales, and airplay here.

The World’s All-Time Best-Selling Songs
(6 million +)

25+ million:

55.00: Bing Crosby “White Christmas” (1942)
54.12: Ziao Zhan “Spotlight” (2020)
41.50: Ed Sheeran “Shape of You” (2017)
37.00: Elton John “Candle in the Wind 1997 (Goodbye England’s Rose)” (1997)
36.10: Luis Fonsi with Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber “Despacito” (2017)
32.50: Rihanna with Drake “Work” (2016)
31.00: Black Eyed Peas “I Gotta Feeling” (2009)
30.00: Bing Crosby “Silent Night” (1935)
30.00: Tino Rossi “Petit Papa Noël” (1946)
30.00: Mungo Jerry “In the Summertime” (1970)
28.50: Lady Gaga “Poker Face” (2009)
27.00: Black Eyed Peas “Boom Boom Pow” (2009)
25.00: Bill Haley & His Comets “We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock” (1954)
25.00: The Harry Simeone Chorale “The Little Drummer Boy” (1958)
20.1 to 24.9 million:
22.0: Elvis Presley “It’s Now or Never” (1960)
22.00: Jason Mraz “I’m Yours” (2008)
22.00: Lorde “Royals” (2013)
21.50: The Chainsmokers with Coldplay “Something Just Like This” (2017)
21.40: Ed Sheeran with Beyoncé “Perfect” (2017)
20.90: Wiz Khalifa & Charlie Puth “See You Again” (2015)
20.70: The Chainsmokers with Halsey “Closer” (2016)
20.60: Adele “Rolling in the Deep” (2010)
20.30: Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road” (2018)
20 million:
“The Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)” (1851) *
“Listen to the Mocking Bird (aka “The Mocking Bird”)” (1891) *
U.S.A. for Africa “We Are the World” (1985)
Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You” (1992)
Mark Ronson with Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk!” (2014)
18 to 19 million:
19.85: Maroon 5 with Christina Aguilera “Moves Like Jagger” (2011)
19.50: Coldplay “Viva La Vida” (2008)
19.50: Ed Sheeran “Thinking Out Loud” (2014)
19.50: Billie Eilish “Bad Guy” (2019)
19.34: The Weeknd “Blinding Lights” (2019)
19.00: The Ink Spots “If I Didn’t Care” (1939)
19.00: Lady Gaga with Colby O’Donis “Just Dance” (2008)
19.00: Camila Cabello with Young Thug “Havana” (2017)
18.87: LMFAO with Lauren Bennett & GoonRock “Party Rock Anthem” (2011)
18.00: Gene Autry “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (1949)
18.00: Baccara “Yes Sir, I Can Boogie” (1977)
18.00: Celine Dion “My Heart Will Go On” (1997)
18.00: Taylor Swift “Love Story” (2008)
18.00: Carly Rae Jepsen “Call Me Maybe” (2011)
16 to 17.9 million:
17.60: Post Malone with Swae Lee “Sunflower” (2018)
17.50: Flo Rida with T-Pain “Low” (2007)
17.33: John Legend “All of Me” (2013)
17.31: Gotye with Kimbra “Somebody That I Used to Know” (2012)
17.19: Drake “God’s Plan” (2018)
17.00: Adele “Someone Like You” (2011)
17.00: Rihanna “Needed Me” (2016)
16.44: Imagine Dragons “Radioactive” (2012)
16.37: Eminem “Lose Yourself” (2002)
16.10: Eminem with Rihanna “Love the Way You Lie” (2010)
16.10: Shawn Mendes with Camila Cabello “Señorita” (2019)
16.00: Kenny Rogers “Lady” (1980)
16.00: Mariah Carey “All I Want for Christmas Is You” (1994)
15.1 to 15.9 million:
15.90: Beyoncé “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” (2008)
15.77: Bruno Mars “Just the Way You Are (Amazing)” (2010)
15.60: Robin Thicke with T.I. & Pharrell Williams “Blurred Lines” (2013)
15.43: Post Malone with Quavo “Congratulations” (2016)
15.40: Imagine Dragons “Believer” (2017)
15.24: Adele “Hello” (2015)
15.12: Pharrell Williams “Happy” (2013) 13.9 m
15 million:
Tony Bennett “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” (1962)
Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta “You’re the One That I Want” (1978)
Kaoma “Lambada” (1989)
Bryan Adams “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” (1991)
The Scorpions “Wind of Change” (1991)
Rihanna “Love on the Brain” (2016)
14 to 14.9 million:
14.80: Drake “In My Feelings” (2018)
14.75: The Weeknd “The Hills” (2015)
14.54: Miley Cyrus “Party in the U.S.A.” (2009)
14.52: Tones and I “Dance Monkey” (2019)
14.45: Justin Bieber “Sorry” (2015)
14.44: Chris Stapleton “Tennessee Whiskey” (2015)
14.41: Katy Perry “Firework” (2010)
14.30: Florida Georgia Line with Nelly “Cruise” (2012)
14.25: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with Wanz “Thrift Shop” (2012)
14.20: Ke$ha “Tik Tok” (2009)
14.16: Hozier “Take Me to Church” (2013)
14.00: The Andrews Sisters “Bei Mir Bist Du Schöen (Means That You’re Grand)” (1938)
14.00: Terry Jacks “Seasons in the Sun” (1974)
14.00: Gloria Gaynor “I Will Survive” (1978)
13.0 to 13.9 million:
13.78: Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody” (1975)
13.62: Drake “One Dance” (2016)
13.58: Taylor Swift “Shake It Off” (2014)
13.56: Meghan Trainor “All About That Bass” (2014)
13.50: Justin Bieber with Ludacris “Baby” (2010)
13.50: Maroon 5 “Sugar” (2014)
13.40: Leona Lewis “Bleeding Love” (2007)
13.35: Bebe Rexha with Florida Georgia Line “Meant to Be” (2017)
13.30: Ariana Grande “7 Rings” (2019)
13.26: Lady Gaga “Bad Romance” (2009)
13.26: The Weeknd with Daft Punk “Starboy” (2016)
13.26: Post Malone with 21 Savage “Rockstar” (2017)
13.20: Rihanna “Disturbia” (2008)
13.20: Katy Perry with Juicy J “Dark Horse” (2013)
13.10: Major Lazer, DJ Snake & MØ “Lean On” (2015)
13.08: Katy Perry “Roar” (2013)
13.00: Kyu Sakamoto “Sukiyaki” (1963)
13.00: Prince Nico Mbarga “Sweet Mother” (1976)
13.00: Chic “Le Freak” (1978)
13.00: Trio “Da Da Da” (1982)
13.00: Pink “So What” (2008)
12.0 to 12.9 million:
12.93: One Republic “Counting Stars” (2013)
12.90: Katy Perry “I Kissed a Girl” (2008)
12.89: Psy “Gangnam Style” (2012)
12.82: Rihanna & Calvin Harris “We Found Love” (2011)
12.77: Justin Timberlake “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” (2016)
12.66: Bruno Mars “That’s What I Like” (2016)
12.64: The Kid Laroi with Justin Bieber “Stay” (2021)
12.62: Post Malone “Circles” (2019)
12.60: Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” (2015)
12.46: The Weeknd “Can’t Feel My Face” (2015)
12.38: James Arthur “Say You Won’t Let Me Go” (2016)
12.36: Fun. & Janelle Monáe “We Are Young” (2012)
12.36: The Chainsmokers with Daya “Don’t Let Me Down” (2016)
12.35: Train “Hey, Soul Sister” (2009)
12.34: Eminem “Not Afraid” (2010)
12.31: Sam Smith “Stay with Me” (2014)
12.20: Bruno Mars “When I Was Your Man” (2012)
12.19: Twenty One Pilots “Stressed Out” (2015)
12.17: Bruno Mars “Grenade” (2010)
12.12: Avicii with Aloe Blacc “Wake Me Up!” (2012)
12.04: Maroon 5 with Cardi B “Girls Like You” (2017)
12.00: The Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (1963)
12.00: Village People “Y.M.C.A.” (1978)
12.00: Andrea Bocelli with Sarah Brightman “Time to Say Goodbye” (1998)
12.00: Flo Rida with Ke$ha “Right Round” (2009)
11.1 to 11.9 million:
11.90: Katy Perry “Hot N Cold” (2008)
11.86: Bruno Mars “Locked Out of Heaven” (2012)
11.81: Lady Antebellum “Need You Now” (2009)
11.71: Michael Jackson “Billie Jean” (1983)
11.70: Band Aid “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” (1984)
11.70: Kanye West with Daft Punk “Stronger” (2007)
11.70: Christina Perri “A Thousand Years” (2011)
11.70: Justin Bieber “Love Yourself” (2015)
11.68: Cardi B “Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)” (2017)
11.68: Taylor Swift “Blank Space” (2014)
11.60: Pinkfong! “Baby Shark” (2016)
11.43: Owl City “Fireflies” (2009)
11.43: Cardi B with Bad Bunny & J. Balvin “I Like It” (2018)
11.42: Drake “Hotline Bling” (2015)
11.34: Daft Punk with Pharrell Williams “Get Lucky” (2013)
11.29: Pitbull with Ke$ha “Timber” (2013)
11.25: Idina Menzel “Let It Go” (2013)
11.20: Pitbull with Ne-Yo, Afrojack, & Nayer “Give Me Everything” (2011)
11.15: AWOL Nation “Sail” (2011)
11.10: Fetty Wap “Trap Queen” (2014)
11.10: Sia with Sean Paul “Cheap Thrills” (2016)
11.06: Juice Wrld “Lucid Dreams” (2018)
11.01: French Montana with Swae Lee “Unforgettable” (2017)
11 million:
Mills Brothers “Paper Doll” (1943)
Carl Douglas “Kung Fu Fighting” (1974)
George McCrae “Rock Your Baby” (1974)
Roger Whittaker “The Last Farewell” (1975)
Abba “Fernando” (1976)
Patrick Hernandez “Born to Be Alive” (1979)
Los Del Rio “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)” (1995)
Cher “Believe” (1998)
Rihanna with Jay-Z “Umbrella” (2007)
T.I. with Rihanna “Live Your Life” (2008)
The Neighburhood “Sweater Weather” (2012)
Darius Rucker “Wagon Wheel” (2013)
Lil Uzi Vert “XO Tour Llif3” (2017)
Future & Drake “Life Is Good” (2020)
10 + million:
10.90: Twenty One Pilots “Heathens” (2016)
10.90: Tia Ray “Be Apart” (2018)
10.81: Michael Jackson “Thriller” (1982)
10.81: Justin Bieber “What Do You Mean?” (2015)
10.77: LMFAO “Sexy and I Know It” (2011)
10.77: Glass Animals “Heat Waves” (2020)
10.66: The Weeknd “Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)” (2014)
10.58: Imagine Dragons “Thunder” (2017)
10.55: Imagine Dragons “Demons” (2012)
10.50: Plain White T’s “Hey There Delilah” (2006)
10.45: Lady Gaga “Born This Way” (2011)
10.43: Travis Scott with Drake “Sicko Mode” (2018)
10.43: XXXtentacion “Sad!” (2018)
10.42: Foster the People “Pumped Up Kicks” (2010)
10.42: Nicki Minaj “Super Bass” (2011)
10.40: Journey “Don’t Stop Believin’” (1981)
10.40: Lukas Graham “7 Years” (2015)
10.34: Sam Hunt “Body Like a Back Road” (2017)
10.32: Lil Baby & Gunna “Drip Too Hard” (2018)
10.30: Ed Sheeran with Justin Bieber “I Don’t Care” (2019)
10.24: Katy Perry with Snoop Dogg “California Gurls” (2010)
10.20: Lady Gaga with Bradley Cooper “Shallow” (2018)
10.07: Kid Cudi with MGMT & Ratatat “Pursuit of Happiness (Nightmare)” (2009)
10.05: DJ Khaled with Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper, and Lil Wayne “I’m the One” (2017)
10 million:
Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys “Wabash Cannonball” (1938)
Patti Page “Tennessee Waltz” (1950)
The Penguins “Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)” (1954)
Elvis Presley “Don’t Be Cruel” / “Hound Dog” (1956)
Paul Anka “Diana” (1957)
The Monkees “I’m a Believer” (1966)
Procol Harum “A Whiter Shade of Pale” (1967)
The Beatles “Hey Jude” / “Revolution” (1968)
George Harrison “My Sweet Lord” (1970)
Led Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven” (1971)
Middle of the Road “Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep” (1971)
Van McCoy “The Hustle” (1975)
The Knack “My Sharona” (1979)
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts “I Love Rock and Roll” (1981)
Goombay Dance Band “Sun of Jamaica” (1982)
Toni Braxton “Un-Break My Heart” (1996)
Britney Spears “Baby One More Time” (1998)
Panjabi MC “Mundian To Bach Ke” (1998)
Shakira with Wyclef Jean “Hips Don’t Lie” (2006)
One Republic with Timbaland “Apologize” (2007)
Lil Wayne with Static Major “Lollipop” (2008)
Shakira with Freshlyground “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)” (2010)
Mike Posner “I Took a Pill in Ibiza” (2015)
Post Malone “White Iverson” (2015)
Post Malone “I Fall Apart” (2016)
Khalid “Location” (2017)
9+ million:
9.90: Pink with Nate Ruess “Just Give Me a Reason” (2012)
9.88: Rihanna with Mikky Ekko “Stay” (2012)
9.82: Kendrick Lamar “Humble” (2017)
9.78: Future “Mask Off” (2017)
9.75: Katy Perry with Kanye West “E.T.” (2010)
9.71: Eminem with Rihanna “The Monster” (2013)
9.62: Shawn Mendes “Stitches” (2015)
9.61: Lewis Capaldi “Someone You Loved” (2018)
9.60: Marshmello with Anne-Marie “Friends” (2018)
9.59: Taio Cruz “Dynamite” (2010)
9.54: Kanye West with Jamie Foxx “Gold Digger” (2005)
9.43: Jay-Z with Kanye West “Niggas in Paris” (2011)
9.40: Survivor “Eye of the Tiger” (1982)
9.40: Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow “Industry Baby” (2021)
9.34: Rihanna “Diamonds” (2012)
9.20: Eminem with Nate Dogg “Till I Collapse” (2002)
9.20: Post Malone with Ty Dolla $ign “Psycho” (2018)
9.17: Jessie J with Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj “Bang Bang” (2014)
9.15: Roddy Ricch “The Box” (2019)
9.10: Ed Sheeran “The A Team” (2011)
9.10: Maroon 5 with Wiz Khalifa “Payphone” (2012)
9.10: Iggy Azalea with Charli XCX “Fancy” (2014)
9.10: Halsey “Without Me” (2018)
9.07: Taylor Swift “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” (2012)
9 million:
Elvis Presley “Jailhouse Rock” (1957)
Elvis Presley “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” (1960)
Paul McCartney & Wings “Mull of Kintyre” (1977)
Nick Straker Band “A Walk in the Park” (1980)
Ariana Grande with Iggy Azalea “Problem” (2014)
Khalid “Young, Dumb & Broke” (2017)
XXXtentacion with Trippie Redd “Fuck Love” (2017)
8+ million:
8.96: Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa “One Kiss” (2018)
8.92: Zedd with Maren Morris & Grey “The Middle” (2018)
8.89: Toto “Africa” (1982)
8.81: Taylor Swift “I Knew You Were Trouble” (2012)
8.80: Eminem “The Real Slim Shady” (2000)
8.73: Cee-Lo Green “Fuck You (aka “Forget You”)” (2010)
8.73: Adele “Set Fire to the Rain” (2011)
8.72: Calvin Harris & Rihanna “This Is What You Came For” (2016)
8.66: Katy Perry “Teenage Dream” (2010)
8.60: Magic! “Rude” (2013)
8.58: Chris Brown with Drake “No Guidance” (2019)
8.58: The Weeknd with Ariana Grande “Save Your Tears” (2020)
8.54: Logic with Alessia Cara & Khalid “1-800-273-8255”
8.50: Ben Selvin “Dardanella” (1920) **
8.50: Shakira “Whenever, Wherever” (2001)
8.40: Jennifer Lopez with Pitbull “On the Floor” (2011)
8.39: Olivia Rodrigo “Drivers License” (2021)
8.35: Taylor Swift “You Belong with Me” (2008)
8.30: OMI “Cheerleader (Felx Jaehn remix)” (2014)
8.30: Twenty One Pilots “Ride” (2015)
8.30: Charlie Puth “Attention” (2017)
8.28: Bruno Mars “The Lazy Song” (2010)
8.20: Thelma Aoyama “Soba ni lur ne” (2009)
8.20: Passenger “Let Her Go” (2012)
8.11: Sam Smith “I’m Not the Only One” (2014)
8.10: will.i.am with Britney Spears “Scream & Shout” (2012)
8.10: Jason Derulo “Want to Want Me” (2015)
8.10: Benny Blanco with Halsey & Khalid “Eastside” (2018)
8.10: Post Malone “Wow.” (2018)
8.09: Ariana Grande “Thank U, Next” (2018)
8 million:
Vernon Dalhart.. The Prisoner’s Song” (1925) **
Mahalia Jackson “Move on Up a Little Higher” (1948)
Freddy Quinn “Heimweh” (1956)
Rocco Granata “Marina” (1959)
The Kingsmen “Louie Louie” (1963)
The Animals “The House of the Rising Sun” (1964)
Georgie Fame “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde” (1967)
Mary Hopkin “Those Were the Days” (1968)
Shocking Blue “Venus” (1969)
Boney M “Ma Baker” (1978)
Lipps Inc. “Funkytown” (1979)
The Sugarhill Gang “Rapper’s Delight” (1979)
Richard Sanderson “Reality” (1980)
Modern Talking “You’re My Heart, You’re My Soul” (1985)
Paul Hardcastle “19” (1985)
Whitney Houston “I Wanna Dance with Somebody Who Loves Me” (1987)
Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)
Puff Daddy, Faith Evans & 112 “I’ll Be Missing You” (1997)
Aqua “Barbie Girl” (1997)
Ricky Martin “Livin’ La Vida Loca” (1999)
Enrique Iglesias “Hero” (2001)
Beyoncé with Jay-Z “Crazy in Love” (2003)
O-Zone “Dragostea din tei” (2003)
Black Eyed Peas “My Humps” (2005)
Utada Hikaru “Flavor of Life” (2007)
Chris Brown with Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes “Look at Me Now” (2011)
Enrique Iglesias with Descemer Bueno & Gente de Zona “Bailando” (2014)
Future with the Weeknd “Low Life” (2016)
XXXtentacion “Jocelyn Flores” (2017)
Brett Young “In Case You Didn’t Know” (2017)
Kyle with Lil Yachty “iSpy” (2017)
6ix9ine with Nicki Minaj & Murda Beatz “Fefe” (2018)
Travis Scott with HVME “Goosebumps” (2021)
7+ million:
7.99: Bastille “Pompeii” (2013)
7.95: Michael Jackson “Beat It” (1982)
7.81: Train “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)” (2001)
7.78: Rihanna “Only Girl in the World” (2010)
7.69: The Lumineers “Ho Hey” (2012)
7.64: Cardi B with Megan Thee Stallion “WAP” (2020)
7.62: James Blunt “You’re Beautiful”” (2005)
7.62: Nicki Minaj “Starships” (2012)
7.60: Nelly & Kelly Rowland “Dilemma” (2002)
7.60: Eminem “Rap God” (2013)
7.56: Kelly Clarkson “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” (2011)
7.54: Rae Sremmurd with Gucci Mane “Black Beatles” (2016)
7.50: Queen “We Will Rock You” (1977)
7.50: Lizzo “Truth Hurts” (2017)
7.48: Drake “Nonstop” (2018)
7.48: Harry Styles “As It Was” (2022)
7.46: Lana Del Rey with Cedric Gervais “Summertime Sadness” (2012)
7.44: James Bay “Let It Go” (2014)
7.41: Beyoncé “If I Were a Boy” (2008)
7.41: Christina Perri “Jar of Hearts” (201)
7.40: Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats” (2006)
7.40: Lady Gaga with Beyoncé “Telephone” (2009)
7.36: Adele “Easy on Me” (2021)
7.35: Fun. “Some Nights” (2012)
7.35: Beyoncé with Jay-Z “Drunk in Love” (2013)
7.30: Avril Lavigne “Girlfriend” (2007)
7.30: Black Eyed Peas “The Time (Dirty Bit)” (2010)
7.26: Shawn Mendes “Treat You Better” (2016)
7.24: J. Cole “Middle Child” (2019)
7.23: Portugal. The Man “Feel It Still” (2017)
7.22: Vance Joy “Riptide” (2013)
7.20: Ashanti with Ja Rule “Foolish” (2002)
7.20: Katy Perry “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” (2010)
7.20: Michel Teló “Ai Se Eu Te Pego” (2011)
7.20: Adele “Skyfall” (2012)
7.20: Bryson Tiller “Don’t” (2015)
7.20: Dan + Shay “Tequila” (2018)
7.18: The Chainsmokers with Rozes “Roses” (2015)
7.15: G-Eazy with A$AP Rocky & Cardi B “No Limit” (2017)
7.14: Snow Patrol “Chasing Cars” (2006)
7.11: Alicia Keys with Nicki Minaj “Girl on Fire” (2012)
7.09: Rick Astley “Never Gonna Give You Up” (1987)
7.08: Swedish House Mafia with John Martin “Don’t You Worry Child” (2012)
7.08: Thomas Rhett “Die a Happy Man” (2015)
7.08: Polo G with Lil Tjay “Pop Out” (2019)
7.05: Taylor Swift with Kendrick Lamar “Bad Blood” (2014)
7.04: Ella Mai “Boo’d Up” (2018)
7.03: 5 Seconds of Summer “Youngblood” (2018)
7.02: Harry Styles “Sign of the Times” (2017)
7.01: Harry Styles “Watermelon Sugar” (2019)
7 million:
Charlie Gracie “Butterfly” (1957)
Elvis Presley “All Shook Up” (1957)
David Seville & The Chipmunks “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)” (1958)
Ricky Valance “Tell Laura I Love Her” (1960)
The Beatles “Do You Want to Know a Secret?” (1963)
The Beatles “Can’t Buy Me Love” (1964)
Roy Orbison “(Oh) Pretty Woman” (1964)
Julie Rogers “The Wedding (La Novia)” (1964)
Adamo “Tombe Le Neige” (1965)
Scott McKenzie “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” (1967)
Bobby Goldsboro “Honey” (1968)
Elvis Presley “Suspicious Minds” (1969)
The Beatles “Let It Be” (1970)
Tony Orlando & Dawn “Knock Three Times” (1970)
Danyel Gerard “Butterfly” (1971)
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards “Amazing Grace” (1972)
Morris Albert “Feelings” (1975)
Pussycat “Mississippi” (1976)
Queen “Another One Bites the Dust” (1980)
a-ha “Take on Me” (1985)
The Black Crowes “Hard to Handle” (1990)
Spice Girls “Wannabe” (1996)
R. Kelly “I Believe I Can Fly” (1996)
Andrea Bocelli “Con te Partiro” (1997)
Alanis Morissette “Uninvited” (1998)
Christina Aguilera “Genie in a Bottle” (1999)
Las Ketchup “Aserejé (The Ketchup Song)” (2002)
Green Day “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” (2004)
Exile “Lovers Again” (2007)
Kanye West “Heartless” (2008)
Usher with will.i.am “OMG” (2010)
The Band Perry “If I Die Young” (2010)
Lil Wayne with Cory Gunz “6 Foot 7 Foot” (2010)
Eric Church “Springsteen” (2011)
Luke Bryan “Country Girl (Shake It for Me)” (2011)
Luke Bryan “Play It Again” (2013)
Lil Wayne with Drake & Future “Love Me” (2013)
Big Sean with E-40 “I Don’t Fuck with You” (2014)
Bryson Tiller “Exchange” (2015)
D.R.A.M. with Lil Yachty “Broccoli” (2016)
Kane Brown “Heaven” (2017)
Kane Brown with Lauren Alaina “What Ifs” (2017)
Boogie wit da Hoodie with Kodak Black “Drowning” (2017)
Lil Baby with Drake “Yes Indeed” (2018)
Morgan Wallen “Whiskey Glasses” (2018)
XXXtentacion “Moonlight” (2018)
Tyga with Offset “Taste” (2018)
Jack Harlow with DaBaby, Tory Lanez, & Lil Wayne “What’s Poppin” (2020)
6.5 to 6.9 million:
6.97: Drake “Nice for What” (2018)
6.95: Khalid “Better” (2018)
6.91: Wiz Khalifa “Black and Yellow” (2010)
6.91: B.o.B. with Hayley Williams “Airplanes” (2010)
6.91: Jason Mraz “I Won’t Give Up” (2012)
6.90: Maroon 5 “One More Night” (2012)
6.88: Michael Jackson “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” (1979)
6.87: Rihanna with Drake “What’s My Name?” (2010)
6.85: NF “Let You Down” (2017)
6.84: Queen “We Are the Champions” (1977)
6.82: DJ Khaled with Rihanna & Bryson Tiller “Wild Thoughts” (2017)
6.81: Sia “Chandelier” (2014)
6.78: Marshmello with Bastille “Happier” (2018)
6.70: Beyoncé “Irreplaceable” (2006)
6.67: Mariah Carey “We Belong Together” (2005)
6.67: Rihanna “Don’t Stop the Music” (2007)
6.67: Rihanna “Take a Bow” (2008)
6.67: A Great Big World with Christina Aguilera “Say Something” (2013)
6.64: Kings of Leon “Use Somebody” (2008)
6.60: Drake with Kanye West, Lil Wayne, & Eminem “Forever” (2009)
6.60: Flo Rida “Whistle” (2012)
6.58: DJ Snake with Lil Jon “Turn Down for What” (2013)
6.57: Walk the Moon “Shut Up and Dance” (2014)
6.56: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with Ray Dalton “Can’t Hold Us” (2011)
6.55: Usher with Lil Jon & Ludacris “Yeah!” (2004)
6.54: Ariana Grande with Nicki Minaj “Side to Side” (2016)
6.54: Gnash with Olivia O’Brien “I Hate U, I Love U” (2016)
6.54: Doja Cat “Say So” (2019)
6.50: Culture Club “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me” (1982)
6.50: Britney Spears “Toxic” (2004)
6.50: Britney Spears “Womanizer” (2008)
6.50: Flo Rida with Sia “Wild Ones” (2011)
6.50: Silentó “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” (2015)
6.01 to 6.49 million:
6.49: Eminem “Without Me” (2002)
6.49: Jay-Z with Alicia Keys “Empire State of Mind” (2009)
6.49: Dua Lipa “New Rules” (2017)
6.47: Red Hot Chili Peppers “Under the Bridge” (1991)
6.45: DJ Snake with Justin Bieber “Let Me Love You” (2016)
6.43: Clean Bandit with Jess Glynne “Rather Be” (2014)
6.39: Coolio with L.V “.Gangsta’s Paradise” (1995)
6.38: Flo Rida “My House” (2015)
6.38: Bazzi “Mine” (2017)
6.35: Chris Brown “Forever” (2007)
6.34: Justin Bieber “Boyfriend” (2008)
6.33: T.I. “Whatever You Like” (2008)
6.29: Goo Goo Dolls “Iris” (1998)
6.29: Zayn “Pillow Talk” (2016)
6.28: Snoop Dogg with Wiz Khalifa “Young, Wild & Free” (2011)
6.27: Lil Nas X “Panini” (2019)
6.26: The Killers “Mr. Brightside” (2004)
6.26: Ed Sheeran “Photograph” (2014)
6.24: Katy Perry “Part of Me” (2012)
6.24: DNCE “Cake by the Ocean” (2015)
6.24: Skrillex with Diplo & Justin Bieber “Where Are Ü Now” (2015)
6.22: Justin Timberlake “Sexyback” (2006)
6.21: Mike Posner with Big Sean “Cooler Than Me” (2010)
6.20: Kiseki “Greeeen” (2009)
6.20: Fall Out Boy “My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light ‘Em Up)” (2013)
6.16: Taylor Swift “Look What You Made Me Do” (2017)
6.14: The Fray “How to Save a Life” (2005)
6.14: Jay Sean with Lil Wayne “Down” (2009)
6.14: Rachel Platten “Fight Song” (2015)
6.10: The Jackson 5 “I’ll Be There” (1970)
6.10: Paramore “Crushcrushcrush” (2007)
6.07 Sara Bareilles “Love Song” (2007)
6.08: Dan + Shay “Speechless” (2018)
6.08: Gabby Barrett with Charlie Puth “I Hope” (2019)
6 million:
Peerless Quartet “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” (1911) *
“Down by the Old Mill Stream” (1911) *
Gene Austin “My Blue Heaven” (1927) **
Bing Crosby with the Andrews Sisters “Jingle Bells” (1943)
Jerry Lee Lewis “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” (1957)
The Champs “Tequila” (1958)
The Tokens “The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh)” (1961)
Elvis Presley “Surrender” / “Lonely Man” (1961)
The Beatles “She Loves You” (1963)
Andre Brasseur “Early Bird” (1965)
SSgt Barry Sadler “The Ballad of the Green Berets” (1966)
Machiko Soga “Oba-Q Ondo” (1966)
Jeannie C. Riley “Harper Valley P.T.A.” (1968)
The Jackson 5 “I Want You Back” (1969)
The Archies “Sugar, Sugar” (1969)
Simon & Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (1970)
Neil Diamond “Cracklin’ Rosie” (1970)
Tee Set “Ma Belle Amie” (1970)
New Seekers “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing” (1971)
Tony Orlando & Dawn “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree” (1973)
Abba “Waterloo” (1974)
George Baker Selection “Paloma Blanca” (1975)
Abba “Dancing Queen” (1976)
The Brotherhood of Man “Save Your Kisses for Me” (1976)
Debby Boone “You Light Up My Life” (1977)
Bonnie Tyler “It’s a Heartache” (1977)
Earth, Wind & Fire “September” (1978)
Bonnie Tyler “Total Eclipse of the Heart” (1983)
George Michael “Careless Whisper” (1984)
Madonna “Like a Virgin” (1984)
Madonna “Vogue” (1990)
The Notorious B.I.G. “Juicy” (1994)
The Notorious B.I.G. “Big Poppa” (1994)
Janet Jackson “Together Again” (1997)
Lou Bega “Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of…)” (1999)
Britney Spears “Oops! I Did It Again” (2000)
Pussycat Dolls with Busta Rhymes “Don’t Cha” (2005)
Rascal Flatts “Life Is a Highway” (2006)
Linkin Park “What I’ve Done” (2007)
Paramore “Misery Business’ (2007)
Beyoncé “Halo” (2008)
Zac Brown Band “Chicken Fried” (2008)
Lil Wayne “A Milli” (2008)
Cage the Elephant “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked” (2008)
Ellie Goulding “Lights” (2010)
Drake & Lil Wayne “The Motto” (2011)
Lil Wayne “How to Love” (2011)
Capital Cities “Safe and Sound” (2012)
Kanye West with Big Sean, Pusha T, & 2 Chainz “Mercy” (2012)
A$AP Rocky with Drake, 2 Chainz, & Kendrick Lamar “Fuckin’ Problems” (2012)
Drake with Majid Jordan “Hold on, We’re Going Home” (2013)
Drake “Started from the Bottom” (2013)
Florida Georgia Line with Luke Bryan “This Is How We Roll” (2013)
J. Cole “No Role Modelz” (2014)
Ty Dolla $ign with Wiz Khalifa & DJ Mustard “Or Nah” (2014)
Little Big Town “Girl Crush” (2015)
Fetty Wap with Remy Boyz “679” (2015)
Florida Georgia Line “H.O.L.Y.” (2016)
The Weeknd with Daft Punk “I Feel It Coming” (2016)
Keith Urban “Blue Ain’t Your Color” (2016)
Big Sean “Bounce Back” (2016)
GoldLink with Brent Faiyaz & Shy Glizzy “Crew” (2016)
Amine “Caroline” (2016)
Post Malone “Go Flex” (2016)
Sam Smith “Too Good at Goodbyes” (2017)
YNW Melly “Murder on My Mind” (2017)
Offset with Metro Boomin “Rick Flair Drip” (2017)
SZA with Travis Scott “Love Galore” (2017)
Halsey “Bad at Love” (2017)
21 Savage “Bank Account” (2017)
Kodak Black “Tunnel Vision” (2017)
Lil Pump “Gucci Gang” (2017)
Migos with Nicki Minaj & Cardi B “Motor Sport” (2017)
Gucci Mane with Migos “I Get the Bag” (2017)
Russ “Losin’ Control” (2017)
Post Malone “Better Now” (2018)
Kodak Black with Travis Scott & Offset “Zeze” (2018)
Jason Aldean “You Make It Easy” (2018)
Juice Wrld “All Girls Are the Same” (2018)
Migos with Drake “Walk It Talk It” (2018)
H.E.R. with Daniel Caesar “Best Part” (2018)
Mustard with Roddy Ricch “Ballin’” (2019)

* Sales exclusively from sheet music sales. No particular artist identified.
** Includes sheet music sales

Resources/Related Links:

Dave’s Music Database: “Lists Based on Charts, Sales, and Airplay”
Edward Foote Gardner (2000). Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century, 1900-1949 St. Paul, MN: Paragon House
This resource, also listed in the “Charts” section, is also included here because this and Whitburn’s Pop Memories 1890-1954, are the most dominant sources for sheet music sales figures.
Guardian.co.uk (11/4/2012). UK’s million-selling singles: the full list
List of the 123 songs to achieve one million sales in the UK.
LivingEars.blogspot.com (7/27/2009). Top 50 Digital Singles of All Time
This list, which obviously focuses on the 2000-2009 decade, offers an insight into more recent sales. It has been posted many times, but without indication of the original source.
MoneyInc.com (2019). “Top Selling iTunes Songs of All Time”
PhilBrodieBand.com (date?) Top Selling Singles of All Time
List of all-time best-selling songs (8 million+) globally. No indication of source or year of list. Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind” is the top seller with 37 million sold. Also includes 2005 list of UK’s “All-Time Best Selling Singles,” which is more detailed at UKcharts.20m.com.
Recording Industry Association of America “Gold & Platinum
Searchable database to find songs and albums which achieved gold and platinum status.
UKcharts.20m.com (date?) The UK’s Best Selling Singles
List of the top 100 selling singles in the U.K. with commentary on the top 10 by Theo Morgan-Gan. Includes sales figures from The Official Chart Company.
UKmix.org (date?) All-Time Best Selling Singles Worldwide
Appears to be an older version of the same list posted at PhilBrodieBand.com. However, this one lists 24 songs topping 4 million in sales. “Candle in the Wind” tops the list with 26 million +. Appears to be a blog post with no original reference or date cited. Also includes a 2003 list of 100+ songs selling more than 5 million.
^PM Joel Whitburn (1986). Pop Memories 1890-1954. Menomonee Falls, WI; Record Research, Inc.
This resource, also listed in the “Charts” section, is listed here as well because this and Gardner’s Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century, 1900-1949, noted above, are the most dominant sources for sheet music sales figures. A list on page 634 offers up the sheet music from 1890-1954 that sold in execess of 3 million.
Wikipedia (2/28/2020). “List of Best-Selling Singles in the United States”
List of all songs in the U.S. to have been certified for physical sales of more than 4 million and digital sales of 6 million or more.
Wikipedia (4/23/2023). List of Best-Selling Singles Worldwide
While there is no official tracking company to record global sales, data from multiple sources can be compiled to get a good idea of the all-time best-selling songs in the world. This lists all songs to have reportedly gained 5 million + in sales. Each song is referenced with an additional footnote for the source.
Wikipedia (12/24/2010). List of Best-Selling Singles by Year (UK)
List of all songs in the U.K. which have sold over a million.
Wikipedia (12/24/2010). List of Million-Selling Singles in the United Kingdom
Lists top selling song of each year from 1952-2010. Often includes sales figures.
Yahoo.com (5/12/2008). Singles That Have Sold Over 10 Million Copies by Robert the Radish
Unfortunately, there are no references to confirm any of these, but some of the 21 songs on this list have been verified by other sources, including “White Christmas” selling at the 50 million mark and “Candle in the Wind 1997” at 37 million.

First posted 12/29/2011; last updated 4/23/2023.

Saturday, October 22, 2022

One-Hit Wonders

One-Hit Wonders:

Top 100 Songs

I am consistently annoyed by lists of supposed one-hit wonders. Inevitably, there are acts that are definitely NOT one-hit wonders. Some of the most glaring examples I’ve seen in different articles are Survivor (“Eye of the Tiger” #1, “Burning Heart” #2, top ten hits with “The Search Is Over,” “High on You,” and “Is This Love”), Toto (“Africa” #1, “Rosanna” #2, top tens with “Hold the Line” and “I Won’t Hold You Back”), and Sugarloaf (top ten hits with “Green-Eyed Lady” and “Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You”). There are also a couple of acts who certainly are best known for certain songs, but did have other hits. Aha (“Take on Me” #1, “The Sun Always Shines on TV” top 20) and The Knack (“My Sharona” #1, “Good Girls Don’t” #11) are the first two that come to mind.

It begs the question – how does one even definte a “hit”? For the purposes of this post, the focus is exclusively on the U.S. Billboard pop charts from 1890 to present. One could argue that a true one-hit wonder has only graced the Hot 100 once. However, this post will focus on acts which have only hit the top 40 once since songs lower than that arguably didn’t achieve familiarity with a general audience.

This leaves more than 2400 eligible songs with some definite surprises. Jimi Hendrix, Carl Perkins, Lou Reed (all on this list), and Dr. John (“Right Place Wrong Time”), Grateful Dead (“Touch of Grey”), Public Enemy (“Give It Up”), Roxy Music (“Love Is the Drug”), Rush (“New World Man”), The Small Faces (“Itchycoo Park”), and Frank Zappa (“Valley Girl”) only had one top 40 hit each despite the legendary status which got them inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Other acts like Beck; Oasis; and T-Rex (all on this list); along with Garth Brooks (“Lost in You”); Kate Bush “Running Up That Hill”); Emerson, Lake & Palmer (“From the Beginning”); Lefty Frizzell (“I Want to Be with You Always”); Merle Haggard (“If We Make It Through December”); Iggy Pop (“Candy”); Method Man (“I'll Be There for You / You're All I Need to Get By”); Shinedown (“Second Chance”); Weezer (“Beverly Hills”); The White Stripes (“Icky Thump”); and Warren Zevon (“Werewolves of London”) have plenty of success, but multiple chart hits on the top 40 eluded them.

Finally, there are some acts who have plenty of chart experience yet still qualify as one-hit wonders. For example, U.S.A. for Africa (“We Are the World”) and Band Aid (“Do They Know It’s Christmas?”) were one-time collaborations of multiple artists with plenty of chart experience. There are also artists like Bill Medley (“I’ve Had the Time of My Life”) who had plenty of chart experience as part of the Righteous Brothers, but had never charted as a solo act.

If a song is marked with an asterisk (*), that indicates that the song is the only top 40 hit for the lead act, but that the supporting act has other top 40 hits.

Check other lists based on charts, sales, and airplay here.

1. Mark Ronson “Uptown Funk!” (with Bruno Mars, #1, 2014) *
2. Sinéad O’Connor “Nothing Compares 2 U” (#1, 1990)
3. Luis Fonsi “Despacito” (with Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber, 2017, #1) *
4. Gotye with Kimbra “Somebody That I Used to Know” (#1, 2011)
5. Gnarls Barkley “Crazy” (#2, 2006)
6. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “All Along the Watchtower” (#20, 1968)
7. Los Del Rio “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)” (#1, 1995)
8. Oasis “Wonderwall” (#8, 1995)
9. Coleman Hawkins “Body and Soul” (#13, 1940)
10. USA for Africa “We Are the World” (#1, 1985)

11. Soft Cell “Tainted Love” (#8, 1981)
12. The Verve “Bitter Sweet Symphony” (#12, 1997)
13. Dexy’s Midnight Runners “Come on Eileen” (#1, 1983)
14. Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers “Why Do Fools Fall in Love?” (#6, 1956)
15. Debby Boone “You Light Up My Life” (#1, 1977)
16. The Penguins “Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)” (#8, 1954)
17. Daft Punk with Pharrell Williams “Get Lucky” (#2, 2013)
18. Carl Perkins “Blue Suede Shoes” (#2, 1956)
19. Buffalo Springfield “For What It’s Worth” (#7, 1966)
20. Lipps Inc. “Funkytown” (#1, 1980)

21. Frankie Goes to Hollywood “Relax” (#10, 1983)
22. Lou Reed “Walk on the Wild Side” (#16, 1972)
23. Beck “Loser” (#10, 1993)
24. Wild Cherry “Play That Funky Music” (#1, 1976)
25. The Sugarhill Gang “Rapper’s Delight” (#36, 1979)
26. Amy Winehouse “Rehab” (#9, 2006)
27. James Blunt “You’re Beautiful” (#1, 2004)
28. Band Aid “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” (#13, 1984)
29. Terry Jacks “Seasons in the Sun” (#1, 1974)
30. Knickerbocker Quartet “Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile” (#1, 1917)

31. Daniel Powter “Bad Day” (#1, 2005)
32. Domenico Modugno “Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blue)” (#1, 1958)
33. Sir Mix-A-Lot “Baby Got Back” (#1, 1992)
34. Harry Simeone Chorale “The Little Drummer Boy” (#13, 1958)
35. Cee-Lo Green “Fuck You (aka “Forget You”)” (#2, 2010)
36. The Chords “Sh-Boom” (#5, 1954)
37. Bill Medley “I’ve Had the Time of My Life” (with Jennifer Warnes, #1, 1987) *
38. Lee Ann Womack & the Sons of the Desert “I Hope You Dance” (#14, 2000)
39. Big Joe Turner “Shake, Rattle and Roll” (#22, 1954)
40. Free “All Right Now” (#4, 1970)

41. Snow Patrol “Chasing Cars” (#5, 2006)
42. Magic! “Rude” (#1, 2013)
43. The Lumineers “Ho Hey” (#3, 2012)
44. Dave Brubeck Quartet “Take Five” (#25, 1959)
45. T-Rex “Get It On (Bang a Gong)” (#10, 1971)
46. Lou Bega “Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of…)” (#3, 1999)
47. Walter Huston “September Song” (#12, 1939)
48. Don Azpiazu & Arturo Machin “The Peanut Vendor (El Manicero” (#1, 1930)
49. Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps “Be-Bop-A-Lula” (#7, 1956)
50. Van McCoy “The Hustle” (#1, 1975)

51. Jimmy Boyd “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” (#1, 1952)
52. OMI “Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix)” (#1, 2014)
53. Tammy Wynette “Stand by Your Man” (#19, 1968)
54. Anton Karas “The Third Man Theme” (#1, 1950)
55. Mungo Jerry “In the Summertime” (#3, 1970)
56. Passenger “Let Her Go” (#5, 2012)
57. Carl Douglas “Kung Fu Fighting” (#1, 1974)
58. Regina Belle “A Whole New World” (with Peabo Bryson, #1, 1992) *
59. Hoobastank “The Reason” (#2, 2003)
60. M.I.A. “Paper Planes” (#4, 2007)

61. House of Pain “Jump Around” (#3, 1992)
62. Kate Bush “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)” (#3, 1985)
63. The Contours “Do You Love Me” (#3, 1962)
64. Chumbawamba “Tubthumping” (#6, 1997)
65. Silentó “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” (#3, 2015)
66. Donna Lewis “I Love You Always Forever” (#2, 1996)
67. Mott the Hoople “All the Young Dudes” (1972)
68. Hozier “Take Me to Church” (#2, 2013)
69. Devo “Whip It” (#14, 1980)
70. Bobby McFerrin “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” (#1, 1988)

71. Ed Gallagher & Al Shean “Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean” (#1, 1922)
72. Midnight Oil “Beds Are Burning” (#17, 1987)
73. Gorillaz “Feel Good Inc.” (with De La Soul, #14, 2005) *
74. Sonny James “Young Love” (#1, 1956)
75. Jeannie C. Riley “Harper Valley P.T.A.” (#1, 1968)
76. The Tornadoes “Telstar” (#1, 1962)
77. Paul Mauriat “Love Is Blue” (#1, 1967)
78. Buggles “Video Killed the Radio Star” (#40, 1981)
79. Foster the People “Pumped Up Kicks” (#3, 2010)
80. Sammi Smith “Help Me Make It Through the Night” (#8, 1971)

81. U.S. Naval Academy Band “Anchors Aweigh” (#13, 1906)
82. Everything But the Girl “Missing (Todd Terry Remix)” (#2, 1995)
83. Deee-Lite “Groove Is in the Heart” (#4, 1990)
84. Tag Team “Whoomp! (There It Is)” (#2, 1993)
85. Mahalia Jackson “Move on Up a Little Higher” (#21, 1948)
86. Bill Hayes “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” (#1, 1955)
87. Tones and I “Dance Monkey” (#4, 2019)
88. Thomas Bott “Love’s Old Sweet Song” (#1, 1892)
89. Mr. Acker Bilk “Stranger on the Shore” (#1, 1961)
90. Zager & Evans “In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)” (#1, 1969)

91. Lynn Anderson “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden” (#3, 1970)
92. Walk the Moon “Shut Up and Dance” (#4, 2014)
93. Bill Snyder “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” (#3, 1950)
94. The Youngbloods “Get Together” (#5, 1967)
95. Nena “99 Red Balloons” (#2, 1983)
96. Anita Ward “Ring My Bell” (#1, 1979)
97. Thin Lizzy “The Boys Are Back in Town” (#12, 1976)
98. 24K Goldn with Iann Dior “Mood” (#1, 2020)
99. Big Four Quartet “Goodbye Dolly Gray” (#1, 1901)
100. Glass Animals “Heat Waves” (#1, 2020)

Resources/Related Links:

Dave’s Music Database: “Lists Based on Charts, Sales, and Airplay”
Medium.com (11/14/2014). “The Complete List of True One-Hit Wonders”
Quora.com “What’s your favorite one hit wonder?” (answer by James O’Connor)

First posted 9/8/2019; last updated 10/22/2022.

Monday, December 21, 2020

Grammy Hall of Fame: Songs, 1973-2020

Grammy Hall of Fame:

Songs

From the Grammy Hall of Fame website: “The GRAMMY Hall Of Fame was established by the Recording Academy's National Trustees in 1973 to honor recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance that are at least 25 years old. Inductees are selected annually by a special member committee of eminent and knowledgeable professionals from all branches of the recording arts.”

Dave’s Music Database has listed all the recipients from 1973 to present on two separate pages, one for songs and one for albums. Click here to see albums which have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Click here to see other awards and Hall of Fame inductees for songs.

Year of Induction: Performer “Song” (year released)

2015: Abba “Dancing Queen” (1976)
1998: Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys “Wabash Cannonball” (1938)
2009: Roy Acuff “The Great Speckled Bird” (1938)
2018: Aerosmith “Dream On” (1973)
2019: Aerosmith “Walk This Way” (1975)
1998: Herb Alpert “The Lonely Bull” (1962)
2008: Herb Alpert “A Taste of Honey” (1965)
1999: Marian Anderson “Ave Maria” (1936)
2008: Marian Anderson “He's Got the Whole World in His Hands” (1936)
2009: Marian Anderson “My Country 'Tis of Thee” (1939)
1996: The Andrews Sisters “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen (Means That You're Grand)” (1938)
2000: The Andrews Sisters “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” (1941)
2016: The Andrews Sisters “Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else But Me” (1942)
1999: The Animals “The House of the Rising Sun” (1964)
2011: The Animals “We Gotta Get Out of This Place” (1965)
1999: Louis Armstrong “Heebie Jeebies” (1926)
2018: Louis Armstrong “Savoy Blues” (1927)
1974: Louis Armstrong “West End Blues” (1928)
2008: Louis Armstrong “Weather Bird” (1928)
2016: Louis Armstrong “What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue?” (1929)
2008: Louis Armstrong “St. Louis Blues” (1930)
2009: Louis Armstrong “Stardust” (1931)
2010: Louis Armstrong “Lazy River” (1931)
2005: Louis Armstrong “All of Me” (1932)
2014: Louis Armstrong “Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen” (1938)
2017: Louis Armstrong “When the Saints Go Marching In” (1939)
1997: Louis Armstrong “Mack the Knife” (1956)
2001: Louis Armstrong “Hello Dolly!” (1964)
1999: Louis Armstrong “What a Wonderful World” (1967)
1999: Eddy Arnold “Make the World Go Away” (1965)
2006: Fred Astaire “Fascinating Rhythm” (1926)
2004: Fred Astaire “Night and Day” (1932)
2000: Fred Astaire “Cheek to Cheek” (1935)
2008: Fred Astaire “Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails” (1935)
1998: Fred Astaire “The Way You Look Tonight” (1936)
2005: Fred Astaire “They Can't Take That Away from Me” (1937)
2005: Gene Austin “Bye Bye Blackbird” (1926)
1978: Gene Austin “My Blue Heaven” (1927)
1997: Gene Autry “Back in the Saddle Again” (1939)
2012: Gene Autry “Deep in the Heart of Texas” (1942)
1985: Gene Autry & the Pinafores “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (1949)

2007: DeFord Bailey “Pan American Blues” (1927)
2011: Mildred Bailey “Rockin' Chair” (1937)
1998: Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra “Cherokee” (1939)
2008: Barry, John “The James Bond Theme” (1962)
1979: Count Basie “One O’Clock Jump” (1937)
2005: Count Basie “Lester Leaps In” (1939)
1992: Count Basie “Everyday I Have the Blues” (1955)
1985: Count Basie “April in Paris” (1956)
2015: Fontella Bass “Rescue Me” (1965)
2008: Shirley Bassey “Goldfinger “( 1964)
2008: Nora Bayes “Over There” (1917)
1999: The Beach Boys “In My Room” (1963)
2017: The Beach Boys “I Get Around” (1964)
2010: The Beach Boys “California Girls” (1965)
1994: The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” (1966)
1998: The Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (1963)
1997: The Beatles “Yesterday” (1965)
2008: The Beatles “Help!” (1965)
2002: The Beatles “Eleanor Rigby” (1966)
1999: The Beatles “Strawberry Fields Forever” (1967)
2011: The Beatles “Penny Lane” (1967)
2001: The Beatles “Hey Jude” (1968)
2004: The Beatles “Let It Be” (1970)
2011: Sidney Bechet “Summertime” (1939)
1980: Bix Beiderbecke “In a Mist” (1928)
2009: Harry Belafonte “Banana Boat (Day-O)” (1957)
2008: Vincenzo Bellini “Casta Diva (from "Norma")” (1929)
1994: Tony Bennett “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” (1962)
2009: Tony Bennett “For Once in My Life” (1967)
1975: Bunny Berigan & His Orchestra “I Can't Get Started” (1938)
1988: Chuck Berry “Maybellene” (1955)
1990: Chuck Berry “Roll Over Beethoven” (1956)
1999: Chuck Berry “Johnny B. Goode” (1958)
1999: Big Maybelle “Candy” (1953)
1998: Art Blakey “Moanin'“ (1958)
1999: Bobby “Blue” Bland “Turn on Your Love Light” (1961)
2016: Blondie “Heart of Glass” (1978)
1999: Booker T. & the MG’s “Green Onions” (1962)
2008: Boston Pops Orchestra “Jalousie (Jealousy)” (1935)
2018: David Bowie “Space Oddity” (1969)
2017: David Bowie “Changes” (1971)
2011: The Box Tops “The Letter” (1967)
1998: Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats “Rocket 88” (1951)
1999: Fanny Brice “My Man (Mon Homme)” (1922)
2012: Big Bill Broonzy “Key to the Highway” (1941)
2001: James Brown “Please Please Please” (1956)
1999: James Brown “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” (1965)
2013: James Brown “I Got You (I Feel Good)” (1965)
2010: James Brown “It's a Man's Man's Man's World” (1966)
2016: James Brown “Cold Sweat” (1967)
2014: James Brown “Get Up I Feel Like Being Like a Sex Machine” (1970)
1998: Les Brown with Doris Day “Sentimental Journey” (1945)
1996: Dave Brubeck Quartet “Take Five “( 1959)
2000: Buffalo Springfield “For What It’s Worth” (1966)
2016: Buffett, Jimmy “Margaritaville” (1977)
1999: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band “East-West” (1966)
1998: The Byrds “Mr. Tambourine Man” (1965)
2001: The Byrds “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)” (1965)
1999: The Byrds “Eight Miles High” (1966)

1999: Cab Calloway “Minnie the Moocher (The Ho De Ho Song)” (1931)
2017: Cab Calloway “Hep! Hep! the Jumpin' Jive” (1939)
2004: Glen Campbell “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” (1967)
2008: Glen Campbell “Gentle on My Mind” (1967)
2000: Glen Campbell “Wichita Lineman” (1968)
2007: Gus Cannon’s Jug Stompers “Walk Right In” (1929)
1995: Hoagy Carmichael “Stardust” (1927)
2014: Hoagy Carmichael “Georgia on My Mind” (1930)
1998: Carpenters “We've Only Just Begun” (1970)
2000: Carpenters “They Long to Be Close to You “( 1970)
2016: James Carr “The Dark End of the Street” (1967)
2012: Leroy Carr “How Long Blues” (1928)
1998: Fiddlin’ John Carson “Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane” (1923)
1999: The Carter Family “Wildwood Flower” (1928)
2006: The Carter Family “Keep on the Sunny Side” (1928)
1998: The Carter Family “Can the Circle Be Unbroken (Bye and Bye)” (1935)
1993: Enrico Caruso “Celeste Aida (Heavenly Aida)” (1904)
1975: Enrico Caruso “Pagliacci, Act I: Vesti La Giubba (On with the Play) (new version)” (1907)
2001: Johnny Cash “Folsom Prison Blues” (1955)
1998: Johnny Cash “I Walk the Line” (1956)
1999: Johnny Cash “Ring of Fire” (1963)
1999: The Cats and the Fiddle “I Miss You So” (1939)
1999: Feodor Chaliapin (performer) “Song of the Flea” (1926)
2001: The Champs “Tequila” (1958)
2002: Gene Chandler “Duke of Earl” (1962)
2011: Harry Chapin “Cat's in the Cradle” (1974)
1990: Ray Charles “I Gotta Woman” (1955)
2000: Ray Charles “What’d I Say” (1959)
1993: Ray Charles “Georgia on My Mind” (1960)
2013: Ray Charles “Hit the Road Jack” (1961)
2001: Ray Charles “I Can’t Stop Loving You” (1962)
2005: Ray Charles “America the Beautiful” (1972)
2000: Chubby Checker “The Twist” (1960)
2017: Cher “ I Got You Babe” (1965)
2015: Chic “Le Freak” (1978)
2002: The Chordettes “Mr. Sandman” (1954)
2008: The Chords “Sh-Boom” (1954)
2020: The Chuck Wagon Gang “I’ll Fly Away” (1948)
2003: Eric Clapton “I Shot the Sheriff” (1974)
2003: Petula Clark “Downtown” (1964)
2011: Jimmy Cliff “Many Rivers to Cross” (1969)
2020: Patsy Cline “Walkin’ After Midnight” (1957)
1992: Patsy Cline “Crazy” (1961)
2001: Patsy Cline “I Fall to Pieces” (1961)
1999: Rosemary Clooney “Hey There” (1954)
1999: The Coasters “Yakety Yak” (1958)
1999: Eddie Cochran “Summertime Blues” (1958)
2001: Joe Cocker “With a Little Help from My Friends” (1968)
2016: Joe Cocker “You Are So Beautiful” (1974)
2019: Leonard Cohen “Hallelujah” (1984)
1998: Nat “King” Cole “Straighten Up and Fly Right” (1944)
1974: Nat “King” Cole “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)” (1946)
2002: Nat “King” Cole “Get Your Kicks on Route 66” (1946)
2018: Nat “King” Cole “I Love You for Sentimental Reasons” (1946)
1999: Nat “King” Cole “Nature Boy” (1948)
1992: Nat “King” Cole “Mona Lisa” (1950)
2000: Nat “King” Cole “Unforgettable” (1951)
2005: Arthur Collins and Byron Harlan “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (1911)
2003: Judy Collins “Both Sides Now” (1968)
2000: John Coltrane “Lush Life” (1963)
1998: Perry Como “Till the End of Time” (1945)
1998: Sam Cooke “You Send Me” (1957)
2014: Sam Cooke “Wonderful World” (1960)
2018: Sam Cooke “Bring It on Home to Me” (1962)
2000: Sam Cooke “A Change Is Gonna Come” (1964)
2015: Alice Cooper “School's Out” (1972)
2009: Aaron Copland “Fanfare for the Common Man” (1943)
2009: Aaron Copland “Appalachian Spring” (1944)
1999: Chick Corea “Now He Sings, Now He Sobs” (1968)
2021: Elizabeth Cotton “Freight Train” (1905)
2013: Francis Craig with Bob Lamm “Near You” (1947)
2004: Floyd Cramer “Last Date” (1960)
1998: Creedence Clearwater Revival “Proud Mary” (1969)
2014: Creedence Clearwater Revival “Fortunate Son” (1969)
2005: Bing Crosby “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” (1932)
2004: Bing Crosby “Pennies from Heaven” (1936)
1974: Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers & the John Scott Trotter Orchestra “White Christmas” (1942)
1998: Bing Crosby “Don't Fence Me In” (1944)
2002: Bing Crosby “Swinging on a Star” (1944)
2009: Crosby, Stills & Nash with Neil Young “Ohio” (1970)
2018: Arthur Crudup “That's All Right, Mama” (1946)
2004: The Crystals “He's a Rebel” (1962)

2020: Dick Dale & the Del-Tones “Misirlou” (1962)
2022: Vernon Dalhart “The Wreck of the Old 97” (1924)
1998: Vernon Dalhart “The Prisoner’s Song” (1925)
1999: Bobby Darin “Mack the Knife” (1959)
1999: Jimmie Davis “You Are My Sunshine” (1940)
2002: Sammy Davis, Jr. “What Kind of Fool Am I?” (1962)
1999: Spencer Davis Group “Gimme Some Lovin'“ (1966)
1999: Doris Day “Secret Love” (1954)
2012: Doris Day “Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera)” (1956)
2017: Deep Purple “Smoke on the Water” (1972)
2021: Édouard-Léon Scott De Martinville “Au Clair De La Lune” (1860)
2007: Desmond Dekker “The Israelites” (1969)
2007: The Delmore Brothers “Blues Stay Away from Me” (1949)
1998: John Denver “Take Me Home, Country Roads “( 1971)
1998: Derek & the Dominos “Layla” (1970)
2008: Jackie DeShannon “What the World Needs Now Is Love” (1965)
2000: Al Dexter & His Troopers “Pistol Packin' Mama” (1943)
2020: Neil Diamond “Sweet Caroline” (1969)
1998: Bo Diddley “Bo Diddley” (1955)
2020: Bo Diddley “I’m a Man” (1955)
2010: Bo Diddley “Who Do You Love?” (1956)
1999: Dion “I Wonder Why” (1958)
2002: Dion “Runaround Sue” (1961)
2017: Dion “The Wanderer” (1961)
2000: The Dixie Hummingbirds “Amazing Grace” (1946)
1998: Bill Doggett “Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2)” (1956)
2016: Fats Domino “The Fat Man” (1950)
2002: Fats Domino “Ain't That a Shame” (1955)
1987: Fats Domino “Blueberry Hill” (1956)
2019: Fats Domino “I’m Walkin’” (1957)
2011: Fats Domino “Walking to New Orleans” (1960)
2015: The Dominoes “Sixty Minute Man” (1951)
1998: The Doors “Light My Fire” (1967)
2010: The Doors “Riders on the Storm” (1971)
2009: Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra “Brazil (Aquarela Do Brasil)” (1942)
1998: Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra “I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You” (1936)
1998: Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra “Marie” (1937)
1982: Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra “I’ll Never Smile Again” (1940)
1999: The Drifters “Money Honey” (1953)
1998: The Drifters“There Goes My Baby” (1959)
2001: The Drifters “Save the Last Dance for Me” (1960)
2013: The Drifters “On Broadway” (1963)
2014: The Drifters “Under the Boardwalk” (1964)
1994: Bob Dylan “Blowin' in the Wind” (1963)
2013: Bob Dylan“The Times They Are A-Changin’” (1964)
1998: Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone” (1965)
2002: Bob Dylan “Mr. Tamborine Man” (1965)

2000: Eagles “Desperado” (1973)
2008: Eagles “Hotel California” (1976)
2008: Earth, Wind & Fire “Shining Star” (1975)
1999: Billy Eckstine “I Apologize” (1951)
2018: Thomas Alva Edison “Mary Had a Little Lamb” (1878)
2002: Cliff Edwards “When You Wish Upon a Star” (1940)
1981: Duke Ellington “Black and Tan Fantasy” (1927)
1975: Duke Ellington “Mood Indigo” (1931)
2008: Duke Ellington “It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got That Swing” (1932)
2007: Duke Ellington “Cocktails for Two” (1934)
2009: Duke Ellington “Caravan” (1937)
2010: Duke Ellington “Don't Get Around Much Anymore” (1940)
2011: Duke Ellington “Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me” (1940)
2011: Duke Ellington “Ko-Ko” (1940)
1976: Duke Ellington “Take the ‘A’ Train” (1941)
1990: Duke Ellington “Black, Brown and Beige” (1943)
1999: Duke Ellington “Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue” (1956)
2005: Ruth Etting “Love Me or Leave Me” (1929)
1999: Ruth Etting “Ten Cents a Dance” (1930)
2020: Eurythmics “Sweet Dreams Are Made of This” (1983)
1998: The Everly Brothers “Bye Bye Love” (1957)
2017: The Everly Brothers “Wake Up Little Susie” (1957)
2004: The Everly Brothers “All I Have to Do Is Dream” (1958)

2000: Percy Faith “A Summer Place (Theme from)” (1960)
2013: Joseph Falcon “Allons a Lafayette” (1928)
2010: Jose Feliciano “Feliz Navidad” (1970)
2012: Freddy Fender “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights” (1975)
2003: The Fifth Dimension “Up Up and Away” (1967)
2004: The Fifth Dimension “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” (1969)
2015: Fisk University Jubilee Quartet “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” (1910)
1986: Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb & His Orchestra “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” (1938)
2002: Ella Fitzgerald “How High the Moon” (1960)
1998: The Five Satins “In the Still of the Nite (I’ll Remember)” (1956)
1999: Roberta Flack “Killing Me Softly with His Song” (1973)
2003: The Flamingos “I Only Have Eyes for You” (1959)
1999: Flatt & Scruggs “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” (1950)
1998: Tennessee Ernie Ford “Sixteen Tons” (1955)
2006: Jimmy Forest “Night Train” (1952)
2015: The Four Seasons “Big Girls Don’t Cry” (1962)
1998: Four Tops “Reach Out (I’ll Be There)” (1966)
1998: Aretha Franklin “Respect” (1967)
1999: Aretha Franklin “You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman” (1967)
2001: Aretha Franklin “Chain of Fools” (1967)
1999: Lefty Frizzell “If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time” (1950)
2015: The Bobby Fuller Four “I Fought the Law” (1966)

2013: Carols Gardel “El Dia Que Me Quieras” (1935)
1998: Judy Garland “You Made Me Love You (Dear Mr. Gable)” (1937)
1981: Judy Garland “Over the Rainbow” (1939)
2010: Judy Garland “For Me and My Gal” (1942)
1991: Erroll Garner Trio “Misty” (1954)
1999: Marvin Gaye “Ain't No Mountain High Enough” (1967)
1998: Marvin Gaye “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1968)
2002: Marvin Gaye “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)” (1971)
2012: Gloria Gaynor “I Will Survive” (1978)
1999: Bobbie Gentry “Ode to Billie Joe” (1967)
1997: George Gershwin “An American in Paris” (1929)
2000: Stan Getz “Desafinado” (1962)
2000: Stan Getz “The Girl from Ipanema” (1964)
2000: Joao Gilberto “Chega de Saudade (No More Blues)” (1958)
2000: Dizzy Gillespie “Groovin' High” (1945)
2004: Dizzy Gillespie “A Night in Tunisia” (1946)
1999: Dizzy Gillespie “Manteca” (1948)
1998: Benny Goodman “Moon Glow” (1934)
2008: Benny Goodman “King Porter Stomp” (1935)
1982: Benny Goodman “Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)” (1938)
1987: Benny Goodman “And the Angels Sing” (1939)
2008: Benny Goodman “Seven Come Eleven” (1940)
2017: Lesley Gore “You Don't Own Me” (1963)
2012: Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five “The Message” (1982)
1999: Al Green “Let’s Stay Together” (1971)
2011: Al Green “Take Me to the River” (1974)
2002: Arlo Guthrie “Alice's Restaurant” (1967)
2017: Arlo Guthrie “City of New Orleans” (1972)
1989: Woody Guthrie “This Land Is Your Land” (1944)

1999: Merle Haggard “Mama Tried” (1968)
2017: Merle Haggard “Okie from Muskogee” (1969)
1982: Bill Haley & His Comets “We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock” (1954)
1996: Lionel Hampton “Flying Home” (1940)
2019: W.C. Handy “St. Louis Blues” (1914)
1999: The Harmonicats “Peg O’ My Heart” (1947)
2008: Slim Harpo “I'm a King Bee” (1957)
2009: Wynonie Harris “Good Rockin' Tonight” (1948)
2001: Wilbert Harrison “Kansas City” (1959)
1974: Coleman Hawkins “Body and Soul” (1940)
1999: Edwin Hawkins Singers “Oh Happy Day” (1969)
1999: Isaac Hayes “Shaft (Theme from)” (1971)
2021: Fletcher Henderson “Copenhagen” (1924)
2000: The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Purple Haze” (1967)
2001: The Jimi Hendrix Experience “All Along the Watchtower” (1968)
2009: Jimi Hendrix “The Star Spangled Banner (live)” (1969)
2002: Woody Herman “At the Woodchoppers’ Ball” (1939)
2000: Woody Herman “Early Autumn” (1947)
1984: Woody Herman “Four Brothers” (1948)
2018: Billie Holiday “My Man (Mon Homme)” (1938)
1978: Billie Holiday “Strange Fruit” (1939)
2005: Billie Holiday “Embraceable You” (1944)
1989: Billie Holiday “Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)” (1945)
2010: Billie Holiday “Crazy He Calls Me” (1949)
2021: Billie Holiday “Solitude” (1952)
1998: Buddy Holly & the Crickets “That’ll Be the Day” (1957)
1999: Buddy Holly & the Crickets “Peggy Sue” (1957)
1999: John Lee Hooker “Boogie Chillen'“ (1949)
2016: John Lee Hooker “Boom Boom” (1962)
2005: Bob Hope “Thanks for the Memory” (1939)
2000: Lena Horne “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” (1942)
2002: Johnny Horton “The Battle of New Orleans” (1959)
2013: Son House “My Black Mama” (1930)
2018: Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You” (1992)
1999: Howlin' Wolf “Smokestack Lightning” (1956)
2011: Mississippi John Hurt “Frankie” (1928)
2017: Mississippi John Hurt “Stack O' Lee Blues” (1928)
1984: Walter Huston “September Song” (1939)

2002: Janis Ian “Society's Child (Baby, I've Been Thinking)” (1967)
2008: Janis Ian “At Seventeen” (1975)
1998: The Impressions “People Get Ready” (1965)
1987: The Ink Spots “If I Didn't Care” (1939)
1999: The Isley Brothers “Shout (Parts 1 and 2)” (1959)
2010: The Isley Brothers “Twist and Shout” (1962)

1999: The Jackson 5 “I Want You Back” (1969)
2011: The Jackson 5 “I’ll Be There” (1970)
2017: The Jackson 5 “ABC” (1970)
1998: Mahalia Jackson “Move on Up a Little Higher” (1948)
2010: Mahalia Jackson “His Eye Is on the Sparrow” (1951)
2012: Mahalia Jackson “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” (1956)
2008: Little Walter Jacobs “Juke” (1952)
1998: Emore James “I Believe I'll Dust My Broom” (1952)
2008: Etta James “The Wallflower (Roll with Me Henry)” (1955)
1999: Etta James “At Last” (1961)
2020: Skip James “Devil Got My Woman” (1931)
2008: Jan & Dean “Dead Man's Curve” (1964)
2019: El Jarocho “La Bamba” (1939)
1998: Jefferson Airplane “White Rabbit” (1967)
1999: Blind Lemon Jefferson “Matchbox Blues” (1927)
2016: Joan Jett & the Blackhearts “I Love Rock and Roll” (1981)
2013: Billy Joel “Piano Man” (1973)
2004: Billy Joel “Just the Way You Are” (1977)
1998: Elton John “Your Song” (1970)
2020: Elton John “Tiny Dancer” (2020)
2011: Blind Willie Johnson “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground” (1927)
2020: James P. Johnson “Carolina Shout” (1922)
1998: Robert Johnson “Crossroads (aka "Cross Road Blues")” (1936)
2014: Robert Johnson “Sweet Home Chicago” (1936)
2010: Al Jolson “You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)” (1913)
2004: Al Jolson “Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody” (1918)
1998: Al Jolson “Swanee” (1920)
2005: Al Jolson “California Here I Come” (1924)
2002: Al Jolson “Sonny Boy” (1928)
2011: Al Jolson “My Mammy” (1928)
1999: George Jones “She Thinks I Still Care” (1962)
2007: George Jones “He Stopped Loving Her Today” (1980)
2007: Isham Jones “It Had to Be You” (1924)
1995: Spike Jones & His City Slickers “Cocktails for Two” (1945)
2007: Spike Jones & His City Slickers “All I Want for Christmas Is My Tooth Front Teeth” (1948)
1999: Janis Joplin “Piece of My Heart” (1968)
2002: Janis Joplin “Me and Bobby McGee” (1971)
1998: Louis Jordan “Caldonia” (1945)
2008: Louis Jordan “Choo Choo Ch'Boogie” (1946)
2009: Louis Jordan “Let the Good Times Roll” (1946)
2013: Louis Jordan “Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens” (1946)
2021: Journey “Don’t Stop Believin’” (1981)
1998: Bill Justis “Raunchy” (1957)

2009: Helen Kane “I Wanna Be Loved by You” (1928)
2006: Anton Karas “The Third Man Theme” (1950)
1999: Gene Kelly “Singin' in the Rain” (1952)
1985: Stan Kenton “Artistry in Rhythm” (1944)
2014: B.B. King “Three O'Clock Blues” (1951)
2004: B.B. King “Everyday I Have the Blues” (1955)
1998: B.B. King “The Thrill Is Gone” (1969)
2002: Ben E. King “Spanish Harlem” (1960)
1998: Ben E. King “Stand by Me” (1961)
2001: Carole King “You’ve Got a Friend” (1971)
2003: Carole King “It's Too Late” (1971)
1999: Freddie King “Hideaway” (1961)
1999: The Kingsmen “Louie Louie” (1963)
1998: The Kingston Trio “Tom Dooley” (1958)
1999: The Kinks “You Really Got Me” (1964)
2018: Gladys Knight & the Pips “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1967)
1999: Gladys Knight & the Pips “Midnight Train to Georgia” (1973)
2016: Kool & the Gang “Celebration” (1980)

2003: Patti LaBelle “Lady Marmalade” (1974)
1998: Frankie Laine “That's My Desire” (1947)
2008: Gertrude Lawrence “Someone to Watch Over Me” (1927)
2007: Led Zeppelin “Whole Lotta Love” (1969)
2003: Led Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven” (1971)
2002: Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter “Goodnight Irene” (1933)
2016: Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter “Rock Island Line” (1942)
2019: Brenda Lee “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” (1958)
1999: Brenda Lee “I'm Sorry” (1960)
1998: Peggy Lee “Fever” (1957)
1999: Peggy Lee “Is That All There Is?” (1969)
1999: John Lennon “Imagine” (1971)
2012: Furry Lewis “Kassie Jones” (1928)
1998: Jerry Lee Lewis “Great Balls of Fire” (1957)
1999: Jerry Lee Lewis “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” (1957)
2009: Ramsey Lewis “The In Crowd” (1965)
2007: Solomon Linda & the Evening Birds “Mbube” (1939)
2016: Little Eva “The Loco-Motion” (1962)
1998: Little Richard “Tutti Frutti” (1955)
1999: Little Richard “Long Tall Sally” (1956)
2002: Little Richard “Lucille” (1957)
2001: Julie London “Cry Me a River” (1955)
2002: The Lovin’ Spoonful “Do You Believe in Magic” (1965)
1999: The Lovin’ Spoonful “Summer in the City” (1966)
1999: Jimmie Lunceford “For Dancers Only” (1937)
2001: Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers “Why Do Fools Fall in Love?” (1956)
1998: Loretta Lynn “Coal Miner's Daughter” (1970)
2008: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Free Bird” (1973)
2009: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Sweet Home Alabama” (1974)

2008: Jeanette MacDonald “Indian Love Call” (1936)
2020: Machito “Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite” (1950)
2007: Uncle Dave Macon “Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy” (1924)
2019: Miriam Makeba “Pata Pata” (1967)
2001: The Mamas & the Papas “California Dreamin'“ (1966)
2008: The Mamas & the Papas “Monday Monday” (1966)
2005: Henry Mancini “Peter Gunn” (1959)
1999: Henry Mancini with Audrey Hepburn “Moon River” (1961)
2003: Henry Mancini “The Days of Wine and Roses” (1963)
1999: Bob Marley & the Marleys “Get Up Stand Up” (1973)
2005: Bob Marley & the Marleys “No Woman, No Cry” (1974)
2007: Bob Marley & the Marleys “One Love/People Get Ready” (1977)
1999: Dean Martin “Everybody Loves Somebody” (1964)
2007: Mary Martin “My Heart Belongs to Daddy” (1939)
2011: The Marvelettes “Please Mr. Postman” (1961)
2018: Hugh Masekela “Grazing in the Grass” (1968)
1998: Johnny Mathis “Chances Are “( 1957)
2008: Johnny Mathis “It's Not for Me to Say” (1957)
2002: Johnny Mathis “Misty” (1959)
2019: Curtis Mayfield “Move on Up” (1970)
1999: Percy Mayfield “Please Send Me Someone to Love” (1950)
1999: John McCormack “Somewhere a Voice Is Calling” (1916)
2002: Don McLean “American Pie” (1971)
2017: Blind Willie McTell “Statesboro Blues” (1928)
2019: Edward Meeker “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (1908)
2013: The Memphis Jug Band “Stealin' Stealin'“ (1928)
2021: Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy “When the Levee Breaks” (1929)
1998: Johnny Mercer “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive” (1945)
2010: Johnny Mercer “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” (1946)
2008: Ethel Merman “You're the Top” (1934)
2006: Big Maceo Merriweather “Worried Life Blues” (1941)
2011: The Meters “Cissy Strut” (1969)
2004: Mickey & Sylvia “Love Is Strange” (1956)
2007: Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers “Lovesick Blues” (1928)
1983: Glenn Miller “In the Mood” (1939)
1991: Glenn Miller “Moonlight Serenade” (1939)
1996: Glenn Miller with Tex Beneke & the Four Modernaires…Chattanooga Choo Choo (1941)
1998: Roger Miller “Dang Me” (1964)
1999: Roger Miller “King of the Road” (1965)
1998: The Mills Brothers “Paper Doll” (1942)
2017: The Mills Brothers “You Always Hurt the One You Love” (1944)
2006: The Miracles “Shop Around” (1960)
1998: The Miracles “You've Really Got a Hold on Me” (1962)
2007: The Miracles “The Tracks of My Tears” (1965)
2002: The Miracles “The Tears of a Clown” (1970)
2008: The Mississippi Sheiks “Sitting on Top of the World” (1930)
1993: Thelonious Monk “Round Midnight” (1947)
2009: Bill Monroe “Mule Skinner Blues” (1940)
1998: Bill Monroe “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (1947)
2007: Patsy Montana & the Prairie Ramblers “I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart” (1936)
1999: The Moody Blues “Nights in White Satin” (1967)
2001: James Moody “Moody's Mood for Love” (1952)
2002: The Moonglows “Sincerely” (1955)
1998: Helen Morgan “Bill” (1928)
1999: Van Morrison & Them “Gloria” (1965)
2007: Van Morrison “Brown-Eyed Girl” (1967)
2010: Jelly Roll Morton “Kansas City Stomp” (1923)
2006: Billy Murray “Yankee Doodle Boy” (1905)
2008: Billy Murray “Give My Regards to Broadway” (1905)

2011: Willie Nelson “On the Road Again” (1980)
2008: Willie Nelson “Always on My Mind” (1982)
2020: Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard “Pancho and Lefty” (1982)
2015: Aaron Neville “Tell It Like It Is” (1966)
1999: Harry Nilsson “Everybody's Talkin'“ (1968)
2017: Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)
2010: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band “Mr. Bojangles” (1970)
2005: Ray Noble “The Very Thought of You” (1934)

2006: The O’Jays “Love Train” (1973)
2016: The O’Jays “For the Love of Money” (1974)
1996: King Oliver “Chimes Blues” (1923)
2010: King Oliver “Dipper Mouth Blues” (1923)
1999: Roy Orbison “Only the Lonely” (1960)
2002: Roy Orbison “Crying” (1961)
1999: Roy Orbison “(Oh) Pretty Woman” (1964)
2006: Original Dixieland Jazz Band “The Darktown Strutters' Ball” (1917)
2008: The Orioles “Crying in the Chapel” (1953)
2013: Buck Owens “Act Naturally” (1963)
1999: Buck Owens “I've Got a Tiger by the Tail” (1965)

1998: Patti Page “Tennessee Waltz” (1950)
2002: Charlie Parker “Billie's Bounce” (1945)
2019: Charlie Parker with Miles Davis & Dizzy Gillespie “Ko-Ko” (1945)
1989: Charlie Parker “Ornithology” (1946)
2014: Charlie Parker “Yardbird Suite” (1946)
2018: Parliament/Funkadelic “Flash Light” (1977)
2019: Dolly Parton “Coat of Many Colors” (1971)
2014: Dolly Parton “Jolene” (1973)
2007: Dolly Parton “I Will Always Love You” (1974)
1999: Charley Patton “Pony Blues” (1929)
2018: Billy Paul “Me and Mrs. Jones” (1972)
1979: Les Paul & Mary Ford “How High the Moon” (1951)
2005: Les Paul & Mary Ford “Vaya Con Dios (May God Be with You)” (1953)
1998: The Penguins “Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)” (1954)
1986: Carl Perkins “Blue Suede Shoes” (1956)
2003: Peter, Paul & Mary “Blowin' in the Wind” (1963)
1998: Edith Piaf “La Vie En Rose” (1950)
1999: Wilson Pickett “In the Midnight Hour” (1965)
2000: Wilson Pickett “Mustang Sally” (1966)
1999: The Platters “Only You (And You Alone)” (1955)
2002: The Platters “The Great Pretender” (1955)
2019: The Platters “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” (1958)
2008: The Police “Roxanne” (1978)
2007: Charlie Poole & His North Carolina Ramblers “Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues” (1925)
1999: Bud Powell Trio “Un Poco Loco” (1951)
2005: Dick Powell “Lullaby of Broadway” (1935)
1998: Elvis Presley “That's All Right, Mama” (1954)
1988: Elvis Presley “Hound Dog” (1956)
1995: Elvis Presley “Heartbreak Hotel” (1956)
2002: Elvis Presley “Don’t Be Cruel” (1956)
2017: Elvis Presley “Jailhouse Rock” (1957)
2007: Elvis Presley “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” (1960)
1999: Elvis Presley “Suspicious Minds” (1969)
1999: Ray Price “Crazy Arms” (1956)
1998: Procol Harum “A Whiter Shade of Pale” (1967)
1998: Professor Longhair “Tipitina” (1953)
2018: Public Enemy “Fight the Power” (1989)
2002: Tito Puente “Oye Como Va” (1953)

2004: Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody” (1975)
2009: Queen “We Will Rock You” (1977)
2009: Queen “We Are the Champions” (1977)
1999: Quintette of the Hot Club of France “Djangology” (1935)

2004: Ma Rainey “See See Rider Blues” (1925)
2017: Bonnie Raitt “I Can't Make You Love Me” (1991)
1999: The Rascals “Groovin'“ (1967)
1998: Johnnie Ray “Cry” (1951)
2011: Otis Redding “I've Been Loving You Too Long” (1965)
2015: Otis Redding “Try a Little Tenderness” (1966)
1998: Otis Redding “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay” (1968)
2020: Blind Alfred Reed “How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live” (1930)
2015: Lou Reed “Walk on the Wild Side” (1972)
1999: Jim Reeves “He'll Have to Go” (1959)
1999: Martha Reeves & the Vandellas “Dancing in the Street” (1964)
2000: Django Reinhardt, “Nuages” (1940)
2017: R.E.M. “Losing My Religion” (1991)
1999: Charlie Rich “Behind Closed Doors” (1973)
2005: Harry Richman “Puttin' on the Ritz” (1930)
1998: The Righteous Brothers “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” (1964)
2000: The Righteous Brothers “Unchained Melody” (1965)
2019: Jeannie C. Riley “Harper Valley P.T.A.” (1968)
1998: Marty Robbins “El Paso” (1959)
2015: Paul Robeson “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” (1926)
2006: Paul Robeson “Ol’ Man River” (1927)
1985: Jimmie Rodgers “Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas)” (1928)
2007: Jimmie Rodgers “In the Jailhouse Now” (1928)
2007: Jimmie Rodgers “Blue Yodel #9 (Standing on the Corner)” (1930)
2021: Kenny Rogers “The Gambler” (1978)
2009: Roy Rogers “Happy Trails” (1948)
1998: The Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (1965)
2018: The Rolling Stones “Paint It Black” (1966)
2014: The Rolling Stones “Honky Tonk Women” (1969)
2019: Sonny Rollins Quartet featuring John Coltrane “Tenor Madness” (1956)
1999: The Ronettes “Be My Baby” (1963)
2004: David Rose “Holiday for Strings” (1943)
2014: Run-D.M.C. with Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler & Joe Perry “Walk This Way” (1986)
2018: Leon Russell “A Song for You” (1970)

1999: Sam & Dave “Soul Man” (1967)
2009: Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs “Wooly Bully” (1965)
1998: Mongo Santamaria “Watermelon Man” (1963)
2009: Carlo Savina “The Godfather (Love Theme from)” (1972)
1984: Bidu Sayao “Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 - Aria” (1945)
2017: Lalo Schifrin “Mission Impossible” (1968)
2014: Gil Scott-Heron “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” (1970)
1999: Pete Seeger “We Shall Overcome” (1963)
2002: Pete Seeger “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” (1964)
2007: Ben Selvin “Happy Days Are Here Again” (1930)
2002: Del Shannon “Runaway” (1961)
1977: Artie Shaw “Begin the Beguine” (1938)
2001: Artie Shaw “Any Old Time” (1938)
2000: Artie Shaw “Frenesi” (1940)
1988: Artie Shaw “Stardust” (1941)
1999: The Shirelles “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” (1960)
2004: Carly Simon “You're So Vain” (1972)
2004: Simon & Garfunkel “The Sounds of Silence” (1965)
1999: Simon & Garfunkel “Mrs. Robinson” (1968)
1998: Simon & Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (1970)
2000: Nina Simone “I Loves You, Porgy” (1959)
2019: Nina Simone “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black” (1969)
1998: Frank Sinatra “The House I Live In” (1946)
2005: Frank Sinatra “One for My Baby and One More for the Road” (1949)
2004: Frank Sinatra “I've Got the World on a String” (1953)
1998: Frank Sinatra “I've Got You Under My Skin” (1956)
2008: Frank Sinatra “Strangers in the Night” (1966)
2000: Frank Sinatra “My Way” (1969)
2013: Frank Sinatra “New York New York (Theme from)” (1980)
2020: Nancy Sinatra “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” (1965)
2016: Sir Douglas Quintet “She's About a Mover” (1965)
2008: Sister Sledge “We Are Family” (1979)
1999: Percy Sledge “When a Man Loves a Woman” (1966)
1998: Sly & the Family Stone “Dance to the Music” (1968)
2017: Sly & the Family Stone “Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin” (1969)
2006: Bessie Smith “Down Hearted Blues” (1923)
1993: Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong “St. Louis Blues” (1925)
1983: Bessie Smith “Empty Bed Blues” (1928)
1983: Clarence “Pinetop” Smith “Pine Top's Boogie Woogie” (1929)
1982: Kate Smith “God Bless America” (1939)
1994: Mamie Smith “Crazy Blues” (1920)
1998: Sammi Smith “Help Me Make It Through the Night” (1971)
2000: Hank Snow “I'm Moving On” (1950)
2002: The Sons of the Pioneers “Tumbling Tumbleweeds” (1934)
1986: The Sons of the Pioneers “Cool Water” (1941)
1998: John Philip Sousa “The Stars and Stripes Forever” (1897)
2008: Dusty Springfield “The Look of Love” (1967)
1998: Jo Stafford “You Belong to Me” (1952)
2020: The Stanley Brothers & the Clinch Mountain Boys “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow” (1951)
1999: The Staple Singers “Uncloudy Day” (1956)
2002: The Staple Singers “Respect Yourself” (1971)
1999: The Staple Singers “I'll Take You There” (1972)
1999: Edwin Starr “War” (1970)
1998: Kay Starr “Wheel of Fortune” (1952)
2013: W.H. Stepp “Bonaparte's Retreat” (1937)
2002: Steppenwolf “Born to Be Wild” (1968)
2017: Rod Stewart “Maggie May” (1971)
2013: Ernest Van (Pop) Stoneman “The Titanic” (1925)
1998: Barbra Streisand “People” (1964)
2008: Barbra Streisand “The Way We Were” (1973)
2014: The Sugarhill Gang “Rapper’s Delight” (1979)
1999: The Supremes “Where Did Our Love Go” (1964)
2001: The Supremes “Stop! In the Name of Love” (1965)
1999: The Supremes “You Keep Me Hangin' On” (1966)
2020: The Surfaris “Wipe Out” (1963)
2020: The Swan Silvertones “Oh Mary Don’t You Weep” (1959)

1986: Art Tatum “Tea for Two” (1939)
1998: James Taylor “Fire and Rain” (1970)
2002: James Taylor “You’ve Got a Friend” (1971)
1998: The Temptations “My Girl” (1964)
1999: The Temptations “Papa Was a Rollin' Stone” (1972)
2016: Sister Rosetta Tharpe “This Train” (1939)
2014: Sister Rosetta Tharpe “Strange Things Happening Every Day” (1944)
2014: B.J. Thomas “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” (1969)
2021: Irma Thomas “Time Is on My Side” (1964)
2002: Rufus Thomas “Walking the Dog” (1963)
1999: Hank Thompson “The Wild Side of Life” (1952)
2013: Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton “Hound Dog” (1953)
2019: The Troggs “Wild Thing” (1966)
1977: Frankie Trumbauer “Singin' the Blues” (1927)
1998: Ernest Tubb “Walking the Floor Over You” (1941)
1995: Sophie Tucker “Some of These Days” (1911)
1998: Big Joe Turner “Shake, Rattle and Roll” (1954)
1999: Ike & Tina Turner “River Deep, Mountain High” (1966)
2003: Ikie & Tina Turner “Proud Mary” (1971)
2012: Tina Turner “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” (1984)
2007: The Turtles “Happy Together” (1967)
1999: Conway Twitty “Hello Darlin’” (1970)

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2021: U.S.A. for Africa “We Are the World” (1985)
2000: Ritchie Valens “La Bamba” (1958)
1998: Sarah Vaughan “If You Could See Me Now” (1946)
2019: Sarah Vaughan “Tenderly” (1947)
2006: The Ventures “Walk Don't Run” (1960)
1997: Victor Symphony Orchestra “An American in Paris” (1929)
2021: Village People “Y.M.C.A.” (1978)
1999: Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps “Be-Bop-A-Lula” (1956)

2002: Junior Walker & the All Stars “Shotgun” (1965)
1991: T-Bone Walker “Call It Stormy Monday” (1947)
1984: Fats Waller “Ain’t Misbehavin’” (1929)
1999: Fats Waller “Honeysuckle Rose” (1935)
2015: Fats Waller “Jitterbug Waltz” (1942)
2014: War “Low Rider” (1975)
2000: Dionne Warwick “Don't Make Me Over” (1962)
1998: Dionne Warwick “Walk on By” (1964)
2008: Dionne Warwick “Alfie” (1967)
1999: Dinah Washington “Teach Me Tonight” (1954)
1998: Dinah Washington “What a Diff'rence a Day Makes” (1959)
2001: Dinah Washington “Unforgettable” (1959)
1998: Ethel Waters “Dinah” (1926)
2007: Ethel Waters “Am I Blue?” (1929)
2003: Ethel Waters “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” (1933)
2010: Muddy Waters “I Feel Like Going Home” (1948)
2000: Muddy Waters “Rollin' Stone” (1950)
1998: Muddy Waters “Hoochie Coochie Man” (1954)
1999: Muddy Waters “Got My Mojo Working” (1957)
2006: Doc Watson “Black Mountain Rag” (1964)
2010: Weather Report “Birdland” (1977)
2006: The Weavers “Goodnight Irene” (1950)
1998: Kitty Wells “It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” (1952)
1999: Mary Wells “My Guy” (1964)
2012: Bukka White “Fixin' to Die” (1940)
1998: Paul Whiteman “Whispering” (1920)
1974: Paul Whiteman with George Gershwin “Rhapsody in Blue” (1924)
2012: Paul Whtieman “Anything Goes” (1934)
1999: The Who “My Generation” (1965)
2018: Andy Williams “Moon River” (1962)
1981: Bert Williams “Nobody” (1906)
2015: Hank Williams “Honky Tonkin’” (1948)
1999: Hank Williams liams, Hank “I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry” (1949)
2011: Hank Williams “Lovesick Blues” (1949)
2001: Hank Williams “Hey Good Lookin’” (1951)
2002: Hank Williams “Jambalaya (On the Bayou)” (1952)
1983: Hank Williams “Your Cheatin’ Heart” (1953)
2011: Bob Wills “Steel Guitar Rag” (1936)
2015: Bob Wills “San Antonio Rose” (1939)
1998: Bob Wills “New San Antonio Rose” (1940)
2010: Dooley Wilson “As Time Goes By” (1942)
1999: Jackie Wilson “Lonely Teardrops” (1958)
1999: Jackie Wilson “Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher and Higher” (1967)
1999: Bill Withers “Ain't No Sunshine” (1971)
2007: Bill Withers “Lean on Me” (1972)
1998: Stevie Wonder “Superstition” (1972)
2002: Stevie Wonder “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” (1972)
2019: Link Wray & His Men “Rumble” (1958)
2021: Betty Wright “Clean Up Woman” (1971)
1999: Tammy Wynette “Stand by Your Man” (1968)

X-Y-Z

1999: Frank Yankovic & His Yanks “Just Because” (1948)
2000: Faron Young “Hello Walls” (1961)
1999: Lester Young “Just You, Just Me” (1944)
2016: The Zombies “She's Not There” (1964)

Resources/Related Links:

Dave’s Music Database: “Grammy Hall of Fame: Albums”
Dave’s Music Database: other awards and Hall of Fame inductees for songs
Grammy Hall of Fame (official site with all albums and songs listed alphabetically by the title of the work)
Grammy.com (12/21/2020). “GRAMMY Hall of Fame Welcomes 2021 Inductions”

First posted 1/24/2019; last updated 12/21/2020.

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The World's All-Time Best-Selling Songs

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The World’s All-Time Best Sellers

The World’s All-Time Best-Selling Songs (6 million +)

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One-Hit Wonders

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Grammy Hall of Fame: Songs, 1973-2020

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