Showing posts with label top 100 songs all time. Show all posts
Showing posts with label top 100 songs all time. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Folk Rock: Top 100 Songs

Folk Rock:

Top 100 Songs

Originally this was a list of the top top folk and folk rock songs. However, I’ve now split it into two lists – one focused on folk and traditional songs and this one focused on folk rock songs. These lists were generated by aggregating multiple lists that focused on folk and folk rock and then reordering the songs based on their overall status in Dave’s Music Database.

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1. Simon & Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (1970)
2. Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone” (1965)
3. The Animals “The House of the Rising Sun” (1964)
4. Rod Stewart “Maggie May” (1971)
5. Simon & Garfunkel “The Sounds of Silence” (1965)
6. The Byrds (1965), Bob Dylan (1965) “Mr. Tambourine Man”
7. Buffalo Springfield “For What It’s Worth” (1966)
8. The Mamas & the Papas “California Dreamin’” (1966)
9. Neil Young “Heart of Gold” (1972)
10. Simon & Garfunkel “Mrs. Robinson” (1968)

11. James Taylor “Fire and Rain” (1970)
12. Bob Dylan (1963), Peter, Paul & Mary (1963) “Blowin’ in the Wind”
13. The Turtles “Happy Together” (1967)
14. Carole King “It’s Too Late” (1971)
15. The Byrds (1965), Judy Collins (1963), Pete Seeger (1959) “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)”
16. Sonny & Cher “I Got You Babe” (1965)
17. America “A Horse with No Name” (1971)
18. Crosby, Stills & Nash “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” (1969)
19. Bob Dylan “The Times They Are A-Changin’” (1964)
20. Bob Dylan “Tangled Up in Blue” (1975)

21. Joni Mitchell “Big Yellow Taxi” (1970)
22. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young “Ohio” (1970)
23. The Mamas & the Papas “Monday Monday” (1966)
24. The Beatles “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)” (1965)
25. The Lovin’ Spoonful “Summer in the City” (1966)
26. The Youngbloods “Get Together” (1967)
27. Simon & Garfunkel “The Boxer” (1969)
28. Scott McKenzie “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)” (1967)
29. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young “Teach Your Children” (1970)
30. Bob Dylan “Subterranean Homesick Blues” (1965)

31. America “Ventura Highway” (1972)
32. Donovan “Sunshine Superman” (1966)
33. Cat Stevens “Morning Has Broken” (1971)
34. Gordon Lightfoot “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” (1976)
35. Simon & Garfunkel “Scarborough Fair/Canticle” (1966)
36. Neil Young “Cinnamon Girl” (1969)
37. Leonard Cohen “Suzanne” (1967)
38. Harry Nilsson “Everybody’s Talkin’” (1968)
39. Barry McGuire “Eve of Destruction” (1965)
40. Joni Mitchell “A Case of You” (1971)

41. The Lovin’ Spoonful “Do You Believe in Magic?” (1965)
42. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young “Our House” (1970)
43. Neil Young “Old Man” (1972)
44. Love “Alone Again Or” (1967)
45. The Searchers “Needles and Pins” (1964)
46. Bob Dylan “Hurricane” (1975)
47. Bob Dylan “Positively 4th Street” (1965)
48. Joni Mitchell (1970), Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (1970), Matthews’ Southern Comfort (1970), Assembled Multitude (1970) “Woodstock”
49. Janis Ian “At Seventeen” (1975)
50. Pete Seeger (1963), Joan Baez (1963) “We Shall Overcome”

51. Donovan “Mellow Yellow” (1966)
52. Cat Stevens “Wild World” (1970)
53. Crosby, Stills & Nash “Marrakesh Express” (1969)
54. Simon & Garfunkel “Homeward Bound” (1966)
55. Bob Dylan (1963), Peter, Paul & Mary (1963) “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”
56. Bob Dylan “Just Like a Woman” (1966)
57. Bob Dylan “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35” (1966)
58. The Rooftop Singers “Walk Right In” (1962)
59. The Byrds “So You Wanna Be a Rock and Roll Star” (1967)
60. Neil Young “Southern Man” (1970)

61. The Lovin’ Spoonful “Daydream” (1966)
62. Judy Collins (1968), Joni Mitchell (1969), Dave Van Ronk (1969) “Both Sides Now”
63. Peter, Paul & Mary “Puff the Magic Dragon” (1963)
64. Bob Dylan (1964, The Byrds (1967) “My Back Pages”
65. Simon & Garfunkel “I Am a Rock” (1966)
66. Donovan “Catch the Wind” (1965)
67. Buffalo Springfield “Mr. Soul” (1967)
68. Pete Seeger (1963), Peter, Paul & Mary (1962), Trini Lopez (1963) “If I Had a Hammer”
69. The Mamas & the Papas “Creeque Alley” (1967)
70. Bob Dylan “I Want You” (1966)

71. Arlo Guthrie “Alice’s Restaurant” (1967)
72. Crosby, Stills & Nash “Wooden Ships” (1969)
73. Peter, Paul & Mary (1969), John Denver (1969) “Leaving on a Jet Plane”
74. The Byrds “I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better” (1965)
75. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young “Helplessly Hoping” (1969)
76. You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away (1965)
77. The Grass Roots “Let’s Live for Today” (1967)
78. Neil Young “Down by the River” (1969)
79. The Turtles “It Ain't Me Babe” (1965)
80. The Mamas & the Papas “Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon)” (1967)

81. Country Joe & the Fish “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag” (1967)
82. Led Zeppelin “Gallows Pole” (1970)
83. Hedy West (1961), Bobby Bare (1963), Peter, Paul & Mary (1963), Joan Baez (1965) “500 Miles”
84. The Brothers Four “Greenfields” (1960)
85. Joan Baez “Diamonds and Rust” (1975)
86. The Association “Along Comes Mary” (1966)
87. The Lovin’ Spoonful “You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice” (1965)
88. Bob Dylan “Masters of War” (1963)
89. Joni Mitchell “The Circle Game” (1970)
90. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young “Helpless” (1970)

91. Simon & Garfunkel “The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)” (1966)
92. Leonard Cohen “Famous Blue Raincoat” (1971)
93. Pete Seeger (1962), The Kingston Trio (1962), Joan Baez (1965) “Where Have All the Flowers Gone”
94. Gale Garnett “We'll Sing in the Sunshine” (1964)
95. Neil Young “After the Gold Rush” (1970)
96. Tim Hardin (1967), Bobby Darin (1966) “If I Were a Carpenter”
97. Buffy Sainte-Marie (1964), Donovan (1965) “Universal Soldier”
98. Janis Ian “Society’s Child (Baby I’ve Been Thinking)” (1967)
99. The Mamas & the Papas “I Saw Her Again” (1966)
100. Phil Ochs “I Ain't Marchin’ Anymore” (1965)

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First posted 4/19/2020; last updated 11/18/2025.

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Tuesday, September 5, 2023

The Top 100 Songs of All Time

Dave’s Music Database: Top 100 Songs All-Time

There are over 116,000 songs in Dave’s Music Database. Songs are ranked based on chart peaks, sales, radio airplay, streaming figures, and video plays. Also factored in are multiple music awards and appearances on best-of lists. These are the cream of the crop – the top 100 songs of all time according to Dave’s Music Database.

1. Bing Crosby “White Christmas” (1942)
2. The Police “Every Breath You Take” (1983)
3. The Beatles “Hey Jude” (1968)
4. The Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (1965)
5. Michael Jackson “Billie Jean” (1982)
6. Bill Haley & His Comets “We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock” (1954)
7. Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You” (1992)
8. Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody” (1975)
9. Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)
10. John Lennon “Imagine” (1971)

11. The Beatles “Yesterday” (1965)
12. Marvin Gaye “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1968)
13. Aretha Franklin “Respect” (1967)
14. Simon & Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (1970)
15. Eagles “Hotel California” (1977)
16. Bee Gees “Stayin’ Alive” (1977)
17. The Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (1963)
18. Judy Garland “Over the Rainbow” (1939)
19. The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” (1966)
20. Guns N' Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine” (1988)

21. Arthur Collins & Bryon G. Harlan “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (1911)
22. Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone” (1965)
23. Ben E. King “Stand by Me” (1961)
24. Bryan Adams “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” (1991)
25. Bobby Darin “Mack the Knife” (1959)
26. Led Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven” (1971)
27. OutKast “Hey Ya!” (2003)
28. Don McLean “American Pie” (1971)
29. The Righteous Brothers “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” (1964)
30. Otis Redding “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay” (1968)

31. Sinéad O’Connor “Nothing Compares 2 U” (1990)
32. Glenn Miller Orchestra “In the Mood” (1939)
33. Eminem “Lose Yourself” (2002)
34. The Beatles “Let It Be” (1970)
35. Fred Astaire “Night and Day” (1932)
36. Elvis Presley “Heartbreak Hotel” (1956)
37. Stevie Wonder “Superstition” (1972)
38. Derek and the Dominos “Layla” (1970)
39. The Righteous Brothers “Unchained Melody” (1965)
40. The Animals “The House of the Rising Sun” (1964)

41. Black Eyed Peas “I Gotta Feeling” (2009)
42. Mark Ronson with Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk!” (2014)
43. Gloria Gaynor “I Will Survive” (1978)
44. The Temptations “My Girl” (1964)
45. Ed Sheeran “Shape of You” (2017)
46. Abba “Dancing Queen” (1976)
47. Prince “When Doves Cry” (1984)
48. Celine Dion “My Heart Will Go On” (1997)
49. Elton John “Candle in the Wind 1997 (Goodbye England’s Rose)” (1997)
50. R.E.M. “Losing My Religion” (1991)

51. Elvis Presley “Hound Dog” (1956)
52. Adele “Rolling in the Deep” (2010)
53. Bon Jovi “Livin’ on a Prayer” (1986)
54. Elvis Presley “Jailhouse Rock” (1957)
55. The Doors “Light My Fire” (1967)
56. Pink Floyd “Another Brick in the Wall Part II” (1979)
57. Marvin Gaye “What’s Going On” (1971)
58. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts “I Love Rock and Roll” (1981)
59. Bruce Springsteen “Born to Run” (1975)
60. Al Jolson “Swanee” (1920)

61. Fred Astaire “Cheek to Cheek” (1935)
62. U2 “With or Without You” (1987)
63. Elvis Presley “Don’t Be Cruel” (1956)
64. Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (1908)
65. Roy Orbison “(Oh) Pretty Woman” (1964)
66. American Quartet “Over There” (1917)
67. Artie Shaw “Stardust” (1941)
68. Rod Stewart “Maggie May” (1971)
69. Chuck Berry “Johnny B. Goode” (1958)
70. Gene Austin “My Blue Heaven” (1927)

71. Van Morrison “Brown-Eyed Girl” (1967)
72. Bessie Smith & Louis Armstrong “St. Louis Blues” (1925)
73. Artie Shaw & His Orchestra “Begin the Beguine” (1938)
74. Luis Fonsi with Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber “Despacito” (2017)
75. Billy Murray “You’re a Grand Old Flag (aka “The Grand Old Rag”)” (1906)
76. Pharrell Williams “Happy” (2013)
77. Gotye with Kimbra “Somebody That I Used to Know” (2011)
78. Procol Harum “A Whiter Shade of Pale” (1967)
79. Chubby Checker “The Twist” (1960)
80. Elton John “Your Song” (1970)

81. Louis Armstrong “What a Wonderful World” (1967)
82. Ray Charles “Georgia on My Mind” (1960)
83. The Who “My Generation” (1965)
84. Lionel Richie & Diana Ross “Endless Love” (1981)
85. Nat “King” Cole “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)” (1946)
86. Journey “Don’t Stop Believin’” (1981)
87. Ethel Waters “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” (1933)
88. Survivor “Eye of the Tiger” (1982)
89. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “All Along the Watchtower” (1968)
90. Beyoncé with Jay-Z “Crazy in Love” (2003)

91. The Kinks “You Really Got Me” (1964)
92. Lynyrd Skynyrd “Sweet Home Alabama” (1974)
93. Paul Whiteman “Whispering” (1920)
94. Beyoncé “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” (2008)
95. Usher with Lil’ Jon & Ludacris “Yeah!” (2004)
96. Gnarls Barkley “Crazy” (2006)
97. Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road” (2018)
98. Gene Autry “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (1949)
99. The Kingsmen “Louie Louie” (1963)
100. Los Del Rio “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)” (1995)

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First posted 5/28/2008; last updated 9/5/2023.

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Sunday, October 3, 2021

Your Hit Parade: Top 100+ Songs

Your Hit Parade, Biggest #1 Songs:

1935-1958

Your Hit Parade was a radio, and then television, program which counted down the top music hits from April 20, 1935 to June 7, 1958. The charts didn’t list specific artists so only the highest-ranked version in Dave’s Music Database is listed.

This DMDB-exclusive list ranks the songs by most weeks at #1. In the event of ties, songs are ranked by their overall standing in Dave’s Music Database. All songs which peaked at #1 for 4 weeks or more are listed, making for a top 100+ songs of all-time according to Your Hit Parade.

See other chart-based lists here.

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Your Hit Parade – Top 100+

12 weeks:

1. Nat “King” Cole “Too Young” (1951)

11 weeks:

2. Tony Bennett “Because of You” (1951)

10 weeks:

3. Bing Crosby “White Christmas” (1942)
4. Bing Crosby “I’ll Be Seeing You” (1944)
5. Dinah Shore “Buttons and Bows” (1948)
6. The Harmonicats “Peg O’ My Heart” (1947)
7. Perry Como “Some Enchanted Evening” (1949)
8. Pat Boone “Love Letters in the Sand” (1957)
9. Bing Crosby “Now Is the Hour” (1948)
10. Rosemary Clooney “Hey There” (1954)

11. Margaret Whiting “A Tree in the Meadow” (1948)
12. Debbie Reynolds “Tammy” (1957)
13. Perry Como “If (They Made Me a King)” (1951)
14. Jimmy Dorsey “I Hear a Rhapsody” (1941)

9 weeks:

15. Jo Stafford “You Belong to Me” (1952)
16. Mitch Miller “The Yellow Rose of Texas” (1955)
17. Dick Haymes “You’ll Never Know” (1943)
18. Bill Hayes “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” (1955)
19. Gordon Jenkins “My Foolish Heart” (1950)
20. Glen Gray “My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart?)” (1943)

21. Pee Wee King “Slow Poke” (1951)

8 weeks:

22. Nat “King” Cole “Mona Lisa” (1950)
23. The Ink Spots “The Gypsy” (1946)
24. Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters “Don’t Fence Me In” (1944)
25. The Chordettes “Mr. Sandman” (1954)
26. Russ Morgan & the Skylarks “Cruising Down the River on a Sunday Afternoon” (1946)
27. Percy Faith “Where Is Your Heart? (Song from ‘Moulin Rouge’)” (1953)
28. Frankie Carle “Oh! What It Seemed to Be” (1946)
29. Larry Clinton & Bea Wain “My Reverie” (1938)
30. Eddy Howard “To Each His Own” (1946)

31. Dinah Shore “I’ll Walk Alone” (1944)

7 weeks:

32. Judy Garland “Over the Rainbow” (1939)
33. Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra “I’ll Never Smile Again” (1940)
34. Larry Clinton with Bea Wain “Deep Purple” (1939)
35. Perry Como “Till the End of Time” (1945)
36. Guy Mitchell “Singing the Blues” (1956)
37. Doris Day “Secret Love” (1954)
38. Tommy Dorsey “Once in a While” (1937)
39. Nat “King” Cole “I Love You for Sentimental Reasons” (1946)
40. Glenn Miller with Marion Hutton “The Woodpecker Song” (1940)

41. Perry Como “Wanted” (1954)
42. Freddy Martin “Symphony” (1945)
43. Pat Boone “April Love” (1957)
44. Eddy Howard “Sin (It’s No Sin)” (1951)
45. Bing Crosby “Dear Hearts and Gentle People” (1949)
46. Georgia Gibbs “Kiss of Fire” (1952)
47. Hugo Winterhalter with Eddie Heywood “Canadian Sunset” (1956)
48. Al Hibbler “Unchained Melody” (1955)

6 weeks:

49. Fred Astaire “The Way You Look Tonight” (1936)
50. Patti Page “Tennessee Waltz” (1950)
51. Ella Fitzgerald “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” (1938)
52. Francis Craig with Bob Lamm “Near You” (1947)
53. Nat “King” Cole “Nature Boy” (1948)
54. Jimmy Dorsey “Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)” (1941)
55. Bing Crosby “Sunday, Monday or Always” (1943)
56. Helen Forrest with Dick Haymes “Long Ago and Far Away” (1944)
57. Kitty Kallen “Little Things Mean a Lot” (1954)
58. Kay Starr “Wheel of Fortune” (1952)
59. Sammy Kaye “Daddy” (1941)
60. Vic Damon “You’re Breaking My Heart” (1949)

61. Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra “There Are Such Things” (1942)
62. The Pied Pipers “Dream (When You’re Feeling Blue)” (1945)
63. Red Foley “Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy” (1950)
64. Shep Fields with Charles Chester “Did I Remember?” (1936)
65. Frankie Masters “Scatter-Brain” (1939)
66. Guy & Lebert Lombardo “It Looks Like Rain in Cherry Blossom Lane” (1937)
67. Guy Lombardo “Boo Hoo” (1937)
68. Horace Heidt with Lysbeth Hughes & Larry Cotton “Ti-Pi-Tin” (1938)
69. Kay Kyser & Michael Douglas “Ole Buttermilk Sky” (1946)
70. Al Jolson “The Anniversary Song” (1947)

71. Kay Kyser “There’ll Be Bluebirds Over the Cliffs of Dover” (1941)
72. Tony Bennett “Stranger in Paradise” (1953)
73. Billy Vaughn “Melody of Love” (1954)

5 weeks:

74. Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman’s Orchestra “Cheek to Cheek” (1935)
75. Cliff Edwards “When You Wish Upon a Star” (1940)
76. Elvis Presley “Love Me Tender” (1956)
77. Tennessee Ernie Ford “Sixteen Tons” (1955)
78. Glenn Miller “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else But Me” (1942)
79. Johnnie Ray & the Four Lads “Cry” (1951)
80. Judy Garland “The Trolley Song” (1944)

81. Les Paul & Mary Ford “Vaya Con Dios (May God Be with You)” (1953)
82. Al Donahue with Paula Kelly “Jeepers Creepers” (1938)
83. Kay Kyser with Harry Babbitt & Julie Conway “Jingle, Jangle, Jingle” (1942)
84. Shep Fields with Hal Derwin “South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)” (1939)
85. Bill Snyder “Bewitched, Bothered, & Bewildered” (1950)
86. Tommy Dorsey with Cliff Weston “Alone” (1936)
87. Guy & Carmen Lombardo “September in the Rain” (1937)
88. Sonny James “Young Love” (1956)
89. Bing Crosby with the Les Paul Trio “It’s Been a Long, Long Time” (1945)
90. Alvino Rey with Bill Schallen & Skeets Herfurt “Deep in the Heart of Texas” (1942)

91. Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly “Is It True What They Say About Dixie” (1936)
92. Perry Como & the Ramblers “Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes” (1952)
93. Les Baxter “The Poor People of Paris” (1956)
94. Glenn Miller “You and I” (1941)
95. Joni James “Why Don’t You Believe Me” (1952)
96. Frank Chacksfield “Ebb Tide” (1953)
97. Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle “Careless” (1940)
98. Perry Como “Round and Round” (1957)

4 weeks:

99. Les Brown’s Orchestra with Doris Day “Sentimental Journey” (1945)
100. Bing Crosby with George Stoll’s Orchestra “Pennies from Heaven” (1936)

101. Dooley Wilson “As Time Goes By” (1942)
102. The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins’ Orchestra “Goodnight Irene” (1950)
103. Harry James with Helen Forrest “I’ve Heard That Song Before” (1943)
104. Johnny Mercer with the Pied Pipers “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive” (1945)
105. Benny Goodman with Martha Tilton “And the Angels Sing” (1939)
106. Shep Fields with Bob Goday “That Old Feeling” (1937)
107. Vaughn Monroe “Ballerina” (1947)
108. Doris Day “Whatever Will Be, Will Be” (1956)
109. Johnny Mercer with Jo Stafford “Candy” (1945)
110. Horace Heidt with Larry Cotton, Donna Wood, and Don Juans “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire” (1941)

111. Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “Red Sails in the Sunset” (1935)
112. Benny Goodman with Helen Ward “Goody Goody” (1936)
113. Tommy Dorsey with Edythe Wright “Music Maestro Please!” (1938)
114. Frank Sinatra “Five Minutes More” (1946)
115. Dean Martin “Memories Are Made of This” (1955)
116. Sammy Kaye with Tommy Ryan “Love Walked In” (1938)
117. Bing Crosby “I’ve Got a Pocketful of Dreams” (1938)
118. Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle “Stairway to the Stars” (1939)
119. Ray Noble with Buddy Clark “Linda’ (1947)
120. Red Norvo with Mildred Bailey “Says My Heart” (1938)

121. Benny Goodman with Ella Fitzgerald “Goodnight My Love” (1937)
122. Teresa Brewer with Jack Pleis’ Orchestra “Till I Waltz Again with You” (1952)
123. Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle “Wishing Will Make It So” (1939)
124. Bob Crosby with Kay Weber “Whispers in the Dark” (1937)
125. The Four Aces with Jack Pleis’ Orchestra “Three Coins in the Fountain” (1954)
126. Perry Como “Catch a Falling Star” (1957)
127. Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle “Moon Love” (1939)
128. Frank Sinatra “They Say It’s Wonderful” (1946)
129. The Ames Brothers with Hugo Winterhalter’s Orchestra “You You You” (1953)
130. Dorsey Brothers with Bob Eberly “Chasing Shadows” (1935)

131. Kay Kyser with Harry Babbitt “He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings” (1942)
132. Tony Martin “Tonight We Love (Concerto No. 1, B Flat Minor)” (1941)
133. Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “Lost” (1936)
134. Vaughn Monroe “There I Go” (1940)
135. Vaughn Monroe “My Devotion” (1942)
136. Nelson Riddle “Lisbon Antigua” (1955)

Resources and Related Links:
  • Dave’s Music Database: “Other Chart-Based Lists”
  • Bruce C. Elrod (editor) (1994). Your Hit Parade & American Top 10 Hits: A Week-by-Week Guide to the Nation’s Favorite Music, 1935-1994. Popular Culture, Ink.: Ann Arbor, MI.

    Includes week-by-week listing of Your Hit Parade from 4/20/1935 to 6/7/1958.

  • Way Back Machine: “Hit Parade Rankings

    Database of songs to peak in top 3 from 1935-55. Includes peak position, weeks at #1, and weeks total on the chart.

First posted 7/21/2014; last updated 10/3/2021.

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Thursday, October 14, 2010

XFM: Top 100 Songs

XFM:

Top 100 Songs

XFM is an alternative-oriented radio station out of London. Their top 1000 songs of all time list was presented online on 10/14/2010 and turned into a book. The list was based on an annual listeners’ poll, most requested songs, and suggestions from radio DJs and celebrity guests. However, since the list was unranked, the DMDB has taken the liberty of ranking the list for them.

To try to capture the distinct British flavor of the list (which means mostly, but not all, British-based acts), the DMDB averaged all British-based lists together, weeded out any songs not appearing on the XFM list, and then ranked the songs from most points on down. Here’s the resulting top 100 list:

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

1. John Lennon “Imagine” (1971)
2. The Beatles “Hey Jude” (1968)
3. Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)
4. Oasis “Wonderwall” (1995)
5. The Verve “Bitter Sweet Symphony” (1997)
6. R.E.M. “Losing My Religion” (1991)
7. Oasis “Don’t Look Back in Anger” (1996)
8. The Kinks “Waterloo Sunset” (1967)
9. Pulp “Common People” (1995)
10. U2 “One” (1992)

11. Oasis “Live Forever” (1994)
12. The Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (1965)
13. The Beatles “Strawberry Fields Forever” (1967)
14. The Beatles “Let It Be” (1970)
15. R.E.M. “Everybody Hurts” (1992)
16. Joy Division “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (1980)
17. The Undertones “Teenage Kicks” (1978)
18. Radiohead “Creep” (1993)
19. David Bowie “Heroes” (1977)
20. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “All Along the Watchtower” (1968)

21. U2 “With Or Without You” (1987)
22. New Order “Blue Monday” (1983)
23. The Who “My Generation” (1966)
24. David Bowie “Space Oddity” (1969)
25. The Stone Roses “Fools Gold” (1989)
26. The Smiths “How Soon Is Now?” (1985)
27. Massive Attack “Unfinished Sympathy” (1991)
28. The Sex Pistols “Anarchy in the U.K. ” (1976)
29. David Bowie “Life on Mars? ” (1973)
30. The Verve “The Drugs Don’t Work” (1997)

31. The Jam “Going Underground” (1980)
32. The Smiths “This Charming Man” (1983)
33. Guns N’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine” (1988)
34. The La’s “There She Goes” (1989)
35. The Clash “London Calling” (1979)
36. Blur “Song 2” (1997)
37. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)” (1968)
38. The Stone Roses “I Am the Resurrection” (1989)
39. Oasis “Champagne Supernova” (1996)
40. Red Hot Chili Peppers “Under the Bridge” (1992)

41. The Rolling Stones “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” (1968)
42. Coldplay “Yellow” (2000)
43. The Rolling Stones “Paint It Black” (1966)
44. The Jam “A Town Called Malice” (1982)
45. The Kinks “Lola” (1970)
46. Pink Floyd “Wish You Were Here” (1975)
47. The Kinks “You Really Got Me” (1964)
48. Radiohead “Paranoid Android” (1997)
49. The Sex Pistols “God Save the Queen” (1977)
50. Radiohead “Fake Plastic Trees” (1995)

51. Manic Street Preachers “Motorcycle Emptiness” (1992)
52. Underworld “Born Slippy” (1995)
53. The Doors “Light My Fire” (1967)
54. U2 “Where the Streets Have No Name” (1987)
55. Lou Reed “Walk on the Wild Side” (1972)
56. The Specials “Ghost Town” (1981)
57. The Rolling Stones “Sympathy for the Devil” (1968)
58. The Jam “That’s Entertainment” (1981)
59. The Rolling Stones “Honky Tonk Women” (1969)
60. Manic Street Preachers “A Design for Life” (1996)

61. Paul Weller “Wild Wood” (1993)
62. Green Day “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” (1997)
63. Pink Floyd “Comfortably Numb” (1979)
64. Oasis “Supersonic” (1994)
65. The Killers “Mr. Brightside” (2004)
66. The Buzzcocks “Ever Fallen in Love” (1978)
67. The Who “Won’t Get Fooled Again” (1971)
68. James “Sit Down” (1991)
69. The Strokes “Last Nite” (2001)
70. The Smiths “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out” (1986)

71. Radiohead “Street Spirit (Fade Out)” (1996)
72. Radiohead “Karma Police” (1997)
73. The Who “Substitute” (1996)
74. The Prodigy “Firestarter” (1996)
75. Manic Street Preachers “If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next” (1998)
76. The Rolling Stones “Brown Sugar” (1971)
77. The Rolling Stones “Gimme Shelter” (1969)
78. Depeche Mode “Enjoy the Silence” (1990)
79. U2 “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” (1987)
80. Oasis “Some Might Say” (1995)

81. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Hey Joe” (1966)
82. Primal Scream “Loaded” (1990)
83. Blur “Parklife” (1994)
84. The Clash “White Man in Hammersmith Palais” (1978)
85. Oasis “Whatever” (1994)
86. Green Day “Basket Case” (1994)
87. The Killers “All These Things That I’ve Done” (2004)
88. The Rolling Stones “Get Off of My Cloud” (1965)
89. Oasis “Cigarettes and Alchol” (1994)
90. David Bowie “Starman” (1972)

91. The Beatles “Day Tripper” (1965)
92. Blur “Girls and Boys” (1994)
93. Snow Patrol “Run” (2004)
94. The Beatles “Eleanor Rigby” (1966)
95. Coldplay “The Scientist” (2002)
96. Led Zeppelin “Whole Lotta Love” (1969)
97. The Jam “Down in the Tube Station at Midnight” (1978)
98. New Order “True Faith” (1987)
99. Run-D.M.C. with Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler & Joe Perry “Walk This Way” (1986)
100. John Lennon “Instant Karma (We All Shine On)” (1970)

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Tuesday, August 1, 2000

Top 100 Songs According to Gardner’s Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century, 1900-1949

Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century:

Top 100 Songs, 1900-1949

Edward Foote Gardner’s book, Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century tackled the task of crafting charts for the popular songs of the pre-rock era. He developed a top 20 chart for each month of every year from 1900-1949. The charts also listed only song titles and not particular performers as it was common in the pre-rock era for multiple artists to have recordings of the same hit songs.

This chart was created by first sorting songs based on total months at #1. The artist with the top-ranked version of the song is the one listed. Because there were multiple ties, songs were then listed in order of overall DMDB rank. An additional 64 songs which didn’t make this list were at #1 for 2 months.

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

5 months at #1:

1. American Quartet “Over There” (1917)
2. Byron Harlan “School Days (When We Were a Couple of Kids)” (1907)

4 months at #1:

3. Arthur Collins with Byron Harlan “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (1911)
4. Henry Burr “In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree” (1905)
5. Ben Selvin “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles” (1919)
6. Ray Noble with Al Bowlly “The Old Spinning Wheel” (1933)
7. Haydn Quartet with Harry MacDonough “Sunbonnet Sue” (1908)
8. Byron G. Harlan “The Blue and the Gray” (1900)

3 months at #1:

9. The Mills Brothers “Paper Doll” (1942)
10. Francis Craig with Bob Lamm “Near You” (1947)
11. The Harmonicats “Peg O’ My Heart” (1947)
12. Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet “By the Light of the Silvery Moon” (1910)
13. Al Jolson “You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)” (1913)
14. American Quartet “Moonlight Bay” (1912)
15. Dinah Shore & Her Harper Valley Boys “Buttons and Bows” (1948)
16. Harry MacDonough with Elise Stevenson (as Miss Walton) “ Shine on, Harvest Moon” (1909)
17. Sophie Tucker “Some of These Days” (1911)
18. The Ink Spots “The Gypsy” (1946)
19. Henry Burr with Albert Campbell “Till We Meet Again” (1919)
20. Byron Harlan “Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie” (1906)

21. George Olsen with Fran Frey, Bob Rice, & Edward Joyce “Always” (1926)
22. Harry MacDonough “Down by the Old Mill Stream” (1911)
23. Haydn Quartet “Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet” (1909)
24. Heidelberg Quintet “Waiting for the Robert E. Lee” (1912)
25. Paul Whiteman “Three O’Clock in the Morning” (1922)
26. Billy Murray with the American Quartet “Oh, You Beautiful Doll” (1911)
27. J.W. Myers “On a Sunday Afternoon” (1902)
28. Byron G. Harlan “Hello Central, Give Me Heaven” (1901)
29. Gene Austin “Ramona” (1928)
30. Paul Whiteman “What’ll I Do?” (1924)

31. Harry MacDonough “Hiawatha (His Song to Minnehaha)” (1903)
32. The Victor Military Band “Poor Butterfly” (1917)
33. Wayne King with Ernie Birchill “Goodnight Sweetheart” (1931)
34. Haydn Quartet with Harry MacDonough “Bedelia” (1904)
35. Heidelberg Quintet “By the Beautiful Sea” (1914)
36. George MacFarlane “A Little Bit of Heaven (Shure, They Call It Ireland)” (1915)
37. Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers “Now Is the Hour (Maori Farewell Song)” (1948)
38. Leo Reisman with Frances Maddux “Paradise” (1932)
39. Arthur Collins “Under the Bamboo Tree” (1902)
40. Joseph Smith with Harry MacDonough “Smiles” (1918)

41. Al Jolson “I Wonder What’s Become of Sally” (1924)
42. Dinah Shore “I’ll Walk Alone” (1944)
43. Henry Burr “Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland” (1910)
44. Billy Murray “Pretty Baby” (1916)
45. Byron G. Harlan with Frank Stanley “Blue Bell” (1904)
46. Fred Waring with Clare Hanlon “Little White Lies” (1930)
47. Big Four Quartet “Goodbye Dolly Gray” (1901)
48. Elizabeth Spencer with Charles Hart “Let the Rest of the World Go By” (1920)
49. Metropolitan Orchestra “Creole Belles” (1902)

2 months at #1:

50. Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers “White Christmas” (1942)
51. Judy Garland “Over the Rainbow” (1939)
52. Gene Austin “My Blue Heaven” (1927)
53. Paul Whiteman “Whispering” (1920)
54. Billy Murray “You’re a Grand Old Flag (aka “The Grand Old Rag”)” (1906)
55. Vernon Dalhart “The Prisoner’s Song” (1925)
56. Peerless Quartet “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” (1911)
57. Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra “I’ll Never Smile Again” (1940)
58. Les Brown with Doris Day “Sentimental Journey” (1945)
59. Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (1908)
60. Artie Shaw “Frenesi” (1940)

61. Dooley Wilson “As Time Goes By” (1942)
62. Vaughn Monroe “Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)” (1949)
63. Billy Murray “Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis” (1904)
64. Glenn Miller with Tex Beneke & the Four Modernaires “Chattanooga Choo Choo” (1941)
65. Billy Murray “Yankee Doodle Boy” (1905)
66. Al Jolson “Sonny Boy” (1928)
67. Harry James with Helen Forrest “I’ve Heard That Song Before” (1943)
68. Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “I’ll Be Seeing You” (1944)
69. Larry Clinton with Bea Wain “Deep Purple” (1939)
70. J.W. Myers “In the Good Old Summertime” (1902)

71. Perry Como “Till the End of Time” (1945)
72. John McCormack “It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary” (1915)
73. Van & Schenck “Carolina in the Morning” (1923)
74. Nick Lucas Tip Toe “Through the Tulips” (1929)
75. Henry Burr “I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now” (1909)
76. Johnny Mercer with the Pied Pipers “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive” (1945)
77. Ben Selvin “Blue Skies” (1927)
78. Arthur Collins with Byron Harlan “Darktown Strutters’ Ball” (1918)
79. Ted Lewis “In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town” (1932)
80. Victor Orchestra “The Glow-Worm” (1908)

81. Rudy Vallee “Stein Song (University of Maine)” (1930)
82. Billy Jones “Yes! We Have No Bananas” (1923)
83. Eddie Cantor “If You Knew Susie Like I Know Susie” (1925)
84. Wendell Hall “It Ain’t Gonna Rain No Mo’” (1924)
85. Dick Haymes with the Song Spinners “You’ll Never Know” (1943)
86. Paul Whiteman with Franklyn Baur “Valencia (A Song of Spain)” (1926)
87. Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly & Helen O’Connell “Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)” (1941)
88. George Olsen with Joe Morrison “The Last Round-Up” (1933)
89. Paul Whiteman “My Mammy” (1921)
90. Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly & Kitty Kallen “Besame Mucho (Kiss Me Much)” (1944)

91. Eddie Cantor “Margie” (1921)
92. Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers “On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe” (1945)
93. Peerless Quartet “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier” (1915)
94. Blue Barron & His Orchestra “Cruising Down the River on a Sunday Afternoon” (1949)
95. Frankie Carle with Marjorie Hughes “Oh, What It Seemed to Be” (1946)
96. Billy Murray “Harrigan” (1907)
97. Henry Burr “Just a Baby’s Prayer at Twilight” (1918)
98. Ethel Waters “Am I Blue?” (1929)
99. Vic Damone “You’re Breaking My Heart” (1949)
100. Steve Porter “A Bird in a Gilded Cage” (1900)

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