100 most successful songs of all time

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Here's the full list,

1Candle In The Wind 1997 - Elton John
2White Christmas - Bing Crosby
3Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
4I Want To Hold Your Hand - Beatles
5Hey Jude - Beatles
6I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
7(Everything I Do) I Do It For You - Bryan Adams
8We Are The World - U.S.A. For Africa
9(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
10Y.M.C.A. - Village People
11Let It Be - Beatles
12Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
13My Sweet Lord - George Harrison
14My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion
15Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio feat. feat. L.V.
16I'll Be Missing You - Puff Daddy feat. Faith Evan & 112
17Macarena - Los Del Rio
18You're The One That I Want - John Travolta & Olivia Newton John
19Believe - Cher
20Strangers In The Night - Frank Sinatra
21Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
22Flashdance...What A Feeling - Irene Cara
23Imagine - John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band
24Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
25Every Breath You Take - Police
26Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) - Pink Floyd
27Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor
28Those Were The Days - Mary Hopkin
29Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees
30Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
31Careless Whisper - George Michael
32I Just Called To Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder
33Dancing Queen - Abba
34It's Now Or Never - Elvis Presley
35Heart Of Glass - Blondie
36Penny Lane - Beatles
37Can't Buy Me Love - Beatles
38Baby One More Time - Britney Spears
39Yesterday - Beatles
40Funky Town - Lipps, Inc.
41We Can Work It Out - Beatles
42Killing Me Softly - Fugees
43Hung Up - Madonna
44Woman In Love - Barbra Streisand
45Wannabe - Spice Girls
46Hips Don't Lie - Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean
47In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) - Zager & Evans
48Mambo No.5 - Lou Bega
49You're Beautiful - James Blunt
50Stand By Me - Ben E.King
51Can't Get You Out Of My Head - Kylie Minogue
52Get Back - Beatles
53I Feel Fine - Beatles
54Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
55When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge
56Help! - Beatles
57Music - Madonna
58Venus - Shocking Blue
59A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum
60She Love's You - Beatles
61(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding
62Jumpin' Jack Flash - Rolling Stones
63Diana - Paul Anka
64Whenever Wherever - Shakira
65All You Need Is Love - Beatles
66Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
67Come Together - Beatles
68Hello Goodbye - Beatles
69Good Vibrations - Beach Boys
70I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) - Meat Loaf
71Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
72Beat It - Michael Jackson
73Night Fever - Bee Gees
74Mr. Tambourine Man - Byrds
75In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry
76Seasons In The Sun - Terry Jacks
77Rock Your Baby - George McCrae
78Wind Of Change - Scorpions
79Daydream Believer - Monkees
80In The Air Tonight - Phil Collins
81Like A Prayer - Madonna
82Let's Dance - David Bowie
83Karma Chameleon - Culture Club
84A Hard Day's Night - Beatles
85The Boy Is Mine - Brandy & Monica
86Yellow Submarine - Beatles
87Hound Dog - Elvis Presley
88Honky Tonk Women - Rolling Stones
89Sugar, Sugar - Archies
90Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
91The Final Countdown - Europe
92All That She Wants - Ace Of Base
93Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson
94Angie - Rolling Stones
95Rivers Of Babylon - Boney M.
96San Fransisco - Scott McKenzie
97Downtown - Petula Clark
98Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
99Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
100You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - Righteous Brothers


I'm surprised at some of the entries - like Lynn Andersons Rose Garden, and two of Shakiras song.

Elton Johns candle in the wind being number 1 really annoys me, because it's only there because of the whole Diana thing.

List can be found here if the one I posted isn't displaying.
 
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The lack of rock in this list is disturbing. I mean, how can someone not put one of AC/DC's songs in a list of most successful songs? That's just blasphemy. :neomon:
 
Aerith said:
64Whenever Wherever - Shakira
Parlophone / Capitol - 196766Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
Warner Bros. - 2006
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WHAT?
I can understand how Gnarls Barkley got there, given that it reached number one off downloads alone, but when you compare it to others on that list, it faded out very quickly. And I just don't understand Shakira being on there at all. =/
Great to see so much Beatles and Rolling Stones up there though.
 
It's most successful, so I will assume it will be based on sales/weeks in the chart and things like that. Most of the list seems to be dominated by Beatles song.. from what I saw anyway.


Oh and the artist of the last one got cut off, btw. :monster:

Edit: nvm, fixed now. :wacky:
 
I'm actually surprised that there isn't more Elvis or ABBA on that list, especially since I don't think Dancing Queen was ABBAS biggest song...

14My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion

This one, I can understand. Most. Overplayed. Song. Ever.
 
Holy Crap....we have pink floyd on here...but no Stairway from Led Zepplin?

no Eagles? Hotel California people!!!
 
I'm actually wondering why on earth Candle in the Wind is the most successful song... I bet lots of people haven't even heard of it... I hadn't until I raped my mum's Elton John cd collection anyway, but it's hardly the best he's done. =/
 
How the hell is that number one :ffs:

Thats a lot of shit songs there, where does this info come from o_O

Theres a few good ones but...wheres the U2?!
 
About the Elton John song...

In Canada, it spent three years in the top 20, with 46 weeks at the top spot.

Good Grief.
 
Whaaaaaaaaaat?

I mean I know I don't pay attention to/care about the charts, but 3 years is bloody ridiculous.

Imagine how overplayed it must have been... :ffs:
 
This looks like a hodgepodge of sales figures and weeks in the charts etc - so expecting much quallity from it it pretty futile. And U2 aren't there as their albums sell by the bucketload (especially The Joshua Tree) rather than their singles.

But yeah unsurprisingly the list is crap. Move along people! XD
 
Aerith said:
After some Wiki-ing, I was right, it WAS because of the death of Diana, he released it in her memory and it went to number one everywhere.
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it was origionally written about marilyn monroe, he didnt even have th origionality to make a new songh -_-
 
Lol I'm not surprised We Are the World is in that list. Various artists sang that song - it was just that good, I guess.

Ang good, Eye of the Tiger made it. =)
 
It's a list of music that everyone liked at the time and now simply does not want to admit / recognise that they liked it in the first place. I've sung the Macarena far too many times in my past to deem myself purely heterosexual!

-Sir Balthier
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id have so expected to see One or With or without you on thatlist....I MEAN WTF, MOST OF THIS LIST IS crap! i DONT get it :ffs:

At least queen made it in there and i LOVE that sinead oconnor song but ffs.....U2 *crys*
 
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