Good Vibrations (Marky Mark)
1991
Donnie Wahlberg produced his brother's number one around a Loleatta Holloway sample, and Holloway herself appeared in the video.
★ 1.4
The Songs canon
Sourced and sung.
Every song chosen by hand, with the recording to play it.
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Browse all 2,393 songs or filter by genre, subject, artist, and year.
Another Night
1993
Karin Kasar sang the hook, Patsy Petersen mimed it in the video, and the Hot 100 held it 45 weeks.
★ 2.2
Stereo Love
2009
That accordion hook interpolates an Azerbaijani song from 1989, and Vika Jigulina's vocal rode it 47 weeks across Europe.
★ 2.3
Rhythm Is a Dancer
1992
Thea Austin's vocal over a Newcleus sample, six weeks at number one and Britain's second biggest seller of 1992.
★ 3.3
Everybody Everybody
1990
Martha Wash sang it, a model mimed it, and her lawsuit changed how dance records credit their singers.
★ 4.1
Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)
1991
Martha Wash sang the hook uncredited, then sued; her settlement put vocalist credits on MTV, and the floor still fills.
★ 4.3
Where Have You Been
2012
Ester Dean's hook borrows Geoff Mack's 1959 I've Been Everywhere; Calvin Harris and Dr. Luke supply the drop.
★ 4.5
Rather Be
2014
Chatto's cello and a chiptune blip riding house four-four, with Jess Glynne's first number one on top.
★ 4.6
Weapon of Choice
2001
Bootsy Collins doubled in both channels, a Sly Stone sample, and Christopher Walken dancing through a Los Angeles hotel lobby.
★ 5.5
D.A.N.C.E.
2007
Justice built it from Michael Jackson song titles and handed the chorus to a London children's choir.
★ 6.0
Titanium
David Guetta and Sia
2011
Sia cut the vocal as a guide for another singer; Guetta released it anyway, and she got a number one.
★ 6.0
MissingEverything but the Girl
Missing
1995
Todd Terry's remix pushed a subdued album cut into New York house, then held the Hot 100 for a year.
★ 6.1
Halcyon and On and On
1992
Named for the tranquilizer the Hartnolls' mother took, with Kirsty Hawkshaw's vocal reversed and stretched across nine minutes.
★ 6.2
Show Me Love
1992
One Korg M1 preset, stripped to vocal and kick, and Beyonce was still borrowing that organ in 2022.
★ 6.4
Around the World (Daft Punk)
1997 · From Homework
One lyric repeated 144 times over a synth bassline, and Gondry's video giving each instrument its own dancers.
★ 7.4
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Harder Better Faster Stronger
2001 · From Discovery
Edwin Birdsong's Cola Bottle Baby, found in a record bin, vocoded into a mantra Kanye West later borrowed wholesale.
★ 7.6
One More Time
2000 · From Discovery
Romanthony's vocal pushed through auto-tune over a slowed Eddie Johns disco sample, filtered until the chorus explodes.
★ 8.3