Bad Day
2005
Powter sketched it on the ferry from Victoria to Vancouver; American Idol adopted it and Billboard called it 2006's biggest.
★ 1.2
The Songs canon
Sourced and sung.
Every song chosen by hand, with the recording to play it.
Browse all 2,393 songs or filter by genre, subject, artist, and year.
Browse all 2,393 songs or filter by genre, subject, artist, and year.
Someday
1999
Sugar Ray's drummer co-wrote it about touring temptation and a faithful girlfriend; the album title joked about vanishing fame.
★ 1.7
St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)
1985
Foster showed Parr a news clip about Rick Hansen's wheelchair world tour, and the pair wrote it that Friday afternoon.
★ 2.2
Hey, Soul Sister
2009
Espen Lind swapped a ukulele in for the guitar line, and Monahan's Burning Man daydream became Train's biggest hit.
★ 2.5
Unwell
2003
Rob Thomas called it a song for people who feel alone; eighteen weeks at Adult Top 40 number one.
★ 2.6
Accidentally in LoveCounting Crows
Accidentally in Love
2004
Duritz dislikes writing to order, then handed Shrek 2 an Oscar-nominated rush of helpless, hurtling infatuation.
★ 2.6
Time (Hootie & the Blowfish)Hootie & the Blowfish
Time (Hootie & the Blowfish)
1994
Sonefeld's idea, written by committee on acoustic guitars, and Rucker addressing time itself like it owed him something.
★ 2.7
Catch My Breath
2012
Clarkson wrote it for the ten-year mark since Idol, and the chorus lands like someone taking stock mid-sprint.
★ 2.7
You and Me
2005
Cut at John Alagia's home studio in Maryland, it topped Adult Pop Songs for nine weeks and became a wedding standard.
★ 2.7
Over My Head (Cable Car)
2005
A fight with his brother Caleb, a Denver station spinning the demo, and Slade's chorus everywhere by 2006.
★ 2.7
Cheers (Drink to That)
2011
Built on a sample of Avril Lavigne's I'm with You, flipped by the Runners into a Friday-night toast.
★ 2.8
All for You
1997
Cut at Ardent Studios in Memphis, re-recorded in 1997 for the band's second album, and a number eleven hit.
★ 2.9
Here Without You
2003
Rick Parashar cut it across three studios, and Arnold's ballad about missing someone became an unofficial anthem in Iraq.
★ 2.9
The Glory of LovePeter Cetera
The Glory of Love
1986
Rejected as the Rocky IV end title, rerouted to The Karate Kid Part II, and two weeks at number one.
★ 2.9
All You Wanted
2002
A debut-album cut that Branch wrote alone, produced by John Shanks, and her first trip into the top ten.
★ 2.9
Tubthumping
1997
An anarchist collective from Leeds, a sample from Brassed Off, and a chorus about ordinary people refusing to stay down.
★ 3.0
Kyrie
1985
Page and George wrote the music touring with Adam Ant; John Lang set a Greek prayer on top.
★ 3.0
Two Princes
1991
A video at Bethesda Fountain, a six-dollar hat, and a hook that pushed the album past five times platinum.
★ 3.0
Every Morning
1998
Drummer Stan Frazier sang the hook on his way out of the studio, and the chorus borrows Malo's Suavecito.
★ 3.1
Hungry Eyes
1987
Previte and DeNicola wrote it in 1984; Carmen cut it in an Ohio studio and Dirty Dancing did the rest.
★ 3.2