In the City
2013
Recorded at Brooklyn's Rumpus Room with Nick Stumpf producing, and Julia Stiles stars in the video.
★ 0.9
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.
Thank God It's Christmas
1984
May and Taylor wrote it, Mercury sang it, and Queen waited until 2019 to give it a video.
★ 1.0
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
Breakfast at Tiffany's
1995
Todd Pipes drew the lyric from Roman Holiday, swapped in a different Hepburn title, and Britain sent it to number one.
★ 1.4
Higher
1999
Stapp built it from a recurring dream he learned to control, and it sat atop Mainstream Rock for seventeen weeks.
★ 1.4
Shake It
2008
Trace Cyrus, Billy Ray's adopted son, and Mason Musso built a synth hook that went double platinum.
★ 1.5
Wonderful Christmastime
1979
Recorded alone in Sussex in the summer of 1979, every instrument McCartney's own, and a UK number six by January.
★ 1.6
All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You
1990
Mutt Lange's hitchhiker story gave Heart a number two the Wilsons openly disliked; Ann called its message hideous.
★ 1.6
Only God Knows Why
1999
The first ballad Kid Rock ever cut, its opening lines written, by his account, in a jail cell.
★ 1.6
A Bad Dream
2007
Rice-Oxley built it from Yeats's poem about an Irish airman, a pilot too high up to hear the guns below.
★ 1.7
The Reason
2004
Estrin mailed Robb an instrumental demo; the lyrics came from scraps in a journal, the strings from Capitol.
★ 1.7
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
Forever (Kiss)
1990 · From Hot in the Shade
Paul Stanley and Michael Bolton co-wrote the ballad that returned Kiss to the Top 40 after eleven years away.
★ 1.8
Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)
1986
A shuffle borrowed from Tears for Fears, cut on day one, with Bryan Adams singing near the end.
★ 1.8
I Want to Come Over
1995
Padgham and Etheridge co-produced it, and Gwyneth Paltrow starred in the video shot at an old Los Angeles hotel.
★ 2.0
Cherry Pie
1989
A pizza box in a Florida Hard Rock Cafe holds the lyric Lane dashed off at the label's insistence.
★ 2.0
Wherever You Will Go
2001
Kamin wrote it after a funeral, imagining the widower left behind; it then held Adult Top 40 for twenty-three weeks.
★ 2.0
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
Falling
2002
Twenty years old when Sha Sha arrived, Kweller later played this one through a nosebleed at Austin City Limits.
★ 2.2
Absolutely (Story of a Girl)
2000
Long Island power pop, written overnight for the girlfriend Hampson later married, cut in Atlanta with Nick DiDia.
★ 2.3
Free Fallin' (John Mayer)
2008
Two days was all Petty and Lynne needed; Mayer's acoustic version, taped at the Nokia Theatre, became a single itself.
★ 2.3
Hemorrhage (In My Hands)
2000
Twelve weeks at number one on Alternative Airplay, with Brett Scallions selling every syllable of Carl Bell's chorus.
★ 2.4
Outside
2001
Lewis finished the words onstage in Biloxi with Fred Durst singing along, and that live take became the hit.
★ 2.4
Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?Bryan Adams
Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?
1995
Paco de Lucía's flamenco guitar runs through it, cut for Don Juan DeMarco, and it held number one five weeks.
★ 2.5
Blurry
2001
Alone in a Hollywood hotel room missing his son, Scantlin turned the ache into ten weeks atop Mainstream Rock.
★ 2.5
To Be With YouMr. Big
To Be With You
1991
Gilbert traded shred for acoustic guitar behind Martin's teenage lyric, and hand claps carried it to number one.
★ 2.5
When I'm Gone
2002
Brad Arnold and the band shot the video aboard the USS George Washington, then held Mainstream Rock seventeen weeks.
★ 2.6
Smooth Criminal (Alien Ant Farm)
2001
Funk metal aimed at a Bad-era Jackson hit; he vetted the video himself and asked for scenes reshot.
★ 2.6
Unwell
2003
Rob Thomas called it a song for people who feel alone; eighteen weeks at Adult Top 40 number one.
★ 2.6
Rock Me Amadeus
1985
Falco rapped Mozart's debts over a Bolland and Bolland production, and gave the Hot 100 its only German-language number one.
★ 2.6
Too Close
2011
Diplo and Switch wrapped a breakup song in dubstep, and a Microsoft browser ad made it a worldwide hit.
★ 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
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
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
1993
Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads produced it, and Roberts sang three verses about strange childhoods in a startling baritone.
★ 2.7
Everything You Want
1999
Scannell wrote it about a friendship he wanted to be more, and it became Billboard's most-played single of 2000.
★ 2.7
Stuck with You
1986
Three weeks at number one, a Bahamas video, and Hayes and Lewis making long-term commitment sound like a holiday.
★ 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
Caught Up In You
1981
Jim Peterik of Survivor co-wrote it with Barnes and Carlisi, and it gave the band their first top ten.
★ 2.8