MacarenaLos del Rio
Macarena
1995
Romero improvised the chorus for a flamenco dancer in Venezuela; the Bayside Boys remix ran fourteen weeks at number one.
★ 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.
Turn Up The Music
2012
Cut at the Record Plant with The Underdogs, 130 BPM of house that gave Brown his first UK number one.
★ 1.0
Harlem ShakeBaauer
Harlem Shake
2012
Two uncleared vocal samples and a thirty-second meme put Baauer at number one the week Billboard started counting YouTube.
★ 1.1
Fire Burning
2009
RedOne produced it with Bilal Hajji, a dance-floor emergency that peaked at number five and opened Miss Universe.
★ 1.2
The Loveliest Night of the Year
1951
A Juventino Rosas waltz from 1888, fitted with English words for The Great Caruso and sung to number three.
★ 1.3
Whoomp! (There It Is)
1993
Glenn borrowed 2,500 dollars from his parents to press 800 copies; it sat at number two for seven weeks.
★ 1.3
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
Shake It
2008
Trace Cyrus, Billy Ray's adopted son, and Mason Musso built a synth hook that went double platinum.
★ 1.5
This Is Your NightAmber
This Is Your Night
1996
Dutch singer, German producers, and a Gilbert Montagne sample underneath; the Roxbury soundtrack later handed it a second life.
★ 1.5
Bump, Bump Bump
2002
R. Kelly wrote and produced it, Diddy guested, and B2K got their only week at number one.
★ 1.6
Play it Again
2014
Davidson and Gorley's tailgate story carried Bryan to the top two Country Airplay spots at once, a chart first.
★ 1.9
Teach Me How to DougieCali Swag District
Teach Me How to Dougie
2010
A Dallas dance named after Doug E. Fresh, a cowbell-driven beat from Runway Star, and Inglewood teaching everyone else.
★ 2.0
Snap Yo Fingers
2006
Finger snaps where the snare should be, E-40 riding shotgun, and Lil Jon proving crunk could whisper.
★ 2.1
Yeah 3x
2010
DJ Frank E's video-game synths cut at the Record Plant, and Brown's return to pure pop after the mixtape years.
★ 2.2
Start the Commotion
1999
A 1966 Ventures instrumental on loop, twice a minor British hit, then a Mitsubishi advert made it inescapable.
★ 2.7
DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love
2010
Rihanna's team turned it down for Loud, and Usher took it to number four with Pitbull along for the ride.
★ 2.7
Walk It Out
2006
Atlanta radio had it in March 2006; by September the country did, and Outkast joined the remix.
★ 2.7
Boom Boom Pow
2009
will.i.am heard electro in Sydney nightclubs while filming Wolverine, then rode that beat to twelve weeks at number one.
★ 2.8
Shake Ya TailfeatherNelly
Shake Ya Tailfeather
2003
A stadium war chant repurposed for the Bad Boys II soundtrack, and a Grammy for the three of them.
★ 2.9
Jump
1992
Eight weeks at number one, backwards clothes, and two Atlanta thirteen-year-olds rapping over Jermaine Dupri's beat.
★ 3.1
Run It!
2005
Cut at Criteria in Miami by Scott Storch and Sean Garrett, with Brown topping the Hot 100 at sixteen.
★ 3.3
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
Down in Mexico
1956
Leiber and Stoller's first single for the group, Stoller himself at the piano, climbed to number eight R&B.
★ 3.4
Turn Me On (Kevin Lyttle)
2003
A soca ballad cut in Saint Vincent for fifteen hundred East Caribbean dollars, later remixed into a worldwide hit.
★ 3.9
Maniac
1983
A slasher-film joke rewritten on Phil Ramone's orders into Flashdance's training montage, and two weeks at number one.
★ 4.0
Safety DanceMen Without Hats
Safety Dance
1983
Doroschuk wrote it after a bouncer threw him out for pogo dancing, and Tim Pope filmed maypoles in Wiltshire.
★ 4.1
Rockin' that Thang
2008
Los Da Mystro's synths and a title the radio had to clean up; The-Dream made desire sound weightless.
★ 4.1
Now That We Found Love
1991
Eighteen years after the O'Jays cut it in Philadelphia, Teddy Riley rebuilt it as hip-house for Heavy D.
★ 4.1
Forever (Chris Brown)
2007
Written first as a Doublemint gum jingle, then extended by Polow da Don into a wedding-aisle staple.
★ 4.2
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
Low
2007
DJ Montay's beat, T-Pain on the hook, and the first song to sell four million digital copies in America.
★ 4.3
Rump Shaker
1992
Teddy Riley's beat rides a Lafayette Afro Rock Band sax loop, and a nineteen-year-old Pharrell wrote Riley's verse.
★ 4.4
Jumpin', Jumpin'
1999
Number three on the Hot 100, co-produced by Beyonce, the last single cut with Luckett and Roberson.
★ 4.5
Crank That
2007
A steelpan loop built on a demo copy of FL Studio, seven weeks at number one, three million downloads.
★ 4.7
Everybody (Backstreet's Back)
1997
Denniz Pop and Max Martin cut it at Cheiron in Stockholm, and Joseph Kahn's haunted-mansion video did the rest.
★ 4.7
Walk Like an Egyptian
1986
A tape loop, a LinnDrum, and a whistled hook: David Kahne built it while three Bangles split the verses.
★ 4.8
Get Down On It
1981
Deodato's production strips it to bassline and handclaps, and J.T. Taylor asks the only question a dancefloor needs.
★ 4.9
Rhythm of the Night
1985
Warren wrote it for a Motown kung fu film, Perry swapped the drum machine for live players, DeBarge soared.
★ 5.0