Just Another Day In Paradise
2000
Vassar and Craig Wiseman built it from household mishaps and money worries, and it became his first country number one.
★ 1.1
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I Got a Car
2013
Bubba Strait pitched it off a rodeo friend's CD; his father left it on the coffee table, then cut it.
★ 1.9
How Forever Feels
1998
Tim McGraw cut it first and passed; Chesney took it to six weeks at number one on country radio.
★ 2.2
The Good Stuff
2002
Seven weeks atop the country chart in 2002, and a bartender's story Jim Collins and Craig Wiseman wrote.
★ 3.1
From This Moment On
1998
Twain got the idea at a soccer match in Italy; Bryan White sang the original duet version.
★ 3.1
Always (Atlantic Starr)Atlantic Starr
Always (Atlantic Starr)
1987
Three Lewis brothers wrote it, David Lewis and Barbara Weathers sang it, and the band's only number one arrived.
★ 3.4
Check Yes or No
1995
Wells and Black's first song ever cut by a major star, and Strait took a playground note to number one.
★ 4.3
Simple Song
2012 · From Port of Morrow
Mercer wrote it in his living room about his marriage, with Greg Kurstin on guitars, Mellotron and piano.
★ 5.0
Someone Saved My Life Tonight
1975 · From Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Baldry talked Elton out of a wedding in 1968, and Taupin wrote him into the chorus as Sugar Bear.
★ 5.0
Remember When
2003
Jackson wrote it alone, a whole marriage from courtship to old age, and country radio held it at number one.
★ 5.2
Band of Gold
1970
Holland-Dozier-Holland hid behind the pseudonym Edythe Wayne, Dennis Coffey added electric sitar, and Britain gave it six weeks on top.
★ 5.4
You're Still the One
1998
Written as a reply to everyone who doubted her marriage to Mutt Lange, and it won two country Grammys.
★ 5.4
I Write Sins Not Tragedies
2006
Pizzicato cello, a title lifted from Douglas Coupland, and a circus wedding video that won Video of the Year.
★ 5.6
Archie, Marry Me
2014
Snowed into a Prince Edward Island farmhouse, Rankin wrote a proposal song; VanGaalen cut it in Calgary.
★ 5.7
We've Only Just Begun
1970 · From Close to You
Richard Carpenter recognized Paul Williams singing a bank commercial and asked whether a whole song existed underneath.
★ 5.7
Chapel of Love
1964
Red Bird's first single, written by Barry, Greenwich and Spector, and it knocked the Beatles off number one.
★ 5.7
Daydream Believer
1967
John Stewart wrote it after a day of pure daydreaming; Tork's piano and Jones's lead did the rest.
★ 6.0
Everything She Wants
1984
Michael programmed the LinnDrum in an evening, wrote the vocal next morning, and turned marital dread into a groove.
★ 6.1
Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)
1966 · From Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)
Lynn and her sister Peggy Sue wrote it, and the album became country music's first gold record by a woman.
★ 6.3
White Wedding
1982
Steve Stevens' guitar cutting through Keith Forsey's production, and Idol sneering his way through somebody else's wedding.
★ 6.6
Jackson
1967 · From At Folsom Prison
Wheeler got the idea from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and Cash and Carter trade the taunts like they mean them.
★ 6.8
You Never Can TellChuck Berry
You Never Can Tell
1964 · From St. Louis to Liverpool
Written in federal prison, cut at Chess in January 1964, and the happiest wedding song rock and roll made.
★ 6.8
Then He Kissed Me
1963
Larry Levine stumbled onto that echo by accident, and LaLa Brooks sings a whole courtship in under three minutes.
★ 7.0
Stand By Your Man
1968 · From Stand By Your Man
Written in about twenty minutes at the end of a session, and Wynette immediately dreaded that high note forever.
★ 7.4
International Player's Anthem (I Choose You)
2006 · From Underground Kingz
A Willie Hutch loop left alone at the top, and Andre 3000's verse reportedly returned with the drums stripped off.
★ 7.6
Family Affair (Sly and the Family Stone)
1971 · From There's a Riot Goin' On
A rhythm box edited into a heartbeat, Billy Preston on Pianet, and three weeks at number one.
★ 7.8
Wouldn't It Be NiceThe Beach Boys
Wouldn't It Be Nice
1966 · From Pet Sounds
Two accordions, a key change eight beats in, and 21 takes at Gold Star before Wilson sang about growing up.
★ 8.2
Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
2008
Beyonce found Bob Fosse's Mexican Breakfast on YouTube; three Grammys and a decade of wedding receptions followed.
★ 8.6
I Walk the Line
1956 · From Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar
Cash slipped paper under his guitar strings for that snare tick, and hums to find each new key.
★ 8.8
Love Will Tear Us Apart
1980
The title flips Captain and Tennille into its opposite, and the single arrived a month after Curtis's death.
★ 8.9
JoleneDolly Parton
Jolene
1973 · From Jolene
Dolly pleading with her rival rather than fighting her, written the same day as "I Will Always Love You."
★ 9.3
