How Country Feels
2012
Three Nashville writers and producer Derek George handed Houser his first Country Airplay number one, and a platinum single.
★ 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.
Too ShyKajagoogoo
Too Shy
1983
Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran co-produced it, and Limahl rode the hook to two weeks at UK number one.
★ 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
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
1911
Leo Friedman's tune, Beth Slater Whitson's words, and a 1911 quartet disc now in the National Recording Registry.
★ 3.2
Run It!
2005
Cut at Criteria in Miami by Scott Storch and Sean Garrett, with Brown topping the Hot 100 at sixteen.
★ 3.3
I Got A Man
1992
The woman turning him down is Positive K himself, pitched up in the studio, and that duet is the joke.
★ 3.4
On Top of Old Smoky
1951
Cecil Sharp collected it in Appalachia in 1916; Seeger's arrangement and Terry Gilkyson's voice sold a million.
★ 3.5
Funky Cold MedinaTone Loc
Funky Cold Medina
1989
Foreigner's riff, a Funkadelic drum break, and a phrase borrowed from Flavor Flav, built into a top-three hit.
★ 3.8
Wild Thing (Tone Loc)
1988
Young MC wrote the words, an uncredited Van Halen sample carried them, and Tone Loc's rasp did the rest.
★ 3.9
Got My Mind Set on You
1987
Harrison bought the James Ray original in Illinois in 1963; Jeff Lynne turned it into his last American number one.
★ 3.9
My Boo
1996
Bass from Atlanta, an R&B vocal on top, and a 2016 dance craze that beat its 1996 chart peak.
★ 4.1
Cruise
2012
Twenty-four weeks atop the country chart, a Nelly remix, and the first country single ever certified diamond.
★ 4.3
It's Gonna Be Me
2000
Max Martin coached Timberlake into pronouncing the last word "may", and 'N Sync got their only Hot 100 number one.
★ 4.4
The Tide is High
1967
Holt's rocksteady original for Duke Reid, White Rum Raymond on violin, and a chorus Blondie later took to number one.
★ 4.5
Short Skirt/Long Jacket
2001
DiFiore's trumpet lick, chords borrowed from Sweet Jane, and McCrea deadpanning a want ad for the ideal woman.
★ 4.9
Bus Stop
1966
Graham Gouldman's father handed him the opening lines; Gouldman finished the middle eight on his own bus to work.
★ 5.0
Uptown Girl
1983 · From An Innocent Man
Joel chasing Frankie Valli's falsetto and the Four Seasons' bounce; five weeks at number one, his only UK chart-topper.
★ 5.1
Tell Me
1995
Larrieux's feathery lead over Bryce Wilson's interpolation of the Mary Jane Girls, and neo soul had its blueprint.
★ 5.2
First Date
2001
DeLonge wrote it after the band's manager complained the album had no feel-good song; a SeaWorld date supplied the rest.
★ 5.3
Roxanne, RoxanneUTFO
Roxanne, Roxanne
1984
Released as a B-side, produced by Full Force, and Roxanne rejecting all three MCs set off dozens of answer records.
★ 5.3