Bottoms Up
2013
Brett James co-wrote it with Gilbert and Weaver, his first million-selling single and a Hot Country Songs number one.
★ 1.1
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.
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
Tubthumping
1997
An anarchist collective from Leeds, a sample from Brassed Off, and a chorus about ordinary people refusing to stay down.
★ 3.0
I'm on One
2011
Thirteen weeks atop the rap chart, on a beat T-Minus and Noah Shebib built wide enough for three guests.
★ 3.4
Take a Picture
1999
Patrick's blackouts and a father's disappointment sit behind it, six minutes of guitar haze on Title of Record.
★ 3.7
Tipsy
2004
Trackboyz built the stomp, J-Kwon was seventeen, and twenty years on Shaboozey turned the hook into a number one.
★ 3.7
Alcohol
2005
Paisley wrote it from the drink's own point of view, a 6/8 country shuffle sung with a wink.
★ 3.9
Blame It
Jamie Foxx and T-Pain
2009
Fourteen straight weeks atop the R&B chart, T-Pain's Auto-Tune at its peak, and a Grammy for the pair.
★ 4.3
It's Five O'Clock Somewhere
2003
Brown and Rollins wrote it, Stegall cut it, and Buffett collected the first major award of his thirty-year career.
★ 4.4
2 On
Tinashe and ScHoolboy Q
2014
Mustard's beat interpolates Sean Paul, ScHoolboy Q scuffs the gloss, and the Aquarius lead single went four times platinum.
★ 4.4
Moonshiner
1992
An old moonshiner's lament cut acoustic in Athens, Peter Buck producing, the band staying at his house to save money.
★ 4.5
Red Red Wine
1983
UB40 knew only Tony Tribe's reggae cover, saw "N Diamond" on the label, and guessed a Jamaican singer.
★ 4.5
Lebanese Blond
1998
A sitar, a slow groove and Pam Bricker's voice, carried to a wide audience by the Garden State soundtrack.
★ 5.0
We Are Young
fun. and Janelle Monae
2011
Six weeks at number one, and it began with Ruess singing the chorus, tipsy, at the Bowery Hotel.
★ 5.2
Brass Monkey
1986 · From Licensed to Ill
Rick Rubin looped Wild Sugar's "Bring It Here" under an 808, and a cocktail's name became a chant.
★ 5.5
Whiskey River
1973 · From Shotgun Willie
A Johnny Bush song Nelson borrowed for Shotgun Willie, then used to open nearly every concert since 1974.
★ 5.6
Margaritaville
1977
Norbert Putnam moved the sessions to Miami for the beachfront air, and Buffett turned one ruined afternoon into the chorus.
★ 5.7
All I Wanna DoSheryl Crow
All I Wanna Do
1993
Crow found Wyn Cooper's poem 'Fun' in a Pasadena used bookstore and sang it into a Grammy.
★ 5.8
Hey Nineteen
1980 · From Gaucho
Nineteen weeks on the Hot 100, fittingly, and a middle-aged narrator undone by a girlfriend who doesn't know Aretha Franklin.
★ 5.8