You Got It (The Right Stuff)
1988
Maurice Starr wrote and produced it, Jordan Knight and Donnie Wahlberg took the leads, and Britain crowned it a year later.
★ 1.3
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Every song chosen by hand, with the recording to play it.
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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
Tonight Tonight (The Mello-Kings)
1957
Five Mount Vernon high schoolers, a Billy Myles song, and Bob Scholl's lead floating over the sweetest doo-wop changes.
★ 3.4
Let's Hear It For The Boy
1984
An Oscar nominee from the Footloose soundtrack, George Duke producing, and Williams audibly grinning through every chorus.
★ 3.6
With You (Chris Brown)
2007
Stargate cut it at Battery Studios with Espen Lind on acoustic guitar, and Brown took it to number two.
★ 3.6
Kiss Me
1998
Sparkling cigarettes became a silver moon in the final lyric, and She's All That made it a number two.
★ 3.8
Heaven
1984
Written on tour opening for Journey, buried on a movie soundtrack first, and number one nearly two years later.
★ 4.0
Slide
1998
Rzeznik hid a teenage pregnancy story inside the sunniest jangle of 1998; it topped Modern Rock and Adult Top 40.
★ 4.1
My Boyfriend's Back
1963
Feldman overheard a schoolgirl brushing off a boy, and the Angels' demo for the Shirelles went out as is.
★ 4.2
Candy Girl
1983
Maurice Starr built New Edition as an answer to the Jackson 5, and this hit number one in Britain.
★ 4.2
Mine
2010 · From Speak Now
A leak forced its release nearly two weeks early, and Swift's lead Speak Now single still debuted at number three.
★ 4.5
Too Young
1951
Sidney Lippman and Sylvia Dee handed Cole a teenage lament, and Capitol got five weeks at number one.
★ 4.6
Our Song
2007 · From Taylor Swift
Swift wrote it in roughly twenty minutes for a ninth-grade talent show, then spent six weeks atop the country chart.
★ 5.4
Sh-Boom
1954
Cut as a throwaway B-side to a Patti Page cover, and doo-wop crossed into the pop top ten.
★ 5.9
Summer of 69
1984
A twelve-string riff swapped for six and doubled for thickness, then a chorus about a summer Adams never actually had.
★ 5.9
The King of Carrot Flowers, Part 1
1998 · From In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Schneider got the fuzz from tube preamps and compression, not pedals, and Mangum sings childhood into two minutes flat.
★ 5.9
I Got You BabeSonny & Cher
I Got You Babe
1965
That hook is an oboe, not an ocarina, and Cher disliked the song Bono wrote for them in their basement.
★ 5.9
Teenage Dream
2010
Bonnie McKee rewrote it repeatedly until Benny Blanco suggested studying a Teenagers single, and one word cracked the chorus open.
★ 6.3
He's a Rebel
1962
Darlene Love sang lead at Gold Star, Hal Blaine drummed, and the Crystals got the credit for a number one.
★ 6.5
Come On Eileen
1982
Fiddle, banjo and a tempo shifting gears, then one week at number one between Billie Jean and Beat It.
★ 6.5