Rock and Roll All Nite
1975 · From Dressed to Kill
Casablanca's Neil Bogart asked for a party song; Stanley wrote the chorus, and the live take beat the studio single.
★ 6.4
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.
Celebration
1980
Recorded in a New Jersey studio with Deodato producing, and adopted everywhere from ballparks to the hostages' homecoming.
★ 6.3
C'mon Everybody
1958
Earl Palmer on drums, Guybo Smith on bass, a B-side flipped into a number six hit in Britain.
★ 6.0
1st of Tha Month
1995
DJ U-Neek's beat, Cleveland voices harmonizing at double speed, and welfare day reimagined as a neighborhood holiday.
★ 6.0
This Is How We Do It
1995
Def Jam's first R&B single looped Slick Rick's 'Children's Story' and held number one for seven weeks.
★ 5.8
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
Mama Told Me Not to ComeThree Dog Night
Mama Told Me Not to Come
1970
Newman wrote it for Eric Burdon in 1966, and Cory Wells sings the bewildered party guest straight to number one.
★ 5.4
Back and ForthAaliyah
Back and Forth
1994
Fifteen years old, a debut single that went top five, and Aaliyah already sounding unhurried and completely in command.
★ 5.4
Mony Mony
1987
Idol's 1981 studio take missed the Hot 100 entirely; the live 1987 version knocked Tiffany off number one.
★ 5.4
Party in the USA
2009
Jessie J wrote it with Claude Kelly, passed on singing it, and Cyrus took it to number two.
★ 5.3
This DJ
1994 · From Regulate...G Funk Era
Snoop wrote the hook but label trouble kept him off the record; Warren G took it to number nine.
★ 5.2
Hip Hop HoorayNaughty by Nature
Hip Hop Hooray
1993
KayGee looped James Brown and Peter Gabriel, and Spike Lee filled the Brooklyn video with Tupac and Queen Latifah.
★ 5.1
Turn Down For What
2013
Snake and Tchami built the drop, Lil Jon shouted the title, and Daniels made a video of pure slapstick.
★ 4.9
22
2012 · From Red
An acoustic guitar riff opens it, then Max Martin and Shellback's synthesizers turn a birthday into a full night out.
★ 4.8
Feel So Good
1997
Kool and the Gang's Hollywood Swinging flipped by Puffy and Deric Angelettie, and Mase's drawl making effort look optional.
★ 4.5
Oh, What a Night
1956
Vee-Jay released it in 1956 as doo-wop; the Dells recut it thirteen years later and reached the pop ten.
★ 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
We Can't Stop
2013
Written for Rihanna, passed to Mike Will Made It, and the la-di-da-di hook earned Slick Rick a songwriting credit.
★ 4.3
Coolie High
1997 · From Uptown Saturday Night
Ski built it from Janet Jackson's "Funny How Time Flies" and Skull Snaps drums; two Bronx kids talking pure seventies.
★ 4.1
Tik Tok
2009
Nine weeks at number one, the first of the 2010s, and Kesha's talk-sung verses over Dr. Luke's synths.
★ 4.0
Alcohol
2005
Paisley wrote it from the drink's own point of view, a 6/8 country shuffle sung with a wink.
★ 3.9
Let Me Clear My Throat
1996
Cut live at Philadelphia's Bahama Bay over The 45 King's saxophone loop, the crowd doing half the work.
★ 3.8
Tipsy
2004
Trackboyz built the stomp, J-Kwon was seventeen, and twenty years on Shaboozey turned the hook into a number one.
★ 3.7
Starships
2012
RedOne, Carl Falk and Rami Yacoub behind the board, Minaj's vocals cut at Conway, diamond certified in America.
★ 3.5
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
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
Raise Your Glass
2010
Shellback and Max Martin built a toast to outsiders, and it gave Pink her third Billboard number one.
★ 2.7
Work Hard, Play Hard
2012
Benny Blanco and Stargate on the beat, and Marco Rubio calling Khalifa a modern poet during a Senate filibuster.
★ 2.5
No Sleep
2011
Number six on the Hot 100 the week it arrived, Benny Blanco and Big Jerm keeping it airborne.
★ 2.5
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
Snap Yo Fingers
2006
Finger snaps where the snare should be, E-40 riding shotgun, and Lil Jon proving crunk could whisper.
★ 2.1
Good Time
2012
One YouTube link from his manager gave Young the voice he wanted, and a top-ten summer duet.
★ 1.9
I Like It
2010
RedOne's beat, Pitbull's verse, and Lionel Richie back at the mic re-cutting his own 'All Night Long' hook.
★ 1.7
Wonderful Christmastime
1979
Recorded alone in Sussex in the summer of 1979, every instrument McCartney's own, and a UK number six by January.
★ 1.6
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
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
Say Aah
Trey Songz and Fabolous
2010
Troy Taylor cut it at D2 in Atlanta, and Songz's birthday toast climbed to number nine, then double platinum.
★ 1.1