Mona Lisa
1950
Nelson Riddle arranged it uncredited under Les Baxter's name, and Cole's baritone turned a B-side into a million seller.
★ 6.2
The Songs canon
Sourced and sung.
Every song chosen by hand, with the recording to play it.
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Brown Eyed Handsome ManChuck Berry
Brown Eyed Handsome Man
1956 · From After School Session
Berry wrote it after watching an arrest in California, then cut it in Chicago with Johnnie Johnson and Willie Dixon.
★ 5.9
Spanish Harlem
1960
Cut at the October 1960 session that also produced Stand by Me, with Stoller's marimba triplets carrying everything.
★ 5.8
Just the Way You Are (Bruno Mars)
2010
Every instrument played by Mars and Ari Levine at Levcon Studios, and a Grammy for male pop vocal followed.
★ 5.7
Wonderful Tonight
1977
Clapton wrote it on a Martin D-28 while Pattie Boyd got ready for a Buddy Holly party, by his account.
★ 5.7
Treasure
2013
Breakbot got a songwriting credit after the fact, and Mars turned late-seventies disco into a top-five American hit.
★ 4.9
Simply Irresistible
1988
Number two in America, three weeks atop the rock chart, and the video that closed Palmer's mannequin trilogy.
★ 4.2
Pretty Girl Rock
2010
Ne-Yo and Chuck Harmony built it on a Just the Two of Us sample; Kahn's video parades a century of divas.
★ 2.7
Right Thurr
2003
Trak Starz built the beat, Ludacris and Chaka Zulu signed him, and the Walnut Park kid stalled at number two.
★ 2.1
Sexy Chick
David Guetta and Akon
2009
A chance meeting, a rented London studio, one night's work, and Guetta's first American top five.
★ 1.8