Blue Suede Shoes (Carl Perkins)
1956
Cash suggested the phrase, Phillips talked him into changing one word, and Sun got its first million seller.
★ 7.7
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Uptown Funk
2014
Six studios, eighty-two takes at the guitar part, Ronson collapsing in the studio, and fourteen weeks at number one.
★ 7.5
Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
1992
Butler built it from an Art Blakey bassline in his father's jazz records, three voices making cool sound effortless.
★ 7.1
Blue Suede Shoes (Elvis Presley)
1956 · From Elvis Presley
Scotty Moore and Bill Black behind him in New York, and Presley made RCA hold the single for Perkins.
★ 6.9
Cut Your Hair
1994 · From Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Malkmus turned a fake band advert into a hook, and Pavement's snipe at image became their biggest hit.
★ 6.8
Virginia Plain
1972
Ferry lifted the title from his own art-school painting of a giant cigarette packet, Eno's VCS3 shrieking behind him.
★ 6.3
Uptown Top Ranking
1977
Two Jamaican teenagers, seventeen and eighteen, answering Trinity over Alton Ellis's riddim, number one in Britain within months.
★ 5.3
It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
1980 · From Glass Houses
Richie Cannata's sax break, Joel needling critics and fashion alike, and his first American number one.
★ 4.8
Thrift Shop
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
2012
A looping saxophone, a software test engineer named Wanz on the hook, and six weeks atop the Hot 100.
★ 4.4
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
Fancy
2014
Director X restaged Clueless for the video, and Charli XCX's hook carried both artists to seven weeks at number one.
★ 4.0
Puttin' On the Ritz
1983
Berlin wrote it in 1927; Taco's synth version made him, at ninety-five, the oldest living songwriter in the top ten.
★ 1.2