Video Killed the Radio StarThe Buggles
Video Killed the Radio Star
1979
Sixteen national number ones, then a second life at 12:01 a.m. on 1 August 1981 as MTV's first video.
★ 6.6
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Virtual Insanity
1996
Glazer put the set on wheels and never moved the floor; four VMAs followed, Video of the Year among them.
★ 6.0
Reflektor
2013 · From Reflektor
Seven and a half minutes, James Murphy at the desk, Haitian percussion, and Bowie volunteering his voice.
★ 5.2
Mr. RobotoStyx
Mr. Roboto
1983
DeYoung wrote it for a rock opera about outlawed music; Stan Winston designed the suit, the vocoder did the rest.
★ 4.1
Boom Boom Pow
2009
will.i.am heard electro in Sydney nightclubs while filming Wolverine, then rode that beat to twelve weeks at number one.
★ 2.8
Double Bubble Trouble
2013 · From Matangi
Dub reggae bass and Indian strings under a nod to Shampoo's 1994 hit "Trouble", produced by The Partysquad.
★ 2.2