Top 10 Songs by Popular Rock Artists

[pauldrach]

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Criteria: These songs are ranked based on their intitial and lasting popularity, as well as influence & impact on rock 'n' roll. The lists include songs from every rock related sub-genre including Metal, Rap, Prog, Indie, Alternative, Electronic, and more.

Edited By: Lew, Bruce, Brett, Jeff B, Ryan, DDD Forum

[pauldrach]

The last ten lists I posted on the old forum (as of yet unposted on the site):

Roy Milton (& His Solid Senders)
1. R.M. Blues
2. Hop, Skip and Jump
3. Best Wishes
4. Information Blues
5. Everything I Do Is Wrong
6. Thrill Me
7. True Blues
8. So Tired
9. Night and Day (I Miss You So)
10. Milton's Boogie

Captain Beefheart
1. Electricity
2. Moonlight on Vermont
3. Sure 'Nuff 'n Yes I Do
4. Big Eyed Beans from Venus
5. Mirror Man
6. Diddy Wah Diddy
7. Zig Zag Wanderer
8. Tropical Hot Dog Night
9. Ice Cream for Crow
10. Frownland

New York Dolls
1. Personality Crisis
2. Looking for a Kiss
3. Trash
4. Jet Boy
5. Babylon
6. Chatterbox
7. Stranded in the Jungle
8. Pills
9. Lonely Planet Boy
10. Who Are the Mystery Girls?

Teddy Pendergrass
1. Close the Door
2. Love T.K.O.
3. Turn Off the Lights
4. When Somebody Loves You Back
5. The Whole Town's Laughing at Me
6. I Don't Love You Anymore
7. Come Go with Me
8. You're My Latest, My Greatest Inspiration
9. Only You
10. Hold Me [with Whitney Houston]

Busta Rhymes
1. Woo-Hah!! Got You All in Check
2. I Know What You Want
3. What's It Gonna Be?!
4. Turn It Up / Fire It Up
5. Dangerous
6. Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See
7. Gimme Some More
8. Break Ya Neck
9. Touch It
10. Pass the Courvoisier, Part II

Ludacris
1. Stand Up
2. What's Your Fantasy
3. Rollout (My Business)
4. Southern Hospitality
5. Move Bitch
6. How Low
7. Money Maker
8. Runaway Love
9. Splash Waterfalls
10. My Chick Bad

Justin Bieber
1. Sorry
2. What Do You Mean?
3. Baby
4. Love Yourself
5. Boyfriend
6. Peaches
7. As Long as You Love Me
8. Never Say Never
9. Beauty and a Beat
10. One Time

Morrissey
1. Everyday Is Like Sunday
2. Suedehead
3. First of the Gang to Die
4. Irish Blood, English Heart
5. The Last of the Famous International Playboys
6. The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get
7. You Have Killed Me
8. Interesting Drug
9. November Spawned a Monster
10. Interlude [with Siouxsie Sioux]

Nicki Minaj
1. Super Bass
2. Starships
3. Anaconda
4. Super Freaky Girl
5. Pound the Alarm
6. Only
7. Chun-Li
8. Moment 4 Life
9. Beez in the Trap
10. Your Love

Christina Aguilera
1. Genie in a Bottle
2. Beautiful
3. Ain't No Other Man
4. What a Girl Wants
5. Dirrty
6. Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)
7. Fighter
8. Hurt
9. Keeps Gettin' Better
10. Candyman

[Fido]

These are the lists that were at least agreed at some level. If everybody is okay we can approve them and send them to Lew.

Nicki Minaj

1. Super Bass
2. Starships
3. Anaconda
4. Super Freaky Girl
5. Pound the Alarm
6. Only
7. Chun-Li
8. Moment 4 Life
9. Beez in the Trap
10. Your Love

Billy Preston

1. Nothing from Nothing
2. Will It Go Round in Circles
3. Outa Space
4. Space Race
5. With You I’m Born Again (with Syreeta Wright)
6. Struttin’
7. Slaughter
8. I Wrote a Simple Song
9. You’re So Unique
10. That’s the Way God Planned It

Ghost

1. Square Hammer
2. Cirice
3. Dance Macabre
4. Year Zero
5. Ghuleh / Zombie Queen
6. Ritual
7. From the Pinnacle to the Pit
8. Mary on a Cross
9. He Is
10. Rats

The Yardbirds

1. Heart Full of Soul
2. For Your Love
3. Shapes of Things
4. Over Under Sideways Down
5. I’m a Man
6. Happenings Ten Years Time Ago
7. Still I’m Sad
8. I Wish You Would
9. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
10. The Train Kept a-Rollin’

Zombies

1. She’s Not There
2. Time of the Season
3. Care of Cell 44
4. Tell Her No
5. This Will Be Our Year
6. A Rose for Emily
7. The Way I Feel Inside
8. Summertime
9. I Want Her She Wants Me
10. She’s Coming Home

Herman’s Hermits

1. I’m Into Something Good
2. I’m Henry The VIII, I Am
3. There’s a Kind of Hush
4. Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter
5. No Milk Today
6. Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat
7. Silhouettes
8. A Must to Avoid
9. Listen People
10. Dandy

Garbage

1. Stupid Girl
2. Only Happy When It Rains
3. #1 Crush
4. Special
5. I Think I’m Paranoid
6. Queer
7. When I Grow Up
8. Push It
9. Vow
10. Cherry Lips

Fountains of Wayne

1. Stacy’s Mom
2. Radiation Vibe
3. Sink to the Bottom
4. Denise
5. Hey Julie
6. Mexican Wine
7. Leave the Biker
8. I Want and Alien for Christmas
9. Hackensack
10. Survival Car

Graham Parker

1. Local Girls
2. Hold Back the Night
3. Wake Up (Next to You)
4. Discovering Japan
5. Temporary Beauty
6. Stupefaction
7. Don’t Ask Me Questions
8. Get Started, Start a Fire
9. Life Gets Better
10. Watch the Moon Come Down

James

1. Laid
2. Sit Down
3. Born of Frustration
4. Come Home
5. Sound
6. Getting Away with It (All Messed Up)
7. Say Something
8. She’s a Star
9. Tomorrow
10. Sometimes

The 1975

1. Love It if We Made It
2. Somebody Else
3. If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)
4. Chocolate
5. Love Me
6. It’s Not Living (If It’s Not with You)
7. The Sound
8. Sex
9. Give Yourself a Try
10. Me & You Together Song

10cc

1. I’m Not in Love
2. The Things We Do for Love
3. Dreadlock Holiday
4. Rubber Bullets
5. Good Morning Judge
6. The Wall Street Shuffle
7. Donna
8. I’m Mandy Fly Me
9. Art for Art’s Sake
10. Life Is a Minestrone

Meghan Trainor

1. All About That Bass
2. Like I’m Gonna Lose You
3. Me Too
4. Made You Look
5. Lips Are Movin’
6. No
7. Dear Future Husband
8. Better When I’m Dancin’
9. No Excuses
10. Genetics

Maroon 5

1. This Love
2. Moves Like Jagger
3. Sugar
4. She Will Be Loved
5. Makes Me Wonder
6. Girls Like You
7. Payphone
8. One More Night
9. Harder to Breathe
10. Memories

Whitney Houston

1. I Will Always Love You
2. I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
3. How Will I Know
4. Saving All My Love for You
5. I Have Nothing
6. The Greatest Love of All
7. It’s Not Right But It’s Okay
8. Exhale (Shoop Shoop)
9. I’m Every Woman
10. Where Do Broken Hearts Go

MGMT

1. Kids
2. Time to Pretend
3. Electric Feel
4. Little Dark Age
5. Me & Michael
6. When You Die
7. Congratulations
8. Flash Delirium
9. Weekend Wars
10. It’s Working

Elton John

1. Your Song
2. Rocket Man
3. Candle in the Wind
4. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
5. Tiny Dancer
6. Bennie and the Jets
7. Crocodile Rock
8. Philadelphia Freedom
9. I’m Still Standing
10. Daniel

Miley Cyrus

1. Flowers
2. Wrecking Ball
3. Party in the USA
4. We Can’t Stop
5. The Climb
6. Malibu
7. Midnight Sky
8. See You Again
9. Prisoner
10. Can’t Be Tamed

Aerosmith

1. Dream On
2. Walk This Way
3. I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing
4. Sweet Emotion
5. Janie’s Got a Gun
6. Livin’ on the Edge
7. Back in the Saddle
8. Love in an Elevator
9. Jaded
10. Cryin’

There's a bunch more that were not discussed or we didn't agree on them. I can post them later but I thought we can get over these first. The artists are Roy Milton & His Solid Senders, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, New York Dolls, Teddy Pendergrass, Busta Rhymes, Ludacris, Justin Bieber, Morrissey, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Beyoncé, Outkast, Elvis Presley, 50 Cent, ZZ Top, Yes, The Beatles, Justin Timberlake, Coldplay, The White Stripes, Shakira, NSYNC, Big Country, The Chameleons, CHVRCHES, Enya, Inspiral Carpets, Joan Armatrading, Juliana Hatfield, The Shins, Sixpence None the Richer, Slowdive, Sparks, Split Enz, Superchunk, Talk Talk, Robbie Williams.

[pauldrach]

Do you remember when those were posted? Cause any list that had lingered in the old forum for three months or something without protest can probably be sent as well.

[Fido]

Dunno, anywhere from more than a year to a month or so

[ManPerson]

Some suggested revisions
Nirvana
1. Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. Come As You Are
3. Heart-Shaped Box
4. Lithium
5. All Apologies
6. About a Girl
7. In Bloom
8. The Man Who Sold the World
9. Rape Me
10. Something In the Way

2Pac
1. California Love
2. Dear Mama
3. Changes
4. Keep Ya Head Up
5. I Get Around
6. Hit 'Em Up
7. How Do U Want It
8. Hail Mary
9. Brenda's Got a Baby
10. Ambitionz Az a Ridah

Madonna
1. Like a Virgin
2. Like a Prayer
3. Into the Groove
4. Vogue
5. Material Girl
6. Ray of Light
7. Holiday
8. Papa Don't Preach
9. Hung Up
10. La Isla Bonita

The Notorious B.I.G.
1. Juicy
2. Hypnotize
3. Big Poppa
4. Mo Money, Mo Problems
5. One More Chance
6. Who Shot Ya?
7. Suicidal Thoughts
8. Unbelievable
9. Notorious Thugs
10. Ten Crack Commandments

Dr. Dre
1. Nuthin But a 'G' Thang
2. Still D.R.E.
3. Forgot About Dre
4. The Next Episode
5. Fuck Wit Dre Day
6. Keep Their Heads Ringin'
7. Let Me Ride
8. Deep Cover
9. Xxplosive
10. I Need a Doctor

Pet Shop Boys
1. West End Girls
2. It's a Sin
3. Always On My Mind
4. What Have I Done to Deserve This
5. Go West
6. Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
7. Being Boring
8. Domino Dancing
9. Rent
10. Suburbia

Pink Floyd
1. Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 2
2. Wish You Were Here
3. Comfortably Numb
4. Money
5. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
6. Time
7. See Emily Play
8. The Great Gig In the Sky
9. Us and Them
10. Astronomy Domine

Pitbull
1. Timber
2. Give Me Everything
3. Time of Our Lives
4. Feel This Moment
5. International Love
6. I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)
7. Hotel Room Service
8. Rain Over Me
9. Fireball
10. Hey Baby (Drop It to to the Floor)

Pearl Jam
1. Jeremy
2. Alive
3. Black
4. Even Flow
5. Daughter
6. Better Man
7. Last Kiss
8. Yellow Ledbetter
9. Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
10. Given to Fly

Red Hot Chili Peppers
1. Under the Bridge
2. Californication
3. Scar Tissue
4. Give It Away
5. Otherside
6. Can't Stop
7. By the Way
8. Dani California
9. Soul To Squeeze
10. Snow (Hey Oh)

R.E.M.
1. Losing My Religion
2. Everybody Hurts
3. It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
4. The One I Love
5. Radio Free Europe
6. Man On the Moon
7. Shiny Happy People
8. Drive
9. What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
10. Imitation of Life

Green Day
1. Basket Case
2. Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
3. Boulevard of Broken Dreams
4. American Idiot
5. When I Come Around
6. Wake Me Up When September Ends
7. Longview
8. Holiday
9. Brain Stew
10. Welcome to Paradise

TLC
1. No Scrubs
2. Waterfalls
3. Creep
4. Unpretty
5. Red Light Special
6. Baby-Baby-Baby
7. What About Your Friends
8. Diggin' On You
9. Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg
10. Girl Talk

New Lists
Calvin Harris
1. This Is What You Came For
2. One Kiss
3. Slide
4. Summer
5. How Deep Is Your Love
6. Feels
7. Outside
8. Feel So Close
9. Sweet Nothing
10. Blame

The Chainsmokers
1. Closer
2. Something Just Like This
3. Don't Let Me Down
4. Roses
5. Paris
6. #SELFIE
7. This Feeling
8. All We Know
9. Call You Mine
10. Who Do You Love

Avicii
1. Wake Me Up
2. Levels
3. Hey Brother
4. The Nights
5. Waiting for Love
6. SOS
7. Without You
8. Lonely Together
9. I Could Be the One
10. Heaven

[Zach]

New Lists
Calvin Harris
1. This Is What You Came For
2. One Kiss
3. Slide
4. Summer
5. How Deep Is Your Love
6. Feels
7. Outside
8. Feel So Close
9. Sweet Nothing
10. Blame

The Chainsmokers
1. Closer
2. Something Just Like This
3. Don't Let Me Down
4. Roses
5. Paris
6. #SELFIE
7. This Feeling
8. All We Know
9. Call You Mine
10. Who Do You Love

Avicii
1. Wake Me Up
2. Levels
3. Hey Brother
4. The Nights
5. Waiting for Love
6. SOS
7. Without You
8. Lonely Together
9. I Could Be the One
10. Heaven

Funny, I was just looking at these three artists for the electronic list. Calvin Harris's popularity is insane.

[Fido]

I'd keep Time over Shine On for the Pink Floyd list.

Also, No Scrubs as TLC's first is a big change from the main lists. It certainly seems to be more popular now, and it's also ahead on AM, but I wonder what Brian thinks.

[Brian]

I'm ambivalent on "Waterfalls" vs. "Scrubs". I'm not quite ready to move "No Scrubs" ahead of "Waterfalls" on the decade list, but NS does seem to do very well in lasting popularity, and it's slightly ahead on AM. "Waterfalls" was a slightly bigger hit at the time, did more to help establish TLC (though earlier songs had already done that to a considerable degree), and is from a bigger album (though to be fair, CrazySexyCool has 4 top 10 hits; Fanmail has 2). Both songs are pretty darn big. I really don't have a problem with them being in either order.

[Fido]

So Man, if you can weigh in on Time vs Shine On I can send your lists along with all the backlog from the old forum. My opinion is Time wins popularity by more than Shine On wins acclaim, along with consistency with the 70s list.

[ManPerson]

I'm fine with Time > Shine On.

[Dubrow555]

I would also vote Time > SOYCD

[Zach]

Same.

[Fido]

Ok, so I can send the ones I already posted, the ones paul posted, the new ones by MP, and the bunch I'm going to post now. I'll leave them for a day in case anyone has any complaints, so at least give them a look.

Britney Spears

1. …Baby One More Time
2. Toxic
3.
4. Oops! I Did It Again
5. Till the World Ends
6. I’m a Slave 4 U
7. Gimme More
8. Piece of Me
9. Everytime
10. (You Drive Me) Crazy

Beyoncé

1. Crazy in Love
2. Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
3. Irreplaceable
4. Formation
5. Halo
6. Break My Soul
7. If I Were a Boy
8. Love on Top
9. Drunk in Love
10. Cuff It

Outkast

1. Hey Ya
2. Ms. Jackson
3. B.O.B.
4. Rosa Parks
5. The Way You Move
6. So Fresh So Clean
7. Elevators (Me & You)
8. Roses
9. Player’s Ball
10. Spottieottiedelicious

Elvis Presley

1. Jailhouse Rock
2. Hound Dog
3. Heartbreak Hotel
4. Don’t be Cruel
5. Suspicious Minds
6. That’s All Right
7. Can’t Help Falling in Love
8. All Shook Up
9. Mystery Train
10. It’s Now or Never

50 Cent

1. In da Club
2. Candy Shop
3. 21 Questions
4. P.I.M.P.
5. Just a Lil’ Bit
6. Disco Inferno
7. I Get Money
8. Ayo Technology
9. Many Men (Wish Death)
10. If I Can’t

ZZ Top

1. La Grange
2. Sharp Dressed Man
3. Gimme All Your Lovin’
4. Tush
5. Legs
6. Rough Boy
7. Cheap Sunglasses
8. I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide
9. Sleeping Bag
10. Got Me Under Pressure

Yes

1. Roundabout
2. Owner of a Lonely Heart
3. I’ve Seen All Good People
4. Close to the Edge
5. Heart of the Sunrise
6. And You and I
7. Long Distance Runaround
8. Mood for a Day
9. Yours Is No Disgrace
10. Siberian Khatru

Justin Timberlake
1. Cry Me a River
2. SexyBack
3. My Love
4. Rock Your Body
5. Mirrors
6. What Goes Around… Comes Around
7. Can’t Stop the Feeling!
8. Like I Love You
9. LoveStoned/I Think She Knows
10. Suit & Tie

Coldplay

1. Viva la Vida
2. Yellow
3. Clocks
4. The Scientist
5. Speed of Sound
6. Fix You
7. In My Place
8. Paradise
9. A Sky Full of Stars
10. Trouble

The White Stripes

1. Seven Nation Army
2. Fell in Love with a Girl
3. Icky Thump
4. Blue Orchid
5. The Hardest Button to Button
6. Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
7. My Doorbell
8. We’re Going to Be Friends
9. Hotel Yorba
10. I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself

Shakira

1. Hips Don’t Lie
2. Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)
3. Whenever, Wherever
4. She Wolf
5. Underneath Your Clothes
6. La Tortura
7. Chantaje
8. Can’t Remember to Forget You
9. Ciega, sordomuda
10. La La La

NSYNC

1. Bye Bye Bye
2. It’s Gonna Be Me
3. This I Promise You
4. I Want You Back
5. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays
6. Tearin’ Up My Heart
7. (God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time on You
8. Girlfriend
9. Pop
10. Gone

Big Country

1. In a Big Country
2. Look Away
3. Wonderland
4. Fields of Fire (400 Miles)
5. Chance
6. King of Emotion
7. East of Eden
8. One Great Thing
9. Just a Shadow
10. Peace in Our Time

The Chameleons

1. Swamp Thing
2. Up the Down Escalator
3. As High as You Can Go
4. Don’t Fall
5. Tears
6. Singing Rule Britannia
7. Second Skin
8. A Person Isn’t Safe Anywhere These Days
9. Return of the Roughnecks
10. In Shreds

CHVRCHES

1. The Mother We Share
2. Leave a Trace
3. Gun
4. Get Out
5. Bury It
6. Clearest Blue
7. Recover
8. Miracle
9. Good Girls
10. Lies

Enya

1. Orinoco Flow
2. Only Time
3. Caribbean Blue
4. May It Be
5. Boadicea
6. Anywhere Is
7. Evening Falls
8. Only If
9. Book of Days
10. The Celts

Inspiral Carpets

1. This Is How It Feels
2. Two Worlds Collide
3. Dragging Me Down
4. She Comes in the Fall
5. Saturn 5
6. Commercial Rain
7. I Want You
8. Caravan
9. Joe
10. Generations

Joan Armatrading

1. Drop the Pilot
2. Love and Affection
3. Me Myself I
4. Down to Zero
5. I’m Lucky
6. Kind Words (and a Real Good Heart)
7. No Love
8. Temptation
9. The Weakness in Me
10. Dry Land

Juliana Hatfield

1. My Sister
2. Universal Heart-Beat
3. Spin the Bottle
4. What a Life
5. I See You
6. For the Birds
7. Live on Tomorrow
8. Everybody Loves Me But You
9. Bad Day
10. Live on Tomorrow

The Shins

1. New Slang
2. Phantom Limb
3. Australia
4. So Says I
5. Know Your Onion!
6. Caring Is Creepy
7. Simple Song
8. Kissing the Lipless
9. It’s Only Life
10. Sleeping Lessons

Sixpence None the Richer

1. Kiss Me
2. Breathe Your Name
3. There She Goes
4. Angeltread
5. Love
6. Brighten My Heart
7. Within a Room, Somewhere
8. Field of Flowers
9. Don’t Dream It’s Over
10. Love, Salvation, the Fear of Death

Slowdive

1. Alison
2. Dagger
3. Catch the Breeze
4. Souvlaki Space Station
5. J’s Heaven
6. Celia’s Dream
7. Shine
8. Sugar for the Pill
9. Machine Gun
10. Blue Sky an’ Clear

Sparks

1. This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us
2. The Number One Song in Heaven
3. Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth
4. Cool Places
5. Beat the Clock
6. Amateur Hour
7. Girl from Germany
8. Eaten by the Monster of Love
9. When I’m with You
10. I Predict

Split Enz

1. I Got You
2. One Step Ahead
3. History Never Repeats
4. Six Months in a Leaky Boat
5. Bold as Brass
6. I See Red
7. Message to My Girl
8. Dirty Creature
9. My Mistake
10. Late Last Night

Superchunk

1. Driveway to Driveway
2. Hyper Enough
3. Slack Motherfucker
4. Precision Auto
5. Throwing Things
6. The First Part
7. Detroit Has a Skyline
8. Seed Toss
9. Like a Fool
10. Mower

Talk Talk

1. It’s My Life
2. Life’s What You Make It
3. Such a Shame
4. Talk Talk
5. Living in Another World
6. Today
7. Ascension Day
8. Give It Up
9. I Believe in You
10. After the Flood

Robbie Williams

1. Angels
2. Feel
3. Millenium
4. Rock DJ
5. Candy
6. She’s the One
7. Something Stupid
8. Supreme
9. Tripping
10. Let Me Entertain You

Now, here's the Beatles' list, and I would like more input with this one. I disagree with Yesterday rising as I explained in the old forum, and honestly if there's a list that I trust is already well done and discussed to death by some of the most knowledgeable posters of the 60s is this one. We even have a full top 100. But if people agree I'll just drop it and send it to Lew.

1. Hey Jude
2. A Day in the Life
3. Yesterday
4. She Loves You
5. I Want to Hold Your Hand
6. Let It Be
7. Strawberry Fields Forever
8. Twist and Shout
9. A Hard Day's Night
10. I Saw Her Standing There

[ManPerson]

If you haven't sent these yet, I'd probably have Fix You > Speed of Sound, Gimme More > I'm a Slave 4 U, and So Fresh, So Clean > The Way You Move now.

[Fido]

Done