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The Winner Takes it All also has about twice as many views on Youtube.

So:
Initial: Waterloo (still seems fairly close)
Lasting: Winner
Acclaim: Winner (also pretty close)
Influence: Waterloo

Ok, I guess I'm fine with Waterloo ahead.

pauldrach wrote: Tue Mar 03, 2026 11:41 am

pauldrach wrote: Wed Feb 25, 2026 4:55 am Cool. The Lady Gaga edit is noted. Unless there's further changes, I'll just send all those lists to lew later today.

Of course I had forgotten about this and only sent them just now.

They've all been added to the main site now. Thanks, lew!

James Brown's list looks kind of off

My suggested revision
1. Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
2. Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine
3. I Got You (I Feel Good)
4. Please, Please, Please
5. It's a Man's Man's Man's World
6. Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud
7. Cold Sweat
8. Try Me
9. The Payback
10. Funky Drummer

So does Dylan's

Bob Dylan (revision)
1. Like a Rolling Stone
2. Blowin' in the Wind
3. The Times They Are a Changin'
4. Tangled Up in Blue
5. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
6. Subterranean Homesick Blues
7. Mr. Tambourine Man
8. Desolation Row
9. Hurricane
10. Positively 4th Street

Some others:

Rolling Stones (revision)
1. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
2. Paint It, Black
3. Sympathy for the Devil
4. Brown Sugar
5. Jumpin' Jack Flash
6. Gimme Shelter
7. Honky Tonk Women
8. Start Me Up
9. You Can't Always Get What You Want
10. Miss You

Stevie Wonder (revision)
1. Superstition
2. Living for the City
3. You Are the Sunshine of My Life
4. Higher Ground
5. Signed, Sealed Delivered, I'm Yours
6. Sir Duke
7. Uptight (Everything's Alright)
8. I Just Called To Say I Love You
9. For Once in My Life
10. Fingertips

The Isley Brothers (revision)
1. Shout
2. It's Your Thing
3. Twist and Shout
4. That Lady
5. This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)
6. Fight the Power
7. Between the Sheets
8. Footsteps in the Dark
9. Summer Breeze
10. Caravan of Love

Earth, Wind & Fire
1. September
2. Shining Star
3. Boogie Wonderland
4. Let's Groove
5. After the Love Has Gone
6. That's the Way of the World
7. Fantasy
8. Serpentine Fire
9. In the Stone
10. Sing a Song

Sly and the Family Stone
1. Family Affair
2. Dance to the Music
3. Everyday People
4. Thank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Again)
5. Hot Fun in the Summertime
6. If You Want Me To Stay
7. I Want To Take You Higher
8. Stand!
9. Everybody is a Star
10. (You Caught Me) Smilin'

10 new lists:

Lou Rawls
1. You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
2. Love Is a Hurtin' Thing
3. Lady Love
4. A Natural Man
5. Dead End Street
6. See You When I Git There
7. Your Good Thing (Is About to End)
8. Groovy People
9. Let Me Be Good to You
10. You've Made Me So Very Happy

Thompson Twins
1. Hold Me Now
2. Doctor! Doctor!
3. Lay Your Hands on Me
4. Lies
5. King for a Day
6. Love on Your Side
7. You Take Me Up
8. In the Name of Love
9. We Are Detective
10. Sugar Daddy

Marilyn Manson
1. The Beautiful People
2. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
3. The Dope Show
4. Tainted Love
5. This Is the New Shit
6. The Fight Song
7. Personal Jesus
8. Lunchbox
9. mOBSCENE
10. Disposable Teens

Lily Allen
1. Smile
2. The Fear
3. Not Fair
4. LDN
5. Fuck You
6. Somewhere Only We Know
7. Pussy Palace
8. Hard Out Here
9. 22
10. Littlest Things

Cardi B
1. WAP [feat. Megan Thee Stallion]
2. Bodak Yellow
3. I Like It [with Bad Bunny & J Balvin]
4. Up
5. Please Me [with Bruno Mars]
6. Money
7. Be Careful
8. Bartier Cardi [feat. 21 Savage]
9. I Do [feat. SZA]
10. Thru Your Phone

Robyn
1. Dancing on My Own
2. With Every Heartbeat [with Kleerup]
3. Call Your Girlfriend
4. Show Me Love
5. Do You Know (What It Takes)
6. Be Mine!
7. Honey
8. Hang with Me
9. Do It Again [with Röyksopp]
10. Missing U

Imagine Dragons
1. Believer
2. Radioactive
3. Thunder
4. Demons
5. Enemy [with JID]
6. It's Time
7. Whatever It Takes
8. Natural
9. On Top of the World
10. Sucker for Pain [with Lil Wayne & Wiz Khalifa]

Olivia Newton-John
1. Physical
2. You're the One That I Want [with John Travolta]
3. Hopelessly Devoted to You
4. Have You Never Been Mellow
5. Xanadu [with Electric Light Orchestra]
6. Magic
7. I Honestly Love You
8. Summer Nights [with John Travolta]
9. A Little More Love
10. Please Mr. Please

Tame Impala
1. The Less I Know the Better
2. Let It Happen
3. Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
4. Borderline
5. Elephant
6. New Person, Same Old Mistakes
7. Eventually
8. Dracula
9. Lost in Yesterday
10. Solitude Is Bliss

Lil Baby
1. Drip Too Hard [with Gunna]
2. The Bigger Picture
3. Yes Indeed [with Drake]
4. Freestyle
5. Pure Cocaine
6. Sum 2 Prove
7. Woah
8. We Paid [with 42 Dugg]
9. Emotionally Scarred
10. Life Goes On [feat. Gunna & Lil Uzi Vert]

I'd have The Bigger Picture higher since it's his most acclaimed song for sure, while also having strong initial popularity.

I'd have Believer at #1 since it's clearly their most lastingly popular song (based on YouTube and Spotify, anyway), while being a big hit at the time is well. I think it's established that acclaim is pretty much irrelevant when it comes to ranking Imagine Dragons songs.

I figure Bodak Yellow should be ahead of I Like It since I like it takes popularity, Bodak Yellow takes acclaim and, I'd argue, influence since it's probably the song most responsible for the boom of female rappers in the late 2010s.

Done. Please review Lil Baby to check whether you feel TBP's rank is now appropriate.

I'd have it over Yes Indeed as well.

Late reply, but on the James Brown, Stones, Dylan, basically all the canonized artists I'm reticent to change as I trust Bruce's and Brian's lists for those decades and they've basically been discussed at nauseam. I don't think Cold Sweat should drop for example as it's SO influential on funk and I don't see Paint It Black that high (it's too high already on their top ten). Dylan and Stevie look good though.

The Stones list as they are on the Greatest Songs list actually looks good to me:

1. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
2. Brown Sugar
3. Jumpin' Jack Flash
4. Sympathy for the Devil
5. Gimme Shelter
6. Honky Tonk Women
7. Paint It Black
8. Start Me Up
9. You Can't Always Get What You Want
10. Miss You

Remember when we were all for consistency between lists (maybe too much)? Those were some good times.

Nvm

I still think Paint It, Black should be higher, #1 hit, their most popular song today, highly acclaimed (more than, say, Honky Tonk Women) and cited as influential on psychedelic rock.

Yeah, I guess it should be ahead of Honky Tonk Women. I wouldn't overrate its popularity because of its high Spotify plays though.