2007 Jive; Highest Chart Position: 70After nearly two decades as a hard-talking Houston concern, underground kings Pimp C and Bun B finally rode a gleaming Willie Hutch sample to chart success. UGK fans Outkast lent a helping hand, Andre 3000’s verse about marriage a stark contrast to UGK’s pimp-centric swagger. “They sent the track and I just wrote what I thought ‘choosin” for real meant to me,” said Andre. “I don’t know why I went to marriage as a topic, but I guess that’s the ultimate version of ‘choosin.' 2009 Glassnote; Highest Chart Position: 84Only Phoenix, the four-man embodiment of effervescent Parisian cool, could have made us nostalgic for the turn of the last century at the beginning of this one. “1901,” which reached millions of Americans by appearing in a Cadillac commercial, made the stylish French band stars, somewhat surprisingly for European rockers who didn’t do anything to hide their continental sophistication.

1. Top 100 Songs Of All Time

“Sometimes one song will be in one commercial and you think only about this, but we believe this will come and go and the song will stay,” said the band’s singer Thomas Mars. 2001 Parlophone; Highest Chart Position: 7Thirteen years after scoring a squeaky-clean mall-pop hit with her cover of “The Loco-Motion,” Australian diva Minogue re-emerged with the sexy, throbbing disco hit “Can’t Get You Out of My Head.” Songwriters Cathy Dennis and Rob Davis had originally written the song for the British teenybopper group S Club 7, but manager (and American Idol producer) Simon Fuller rejected it, so they shopped it around. Minogue was the first artist to bite, and the song helped establish her as a club-music queen. 2004 Roc-A-Fella; Highest Chart Position: 11“So here go my single, dawg, radio needs this/They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus,” rapped West in this lushly produced, heavily spiritual hip-hop song that, nonetheless, hit Number 11.

“I found a gospel song by a choir of reformed drug addicts in New York,” said co-writer Rhymefest about the song’s sample of the Addicts Rehabilitation Center Choir. “Even though I’m not a Christian, it moved me, and the beat was kinda like a rap groove. We jacked the whole song, but it came to life when Kanye added the army sounds and made it like God’s soldiers.”.

2004 Reprise; Highest Chart Position: 86The song that sold a thousand jars of Manic Panic hair dye, My Chemical Romance’s signature anthem spawned a new generation of emo kids with “I’m Not Okay (I Promise)” – a call to arms for horror punks with a soft spot for musical theater. The song marked a turn away from the genre’s girl-bashing antics and brought big-time vulnerability to the pop charts. The video flirts with queerness, too: Before the band goes up against a squad of macho lacrosse jocks, guitarist Frank Iero sneaks glam-goth singer Gerard Way a fleeting smooch. 2012 Mom + Pop; Highest Chart Position: Did not chartThis minimalist anthem to Swedish fish, munchies and magazines was the opening salvo to the tweens’ alt-rock revival, and the most memorable punk shout-out to the maligned borough of Queens since the Ramones’ “We’re a Happy Family.” The song – written by singer-guitarist Andrew Savage, about a stoned walk through the Queens’ Ridgewood neighborhood that he took while cat-sitting for his girlfriend – even became a microhit.

“I don’t care to play it anymore,” Savage said at the time. “I don’t like Joe College in the audience yelling for it.”.

Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin 2. Hotel California - The Eagles 3. Imagine - John Lennon 4. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye 5.

Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen 6. Superstition - Stevie Wonder 7. Layla - Derek and the Dominos 8. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen 9. Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel 10. Let's Stay Together - Al Green 11. Let It Be - The Beatles 12.

Maggie May - Rod Stewart 13. American Pie - Don McLean 14. Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who 15.

Stayin' Alive - The Bee Gees 16. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd 17. Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones 18. Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye 19. Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac 20. Papa Was a Rollin' Stone - The Temptations 21. Your Song - Elton John 22.

Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight and the Pips 23. More Than a Feeling - Boston 24. Just My Imagination - The Temptations 25. I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor 26.

Roxanne - The Police 27. Dream On - Aerosmith 28.

Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 - Pink Floyd 29. No Woman, No Cry - Bob Marley and the Wailers 30. London Calling - The Clash 31. Family Affair - Sly and the Family Stone 32.

Anarchy in the UK - The Sex Pistols 33. Dancing Queen - ABBA 34. We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions - Queen 35. Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine - James Brown 36. Living for the City - Stevie Wonder 37.

Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd 38. Lola - The Kinks 39. Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple 40. Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits 41. Walk This Way - Aerosmith 42.

Lean on Me - Bill Withers 43. Who'll Stop the Rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival 44. Kashmir - Led Zeppelin 45.

Rapper's Delight - The Sugarhill Gang 46. Heart of Glass - Blondie 47. Theme from 'Shaft' - Isaac Hayes 48. Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin 49. Fire and Rain - James Taylor 50.

Baba O'Riley - The Who 51. Paranoid - Black Sabbath 52. Heart of Gold - Neil Young 53.

Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed 54. It's Too Late - Carole King 55. You Are the Sunshine of My Life - Stevie Wonder 56. All Right Now - Free 57. Good Times - Chic 58.

(Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult 59. If You Don't Know Me by Now - Harold Melvin & Blue Notes 60. Riders On the Storm - The Doors 61.

My Sweet Lord - George Harrison 62. Bang a Gong (Get It On) - T. Black Magic Woman - Santana 64. Tangled Up in Blue - Bob Dylan 65. One Nation Under a Groove - Funkadelic 66. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd 67. Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson 68.

We Are Family - Sister Sledge 69. Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin 70. I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones 71. Money - Pink Floyd 72. Miss You - The Rolling Stones 73. Piano Man - Billy Joel 74.

Tired of Being Alone - Al Green 75. Killing Me Softly with His Song - Roberta Flack 76. Changes - David Bowie 77. Le Freak - Chic 78.

Band of Gold - Freda Payne 79. Maybe I'm Amazed (studio version) - Paul McCartney 80.

Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen 81. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd 82. Heroes - David Bowie 83. Hot Stuff - Donna Summer 84. War - Edwin Starr 85. Night Moves - Bob Seger 86.

Black Dog - Led Zeppelin 87. Brass in Pocket - The Pretenders 88. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John 89. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet - Bachman-Turner Overdrive 90.

I'll Take You There - The Staple Singers 91. Tumbling Dice - The Rolling Stones 92. Love Train - The O'Jays 93. You're So Vain - Carly Simon 94.

Best of My Love - The Emotions 95. God Save the Queen - The Sex Pistols 96. Old Time Rock 'n' Roll - Bob Seger & Silver Bullet Band 97.

Top 100 Songs Of All Time

Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones 98. Message in a Bottle - The Police 99. Mercy Mercy Me - Marvin Gaye 100.

One of These Nights - The Eagles101. Oh Girl - The Chi-Lites 102. Train in Vain - The Clash 103. Take It Easy - The Eagles 104. I'll Be Around - The Spinners 105.

American Woman - The Guess Who 106. Roundabout - Yes 107. That Lady - The Isley Brothers 108. Angie - The Rolling Stones 109.

Rock Lobster - The B-52's 110. Have You Seen Her - The Chi-Lites 111. Reeling in the Years - Steely Dan 112. Bennie and the Jets - Elton John 113.

Aqualung - Jethro Tull 114. Low Rider - War 115. I'm Not in Love - 10cc 116. Brick House - Commodores 117.

Village People 118. The Boys Are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy 119.

Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry 120. Rocket Man - Elton John 121.

The Joker - The Steve Miller Band 122. Dreams - Fleetwood Mac 123. Have You Ever Seen the Rain - CCR 124. Paradise by the Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf 125. School's Out - Alice Cooper 126. Joy to the World - Three Dog Night 127. Highway to Hell - AC/DC 128.

Tear the Roof off the Sucker - Parliament 129. Radar Love - Golden Earring 130. The Long and Winding Road - The Beatles 131. I Feel Love - Donna Summer 132. I'll Be There - The Jackson 5 133. Oye Como Va - Santana 134.

Jamming - Bob Marley and the Wailers 135. All the Young Dudes - Mott the Hoople 136.

Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 137. Moondance - Van Morrison 138. Drift Away - Dobie Gray 139. Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder 140.

Knockin' on Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan 141. Rock Your Baby - George McCrae 142. Instant Karma - John Lennon 143. Child in Time - Deep Purple 144.

Get Up, Stand Up - The Wailers 145. Lady Marmalade - LaBelle 146. Flash Light - Parliament 147.

Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac 148. Long Cool Woman - The Hollies 149.

Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers 150. Respect Yourself - The Staple Singers 151. Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith 152. Cars - Gary Numan 153.

Takin' Care of Business - Bachman-Turner Overdrive 154. Just What I Needed - The Cars 155. Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.

My Sharona - The Knack 157. Rock with You - Michael Jackson 158. The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff 159. Back Stabbers - The O-Jays 160. I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash 161. Without You - Nilsson 162. Tiny Dancer - Elton John 163.

Because the Night - Patti Smith 164. Ramblin' Man - The Allman Brothers 165. Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton 166. Just the Way You Are - Billy Joel 167.

Rock and Roll All Nite - KISS 168. That's the Way (I Like It) - KC & the Sunshine Band 169. Autobahn - Kraftwerk 170. Help Me - Joni Mitchell 171. Fame - David Bowie 172. Love to Love You Baby - Donna Summer 173. Kiss and Say Goodbye - The Manhattans 174.

Time - Pink Floyd 175. Burning Love - Elvis Presley 176. I'm Still in Love with You - Al Green 177. Lust for Life - Iggy Pop 178. Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon 179. Disco Inferno - The Trammps 180.

Cruisin' - Smokey Robinson 181. Refugee - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 182. Tonight's the Night - Rod Stewart 183. Smiling Faces Sometimes - The Undisputed Truth 184.

Behind Blue Eyes - The Who 185. Always and Forever - Heatwave 186. We're an American Band - Grand Funk 187. Band on the Run - Paul McCartney and Wings 188. Listen to the Music - The Doobie Brothers 189. September - Earth, Wind and Fire 190. Runnin' with the Devil - Van Halen 191.

Who Are You - The Who 192. Waterloo - ABBA 193.

Got to Give It Up - Marvin Gaye 194. Fly Like an Eagle - The Steve Miller Band 195. I Wish - Stevie Wonder 196.

Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe - Barry White 197. Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas 198. Surrender - Cheap Trick 199. Ball of Confusion - The Temptations 200.

Cocaine - Eric Clapton201. Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O'Sullivan 202. Crocodile Rock - Elton John 203. Love Is the Drug - Roxy Music 204. LA Woman - The Doors 205. Stuck in the Middle with You - Stealers Wheel 206.

Big Stuff - Jean Knight 207. The Logical Song - Supertramp 208. Tell Me Something Good - Rufus 209. Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello 210. 25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago 211. What I Like About You - The Romantics 212. Shame - Evelyn 'Champagne' King 213.

Inner City Blues - Marvin Gaye 214. Life in the Fast Lane - The Eagles 215. A Horse with No Name - America 216. Hey Hey My My (Into the Black) - Neil Young 217. Natural High - Bloodstone 218. One Way or Another - Blondie 219. O-o-h Child - The Five Stairsteps 220.

I Saw the Light - Todd Rundgren 221. Night Fever - The Bee Gees 222. Truckin' - The Grateful Dead 223. Rock and Roll, Part 2 - Gary Glitter 224. Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty 225. Psycho Killer - Talking Heads 226. What a Fool Believes - The Doobie Brothers 227.

Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffet 228. Dust in the Wind - Kansas 229.

When Will I See You Again - The Three Degrees 230. Black Water - The Doobie Brothers 231. Jones - Billy Paul 232. Running on Empty - Jackson Browne 233. Turn the Page - Bob Seger 234.

Roadhouse Blues - The Doors 235. The Payback - James Brown 236. Rebel Rebel - David Bowie 237. Killer Queen - Queen 238. Pick Up the Pieces - Average White Band 239.

Can't Get Enough - Bad Company 240. Fantasy - Earth, Wind and Fire 241.

Long Time - Boston 242. Until You Come Back to Me - Aretha Franklin 243.

Long Train Running - The Doobie Brothers 244. Over the Hills and Far Away - Led Zeppelin 245. Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull 246. That's the Way of the World - Earth, Wind and Fire 247. December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) - The Four Seasons 248. Question - The Moody Blues 249.

Go All the Way - The Raspberries 250. You Make Me Feel Brand New - The Stylistics.