"The Sign" is a 1993 dance-pop song by the Swedish band Ace of Base. The song was an international hit, reaching Number two in the United Kingdom and spending six non-consecutive weeks as number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States. (It was the first single to have two distinct runs at #1 since Men at Work's "Down Under" in 1983; the 582-week gap between their second runs is the
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Ace of Base - The Sign (90s)
Jimmy Buffett - Margaritaville (70s)
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"Margaritaville" is a 1977 song by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett from the album Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes. This song was written about a drink in Austin, Texas, and the first huge surge of tourists who descended on Key West almost two decades ago. He wrote it in Key West while spending time in Florida. The song was a chart hit in the United States when it
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Green Day - Basket Case (90s)
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"Basket Case" is a song by American punk rock band Green Day. It was released as the third single from their third album, Dookie. The song spent five weeks at the top of the Modern Rock Tracks chart.Rolling Stone Readers ranked it #5 on the list of Best Singles of 1994.The song was written by frontman Billie Joe Armstrong about his struggle with anxiety; before he was diagnosed with a panic disord
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Tone Loc - Wild Thing (80s)
"Wild Thing" is the name of rapper Tone Lōc's 1988 single from the album Lōc-ed After Dark. The title is a reference to the phrase "doin' the wild thing," a euphemism for sex, unlike The Troggs' hit song, "Wild Thing", (with a later psychedelic version by Jimi Hendrix) in which the "wild thing" was a girl.Tone Lōc's song peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100, and spawned at least one parod
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Cover Day!! Billy Joel & Westlife - Uptown Girl (80s) (00s)
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Billy Joel Version:Westlife Version:Billy Joel Version:"Uptown Girl" is a song written and performed by musician Billy Joel, first released in 1983 on his album An Innocent Man. The lyrics describe a working-class "downtown man" attempting to woo a wealthy "uptown girl." The single peaked at #3 on the Billboard charts in the US, and #1 in the UK, staying at that position for 5 weeks; it was the se
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Staind - For You (00s)
"For You" a song by American rock band, Staind. It was released as the fourth single from their 2001 album, Break the Cycle. "For You" had much mainstream success, charting performance and high demand for airplay on rock radio stations, being the third most popular single to be released from Break the Cycle, following "Outside" and "It's Been Awhile".Being one of the heaviest songs from Staind's a
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The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army (00s)
"Seven Nation Army" is the first track on the album Elephant by American alternative rock band The White Stripes. It was released as a single in 2003. Seven Nation Army reached #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks for three weeks and won 2004's Grammy Award for Best Rock Song. The song is known for its underlying riff, which plays throughout most of the song. Although it sounds like a bass guitar (an inst
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Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen (80s)
"Edge of Seventeen (Just Like The White Winged Dove)" is a song written and recorded by American singer Stevie Nicks, the third single from her successful 1981 solo debut album Bella Donna. Written by Nicks to express the grief resulting from the death of her uncle Jonathan and the murder of John Lennon during the same week of December 1980, the song features a distinctive, chugging 16th-note guit
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Fastball - Out Of My Head (90s)
"Out of My Head" is a pop rock song by the American band Fastball from their second studio album All the Pain Money Can Buy. It peaked at #20 on the Billboard Hot 100.Fastball is an American rock band that formed in Austin, Texas in the 1990s. The band originally called themselves "Magneto U.S.A." but changed their name after signing with Hollywood Records.In 1998, their album All The Pain Money C
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Chic - Good Times (70s)
"Good Times" is a 1979 song composed by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers. It was first recorded by their band Chic, for their 1979 album Risqué. In August of that year, it became the band's second number one single on both the Billboard Hot 100 and soul singles chart. Along with the tracks, "My Forbidden Lover", and "My Feet Keep Dancing", "Good Times" reached number three on the disco charts. The
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Styx - Renegade (80s)
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"Renegade" is a 1979 hit song recorded by the American rock band Styx. It was on their Pieces of Eight album. It reached #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the spring of 1979. The song is a first-person narrative of an outlaw, captured for a bounty, who recognizes that he is about to be executed for his criminal activities. The execution will be by hanging, as the outlaw laments, "Hangman is coming d
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Journey - Lights (70s)
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"Lights" is a song recorded by American rock band Journey and written by Steve Perry and Neal Schon, released in 1978.The song is a ballad about Journey's city of origin, San Francisco. It was one of Steve Perry's first Journey songs, and was recorded soon after his joining the band. Although the song is about San Francisco, it was actually written in and originally intended to be about Los Angele
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The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) (80s)
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"I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" is a song written and performed by The Proclaimers. It was released on their 1988 Sunshine on Leith album, and subsequently as a single. It has become one of their most popular songs, reaching No. 11 in the UK charts and No. 1 on the Australian ARIA Charts in 1989, plus, five years later, No. 3 in the US Billboard Hot 100. The song has become a live staple at their conce
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Linkin Park - Faint (00s)
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"Faint" is a song by Linkin Park from their second studio album Meteora. The song was released as the album's second single in mid-2003 and entered the top thirty on the majority of the charts it appeared on, including the Hot 100, in which it peaked at #48. The song reached #1 on the U.S. Modern Rock Tracks, becoming the band's third number-one hit on the chart.This song was released as two singl
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House of Pain - Jump Around (90s)
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"Jump Around" is a hit single by the band House of Pain, produced by DJ Muggs of Cypress Hill. This song became a hit in 1992, reaching Number 3 in the USA. A 1993 re-release of the song in the UK, where the original had been a minor hit, peaked at Number 8. On VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s, "Jump Around" was featured at position 24. It was number 66 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop. T
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The Police - Roxanne (70s)
Police lead singer Sting wrote the song, inspired by the prostitutes he saw near the band's seedy hotel while in Paris, France in October 1977 to perform at the Nashville Club. The title of the song comes from the name of the character in the play Cyrano de Bergerac, an old poster of which was hanging in the hotel foyer.Sting had originally conceived the song as a bossa nova, although he credits P
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TLC - Waterfalls (90s)
"Waterfalls" is a 1995 single by American musical trio TLC from their second album CrazySexyCool and arguably the group's signature song. The song was produced by Organized Noize and written by Marqueze Etheridge, TLC member Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, and Organized Noize. The song stayed at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for seven weeks from July 8, 1995 - August 19, 1995 and is TLC's second numb
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