INFORMATION FOR SONGS IN THE TOP 7000 Part VIII

 Welcome to the Top 300. 

  The song at position #295 is a song that kicks ass. The song is by a recording 
act who was born on April 22nd,1950 in Beckenham,Kent,England.The song at position 
#295 is off the album "Frampton Comes Alive" and is considered the best "Live" 
album of all-time.The album spent ten (10) weeks in the #1 position on Billboard
Magazine and was the #1 album for the entire year of 1976 according to both Cash 
Box (US) and Billboard (US) Magazine.
   The song at position #295 was recorded live on November 22,1975 at the State 
University of New York's Plattsburgh Memorial Hall.The song is also featured in the
popular rhythm game,Guitar Hero 5.
   The song was written in the early seventies with members of the singer of the 
song at position #295's band,then called "Frampton's Camel".The song was originally
about waking up with a hangover with the opening lyrics being "Well,woke up this
morning with a wine glass in my hand".The song at position #295 is considerably
longer (over fourteen minutes on Frampton Comes Alive!) and features a number of 
instrumental solos.Most famously,the singer of the song at position #295 used the
talk box,an effects pedal which redirects a guitar's sound through a tube into the
performer's mouth,allowing the guitar to mimic human speech.
   The title of the song is "Do You Feel Like We Do",although the lyrics read 
"Do you feel like I do?".Only after the keyboard solo in the Frampton Comes Alive!
version does Frampton sing "Do You Feel Like We Do." He then sings "Do You Feel 
Like We Do" through the talk box in the midst of his extended talk box guitar solo.

  This rock group from Belfast,Northern Ireland holds the #287 position.The song at
position #287 was the #5 song for the entire year of 2006 on Canada's digital
chart. The song is from the album "Eyes Open" which was the #1 album for the entire
year of 2006 in the UK and the four #4 album for the entire year of 2007 in Australia.
As of 10 January 2010 the song at position #287 had spent 96 weeks on the official
UK Top 75 Singles Chart and 138 weeks in the Top 100 and has sold 505,000 copies 
just in the UK,despite missing the Top 5.
  Lead singer,of the group who holds the #287 position,Gary Lightbody wrote the song,
sober after a binge of white wine,in the garden of producer Jacknife Lee's Kent 
cottage.The song has "Lightbody" singing a plain melody over sparse guitars,which 
has an ever-building crescendo.
     He stated it was his "purest love song".The phrase "Chasing Cars" came from
Lightbody's father,in reference to a girl Lightbody was infatuated with,"You're like
a dog chasing a car.You'll never catch it and you just wouldn't know what to do with
it if you did."
     The song was first heard on the band's 2005 "Final Straw Tour",when they began
playing it,along with two other newly written songs ("Your Halo" and "It's Beginning
to Get to Me") they had intended to release on their upcoming album.Since then,the 
composition of the song was changed slightly,and most of the lyrics were rewritten.
     The song at position #287 became very popular in the USA when it was played 
during an episode on the TV show "Grey's Anatomy".

  The week ending December 31,1966 saw the song at position #286 begin a seven (7)
week run at the top of the US Billboard Hot 100.The UK/USA group formed in LA  
consisted of Peter Halsten Thorkelson born February 13,1942 in Washington,DC,Robert
Michael Nesmith born December 30,1942 in Houston,George Michael "Micky" Dolenz, Jr. 
born March 8th,1945 in LA,and David Thomas "Davy" Jones born December 30,1945 in 
Openshaw,Manchester,Lancashire,England-died February 29,2012 in Stuart,Florida,USA.
   Neil Diamond composed the song at position #286. In the USA this song was the
biggest-selling record for all of 1967.Because of 1,051,280 advance orders,it went 
gold within two days of release.It is one of the fewer than forty all-time singles
to have sold 10 million (or more) physical copies worldwide.
   The song was No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart for four weeks beginning 
January 15,1967.
   In 2008,this song ranked No. 1 on Dallas station KLUV 98.7FM's Top 500 Memorial 
Day Countdown,as voted on by the listeners.The song is listed at No. 62 on Billboard's
 All Hot 100 Top  600 in 2018.

    A song that was the theme song to a very popular 1990s sitcom is at position 
#282.This is this LA pop-rock group's one and only appearance in the top 7000. 
The group consisted of members,Phil Solem born July 1,1956, in Duluth,Minnesota,U.S.A.
and Danny Wilde born June 3,1956,in the US state of Maine.

   The song in the #275 position is by a recording act who was born Reginald Kenneth
Dwight on March 25th,1947 in Pinner,Middlesex,England. In the USA only the Beatles 
and Elvis Presley have been more successful than the recording act at position #275
as far as charting on the singles chart is concerned. The song in the #275 position
was never released as a single. But as I previously stated this list is compiled by 
computing information from both single and album charts.The song at position #275 
was off the album "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" which was both Billboard (US) and 
Cash Box (US) Magazine's #1 album for the entire year of 1973.And the song at 
position #275 received the highest score of any song off that album by primarily 
receiving points from the positions that it placed on all-time charts from various 
rock stations.
  The song in the #275 position is the opening song on the double album "Goodbye
Yellow Brick Road".The first part of the song,"Funeral for a Friend",is an 
instrumental created by the singer of the song in the #275 position while thinking 
of what kind of music he would like at his funeral.This first half segues into
"Love Lies Bleeding." In the Eagle Vision documentary,"Classic Albums:Goodbye Yellow 
Brick Road", the singer of the song in the #275 position said the two songs weren't
written as one piece,but fit together since "Funeral For A Friend" ends in the key
of A,and "Love Lies Bleeding" opens in A,and the two were played as one elongated 
piece when recorded.The grandiose,fugue-style introduction to "Funeral For A Friend"
was performed on A.R.P. synthesizer by the album's engineer,David Hentschel,who the
singer of the song recalled overdubbed track after track of
music and synthetic atmospheric effects until the mini-opus was complete.
    The song in the #275 position was too long for a single release,but got plenty
of airplay on FM stations that were predisposed toward rock epics.The whole piece
together is just over eleven minutes long.

   The recording act who sings the song at position #274 is from Orange County,
California and the song stayed at #1 for sixteen (16) weeks on the Airplay Chart on
Billboard (US) Magazine and was the #1 song for the entire year of 1997 on Billboard
Magazine's (US) year-end airplay chart and was Radio And Records (US) Magazine's #1 
song for the entire year of 1997. The song at #274 was also the #7 single for the 
entire year of 1997 in both Australia & the UK. This song is from the album "Tragic Kingdom" 
which was Billboard Magazine's #2 album for the entire year of 1997.
    The song at position #274 was released as the third single from the band's 
second album "Tragic Kingdom" in 1996.The song is presumed to be about the break
up of Gwen Stefani's seven-year relationship with group bassist Tony Kanal.
  Despite the song's popularity,the song at position #274 did not chart on the
Billboard Hot 100 (as rules of the times required commercial singles for charting
and one was not issued for the song),but it reached number one in the UK, Sweden,
Netherlands,Switzerland,Norway New Zealand and Australia.It also reached #2 in 
Austria.The song at position #274 is arguably the group's biggest hit and was 
nominated for the "Song of the Year" and "Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group 
With Vocal" at the Grammy Awards of 1998.

   The song at position #273 by this Petaluma,California singer (who was born on 
November 20,1942 in Malden,Massachusetts)was the song that Cash Box Magazine ranked 
as the #1 single for the entire year of 1970.The singer of the song at position #273
had previously been a member of psychedelic jug band "Dr. West's Medicine Show and
Junk Band".When they split up he won a solo contract with producer Erik Jacobsen,who
had previously worked successfully with The Lovin' Spoonful.He was inspired to write
this song after watching Porter Wagoner on TV singing a gospel song.The singer of the
song at position #273 later said :"I thought,'Yeah, I could do that,'knowing nothing 
about gospel music, so I sat down and wrote my own gospel song.It came easy.I wrote 
the words in 15 minutes." The song at position #273 contains lyrics about the afterlife,
making several references to Jesus. However,the singer of the song at position #273,
who is Jewish,stated that he had no particular religious intentions with the song.
  The singer of the song at position #273 recorded his first solo album with
Jacobsen for Reprise Records.The song's arrangement came together in the studio in
San Francisco where lead guitarist Russell DaShiell,bass player Doug Killmer and 
drummer Norman Mayall worked with him.According to one source and to DaShiell,the
singer of the song at position #273 used a Fender Telecaster with a fuzz box built into 
the body to generate the song's characteristic guitar sound.The resulting sound was
an innovative and compelling combination of gospel and psychedelic rock music,with 
loud drums,distorted electric guitar,clapping hands and tambourines.The production 
team brought in the Stovall Sisters, an Oakland-based gospel trio,to sing backing
vocals.Because of its unusual lyrics and style,the record company was initially 
reluctant to issue it,but was finally released as a single after two other singles
from the album had poor sales.

   This female English-Canadian girl interracial vocal group from London,England 
consisting of founding members Melanie Blatt and Shaznay Lewis,and sisters Nicole 
Appleton and Natalie Appleton occupy the #272 position. This song was the second 
2nd) biggest single for the entire year of 1998 in the UK and according to "Take 40"
from Australia.
   The song in the #272 position became a very successful worldwide hit and was the
first of five #1 singles in the UK for the group.The single was released in the United 
States on July 7, 1998,with a new music video.It is also the band's most successful
single to date.The single debuted at #13 on the US charts on 25 July 1998 and reached 
#4.The song entered the UK Singles Chart at #3 on 22 November 1997 and stayed in the
Top 5 for 8 weeks before climbing to #1 on 17 January 1998 for 1 week.The song went
on to spend a total of 24 weeks in the chart.A total of 1,263,658 copies of the 
single were sold in the UK,making it the groups' biggest hit;770,000 copies were 
sold before it became #1 which makes it more than any single ever before in the UK 
chart history.The group that sings the song in the #272 position won two BRIT Awards
for this single in 1998:Best Single and Best Video.
    The music of the song is based upon an overlay of Amazing Grace which according
to Ger Tillekens is the reason why it became so successful.Even though the lyrics
are very different and the music sounds different,it is based on a familiar and 
popular song.

  The song at position #266 is the highest ranking song for the king of rock & roll.
It was #1 for the entire year of 1960 in Australia (David Kent).It was #2 for the 
entire year of 1960 in both the UK and the USA (Cash Box).In Canada it was the #4 
song for the entire year of 1960.On October 8,1960 it began a seven (7) week 
run at #1 on the Australian charts.The song at position #266 spent nine weeks at #1 
in the UK (eight (8) weeks at #1 in 1960,then back to #1 45 years later in 2005).In
both Canada & the USA (Billboard) the song at position #266 spent five (5) weeks in
the top spot.
   The melody of the song is borrowed from the Italian standard,"'O Sole Mio", but
the inspiration for it came from the song,"There's No Tomorrow",recorded by U.S. 
singer, Tony Martin,in 1949.
    In the late 1950s,while stationed in Germany with the U.S. Army,the king of 
rock & roll heard Martin's recording and put to tape a private version of the song.
Upon his discharge,the king of rock & roll requested that new lyrics be written 
especially for him,a job that was undertaken by the songwriting duo of Aaron Schroeder
and Wally Gold,with a demo by David Hill.  Barry White heard this song in 1960 when
he was in jail for stealing tires.The song had such an impact on White,that it 
convinced him to pursue a career in music.

  The song at position #262 by this recording act who was born in Saginaw,Michigan
is from 1984.The song at position #262 spent eight (8) weeks at #1 in Australia 
(ARIA) and ten (10) weeks at #1 in Canada but only three (3) weeks at #1 in both 
the UK and the artists native USA (Billboard Hot 100).The song at position #262 was
the #1 song for the entire year of 1984 in Canada,#2 for all of 1984 in Australia 
(Barry Kowal) and #3 for all of 1984 in the UK.This song is from the movie "Woman
In Red" starring Gene Wilder.The song also reached #1 in the Netherlands,Austria,
Germany,Ireland,Italy, Norway,New Zealand,Sweden,Switzerland and France.
   The song at position #262 is written,produced and performed by the singer of the
song at position #262.The midtempo song expresses how simply telephoning someone to 
tell them you love them can make even a very unremarkable day rewarding.It is one of
the singer's most simplistic and sentimental songs,and with its quintessentially 
mid-1980s synthesizers and drum machines is very different from his more organic and
experimental 1970s music.For those reasons it was deprecated by critics.However,it 
was one of the singer's most commercially successful singles to date.On June 27,2009,
two days after the death of his friend Michael Jackson,he was at a public event and
changed the words to the song so that it said:'Michael knows,I'm here, and I love you'.
While singing,his voice cracked several times and at the end of the song he pointed
to the sky and quietly said 'We love you Michael'...

  According to Oz net the song at position #259 by this Los Angeles rock band was
the third (3rd) best song for the entire year of 2004 in Australia (ARIA).Further,
according to Top40-charts.com it was the #8 song for the entire year of 2004 in the
 UK and the #8 song for the entire year of 2004 on Radio Station C-100 from Halifax,
Nova Scotia,Canada. It was also the #4 song for the entire year of 2004 on Radio And 
Records (US) Magazine. The song at position #259 is from the album "Songs About Jane" 
which was ranked as the sixth (6th) biggest album for the entire year of 2004 by ARIA 
(Australia).The BBC ranked this album as the #4 album for the entire year of 2004.The
song also reached #1 in Ireland.
  The song at position #259 is noted for its music video which stars Kelly Preston.
The song is about the singers' love for a girl who is emotionally damaged and the 
relationship is forbidden as she's already spoken for but he can't ever leave her 
as he's so in love with her.When the band was commissioned to perform at the AFI 
Life Achievement Award ceremony for George Lucas,this song was chosen in tribute to
Lucas' children,mainly his oldest daughter.The song at position #259 is also 
playable in rhythm game Band Hero.

  The song in the #258 position performed by this woman who was born on March 27th,1970 
in Greenlawn,Long Island,New York was Billboard Magazine's (US) #1 single for the 
entire year of 2005.It spent 14 weeks in the #1 position on the Billboard Singles 
Chart. Only one other song has spent a longer period of time in the #1 position on
the Billboard Magazine's Singles Chart. It was also Billboard Magazine's #1 song of
the decade.

  Born on February 4th,1975 in Sydney,Australia is the recording act who sings the
song at position #252.This song at position #252 spent eleven (11) weeks at the #1
position on Billboard Magazine's (US) Airplay Chart and was the second (2nd) biggest
song for the entire year of 1998 according to Billboard Magazine's (US) year-end 
airplay chart. Further,it was the #2 song for the entire year of 1998 according to 
Radio and Records (US) Magazine and was the #4 song for the entire year of 1998
according to Rolling Stone Magazine (US edition).
  The song in the position at #252 was written by Scott Cutler,Anne Preven,Rusty 
Anderson and Phil Thornalley during a demo session in 1991.The lyrics were written
by Preven while the guitar parts were arranged by Anderson.Thornalley produced the
session.It was first released by the band Ednaswap from their debut album Ednaswap 
(1995).It was their second single from that album, "AfterGlow". 
  The video of the song was rated the second best video of all time by MTV Italy.

  Born Michael Lee Aday on September 27,1947 in Dallas,Texas is the artist who sings
 the song in the #248 spot.This song spent five (5) weeks at #1 on the US Billboard 
Hot 100 beginning November 6,1993.The  song was composed and written by Jim Steinman.
  Along with the USA the song reached #1 in 27 other countries including Australia,
Canada,UK,New Zealand,Austria,Belgium,Germany,Ireland,Netherlands,Norway,Sweden and Switzerland. 

   The song at position #248 was the best-selling single of 1993 in the UK.The song
earned the singer of this song a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance,Solo.
  The last six verses of the song feature a female vocalist who was credited only 
as "Mrs. Loud" in the album notes.She was later identified as Lorraine Crosby,from 
North East England.She does not,however, appear in the video,in which her vocals 
are lipsynched by Dana Patrick.The singer of the song in the #248 position promoted
the single with American vocalist Patti Russo performing the live female vocals.

A female R&B trio out of Atlanta has the song in the #240 position with a song from
1999 that went to #1 for four (4) weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 (USA),and spent 
seven (7) weeks at #1 in Australia (ARIA).It was the #2 single (by my calculations)
for the entire year of 1999 on Billboard Magazine.The song also went to #1 in Canada
(Much Music) Ireland and New Zealand.It reached #3 in the UK and the Netherlands.The 
song in the #240 position also earned the group their second Grammy nomination for 
"Record of the Year" but lost to Santana's "Smooth".  
   The song in the #240 position was Written by producer Kevin "She'kspere" Briggs
and group member Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes along with Tameka Cottle and Kandi Burruss
(both from the group Xscape),the track lyrically explains "scrubs" as reference to
a slang term for a man who is (for the most part)jobless,lacking a car,lacking money 
and otherwise described to have virtually no ambition or class.There were two versions
of the song:the album version (which was released to radio),and a "Main Mix" with 
a rap by Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes. The latter mix was featured in the music video for 
the song.

   The recording act who sings the song at the #236 position was born on October
2nd,1946 in New Rochelle,New York. The song at position #236 spent six (6) weeks at
#1 on radio station WABC from New York City,five (5) weeks at #1 in Canada and 4 
weeks at #1 in Australia and both Cash Box (US) and Billboard (US) Magazines 
singles chart.
     The song at position #236 was the fourth (4th) biggest song for the entire
year of 1972 in Canada. In Australia and according to Billboard Magazine this was 
the #3 song for the entire year of 1972. Radio stations CHUM from Toronto and WABC
from New York City along with Cash Box Magazine (US) ranked this song as the #1 
song for the entire year of 1972. Billboard Magazine (US) also ranked this song as
the #7 song for the entire decade of the 1970s.In 1983 Radio Station CKY from
Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada ranked this song as the #3 song of all-time.Radio station
Mix 94 from Perth,Australia in 1999 ranked this song at position #236 as the fifth
(5th) biggest song of all-time. In 2007 Mix 94 from Perth then ranked the song at
position #236 as the #1 song of all-time.The album this song was on also had 
success.The album has the same title as the song at position #236. This album was
the #3 album for the entire year of 1972 on Cash Box Magazine and the #2 album for 
the entire year of 1972 on Billboard Magazine.
  The song is a recounting of "The Day the Music Died" the 1959 plane crash that
killed Buddy Holly,Ritchie Valens,The Big Bopper (Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr.),and
the pilot, Roger Peterson.The importance of the song at the #236 position to America's
musical and cultural heritage was recognized by the Songs of the Century education
project which listed the song as the number five song of the twentieth century.Some
Top 40 stations initially played only side two of the single,but the song's popularity 
eventually forced stations to play the entire piece.the song at the #236 position is 
the recording act who sings the song at the #236 position's signature song.
   The song is well known for its cryptic lyrics that have long been the subject of
curiosity and speculation.Although the recording act who sings the song at the #236
position dedicated the the album the song at position #236 is on to Buddy Holly,
none of the musicians in the plane crash are identified by name in the song itself.
When asked what the song at the #236 position meant,the recording act who sings the
song at the #236 position replied, "It means I never have to work again."Later,he 
more seriously stated, "You will find many interpretations of my lyrics but none
of them by me... sorry to leave you all on your own like this but long ago I realized 
that songwriters should make their statements and move on,maintaining a dignified silence." 
The recording act who sings the song at the #236 position has generally avoided responding
to direct questions about the song lyrics ("They're beyond analysis.They're poetry.") 
except to acknowledge that he did first l learn about Buddy Holly's death while folding
newspapers for his paper route on the morning of February 3,1959 (the line "February
made me shiver/with every paper I'd deliver").He also stated in an editorial published
on the 50th anniversary of the crash in 2009 that writing the first verse of the song
exorcised his long-running grief over Holly's death.
     Despite this,many fans of McLean,amongst others,have attempted an interpretation; 
at the time of the song's original release in late 1971,many American AM and FM 
rock radio stations released printed interpretations and some devoted entire shows 
discussing and debating the song's lyrics,resulting in both controversy and intense
listener interest in the song.Some examples are the real-world identities of the 
"Jester", "King and Queen", "Satan", "Girl Who Sang the Blues" and other characters 
referenced in the verses. Also Ritchie Valens,Buddy Holly and, The Big Bopper are often
thought to be referred to as The Father,Son and,The Holy Ghost.
   Notable references are based on interpretations of the song by Bob Dearborn and 
Jim Fann.
   Ritchie Valens 
   The Big Bopper 
   Buddy Holly 
   The Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost 
   Maria Elena Holly - his widowed bride 
   "(Who Wrote) The Book of Love" - The Monotones 
   "Lonely Teenager" - Dion 
   "(White Sport Coat and a) Pink Carnation" - Marty Robbins 
   Bob Dylan - the jester 
   Elvis Presley - the king 
   Connie Francis/Little Richard-the queen 
   James Dean 
   Vladimir Lenin/John Lennon - read a book of Marx 
   Karl Marx 
   The Beatles - The Quartet 
   "Helter Skelter" - Charles Manson 
   "Eight Miles High" - The Byrds 
   "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" - (The Marching Band) - The Beatles 
   The Space Race - "A generation lost in space" 
   The Rolling Stones - Jack Flash and "moss grows fat on a Rolling Stone" 
   Mick Jagger - Satan 
   Hell's Angels 
   Altamont Free Concert 
   Janis Joplin - Girl Who Sang the Blues


 The song at position #235 spent 12 weeks in the #1 position on the Billboard 
Singles Chart.For the entire year of 1999 this was the #1 song on both Billboard and
Radio And Records Magazines in the USA.The song at position #235 is from the album
"Supernatural" which is both Rolling Stone Magazine's and Canada's #1 album for the
entire year of 2000.Also,the album was ranked by Billboard (US) Magazine as the #2 
album for the entire year of 2000 and was the #5 album for the year of 2000 in
Australia (ARIA).In 2013 Billboard Magazine ranked the song at position #235 as the
second (2nd) best song between 1958 and 2018.Billboard Magazine ranked this song as
the number-one rock song in the history of the chart.The song won three Grammy Awards,
including "Record of the Year","Song of the Year",and "Best Pop Collaboration with 
Vocals".It spent a record-breaking ten consecutive weeks at the top of the VSpot
Top 20 Countdown,a record that held up until the Dixie Chicks broke it in 2006.
According to Billboard's Hottest Hot 100 Hits by Fred Bronson,this is the number-one
song of The Nineties (2003).A cover version of the song is included in the Wii
version of Samba de Amigo.Escape the Fate also recorded a cover version of the song 
for the compilation album Punk Goes Pop 2,released on March 10,2009.
    The singer of the song at position #235 wrote this song for his wife,Marisol
Thomas. The pair married in 1999,after meeting backstage in 1998.Of Puerto Rican 
origin,she was the inspiration behind lines such as, "My munequita,my Spanish
Harlem Mona Lisa".The singer of the song at position #235 stated in interviews that
the phrase "Spanish Harlem Mona Lisa" was inspired by the 1972 Elton John song Mona 
Lisas and Mad Hatters,which includes references to the 1961 Ben E. King song Spanish
Harlem (song).

  The song in the #230 position was the fifth (5th) biggest song for the entire year
of 2004 on Much Music (Canada), the second (2nd) biggest song for the entire year of
2003 on Radio and Records (USA) Magazine and the biggest song for the entire year of
2004 in the UK. On December 13th,2003 the song at the #230 position began a nine (9)
weeks run in the #1 position on the Billboard Magazine's (US) Singles Chart.The song
in the #230 position is a song written and produced by Andre 3000.The song takes 
influence from funk and rock music.A music video was produced featuring Andre 3000 as
eight different versions of himself,playing on comparisons to The Beatles by 
mimicking their 1964 performance on The Ed Sullivan Show.The song received praise
from contemporary music critics,and it won a Grammy Award for Best Urban/Alternative
Performance at the 46th Grammy Awards.
   The song in the #230 position was named the 20th most successful song of the 2000s,
on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs of the Decade.The song popularized the phrase "shake
it like a Polaroid picture" in popular culture,and the Polaroid Corporation used
the song to revitalize the public's perception of its products.

  A native of British Columbia,Canada has the song in the #228 position.The song was
recorded by Daniel Powter who was born on February 25th,1971 and grew up in Vernon,
which is located in the Okanagan Valley region of the Canadian Province of British
Columbia.He had the song that Billboard Magazine ranked as the #1 single for the 
entire year of 2006 titled which is the song at position #228.
  The music video to the song in the #228 position was directed by Marc Webb and 
features two single people,a male (Jason Adelman) and a female (Samaire Armstrong),
waking and going about their daily schedule.The video shows this happening over a
three-day period, but makes no distinction between the days apart from the different
clothing worn for each day.The main event is the two adding graffiti to the same
wall,separately,on each day, culminating in the completion of a heart.At the end of 
the video,life mirrors the image created on the wall, with the boy offering the 
soaking wet girl a red umbrella in the pouring rain,as a cab stops for them.Parts of 
it were shot in a split-screen.Throughout the video,Powter is shown with his tuque,
playing his piano.The Metro Red Line subway in Los Angeles was used during the shooting 
of this video and prominently featured throughout.The area where the two meet and 
add the graffiti on the wall is on the mezzanine level of Pershing Square Station 
in downtown Los Angeles.

    The song in the #222 position is the combination of a Flamenco guitar duo from 
Seville,Spain and the Bayside Boys Mix from Miami. In the USA on Billboard Magazine's
chart this song spent fourteen (14) weeks in the #1 position.Only one other song in 
the entire history of Billboard Magazine has spent more time in the #1 position.
The song in the #222 position is the song on Billboard Magazine (US) and Cash Box
(US) Magazine that is the #1 single for the entire year of 1996.Also,the song at
position #222 was the song that ARIAA (Australia) ranked as the biggest song for the
entire year of 1996.It also is the best selling debut single of all time in the U.S. 
It was ranked the "#1 Greatest One-Hit Wonder of all Time" by VH1 in 2002.The song 
uses a type of clave.The song ranked at #8 on Billboard's All Time Top 100 in 2013.
   The song was originally recorded in 1992, and released in 1993 as a rumba. This 
was the first of six versions of the song that can be associated to Los Del Rio.Another
version,a new flamenco rumba pop fusion theme with fully Spanish lyrics,attained 
significant success in Spain and Mexico.It also became popular in Puerto Rico because
of its use as an unofficial campaign theme song for then-governor Pedro Rossel,who
was seeking reelection under the New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico's ticket.Being
the base for many cruise ships,many visitors to the island were constantly exposed 
to the song during their stay in Puerto Rico.This may explain how the song spread to
"and became a smash hit in cities with sizable Latino communities in the United States, 
particularly Miami and New York City.After being remixed by the Bayside Boys and
 having English lyrics written and added by Grammy nominated producer Carlos de 
Yarza,it became a worldwide hit in mid-1996.During its heyday,the song was played
frequently at professional athletic games,rallies,conventions and other places.In
1996,many believe a world record for group dancing was set,when a crowd of 50,000 
people danced the Macarena in Yankee Stadium in New York City.The song made such an
impact that during the Democratic National Convention in 1996,Al Gore humorously 
performed his version of the song in the #222 position by standing completely still
while the song played.
   The song in the #222 position remained popular through 1996,but by the end of 
1997,its popularity had diminished greatly.The song also broke records at the time 
by remaining in the Hot 100 chart for 60 weeks.The Bayside Boys remix includes a 
sample from Yazoo (also known in the United States as Yaz)track Situation-the 
laughter of Yazoo vocalist "Alison Moyet".

     The song in the #220 position by this Brisbane,Australia duo is the highest
ranking song in the Top 7000 by a native born Australian. Australians have habits
of calling some people who are born in foreign countries as Australian.Nicole 
Kidman was born in the USA but Aussies call her Australian,Keith Urban was born in
New Zealand but Australians call him Australian,Naomi Watts was born in the UK but
Aussies say she is Australian.The list goes on and on. However,at position #80 on
this list you will find a gal who was not born in Australia but again the Aussies 
will swear to the world that she is Australian.
  On January 17th,1998 the song at position #220 became the #1 song on Billboard
(US) Magazine's Singles Chart knocking Elton John's "Candle In The Wind (97)" out 
of the #1 position. The song at position #220 went to #1 for eight (8) weeks on 
the Australian (ARIA) singles chart. In the United Kingdom the song at position
#220 was the #4 song for the entire year 1998,in the USA (Billboard) it was the #1
song for the entire year of 1998 and in Australia (ARIA) it was the #1 single for 
the entire year of 1997. Further,the song comes off the album "Savage Garden" which
was the #1 album for the entire year of 1997 in Australia.The song also reached #1 
in Canada and reached #2 in Austria,Norway, Ireland & Sweden.In 1998, the song was
certified a Gold single in France,for sales of 200,000 copies.In May 2001 the 
Australian Performing Right Association (APRA),as part of its 75th Anniversary 
celebrations,named the song in the #220 position as one of the Top 30 Australian 
songs of all time.In 2018,the song in the #220 position on this list was listed at
#39 on Billboard's All Time Top 600.
  The song in the #220 position was Written by bandmates Darren Hayes and Daniel 
Jones,the song is a reworking of an older song of theirs called "Magical Kisses"
and was the third single from their self-titled debut album.The song is considered
to be the best song throughout the run of the duo.
   There were two videos made for the song in the #220 position.One of them was 
filmed in the Sacre-Coeur area of Paris,said to be the most romantic city in the
world.
It was directed by Adolfo Doring.The Japanese release,available elsewhere on import,
was actually a special,album-length disc comprising 14 rare tracks,featuring three
versions of the title song,along with three bonus remixes,six rare B-sides and two 
acoustic live versions.
   There are two distinct versions of the song.One was released on the Australian
album release,whereas the other version was on the US release.This version composed
in 1996 features a drum-machine track instead of the more acoustic-sounding music in
the Australian version.The US version also featured on their 2005 greatest hits,
"Truly Madly Completely".
    In 1998 it was the main song from the soundtrack of the movie "Music from 
"Another Room",starring Jude Law and Gretchen Mol.

  Originally released on the album "Run D.M.C." in 1984.This rap trio from Queens,
New York on March 21st,1998 began a six (6) week run in the #1 position on the UK 
singles chart with the song in the #218 position.
  The song actually first appeared in 1983 on a cassette backed with the track
"Sucker M.C.'s". The release marked the start of this group's career and is widely
regarded as ushering in a new school of hip hop artists with a street image and an
abrasive,minimalist sound that marked them out from their predecessors.Both tracks
were collected on the trio's eponymous debut album in 1984.The song in the #218 
position is about life in the area where the group lives (unemployment, prices,
death, etc).
   In 2008,it was ranked number 40 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.

  The song at position #216 was the first song to reach #1 in the UK where there
was no physical copy of the song.It reached #1 in the UK in April of 2006 strictly 
through "downloads".
  The song at position #216 is a musical collaboration between Danger Mouse and 
Cee-Lo.
  The song was leaked in late 2005,months before its regular release, and consequently 
received massive airplay on BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom,most notably by radio
DJ Zane Lowe,who also used the song in TV ads for his show.When it was finally released 
in March 2006,it became the first single to top the UK charts on download sales 
alone.The song remained at number one on the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks (which
no other song had achieved in over ten years,and was only surpassed by Rihanna's
"Umbrella" in July 2007) before the band and their record company decided to remove 
the single from UK stores so people would "remember the song fondly and not get sick
of it."In spite of this deletion,the song became the UK's best selling single of 2006.
  The song won a 2007 Grammy Award for Best Urban/Alternative Performance,and was 
also nominated as "Record of the Year".
  The song at position #216 also reached number one of the single charts in Ireland,
Denmark,Canada,New Zealand,Austria,Hungary and Switzerland and reached #2 in Norway,
USA,Australia and Italy.

   Born on Thursday,November 21,1985 in Mission,British Columbia,Canada is the singer 
who sings the song at position #212.This song spent nine (9) weeks at #1 on the US
Billboard Hot 100 beginning the week ending June 23,2012.It was the song that 
Billboard ranked as the #2 song for the entire year of 2012 in the magazine's 
December 29,2012 issue.The song was recorded in 2011 in Richmond,British Columbia,Canada.
The song was written by the singer of the song and Tavish Crowe as a folk song,
but its genre was modified to pop following the production by Josh Ramsay.
  The song at position #212 is an upbeat teen pop track that draws influences from 
dance-pop and disco.Lyrically, the track alludes to the inconvenience that a love 
at first sight brings to a girl who hopes for a call back from a crush.
  The song at #212 received generally positive reviews from contemporary critics,
who praised its composition and clever lyrical content. This song has attained 
commercial success worldwide,along with the USA it has reaching number one in 
Australia,Canada,Czech Republic,Denmark,Finland,France,Hungary,Ireland,Luxembourg,New Zealand,Poland, Slovakia,Switzerland and the United Kingdom,
while peaking inside the top three in Austria,Belgium (Flanders & Wallonia),
Germany,Israel,Japan,Netherlands,Norway and Sweden.After reaching the top position
on the Canadian Hot 100,Jepsen became only the fifth Canadian artist to do so in 
her home country since 2007.In the United States,the track reached number one on
the Billboard Hot 100 and the Pop Songs chart.The song is the first number one by 
a Canadian female artist on the Billboard Hot 100 chart since 2007's "Girlfriend" 
by Avril Lavigne.Further in the entire history of the US Billboard Hot 100 (going 
back to August of 1958) no Canadian has had a song that has spent more time at #1
than the song at position #212.
  The song at #212 was nominated for two Grammy Awards,for Song of the Year and Best 
Pop Solo Performance at the 55th Annual ceremony,but lost to "We Are Young" by "Fun" 
and the live performance of "Set Fire to the Rain" by Adele,respectively.On December 11,2012,
this song was named Song of the Year for 2012 by MTV.In its 2012 Year-End issue, 
Billboard magazine ranked this song at #2 in the Digital Songs and Canadian Hot 100
charts,in each case behind "Somebody That I Used to Know",by Gotye featuring Kimbra.
The song was also ranked number one by the Village Voice's annual Pazz and Jop poll,
which compiles the votes of music critics from all over the United States.The song 
was the best-selling single worldwide in 2012,selling over 10 million copies in that
year alone,and the best-selling single on the iTunes Store in 2012.With worldwide 
sales of over 13 million copies as of May 2013,the song at position #212 was the 
best-selling digital single of 2012,and is also one of the best-selling digital 
singles and one of the best-selling singles of all time,with sales in the 
10-14.99 million bracket. 

  The recording act at position #211 was the first "American Idol".She was born on
Saturday,April 24th,1982 in Burleson,Texas.The song at position #211 reached #1 on 
he Much Music Chart (Canada) on March 18th,2005 and was Much Music's #10 song for
the entire year of 2005.It was also the fourth (4th) biggest song for the entire
year of 2005 according to both Billboard (US) Magazine's Singles & Airplay chart 
and ranked as the #1 song for the entire year of 2005 by Radio and Records (US) 
Magazine.The song also reached #1 in Indonesia (the country with the fourth (4th) 
largest population in the world).In the UK  it reached number five and remained on
the chart until the second quarter of 2006.Further,the song at position #211 gets
the high ranking it does more so because of the album the song is on.The song is 
off the album titled "Breakaway" which was the third biggest album for the entire 
year of 2005 in both Canada (Canoe) and the UK.In Australia (ARIA) this album was
the second (2nd) biggest album for the entire year of 2005 and it was the second 
(2nd)biggest album for the entire year of 2004 on Billboard (USA) Magazine.The song
at position #211 was the second US digital download to sell over one million copies.
At the 48th Grammy Awards,in 2006,the recording act at position #211 received a 
Grammy Award for the song in the category of "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance".
The song at position #211 charted at #97 in Blender magazine's 500 Greatest Songs 
Since You Were Born.In August 2009,the song was ranked at number 21 in "The Top 500
Tracks of the 2000s" by Pitchfork Media.In December 2009, the song was listed as
number 18 in Rolling Stone's "100 Best Songs of the Decade".
   The song at position #211 is written and produced by Max Martin and Lukasz 
"Dr. Luke" Gottwald.The song was released as the first single from the recording
act at position #211's second album titled "Breakaway" in the US and Australia and
was released as the second single in Europe.Its lyrical concept concerns a failed 
relationship in which the protagonist later expresses relief about the breakup.The
recording act at position #211,who sought interest in a more rock-oriented image,
wanted to alter the song's original composition to allow more drums.The song has a
pop punk influence in drums and guitar riffs.
    The song at position #211's music video depicts the revenge on a boyfriend.It
begins with the recording act at position #211 sitting on a couch,removing and 
holding a heart shaped locket.She then proceeds into the bathroom,where she fixes her 
face in the mirror, then opens the medicine cabinet.She then begins to throw the 
contents all over the bathroom,squirting the toothpaste into the sink.She then
enters the walk-in closet,where she snips one strap from every top,destroying her 
ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend's clothes.She then proceeds to destroy the closet,
throwing clothes and hangers everywhere, singing in a pile of them.She rips open a 
pillow in the bedroom and throws the contents everywhere.She picks up a picture 
frame,tips over a CD rack,throws artwork across the room.Inside the picture frame is 
a photo of a boy and girl.The recording act at position #211 then slams the photo 
face down into a glass table,shattering the table.She then puts a hat low over her
face and walks out of the apartment,only to see the boy and girl in the picture 
from the apartment walking down the street together.She smiles,lowers the hat,and 
walks the other way.The song ends as the couple walks into the destroyed apartment,
with the closing scene showing the locket swinging.When the chorus of the song is
being played for this video,the video then shows the recording act at position #211
wearing a formal type of clothing (all black) and performing on stage,with a rock 
band behind her,to a crowd of fans.When the line "Since U Been Gone" is being sung,
the fans (and The recording act at position #211 herself)jump to the beat of the 
chorus.This part of the video is also used for the bridge of the song,just before 
the final chorus.The video won "Best Female Video" and "Best Pop Video" at the 2005
MTV Video Music Awards.

  The song at position #205 is by an artist who was born Alecia Beth Moore Hart on
September 8th,1979 in Abington Township,Montgomery County,Pennsylvania off her fifth
Studio album.This song has sold over 4 million downloads in the USA.
  The song was written by the singer at position #205,Max Martin and Shellback while
production was handled by Martin.
   The song was recorded in 2008 at Maratone Studios in Stockholm,Sweden and the 
House of Blues Studios in Los Angeles,California,USA. 
  The song at position #205 went to #1 in the USA,UK,Canada,Australia,Austria,
Czech Republic,Germany,New Zealand,Ireland,Israel and Switzerland.In Finland,
Slovakia and Sweden it peaked at #2.

   This Seattle duo at position #202 has the song that US Billboard Magazine ranked
as the #1 song for the entire year of 2013 in their year-end edition on December
28th,2013.In 2013 the song spent six (6) non-consecutive weeks at #1 on the US 
Billboard Hot 100 beginning the week ending February 2nd,2013.
  The duo of this song comprises Ben Haggerty born on June 19,1983 in Seattle and 
Ryan Lewis born on March 25,1988 in Spokane,Washington.
  Despite being released on Haggerty's independent label with distribution by ADA,
the song at position #202 was a sleeper hit.Along with the US Billboard Hot 100 the 
song peaked at number one in the United Kingdom,Ireland,Canada,France,Denmark,Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand,and has since sold over 7 million
copies in the USA alone. In 2014,the single won two Grammy Awards for Best Rap
Performance and Best Rap Song.
  The music video to the song has garnered over 565 million views on YouTube.The
video was nominated at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards for Video of the Year.

 Welcome to the Top 200. 

The song at position #200 is a duet comprised of a male singer born Cornell Iral 
Haynes Jr. on November 2,1974 in Austin,Texas,USA and a female singer born on 
February 11,1981 in Atlanta,Georgia,USA.
   The song was released on June 25,2002 as the third single from the male singer's
second studio album and the lead single from the female singer's debut solo studio 
album.It was a number-one hit in ten countries,including the United Kingdom,the 
United States and Australia,selling over 7.6 million copies worldwide,becoming one
of the best selling singles of all time.The song depicts the declaration of 
forbidden love by a female lover in a committed relationship,and the predicament the
male protagonist must face.
  The song spent 10 weeks at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100.During the 60th 
Anniversary of the US Billboard Hot 100 issue of Billboard magazine,the song was
ranked at number 83 on the all-time Hot 100 songs while at the end of 2009 was named
the eleventh most successful song from 2000 to 2009,on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs
of the Decade.The song won a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Performance at the 45th 
Annual Grammy Awards on 23 February 2003. The song was accredited internationally 
with sixteen certifications.The song was also featured on the 2013 British film 
"About Time".

   The song at position #198 is another phenomenal song. The artist of the song at
position #198 was born on October 9th,1940 in Woolton,Liverpool,England.Virgin Radio (from the UK) in 2002 and Radio Station Mix 94 FM (Perth,Australia)in
1999 both ranked this song as the #1 song of all-time.In 1999 Q-Magazine (UK) 
ranked the song at position #198 as the #2 song of all-time. Had this Top 7000 been
compiled with only UK charts or only Australian charts or only UK & Australian charts
this song would be in the Top 10. But the Yanks and the Canadians have knocked this
song out of the Top 10. This song did not perform poorly in the US or Canada the song 
just didn't perform as well as it did in the UK or Australia.Since the song at
positions #198 is not in the Top 10 that means someone else will be occupying a 
position in the Top 10.
   The song is one of three of the singer of the song at position #198's solo songs,
along with "Instant Karma!" and "Give Peace a Chance",in the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.Rolling Stone ranked the song at 
position #198 as the 3rd greatest song of all time in their editorial The 500 Greatest
Songs of All Time in 2004.
    The song's refrain may have been partly inspired by Yoko Ono's poetry in
reaction to her childhood in Japan during World War II.According to The "Guardian",
primordial versions of the song's refrain can be found in her 1965 book "Grapefruit",
where she penned lines such as, "imagine a raindrop" and "imagine the clouds dripping."
  In a 1980 interview with David Sheff for Playboy magazine,the singer of the song at
position #198 remarks on the message of the song at position #198.
  Sheff: On a new album, you close with "Hard Times Are Over (For a While)". Why?
  The singer of the song at position #198: It's not a new message: "Give Peace a  
Chance" "we're not being unreasonable. Just saying "give it a chance." With the song 
at position #198 we're asking,"can you imagine a world without countries or religions?" 
It's the same message over and over. And it's positive.
   Ono indicated that the lyrical content of the song at position #198 was "just 
what John believed-that we are all one country,one world,one people.He wanted to 
get that idea out."In addition,the content of the song at position #198 was inspiration
for the concept of Nutopia:The Country of Peace,created in 1973.The singer of the song
at position #198 included a symbolically mute "anthem" to this country on his album 
"Mind Games".Also,inspiration for Yoko's Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland came from 
words in the second verse:Imagine all the people living life in peace.
     In the book "Lennon in America",by Geoffrey Giuliano,The singer of the song at
position #198 commented that the song at position #198 was an "anti-religious,anti-nationalistic,anti-onventional,anti-capitalistic song,but because it's sugar-coated,
it's accepted."

    The song at position #196 is phenomenal. Radio Stations WOR-FM (1968),KFRC (1986),
KYA (1986),KXRX (1991) ranked this song as the #1 song of all-time. The Rock & Roll 
Hall of Fame ranked this song as the #2 song of all-time (#1 is higher on this list).
Canadian Radio Station CKY (1983) ranked the song at position #196 as the fourth 
(4th) biggest record of all-time.Had this list been a compilation of charts from
only the US or only Canada or only the USA & Canada this song would definitely be
in the Top 10 of all-time. But because of the Brits & Aussies this song is not 
in the Top 10. This song did not perform poorly in the UK or Australia it just
didn't perform as well as it did in the US or Canada.So,since the songs at
position #196 IS not in the Top 10 that means some other songs will be occupying
a position in the Top 10.In 2004 Rolling Stone magazine placed the song at position
#196 in the second spot on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time,while in 2006
it was added to the Library of Congress National Recording Registry.
  The song at position #196 was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and produced 
by Andrew Loog Oldham.The number is noted for Richards's three-note guitar riff which
opens and drives the song,and for the lyrics,which include references to sexual intercourse 
and a theme of anti-commercialism.The latter in particular caused the song to be 
"perceived as an attack on the status quo".
  Keith Richards states that he came up with the guitar riff for the song in his sleep,
waking up in the middle of the night,recording the riff and the words "I can't get no satisfaction" 
on a cassette recorder and promptly falling back to sleep.He would later describe the tape 
as:"two minutes of 'Satisfaction' and 40 minutes of me snoring."He and Jagger finished writing 
the song at the "Jack Tar Harrison Hotel" in Clearwater, Florida in May 1965.Jagger wrote most 
of the lyrics-a statement about the rampant commercialism that the Rolling Stones had seen in the USA.
  Richards was concerned that the riff sounded too much like Martha and the Vandellas' "Dancing in 
the Street".Jagger later said:"It sounded like a folk song when we first started working on it and 
Keith didn't like it much,he didn't want it to be a single, he didn't think it would do very 
well... I think Keith thought it was a bit basic. I don't think he really listened to it properly.
He was too close to it and just felt it was a silly kind of riff."Jagger has also pointed out 
that the title lyrics closely resemble a line from Chuck Berry's "30 Days".(Berry's lyric is
"If I don't get no satisfaction from the judge".)
  The Rolling Stones first recorded the track on May 10,1965 at Chess Studios in Chicago-
a version featuring Brian Jones on harmonica.The group re-recorded it two days later at RCA Studios
in Hollywood,with a different beat and the Gibson Maestro fuzzbox adding sustain to the sound of 
the guitar riff.Richards envisioned redoing the track later with a horn section playing the riff:"this 
was just a little sketch, because,to my mind,the fuzz tone was really there to denote what the horns
would be doing." The other Rolling Stones,as well as manager Andrew Loog Oldham and sound engineer
Dave Hassinger eventually outvoted Richards and the track was selected for release as a single.The song's
success boosted sales of the Gibson fuzzbox so that the entire available stock sold out by the end of 1965.

   The song at position #195 is another song that got to where it was not from the song's performance on the 
single's chart but because of the album the song was on. The song at position #195 is from the Beatle's 
"White album".In 1994 a British magazine compiled a list of the 1000 best albums of all-time and the 
"White Album" ranked at #15.In 1991 radio station KXRX from Seattle ranked the "White Album" as the 20th 
best album of all-time.On December 31st,1990 radio station KZOK from Seattle ranked the "White Album" as 
the third (3rd) best album of all-time and in the year 2000 Rolling Stone Magazine (US) ranked the 
"White Album" as the #5 album of all-time.The song at position #195 was a number 1 hit in Australia.
   The song at position #195 was written by John Lennon and attributed to Lennon/McCartney.The song 
was released in two distinctly different incarnations,the slow "Revolution 1",released on The Beatles
(AKA the "White Album"),and the faster, electric "Revolution" (sometimes referred to as "Revolution 2"),
released as the B-side to "Hey Jude".The song also exists as an early acoustic demo recorded in May 1968,
which is closer to the single version.A third connected piece written by Lennon is the heavily experimental
"Revolution 9",which appeared on the same side of the White Album as "Revolution 1".Although "Revolution 1"
was the first to be recorded,it was released after the song at position #195.
   Lennon wanted the initial,slower version to be released as a single but the other band members said it 
was too slow for a single.Lennon,slightly irritated,resolved to remake the song in a version as loud and
raucous as anything the Beatles had released,and he led the band through the faster recording which ended 
up backing "Hey Jude".The song at position #195 featured distorted guitars and an electric piano solo by 
session musician Nicky Hopkins.The distorted guitar sound was achieved by putting the guitars through the
recording console,which causes the channel to overload and create a fuzz sound.
   The musical form is a simple rock and roll chord progression,but the highly processed elements and hyperbolic 
approach distinguished the track from nearly anything that had come before;the sound of the song at position #195
is often cited as presaging heavy metal.
   The song at position #195 later appeared on the 1970 Hey Jude compilation album,created for the US market,and
on other compilations.It was remixed for the 2006 remix album "Love".In the album,it transitions into the song
"Back in the U.S.S.R.".

  A New York City based female R&B/rap group has the #188 song on this list with a cover of a song that went to 
#1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for Roberta Flack twenty-three (23) years prior.On June 8,1996 the song at position 
#188 began a five week occupation of the top spot on the UK singles chart.Also in 1996,the song spent seven weeks 
at #1 in Australia (ARIA). According to the Original Chart Company this song was the #1 song for the entire year 
of 1996 in the UK and according to ARIA (Australia) it was the #2 song for all of 1996.
    Lauryn Hill sings the lead vocals on this song.The title to the song at position #88 is slightly different 
from the title of the Roberta Flack version.This version sampled the 1990 song "Bonita Applebum" by A Tribe 
Called Quest from their debut album "People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm". ATCQ themselves 
had sampled the riff from the song "Memory Band" found on the self-titled album of a little-known 1960s 
psychedelic soul Chicago band called "Rotary Connection".The group who sings the song at position #188's
single was so successful that the track was 'deleted' and thus no longer supplied to retailers whilst the
track was still in the Top 20 so that attention could be drawn to the next single 'Ready or Not'.Propelled 
by the success of the this track,the version by Flack was remixed in 1996 and topped the Hot Dance Club 
Play chart.In 2008,the song at #188 on this list was ranked at #25 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop 
and #44 on its list of the "100 Greatest Songs of the 90s".
  This song was released on 2 CD singles in the UK.

     The recording act at position #184 is a female dance sextet from Los Angeles along with a Jamaican rapper.
The song at position #184 spent seven (7) weeks in the #1 position on the Australian (ARIA) singles chart and 
was the #1 song for the entire year of 2005 in Australia. Further Billboard (US)Magazine's year-end Sales Chart
ranked the song at position #184 as the third (3rd) biggest song for the entire year of 2005.And the song was 
the #4 song for the entire year of 2005 in the UK.The song also reached #1 in Canada,New Zealand,Ireland,Norway,
Switzerland,Belgium and Germany.It also reached #2 in the Netherlands.
   The song at position #184 was produced by Cee-Lo Green.It was released in 2005 as the lead single from the 
studio album PCD.The song at position #184 speaks about  a girl teasing a guy that she is hotter than his girlfriend.
   Even though the song was not well received by critics,commercially it was a major hit.The song contains
an interpolation of Sir Mix a Lot's Swass.It was originally recorded by Ava Denara (Tori Alamaze) in 2004.This song
was initially offered to the Sugababes and later Paris Hilton,but both declined.

  Chad Kroeger & his band Nickelback based out of Vancouver,Canada  at position #183 have one of their hits from 2007.
In 2008 this was the #2 song for the entire year in the UK.

  This female dance-pop vocal group from the UK holds down the #176 position.The song at the #176 position spent seven
(7) weeks in the #1 position in the UK,nine (9) weeks in the #1 position in Australia and four (4)weeks at #1 in the USA 
(Billboard).The song also reached #1 in Belgium,Netherlands,Finland,France,Germany,New Zealand,Norway, Sweden,Switzerland,
Canada (Much Music) and Ireland.In both Australia and the UK the song at position #176 is the #1 song for the entire year
of 1996.The song at position #176 is off of an album titled "Spice".This album is the album that Billboard Magazine (US)
ranked as the #1 album for the entire year of 1997.This album was the fifth biggest album for the entire year of 1997 in
Canada,the third (3rd)biggest album of 1997 in Australia and the second (2nd) biggest album from the entire year of 1997
in the UK.By the end of 1996 the song at the #176 position had topped the charts in 22 nations,and by March 1997 this
number had climbed to 31,before it became the best-selling single by a female group in the history of recorded sound,
selling over 7 million copies worldwide.
   The song at the #176 position was written by the group,Richard Stannard and Matt Rowe for the group's debut album 
titled "Spice".
   The song at the #176 position is an uptempo pop song with a touch of hip-hop,rap and dance music;the lyrics are a
demand of sincerity,with a feminist message of choosing friends over relationships,
the song became an iconic symbolism of female empowerment and the most emblematic 
song of the Girl Power philosophy.Despite 
receiving mixed reviews from music
 critics,the song won Best British-Written Single at the 1997 Ivor Novello Awards and Best Single at the 1997 BRIT Awards.

  Born on October 25th,1984 in Santa Barbara,California is the singer of the song at position #173.This song topped the US
Billboard Hot 100 beginning the week ending December 18th,2010.The song was recorded in 2009 at Roc the Mic Studios in
New York City. 
   The song at position #173 is from the singers third studio album who co-wrote the song with its producers,StarGate and 
Sandy Vee,with additional writing from Ester Dean,making this the only single and one of seven songs from this album to 
not be co-written or produced by Max Martin and Dr. Luke.The song is a self-empowerment anthem with inspirational 
lyrics and was considered by the singer of song #173 as an important song for her.
    The song at #173 received mostly positive reviews from music critics,with some noting its catchy melody and 
danceable beat and comparing it to songs by English band "Coldplay".Not only did the song reach the top spot on Billboard
Hot 100,it also the top five on 20 charts around the world.The song was released on October 18,2010 by Capitol Records 
as the third single from the album.As of December 2012,the song has sold over 6 million copies in the US alone,making 
the singer of #173 the only artist with three songs topping the 6 million mark.It is also the best selling song that was
 a third single or older,that wasn't a part of a re-release.On the week ending of January 8, 2011, the song at position #173 
sold 509,000 digital downloads in the US,which is the fifth highest amount ever sold by a female artist behind Taylor Swift's
"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" (623,000),Kesha's "Tik Tok" (610,000),Katy Perry's own "Roar" (557,000),tied with 
Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" (509,000) and the sixth highest sales week overall.The song is the third consecutive number-one 
single of the same album;the last female singer who achieved this was Monica in 1998.
    An accompanying music video,directed by Dave Meyers, was released on October 28, 2010.It portrays the singer of #173 
singing and dancing around Budapest,with interspersed scenes of young people becoming confident in themselves.An open casting
call for the music video drew an unprecedented 38,000 applicants.On MuchMusic's top 50 videos of 2010, the video to #173
 reached the top position.The music video was said to be a more upbeat take on Christina Aguilera's message in "Beautiful".
It was nominated for three awards at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, eventually winning one of those,the Video of the Year, 
the main and final award.The song at position #173 was nominated for Record of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance at
the 54th Grammy Awards. On January 5, 2012, this song was elected the fifth most played single on U.S. radio during 2011
by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems,with 509,000 plays.

The song at position #170 is a duet comprised of a male Scottish singer born on January 17,1984 in Dumfries,Scotland 
and a female singer born on February 20,1988 in Saint Michael,Barbados.This is the highest ranking song for a Scottish 
recording act.This is one of 35 appearances the female singer makes in the Top 7000.She still makes three more appearances
in the countdown.
  The song is recorded by the female singer from her sixth studio album,"Talk That Talk" (2011).It was written and 
produced by and features the male Scottish singer;the song was also featured on his third album "18 Months" (2012).
the song premiered on September 22, 2011,on the Capital FM radio station in the United Kingdom and was made available
to download on the same day as the lead single from Talk That Talk.
The song is an uptempo electro house song,with elements of techno and Europop.The song's lyrics speak of a couple 
who "found love in a hopeless place".
    The song topped the US Billboard Hot 100 for ten non-consecutive weeks, becoming the longest running number-one
single of 2011.The single also became the female singer's longest running number one single.It was the singer's 
eleventh of fourteen songs to top the Hot 100, placing her in third place among female recording artists amassing
the most number one singles.The song at position #96 topped the charts in twenty-five other countries including
Canada,Ireland,New Zealand,Switzerland and the United Kingdom.According to Billboard it is the 24th most 
successful single of all time in the US. As of 2015,the single has sold 10.5 million copies worldwide,thus being
one of the best selling singles of all time.

   Born Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll on February 9th,1977 in Barranquilla,Colombia is the artist who sings the song
at position #168. The song at position #168 spent nine (9)weeks in the #1 position in Australia (ARIA). According to 
Media Base (USA) this was the second biggest song for the entire year for 2006.In Australia (ARIA) the song at position
#168 was the third biggest song for the entire year of 2006.Radio Station CHUM (Toronto,Canada)ranked this song also
as the #3 song for the entire year of 2006. And according to Canada's Digital Tracks Survey the song at position #168
was the second (2nd) biggest song for the entire year of 2006 and in the UK this song was the #1 song for the entire
year of 2006.
   The song at position #168 is a Latin pop song based in a salsa and Cumbia.The song is a remake of Wyclef Jean's
2004 song "Dance Like This" (which featured Claudette Ortiz and appeared on the soundtrack to Dirty Dancing:Havana
Nights)and takes some of its instrumentation from Jerry Rivera's "Amores Como El Nuestro" (which was also used for
Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz's hit single "Deja Vu (Uptown Baby)") and lyrics from Dominican composer Luis Dias' 
"Carnaval (Baila en la Calle)".
  The singer of the song at position #168 wrote some parts of the new version,and co-produced the song.The song was
released as the second single from one of the singer of the song at position #168's second English speaking album 
titled "Oral Fixation Vol. 2" in 2006.

   The recording act who sings the song at position #167 was born on Christmas Day in 1971 in London,England.This
was a song that got to where it got not by the song's performance on the single's chart but because of the album
that the song at position #167 is on's performance on the album charts.The song is off the album titled "No Angel"
which was Billboard (US) Magazine's #7 album for the entire year of 2001,the #2 album for the entire year of 2001 
in Australia (ARIA) and the biggest album for the entire year of 2001 in the UK.The album spent seven (7) weeks at
#1 in the UK.
  The song at position #167 made its first appearance in 1998 on the soundtrack of "Sliding Doors",although it was
not released as a single until early 2001.Samples from the track were featured in the song "Stan" by Eminem
(see #197 on this list);a rare example of a song becoming a hit after the track which sampled it.The singer of the 
song at position #167 wrote the song as a tribute to her boyfriend,entertainment lawyer Bob Page;they got engaged 
in 2001 but split the following year.
  The song reached #1 in Austria,New Zealand,Spain,Switzerland and Russia.The song also reached #2 in Canada
 (Much Music) and #3 in Greece. 

  In 1993 The song in the #164 position performed by a recording act from Birmingham, England went to #1 on 
both Cash Box and Billboard Magazines singles chart in the USA,and to #1 in Canada,Australia and the UK on 
the singles chart.Spending six (6) weeks at #1 in Australia (ARIA),seven (7) weeks at #1 on Cash Box (US) 
Magazine's singles chart,eight (8) weeks at #1 in Canada (Canoe)and nine (9) weeks at #1 on Billboard Magazine's
 (US) singles chart.

   Born Curtis James Jackson III in Jamaica,Queens,New York City,New York,USA 0n July 6,1975 is the singer who has
the song at position #160. Beginning the week ending March 8,2003 this song began a nine (9) week run at #1 on the
US Billboard Hot 100.This song was at #1 on the Hot 100 when the USA began their illegal invasion of Iraq.In the 
December 26,2003 issue of Billboard the song at position #160 ranked as the #1 song for the entire year of 2003.
The song was produced by Dr. Dre and had co-production from Mike Elizondo.The singer of the song at position #160,
Dr. Dre and Elizondo wrote this song.The track was released in January 2003 as the album's lead single and it was
positively received by music critics.The song has since sold over 2,000,000 copies.Along with the USA the song at
#160 went to  #1 in the Canada,Australia,New Zealand,Denmark,Germany,Ireland and Switzerland. The song peaked at #3
in the UK (Official Chart Company).For the year of 2003 this song ranked at #3 for the entire year of 2003 in Ireland,
at #4 for the entire year of 2003 in New Zealand and #5 for the entire year of 2003 in Australia.
  At the 46th Grammy Awards,the song at position #160 was nominated for Best Male Rap Solo Performance and Best Rap
Song.The song's music video won Best Rap Video and Best New Artist at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards.In 2009,the
single was listed at number 24 in Billboard's Hot 100 Songs of the Decade.It was listed at number 13 in Rolling Stone's 
"Best Songs of the Decade". In 2010, it was ranked 448th in the Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list.
  Curtis starred in the 2005 movie "Get Rich Or Die Tryin".

   The song at position #154 by this LA hip-hop group spent six (6) weeks in the #1 position in both the UK & Australia.
This song was also the #1 song for the entire year of 2003 in both the UK & Australia. In addition on Radio and Records
(USA) Magazine it was the #3 song for the entire year of 2003.
   Following the commercial failures of their previous albums and singles,there was doubt over whether the group who
performs The song at position #154 would continue to record together.A&R executive Ron Fair approached them and suggested
a crossover to a more mainstream pop sound.will.i.am in particular resisted the idea for fear that they would be 
seen as sellouts.However,after discussions and some writing sessions the idea was pursued.Shortly after Christmas
2001,will.i.am created a loop and a guitar part that he liked.Taboo and Apl.de.ap also heard the track and were able 
to write similar lyrics over it.Justin Timberlake was allegedly introduced to the band by new band member Fergie,and 
got a chance to hear the track that will.i.am created.Impressed with the music,Timberlake helped write and sing the chorus.
Timberlake was in the midst of promotion of his solo album titled "Justified",and his label Jive Records was concerned 
about overexposure.The group who performs the song at position #154 were worried as that had been the original point of
this song,to get some assistance from an established pop star.A compromise was reached eventually in which Jive gave 
clearance for the vocals of Timberlake to be released on the song.However, Timberlake would not appear in the song's music
video nor would he be credited on the song as an artist.
   The song at position #154 was written by Will.I.Am,Taboo, apl.de.ap,Ron Fair, P. Board,G. Pajon Jr, M. Fratantuno, 
and J. Curtis and co-produced by will.i.am and Ron Fair.In this anti-war pacifist anthem,the group lament on various 
worldwide problems.Many issues are discussed, which include but are not limited to terrorism,U.S. government hypocrisy,
racism,war,intolerance and greed.Some view this song as an anthem against the War on Terror and the 2003 invasion of
Iraq since it was released shortly after the invasion began.
   The song was rewarded with nominations at the 46th Grammy Awards in 2004 for Record of the Year and Best 
Rap/Song Collaboration.