I am looking for a particular song, how can I find it?

This site lists all the songs that were major hits 1900-2007. If you are trying to find, for example, hits that are connected to a particular word then the index here is the best place to look. This index links to every place where a name is used anywhere on the site, there are also seperate lists of the years, artists and song titles that have their own individual pages.

To locate any word first select the link below that represents the initial letter, then select the sub-pages whose range covers the word you want.

# | 0-9 | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z

Suppose, for example, you want to identify songs, albums and artists connected with "Stripes". Looking under the "S" entry above leads to a page that lists entries with the word "Stripes":

Album Artists: The White Stripes (on pages Top Albums, Top Album Artists, the year 2001, the year 2003, the year 2005 & the 2000s)
Song Artists: The White Stripes (on pages Top Song Artists, the 2000s, the year 2003, the year 2005 & the year 2007)
Song Titles: Stars & Stripes Forever (on pages Year Top Songs, Frankie Laine, the 1900s, Horace Heidt, the year 1901 & the year 1950) and I Got Stripes (on the Johnny Cash page).

Alternately suppose you are looking for songs by Amy Winehouse, as a recent visitor was. Well lets look up her surname, selecting "w" in the list above leads to a page that lists the word ranges that start with "w" we pick "Wildw - Wit'c", since "Winehouse" is in that range. Looking in the list we find an entry:

Winehouse - Album Artist: Top Albums, Top Album Artists, 2006, 2007, Album greatest, Album sales, Amy Winehouse
Song Artist: 2007, 2008

This tells us that she has more entries for albums than for songs, she is on the "Top 1000 Albums" page, the "Top 1000 Albums Artists", the list of hit albums for 2006 and 2007, the "Most successful albums of all time" page, the "Biggest selling albums" page and she has her own page listing albums.

From the viewpoint of songs she has not done so well, she only appears on the top songs page for 2007 and 2008 and is not in the top 1000 song artists

What if it was not a major hit?

If the track you are searching for was not a major hit then this is not the right location to be looking (this is a charts site after all). When we are looking for the exact name of an artist, song or album we usually use the search facilities on the following sites:

//www.wikipedia.org/: Has lots of music based articles, accuracy and objectivity are often issues, but provides an invaluable collection of links to other sites
//www.amazon.com/ / //www.amazon.co.uk/: Many of the most obscure albums are available for purchase
//rateyourmusic.com/: A music rating site, worth checking
//musicbrainz.org/: An online database of CDs, the spelling is not to be trusted but the track listing is usually OK
//www.discogs.com/: We don't use it much but it has a good reputation
//www.freedb.org/: The names are often wrong and searching is a pain but sometimes this is the only source
//www.davesmusicdatabase.com/: Not used this much, and it seems to be fairly small, but when it has an entry the level of detail is great
//www.ebay.com/ / //www.ebay.co.uk/: A last resort
//www.allmusic.com/: Not a source we use but has a good reputation

What if I know the lyrics

Searching for a song when you know the lyrics is really easy. Just select a distinct phrase from the text you have and enter it into Google. You will usually get a large number of lyric sites (which often have way too many adverts). These will tell you the name of the artist and track that you can research on the sites listed above.

If your first phrase doesn't work then pick another. Remember also that the right site could be on the second or third page of Google results.

What song was number 1 on...

If you want to discover which song was number one on a particular date then you should be on this page. The first thing you must do is decide where, the number one song in the US is almost always different from the number one in Europe or Japan. Then you must decide which source to use, in the US for example the Billboard number one is usually different from the CashBox magazine one. The Wikipedia page //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Number- one_singles also has lots of links to lists of number one records in different locations and for different time periods.

Finally you should accept that there are some locations and periods for which there really isn't enough data to pick a number one record for a particular date, for example the UK before 1950 or anywhere (including the US) before 1940.

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25 Nov 2024

I cant remeber the name of a song, but I can remember elements of the musicvideo. I think it is a hindi song, it is atleast from the north of india. The music video follows a couple that seems to be on the run or in hiding, they are in a cabin. It snows and the woman wears a pink jacket or gloves. The man and the woman dances on a bridgh like structure and he transfere a rose from his mouth to hers. When she comes out of the shower, he admires her while she is drying of her hair with a towel. She finds a red shirt +for him to wear

27 Oct 2024

countrry

rob a mcdonalds and end up on the six o clock news

25 Oct 2024

looking for an old songs

in the music video a group of friends ride in their bikes to a shop to buyalcohol and then ride to a party dressed as skeletons with floral dresses and headbands then the police show up

17 Oct 2024

Hard trans song with masked men+

It’s a hard trans instrumental song . In the film clip it’s a group of menshooting at each other wearing masks . In an abandoned building+

1 Oct 2024

Estoy buscando un videoclip musical algo antiguo del 2011 en adelante, en estese puede ver una habitación con un chico asiático sentado en una cama y al lado un plato rojo, mientras suena la música la cámara que está ubicada en el piso en un El trenecito de juguete pasa por una puerta y así entra a otra habitación que es completamente igual, solo que esta es más pequeña y así hasta llegar a la última habitación donde solo se muestran las manos y los pies del niño hasta que solo cabe la placa roja. en la habitación

19 Sep 2024

Which artist sang this song

"I sit alone at night, I cry as we waved goodbye for sometime I close my eyes and all I see Memories that stay so close to me Day after Day I hear Your voice Singing in my heart, as the night withdraws I hear your story that never ends Wish you were here to talk again"

3 Sep 2024

I am looking for a particular song,+

which starts with a hart monitor flat lining and then crows and a creepyaccapella am i dead! am I Dead!I am in the graveyard; it's a cold night, They are all around me, trying to touch me and bite me.......