With The List, American Songwriter details the best, the brightest, the most enduring, the worst, the most hated, and the most surprising songs ever–among many other qualifiers. If you’re looking for our definitive rankings on music, you’ll find them below.
Lee Ann Rimes at the Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois, October 27,1996. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images)
MINNEAPOLIS – JULY 2: Meatloaf performs on the Everything Louder Tour at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota on July 2, 1994. (Photo by Jim Steinfeldt/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY – MARCH 16: Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam performs during Pearl Jam: MTV Unplugged at Kaufman Astoria Studios on March 16, 1992 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage)
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – APRIL 01: Barbara Fairchild performs on stage at the Country Music Festival held at Wembley Arena, London in April 1986. (Photo by David Redfern/Redferns)
American guitarist and singer-songwriter Steve Miller performing with the Steve Miller Band at the Rainbow Theatre, London, 26th February 1972. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images)
AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – JANUARY 01: Sonja Kristina Linwood (2nd from right) and fellow band members from Curved Air posed in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1972 (Photo by Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns)
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – AUGUST 17: Rick Springfield performs during an acoustic tour, co-headlining with Richard Marx at the Pearl Theater at Palms Casino Resort on August 17, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Denise Truscello/Getty Images for Palms Casino Resort)
