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.
George Harrison (1943 – 2001), formerly of the Beatles, sits for a photo during a party, 1971 / Janis Joplin (1943 – 1970) in concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, 21st April 1969 (Photo by Tim Boxer/Getty Images; Photo by Estate Of Keith Morris/Redferns/Getty Images)
LIVERPOOL – AUGUST 22: Rock and roll band "The Beatles" perform onstage at the Cavern Club on August 22, 1962.(L-R) George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
Portrait of the band Sawyer Brown, left to right, Joe Smyth, Greg Hubbard, Mark Miller, Bobby Randall, and Jim Scholten at Farm Aid 2 in Austin, Texas, July 4, 1986. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images)
Actor, singer, songwriter, musician, Kris Kristofferson wearing a white T shirt, jeans and boots, holding a Budweiser beer, sheet music and an acoustic twelve string guitar with posters and album covers on the wall in the office of Combine Studios in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970. (Photo by Al Clayton/Getty Images).
