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.
LAS VEGAS – APRIL 19: Musician George Strait performs onstage during Brooks & Dunn's The Last Rodeo Show at MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 19, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Kevin Winter/ACMA2010/Getty Images for ACMA)
AUSTIN, TEXAS – NOVEMBER 03: Pink performs onstage as a part of her Summer Carnival tour at the Moody Center on November 03, 2024 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Amy E. Price/Getty Images)
Kurt Cobain of Nirvana during MTV Live and Loud: Nirvana Performs Live – December 1993 at Pier 28 in Seattle, Washington, United States. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc)
New York, NY – 1975: John Lennon performing live in his last public performance on the ABC tv special 'Salute to Sir Lew – The Master Showman' at the Grand Hilton Hotel. (Photo by Ken Regan /American Broadcasting Companies via Getty Images)
The Beatles rehearse for their appearance in the television show 'Our World' at the EMI Studios (later Abbey Road Studios) in St John's Wood, London, Jun 24th 1967. They are (from left): Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon. The show was the world’s first live television satellite link-up and was watched by an audience of approximately 400 million people across five continents / Bassist John Entwistle, singer Roger Daltrey, drummer Keith Moon and guitarist Pete Townshend of the rodk and roll band "The Who" perform onstage in circa 1973 (Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images; Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES – 1960s: Members of the rock band "Count Five" pose for a circa late-1960's portrait in Los Angeles California. Original members include Ken Ellner, John Michalski, Sean Byrne, Ron Chaney and Craig Atkinson. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
