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.
(MANDATORY CREDIT Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images) Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin performing on stage at Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan, 23rd September 1971. (Photo by Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images)
THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO — Episode 1542 — Pictured: (l-r) Musicial guests Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton perform on February 9, 1999 — (Photo by: Margaret Norton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank)
Otis Redding on stage, in a light colored, double breasted suit, mike in right hand, profile, spotlight above (Photo by Sulfiati Magnuson/Getty Images)
Neil Young and Crazy Horse performing on stage, Hammersmith Odeon, London, March 28th 1976. He is playing a Gibson Les Paul guitar with a Bigsby vibrato unit. (Photo by Dick Barnatt/Redferns)
Michael Stipe, chanteur du groupe américain REM avec ses musiciens Peter Buck et Michael Mills à Paris le 8 mars 1999, France. (Photo by Frédéric REGLAIN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
