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.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 26: (L-R) Bonnie Raitt and John Prine attend the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on January 26, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
UNIVERSAL CITY, CA – SEPTEMBER 2: Spin Doctors attends 10th Annual MTV Video Music Awards on September 2, 1993 at the Universal Ampitheater in Universal City, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
Members of the Goo Goo Dolls arrive at the My VH1 Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles Thursday, Nov. 30, 2000. (Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect)
Looking trim but also looking all of his 36 years, Paul Anka last night seemed intimidated at first in cool vastness of Maple Leaf Gardens. But he eventually warmed up the evening with a medley of hits from 20 years ago, says Noah James.
Portrait of British New Wave group the Fixx as they pose at Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania, September 23, 1984. Pictured are, from left, Jamie West-Oram, Cy Curnin, Dan K Brown, Rupert Greenall, and Adam Woods. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images)
American country and pop musician Crystal Gayle performs onstage at the Rosemont Horizon , Rosemont, Illinois, April 15, 1983. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images)
