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.
NEW YORK, NY – August 8: ( MANDATORY CREDIT Bill Tompkins/Getty Images ) The Toadies performing as part of the Q104.3 Radio Station music festival. August 8th, 1995 in New York City. (Photo by Bill Tompkins/Getty Images)
Swedish musicians Benny Andersson and Agnetha Fältskog, of the Swedish supergroup ABBA, sit behind the audio mixer sound board at the Polar Studios in Stockholm, Sweden, May 1981. (Photo by Oscar Abolafia/TPLP/Getty Images)
The Stranglers posing by the 'aural sculpture' after the release of their 1994 album of the same name. Left to right. Hugh Cornwell, Jet Black, Jean-Jacques Burnel, Dave Greenfield. London 1985. (Photo by Dave Hogan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
