The Best Song Ever Written
426 songs from 481 people, and for once there is a winner: Bohemian Rhapsody, named fourteen times. Ask which song is best <em>written</em> and a canon appears.
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Asked in“Best Song Ever Written (in your opinion)?”Reddit · r/Music · 2022 · 2,396 points · 3,865 comments ↗
| # | Said by | Artist | Song | Listen · source | Save to my list | |
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| 001 | 14× | Queen | Bohemian Rhapsody | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 002 | 8× | Leonard Cohen | Hallelujah | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 003 | 7× | The Beatles | A Day in the Life | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 004 | 7× | Pink Floyd | Time | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 005 | 6× | John Lennon | Imagine | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 006 | 6× | Pink Floyd | Wish You Were Here | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 007 | 5× | Don McLean | American Pie | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 008 | 5× | The Beach Boys | God Only Knows | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 009 | 5× | Nine Inch Nails | Hurt | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 010 | 5× | The Beatles | In My Life | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 011 | 4× | traditional | Amazing Grace | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 012 | 4× | Pink Floyd | Echoes | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 013 | 4× | Tears for Fears | Everybody Wants to Rule the World | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 014 | 4× | traditional | Happy Birthday to You | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 015 | 4× | Metallica | One | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 016 | 4× | Kendrick Lamar | Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 017 | 4× | Simon & Garfunkel | The Boxer | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 018 | 3× | Sam Cooke | A Change Is Gonna Come | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 019 | 3× | One Direction | Best Song Ever | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 020 | 3× | Pink Floyd | Comfortably Numb | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 021 | 3× | Foo Fighters | Everlong | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 022 | 3× | Tracy Chapman | Fast Car | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 023 | 3× | Fleetwood Mac | Landslide | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 024 | 3× | U2 | One | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 025 | 3× | Kanye West | Runaway | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 026 | 3× | Pink Floyd | Shine On You Crazy Diamond | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 027 | 3× | Led Zeppelin | Stairway to Heaven | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 028 | 3× | Bruce Springsteen | Thunder Road | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 029 | 3× | Tenacious D | Tribute | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 030 | 3× | The Righteous Brothers | Unchained Melody | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 031 | 3× | Glen Campbell | Wichita Lineman | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 032 | 3× | The Beatles | Yesterday | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 033 | 2× | Tool | 10,000 Days (Wings Pt. 2) | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 034 | 2× | Procol Harum | A Whiter Shade of Pale | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 035 | 2× | Bill Withers | Ain't No Sunshine | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 036 | 2× | Taylor Swift | All Too Well (10 Minute Version) | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 037 | 2× | Pinkfong | Baby Shark | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 038 | 2× | Soundgarden | Black Hole Sun | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 039 | 2× | Simon & Garfunkel | Bridge Over Troubled Water | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 040 | 2× | George Michael | Careless Whisper | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 041 | 2× | Debussy | Clair de Lune | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 042 | 2× | King Harvest | Dancing in the Moonlight | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 043 | 2× | Bob Dylan | Don't Think Twice, It's All Right | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 044 | 2× | The Beach Boys | Don't Worry Baby | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 045 | 2× | Mazzy Star | Fade Into You | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 046 | 2× | Leonard Cohen | Famous Blue Raincoat | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 047 | 2× | R.E.M. | Find the River | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 048 | 2× | Sufjan Stevens | Fourth of July | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 049 | 2× | Lynyrd Skynyrd | Free Bird | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 050 | 2× | The Rolling Stones | Gimme Shelter | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 051 | 2× | Blues Traveler | Hook | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 052 | 2× | Eagles | Hotel California | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 053 | 2× | The Smiths | How Soon Is Now? | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 054 | 2× | Radiohead | How to Disappear Completely | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 055 | 2× | The Flamingos | I Only Have Eyes for You | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 056 | 2× | Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit | If We Were Vampires | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 057 | 2× | Linkin Park | In the End | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 058 | 2× | Tool | Lateralus | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 059 | 2× | Derek and the Dominos | Layla | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 060 | 2× | Electric Light Orchestra | Mr. Blue Sky | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 061 | 2× | Beethoven | Ode to Joy | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 062 | 2× | Radiohead | Paranoid Android | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 063 | 2× | Kermit the Frog | Rainbow Connection | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 064 | 2× | Billy Joel | Scenes from an Italian Restaurant | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 065 | 2× | The Beatles | Something | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 066 | 2× | Harold Arlen | Somewhere Over the Rainbow | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 067 | 2× | Jason Isbell | Speed Trap Town | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 068 | 2× | Eminem | Stan | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 069 | 2× | Dire Straits | Sultans of Swing | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 070 | 2× | Echo & the Bunnymen | The Killing Moon | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 071 | 2× | Eagles | The Last Resort | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 072 | 2× | Simon & Garfunkel | The Sound of Silence | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 073 | 2× | The Smiths | There Is a Light That Never Goes Out | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 074 | 2× | Billy Joel | Vienna | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 075 | 2× | Bob Dylan | With God on Our Side | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 076 | 1× | Blue Öyster Cult | (Don't Fear) The Reaper | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 077 | 1× | Townes Van Zandt | (Quicksilver) Daydreams of Maria | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 078 | 1× | The Smashing Pumpkins | 1979 | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 079 | 1× | Rush | 2112 | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 080 | 1× | Tool | 46 & 2 | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 081 | 1× | Arctic Monkeys | 505 | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 082 | 1× | Lukas Graham | 7 Years | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 083 | 1× | Travis Scott | 90210 | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 084 | 1× | Bob Dylan | A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 085 | 1× | Himiko Kikuchi | A Seagull & Clouds | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 086 | 1× | Donny Hathaway | A Song for You | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 087 | 1× | Ray Charles | A Song for You | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 088 | 1× | The Beatles | Across the Universe | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 089 | 1× | Samuel Barber | Adagio for Strings | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 090 | 1× | Iron Maiden | Afraid to Shoot Strangers | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 091 | 1× | Silverchair | After All These Years | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 092 | 1× | Kali Uchis | After the Storm | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 093 | 1× | Jason Isbell | Alabama Pines | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 094 | 1× | Taylor Swift | All Too Well | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 095 | 1× | Gilbert O'Sullivan | Alone Again (Naturally) | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 096 | 1× | Kendrick Lamar | Alright | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 097 | 1× | Animal Collective | Alvin Row | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 098 | 1× | Paul Simon | American Tune | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 099 | 1× | Billy Joel | And So It Goes | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 100 | 1× | John Prine | Angel from Montgomery | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 101 | 1× | Queen | Another One Bites the Dust | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 102 | 1× | Daft Punk | Around the World | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 103 | 1× | Stevie Wonder | As | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 104 | 1× | Sleep Token | Ascensionism | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 105 | 1× | David Bowie | Ashes to Ashes | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 106 | 1× | The Smiths | Asleep | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 107 | 1× | Leonard Cohen | Avalanche | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 108 | 1× | Crazy Frog | Axel F | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 109 | 1× | The Who | Baba O'Riley | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 110 | 1× | David Gray | Babylon | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 111 | 1× | Pet Shop Boys | Being Boring | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 112 | 1× | Imagine Dragons | Believer | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 113 | 1× | Joseph: King of Dreams | Better Than I | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 114 | 1× | Michael Jackson | Billie Jean | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 115 | 1× | The Verve | Bittersweet Symphony | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 116 | 1× | Pearl Jam | Black | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 117 | 1× | The Beatles | Blackbird | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 118 | 1× | Jackson C. Frank | Blues Run the Game | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 119 | 1× | Manu Chao | Bongo Bong | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 120 | 1× | Bruce Springsteen | Born to Run | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 121 | 1× | Looking Glass | Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 122 | 1× | Dream Theater | Breaking All Illusions | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 123 | 1× | Echo & the Bunnymen | Bring On the Dancing Horses | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 124 | 1× | Dire Straits | Brothers in Arms | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 125 | 1× | Van Morrison | Brown Eyed Girl | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 126 | 1× | Young Ejecta | Build a Fire | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 127 | 1× | The Beach Boys | California Dreamin' | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 128 | 1× | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Californication | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 129 | 1× | Iron & Wine | Call It Dreaming | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 130 | 1× | Pachelbel | Canon in D | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 131 | 1× | The Shins | Caring Is Creepy | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 132 | 1× | Poets of the Fall | Carnival of Rust | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 133 | 1× | Sufjan Stevens | Casimir Pulaski Day | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 134 | 1× | Jimi Hendrix | Castles Made of Sand | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 135 | 1× | Harry Chapin | Cat's in the Cradle | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 136 | 1× | Pantera | Cemetery Gates | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 137 | 1× | Vangelis | Chariots of Fire | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 138 | 1× | Snow Patrol | Chasing Cars | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 139 | 1× | System of a Down | Chop Suey! | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 140 | 1× | U2 | City of Blinding Lights | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 141 | 1× | The Story So Far | Clairvoyant | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 142 | 1× | Eric Johnson | Cliffs of Dover | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 143 | 1× | Yes | Close to the Edge | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 144 | 1× | Nirvana | Come as You Are | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 145 | 1× | Funkadelic | Cosmic Slop | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 146 | 1× | Tom Petty | Crawling Back to You | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 147 | 1× | Bring Me the Horizon | Crucify Me | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 148 | 1× | Roy Orbison | Crying | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 149 | 1× | Steely Dan | Deacon Blues | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 150 | 1× | King Missile | Detachable Penis | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 151 | 1× | Kanye West | Devil in a New Dress | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 152 | 1× | Wagner | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 153 | 1× | Duffy | Distant Dreamer | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 154 | 1× | The Flaming Lips | Do You Realize?? | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 155 | 1× | Queen | Don't Stop Me Now | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 156 | 1× | Ms. Lauryn Hill | Doo Wop (That Thing) | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 157 | 1× | Kendrick Lamar | DUCKWORTH. | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 158 | 1× | The Beatles | Eleanor Rigby | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 159 | 1× | Depeche Mode | Enjoy the Silence | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 160 | 1× | King Crimson | Epitaph | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 161 | 1× | Guns N' Roses | Estranged | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 162 | 1× | Rise Against | Everchanging | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 163 | 1× | Ms. Lauryn Hill | Ex-Factor | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 164 | 1× | Radiohead | Exit Music (For a Film) | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 165 | 1× | Opeth | Face of Melinda | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 166 | 1× | Metallica | Fade to Black | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 167 | 1× | Joni Mitchell | False Alarm | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 168 | 1× | Megadeth | Family Tree | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 169 | 1× | David Bowie | Five Years | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 170 | 1× | Coldplay | Fix You | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 171 | 1× | Jackson Browne | For a Dancer | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 172 | 1× | Billy Joel | For the Longest Time | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 173 | 1× | Boston | Foreplay / Long Time | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 174 | 1× | Grateful Dead | Friend of the Devil | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 175 | 1× | Elton John | Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 176 | 1× | Beethoven | Für Elise | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 177 | 1× | PSY | Gangnam Style | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 178 | 1× | The Youngbloods | Get Together | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 179 | 1× | Snoop Dogg | Gin and Juice | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 180 | 1× | Daft Punk | Giorgio by Moroder | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 181 | 1× | Fleetwood Mac | Go Your Own Way | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 182 | 1× | Third Eye Blind | God of Wine | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 183 | 1× | Sex Pistols | God Save the Queen | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 184 | 1× | Led Zeppelin | Going to California | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 185 | 1× | David Bowie | Golden Years | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 186 | 1× | Slint | Good Morning, Captain | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 187 | 1× | Green Day | Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 188 | 1× | The Beach Boys | Good Vibrations | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 189 | 1× | Kanye West | Gorgeous | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 190 | 1× | Jeff Buckley | Grace | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 191 | 1× | Bill Withers | Grandma's Hands | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 192 | 1× | Death Cab for Cutie | Grapevine Fires | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 193 | 1× | Modest Mouse | Gravity Rides Everything | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 194 | 1× | Lil Pump | Gucci Gang | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 195 | 1× | Uriah Heep | Gypsy | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 196 | 1× | Jeff Buckley | Hallelujah | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 197 | 1× | Iron Maiden | Hallowed Be Thy Name | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 198 | 1× | Cinderella | Hard to Find the Words | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 199 | 1× | Neil Young | Harvest Moon | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 200 | 1× | Creedence Clearwater Revival | Have You Ever Seen the Rain | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 201 | 1× | Neil Young | Heart of Gold | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 202 | 1× | Joni Mitchell | Hejira | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 203 | 1× | Alice Cooper | Hell Is Living Without You | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 204 | 1× | Crosby, Stills & Nash | Helplessly Hoping | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 205 | 1× | The Beatles | Here Comes the Sun | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 206 | 1× | The Beatles | Here, There and Everywhere | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 207 | 1× | The Beach Boys | Heroes and Villains | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 208 | 1× | The Beatles | Hey Jude | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 209 | 1× | OutKast | Hey Ya! | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 210 | 1× | Deep Purple | Highway Star | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 211 | 1× | Mild High Club | Homage | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 212 | 1× | Simon & Garfunkel | Homeward Bound | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 213 | 1× | Radiohead | House of Cards | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 214 | 1× | The Voidz | Human Sadness | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 215 | 1× | The Smashing Pumpkins | Hummer | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 216 | 1× | Wilco | Hummingbird | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 217 | 1× | The Stone Roses | I Am the Resurrection | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 218 | 1× | Nas | I Can | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 219 | 1× | Nas | I Gave You Power | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 220 | 1× | Blink-182 | I Miss You | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 221 | 1× | Ramones | I Remember You | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 222 | 1× | Randy Newman | I Think It's Going to Rain Today | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 223 | 1× | Redgum | I Was Only 19 | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 224 | 1× | Ten Years After | I'd Love to Change the World | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 225 | 1× | Jason Mraz | I'm Yours | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 226 | 1× | Elvis Presley | If I Can Dream | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 227 | 1× | Jason Isbell | If It Takes a Lifetime | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 228 | 1× | Gordon Lightfoot | If You Could Read My Mind | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 229 | 1× | John Prine | Illegal Smile | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 230 | 1× | Roy Orbison | In Dreams | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 231 | 1× | Neutral Milk Hotel | In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 232 | 1× | Stone Temple Pilots | Interstate Love Song | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 233 | 1× | Van Morrison | Into the Mystic | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 234 | 1× | Tool | Invincible | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 235 | 1× | The Strokes | Is This It | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 236 | 1× | Grateful Dead | Jack Straw | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 237 | 1× | Bruce Springsteen | Jackson Cage | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 238 | 1× | The Killers | Jenny Was a Friend of Mine | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 239 | 1× | J.S. Bach | Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 240 | 1× | Green Day | Jesus of Suburbia | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 241 | 1× | Radiohead | Jigsaw Falling Into Place | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 242 | 1× | Sufjan Stevens | John Wayne Gacy, Jr. | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 243 | 1× | Pink Floyd | Julia Dream | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 244 | 1× | Will Varley | King for a King | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 245 | 1× | Seal | Kiss from a Rose | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 246 | 1× | The Doors | L.A. Woman | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 247 | 1× | Bad Books | Left Your Body | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 248 | 1× | The Beatles | Let It Be | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 249 | 1× | Al Green | Let's Stay Together | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 250 | 1× | David Bowie | Life on Mars? | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 251 | 1× | Bob Dylan | Like a Rolling Stone | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 252 | 1× | Future | Like That | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 253 | 1× | Jimi Hendrix | Little Wing | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 254 | 1× | Tom Waits | Long Way Home | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 255 | 1× | The Stooges | Loose | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 256 | 1× | Eminem | Lose Yourself | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 257 | 1× | R.E.M. | Losing My Religion | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 258 | 1× | The B-52's | Love Shack | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 259 | 1× | Tesla | Love Song | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 260 | 1× | Joy Division | Love Will Tear Us Apart | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 261 | 1× | Jeff Buckley | Lover, You Should've Come Over | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 262 | 1× | Billy Joel | Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 263 | 1× | Richard Harris | MacArthur Park | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 264 | 1× | Funkadelic | Maggot Brain | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 265 | 1× | Townes Van Zandt | Marie | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 266 | 1× | Hanson | MMMBop | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 267 | 1× | Grant Lee Buffalo | Mockingbirds | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 268 | 1× | Lil Wayne | Mona Lisa | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 269 | 1× | Dire Straits | Money for Nothing | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 270 | 1× | All Time Low & Demi Lovato | Monsters | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 271 | 1× | David Bowie | Moonage Daydream | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 272 | 1× | Boston | More Than a Feeling | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 273 | 1× | Ozzy Osbourne | Mr. Crowley | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 274 | 1× | Lupe Fiasco | Mural | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 275 | 1× | Bob Dylan | My Back Pages | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 276 | 1× | Chuck Berry | My Ding-a-Ling | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 277 | 1× | The Black Eyed Peas | My Humps | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 278 | 1× | As I Lay Dying | My Own Grave | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 279 | 1× | Frank Sinatra | My Way | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 280 | 1× | Puccini | Nessun Dorma | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 281 | 1× | Fleetwood Mac | Never Going Back Again | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 282 | 1× | Rick Astley | Never Gonna Give You Up | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 283 | 1× | Cole Porter | Night and Day | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 284 | 1× | Radiohead | No Surprises | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 285 | 1× | Carly Simon | Nobody Does It Better | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 286 | 1× | Prince | Nothing Compares 2 U | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 287 | 1× | Guns N' Roses | November Rain | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 288 | 1× | Alice in Chains | Nutshell | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 289 | 1× | Tom Waits | Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards) | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 290 | 1× | Creed | One Last Breath | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 291 | 1× | Duran Duran | Ordinary World | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 292 | 1× | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | Our House | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 293 | 1× | Warren Zeiders | Outskirts of Heaven | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 294 | 1× | Lorna Shore | Pain Remains | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 295 | 1× | Ne Obliviscaris | Painters of the Tempest, Pt. II (Triptych Lux) | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 296 | 1× | Townes Van Zandt | Pancho and Lefty | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 297 | 1× | Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson | Pancho and Lefty | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 298 | 1× | Maurice Ravel | Pavane pour une infante défunte | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 299 | 1× | Tyler, the Creator | Perfect | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 300 | 1× | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Peter Gunn | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 301 | 1× | Billy Joel | Piano Man | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 302 | 1× | Bob Dylan | Positively 4th Street | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 303 | 1× | Pendulum | Propane Nightmares | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 304 | 1× | Radiohead | Pyramid Song | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 305 | 1× | Aerosmith | Rag Doll | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 306 | 1× | Steely Dan | Reelin' in the Years | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 307 | 1× | The Neighbourhood | Reflections | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 308 | 1× | Warren G | Regulate | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 309 | 1× | HOME | Resonance | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 310 | 1× | Wu-Tang Clan | Reunited | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 311 | 1× | The Mountain Goats | Riches and Wonders | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 312 | 1× | Tool | Right in Two | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 313 | 1× | SpongeBob SquarePants | Ripped Pants | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 314 | 1× | Linkin Park | Roads Untraveled | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 315 | 1× | Dire Straits | Romeo and Juliet | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 316 | 1× | Yes | Roundabout | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 317 | 1× | John Prine | Sam Stone | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 318 | 1× | Bob Dylan | Sara | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 319 | 1× | Fleetwood Mac | Sara | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 320 | 1× | Avenged Sevenfold | Save Me | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 321 | 1× | Kadebostany | Save Me | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 322 | 1× | Simon & Garfunkel | Scarborough Fair | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 323 | 1× | Ed Sheeran | Shape of You | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 324 | 1× | Shakira | She Wolf | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 325 | 1× | Tears for Fears | Shout | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 326 | 1× | Harry Styles | Sign of the Times | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 327 | 1× | Lynyrd Skynyrd | Simple Man | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 328 | 1× | Eminem | Sing for the Moment | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 329 | 1× | Stevie Wonder | Sir Duke | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 330 | 1× | The Velvet Underground | Sister Ray | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 331 | 1× | Dire Straits | Skateaway | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 332 | 1× | The Killers | Smile Like You Mean It | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 333 | 1× | Slipknot | Snuff | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 334 | 1× | Anti-Nowhere League | So What | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 335 | 1× | Queen | Somebody to Love | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 336 | 1× | The Airborne Toxic Event | Sometime Around Midnight | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 337 | 1× | Santana | Song of the Wind | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 338 | 1× | This Mortal Coil | Song to the Siren | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 339 | 1× | ABBA | SOS | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 340 | 1× | Death Cab for Cutie | Soul Meets Body | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 341 | 1× | Beach House | Space Song | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 342 | 1× | Hoagy Carmichael | Stardust | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 343 | 1× | King Crimson | Starless | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 344 | 1× | David Bowie | Station to Station | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 345 | 1× | Paul Simon | Still Crazy After All These Years | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 346 | 1× | Tool | Stinkfist | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 347 | 1× | Billie Holiday | Strange Fruit | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 348 | 1× | Iron Maiden | Stranger in a Strange Land | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 349 | 1× | The Beatles | Strawberry Fields Forever | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 350 | 1× | The Rubettes | Sugar Baby Love | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 351 | 1× | Bryan Adams | Summer of '69 | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 352 | 1× | U2 | Sunday Bloody Sunday | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 353 | 1× | The Velvet Underground | Sunday Morning | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 354 | 1× | Black Country, New Road | Sunglasses | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 355 | 1× | Stevie Wonder | Superstition | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 356 | 1× | The Beach Boys | Surf's Up | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 357 | 1× | The Neighbourhood | Sweater Weather | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 358 | 1× | Van Morrison | Sweet Thing | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 359 | 1× | R.E.M. | Sweetness Follows | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 360 | 1× | Franz Ferdinand | Take Me Out | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 361 | 1× | a-ha | Take On Me | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 362 | 1× | The Doobie Brothers | Takin' It to the Streets | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 363 | 1× | Billy Strings | Taking Water | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 364 | 1× | Bob Dylan | Tangled Up in Blue | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 365 | 1× | Townes Van Zandt | Tecumseh Valley | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 366 | 1× | Dire Straits | Telegraph Road | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 367 | 1× | Led Zeppelin | Ten Years Gone | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 368 | 1× | The Champs | Tequila | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 369 | 1× | Al Jolson | The Anniversary Song | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 370 | 1× | Vivaldi | The Four Seasons | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 371 | 1× | Pleasantries | The Greatest Song Ever | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 372 | 1× | Grateful Dead | The Greatest Story Ever Told | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 373 | 1× | The Animals | The House of the Rising Sun | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 374 | 1× | Death Cab for Cutie | The Ice Is Getting Thinner | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 375 | 1× | NOFX | The Idiots Are Taking Over | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 376 | 1× | The Beatles | The Long and Winding Road | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 377 | 1× | Lord Huron | The Night We Met | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 378 | 1× | Simon & Garfunkel | The Only Living Boy in New York | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 379 | 1× | David Gray | The Other Side | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 380 | 1× | Bruce Springsteen | The River | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 381 | 1× | Coldplay | The Scientist | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 382 | 1× | Fleet Foxes | The Shrine / An Argument | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 383 | 1× | Disturbed | The Sound of Silence | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 384 | 1× | traditional | The Star-Spangled Banner | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 385 | 1× | Bob Dylan | The Times They Are A-Changin' | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 386 | 1× | Iron & Wine | The Trapeze Swinger | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 387 | 1× | The Band | The Weight | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 388 | 1× | Jimi Hendrix | The Wind Cries Mary | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 389 | 1× | Gordon Lightfoot | The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 390 | 1× | Tool | Third Eye | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 391 | 1× | JJ Grey | This River | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 392 | 1× | Dissection | Thorns of Crimson Death | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 393 | 1× | Jane's Addiction | Three Days | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 394 | 1× | The Blue Nile | Tinseltown in the Rain | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 395 | 1× | Elton John | Tiny Dancer | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 396 | 1× | Dax | To Be a Man | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 397 | 1× | Kris Kristofferson | To Beat the Devil | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 398 | 1× | The Beatles | Tomorrow Never Knows | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 399 | 1× | The Rolling Stones | Torn and Frayed | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 400 | 1× | James Arthur | Train Wreck | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 401 | 1× | Daniel Johnston | True Love Will Find You in the End | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 402 | 1× | Lynyrd Skynyrd | Tuesday's Gone | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 403 | 1× | Bruce Springsteen | Tunnel of Love | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 404 | 1× | Queen & David Bowie | Under Pressure | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 405 | 1× | The Church | Under the Milky Way | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 406 | 1× | Avenged Sevenfold | Victim | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 407 | 1× | Don McLean | Vincent | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 408 | 1× | Joe Higgs | Vineyard | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 409 | 1× | Future | Wait for U | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 410 | 1× | Townes Van Zandt | Waitin' Around to Die | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 411 | 1× | Nick Cave | Waiting for You | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 412 | 1× | Megadeth | Wake Up Dead | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 413 | 1× | Cardi B | WAP | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 414 | 1× | OMD | Was It Something I Said? | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 415 | 1× | The Kinks | Waterloo Sunset | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 416 | 1× | Frank Zappa | Watermelon in Easter Hay | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 417 | 1× | Queen | We Are the Champions | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 418 | 1× | The Animals | We Gotta Get Out of This Place | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 419 | 1× | Mac Miller | Weekend | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 420 | 1× | Radiohead | Weird Fishes / Arpeggi | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 421 | 1× | Madonna | What It Feels Like for a Girl | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 422 | 1× | Death Cab for Cutie | What Sarah Said | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 423 | 1× | Marvin Gaye | What's Going On | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 424 | 1× | Alice in Chains | Would? | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 425 | 1× | traditional | You Are My Sunshine | ▶ Listen · r/Music | ||
| 426 | 1× | Nathaniel Rateliff | You Should Have Seen the Other Guy | ▶ Listen · r/Music |
How this was counted. Counted by distinct redditor: naming a song counts, agreeing counts, quoting a lyric doesn’t. Artist- and album-level answers are dropped, and so is the asker’s own pick. This is a large sample, not the whole thread. Reddit serves only the top 500 of 3,865 comments and truncates even those, so the page was captured five times over — best, top, new, old and controversial — and merged; deeply nested reply chains stayed collapsed. Read the counts as a strong signal, not a census. The interesting part is what the wording does. The Best Song You’ve Ever Heard asked about listening and got 237 people naming 469 different things. This one asks which song is best written — a question with an implied right answer — and people start arguing about craft, defending their pick, and converging: Bohemian Rhapsody fourteen times, Hallelujah eight, A Day in the Life and Time seven each. One commenter says the quiet part out loud, that everyone is naming their favourite track rather than answering the question. He is right, and the list is more honest for having him in it.