Sunday, May 27, 2012

10 Most Listened To Popular Songs

#10 Most Listened To Popular Song of All Time
Like A Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan
Like A Rolling Stone is a song by Robert Allen Zimmerman popularly known as Bob Dylan born on May 24, 1941, Bob is an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist and one of his best known and most influential songs.

The song was released as a single on July 20, 1965. The song was over six minutes in length and managed to reach the #2 spot in the chart. This was a real departure from the artist's folk music with its harder rock sound.

#9 Most Listened To Popular Song of All Time
Hotel California by Eagles
The song from Eagles was titled Hotel California from the Eagles 1975 fifth album. The album is an Eagles classic; one of those tracks that gets passed down through the generations. It has a sense of nostalgia and that is always present. Anyone who listened to this track has remarked on the brilliance of the long guitar play at the end of the song.

#8 Most Listened To Popular Song of All Time
Earth Song by Michael Jackson
With this great song from Michael Jackson he was able to focus on the thing that we are to our planet, ourselves and everyone one around us. It has turn to an anthem for anyone in poverty, sickness, climate change and a testament to the necessary suffering of people in the world.

It is not supposed to go unnoticed that this remarkable artist has two positions in the list of the most listened to populaer songs of all time. The song was released in 2009 and it was produced by Bill Bottrell.

#7 Most Listened To Popular Song of All Time
Imagine by John Lennon
This is one of the most influential songs of our century. It calls for peace and unity between all mankind no matter your colour, regardless of your continent or country or religion. It becomes the  mantra for generations and stil really effective till this day. The song was released in 1971.
John Lennon asked so many questions when he wrote this song and made us confront the implications of the answers.

#6 Most Listened To Popular Song of All Time
The Winner Takes It All by ABBA
The Winner Takes It All, a song written and recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA. The song is well written, well sung and at the same time it was well produced. The Winner Takes It All was released on  21 July, 1980.

The song is very nice and delicae and is classic ABBA. It is taken from the Super Trouper album and make UK #1 in August 1980.

#5 Most Listened To Popular Song of All Time
You Raise Me Up by Josh Grobam
This type of song is very scares to see, it is a song that really moves you in the wat that this song does. These are a truly inspirational set of lyrics that are so powerfully sung by Josh Groban.

When I am down, and oh my soul's so weary, when troubles come and my heart burdened be. Then I am still and wait here in the silence until you come and sit a while with me. You raise me up so I can stand on mountains; you raise me up to walk on stormy seas. I am strong when I am on your shoulders; you raise me up to more than I can be. The song was released in 2003.

#4 Most Listened To Popular Song of All Time
Stairway To Heaven by Led Zeppelin
Stairway to Heaven was the most famous roc song in the 1970s. NO on has equalled Led Zeppelin's achievement with this marriage of hard rock and some sort of corny mediavalism. It's tremendous.
Stairways to Heaven was released in late 1971. It is still played over 4,000 times a year by the USA's sixty seven largest rock radio stations.

#3 Most Listened To Popular Song of All Time
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody is Freddie Mercury at his best. This song explained so many things if you listen to it carefully and a good twist of 70's rock and opera-style singing. It is definitely worth listening to over and over again.

This is Classic Queen. Thsis single is one of the band's signature. Bohemian Rhapsody charted in the U.S. for 17 weeks in 1976, at #9, and also for 13 weeks in 1992, at #2, after the film Wayne's World
featured the song.

#2 Most Listened To Popular Song of All Time
White Christmas by Bing Crosby
White Christmas by Bing Crosby was not the only first secular holiday tune to do perfectly, it ultimately has become one of the biggest selling records of all time, currently just 50 million copies have been sold.

Its success was attributed to it striking a chord with homesick GI's during the Second World War. It has managed to appear in the Top 40 in an amazing sixteen different years.

#1 Most Listened To Popular Song of All Time
Thriller by Michael Jackson 
Thriller by Michael Jackson He was to his fans the undisputed King of Pop, Rock and Soul. Till now Jackson is still the biggest selling artist of all time. It was in 1982 that Michael Jackson gave the music industry the phenomenal album which had the same title as this song.

It was also the first production of the Hollywood movie style video that made him famous and took the Thriller album to over 45 million copies sold world-wide.

With his recent untimely death his music is sure to sell even more and his fan club to increase.