5 Catchiest Songs Of All Time List

5 Catchiest Songs Of All Time List. Billboard just came out with their list of the best pop songs of all time.  By “pop songs,” they mean the catchiest, tightest, hookiest and most memorable songs.  Not actual pop songs.  More, songs that have had a big impact on people's lives for the past six and a half decades.  On this list are rock songs, country, pop, urban all types of songs that have been on the Billboard 100 chart.

Billboards staff writers are celebrating the 65th year of the Hot 100 chart.   The staff compiled its Top 500 songs based on what best defines pop music. Chart performance and record sales were not factors, so long as the song appeared in the Hot 100.  So, for us here in country music,  we will call this The 5 catchiest songs of all time list.

One of the reasons pop can be hard to summarize is because there’s no real sonic or musical definition to it. At the end of the day, “pop” means “popular” first and foremost.  Just about any song that becomes popular enough can be considered a pop song

Many of the songs have crossed over from different genres of music.  The world of rock, hip-hop, country, dance, Latin and other genres. The only hard rule to qualify for their list is that the song must have appeared on the Hot 100.

That award goes to Whitney Houston - "I Wanna Dance with Somebody"

The track served as the lead single from her  sophomore album — Whitney, which spawned four consecutive Hot 100 No. 1 singles (starting with “Somebody”).  The song received mixed reviews from music critics when it was released but went on to have massive success.  This helped Houston become the first female artist to debut atop the Billboard 200. The song topped charts in virtually every country that had them.  This was the beginning of a new phase of Whitney's career.

“I Wanna Dance With Somebody” went on to win Houston a Grammy for best female pop vocal performance.  It sold millions of copies worldwide and still to this day is her best-performing song on streaming services.   It's been 35 years after its original release.

Here are the top 5 Catchiest Songs but you can check out the full list of 500 HERE

“I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)” was released by Whitney Houston in 1987 as the lead single from her second studio album, “Whitney.”  Written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam, the song was massive for Whitney, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and several other international charts.

ABBA is one of the most successful and iconic bands of all time, and their hit songs have stood the test of time. “Dancing Queen,” has remained a favorite of music lovers around the world since its release in 1976.  “Dancing Queen” was inspired by a young woman, who was the daughter of one of ABBA’s sound engineers. She would go out dancing all the time and was seen as the “dancing queen” wherever she went. 

Written and produced by the members Smokey Robinson and Ronald White, it became the Temptations' first U.S. number 1 single, and is currently their signature song.  Robinson's inspiration for writing "My Girl" was his wife, Miracles member Claudette Rogers Robinson.

“I Want It That Way” by Backstreet Boys was released in 1999.  It was written by Andreas Carlsson and Max Martin,  The song was inspired by a conversation he had with his girlfriend, where he said “I love you” in a way that sounded wrong, and she replied “You love me the wrong way.”  This led him to write the line “You’re my fire, the one desire” as a way to convey that sometimes the words we use cannot fully capture the depth of our feelings.

This is the first song from Kelly's second album Breakaway that was released in 2004.  This was two years after she became the first American Idol winner.  Her career launched after winning, but this was the big song that proved she was ok on her own.