THE GRATEST POP SONGS OF ALL TIME
 

Hey guys! What do u think that are the greatest pop songs of all time?
(They're not in any order)

JC CHASEZ - All day long I dream about sex
AYUMI HAMASAKI - fairyland
AYUMI HAMASAKI - Moments
ROBBIE WILLIAMS - Feel
ROBBIE WILLIAMS - U win some you lose some
OLIVER JAMES - Long time coming
t.A.T.u - Not gonna get us
t.A.T.u - Malchik gay
t.A.T.u - Gomenasai
MADONNA - Skin
MADONNA - Future lovers
JOHN MAYER - Your body is a wonderland
YUI - Feel my soul
YUI- LIFE
ELT - Swimmy
UTADA HIKARU - Easy Breezy
HILARY DUFF - Hide away
HILARY DUFF - Now you know

And there are more... but I can't remember any! Post what u think!

...baby one more time - Britney Spears

I'm totally serious. When that song came out, EVERYONE knew it :paperbag

I'm very biased towards Ayumi Hamasaki, so I won't pick any of her songs.

Madonna - Material Girl, to me it's more or less symbolising the definition of pop.
Michael Jackson - They Don't Care About Us
Gackt - OASIS

Also remember that the definition of Pop music, as in Popular music, includes all kinds of music.

I'm afraid I disagree... in 1999 with the raise of the Boy Bands and all the drowing of POP music there was a communicate from the music ...errr... i don't know how u call it in english... caouncil? association? whatever ... the thing is that they accepted POP (that should be written with capital letters) as a seperate music genre so from then on there would be 'popular' music and 'POP' music, that's just like ROCK: one thing is Rock 'n Roll and a very different thing is all the other ROCK genres. All this is in music history books

No.. It's a sole genre. That's why there's a Billboard Pop Chart. R&B/Hip-hop and Rock tracks can't get into it.

I agree. IMO, She redefined what pop music is and what it should be about(for teens)!!!:D

Madonna - Like A Virgin
Madonna - Like A Prayer
Madonna - Express Yourself
Madonna - Vogue
Madonna - Erotica
Madonna - Deeper And Deeper
Madonna - Take A Bow
Madonna - Frozen
Madonna - Ray Of Light
Madonna - Hollywood
Madonna - Music
Madonna - Hung Up

Mariah Carey - Hero
Mariah Carey - Without You
Mariah Carey - Fantasy
Mariah Carey - Honey

Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody

Kylie Minogue - Can't Get Out Of My Head

Robbie Williams - Angels

Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time
Britney Spears - Oops! I Did It Again
Britney Spears - I'm A Slave 4 U
Britney Spears - Me Against The Music
Britney Spears - Toxic

Christina Aguilera - Gennie In The Bottle
Christina Aguilera - Come On Over
Christina Aguilera - Beautiful
Christina Aguilera - Dirrty

Christina Aguilera - Come On Over
Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time
Britney Spears - Oops! I Did It Again
Madonna - Like A Prayer
Ayumi Hamasaki - fairyland

Baby One More Time

AYUMI HAMASAKI - SEASONS
LA OREJA DE VAN GOGH - La playa
LA OREJA DE VAN GOGH - Rosas
AQUA - Turn back time

Kylie Minogue - Can't get you out of my head
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Michael Jackson - Beat it
Madonna - Like a virgin
Madonna - Vogue
Britney Spears - HMBOMT

I don't like them all by they are pretty much the greatest pop songs ever.

to name a few that i can think of at the moment...

Aqua - barbie girl (aww man i loved that song!)
Madonna - Material girl
Spice Girls - wannabe
Christina Aguilera - genie in a bottle
Britney - ...baby one more time

the greatest pop song of all time is...

*Drum rolls*

all song by SPICE GIRLS!!! yea!!! they started it all

Sophie Ellis-Bextor - I Won't Change You
Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Mixed Up World
Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor

Britney Spears - Toxic
Britney Spears - Oops! I Did It Again
Britney Spears - Overprotected

Kylie Minogue - I Believe In You
Kylie Minogue - In Your Eyes
Kylie Minogue - Love At First Sight
Kylie Minogue - Red Blooded Woman
Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky
Kylie Minogue - Never Too Late
Kylie Minogue - Put Your Hand On Your Heart

Ayumi Hamasaki - STEP you
Ayumi Hamasaki - Rainy Day
Ayumi Hamasaki - Moments
Ayumi Hamasaki - CAROLS
Ayumi Hamasaki - HEAVEN
Ayumi Hamasaki - We Wish
Ayumi Hamasaki - Everywhere Nowhere
Ayumi Hamasaki - Beautiful Fighters

Lots more.. Too much in fact. This is pointless. x__x

orenji, Spice Girls are very far from starting anything related to pop, about as far as you can get, haha.

Michael Jackson was proclaimed the King of Pop long before Spice Girls was even planned to be forged into a group.

Namie Amuro - So Crazy
Namie Amuro - Put Em Up
Namie Amuro - CSCEIS
AAA - Friday Party
Koda Kumi - Hot Stuff
Koda Kumi - DDD
Ayu - fairyland
Ayu- UNITE!
Ayu - Trauma
Nelly Furatdo - Like a bird
Nelly Furtado - Turn of the Light
Christina Aguilera - Dirrty
Britney Spears - Do Something
Jolin Tsai - Dancing Diva

and many many more

I see that no one posts songs by THE BEATLES, like
YESTERDAY
I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
LOVE ME DO
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE

Ayu:
fairyland
BLUE BIRD
SURREAL

BoA:
Key of Heart
Shine we Are
Dakishimeru

Namie Amuro:
Rainbow Moon
Memories
Taiyou no Season

Koda Kumi:
Shake It Up
No regret
D.D.D. feat.SOULHEAD

Madonna:
Jump
hang up
Sorry

I want to hear that one! xDDD


ABBA - Dancing Queen
Michael Jackson - Earth Song

oops..I forget

Aqua:
Barbie Girl
Dr. Jones
My oh My
Cartoon Heroes

Donna Lewis - I love you always forever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYMi2RW1wEk

I wish It was my ringtone

you've gotta be kidding, i used to love that song SO much. :laugh

Jacko's Thiller and Mrs. Spears' Toxic.

One is like, the greatest pop song of all time and the other that ushered in a modern pop sound.

Thriller - Michael Jackson :P

i disagree.. they're pretty pop!!

hahaha! SPICE GIRLS ARE THE GREATEST :)

Well, I didn't say they're not pop, but they did not start it all :).

I agree on that hey are... pretty... pop, lol.

Pretty pop, hehehe, bubblegum pop that's cool stuff u don't get to read it in books...
I remember that song of the SPICE GIRLS "Weekend Love", that was hot, oh! I have to add It's over now by Natasha Thomas and THE REAL THING by GWEN STEFANI

WHat Do I Have To Do - Kylie Minogue

And I'd like to add everything by Gwen Stefani.

Me and my friend sang to that song in her bed and made up hand motions.

We weren't even drunk. I kid you not.

And when it plays at mervyns, I pour my heart out and sing to it!

I wasn't even drunk. I kid you a lot.

YES! Especially "Serious."

Papa Don't Preach (by Madonna, not Kelly Ousborne)

That song is the pure expression of what an excellent pop song is. Used to be my favorite song when I was 5 years old, and nowadays, 20 years after, that song never ever grows old, it still is a favorite. I wonder what hit Madonna when she released TRUE BLUE since some of her most excellent songs are in that album.

Madonna - Like A Prayer
Mariah Carey - Always Be My Baby
Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
Jewel - hands
Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time
Savage Garden - Crash and Burn
Paula Abdul - Opposites Attract

and the list goes on and on...

Me, too. Nobody didn't knew it!
It's not so that all liked it, but they knew it all.

People we should try to post songs that we think that are special among others... Not just the songs we like... I posted lotta songs I don't like...

Here I'll add sum more songs:

PET SHOP BOYS - Go west
ROBBIE WILLIAMS - She's Madonna
ROBBIE WILLIAMS - Kiss me

Well, if it's not for personal tastes, you seriously don't think EASY BREEZY is one of the greatest POP songs of all time among people, do you?

You're both (that's you and immel, who you quoted) halfway right. Pop is a very broad genre, though it's often only considered as the kind of music that is, indeed, on the Billboard Pop Chart. However, like I said, pop is a very broad genre, and includes pretty much everything leave for a couple of genres (e.g. jazz, avant-garde, classical music). Hence, I will include things that could technically fall into genres as rock or folk, but quite untechnically, they're just the darndest greatest pop songs ever recorded:

Chihiro Onitsuka - Tiger in My Love (YouTube)
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Just Like Honey (YouTube)
Utada Hikaru - Final Distance (YouTube)
Joanna Newsom - Peach, Plum, Pear (YouTube)
Pretenders - Brass in Pocket (YouTube)
Fiona Apple - Paper Bag (YouTube)
Animal Collective - Who Could Win a Rabbit (YouTube)
Palace Music - New Partner
Shiina Ringo - Gibs (YouTube)
David Bowie - Life on Mars (YouTube)
Jamie Lidell - Multiply (YouTube
Beirut - Postcards from Italy (YouTube)
Joni Mitchell - A Case of You (YouTube)
Wire - Fragile
Iron & Wine - Each Coming Night
Jon Brion - Strings That Tie to You
Novastar - When the Lights Go Down on the Broken-Hearted (YouTube)
Alamo Race Track - Life Like Fire
U2 - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (YouTube)
Aimee Mann - Deathly
Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress (YouTube)
Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (YouTube)
Sigur Rós - Starálfur (YouTube)

Recently, though, I've heard lots about that jazz, classical music, and so on, can be included. It counts as popular music because people listen to it. Especially, there's radio channels with classical music only.

Technically popular music includes everything that a kind of majority listens to.

I think it's about time they actually split it into the genre "pop", which would include the most basic pop sound and anything close enough to be called pop.

And the term "popular music", that includes everything of what pop originally is/means/meant.

Genres is mainly for the ease of categorizing, for the music resellers, anyway :P.

Nothing is certain, especially when it's all so much based on personal taste. It fluctuates with the opinions of the majority, like everything else that has anything to do with language.

I've never liked the classification of 'pop' as popular, even if it's where the word comes from. Popularity is relative, and frankly, every genre is popular, except then with certain crowds.

My points is, you're wrong. I'd love to get technical, but more frankly I actually wouldn't

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What the heck. I'll just copy and paste the quick Wikipedia definition here (which is 100% correct) for starters:

Notice that pop music thus excludes 1/ classical music, 2/ folk music and 3/ art music. What art music denotes is debatable, but if you limit it to jazz and whatever falls under avant-garde (meaning everything from ambient to harsh noise and power electronics) you're pretty safe.

The definition of pop music as 'popular music', meaning music that is considerably popular, is frankly quite nondescriptive and immensily popular among those who have no notion of musical genres and their respective histories. Popular is a completely relative term, and though I understand what's meant by popular, ergo the fact that a considerable number of people appreciate x, it doesn't make for an obvious classification of what pop is. And pop can certainly be classified: as said before, it's everything but classical music, art music and folk. The immense popularity of, say, Miles Davis, or classical composers like Mozart, Bach or Beethoven, or whatever popular folk artist you can come up with, doesn't make them pop. I hope you see the pure absurdity of even considering this.

Of course, all this does not mean that pop is, in the end, a genre with clear boundaries. In fact, it certainly is not. There's plenty of cases imagineable where there's no clear division; plenty of pop artists borrow freely from aforementioned non-pop genres and in some cases it's just incredibly difficult to categorize something. Where does Bob Dylan fall? Pop or folk? Where does Billie Holiday go? Jazz or pop? Not to mention such dubious cases such as Il Divo.

Whatever the case, I hope this at least marginally improves your understanding of pop and non-pop. Thank your for reading.

I never tried to claim to be right, I'm only presenting what I have heard and how my view of it has been, up till now.

My whole point is that I don't care, I love to discuss things to see if or what happens and what I can learn.

I hate the classification of pop as popular, maybe resent would be an even better word.

Pop is pop, in my simple little world.

You're hilarious :D.

I'm right, that's the word you were looking for. :P

Hope you read my edit, btw, for clarity.

Thanks for notifying me about the edit, wouldn't have seen it without your note.

Thanks for the clarification, for the record, I think it was from wikipedia that I got the speculation about classical music becoming "popular".

Makes you think ;).

Wikipedia isn't always right (in fact, that's a gross understatement), but the particular piece I quoted is certainly correct. Just make sure it's not your only source and you'll be fine.

It must be said though; Wikipedia is relatively more correct than your average encyclopedia. There's a lot of wrong info on it, but the pure bulk of (largely correct) information makes up for it. Interesting enough, I should think.

As much off topic as this is going, I just have to add one more thing...


Oh, so right you are.

Needs more additions.

Madonna - Hollywood
Madonna - Frozen
Madonna - Don't Tell Me
Madonna - Get Together
Madonna - Hung Up

M.I.A - Galang

Delta Goodrem - Flawed
Delta Goodrem - Almost Here
Delta Goodrem - Out Of The Blue
Delta Goodrem - Predictable
Delta Goodrem - Innocent Eyes
Delta Goodrem - Throw It Away

Melissa Thautz - Easily Affected (just found out a few days ago but already loving it so damn much)

Are you kidding? Every Gwen Stefani song is terribly special to me, they're so damn replayable and good. Leagues above normal pop music. Each track could have been a hit single if promoted well. I can't believe she didn't release "Bubble Pop Electric" as a single. Instead, we get "Crash" and "Serious" to end the album. Even both of those are examples of greatness. The reason I have plenty is because probably around 90% of my music can be called pop. But I'll make a list of her songs that are special.

Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For?
Gwen Stefani - Cool
Gwen Stefani - Luxurious
Gwen Stefani - Harajuku Girls
Gwen Stefani - Serious
Gwen Stefani - Danger Zone
Gwen Stefani - Long Way To Go
Gwen Stefani - Wind It Up

Oh wow, I forgot. That is the greatest pop song in the world. It seems to be purely pop music, with little or no other influence.

Since almost every dance song can be called pop, would that mean dance is a subgenre under pop?

That's really true and it annoys me when people instantly go "Oh, ignore those stuff, they're false" when something from wiki gets brought here.

LOL That song ruined Utada's career in US. What a piece of crap pop it is LOL :laugh
Ugh and that song was also one of the reason Hikki was constantly mocked on US radio interviews...with lyrics like that, that's what it should be expected LOL

Well, the lyrics got her some recognition in Malaysia though. It appeared in the local FHM, the VJ's used it in their shows for Channel V and MTV, radio DJ's used it, etc. IMO, the best song in her career possibly, together with Kairo, Sakura DROPS and Hikari. I love it so much. :laugh

Gina G - Ooh Aah Just A Little Bit
Sophie Ellis Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor
Aqua - Barbie Girl
Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head
Louise - Arms Around The World

Joanna Newsom's voice is very freaky. :tired

Joanna Newsom certainly has a special voice (love-it or hate-it, you could very well say), but I personally love it to bits. An acquired taste, perhaps, though it was love at first, eh, sight, here. Moving, gripping, fascinating, beautiful.

Indeed - whichever way you look at it, Easy Breezy really is pure pop genius. It's a song that got harshly (but unrightly) judged for its sometimes too simplistic lyrics (though this is debatable, imo - there's (much) more to the Japanesey line than just an awkward cutesy statement), but the musical side of it is simply astonishing. And I don't mind sitting through lines of Japanesey and her having a new microphone just to enjoy those few minutes of pure pop pleasure. Exodus easily ranks among my favourite records of the last five years, too. Great music, very underrated.

LOL :laugh I did the same thing... with the hand motions

Oh and you're not supposed to pour your heart out, you're supposed to be all robotic and whispery :D

You're so awesome for saying that. That's true. The music is so damn good. The awkward guitar plucks really add something to an already addictive melody.

Exodus is awesome (aside from 2 specific very terrible songs though). EASY BREEZY just humilliates and makes that album underrated. How in the hell Hikki had the idea of making horrid lyrics (and the vocals aren't really that far behind) and use it to promote the album goes beyond my imagination. it's not just that the lyrics are plain dumb but the way she sings in despair sounds like she's in labor. No wonder, the song only got airplay on Disney and Utada was mocked to hell on interviews. Even the "yuck" Wonder' bout would have been a better choice to promote that album imo. :laugh
Another very bad and I mean BAD, TERRIBLE, OBNOXIOUS point of Exodus is how Hikki has to self confirm in almost every track the fact she's asian and japanese throughout the album. Silly, redundant and, obviously, unecessary imo.

You don't like Wonder 'Bout? Wow, haha, that's easily one of my favourites on there. Mainly for its completely amazing production. <3 the bass.

I can more or less see where you're coming from when saying that the references to Asia etcetera can be a bit too much, but I can't be bothered too much by it. The album's just too brilliant. ;)

WOW o_o

I didn't know you guys loved EXODUS so much :bgiggle

The production IS amazing! I don't like the lyrics though... like on almost every song LOL :laugh

sven's my fave person on this forum <3 EXODUS love.

:laugh I get what you mean. It's kind of like how Gwen Stefani was constantly advertising the L.A.M.B clothing line on L.A.M.B and how Beyonce was bragging about all the money she earned over the years on B'Day.

What a coincidence that the two tracks you deem the worst are what I consider to be the best tracks. So I think you can say that you either hate Exodus or love it. Easy Breezy, Devil Inside, Wonder'bout, You Make Me Want To Be A Man and Animato are easily my favourites. <3 The other tracks are amazing too.

The album should be re-released and given another chance in the US. It CAN make it there. Just one more CPR during a lull in the US music industry. It's a shame Island Def Jam underpromoted it.

I'm going to put it out there. Pump Up the Jam by Technotronic. That song is stupid good ^_^!

EDIT: Oh! And I completely agree about the genius of Exodus, though the lyrics were a bit awkward (not the Japanesey line though. The meaning behind that line is so blaringly obvious that I'm surprised so many people missed it).

LET'S KEEP THIS THREAD INTERESTIN'!! LET'S CHANGE IT TO : GREATEST LOVE SONGS OF ALL TIMES!!!

Exactly what I thought about the album as well. The music was great, but somehow the lyrics didn't fit at all.

Greatest Pop Song of all time? Kylie's I Should Be So Lucky! :yatta

That song started all the sexistic teenage behaviour. >_> I blame Madonna, too. Her combination of religion and erotic makes me nautious. @_@

I <3 Koda because she started writing when everyone was already sexistic and raping so I don't blame her lol.

OK, so best pop songs... Idk... I know some of my favs that are kind of poppish:

My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion (I know not really pop)
Be My Last - Hikki
Passion - Hikki
evolution - Ayu
JEWEL - Ayu
Butterfly - Koda
Black Cherry - Koda

Let's pretend that it's all pop lol. I'm not sure if it is.

All of Mariah's early work. Especially Emotions.

^I totally agree, especially Mariah's "Fantasy". One of the best pieces of R&B/pop music I've ever heard! I think it was really influential on female artists in the late 90s as well. Especially cuz it was also one of the very first songs to have a female pop singer and a rapper collaborate.

Madonna - Like a Virgin
Madonna - Material Girl
Madonna - Hung Up
Britney Spears - BOMT
Britney Spears - Gimme More

damn her list would go on and on lol. I'd just say, pop songs that had a huge hit around the world or something that had some drama over it.

I'd say

Spice Girls-Wannabe
Britney Spears-..Baby One More Time
Madonna-Material Girl
Christina Aguilera-Genie In A Bottle

L'Arc~en~Ciel - Flower

mi|kshake~

You cannot be serious!!!!! The lyrics are soo weird!

AYUMI HAMSAKI:
FAIRYLAND
UNITE!
REAL ME
SURREAL
STEP YOU
BLUE BIRD
SEASONS
JEWEL
RAINY DAY
(and so a lot of more)

NAMIE AMURO:
PUT 'M UP
SO CRAZY
PLEASE SMILE AGAIN
WHAT A FEELING
ROCK STEADY
COME
TOP SECRET
VIOLET SAUCE

MADONNA:
4 MINUTES
MATERIAL GIRL
LIKE A VIRGIN

SPICE GIRLS:
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?

BRITNEY SPEARS:
BREAK THE ICE
PIECE OF ME
OVERPROTECTED
OOPS I DID IT AGAIN
LONELY
CINDERELLA

HILARY DUFF:
WHAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF
FLY
COME CLEAN
PARTY UP

LEAF
WONDERWOMAN
MOTHER*********

ALICIA KEYS
FALLIN'
NO ONE
KARMA

CHRISTINA AGUILERA
FIGHTER
BEAUTIFUL
HURT
LADY MARMELADE

The entire Madonna & Michael Jackson discography and Ayu's Boys & Girls, Fairyland, Greatful Days, ect.