Krillion Recorded answers
1,175 recorded answers
How to approach it
The productive route is to sweep decade by decade rather than free-associate, because sixty-odd years of chart history are unevenly stocked in memory. Begin with the eras whose hits get heavy recurrent airplay, write down four or five titles for each, then push into corners most players skip: novelty records, soundtrack themes, disco one-offs, country crossovers and foreign-language smashes. Rarity pays, so a title that feels faintly embarrassing or half-forgotten usually outscores an obvious classic. Verify each candidate against the chart's actual rules, because a song that only led a separate sales or airplay tally does not count. Keep a running list and send the strangest qualifying title first.
Get a hint
Cast your net across the entire post-war era of chart history instead of the handful of decades you know by heart, because every period of the survey contributes qualifying titles.
A little more
Then lean on the styles that fill year-end retrospectives: dance fads, film themes, country crossovers and grand ballads, all of which produced chart-toppers with surprising regularity.
One step further
Finally check the fussy clerical details, since duet credits, medleys, remixed versions and titles wrapped in brackets routinely reached the summit and slip past anyone listing in a hurry.
Reveal answers 1,175
- SukiyakiOne in a Krillion100points
- (Can't Live Without Your) Love and AffectionDeep Cut85points
- (Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong SongDeep Cut85points
- (Just Like) Starting OverDeep Cut85points
- (Love Is) Thicker Than WaterDeep Cut85points
- (You're My) Soul and InspirationDeep Cut85points
- (You're) Having My BabyDeep Cut85points
- 3Deep Cut85points
- 4 Seasons of LonelinessDeep Cut85points
- 4x4Deep Cut85points
- 96 TearsDeep Cut85points
- A Big Hunk o' LoveDeep Cut85points
- A Fifth of BeethovenDeep Cut85points
- A Groovy Kind of LoveDeep Cut85points
- A View to a KillDeep Cut85points
- A World Without LoveDeep Cut85points
- AgainDeep Cut85points
- Ain't It Funny (Murder Remix)Deep Cut85points
- All 4 LoveDeep Cut85points
- All for LoveDeep Cut85points
- All for YouDeep Cut85points
- All I HaveDeep Cut85points
- All the Man That I NeedDeep Cut85points
- Alley OopDeep Cut85points
- Alone Again (Naturally)Deep Cut85points
- AlwaysDeep Cut85points
- Always on TimeDeep Cut85points
- AmandaDeep Cut85points
- Angel of MineDeep Cut85points
- Angie BabyDeep Cut85points
- Annie's SongDeep Cut85points
- Anything for YouDeep Cut85points
- Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)Deep Cut85points
- At This MomentDeep Cut85points
- BabeDeep Cut85points
- Baby BabyDeep Cut85points
- Baby BoyDeep Cut85points
- Baby Don't Forget My NumberDeep Cut85points
- Baby, Come to MeDeep Cut85points
- Baby, Don't Get Hooked on MeDeep Cut85points
- Baby, I Love Your Way / Freebird MedleyDeep Cut85points
- Back in My Arms AgainDeep Cut85points
- Bad GirlsDeep Cut85points
- BatdanceDeep Cut85points
- Be with YouDeep Cut85points
- Because I Love You (The Postman Song)Deep Cut85points
- Before the Next Teardrop FallsDeep Cut85points
- BentDeep Cut85points
- Big Bad JohnDeep Cut85points
- Billy Don't Be a HeroDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here tracks obscurity rather than fame, and the reveal makes that plain. Sing-along staples everyone knows sit at the floor of sixty points, while titles most players could not hum climb to eighty-five: Sukiyaki took the full hundred, and a long parenthetical such as (Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song banked eighty-five simply because hardly anyone retrieves it in time. Two instincts get rewarded. One is digging into the late fifties and early sixties, where titles are short, odd and half-forgotten. The other is trusting memory for awkward full names with brackets, subtitles or remix tags, since those are the entries a hurried player skips. Expect the middle band to be crowded, because four hundred and ninety-seven answers landed on eighty-five and five hundred and ten on sixty, so reaching the top means picking the third or fourth title that comes to mind instead of the first. Anything genuinely ubiquitous scores, but it scores least.