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
- The Ballad of the Green BeretsDeep Cut85points
- The First NightDeep Cut85points
- The First TimeDeep Cut85points
- The FlameDeep Cut85points
- The Game of LoveDeep Cut85points
- The HappeningDeep Cut85points
- The Happy OrganDeep Cut85points
- The House of the Rising SunDeep Cut85points
- The Living YearsDeep Cut85points
- The Love You SaveDeep Cut85points
- The Morning AfterDeep Cut85points
- The Most Beautiful GirlDeep Cut85points
- The Next Time I FallDeep Cut85points
- The Night Chicago DiedDeep Cut85points
- The One That You LoveDeep Cut85points
- The Promise of a New DayDeep Cut85points
- The ReflexDeep Cut85points
- The ScottsDeep Cut85points
- The StreakDeep Cut85points
- The StripperDeep Cut85points
- The Three BellsDeep Cut85points
- The Way You MoveDeep Cut85points
- Theme from A Summer PlaceDeep Cut85points
- Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)Deep Cut85points
- Theme from S.W.A.T.Deep Cut85points
- Then Came YouDeep Cut85points
- There! I've Said It AgainDeep Cut85points
- There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)Deep Cut85points
- These DreamsDeep Cut85points
- This Diamond RingDeep Cut85points
- This Guy's in Love with YouDeep Cut85points
- This Is the NightDeep Cut85points
- This Is Why I'm HotDeep Cut85points
- This Used to Be My PlaygroundDeep Cut85points
- Ticket to RideDeep Cut85points
- Tighten UpDeep Cut85points
- Time After TimeDeep Cut85points
- Time in a BottleDeep Cut85points
- To Know Him Is to Love HimDeep Cut85points
- To Sir With LoveDeep Cut85points
- Together AgainDeep Cut85points
- Together ForeverDeep Cut85points
- Tom DooleyDeep Cut85points
- Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)Deep Cut85points
- Too CloseDeep Cut85points
- Too Much HeavenDeep Cut85points
- Too Much, Too Little, Too LateDeep Cut85points
- Torn Between Two LoversDeep Cut85points
- Tossin' and Turnin'Deep Cut85points
- Touch Me in the MorningDeep 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.