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
- Bills, Bills, BillsRare60points
- Black BeatlesRare60points
- Black or WhiteRare60points
- Black VelvetRare60points
- Blinded by the LightRare60points
- Bodak YellowRare60points
- Boom Boom PowRare60points
- BootyliciousRare60points
- Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)Rare60points
- Break My SoulRare60points
- Breaking Up Is Hard to DoRare60points
- Bridge over Troubled WaterRare60points
- Brown SugarRare60points
- Bump n' GrindRare60points
- ButterRare60points
- Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')Rare60points
- Call MeRare60points
- Can't Fight This FeelingRare60points
- Can't Get Enough of Your Love, BabeRare60points
- Can't Hold UsRare60points
- Can't Stop the Feeling!Rare60points
- Candle in the Wind 1997Rare60points
- Car WashRare60points
- CardiganRare60points
- Cat's in the CradleRare60points
- CelebrationRare60points
- Chapel of LoveRare60points
- Cheap ThrillsRare60points
- CheerleaderRare60points
- CirclesRare60points
- Come On EileenRare60points
- Confessions Part IIRare60points
- Crank That (Soulja Boy)Rare60points
- Crazy Little Thing Called LoveRare60points
- CreepRare60points
- Crimson and CloverRare60points
- Crocodile RockRare60points
- Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?Rare60points
- Dancing QueenRare60points
- Daydream BelieverRare60points
- December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)Rare60points
- DiamondsRare60points
- Die for YouRare60points
- DilemmaRare60points
- Dirty DianaRare60points
- DisturbiaRare60points
- Do Wah Diddy DiddyRare60points
- Don't Go Breaking My HeartRare60points
- Don't Let the Sun Go Down on MeRare60points
- Don't MatterRare60points
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.