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
- Because I Love You (The Postman Song)Deep Cut85points
- Before the Next Teardrop FallsDeep Cut85points
- Bennie and the JetsDeep Cut85points
- BentDeep Cut85points
- Big Bad JohnDeep Cut85points
- Billy Don't Be a HeroDeep Cut85points
- Black and WhiteDeep Cut85points
- Black CatDeep Cut85points
- Black WaterDeep Cut85points
- Blame It on the RainDeep Cut85points
- Blaze of GloryDeep Cut85points
- Bleeding LoveDeep Cut85points
- Blue MoonDeep Cut85points
- Blue VelvetDeep Cut85points
- Boogie FeverDeep Cut85points
- Boogie Oogie OogieDeep Cut85points
- Brand New KeyDeep Cut85points
- Break Your HeartDeep Cut85points
- Broken WingsDeep Cut85points
- Brother LouieDeep Cut85points
- Bump, Bump, BumpDeep Cut85points
- BurnDeep Cut85points
- ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- CalcuttaDeep Cut85points
- Can't Buy Me LoveDeep Cut85points
- Can't Nobody Hold Me DownDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)Deep Cut85points
- Cathy's ClownDeep Cut85points
- CenterfoldDeep Cut85points
- Chariots of FireDeep Cut85points
- Check on ItDeep Cut85points
- CherishDeep Cut85points
- Close to YouDeep Cut85points
- Cold HeartedDeep Cut85points
- Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)Deep Cut85points
- Come See About MeDeep Cut85points
- Come Softly to MeDeep Cut85points
- Coming Out of the DarkDeep Cut85points
- Coming UpDeep Cut85points
- ConvoyDeep Cut85points
- Could've BeenDeep Cut85points
- Crack a BottleDeep Cut85points
- Cracklin' RosieDeep Cut85points
- Crazy for YouDeep Cut85points
- CreamDeep Cut85points
- Da Doo Ron RonDeep Cut85points
- Dark LadyDeep Cut85points
- Deep PurpleDeep Cut85points
- Delta DawnDeep Cut85points
- Didn't We Almost Have It AllDeep 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.