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
- Good Lovin'Deep Cut85points
- Good Luck CharmDeep Cut85points
- Good ThingDeep Cut85points
- Good TimesDeep Cut85points
- Good VibrationsDeep Cut85points
- Got to Give It UpDeep Cut85points
- Grazing in the GrassDeep Cut85points
- Green TambourineDeep Cut85points
- GrillzDeep Cut85points
- Groovin'Deep Cut85points
- Gypsys, Tramps & ThievesDeep Cut85points
- Half-BreedDeep Cut85points
- Hang On SloopyDeep Cut85points
- Hangin' ToughDeep Cut85points
- Hanky PankyDeep Cut85points
- Harper Valley PTADeep Cut85points
- Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?Deep Cut85points
- Have You Ever?Deep Cut85points
- Have You Never Been MellowDeep Cut85points
- He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)Deep Cut85points
- He's a RebelDeep Cut85points
- He's So FineDeep Cut85points
- Head to ToeDeep Cut85points
- Heartache TonightDeep Cut85points
- Heartaches by the NumberDeep Cut85points
- HeavenDeep Cut85points
- Heaven Is a Place on EarthDeep Cut85points
- Hey PaulaDeep Cut85points
- Hey! BabyDeep Cut85points
- Hold It Against MeDeep Cut85points
- Hold On to the NightsDeep Cut85points
- Holding Back the YearsDeep Cut85points
- Hot Child in the CityDeep Cut85points
- How Can You Mend a Broken HeartDeep Cut85points
- How Deep Is Your LoveDeep Cut85points
- How Do U Want ItDeep Cut85points
- How Do You Talk to an AngelDeep Cut85points
- How You Remind MeDeep Cut85points
- HumanDeep Cut85points
- I Adore Mi AmorDeep Cut85points
- I BelieveDeep Cut85points
- I Can HelpDeep Cut85points
- I Can't Get Next to YouDeep Cut85points
- I Can't Stop Loving YouDeep Cut85points
- I Don't Have the HeartDeep Cut85points
- I Don't Wanna CryDeep Cut85points
- I Feel FineDeep Cut85points
- I Feel the Earth MoveDeep Cut85points
- I Hear a SymphonyDeep Cut85points
- I Honestly Love YouDeep 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.