History Main / TopTenJingle

* McDonald's "I'm Lovin' It" was originally derived from the German-language "Ich Liebe Es." ad campaign. The fast-food chain then commissioned Justin Timberlake to perform the jingle in a six-million dollar deal he has since regretted. This was later developed further into a song which Timberlake included in the album ''Live from London'' and as a promotional single.

* Music/{{Madness}}'s "In the City" was originally written as a jingle for a [[{{Japandering}} Japanese]] car advert, but the band liked it so much that they released it as a B-side, the only B-side to make it onto their GreatestHitsAlbum.

* Australians would know a few examples. For example, the Mojo Jingle "C'mon Aussie C'mon" made it to #2 on the ARIA charts.

* C.W. [=McCall=]'s entire career was based on this trope. The C.W. [=McCall=] character was originally a truck driver whose flirty adventures with a truck-stop waitress named Mavis in commercials for Old Home Bread in the early 1970s were told through a talk-singing CountryRap. The commercial's song was extended into a single-length version that was so successful in the markets where the bread was sold that Bill Fries, the advertising executive who sang in the commercials, assumed the C.W. [=McCall=] persona publicly (despite [[TheOtherDarrin looking nothing like]] the actor who played [=McCall=] in the commercials) and had a real-life musical career capped by the smash hit "Convoy."

** Post also wrote the themes for ''Series/TheRockfordFiles'' and ''Series/HillStreetBlues'', both of which reached #10 on the Billboard charts (and earned him a Grammy each). [[Series/TheATeam He]] [[Series/MagnumPI also]] [[Series/NYPDBlue wrote]] [[Series/CHiPS the]] [[Series/DoogieHowserMD themes]] [[Series/NewsRadio for]] [[Series/QuantumLeap a]] [[Series/TheWhiteShadow few]] [[Series/LawAndOrder other]] [[Series/BlackSheepSquadron series]] [[Series/{{Blossom}} you]] [[Series/HardcastleAndMcCormick may]] [[Series/SilkStalkings have]] [[Series/{{Renegade}} heard]] [[Series/{{Riptide}} of]], a few of which were fairly popular but didn't crack the top ten.

* [[https://web-japan.org/kidsweb/archives/cool/02-01-03/osakana.html "Osakana Tengoku"]] was originally used as a song to promote the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Association Seafood Center and was sold on [=CDs=] and tapes to grocery stores, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJDCDF2xnf8 who would play it in the seafood section]] to entice people to buy their product. The song's popularity boomed in 2001 through word of mouth, causing a mass-produced CD to be released by Pony Canon.

* A number of songs recorded for [[UsefulNotes/AVeryBritishChristmas Christmas adverts in the UK]] since 2008 have since made the charts there, such as Gabrielle Alpin's cover of Music/FrankieGoesToHollywood's "The Power Of Love", and most notably Music/EllieGoulding's version of [[Music/EltonJohn "Your Song"]], both of which went to #1. However, despite this, none have taken the coveted Christmas Number One spot, initially due to competition with the latest winner of ''Series/TheXFactor''[[note]]between 2005 and 2015 only three non-''X Factor'' songs took this honor: Music/RageAgainstTheMachine's "Killing In The Name" (2009), Gareth Malone and Military Wives' "Wherever You Are" (2011), and the Justice Collective's "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" (2012)[[/note]], but nowadays because the ad (and song) is released in November, so it tends to get overshadowed by singles and campaigns made later in the year.

* Music/SmashMouth's "Come On" was written for a Gap commercial, but eventually extended and put on their second album, ''Astro Lounge''. (Related, but not the same: the band attempted to sell the song "All Star" from the same album for use in commercials, but were turned down. They made up for this by jamming the song into every movie they could.)

* A number of songs recorded for [[UsefulNotes/AVeryBritishChristmas Christmas adverts in the UK]] since 2008 have since made the charts there, such as Gabrielle Alpin's cover of Music/FrankieGoesToHollywood's "The Power Of Love", and most notably Music/EllieGoulding's version of [[Music/EltonJohn "Your Song"]] which went to #1. However, as of 2015, none have taken the coveted Christmas Number One spot, mainly due to competition with the latest winner of ''Series/TheXFactor''[[note]]from 2005 to 2015 only four non-''X Factor'' songs took this honor: Music/RageAgainstTheMachine's "Killing In The Name" (2009), Gareth Malone and Military Wives' "Wherever You Are" (2011), the Justice Collective's "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" (2012) and the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir's "Bridge Over You" (2015)[[/note]].

* Michiya Mihashi's song "Īmondanafurusatoha" was originally used as jingles for Meiji's Karl cheese curls, sung in animated commercials by the product's mascot, Advertising/KarlOjisan, since 1976. It was released as a full length single in the year 1990, and still remains in commercials for the product to this day.