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* Hurt -- "Ten Ton Brick" or "Rapture"
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* Hurt -- "Rapture" (although "Ten Ton Brick" or "Rapture"was their highest-charting hit)
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* Grace -- "[[Film/SuicideSquad You Don't Own Me]]"
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* Belly -- "Might Not" in America (although associated mostly with Music/TheWeeknd); harder to say in Canada
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* Music/IggyAzalea -- Previously "Work", but now "Fancy", with "Black Widow" as a possible runner-up.
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* Music/IggyAzalea -- Previously "Work", but now "Fancy", with "Black Widow" as a possible runner-up.close second.
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* Des'ree -- "You Gotta Be"
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* Des'ree -- "You Gotta Be"Be" in the U.S., "Life" in Europe
* Desiigner -- "Panda"
* Desiigner -- "Panda"
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* Music/GirlsAloud -- "Biology", "Love Machine", "The Promise", "Call The Shots"
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* Music/GirlsAloud -- "Biology", "Love Machine", "The Promise", "Call The Shots"Shots", "Sound of the Underground"
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** ''Film/EightMile'' -- "Lose Yourself"
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** ''Film/EightMile'' (and overall) -- "Lose Yourself"
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** ''The Marshall Mathers LP 2'' -- "Rap God" ("The Monster" is another contender, shared with Rihanna)
** Overall -- Most likely "Lose Yourself"
** Overall -- Most likely "Lose Yourself"
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** ''The Marshall Mathers LP 2'' -- "Rap God" ("The or "The Monster" is another contender, (the latter shared with Rihanna)
** Overall -- Most likely "Lose Yourself"Rihanna)
** Overall -- Most likely "Lose Yourself"
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* Music/EaglesOfDeathMetal -- "Don't Speak" or "Wannabe in L.A."
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* Music/EaglesOfDeathMetal -- "Don't Speak" or "Wannabe in L.A.""; their cover of "[[Music/DuranDuran Save a Prayer]]" to people who first heard of them after the Paris attacks.
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* Music/FifthHarmony -- Previously "Sledgehammer" but now "Worth It"
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* Music/FifthHarmony -- Previously "Sledgehammer" but now "Worth It"It", although "Work From Home" is starting to become a contender
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* Creator/JudyGarland -- "[[Film/TheWizardOfOz Over the Rainbow]]"
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* Creator/JudyGarland -- "[[Film/TheWizardOfOz (Somewhere) Over the Rainbow]]"
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* James Newton Howard -- "[[Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1 The Hanging Tree]]". Ditto for Creator/JenniferLawrence.
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* James Newton Howard -- "[[Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1 The Hanging Tree]]". Ditto for Creator/JenniferLawrence.Tree]]" (shared with Creator/JenniferLawrence)
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* Felix Jaehn -- "Ain't Nobody (Loves Me Better)" as a lead artist, overall he's best known for his remix of OMI's "Cheerleader".
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* Felix Jaehn -- "Ain't Nobody (Loves Me Better)" (shared with Jasmine Thompson) as a lead artist, overall he's best known for his remix of OMI's "Cheerleader".
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** Overall -- "Clocks" and "Viva" are the frontrunners.
** Overall -- Most likely "Lose Yourself"
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** ''From Under the Cork Tree'' -- "Dance Dance" or "Sugar, We're Goin' Down"
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** ''From Under the Cork Tree'' (and overall) -- "Dance Dance" or "Sugar, We're Goin' Down"
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** Overall -- The ''Thriller'' signatures are the frontrunners, although "Criminal" is also a contender
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* Music/BadReligion -- "21st Century Digital Boy"
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* Music/BadReligion -- "American Jesus", "21st Century Digital Boy"Boy", or "Infected"
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* Bayside -- "Killing Time"
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* Bayside -- "Devotion and Desire" or "Killing Time"
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* Joye Manor -- "Constant Headache"
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* Music/DanielBedingfield -- "[[Film/MaidInManhattan If You're Not The One]]".
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* Music/DanielBedingfield -- "[[Film/MaidInManhattan If You're Not The One]]".One]]"
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* Foals -- "Mountain at My Gates"
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* Foals -- In the U.K, "My Number"; in the U.S., previously "Inhaler" but now "Mountain at My Gates"
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* Music/KellyClarkson -- "Since U Been Gone" or "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)"
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* Music/KellyClarkson -- "Since U Been Gone" or "Stronger ("Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)"You)" later became a rival, but has since reverted back to "Gone" indisputably)
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* Music/{{Korn}} -- "Blind" or "Freak on a Leash"
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* Music/{{Korn}} -- "Freak on a Leash" (or "Blind" or "Freak on a Leash"for older fans)
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** ''From Under the Cork Tree" -- "Dance Dance" or "Sugar, We're Goin' Down"
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** ''From Under the Cork Tree" Tree'' -- "Dance Dance" or "Sugar, We're Goin' Down"
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** ''Infinity on High'' -- "Thnks Fr th Mmrs"
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** ''Infinity on High'' -- Originally "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race", but now "Thnks Fr th Mmrs"
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* Music/FooFighters -- "Everlong" or "The Pretender"
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* Music/FooFighters -- "Everlong" or "My Hero" for their '90s work; "The Pretender"Pretender" for their post-millennium material.
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** Nick Jonas & The Administration -- "Who I Am"
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*** Nick Jonas & The Administration -- "Who I Am"
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By this point, they're so separated from association with the Jonas Brothers that they shouldn't be subcategories of them. Like how Zayn is separate from One Direction.
* DNCE -- "Cake By The Ocean"
* Music/NickJonas -- "Jealous"
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* Music/BabyMetal -- "Gimme Chocolate!!"
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** To rock audiences: "Basket Case", "Welcome to Paradise", "Longview", "When I Come Around" (from ''Music/{{Dookie}}''), and [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"]] for their '90s material; "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", "Wake Me Up When September Ends", "Holiday", "American Idiot" (from ''Music/AmericanIdiot''), "Know Your Enemy", and "21 Guns" for their '00s work.
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** To rock audiences: "Basket Case", "Welcome to Paradise", "Longview", "When I Come Around" (from ''Music/{{Dookie}}''), and [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"]] (from ''Music/{{Nimrod}}'') for their '90s material; "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", "Wake Me Up When September Ends", "Holiday", "American Idiot" (from ''Music/AmericanIdiot''), "Know Your Enemy", and "21 Guns" for their '00s work.
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* Music/{{Device}} -- "Vilify"
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** Don Henley -- "Boys of Summer"
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** Don Henley -- "Boys "The Boys of Summer"
** Giuffria -- "Call to Your Heart"
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* Music/GreenDay -- [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"]] or "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (from ''Music/AmericanIdiot''). "Basket Case" (''Music/{{Dookie}}'')
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* Music/GreenDay -- Music/GreenDay:
** To rock audiences: "Basket Case", "Welcome to Paradise", "Longview", "When I Come Around" (from ''Music/{{Dookie}}''), and [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"]]or for their '90s material; "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" Dreams", "Wake Me Up When September Ends", "Holiday", "American Idiot" (from ''Music/AmericanIdiot''). "Basket Case" (''Music/{{Dookie}}'')''Music/AmericanIdiot''), "Know Your Enemy", and "21 Guns" for their '00s work.
** To general audiences: Almost certainly "Good Riddance" for the '90s and "Boulevard" for the '00s.
** To rock audiences: "Basket Case", "Welcome to Paradise", "Longview", "When I Come Around" (from ''Music/{{Dookie}}''), and [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"]]
** To general audiences: Almost certainly "Good Riddance" for the '90s and "Boulevard" for the '00s.
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* Music/{{Journey}} -- "Don't Stop Believin'" [[note]]although prior to its mid-2000s resurrection "Open Arms" was considered this.[[/note]]
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* Music/{{Journey}} -- To older audiences and fans of rock music, it's tough to say: contenders include "Don't Stop Believin'" [[note]]although prior to its mid-2000s resurrection Believin'", "Any Way You Want It", "Faithfully", "Open Arms" was considered this.[[/note]]Arms", "Who's Crying Now", "Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'" and "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)". To younger, more casual listeners, it's far and away "Don't Stop Believin'"
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* Music/AlterBridge -- "Rise Today" or "[[Wrestling/{{Edge}} Metalingus]]"
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* Music/AlterBridge -- "Open Your Eyes" or "Rise Today" or to rock fans; "[[Wrestling/{{Edge}} Metalingus]]"Metalingus]]" to wrestling fans.
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* Music/RickAstley -- Intially "Never Gonna Give You Up" or "Together Forever", but now indisputably [[{{Rickroll}} the former]].
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* Music/RickAstley -- Intially either "Never Gonna Give You Up" or "Together Forever", but now indisputably [[{{Rickroll}} the former]].
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* Avicii -- "Wake Me Up!" to general audiences, "Levels" to EDM audiences.
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* Avicii -- "Levels" or "Wake Me Up!" to general EDM audiences, "Levels" unquestionably the latter to EDM audiences.mainstream ones.
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* Kelsea Ballerini -- "Love Me Like You Mean It"
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* Kelsea Ballerini -- "Love Me Like You Mean It"It" or "Dibs"
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* Music/SaraBareilles -- "Love Song", "King of Anything", or "Brave"
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* Music/SaraBareilles -- "Love Song", Song"; with "King of Anything", Anything" or "Brave""Brave" as runner ups.
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* Music/TheBeatles -- Averted. The Beatles have so many iconic songs that it's next to impossible to single out ''just one'' as their signature.
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* Music/TheBeatles -- Averted. The Beatles have so many iconic songs that it's next to impossible to single out ''just one'' as their signature. Even picking out signatures from individual albums isn't much easier a task.
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* Music/JustinBieber -- "Baby" for his TeenIdol era, and "What Do You Mean" for his CareerResurrection
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* Music/JustinBieber -- "Baby" for his TeenIdol era, and "What Do You Mean" "Sorry" for his CareerResurrection
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* Music/MichelleBranch -- "Everywhere"
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* Cracker -- "Low" or "Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)"
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* Cracker -- Previously either "Low" or "Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)"Now)"; now unarguably the former.
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* Music/{{Coldplay}} -- "Viva la Vida" (or "Clocks" from ''Music/ARushOfBloodToTheHead'' for older fans)
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* Music/{{Coldplay}} -- By album:
** ''Parachutes'' -- "Yellow"
** ''A Rush of Blood to the Head'' -- "Clocks"
** ''X&Y'' -- Originally "Speed of Sound", but overtime became "Fix You"
** ''Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends'' -- "Viva laVida" (or "Clocks" from ''Music/ARushOfBloodToTheHead'' for older fans)Vida"
** ''Mylo Xyloto'' -- "Paradise"
** ''Ghost Stories'' -- "A Sky Full of Stars"
** ''A Head Full of Dreams'' -- "Adventure of a Lifetime"
** ''Parachutes'' -- "Yellow"
** ''A Rush of Blood to the Head'' -- "Clocks"
** ''X&Y'' -- Originally "Speed of Sound", but overtime became "Fix You"
** ''Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends'' -- "Viva la
** ''Mylo Xyloto'' -- "Paradise"
** ''Ghost Stories'' -- "A Sky Full of Stars"
** ''A Head Full of Dreams'' -- "Adventure of a Lifetime"
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* 10 Years -- "Wasteland"
* 12 Stones -- "[[Wrestling/TheNexus We Are One]]" or "Broken"
* Music/The13thFloorElevators -- "You're Gonna Miss Me"
* [[Music/SixteenHorsepower 16 Horsepower]] -- "Black Soul Choir"
* 2Cellos -- "[[Music/MichaelJackson Smooth]] [[Series/{{Glee}} Criminal]]"
* [[Music/TwoChainz 2 Chainz]] -- "Birthday Song"
* [[Music/TwoLiveCrew 2 Live Crew]]-- "Me So Horny"
* 2 Unlimited -- "Get Ready For This"
* Music/TwoNEOne -- "I Am The Best"
* [[Music/ThreeEleven 311]] -- "Down" or "Amber"
* [[Music/ThreeDoorsDown 3 Doors Down]] -- "Kryptonite", with "Here Without You" as a close second.
* Music/ThreeInchesOfBlood -- "Deadly Sinners" or "Destroy the Orcs"
* 3OH!3 -- "Don't Trust Me"
* 4 Non Blondes -- "What's Up?"
* Music/5ive -- "Keep On Movin'".
* [[Music/RobZombie John]] [[Music/MarilynManson 5]] -- "[[SerialKiller Black Widow of]] [[Creator/{{cs188}} La Porte]]"
* Music/FiveSecondsOfSummer -- "She Looks So Perfect"
* [[Music/FiftyCent 50 Cent]] -- "In Da Club"
* The 5th Dimension -- "[[Theatre/{{Hair}} Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In]]"
* ^5daysofstatic -- "Radio Protector"
* 69 Boyz -- "Tootsie Roll"
* 8ball & MJG -- "Space Age Pimpin"
* [[Music/TheNineteenSeventyFive The 1975]] -- "Chocolate", "Love Me" is becoming a contender.
* 911 -- "Love Sensation"
* 98 Degrees -- "Give Me Just One Night (Una Noche)"
** Nick Lachey -- "What's Left of Me"
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* Music/{{Aaliyah}} -- "[[Film/RomeoMustDie Try Again]]", or "One in a Million"
* Music/{{ABBA}} -- "Mamma Mia" (from ''[[Music/AbbaAlbum Abba]]'') or "Dancing Queen" (from ''Music/{{Arrival}}'')
* Music/{{ABC}} -- "The Look of Love"
* Music/PaulaAbdul -- "Straight Up" or "Opposites Attract"
* Music/{{Abnormality}} -- "[[VideoGame/RockBand Visions]]"
* Music/{{ACDC}} -- "Long Way to the Top" was Bon Scott's signature song, and so identified with him that Brian Johnson won't perform it. It's also regarded as the band's signature song in their native Australia. In America, "Highway to Hell" is regarded as Bon Scott's signature song. For Brian Johnson, it's "Thunderstruck" in Australia and "Back in Black" (from ''Music/BackInBlack'') in America.
* Music/{{Accept}} -- "Balls to the Wall"
* Ace Hood -- "Bugatti"
* Music/AceOfBase -- "[[Film/PitchPerfect The Sign]]"
* Music/BryanAdams -- "Summer of '69", "Heaven" or "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You"
* Music/{{Adele}} -- "Rolling In The Deep", "Someone Like You", "Set Fire to the Rain" or "Hello"
* Adelitas Way -- "Sick"
* Music/{{Adema}} -- "Giving In"
* Music/ADayToRemember -- "The Plot to Bomb the Panhandle"
* Aero Chord -- "Surface"
* Music/{{Aerosmith}} -- "Dream On" or "Walk This Way" (shared with Music/RunDMC) for their earlier work, "[[Film/{{Armageddon}} I Don't Want To Miss A Thing]]" for their later years
* Music/AesopRock -- "Daylight" or "None Shall Pass"
* Afghan Whigs -- "Debonair"
* Music/{{AFI}} -- "Prelude 12-21/Miss Murder" (or "God Called In Sick Today" for older fans)
* Afrojack -- "Take Over Control" was his highest-charting hit as a lead artist, but "Can't Stop Me" is also remembered due to its success in dance clubs.
* Afroman -- "Because I Got High"
* After 7 -- "Ready or Not" and "Can't Stop"
* Agent Orange -- "Bloodstains"
* Music/ChristinaAguilera -- "Beautiful"
* Music/{{aha}} -- "Take On Me"
* Aiden -- "Die Romantic"
* Music/{{Air}} -- "All I Need"
* Airbourne -- "Runnin' Wild" or "Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast"
* Air Supply -- "All Out of Love"
* AJR -- "[[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants I'm Ready]]"
* Akon -- "I Wanna Love You" (and, to a lesser degree, "Smack That" and/or "Don't Matter")
* Alabama 3 -- "[[Series/TheSopranos Woke Up this Morning]]"
* Music/TheAlanParsonsProject -- "Eye In The Sky"
* Hans Albers -- "La Paloma" and "Auf der Reeperbahn Nachts um halb Eins"
* Jason Aldean -- "Dirt Road Anthem"
* Alesso -- "Heroes (We Could Be)" (although associated more with Music/ToveLo)
* Music/{{Alestorm}} -- [[LazyTown You Are a Pirate]]
* Music/{{Alexisonfire}} -- "This Could Be Anywhere in the World"
* Music/AliceInChains -- "Man in the Box" "Would" or "Rooster"
** Post-Layne Staley: "Check my Brain" or "Hollow
** Creator/JerryCantrell: "Cut You In" or "Anger Rising"
* Music/AlienAntFarm -- "[[Music/MichaelJackson Smooth Criminal]]"
* Alkaline Trio -- "Calling All Skeletons" (or "Time to Waste" for older fans)
* Music/LilyAllen -- "Smile", "[[Film/PitchPerfect Fuck You]]" and "Hard Out Here (For A Bitch)"
* All Levels at Once -- "Flutershy's Lament" or "Pony Should Pony Pony"
* Music/AllSaints -- "Never Ever" and "[[Film/TheBeach Pure Shores]]".
* AllThatRemains -- "Two Weeks"
* Music/AllTimeLow -- "Dear Maria, Count Me In"
* Music/TheAllAmericanRejects -- "Dirty Little Secret", "Move Along", or "Gives You Hell"
** Tyson Ritter -- "Air"
* Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand -- "Ramblin' Man"
* Alphabeat -- "Fascination"
* Alphaville -- "Big in Japan" or "Forever Young," although the latter has gained the advantage ever since Jay-Z sampled it.
* Alpinestars -- "Carbon Kid"
* Music/AlterBridge -- "Rise Today" or "[[Wrestling/{{Edge}} Metalingus]]"
* [=AlunaGeorge=] -- "Attracting Flies" in the UK, "You Know You Like It"[[note]]specifically the official remix by DJ Snake[[/note]] internationally
* Amber Pacific -- "Always You (Good Times)" or "Fall Back Into My Life"
* Marsha Ambrosius -- "Far Away" or "Butterflies"
* Music/{{America}} -- "A Horse with No Name"
* American Authors -- "Best Day of My Life"
* Amerie - "[[Film/{{Hitch}} 1 Thing]]"
* Amiina -- "Seoul"
* Music/AmonAmarth -- "The Pursuit of Vikings", "Death in Fire", or "Twilight of the Thunder God"
* Music/ToriAmos -- "Cornflake Girl"
* Anastacia -- "I'm Outta Love"
* Music/{{Anberlin}} -- "Feel Good Drag"
* And One -- "Military Fashion Show"
* Andee -- "Never Gone"
* Music/LaurieAnderson -- "O Superman"
* The Angels (Australian band) -- "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again"
* The Angels (American girl group) -- "My Boyfriend's Back"
* Music/{{Angelspit}} -- "100%" or "Vena Cava"
* Aneka -- "Japanese Boy"
* Music/AnimalCollective -- "My Girls"
* Music/TheAnimals -- "[[CoveredUp The House of the Rising Sun]]" or "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place"
* Anjulie -- "Brand New Bitch" or "Stand Behind the Music"
* Music/{{Annihilator}} -- "Alison Hell"
* Another Animal -- "Broken Again"
* Music/{{Anthrax}} -- "Caught in A Mosh" for the Joey Belladonna years, "Only" for John Bush's tenure.
* Antony and the Johnsons -- "Hope There's Someone"
** Hercules and Love Affair -- "Blind" (Features vocals from Antony Hagerty)
* Music/{{AOA}} -- "Miniskirt" for the dance unit and the group's most well-known song overall
* A Perfect Circle -- "Judith"
* Music/AphexTwin -- "Windowlicker" and "Come to Daddy"
* Music/APink -- "No No No"
* Fiona Apple -- "Criminal"
* Music/{{Apocalyptica}} -- "I Don't Care" (Often wrongly attributed to Music/ThreeDaysGrace because Adam Gontier sings it)
* Apollo 440 -- "Stop The Rock"
* Music/{{Aqua}} -- "Barbie Girl"
* Aranda -- "[=WhyYaWannaBringMeDown=]"
* Music/ArcadeFire -- "Wake Up" or "My Body Is A Cage"
* Music/ArcticMonkeys -- "I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor" (from ''Music/WhateverPeopleSayIAmThatsWhatIAmNot'') or "Do I Wanna Know?" in the UK; unquestionably the latter in the U.S. (though "R U Mine?" could be considered this to a lesser extent).
* Arch Enemy -- "Nemesis"
* The Archies -- "Sugar, Sugar"
* David Archuleta -- "Crush"
* Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti -- "Round and Round"
* Arkona -- "Rus'" for older listeners,"[[Series/{{The Office}} Yarilo]]" for newer ones
* Louis Armstrong -- "West End Blues", "Potato Head Blues" (collected on ''Music/TheCompleteHotFiveAndHotSevenRecordings''), "Hello Dolly" and "What a Wonderful World"
* Music/ArtOfDying -- "Die Trying"
* Army of Anyone -- "Goodbye"
* [=AronChupa=] -- "I'm An Albatraoz"
* Music/EduardArtemyev -- "Film/{{Siberiade}}" theme
* A$AP Ferg -- "Work" or "Shabba"
* [[Music/ASAPRocky A$AP Rocky]] -- "Fuckin' Problems"
* Ashanti -- "Foolish"
* Ashes Divide -- "The Stone"
* Asia -- "Heat of the Moment"
* Music/AsianKungFuGeneration -- "[[Manga/{{Naruto}} Haruka Kanata]] to western audiences, in Japan it's debatable.
* Music/AskingAlexandria -- "The Final Episode"
* Music/RickAstley -- Intially "Never Gonna Give You Up" or "Together Forever", but now indisputably [[{{Rickroll}} the former]].
* Music/AtTheDriveIn -- "One-Armed Scissor"
* Music/AtTheGates -- "Blinded by Fear"
* The Ataris -- Their cover of Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer"
* Atlantic Starr -- "Always" and "Secret Lovers"
* Music/{{Atmosphere}} -- "Trying to Find a Balance"
* Music/AtomicKitten -- "[[CoverVersion Eternal Flame]];, "The Tide is High" or "Whole Again"
* Atom Smash -- "Do Her Wrong"
* Atreyu -- "Bleeding Mascara" or "Ravenous"
* Attack -- "Ooa Hela Natten"
* Attack Attack! -- "Stick Stickly"
* Attila -- "About that Life"
* Audioslave -- "Like a Stone" or "Cochise"
* Augustana -- "Boston"
* The Automatic -- "Monster" (from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' among others)
* Autopilot Off -- "Clockwork" or "Make a Sound"
* The Avalanches -- "Frontier Psychiatrist"
* Mickey Avalon -- "Jane Fonda"
* Music/{{Avantasia}} -- "Dying for an Angel"
* Music/AvengedSevenfold -- "Bat Country" or "Beast and the Harlot" for their earlier material, "Hail to the King" or "Shepherd of Fire" for their later work.
* Avicii -- "Wake Me Up!" to general audiences, "Levels" to EDM audiences.
* Music/{{AWOLNATION}} -- "Sail"
* Music/IggyAzalea -- Previously "Work", but now "Fancy", with "Black Widow" as a possible runner-up.
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* Music/BBKing -- "[[CoveredUp The Thrill is Gone]]"
* B.o.B. -- "Airplanes" or "Nothin' On You" (although the former is just as much associated with Hayley Williams and and the latter almost universally with Bruno Mars, who sing their choruses.) For songs solely by him, "Flatline" [[NeverLiveItDown may soon be a contender]].
* Music/TheB52s -- "Love Shack" or "Rock Lobster"
* Baauer -- "Harlem Shake"
* Baby Bash -- "Suga Suga" or "Cyclone"
* Babybird -- "You're Gorgeous"
* Babyface -- "When Can I See You"
* Music/JohannSebastianBach -- "Music/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor" or the "Mass in B Minor"
* Tal Bachman -- "She's So High"
* Bachman-Turner Overdrive -- Initially "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"; more recently "Takin' Care Of Business"
* Music/BackstreetBoys -- "I Want It That Way", followed closely by "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)"
* Music/BadBrains -- "Pay to Cum"
* Music/BadCompany -- "Bad Company" . . . from the album [[SelfTitledAlbum Bad Company]] (and later a hit for Five Finger Death Punch).
* BadLipReading -- "[[Music/RebeccaBlack Gang Fight]]," "[[MichaelBuble Russian Unicorn]]"
* Music/BadReligion -- "21st Century Digital Boy"
* Badfinger -- "[[Series/BreakingBad Baby Blue]]"
* Music/ErykahBadu -- "Tyrone"
* Music/JoanBaez -- "Diamonds & Rust"
* Baha Men -- "Who Let the Dogs Out?"
* Anita Baker -- "Sweet Love"
* Creator/JosephineBaker -- "J'ai deux amours"
* Balance and Composure -- "Quake"
* Kelsea Ballerini -- "Love Me Like You Mean It"
* Baltimora -- "[[OneHitWonder Tarzan Boy]]"
* Music/AfrikaBambaataa -- "Planet Rock"
* Bananarama -- "Venus" or "Cruel Summer"; while the former was a bigger hit in its heyday, its status as a CoverVersion could give the latter the advantage.
* Music/TheBand -- "The Weight" (from ''Music/TheBandAlbum The Band]]'')
* Band of Skulls -- "Death by Diamonds and Pearls" or "Light of the Morning"
* Music/TheBandPerry -- "If I Die Young"
* Bang Camaro -- "Push Push (Lady Lightning)"
* Chiddy Bang --"Opposite of Adults"
* Music/TheBangles -- "Walk Like an Egyptian"
* Kirko Bangz -- "Drank In My Cup"
* Music/{{BANKS}} -- "Beggin For Thread"
* David Banner -- "Play"
* The Bar-Kays -- (Original lineup) "Soul Finger", (New Lineup) "Freakshow On The Dance Floor"
* Music/SaraBareilles -- "Love Song", "King of Anything", or "Brave"
* Music/BarenakedLadies -- "One Week" and to a lesser extent, "If I Had $1000000". In Canada, "Pinch Me" works as well.
* Jimmy Barnes -- "Working Class Man"
* Courtney Barnett -- "Pedestrian At Best"
* Music/SydBarrett -- "See Emily Play" or "Astronomy Domine"(from ''Music/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn'') with Music/PinkFloyd, "Dark Globe" as a solo artist
* Creator/JohnBarrowman -- "You're So Vain", the orchestral arrangement makes it immediately recognizable from Simon's version
* Toni Basil -- "[[OneHitWonder Mickey]]"
* Music/BasementJaxx -- "Where's Your Head At?"
* Bass Drum of Death -- "Crawling After You"
* Shirley Bassey -- "[[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Goldfinger]]"
* Bastille -- "Pompeii" in the U.S., although "Of the Night" is also a candidate in the UK.
* Music/BatForLashes -- "Daniel"
* Music/{{Bathory}} -- "A Fine Day to Die" or "One Rode to Asa Bay"
* Music/{{Battles}} -- "Atlas"
* Music/{{Bauhaus}} -- "Bela Lugosi's Dead"
* James Bay - "Hold Back the River" or "Let It Go"
* Bayside -- "Killing Time"
* Music/BeastieBoys -- "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)" (despite the CreatorBacklash) or "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" for their '80s material, "Sabotage" or "Intergalactic" for their '90s output.
* Music/BeachHouse -- "Norway" or "Zebra"
* Music/TheBeachBoys -- "Good Vibrations" (from ''Music/SmileySmile'') and "God Only Knows" (from ''Music/PetSounds'')
* Music/BeatHappening -- "Indian Summer"
* Music/TheBeatles -- Averted. The Beatles have so many iconic songs that it's next to impossible to single out ''just one'' as their signature.
* Music/{{Beck}} -- "Loser" (from ''Music/MellowGold'')
* Becky G -- "Shower"
* Music/DanielBedingfield -- "[[Film/MaidInManhattan If You're Not The One]]".
* Natasha Bedingfield -- "Unwritten" or "[[Film/EasyA Pocketful of Sunshine]]"
* Music/TheBeeGees -- "[[Film/SaturdayNightFever Stayin' Alive]]"
* Music/LudwigVanBeethoven -- "Ode to Joy" or "Symphony No. 5 in C Minor - 1st Movement"
* Lou Bega -- "[[OneHitWonder Mambo No. 5]]"
* Bell Biv Devoe -- "Poison"
* Drake Bell -- "[[Series/DrakeAndJosh I Found a Way]]"
* Music/BelleAndSebastian -- "The Boy with the Arab Strap"
* Music/BenFoldsFive -- "Brick"
* Benny Benassi -- "Satisfaction" in Europe; "Cinema" in America
* Music/PatBenatar -- "Love is a Battlefield" or "Hit Me With Your Best Shot"
* Berlin -- "Take My Breath Away" (ironically, the one hit single they had that they didn't actually write themselves)
* Music/GeorgeBenson -- "Give Me The Night"
* Music/LeonardBernstein -- "Somewhere", "Tonight", "I Feel Pretty"... Pretty much the entirety of Theatre/WestSideStory
* Music/ChuckBerry -- "[[Film/BackToTheFuture Johnny B. Goode]]"[[note]]even though "My Ding-A-Ling" was his sole #1 hit[[/note]]
* Music/BestCoast -- "Boyfriend"
* Better Than Ezra -- "Good"
* Music/BetweenTheBuriedAndMe -- "White Walls"
* Beware of Darkness -- "Howl"
* Music/{{Beyonce}} -- "Irreplaceable", "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" or "Crazy in Love"
* Music/JustinBieber -- "Baby" for his TeenIdol era, and "What Do You Mean" for his CareerResurrection
* Music/BiffyClyro -- "[[TheXFactor Many]] [[CoveredUp of]] [[RefrainFromAssuming Horror]]", and maybe "[[VideoGame/GuitarHeroLive Victory Over the Sun]]"
* Big & Rich -- Initially "Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)", then "Lost In This Moment," but has since gone back to being "Save A Horse"
* Music/BigBang -- "Fantastic Baby"
* Music/BigBlack -- "Kerosene"
* Music/TheBigBopper - "Chantilly Lace".
* Big Data -- "Dangerous"
* Music/BigSean -- "Dance (A$$)" or "I Don't Fuck With You"
* Music/BigStar -- "September Gurls"
* Series/BigTimeRush -- "Big Time Rush"
* Big Tymers -- "Still Fly"
* Music/BikiniKill -- "Rebel Girl"
* Music/BillHaleyAndHisComets -- "Rock Around the Clock"
* The Bird & The Bee -- "Fucking Boyfriend"
* Birdy -- "Skinny Love"
* Birds of Tokyo -- "Plans" or "Lanterns"
* Music/TheBirthdayMassacre -- "Happy Birthday" or "Music/{{Blue}}"
* The Birthday Party -- "Relese the Bats"
* Georges Bizet -- "Les Toreadors"
* Music/{{Bjork}} -- "It's Oh So Quiet" (from ''Music/{{Post}}'')
* Aloe Blacc -- Overall, his uncredited appearance on Avicii's "Wake Me Up!"; for his solo work, "I Need a Dollar" in Europe and "The Man" in North America
* Black -- "Wonderful Life"
* Music/RebeccaBlack -- "Music/{{Friday}}"
** Mike Bauer -- "Friday, as performed by Bob Dylan"
** Funnyz -- "Friday (Music Video Parody)" (AKA the "Fried Eggs" parody)
* Music/TheBlackCrowes -- Their cover of Otis Redding's "Hard to Handle"
* Music/BlackEyedPeas -- used to be "Where is the Love?", then "Let's Get [[strike:Retarded]] It Started" or "My Humps", now "I Gotta Feeling"
** will.i.am -- "Scream & Shout"
** Fergie -- "Big Girls Don't Cry" or "Fergalicious"
* Music/BlackFlag -- "Rise Above"
** The Rollins Band -- "Liar"
* Music/TheBlackKeys -- "Tighten Up", "Howlin' For You", "Lonely Boy", or, for newer fans, "Gold On The Ceiling". Prior to ''Music/{{Brothers}}'', it was "Strange Times".
** The Arcs -- "Outta My Mind"
* Black Lab -- "Wash it Away"
* Music/BlackLabelSociety -- "Stillborn"
* Black Stone Cherry -- "White Trash Millionaire"
* Blessid Union of Souls -- Initially "I Believe", but has been gradually displaced by "Hey Leonardo (She Likes Me For Me)". ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' fans would cite "Brother My Brother".
* Music/BlackSabbath -- "[[Film/ThreeHundredRiseOfAnEmpire War Pigs]]", "Paranoid", or "Iron Man", depending on where you live
** Music/RonnieJamesDio era -- "Heaven & Hell"
* Music/BlackVeilBrides -- "In the End"
* Bleachers -- "I Wanna Get Better"
* Music/MaryJBlige -- "Be Without You" or "Family Affair","Not Gonna Cry", or even "Real Love"
* Music/BlindGuardian -- "The Bard's Song, "In the Forest" or "Mirror Mirror"
* Music/BlindMelon -- "[[OneHitWonder No Rain]]"
* Music/{{Blink 182}} -- "All the Small Things"
* Music/BlocParty -- "Helicopter"
* Music/{{Blondie}} -- "One Way or Another" [[note]]previously "Heart of Glass"[[/note]]
* Music/BloodhoundGang -- "The Bad Touch"
* Blue -- "One Love"
* Blue Cheer -- "Summertime Blues"
* Music/BlueOysterCult -- "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (from ''Music/AgentsOfFortune'')
* Blue October -- "Hate Me"
* Music/BlueStahli -- "Ultranumb"
* Blues Traveler -- "Run-Around"
* Blue Swede -- "[[CoveredUp Hooked]] [[Film/ReservoirDogs on a]] [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Feeling]]"
* Music/JamesBlunt -- "You're Beautiful"
* Music/{{Blur}} -- "Song 2" in the US, "Parklife" in the UK
* Blut Aus Nord -- "Epitome I"
* Music/BoardsOfCanada -- "Roygbiv"
* Bone Crusher -- "(I Ain't) Never Scared"
* Music/BonJovi -- "Livin' on a Prayer", "You Give Love a Bad Name", or "Wanted Dead or Alive"
** Creator/JonBonJovi -- "Blaze of Glory"
* Music/BoneThugsNHarmony -- "Tha Crossroads"
* Boney M. -- "Rasputin"
* The Boo Radleys -- "Wake Up Boo!"
* The Boomtown Rats -- "I Don't Like Mondays"
* Music/{{Boston}} -- "More Than a Feeling"
* Music/DavidBowie -- By album:
** ''Music/SpaceOddity'' -- "Space Oddity"
** ''Music/TheManWhoSoldTheWorld'' -- "The Man Who Sold the World"
** ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' -- "Ziggy Stardust"
** ''Music/DiamondDogs'' -- "Rebel Rebel"
** ''Music/YoungAmericans'' -- "Fame"
** ''Music/{{Heroes}}'' -- "Heroes"
** ''Music/LetsDance'' -- "Let's Dance"
** ''Music/{{Earthling}}'' -- "I'm Afraid of Americans"
** ''Music/{{Blackstar}}'' -- "Lazarus"
* Music/BowlingForSoup -- "1985"
* Bow Wow -- "Fresh Azimiz"
* Boys Like Girls -- "The Great Escape"
* Music/BoyzIIMen -- "End of the Road"
* Music/{{Boyzone}} -- "No Matter What" or/and "I Love The Way You Love Me"
** Music/RonanKeating -- "[[Film/NottingHill When You Say Nothing At All]]"
** Music/StephenGately -- "New Beginning"
* Billy Bragg -- "A New England"
* Music/MichelleBranch -- "Everywhere"
* Music/GeorgesBrassens -- "Les Copains D' Abord"
* Music/JohannesBrahms — Lullaby (Wiegenlied) in E Flat (often referred to as "Brahms' Lullaby")
* Brainpower -- "Dansplaat" in Europe; "[[Podcast/WelcometoNightVale Mijn Manier]]" to a certain desert community.
* Music/MichelleBranch -- "Everywhere"
* Music/{{Brand New}} -- "Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades"
* Brand New Heavies -- [[CoveredUp "Midnight at the Oasis"]]
* Toni Braxton -- "Un-Break My Heart"
* Music/BreakingBenjamin -- "The Diary of Jane" or "I Will Not Bow" for their original lineup (or "[[VideoGame/{{Halo2}} Blow Me Away]]" for VideoGame/{{Halo}} fans), and "Failure" for their comeback.
* Breathe Carolina -- "Blackout"
* Music/JacquesBrel -- "Ne Me Quitte Pas" and "Le Plat Pays"
* Edie Brickell & New Bohemians -- "What I Am"
* Bright Eyes -- "Lua" or "First Day of My Life"
* Music/BringMeTheHorizon -- "Throne"
* Music/GarthBrooks -- "The Dance" or "Friends in Low Places"
* Meredith Brooks -- "Bitch"
* Brooks & Dunn -- "Boot Scootin' Boogie"
* Music/ChrisBrown -- "Run It!", "Yeah 3x" or "Look At Me Now"
* Music/HavanaBrown -- "We Run The Night"
* Music/JamesBrown -- "I Got You (I Feel Good)"
* Sawyer Brown -- "Drive Me Wild"
* Music/ZacBrownBand -- "Chicken Fried" (and, to a lesser degree, "Toes") plus "[[Music/ChrisCornell Heavy is the Head]]" for rock audiences
* Music/JacksonBrowne -- "Doctor My Eyes"
* Brownsville Station -- "Smokin' in the Boys Room"
* Brothers Osborne -- "Stay a Little Longer"
* The Dave Brubeck Quartet -- "Take Five"
* Luke Bryan -- "That's My Kind Of Night"
* Chase Bryant -- "Take It On Back"
* Peabo Bryson -- "If Ever You're in My Arms Again"
* Music/{{BT}} -- "Flaming June"
* Music/MichaelBuble -- "Haven't Met You Yet"
* Music/{{Buckethead}} -- "[[VideoGame/GuitarHero Jordan]]"
* Music/{{Buckcherry}} -- "Crazy Bitch" to rock audiences; "Sorry" to mainstream audiences
* Buckner & Garcia -- "Pac-Man Fever"
* Buckwheat Boyz -- "Peanut Butter Jelly Time"
* Music/BuffaloSpringfield -- "For What It's Worth"
* Music/JimmyBuffett -- "Margaritaville"
* Music/TheBuggles -- [[{{MTV}} "Video Killed the Radio Star"]]
* Building 147 -- "Where I Belong"
* Music/BuiltToSpill -- "Car"
* Music/BulletForMyValentine -- "Tears Don't Fall", with "You Want a Battle? (Here's a War)" becoming a strong contender.
* Burial -- "Archangel"
* Solomon Burke -- "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" or "Got to Get You Off My Mind"
* Burn Halo -- "Dirty Little Girl"
* Music/{{Burzum}} -- "Dunkelheit" or "My Journey to the Stars"
* Bush -- "Everything Zen"
* Music/KateBush -- "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)"
* Stan Bush -- "[[TransformersTheMovie The Touch]]"
* Music/BustaRhymes -- "Woo-Hah!! Got You All In Check"
* Music/ButtholeSurfers -- "Pepper"
* Armin van Buuren -- "This Is What It Feels Like"
* Music/{{Buzzcocks}} -- "Ever Fallen In Love" or "Everybody's Happy Nowadays"
* Music/TheByrds -- [[CoveredUp "Mr. Tambourine Man]] (from ''Music/MisterTambourineMan'') or [[CoveredUp "Turn, Turn, Turn"]] (from ''Music/TurnTurnTurn'')
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[[folder:C]]
* Cabaret Voltaire -- "Yashar"
* Caesars -- "Jerk It Out"
* Music/JohnCage -- "4'33"" [[note]][[SilenceIsGolden So his most famous song is literally nothing...]][[/note]]
* Music/CageTheElephant -- "[[VideoGame/{{Borderlands}} Ain't No Rest For the Wicked]]"
* Cali Swag District -- "Teach Me How to Dougie"
* Music/ColbieCaillat -- "Bubbly"
* Music/{{CAKE}} -- "The Distance"
* Music/TheCalling -- "Wherever You Will Go"
* Cab Calloway -- "Minnie the Moocher"
* Cam -- "Burning House"
* Music/{{Camel}} -- "Echoes"
* Cameo -- "Word Up!"
* Craig Campbell -- "Keep Them Kisses Comin'"
* Music/CamperVanBeethoven -- "Take the Skinheads Bowling"
* Candlebox -- "Far Behind"
* Music/{{Candlemass}} -- "Demon's Gate" or "The Black Dwarf"
* Music/CannedHeat -- "Going Up the Country"
* Music/CannibalCorpse -- "Hammer Smashed Face"
* Capital Cities -- "Safe & Sound"
* Tim Cappello -- "I Still Believe"
* Music/AlessiaCara -- "Here"
* Caramell -- "[[MemeticMutation Caramelldansen]]"
* Music/{{Carcass}} -- "Heartwork" or "Corporal Jigsore Quandary"
* Ian Carey -- "Amnesia"
* Music/MariahCarey -- "Hero" or "Fantasy" for her earlier era, and "We Belong Together" more recently
* Caribou -- "Odessa"
* Belinda Carlisle -- "Heaven Is a Place on Earth"
* Kim Carnes -- [[CoveredUp "Bette Davis Eyes"]]
* Music/VanessaCarlton -- "A Thousand Miles"
* Music/TheCars -- "Just What I Needed"
* The Cardigans -- "Lovefool"
* Music/{{Cascada}} -- "Everytime We Touch"
* Music/JohnnyCash -- "Ring of Fire" or "I Walk the Line"
* Music/CashCash -- "Take Me Home"
* Ca$h Out -- "Cashing Out"
* Cassie -- "Me & U"
* Music/{{Cathedral}} -- "Hopkins (The Witchfinder General)"
* Music/NickCave -- "Red Right Hand" (from ''Music/LetLoveIn'') (or "[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows O Children]]" for HarryPotter fans)
* Cavo -- "Champagne"
* Music/CeeLoGreen -- "Fuck/Forget You!"
** Music/GnarlsBarkley -- "Crazy"
** Goodie Mob -- "Cell Therapy"
* Music/{{Celldweller}} -- "Switchback" or, for their orchestral era, "[[Film/RealSteel Wings of Icarus]]"
* Music/CelticFrost -- "Circle of The Tyrants" or "Into Crypt of Rays"
* Peter Cetera -- "Glory of Love"
* Chad & Jeremy -- "A Summer Song"
* The Chainsmokers -- "Roses"
* Chairmen of the Board -- "Give Me Just a Little More Time"
* The Chambers Brothers -- "Time Has Come Today"
* Chamillionare -- "Ridin'"
* The Champs -- "Tequila"
* Gene Chandler -- "Duke of Earl"
* Music/HarryChapin -- "Cats in the Cradle"
* Music/TracyChapman -- "Fast Car"
* Music/RayCharles -- "Georgia On My Mind" or "Hit The Road Jack"
* Music/CharliXCX -- "[[Film/TheFaultInOurStars Boom Clap]]"
* Music/CheapTrick -- "I Want You to Want Me" or "Surrender"
* Chubby Checker -- "The Twist"
* Music/TheChemicalBrothers -- "Hey Girl Hey Boy" or "Galvanize"
* Music/{{Cher}} -- "Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves" for her older work, "Believe" for her newer material.
* Cherish -- "Do It To It"
* Music/{{Chevelle}} -- "The Red", "Send The Pain Below" or, for newer fans, "Jars"
* Eagle-Eye Cherry -- "Save Tonight"
* Neneh Cherry -- "Buffalo Stance"
* Cherry Poppin' Daddies -- "Zoot Suit Riot"
* Kenny Chesney -- "The Good Stuff"
* Creator/MauriceChevalier -- "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" (at least in America). In France "Valentine" is considered to be his SignatureSong.
* Music/{{Chic}} -- "Le Freak"
* Music/{{Chicago}} -- "25 or 6 to 4"
* Music/ChiefKeef -- "I Don't Like"
* The Chiffons -- "He's So Fine"
* Music/ChildrenOfBodom -- "Needled 24/7" or "Are You Dead Yet?"
* The Chi-Lites -- "Have You Seen Her" or "Oh Girl"
* Music/{{Chimaira}} -- "Pure Hatred"
* Chingy -- "Right Thurr"
* [[WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks The Chipmunks]] -- "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)"
* Music/{{Chiodos}} -- "Baby, You Wouldn't Last A Minuite on The Creek"
* Music/FryderykChopin -- "Funeral March"
* The Chordettes -- "Mr. Sandman" or "Lollipop"
* Lou Christie -- "Lightning Strikes"
* Chromeo -- "Jealous (I Ain't With It)"
* Music/{{Chumbawamba}} -- "Tubthumping"
* Eric Church -- "Springsteen"
* The Church -- "Under the Milky Way"
* Music/{{CHVRCHES}} -- "The Mother We Share"
* Music/{{Ciara}} -- "Goodies" or "1, 2 Step"
* Music/{{Cimorelli}} -- "Made in America" or "Hearts on Fire"
* Circa Survive -- "The Difference Between Medicine and Drugs is in the Dose"
* Creator/CirqueDuSoleil -- "Theatre/{{Alegria}}" (the only song that appears in some way on each of their first three [[GreatestHitsAlbum greatest hits albums]]) or "[[Theatre/{{Mystere}} Kunya Sobe]]".
* Citizen King -- "Better Days (And the Bottom Drops Out)"
* City High -- "What Would You Do?"
* Civil Twilight -- "Letters From the Sky"
* The Civil Wars -- "Barton Hollow"
* Music/EricClapton -- "Tears in Heaven"
* Dave Clark Five -- "Glad All Over"
* Petula Clark -- "Downtown"
* Music/KellyClarkson -- "Since U Been Gone" or "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)"
* Alex Clare -- "Too Close"
* Music/TheClash -- "London Calling" (from ''Music/LondonCalling'') or "Should I Stay Or Should I Go"
* Classified -- "Inner Ninja"
* Classixx -- "All You're Waiting For"
* Music/CleanBandit -- "Rather Be"
* Clipse -- "Grinding"
* Music/{{Clutch}} -- "Electric Worry"
* Music/CNBlue -- "I'm A Loner"
* The Coasters -- "Yakety Yak" or "[[Film/DeathProof Down in Mexico]]"
* Music/CobraStarship -- "Good Girls Go Bad" or "You Make Me Feel…"
* Tom Cochrane -- "Life Is A Highway"
* Music/CoheedAndCambria -- "Welcome Home"
* Music/LeonardCohen -- "Hallelujah"
** "Suzanne" (from ''Music/SongsOfLeonardCohen'') in his earlier period
* Marc Cohn -- "Walking In Memphis"
* Cold -- "Stupid Girl"
* Music/ColdChisel -- "Khe Sahn"
* Music/{{Coldplay}} -- "Viva la Vida" (or "Clocks" from ''Music/ARushOfBloodToTheHead'' for older fans)
* Music/ColdWarKids -- formerly "Hang Me Up to Dry", but now "First"
* Keyshia Cole -- "I've Should've Cheated"
* Music/NatKingCole -- "Unforgettable" or "Mona Lisa"
* Natalie Cole -- "Inseparable"
* Music/PaulaCole -- [[Series/DawsonsCreek "I Don't Want To Wait"]]
* [[Creator/ZendayaColeman Zendaya]] -- "Replay"
* Coleman Hell -- "2 Heads"
* Music/CollectiveSoul -- "Shine"
* Edwyn Collins -- [[Film/EmpireRecords "A Girl Like You"]]
* Judy Collins -- "Both Sides Now"
* Music/PhilCollins -- "In the Air Tonight" (from ''Music/FaceValue'') or [[Literature/AmericanPsycho "Sussudio"]]
* Color Me Badd -- "[[Film/NewJackCity I Wanna Sex You Up]]"
* Shawn Colvin -- "Sunny Came Home"
* Combichrist -- "Get Your Body Beat"
* The Commodores -- "Brick House"
* Common -- "Glory"
* Music/ConquerDivide -- "Nightmares"
* Coolio -- "Gangsta's Paradise"
* Music/AliceCooper -- "School's Out"
* Music/{{Copeland}} -- "No One Really Wins"
* Core -- "Angle"
* Cornershop -- "Brimful of Asha"
* Music/TheCorrs -- "Runaway" or/and "Breathless"
* Music/{{cosMo}} -- Depending on whether you ask the Music/{{VOCALOID}} fanbase or the ''VideoGame/SoundVoltex'' fanbase: "The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku" or "For [=UltraPlayers=]", respectively.
* Music/ElvisCostello -- "Pump It Up" (from ''Music/ThisYearsModel'') and "I Want You" (from ''Music/BloodAndChocolate'')
* Music/JonathanCoulton -- "[[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Still Alive]]"
* Course of Nature -- "Caught in the Sun"
* Music/CountingCrows -- "Mr. Jones"
* Deborah Cox -- "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here"
* Cracker -- "Low" or "Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)"
* Music/CradleOfFilth -- "Her Ghost in the Fog"
* Music/TheCramps -- "Human Fly"
* The Cranberries -- "Zombie"
* Music/CrashTestDummies -- "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm"
* Crash Kings -- "Mountain Man"
* Music/{{Cream}} -- "Sunshine of Your Love"
* Music/{{Creed}} -- "Higher" or "With Arms Wide Open"
* Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival -- "Fortunate Son" (from ''Music/WillyAndThePoorBoys'') or "Bad Moon Rising"
** John Fogerty -- "Centerfield"
* Music/BingCrosby -- [[Music/MerryChristmas "White Christmas"]]
** Although he used "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" as his 'official' signature tune. In one Creator/BobHope movie, Bing Crosby's surprise cameo appearance at the very end was accompanied by an orchestra version of the opening bars of this song.
* Music/CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung -- "Woodstock"
* Christopher Cross -- "Ride Like the Wind"
* Music/SherylCrow -- "All I Wanna Do"
* Music/{{Crowbar}} -- "All I Had (I Gave)"
* Music/CrowdedHouse -- "Don't Dream It's Over"
* Mark Crozer and the Rels -- "[[Wrestling/TheWyattFamily Live in Fear]] [[Wrestling/BrayWyatt (Broken Out in Love)]]"
* Music/{{Crush 40}} -- "[[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 Live and Learn]]" and "[[VideoGame/SonicAdventure Open Your Heart]]"
* Music/TheCruxshadows -- "Birthday"
* Taio Cruz -- "Dynamite"
* Music/CrystalCastles -- "Vanished"
* The Crystal Method -- "Name of the Game"
* Music/{{Cryoshell}} -- "[[Main/{{BIONICLE}} Creeping in my Soul]]"
* Culture Beat -- "Mr Vain"
* Culture Club -- "Karma Chameleon" or "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?"
* Cupid -- "Cupid Shuffle"
* Music/TheCure -- "Love Song", "Just Like Heaven", or "Friday I'm In Love"
* Cut Copy -- "Hearts on Fire"
* Cutting Crew -- "(I Just) Died in Your Arms"
* Music/CypressHill -- "Insane in the Brain"
* Billy Ray Cyrus -- "Achy Breaky Heart"
* Music/MileyCyrus -- "Party in the USA" for her Disney-era material; "Wrecking Ball" for her mature era
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[[folder:D]]
* Music/{{D}} -- "Night-ship "D""
* D-Cru -- "I Will Be Waiting"
** Craig Smart -- "I Miss You"
* Music/DaYoopers — "Second Week of Deer Camp", "Rusty Chevrolet", or "Grandpa Got Run Over by a Beer Truck"
* Daddy Yankee -- "Rompe"
* Music/DaftPunk
** Earlier work -- "One More Time"
** 2013 comeback -- "Get Lucky"
*** Stardust -- "[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Music Sounds Better With You]]", which couldn't be helped as it was the ''[[OneBookAuthor only song]]'' they ever recorded
* The Damned -- "New Rose"
* Dick Dale -- "[[Film/PulpFiction Misirlou]]"
* Music/TheDandyWarhols -- "Bohemian Like You" or "[[Series/VeronicaMars We Used to Be Friends]]"
* The Charlie Daniels Band -- "The Devil Went Down To Georgia"
* Danity Kane -- "Damaged"
* Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip -- "Thou Shalt Always Kill"
* Music/{{Danzig}} -- "Mother"
* Terence Trent D'arby -- "Wishing Well"
* Bobby Darin -- "Splish Splash" or "Mack the Knife"
* The Darkness -- "I Believe in a Thing Called Love"
* Dark New Day -- "Brother"
* Music/{{DarkThrone}} -- "Transylvanian Hunger"
* Music/DarkTranquillity -- "Lethe" or "Punish My Heaven"
* Darude -- "Sandstorm"
* Roscoe Dash -- "Show Out"
* Dash Rip Rock -- "(Let's Go) Smoke Some Pot"
* Music/{{Daughtry}} -- "It's Not Over"
* Creator/BetteDavis -- "They're Either Too Young Or Too Old"
* Music/MilesDavis -- "So What" (from ''Music/KindOfBlue'') or "Bitches Brew" (from ''Music/BitchesBrew'')
* Paul Davis -- "I Go Crazy"
* Howie Day -- "Collide"
* Daya -- "Hide Away"
* Days of the New -- "Touch, Peel and Stand"
* DC Talk -- "Jesus Freak" to their fans. However their biggest mainstream hit was "Just Between You and Me" and is the song they're best known for to the average listener.
* Music/ClaudeDebussy -- "Claire de Lune"
* Dead By April -- "Promise Me" or "Losing You"
* Music/DeadKennedys -- "California Über Alles" or "Holiday in Cambodia" (from ''Music/FreshFruitForRottingVegetables'')
* The Dead Milkmen -- "Punk Rock Girl" or "Bitchin' Camaro"
* Music/{{deadmau5}} -- "Ghosts n' Stuff"
* Music/DeadOrAlive -- "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)"
* Music/DeadSara -- "Weatherman" or "[[VideoGame/InfamousSecondSon Heart]]-[[Music/{{Nirvana}} Shaped Box]]"
* Deafheaven -- "Dream House" or "Brought to the Water"
* Jimmy Dean -- "Big Bad John"
* Music/{{Death}} -- "Evil Dead," "The Philosopher," or "Crystal Mountain"
* Music/DeathCabForCutie -- "I Will Follow You Into The Dark" or "I Will Possess Your Heart"
* Death From Above 1979 -- "Trainwreck 1979"
* Music/DeathGrips -- "Hacker"
* Music/DeathInJune -- "Little Black Angel" or "All Pigs Must Die"
* Death In Vegas -- "Dirge"
* [=DeBarge=] -- "Rhythm of the Night"
* Music/ChrisDeBurgh -- "The Lady in Red"
* Music/TheDecemberists -- "This Is Why We Fight", or "The Perfect Crime"
* Deee-lite -- "Groove is in the Heart"
* Deep Blue Something -- "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
* Deerhunter -- "Nothing Ever Happened"
* Music/DeepPurple -- "Smoke on the Water" (from ''Music/MachineHeadAlbum Machine Head]]'')
* Default -- "Wasting My Time"
** Dallas Smith -- "Tippin' Point", or "Jumped Right In" in Canada
* Music/DefLeppard -- "Pour Some Sugar On Me"
* Music/{{Deftones}} -- "Change (In The House of Flies)", with "Diamond Eyes" a strong contender for second place.
* Gavin [=DeGraw=] -- "[[Series/OneTreeHill I Don't Want To Be]]"
* Music/{{Deicide}} -- "Trifixion"
* Alice [=DeeJay=] -- "Better Off Alone"
* Dej Loaf -- "Try Me"
* Del Amitri -- "Roll To Me"
* Music/LanaDelRey -- "Born to Die" or "Summertime Sadness"
* De La Soul -- "Me Myself & I"
* Music/{{Deltron 3030}} -- "Positive Contact"
* Kat [=DeLuna=] -- "Run the Show"
* Dem Franchize Boys -- "Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It"
* Cathy Dennis -- "Touch Me (All Night Long)"
* John Denver -- "Take Me Home, Country Roads," especially in West Virginia. In the Rockies, especially Colorado, it's "Rocky Mountain High".
* Music/DepecheMode -- "Just Can't Get Enough" or "Enjoy the Silence"
* Rick Derringer -- "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" or "[[Wrestling/HulkHogan Real American]]"
* Jason Derulo -- "Whatcha Say" for his earlier material, "Talk Dirty" or "Want to Want Me" for his later work.
* Jackie [=DeShannon=] -- "Put A Little Love In Your Heart" or "What The World Needs Now Is Love"
* Des'ree -- "You Gotta Be"
* Shawn Desman -- "Let's Go" or "Night Like This"
* Music/DestinysChild -- "Survivor" and "Say My Name"
* [[WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}} Dethklok]] -- "Thunderhorse"
* Music/{{dEUS}}: "Suds & Soda" (from ''Music/WorstCaseScenario'')
* Dev -- "In the Dark"
* Device ('80s synth-pop group) -- "Hanging on a Heart Attack"
* Music/{{Device}} (metal band fronted by [[Music/{{Disturbed}} David Draiman]]) -- "Vilify"
* Music/DevinTownsend -- "Kingdom"
* Music/{{Devo}} -- "Whip It" (from ''Music/FreedomOfChoice'')
* Devour the Day -- "Good Man"
* Lee [=DeWyze=] -- "Sweet Serendipity"
* Music/{{Device}} -- "Vilify"
* Music/DexysMidnightRunners -- "Come On Eileen" or "Geno" in the UK, "Come On Eileen" indisputably in the US
* D4L -- "Laffy Taffy"
* Diamond Head -- "Am I Evil?"
* Music/NeilDiamond -- "Sweet Caroline" or "America"
* Music/BoDiddley -- "Bo Diddley"
* Dido -- "Thank You"
* Music/DieAntwoord -- "Enter The Ninja"
* Creator/MarleneDietrich -- "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt" ("Falling in Love Again"), "Lili Marleen"
* Digital Underground -- "The Humpty Dance"
* Digitalism -- "Pogo"
* Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan -- "43% Burnt"
* Music/DimmuBorgir -- "Progenies of the Great Apocalypse"
* Music/DinosaurJr -- " Start Choppin'"
* [[Music/RonnieJamesDio Dio]] -- "Holy Diver" and "Rainbow In The Dark"
* Dion -- "Runaround Sue"
* Music/CelineDion -- "[[Film/{{Titanic 1997}} My Heart Will Go On]]"
* Music/DireStraits -- "Sultans of Swing", "Money For Nothing" (from ''Music/BrothersInArms'') or "Walk of Life"
* Dirty Heads -- "Lay Me Down"
* Dirty Radio -- "Ground Shake" or "Found You"
* Dirty Vegas -- "Days Go By"
* Discharge -- "Free Speech for the Dumb"
* Disclosure -- "White Noise" in the UK, "Latch" in the U.S.[[note]]Though, it's more associated with Sam Smith over there than with them.[[/note]], and maybe "Magnets" for alt-rock audiences [[note]]Albeit it's more associated with Music/{{Lorde}} than them[[/note]]
* Dishwalla -- "Counting Blue Cars"
* Dissection -- "Where Dead Angels Lie"
* Music/{{Disturbed}} -- "Down with the Sickness"
* Disparition -- [[Podcast/WelcometoNightVale The Ballad of Fiedler and Mundt]]"
* Divide the Day -- "[[Wrestling/WWESmackDown Let it Roll]]"
* Divine Heresy - "Failed Creation"
* Divinyls -- "I Touch Myself"
* Dixie Chicks -- "Goodbye Earl" or "[[Music/FleetwoodMac Landslide]]"
* Music/ColtonDixon-- "Never Gone"
* Dizzee Rascal -- "Bonkers"
* DJ Felli Fel -- "Get Buck In Here"
* DJ Jazzy Jeff and [[Creator/WillSmith The Fresh Prince]] -- "Parents Just Don't Understand" or "Summertime"
* DJ Khaled -- "All I Do Is Win"
* [[Music/{{BEMANI}} DJ Mass MAD Izm*]] -- "[[VideoGame/{{beatmania}} Shakunetsu]] [[GimmickLevel Beach Side]] [[ThatOneBoss Bunny]]"
* DJ Sammy -- [[CoveredUp "Heaven"]]
* Music/DJShadow -- "Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt" or "[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious Six Days]]"
* DJ Snake -- "Turn Down For What" (shared with Lil Jon), with "You Know You Like It" (shared with [=AlunaGeorge=]) in second place
* DJ Unk -- "Walk It Out"
* [[Music/{{BEMANI}} DJ YOSHITAKA]] -- [[VideoGame/{{jubeat}} "FLO]][[VideoGame/ReflecBeat WER"]]
* Ramin Djawadi -- The ''Series/GameOfThrones'' Theme
* DMX -- "Party Up (Up In Here)"
* Fefe Dobson -- "Ghost" or "Stuttering"
* Doctor P -- "Sweet Shop"
* Music/DoesItOffendYouYeah -- "We Are Rockstars"
* Dog's Eye View -- "Everything Falls Apart"
* Thomas Dolby -- "She Blinded Me With Science"
* Dolla -- "Who The Fuck Is That"
* Doman & Gooding -- "Runnin'"
* Lonnie Donegan -- "Rock Island Line" or "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor"
* Donora -- "Boom Boom" or "Champion"
* Music/{{Donovan}} -- "Sunshine Superman"
* The Doobie Brothers -- "Black Water" or "What a Fool Believes"
* Dobie Gray -- "Drift Away"
* Music/TheDoors -- "Light My Fire" and "The End" (from ''Music/{{The Doors|Album}}'')
* Dorrough -- "Ice Cream Paint Job"
* Music/RobDougan -- "[[Film/TheMatrix Clubbed to Death]]"
* Carl Douglas -- "Kung Fu Fighting"
* Down With Webster -- "Big Wheels" or "Your Man"
* Downstait -- "[[Wrestling/TheMiz I Came To Play]]"
* The Downtown Fiction -- "I Just Wanna Run"
* Music/DrDre -- "Nuthin' But A G Thang" or "Still D.R.E."
* Dr. Hook -- "The Cover of Rolling Stone"
* Dr. John -- "Right Place, Wrong Time"
* Music/{{Dragonforce}} -- "[[VideoGame/GuitarHero Through The Fire And Flames]]" or "[[Website/{{YTMND}} Fury of the Storm]]" Undeniably the former to Guitar Hero fans, unless they started with "Warriors of Rock".
* Music/{{Drake}} -- "Hotline Bling"
* Music/NickDrake -- "Pink Moon"
* Dream -- "He Loves U Not"
* The-Dream -- "Shawty Is A Ten"
* The Dream Academy -- "Life in a Northern Town"
* Music/DreamTheater -- "Pull Me Under" or "Metropolis Pt. 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper"
* The Dropkick Murphys -- "[[TheDeparted I'm Shipping Up To Boston]]"
* DrowningPool -- "[[Wrestling/{{ECW}} Bodies]]"
* Dru -- "Getting It In" or "She Can Ride"
* Dru Hill -- "In My Bed"
** Sisqo -- "Thong Song" [[note]]despite the fact that "Incomplete" was actually his only #1 hit[[/note]]
* The Drums -- "Let's Go Surfing"
* Music/DschinghisKhan -- "Moskau"
* Duck Sauce -- "Barbra Streisand"
* Hilary Duff -- "Come Clean"
* Duffy -- "Mercy"
* Paul Dukas -- "[[Disney/{{Fantasia}} The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]"
* Duke Dumont -- "I Got U"
* Music/DuranDuran -- "Hungry Like the Wolf" or "The Reflex"
* Music/IanDuryAndTheBlockheads -- "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" or "[[Series/DoctorWho Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick]]"
* Music/AntoninDvorak -- "Symphony of the New World (4th movement)"
* Music/DyingFetus -- "Praise the Lord (Opium of the Masses)"
* Music/BobDylan -- "The Times, They Are a-Changin'" (from ''Music/TheTimesTheyAreAChangin'') or "Like a Rolling Stone" (from ''Music/Highway61Revisited'')
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* E-40 -- "Tell Me When to Go"
* Music/{{Eagles}} -- "Hotel California" (from ''Music/HotelCalifornia'')
** Glenn Frey -- [[Film/BeverlyHillsCop "The Heat is On"]]
** Don Henley -- "Boys of Summer"
** Joe Walsh -- "Life's Been Good"
* Music/EaglesOfDeathMetal -- "Don't Speak" or "Wannabe in L.A."
* Eamon -- "Fuck It! (I Don't Want You Back)"
* Music/SteveEarle -- "Copperhead Road"
* Earshot -- "Get Away"
* Music/EarthWindAndFire -- "September"
* Sheena Easton -- "Morning Train (9 to 5)"
* Echo and the Bunnymen -- "The Killing Moon"
* Echosmith -- "Cool Kids"
* Edgar Winter Group -- "Frankenstein" or "Free Ride"
* Music/{{Eels}} -- "Souljacker, Part I" (from ''Music/{{Souljacker}}'') or "Novocaine for the Soul" (from ''Music/BeautifulFreak'').
* Egypt Central -- "White Rabbit"
* Eiffel 65 -- "Blue (Da Ba Dee)"
* David Glen Eisley -- "[[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Sweet Victory]]"
* El Ten Eleven -- "My Only Swerving"
* Brett Eldredge -- "Don't Ya"
* Electric Light Orchestra -- "Don't Bring Me Down"
* Electric Six -- "Gay Bar" (To the chagrin of many fans)
* Music/ElectricWizard -- "Funeralpolis"
* Music/DannyElfman -- Theme for Tim Burton's "Film/{{Batman}}" or "Film/EdwardScissorhands".
* Music/{{Edguy}} -- "Ministry of Saints" and "Superheroes"
* Editors -- "Bones" or "[[Series/{{Primeval}} All Sparks]]"
* Music/EdwardElgar -- "Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 1 in D Major"
* Music/DukeEllington -- "Take the 'A' Train".
* Music/MissyElliott -- "Get Ur Freak On"
* Music/{{Eluveitie}} -- "Inis Mona", "Thousandfold"
* Music/{{Emarosa}} -- "The Game Played Right"
* [=emblem3=] -- "Chloe (You're The One I Want)"
* Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer -- "Karn Evil 9 First Impression Part 2"
* EMF -- "Unbelievable"
* Music/{{Eminem}} -- By album:
** ''Music/TheSlimShadyLP'' -- "My Name Is"
** ''Music/TheMarshallMathersLP'' -- "Stan" or "The Real Slim Shady"
** ''Music/TheEminemShow" -- "Without Me"
** ''Film/EightMile'' -- "Lose Yourself"
** ''Recovery'' -- "Not Afraid" or "Love The Way You Lie"
** ''The Marshall Mathers LP 2'' -- "Rap God" ("The Monster" is another contender, shared with Rihanna)
*** D12 -- "My Band"
*** Bad Meets Evil -- "Lighters"
* Music/{{Emperor}} -- "I am the Black Wizards"
* Emphatic -- "Bounce"
* En Vogue -- "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)"
* The English Beat -- "Mirror in the Bathroom"
* [=EndeverafteR=] -- "[[Wrestling/JeffHardy No More Words]]"
* Music/{{Ensiferum}} -- "Lai Lai Hei"
* Enslaved -- "Havenless"
* Enter Shikari -- "Sorry, You're Not A Winner" or "Destabilise"
* Music/{{Enya}} -- "Only Time"
* Music/TheEraserheads -- "Pare Ko" and ''Ang Huling El Bimbo''
* Music/{{Erasure}} -- "[[SugarWiki/RobotUnicornAttack Always]]"
* Eric Prydz -- "Call On Me"
* The Escape Club -- "Wild, Wild West"
* Music/{{Escape the Fate}} -- "Situations" (with Ronnie); "Issues" (with Craig)
* Music/GloriaEstefan -- "Conga"
* Estelle -- "American Boy"
* Melissa Etheridge -- "Come To My Window"
* Music/{{Europe}} -- Initially "Carrie", but now unquestionably "The Final Countdown" (which was always their signature outside of the USA)
* Music/{{Eurythmics}} -- "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
** Music/AnnieLennox -- "Walking on Broken Glass"
* Evan & Jaron -- "[[Series/DawsonsCreek Crazy for This Girl]]".
* Music/{{Evanescence}} -- [[Film/{{Daredevil}} "Bring Me To Life", with "My Immortal" being a clear second.]]
* Evans Blue -- "Cold (But I'm Still Here)"
* Eve 6 -- "Inside Out"
* Eve to Adam -- "Immortal"
* Music/{{Everclear}} -- "Santa Monica"
* The Everlove -- "[[Series/GameOfThrones Cities In]] [[CoveredUp Dust]]"
* Jace Everett -- "[[Series/TrueBlood Bad Things]]"
* Every Avenue -- "Tell Me I'm a Wreck"
* Everything But The Girl -- "Missing" (specifically the Todd Terry remix)
* Music/TheEverlyBrothers -- "'Wake Up Little Susie"
* Evil Nine -- "Crooked", "All The Cash", "The Black Brad Pitt" or "No Manners"
* Example -- "Changed the Way You Kissed Me".
* The Exies -- "Ugly"
* Exposé -- "Point of No Return"
* Music/{{Extreme}} -- "[[BlackSheepHit More Than Words]]"
* George Ezra -- "Budapest"
* Fabolous -- "Breathe"
* Face to Face -- "Disconnected"
* Music/FairportConvention -- "Meet on the Ledge"
* Music/FaithNoMore -- "Epic"
* Chet Faker -- "Talk is Cheap" in Australia, "Gold" in the U.S.
* Music/{{Falco}} -- "Rock Me Amadeus"
* Music/{{Falling in Reverse}} -- "The Drug In Me Is You"
* Music/TheFallOfTroy -- "Sledgehammer" or "FCPREMIX"
* Music/FallOutBoy -- By album:
** ''From Under the Cork Tree" -- "Dance Dance" or "Sugar, We're Goin' Down"
** ''Infinity on High'' -- "Thnks Fr th Mmrs"
** ''Save Rock and Roll'' -- "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark"
** ''American Beauty/American Psycho''-- "Centuries" or "Uma Thurman"
** Patrick Stump -- "This City"
** The Damned Things -- "We've Got a Situation Here"
* Far East Movement -- "Like A [=G6=]"
* Tyler Farr -- "Redneck Crazy"
* Farewell, My Love -- "Portraits"
* John Farnham -- "You're the Voice"
* Fastball -- "The Way"
* Music/FatboySlim -- "The Rockafeller Skank"
* Fat Joe -- "Get It Poppin"
** Terror Squad -- "Lean Back"
* Music/FearFactory -- "Replica"
* Jose Feliciano -- "Feliz Navidad"
* Music/{{Feeder}} -- "Buck Rogers" in the UK; "High" in the United States
* Music/{{Feist}} -- "1234"
* Felt -- "Primitive Painters"
* Jay Ferguson -- "Thunder Island"
* Danny Fernandes -- "Curious" or "Take Me Away"
* Fetty Wap -- "Trap Queen"
* [[Music/TheKnife Fever Ray]] -- "If I Had a Heart"
* Music/LupeFiasco -- "The Show Goes On"
* FIDLAR -- "No Waves" or "Cheap Beer"
* Music/FifthHarmony -- Previously "Sledgehammer" but now "Worth It"
* Filter -- "[[IronMan Hey Man Nice Shot]]" or "Take A Picture"
* Finatticz - "Don't Drop That Thun Thun"
* Fine Young Cannibals -- "She Drives Me Crazy"
* Finger Eleven -- Initially "One Thing", but now "Paralyzer" (maybe [[Wrestling/{{Kane}} "Slow Chemical"]] if you're a wrestling fan)
* Music/{{Finntroll}} -- "Trollhammaren"
* Melanie Fiona -- "Give It To Me Right"
* Firefall -- "You Are the Woman"
* Firehouse -- "Love of a Lifetime"
* First Aid Kit -- Was "Emmylou", but "My Silver Lining" seems to have supplanted it.
* Fishbone -- "Party at Ground Zero"
* Fit For Rivals -- "[[Wrestling/{{WWE}} Crash]]"
* Fitz & the Tantrums -- "Out of my League" or "The Walker"
* Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch -- "Coming Down" or "Hard to See"
* Five for Fighting -- "Superman (It's Not Easy)"
* Music/FiveIronFrenzy -- "Handbook for the Sellout" or "Every New Day"
* The Fixx -- "One Thing Leads To Another"
* Roberta Flack -- "Killing Me Softly With His Song"
* Music/FlamingLips -- "Do you Realize" (State rock song of Oklahoma)
* Music/FleetFoxes -- "Mykonos"
* Music/FleetwoodMac -- "Dreams" or "Go Your Own Way" (from ''Music/{{Rumours}}'')
** "Albatross" for the original incarnation with Peter Green
** Stevie Nicks -- "Edge of Seventeen"
* Flight Facilities -- "Crave You"
* Music/FlightOfTheConchords -- "Business Time"
* Flipper -- "Sex Bomb"
* The Flirts -- "Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime)"
* Music/FloRida -- "Low", "Right Round", or "Whistle"
* Flobots -- "Handlebars"
* Music/AFlockOfSeagulls -- "I Ran (So Far Away)"
* Floetry -- "Say Yes"
* Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine -- "Dog Days Are Over" or "[[Series/GameOfThrones Seven Devils]]"
* Music/FloridaGeorgiaLine -- "Cruise" (both the original and the remix with Nelly)
* Flow -- "[[Manga/{{Naruto}} GO!]]"
* Eddie Floyd -- "Knock On Wood"
* Flux Pavilion -- "I Can't Stop" or "Cracks"
* Music/FlyingLotus -- "Never Catch Me"
* Music/{{Flyleaf}} -- "I'm So Sick"
* The Flys -- "Got You (Where I Want You)"
* Focus -- "Hocus Pocus"
* Foghat -- "Slow Ride"
* Fonogenio -- "Reason"
* Music/BenFolds -- "Rockin' the Suburbs"
* Music/FooFighters -- "Everlong" or "The Pretender"
* Lita Ford -- "Kiss Me Deadly"
* Music/{{Foreigner}} -- "I Want To Know What Love Is"
* Music/FosterThePeople -- "Pumped Up Kicks"
* The Foundations -- "Build Me Up Buttercup"
* Music/FountainsOfWayne -- "Stacy's Mom"
* The Four Seasons -- "December 1963 (Oh What a Night)"
* The Four Tops -- "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)"
* Music/{{Foxes}} -- "Let Go for Tonight"
* Creator/JamieFoxx -- "Blame It"
* Foxy -- "Get Off"
* Foxy Shazam -- "I Like It"
* Music/{{Fozzy}} -- "Enemy"
* Framing Hanley -- "[[Music/LilWayne Lollipop]]"
* Music/PeterFrampton -- "Show Me the Way"
* Frankie Beverly & Maze -- "Back In Stride"
* Music/FrankieGoesToHollywood -- "Relax"
* Frankie J -- "Obsession (No Es Amor)"
* Music/ArethaFranklin -- "[[CoveredUp Respect]]"
* Music/KirkFranklin -- "Stomp"
* Music/FranzFerdinand -- "Take Me Out"
* The Fratellis -- "Chelsea Dagger"
* Music/TheFray -- "How to Save a Life"
* Free -- "All Right Now"
* Aaron Fresh -- "Spending All My Time"
* Music/FromAshesToNew -- "Through It All"
* Music/Front242 -- "Headhunter"
* FrontLineAssembly -- "Mindphaser"
* Music/FrouFrou -- "Let Go" or "Breathe In"
* Music/FTIsland - "Lovesick" or "I Hope"
* Julius Fucik -- "Entry of the Gladiators"
* Fuel -- "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)"
* Music/{{Fugazi}} -- "Waiting Room"
* Music/TheFugees -- [[CoveredUp "Killing Me Softly"]] or "Ready or Not" (from ''Music/TheScore'')
** Music/LaurynHill -- "Doo Wop (That Thing)" (from ''Music/TheMiseducationOfLaurynHill'')
** Wyclef Jean -- "Gone Till November"
** Pras -- "Ghetto Supastar"
* Music/{{Fun}} -- "We Are Young" or "Some Nights"
** Nate Ruess -- "Nothing Without Love"
* Fun Factory -- "I Wanna B With U"
* Music/FunLovinCriminals -- "[[Creator/QuentinTarantino Scooby Snacks]]"
* Music/FuneralForAFriend -- "Roses For the Dead" or "Red is the New Black"
* Music/{{Funkadelic}} -- [[Music/OneNationUnderAGroove "One Nation Under a Groove"]]
* Music/NellyFurtado -- "I'm Like a Bird" or "Promiscuous"
* Future -- "Turn On The Lights"
* Future Leaders of the World -- "Let Me Out"
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* Music/PeterGabriel -- "Sledgehammer," "Solsbury Hill", or "[[Film/SayAnything In Your Eyes]]"
* Music/{{Gabrielle}} -- "Dreams" or "[[Film/BridgetJonesDiary Out of Reach]]"
* Gackt -- "Vanilla"
* The GAG Quartet -- "Le Internet Medley"
* Music/TheGame -- "How We Do" or "Hate It or Love It" (although the latter is more commonly thought of as 50 Cent's song)
* Music/TheGazette -- "Reila", "Cassis"
* Music/SergeGainsbourg -- "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Je T' Aime... Moi Non Plus"
* Gallery -- "Nice To Be With You"
* Music/ChildishGambino -- "Freaks & Geeks"
* Music/{{Garbage}} -- "Only Happy When It Rains" or "Stupid Girl"
* Art Garfunkel -- "Bright Eyes"
* Creator/JudyGarland -- "[[Film/TheWizardOfOz Over the Rainbow]]"
* Martin Garrix -- "Animals"
* Music/MarvinGaye -- "What's Going On," "Let's Get It On" (from ''Music/WhatsGoingOn'') or "[[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier Trouble Man]]". You could also make a case for "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Sexual Healing".
* Gloria Gaynor -- "I Will Survive"
* Music/GEazy -- "Me, Myself, & I"
* General Public -- "Tenderness"
* Music/{{Genesis}} (pop era) -- "Land of Confusion" or "Invisible Touch"
** (prog era) -- "Supper's Ready"
* Genki Rockets -- "Heavenly Star"
* George Baker Selection -- "Little Green Bag"
* The Georgia Satellites -- "Keep Your Hands to Yourself"
* Gerardo -- "Rico Suave"
* The Germs -- "Lexicon Devil"
* Music/GeorgeGershwin -- "Rhapsody in Blue", "[[Theatre/PorgyAndBess Summertime]]"
* Music/GetScared-- "Sarcasm"
* Music/GetoBoys -- "[[Film/OfficeSpace Damn it Feels Good to Be a Gangsta]]"
* Stan Getz -- "The Girl From Ipanema"
* Music/{{Ghost}} -- "Cirice"
* Ghostface Killah -- "Back Like That"
* Brantley Gilbert -- "Bottoms Up"
* Music/GinBlossoms -- "Hey Jealousy"
* Ginuwine -- "Pony"
* Girlicious -- "2 In The Morning"
* Girlschool -- "Emergency" or "Race With The Devil"
* Music/GirlsAloud -- "Biology", "Love Machine", "The Promise", "Call The Shots"
** Music/CherylCole -- "Fight For This Love"
** Music/NadinelCoyle -- "Insatiable"
** Music/NicolaRoberts -- A weird example. "Beat of My Drum" is technically her most commercially successful song, but her unofficially released single "Sticks + Stones" is widely considered as her best song (to date) and is an EnsembleDarkhorse track on her debut album.
** Music/KimberleyWalsh -- "Like U Like", though it's technically an Music/AggroSantos song.
* Music/GirlsGeneration -- "Gee" or "Tell Me Your Wish (Genie)"
* Music/{{Giulietta}} -- "Vertigo"
* Music/{{Glassjaw}} -- "Tip Your Bartender" or "Cosmopolitan Bloodlust"
* Jess Glynne -- "Hold My Hand" for her solo material, but she's best-known overall for her appearance on Music/CleanBandit's "Rather Be".
* Glaze -- "Nightmare Night" or "Beyond Her Garden"
* Music/{{Godsmack}} -- "[[Film/TheScorpionKing I Stand Alone]]" or "Voodoo"
* The Go-Gos -- "Our Lips Are Sealed" or "We Got the Beat"
* Music/{{Gojira}} -- "Flying Whales"
* Music/GoldenEarring -- "Radar Love" or "Twilight Zone"
* Goldfinger -- "Superman"
* Music/{{Goldfrapp}} -- "Ooh la La" or "Strict Machine"
* Music/SelenaGomez & [[FaceOfTheBand The Scene]] -- "Love You Like A Love Song"
** Selena Gomez (without The Scene) -- Contenders include "Come and Get It", "The Heart Wants What It Wants", "Good For You", and "Same Old Love".
* Music/GoodCharlotte -- "The Anthem"
** The Madden Brothers -- "We Are Done"
* Music/BennyGoodman -- "Sing, Sing, Sing"
* Music/TheGooGooDolls -- "[[Film/CityOfAngels Iris]]"
* Lesley Gore -- "It's My Party" or "My Boyfriend's Back"
* Music/{{Gorillaz}} -- "Feel Good, Inc.", "DARE" (both from ''Music/DemonDays'') or "Clint Eastwood" (from ''[[Music/GorillazAlbum Gorillaz]]'') in the UK, easily the former in the US
* Music/{{Gorgoroth}} -- "Profeten Apenbaring," "Incipit Satan," or "Carving a Giant"
* Mark Gormley -- "Without You" or "Little Wings"
* Music/{{Gotye}} -- "Somebody That I Used To Know"
* Music/EllieGoulding -- "[[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey Love Me Like You Do]]" is indisputably this in most countries, although "Lights" is a rival in the U.S..
* Go West -- "King of Wishful Thinking"
* Andy Grammer -- Formerly "Keep Your Head Up", but now "Honey I'm Good"
* Music/GrandFunkRailroad -- "We're an American Band"
* Music/ArianaGrande -- "Problem"
* Music/GrandmasterFlashAndTheFuriousFive -- [[Music/TheMessage "The Message"]]
* Amy Grant -- "Baby Baby"
* Eddy Grant -- "Electric Avenue"
* Music/TheGratefulDead -- "Casey Jones", though younger fans would cite "Touch of Gray"
* Graveland -- "Thurisaz"
* David Gray -- "Babylon"
* Macy Gray -- "I Try"
* Music/GreatBigSea -- "Ordinary Day"
* A Great Big World -- "Say Something" (specifically the re-recording with Christina Aguilera)
* Great White -- "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"
* Music/AlGreen -- "Music/LetsStayTogether"
* GreenCarnation -- [[EpicRocking "Light of Day, Day of Darkness"]]
* Music/GreenDay -- [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"]] or "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (from ''Music/AmericanIdiot''). "Basket Case" (''Music/{{Dookie}}'')
* Norman Greenbaum -- "Spirit in the Sky"
* Lee Greenwood -- "God Bless The USA"
* The Greg Kihn Band -- Initially "Jepoardy", but now "The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em)"
* Edvard Grieg -- "Hall of the Mountain King" (which isn't a song, by the way)
* Music/{{Grimes}} -- "Oblivion"
* Grizzly Bear -- "Two Weeks"
* Music/{{Grouplove}} -- "Tongue Tied"
* GS Boyz -- "Stanky Legg"
* Music/GuanoApes -- "Open Your Eyes"
* Music/VinceGuaraldi -- "[[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Linus and Lucy]]"
* The Guess Who -- "American Woman"
* Music/DavidGuetta -- "Love Is Gone", "Titanium", or for his later work, "Hey Mama"
* Music/GuidedByVoices -- "I Am A Scientist" and "Teenage FBI"
* Music/GunsNRoses -- "Sweet Child O' Mine", "Welcome to the Jungle", or "Paradise City"
* Musi/ArloGuthrie -- [[Music/AlicesRestaurant "Alice's Restaurant"]]
* Music/WoodyGuthrie -- "This Land Is Your Land"
* Guttermouth -- "She's Got the Look"
* Music/GymClassHeroes -- "Cupid's Chokehold" or "Stereo Hearts"
** Travie [=McCoy=] -- "Billionaire"
* GZA -- "Liquid Swords"
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[[folder:H]]
* Haddaway -- "What is Love?"
* Hadouken! -- "That Boy, That Girl"
* Sammy Hagar -- "I Can't Drive 55" as a solo artist, "Why Can't This Be Love?" with Music/VanHalen
* Hail The Villain -- "Runaway"
* Haim -- "The Wire"
* Music.{{Halestorm}} -- "I Get Off", "Love Bites", or "I Miss the Misery"
* Hall And Oates -- "Maneater", "Out of Touch" or "Rich Girl"
* Music/{{Halsey}} -- "New Americana", "Ghost", and "Hold Me Down" vie for the position.
* Music/{{Hammerfall}} -- "Hearts On Fire"
* Hampton the Hampster -- "Hampster Dance"
* Music/{{Hatebreed}} -- "I Will Be Heard"
* Music/HerbieHancock -- "Chameleon" (from ''Music/HeadHunters'') or "Rockit" (from ''Music/FutureShock'')
* Music/GeorgeFredericHandel -- "Messiah," (more specifically the "Hallelujah Chorus" at the end of Part II)
* Music/{{Hanson}} -- "[=MMMbop=]"
* Music/{{Happy Mondays}} -- "Step On"
* Music/{{Hardline}} -- "Hot Cherie"
* Music/CalvinHarris -- "Acceptable in the 80s" for his earlier work, "Summer" for his later material.
* Richard Harris -- "[=MacArthur=] Park"
* Music/GeorgeHarrison -- "My Sweet Lord" (from ''Music/AllThingsMustPass'')
* Corey Hart -- "Sunglasses at Night"
* Jonn Hart -- "Who Booty"
* Dan Hartman -- "I Can Dream About You"
* Music/PJHarvey -- "Down By The Water" (from ''Music/ToBringYouMyLove'')
* Music/HarveyDanger -- "Flagpole Sitta"
* Donnie Hathaway -- "[[CoveredUp A Song For You]]"
** Hathaway and Roberta Flack -- "The Closer I Get To You"
* Sophie B. Hawkins -- "As I Lay Me Down" or "Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover"
* Music/{{Hawkwind}} -- "Silver Machine"
* Music/HawthorneHeights -- "Saying Sorry" or "Ohio Is For Lovers"
* Music/JosephHaydn -- "[[UsefulNotes/{{Germany}} Emperor Quartet - 2nd Movement/Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser]]"
* Music/HunterHayes -- "Wanted"
* Music/IsaacHayes -- "Theme from Shaft"
* He Is We -- "All About Us" [[note]] Specifically, the one with Music/OwlCity [[/note]]
* Murray Head -- "[[Theatre/{{Chess}} One Night in Bangkok]]"
* Head East -- "Never Been Any Reason"
* Headstones -- "When Something Stands for Nothing" or "Smile and Wave"
* The Head and the Heart -- "Down in the Valley"
* Heather Headley -- "In My Mind"
* Music/{{Heart}} -- "Alone" or " Barracuda"
* Heatwave -- "Always and Forever"
* Music/TheHeavy -- "How You Like Me Now?" or "Short Change Hero". "What Makes a Good Man" is also a contender in the UK.
* Heavy D and the Boyz -- "Now That We Found Love"
* Hedley -- "Perfect"
* Oliver Heldens -- "Gecko (Overdrive)".
* Hella -- "Biblical Violance"
* Hellhammer -- "The Triumph of Death"
* Music/{{Helloween}} -- "I Want Out"
* Hellyeah -- "You Wouldn't Know"
* Bobby Helms -- "Jingle Bell Rock"
* Ella Henderson -- "Ghost"
* Music/JimiHendrix -- "Purple Haze" (from ''Music/AreYouExperienced''), though "All Along the Watchtower" (from ''Music/ElectricLadyland'') is also fairly well-known (and his only Top 40 hit).
* Music/HermansHermits -- "I'm Into Something Good"
* Hey Monday -- "How You Love Me Now"
** Cassadee Pope -- "Wasting All These Tears"
* Hi-Five -- "I Like The Way (The Kissing Game)"
* Highly Suspect -- "Lydia"
* Music/FaithHill -- "Breathe"
* Hilltop Hoods -- "The Nosebleed Section", "Chase That Feeling"
* Keri Hilson -- "Knock You Down"
* H.I.M. -- "Wings Of A Butterfly"
* Hinder -- "Lips of an Angel"
* Music/TheHives -- "Hate To Say I Told You So"
* Music/TheHoldSteady -- "The Swish"
* Hoku -- "Another Dumb Blonde" or "Perfect Day"
* Music/{{Hole}} -- "Celebrity Skin"
* J. Holiday -- "Bed"
* Music/TheHollies -- "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother", "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress"
* Music/BuddyHolly -- "Peggy Sue" or "That'll Be The Day"
* Music/HollywoodUndead -- "Undead"
* Rupert Holmes -- "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)"
* Music/GustavHolst -- "The Planets Suite, Op. 32"
* The Honeyrods -- "Love Bee"
* Hoobastank -- "The Reason"
* Music/TheHoosiers -- "Cops and Robbers"
* The Hooters -- "And We Danced"
* Hootie and the Blowfish -- "Only Wanna Be With You"
** Darius Rucker -- "Wagon Wheel"
* Creator/BobHope -- "Thanks for the Memories"
* Bruce Hornsby and the Range -- "The Way It Is"
* Hot Chelle Rae -- "Tonight Tonight"
* Hot Chocolate -- "You Sexy Thing"
* Tomoyasu Hotei -- "[[Film/KillBill Battle Without Honor or Humanity]]"
* Thelma Houston -- "Don't Leave Me This Way"
* Music/WhitneyHouston -- "[[CoveredUp I Will Always Love You]]"
* House of Pain -- "Jump Around"
** Everlast -- "What It's Like"
* Randy Houser -- "Runnin' Outta Moonlight"
* James Newton Howard -- "[[Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1 The Hanging Tree]]". Ditto for Creator/JenniferLawrence.
* Music/HowlinWolf -- "Smokestack Lightnin'"
* Music/{{Hozier}} -- "Take Me To Church"
* Huey -- "Pop, Lock, & Drop It"
* The Human League -- "Don't You Want Me"
* Sam Hunt -- First "Leave The Night On," now "Take Your Time"
* Hunters & Collectors -- "Throw Your Arms Around Me"
* Hurricane Chris -- "A Bay Bay"
* Hurt -- "Ten Ton Brick" or "Rapture"
* Hurts -- "Wonderful Life"
* Music/HuskerDu -- "Makes No Sense At All"
* Brian Hyland -- "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini"
* Music/{{Hyuna}} -- "Ice Cream"
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[[folder:I-J]]
* I Am Empire -- "Gravity Bomb"
* I Prevail -- "[[Music/TaylorSwift Blank Space]]"
* Music/JanisIan -- "At Seventeen"
* Music/IceCube -- "It Was a Good Day" or "Check Yo Self"
* Music/IcedEarth -- "Travel in Stygian"
* Icehouse -- "Great Southern Land" or "Electric Blue"
* Music/IceT -- "6 in the Mornin' "
** Music/BodyCount -- "Cop Killer", from ''[[Music/BodyCountAlbum Body Count]]''
* Music/IconaPop -- "I Love It"
* Music/BillyIdol -- "Dancing With Myself," "Rebel Yell" or "White Wedding"
* Music/EnriqueIglesias -- "[[Film/WildWildWest Bailamos]]", "Hero," or "Be with You"
* I Heart Memphis -- "Hit The Quan"
* I Love Makonnen -- "Tuesday" (though it's more associated with Music/{{Drake}})
* Music/ImagineDragons -- Previously "It's Time," but now far and away "Radioactive"
* Music/NatalieImbruglia -- "[[CoveredUp Torn]]"
* Music/{{Immortal}} -- "Call of the Wintermoon"
* Music/ImogenHeap -- "Hide and Seek"
* Music/InThisMoment -- "Blood"
* Music/{{Incubus}} -- "Drive"
* Music/{{India Arie}} -- "Video"
* The Indigy -- "Apache (Warrior Bow)"
* Music/InFlames -- "Behind Space" or "Moonshield" for their earlier work; "Take This Life" or "Cloud Connected" for their later work
* Chuck Inglish -- "[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Came Thru/Easily]]"
* Injected -- "Faithless"
* Music/{{Interpol}} -- "Obstacle 1"
* INXS -- "Need You Tonight"
* Donnie Iris -- "Ah, Leah!"
* Iron & Wine -- "Flightless Bird, American Mouth"
* Music/IronButterfly -- "Music/InAGaddaDaVida"
* Music/IronMaiden -- "Run to the Hills" or "The Number of the Beast"
* Music/ChrisIsaak -- "Wicked Game"
* Ish -- "Rollin'"
* The Isley Brothers -- "Shout" (for the original line up), "Who's That Lady" (for the "3x3" lineup)
* Music/{{Issues}} -- "Stingray Affliction"
* Music/{{IU}} -- "Good Day"
* IYAZ -- "Replay"
* Music/JCole -- "Workout"
* Terry Jacks -- "Seasons in the Sun"
* Freddie Jackson -- "You Are My Lady" or "Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake)"
* Music/JanetJackson -- "Nasty" & "Rhythm Nation". Later "That's the Way Love Goes"
* Joe Jackson -- "Steppin' Out"
* Music/MichaelJackson -- By album:
** ''Music/OffTheWall'' -- "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"
** ''Music/{{Thriller}}'' -- "Thriller", "Beat It" or "Billie Jean"
** ''Music/{{Bad}}'' -- "Bad" or "Smooth Criminal"
** ''Dangerous'' -- "Black or White"
* Rebbie Jackson -- "Centipede"
* Music/TheJacksonFive -- "I Want You Back", "[=ABC=]" or "I'll Be There". When they changed their name to the Jacksons: ''Blame It On The Boogie'' was their greatest hit.
* Jack Ü -- "Where Are Ü Now" [[note]]Although it's probably more associated with Justin Bieber[[/note]]
* Felix Jaehn -- "Ain't Nobody (Loves Me Better)" as a lead artist, overall he's best known for his remix of OMI's "Cheerleader".
* Jagged Edge-- "Where the Party At"
* Music/JAMProject -- "[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWars SKILL]], or [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha GONG]]"
* Music/TheJam -- "Going Underground"
* James -- "Sit Down" in the UK, "Laid" in the U.S.
* Music/EttaJames -- "At Last"
* Rick James -- "[[Music/MCHammer Super]] [[SampledUp Freak]]"
* Tommy James -- "Hanky Panky"
* Trinidad James -- "All Gold Everything"
* Music/{{Jamiroquai}} -- "Virtual Insanity", "[[Film/NapoleonDynamite Canned Heat]]"
* Music/JanesAddiction -- "Jane Says", or "Been Caught Stealing"
* Chris Janson -- "Buy Me a Boat"
* Janus -- "Eyesore"
* Ja Rule -- "Always on Time"
* Music/JayRock -- "[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Hood Gone Love It]]"
* Music/JayZ -- "99 Problems", with "Empire State of Mind" [[note]]though people tend to associate the latter just as much with Music/AliciaKeys as with him[[/note]] a strong runner-up
* J Dash -- "Wop"
* Music/JeffersonAirplane -- "Somebody To Love" or "White Rabbit" (from ''Music/SurrealisticPillow'')
* Sean Jenness -- "[[{{Sheamus}} Written In My Face]]"
* Music/CarlyRaeJepsen -- "Call Me Maybe"
* Jeremih -- "Birthday Sex", "Down On Me" or "Don't Tell 'Em"
* Music/JessieJ -- "Price Tag", "Domino" or "Bang Bang" (though it's probably more associated with Music/ArianaGrande and Music/NickiMinaj in the US)
* Music/TheJesusandMaryChain -- "Just Like Honey" or "Head On"
* Jesus Jones -- "Right Here, Right Now"
* Jet -- "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"
* Music/JethroTull -- "Aqualung" (from ''[[Music/AqualungJethroTullAlbum Aqualung]]'')
* Music/JoanJett -- [[CoveredUp "I Love Rock 'n' Roll"]] or "Bad Reputation"
* Jewel -- "Who Will Save Your Soul" and "You Were Meant for Me"
* Music/TheJGeilsBand -- "Centerfold" or "Freeze Frame"
* Jibbs -- "Chain Hang Low"
* Jimmie's Chicken Shack -- "Do Right"
* Music/JimmyEatWorld -- "[[TheSorcerersApprentice The]] [[BlackSheepHit Middle]]"
* J-Kwon -- "Tipsy"
* JLS -- "Beat Again"
* Jo Boxers -- "Just Got Lucky"
* Joe -- "Stutter"
* Music/BillyJoel -- "Piano Man"
* Music/EltonJohn -- "Your Song", "Rocket Man", or "Candle in the Wind 1997"
* Robert John -- "Sad Eyes"
* Johnny Hates Jazz -- "Shattered Dreams"
* [=JoJo=] -- "Leave (Get Out)"
* Don Johnson -- "Heartbeat"
* Freedy Johnston -- "Bad Reputation"
* [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} Jim Johnston]] -- "[[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin I Won't Do What You Tell Me]]'' or "[[Wrestling/{{Fandango}} ChaChaLaLa]]"
** [=CFO$=] -- "[[Wrestling/{{Paige}} Stars In The Night]]"
** Kromestatik -- "[[Wrestling/WWERaw The Night]]"
* Music/JonasBrothers -- "Burnin' Up"
** Music/JoeJonas -- "See No More"
*** DNCE -- "Cake By The Ocean"
** Music/NickJonas -- "Jealous"
*** Nick Jonas & The Administration -- "Who I Am"
* George Jones -- "He Stopped Loving Her Today"
* Glenn Jones -- "Here I Go Again"
* Jim Jones -- "We Fly High"
* Music/NorahJones -- "Don't Know Why" (from ''Music/ComeAwayWithMe'')
* Tom Jones -- "It's Not Unusual" or "Delilah"
* Music/JanisJoplin -- "Me & Bobby [=McGee=]"
** Big Brother & the Holding Company -- "Piece of My Heart" (from ''Music/CheapThrills'')
* Music/ScottJoplin -- "The Entertainer"
* Eric Johnson -- "Cliffs of Dover"
* Montell Jordan -- "This Is How We Do It"
* Music/{{Journey}} -- "Don't Stop Believin'" [[note]]although prior to its mid-2000s resurrection "Open Arms" was considered this.[[/note]]
* Music/VanceJoy -- "Riptide"
* Music/JoyDivision -- "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
* JRDN -- "U Can Have It All"
* Juanes -- "A Dios le Pido"
* Music/JudasPriest --"Living After Midnight," "Breaking the Law" (Both from ''Music/BritishSteel''), or "You Got Another Thing Comin'"
* Music/JulienK -- [[VideoGame/SonicHeroes "This Machine"]] or [[Film/{{Transformers}} "Technical Difficulties"]]
* Jungle -- "Busy Earnin'"
* Music/{{Juniel}} - "Illa Illa"
* Justice -- "D.A.N.C.E."
* Juvenile -- Previously either "Back That Azz Up" or "Slow Motion", but now indisputably the former.
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[[folder:K]]
* K'naan -- "Wavin' Flag"
* Kaiser Cartel -- "[[Film/LiberalArts Favorite Song]]"
* Kajagoogoo -- "Too Shy"
* Music/KaiserChiefs -- "I Predict A Riot" or "Ruby"
* Music/KaizersOrchestra -- "Kontroll på kontinentet"
* Music/{{Kamelot}} -- "The Haunting"
* Music/{{Kamikazee}} -- "Narda"
* Kansas -- Initially "Dust in the Wind", but over time has become "Carry On Wayward Son"
* Music/{{Kara}} -- "Mister"
* Kardinal Offishall -- "Dangerous"
* Karmin -- "Brokenhearted"
* Karnivool -- "Themata"
* Kasabian -- "[[Film/{{Serenity}} Club Foot]]" or possibly "[[Film/{{Takers}} Underdog]]"
* Katy B -- "Katy on a mission" or "Crying for No Reason"
* Music/{{Kaya}} -- "Chocolat"
* KC and the Sunshine Band -- "That's The Way (I Like It)"
* KC-i and Jojo -- "All My Life"
* KDA -- "Turn the Music Louder (Rumble)" (though it's probably more associated with Music/TinieTempah and/or Katy B)
* Keane -- "Somewhere Only We Know" in the UK, "Is It Any Wonder?" in the U.S.
* Toby Keith -- "Red Solo Cup"
* Kelis -- "Milkshake"
* Paul Kelly -- "To Her Door", "Before Too Long", or "Darling It Hurts"
* Music/RKelly --For the 90s, "I Believe I Can Fly," for the 00s, all chapters of TrappedInTheCloset
* Tori Kelly -- "Should've Been Us" ("Nobody Love" is also fairly well-known, but the MTV Video Music Awards exposure gives the former the edge)
* Creator/AnnaKendrick -- "[[Film/PitchPerfect Cups (''Pitch Perfect's'' When I'm Gone)]]"
* Kenny G -- "Songbird"
* Music/AliciaKeys -- "Fallin'"
* [[Music/{{Kesha}} Ke$ha]] -- "Tik Tok"
* Aram Khachaturian -- "Sabre Dance"
* Khaled -- "Didi" and/or "Aïcha"
* Wiz Khalifa -- "Black & Yellow" or "[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious See You Again]]" (from the ''Music/Furious7Soundtrack'') to the hip-hop/urban community; indisputably the latter to mainstream audiences
* Chaka Khan -- "I'm Every Woman"
** Rufus & Chaka Khan -- "Tell Me Something Good"
* Eduard Khil -- "I am Glad Because I'm Finally Returning Home"
* Kid Cudi -- "Day 'n' Nite"
* Music/KidRock:
** "Cowboy" or "Bawitdaba" (NuMetal era)
** "All Summer Long" (country era)
* Music/{{Kiesza}} -- "Hideaway"
* Killer Be Killed -- "Wings of Feather and Wax"
* Music/TheKillers -- "Mr. Brightside"
* Music/KillingJoke -- "Love Like Blood"
* Kill It Kid -- "Blood Stop and Run"
* Music/KillswitchEngage -- "My Curse" (Howard Jones era), "In Due Time" (Jesse Leach era).
* Andy Kim -- "Rock Me Gently"
* Ben E. King -- "Film/StandByMe"
* Music/CaroleKing -- "It's Too Late" (from ''Music/{{Tapestry}}'')
* Elle King -- "Ex's and Oh's"
* Music/KingCrimson -- "21st Century Schizoid Man" (from ''Music/InTheCourtOfTheCrimsonKing'')
* Music/KingDiamond -- "The Family Ghost" or "Welcome Home"
* Music/KingMissile -- "Detachable Penis"
* Kings of Leon -- "Sex on Fire" or "Use Somebody" to rock audiences; indisputably "Use Somebody" to general audiences
* The Kingsmen -- "Louie, Louie"
* Sean Kingston -- "Beautiful Girls"
* Music/TheKinks -- "You Really Got Me"
* Creator/EmilyKinney -- "Be Good"
* Music/{{KISS}} -- "Rock and Roll All Nite"
* Music/{{Kitty Pryde}} -- "okcupid"
* Michael Kiwanuka -- "Home Again"
* Music/TheKLF -- "3 AM Eternal"
* Music/{{KMFDM}} -- "Juke Joint Jezebel" or "Megalomaniac"
* The Knack -- "My Sharona"
* Music/KnifeParty -- "Internet Friends"
* Gladys Knight and the Pips -- "Midnight Train To Georgia"
* Koan Sound -- "Funk Blaster"
* Koji Kondo -- The "SuperMarioBros" overworld theme
* Kome Kome Club -- "Kimi ga Iru Dake de"
* KONGOS -- "[[Film/{{HolyMotors}} Come With]] [[Film/{{TheExpendables}} Me Now]]"
* John Kongos -- "He's Gonna Step On You Again"
* The Kooks -- "Naive"
* Kool & the Gang -- "Celebration"
* Music/{{Korn}} -- "Blind" or "Freak on a Leash"
* Music/{{Korpiklaani}} -- "Wooden Pints"
* [[Music/{{BEMANI}} kors k]] -- "smooooch・∀・"
* Music/{{Kraftwerk}} -- "Das Modell"[/]"The Model" from ''Music/TheManMachine'' or "Autobahn" from ''Music/{{Autobahn}}''.
* Lenny Kravitz -- "Fly Away" or "Are You Gonna Go My Way?"
* Music/{{Kreator}} -- "Ripping Corpse"
* Kreayshawn -- "Gucci Gucci"
* Music/{{Krewella}} -- "Alive"
* Kris Kross -- "Jump"
* Kris Kristofferson -- "Why Me?"
* Krokus -- "Eat the Rich"
* Music/YevgenyKrylatov -- "[[GuestFromTheFuture Beautiful Tomorrow]]"
* Kula Shaker -- "Tattva"
* Music/KyaryPamyuPamyu -- "PONPONPON"
* Kygo -- "Firestone" or "Stole The Show" in Europe; indisuptably the former in North America
* Music/{{Kyuss}} -- "One Inch Man"
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[[folder:0-9]]
* 10 Years -- "Wasteland"
* 12 Stones -- "[[Wrestling/TheNexus We Are One]]" or "Broken"
* Music/The13thFloorElevators -- "You're Gonna Miss Me"
* [[Music/SixteenHorsepower 16 Horsepower]] -- "Black Soul Choir"
* 2Cellos -- "[[Music/MichaelJackson Smooth]] [[Series/{{Glee}} Criminal]]"
* [[Music/TwoChainz 2 Chainz]] -- "Birthday Song"
* [[Music/TwoLiveCrew 2 Live Crew]]-- "Me So Horny"
* 2 Unlimited -- "Get Ready For This"
* Music/TwoNEOne -- "I Am The Best"
* [[Music/ThreeEleven 311]] -- "Down" or "Amber"
* [[Music/ThreeDoorsDown 3 Doors Down]] -- "Kryptonite", with "Here Without You" as a close second.
* Music/ThreeInchesOfBlood -- "Deadly Sinners" or "Destroy the Orcs"
* 3OH!3 -- "Don't Trust Me"
* 4 Non Blondes -- "What's Up?"
* Music/5ive -- "Keep On Movin'".
* [[Music/RobZombie John]] [[Music/MarilynManson 5]] -- "[[SerialKiller Black Widow of]] [[Creator/{{cs188}} La Porte]]"
* Music/FiveSecondsOfSummer -- "She Looks So Perfect"
* [[Music/FiftyCent 50 Cent]] -- "In Da Club"
* The 5th Dimension -- "[[Theatre/{{Hair}} Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In]]"
* ^5daysofstatic -- "Radio Protector"
* 69 Boyz -- "Tootsie Roll"
* 8ball & MJG -- "Space Age Pimpin"
* [[Music/TheNineteenSeventyFive The 1975]] -- "Chocolate", "Love Me" is becoming a contender.
* 911 -- "Love Sensation"
* 98 Degrees -- "Give Me Just One Night (Una Noche)"
** Nick Lachey -- "What's Left of Me"
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[[folder:A]]
* Music/{{Aaliyah}} -- "[[Film/RomeoMustDie Try Again]]", or "One in a Million"
* Music/{{ABBA}} -- "Mamma Mia" (from ''[[Music/AbbaAlbum Abba]]'') or "Dancing Queen" (from ''Music/{{Arrival}}'')
* Music/{{ABC}} -- "The Look of Love"
* Music/PaulaAbdul -- "Straight Up" or "Opposites Attract"
* Music/{{Abnormality}} -- "[[VideoGame/RockBand Visions]]"
* Music/{{ACDC}} -- "Long Way to the Top" was Bon Scott's signature song, and so identified with him that Brian Johnson won't perform it. It's also regarded as the band's signature song in their native Australia. In America, "Highway to Hell" is regarded as Bon Scott's signature song. For Brian Johnson, it's "Thunderstruck" in Australia and "Back in Black" (from ''Music/BackInBlack'') in America.
* Music/{{Accept}} -- "Balls to the Wall"
* Ace Hood -- "Bugatti"
* Music/AceOfBase -- "[[Film/PitchPerfect The Sign]]"
* Music/BryanAdams -- "Summer of '69", "Heaven" or "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You"
* Music/{{Adele}} -- "Rolling In The Deep", "Someone Like You", "Set Fire to the Rain" or "Hello"
* Adelitas Way -- "Sick"
* Music/{{Adema}} -- "Giving In"
* Music/ADayToRemember -- "The Plot to Bomb the Panhandle"
* Aero Chord -- "Surface"
* Music/{{Aerosmith}} -- "Dream On" or "Walk This Way" (shared with Music/RunDMC) for their earlier work, "[[Film/{{Armageddon}} I Don't Want To Miss A Thing]]" for their later years
* Music/AesopRock -- "Daylight" or "None Shall Pass"
* Afghan Whigs -- "Debonair"
* Music/{{AFI}} -- "Prelude 12-21/Miss Murder" (or "God Called In Sick Today" for older fans)
* Afrojack -- "Take Over Control" was his highest-charting hit as a lead artist, but "Can't Stop Me" is also remembered due to its success in dance clubs.
* Afroman -- "Because I Got High"
* After 7 -- "Ready or Not" and "Can't Stop"
* Agent Orange -- "Bloodstains"
* Music/ChristinaAguilera -- "Beautiful"
* Music/{{aha}} -- "Take On Me"
* Aiden -- "Die Romantic"
* Music/{{Air}} -- "All I Need"
* Airbourne -- "Runnin' Wild" or "Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast"
* Air Supply -- "All Out of Love"
* AJR -- "[[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants I'm Ready]]"
* Akon -- "I Wanna Love You" (and, to a lesser degree, "Smack That" and/or "Don't Matter")
* Alabama 3 -- "[[Series/TheSopranos Woke Up this Morning]]"
* Music/TheAlanParsonsProject -- "Eye In The Sky"
* Hans Albers -- "La Paloma" and "Auf der Reeperbahn Nachts um halb Eins"
* Jason Aldean -- "Dirt Road Anthem"
* Alesso -- "Heroes (We Could Be)" (although associated more with Music/ToveLo)
* Music/{{Alestorm}} -- [[LazyTown You Are a Pirate]]
* Music/{{Alexisonfire}} -- "This Could Be Anywhere in the World"
* Music/AliceInChains -- "Man in the Box" "Would" or "Rooster"
** Post-Layne Staley: "Check my Brain" or "Hollow
** Creator/JerryCantrell: "Cut You In" or "Anger Rising"
* Music/AlienAntFarm -- "[[Music/MichaelJackson Smooth Criminal]]"
* Alkaline Trio -- "Calling All Skeletons" (or "Time to Waste" for older fans)
* Music/LilyAllen -- "Smile", "[[Film/PitchPerfect Fuck You]]" and "Hard Out Here (For A Bitch)"
* All Levels at Once -- "Flutershy's Lament" or "Pony Should Pony Pony"
* Music/AllSaints -- "Never Ever" and "[[Film/TheBeach Pure Shores]]".
* AllThatRemains -- "Two Weeks"
* Music/AllTimeLow -- "Dear Maria, Count Me In"
* Music/TheAllAmericanRejects -- "Dirty Little Secret", "Move Along", or "Gives You Hell"
** Tyson Ritter -- "Air"
* Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand -- "Ramblin' Man"
* Alphabeat -- "Fascination"
* Alphaville -- "Big in Japan" or "Forever Young," although the latter has gained the advantage ever since Jay-Z sampled it.
* Alpinestars -- "Carbon Kid"
* Music/AlterBridge -- "Rise Today" or "[[Wrestling/{{Edge}} Metalingus]]"
* [=AlunaGeorge=] -- "Attracting Flies" in the UK, "You Know You Like It"[[note]]specifically the official remix by DJ Snake[[/note]] internationally
* Amber Pacific -- "Always You (Good Times)" or "Fall Back Into My Life"
* Marsha Ambrosius -- "Far Away" or "Butterflies"
* Music/{{America}} -- "A Horse with No Name"
* American Authors -- "Best Day of My Life"
* Amerie - "[[Film/{{Hitch}} 1 Thing]]"
* Amiina -- "Seoul"
* Music/AmonAmarth -- "The Pursuit of Vikings", "Death in Fire", or "Twilight of the Thunder God"
* Music/ToriAmos -- "Cornflake Girl"
* Anastacia -- "I'm Outta Love"
* Music/{{Anberlin}} -- "Feel Good Drag"
* And One -- "Military Fashion Show"
* Andee -- "Never Gone"
* Music/LaurieAnderson -- "O Superman"
* The Angels (Australian band) -- "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again"
* The Angels (American girl group) -- "My Boyfriend's Back"
* Music/{{Angelspit}} -- "100%" or "Vena Cava"
* Aneka -- "Japanese Boy"
* Music/AnimalCollective -- "My Girls"
* Music/TheAnimals -- "[[CoveredUp The House of the Rising Sun]]" or "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place"
* Anjulie -- "Brand New Bitch" or "Stand Behind the Music"
* Music/{{Annihilator}} -- "Alison Hell"
* Another Animal -- "Broken Again"
* Music/{{Anthrax}} -- "Caught in A Mosh" for the Joey Belladonna years, "Only" for John Bush's tenure.
* Antony and the Johnsons -- "Hope There's Someone"
** Hercules and Love Affair -- "Blind" (Features vocals from Antony Hagerty)
* Music/{{AOA}} -- "Miniskirt" for the dance unit and the group's most well-known song overall
* A Perfect Circle -- "Judith"
* Music/AphexTwin -- "Windowlicker" and "Come to Daddy"
* Music/APink -- "No No No"
* Fiona Apple -- "Criminal"
* Music/{{Apocalyptica}} -- "I Don't Care" (Often wrongly attributed to Music/ThreeDaysGrace because Adam Gontier sings it)
* Apollo 440 -- "Stop The Rock"
* Music/{{Aqua}} -- "Barbie Girl"
* Aranda -- "[=WhyYaWannaBringMeDown=]"
* Music/ArcadeFire -- "Wake Up" or "My Body Is A Cage"
* Music/ArcticMonkeys -- "I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor" (from ''Music/WhateverPeopleSayIAmThatsWhatIAmNot'') or "Do I Wanna Know?" in the UK; unquestionably the latter in the U.S. (though "R U Mine?" could be considered this to a lesser extent).
* Arch Enemy -- "Nemesis"
* The Archies -- "Sugar, Sugar"
* David Archuleta -- "Crush"
* Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti -- "Round and Round"
* Arkona -- "Rus'" for older listeners,"[[Series/{{The Office}} Yarilo]]" for newer ones
* Louis Armstrong -- "West End Blues", "Potato Head Blues" (collected on ''Music/TheCompleteHotFiveAndHotSevenRecordings''), "Hello Dolly" and "What a Wonderful World"
* Music/ArtOfDying -- "Die Trying"
* Army of Anyone -- "Goodbye"
* [=AronChupa=] -- "I'm An Albatraoz"
* Music/EduardArtemyev -- "Film/{{Siberiade}}" theme
* A$AP Ferg -- "Work" or "Shabba"
* [[Music/ASAPRocky A$AP Rocky]] -- "Fuckin' Problems"
* Ashanti -- "Foolish"
* Ashes Divide -- "The Stone"
* Asia -- "Heat of the Moment"
* Music/AsianKungFuGeneration -- "[[Manga/{{Naruto}} Haruka Kanata]] to western audiences, in Japan it's debatable.
* Music/AskingAlexandria -- "The Final Episode"
* Music/RickAstley -- Intially "Never Gonna Give You Up" or "Together Forever", but now indisputably [[{{Rickroll}} the former]].
* Music/AtTheDriveIn -- "One-Armed Scissor"
* Music/AtTheGates -- "Blinded by Fear"
* The Ataris -- Their cover of Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer"
* Atlantic Starr -- "Always" and "Secret Lovers"
* Music/{{Atmosphere}} -- "Trying to Find a Balance"
* Music/AtomicKitten -- "[[CoverVersion Eternal Flame]];, "The Tide is High" or "Whole Again"
* Atom Smash -- "Do Her Wrong"
* Atreyu -- "Bleeding Mascara" or "Ravenous"
* Attack -- "Ooa Hela Natten"
* Attack Attack! -- "Stick Stickly"
* Attila -- "About that Life"
* Audioslave -- "Like a Stone" or "Cochise"
* Augustana -- "Boston"
* The Automatic -- "Monster" (from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' among others)
* Autopilot Off -- "Clockwork" or "Make a Sound"
* The Avalanches -- "Frontier Psychiatrist"
* Mickey Avalon -- "Jane Fonda"
* Music/{{Avantasia}} -- "Dying for an Angel"
* Music/AvengedSevenfold -- "Bat Country" or "Beast and the Harlot" for their earlier material, "Hail to the King" or "Shepherd of Fire" for their later work.
* Avicii -- "Wake Me Up!" to general audiences, "Levels" to EDM audiences.
* Music/{{AWOLNATION}} -- "Sail"
* Music/IggyAzalea -- Previously "Work", but now "Fancy", with "Black Widow" as a possible runner-up.
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[[folder:B]]
* Music/BBKing -- "[[CoveredUp The Thrill is Gone]]"
* B.o.B. -- "Airplanes" or "Nothin' On You" (although the former is just as much associated with Hayley Williams and and the latter almost universally with Bruno Mars, who sing their choruses.) For songs solely by him, "Flatline" [[NeverLiveItDown may soon be a contender]].
* Music/TheB52s -- "Love Shack" or "Rock Lobster"
* Baauer -- "Harlem Shake"
* Baby Bash -- "Suga Suga" or "Cyclone"
* Babybird -- "You're Gorgeous"
* Babyface -- "When Can I See You"
* Music/JohannSebastianBach -- "Music/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor" or the "Mass in B Minor"
* Tal Bachman -- "She's So High"
* Bachman-Turner Overdrive -- Initially "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"; more recently "Takin' Care Of Business"
* Music/BackstreetBoys -- "I Want It That Way", followed closely by "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)"
* Music/BadBrains -- "Pay to Cum"
* Music/BadCompany -- "Bad Company" . . . from the album [[SelfTitledAlbum Bad Company]] (and later a hit for Five Finger Death Punch).
* BadLipReading -- "[[Music/RebeccaBlack Gang Fight]]," "[[MichaelBuble Russian Unicorn]]"
* Music/BadReligion -- "21st Century Digital Boy"
* Badfinger -- "[[Series/BreakingBad Baby Blue]]"
* Music/ErykahBadu -- "Tyrone"
* Music/JoanBaez -- "Diamonds & Rust"
* Baha Men -- "Who Let the Dogs Out?"
* Anita Baker -- "Sweet Love"
* Creator/JosephineBaker -- "J'ai deux amours"
* Balance and Composure -- "Quake"
* Kelsea Ballerini -- "Love Me Like You Mean It"
* Baltimora -- "[[OneHitWonder Tarzan Boy]]"
* Music/AfrikaBambaataa -- "Planet Rock"
* Bananarama -- "Venus" or "Cruel Summer"; while the former was a bigger hit in its heyday, its status as a CoverVersion could give the latter the advantage.
* Music/TheBand -- "The Weight" (from ''Music/TheBandAlbum The Band]]'')
* Band of Skulls -- "Death by Diamonds and Pearls" or "Light of the Morning"
* Music/TheBandPerry -- "If I Die Young"
* Bang Camaro -- "Push Push (Lady Lightning)"
* Chiddy Bang --"Opposite of Adults"
* Music/TheBangles -- "Walk Like an Egyptian"
* Kirko Bangz -- "Drank In My Cup"
* Music/{{BANKS}} -- "Beggin For Thread"
* David Banner -- "Play"
* The Bar-Kays -- (Original lineup) "Soul Finger", (New Lineup) "Freakshow On The Dance Floor"
* Music/SaraBareilles -- "Love Song", "King of Anything", or "Brave"
* Music/BarenakedLadies -- "One Week" and to a lesser extent, "If I Had $1000000". In Canada, "Pinch Me" works as well.
* Jimmy Barnes -- "Working Class Man"
* Courtney Barnett -- "Pedestrian At Best"
* Music/SydBarrett -- "See Emily Play" or "Astronomy Domine"(from ''Music/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn'') with Music/PinkFloyd, "Dark Globe" as a solo artist
* Creator/JohnBarrowman -- "You're So Vain", the orchestral arrangement makes it immediately recognizable from Simon's version
* Toni Basil -- "[[OneHitWonder Mickey]]"
* Music/BasementJaxx -- "Where's Your Head At?"
* Bass Drum of Death -- "Crawling After You"
* Shirley Bassey -- "[[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Goldfinger]]"
* Bastille -- "Pompeii" in the U.S., although "Of the Night" is also a candidate in the UK.
* Music/BatForLashes -- "Daniel"
* Music/{{Bathory}} -- "A Fine Day to Die" or "One Rode to Asa Bay"
* Music/{{Battles}} -- "Atlas"
* Music/{{Bauhaus}} -- "Bela Lugosi's Dead"
* James Bay - "Hold Back the River" or "Let It Go"
* Bayside -- "Killing Time"
* Music/BeastieBoys -- "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)" (despite the CreatorBacklash) or "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" for their '80s material, "Sabotage" or "Intergalactic" for their '90s output.
* Music/BeachHouse -- "Norway" or "Zebra"
* Music/TheBeachBoys -- "Good Vibrations" (from ''Music/SmileySmile'') and "God Only Knows" (from ''Music/PetSounds'')
* Music/BeatHappening -- "Indian Summer"
* Music/TheBeatles -- Averted. The Beatles have so many iconic songs that it's next to impossible to single out ''just one'' as their signature.
* Music/{{Beck}} -- "Loser" (from ''Music/MellowGold'')
* Becky G -- "Shower"
* Music/DanielBedingfield -- "[[Film/MaidInManhattan If You're Not The One]]".
* Natasha Bedingfield -- "Unwritten" or "[[Film/EasyA Pocketful of Sunshine]]"
* Music/TheBeeGees -- "[[Film/SaturdayNightFever Stayin' Alive]]"
* Music/LudwigVanBeethoven -- "Ode to Joy" or "Symphony No. 5 in C Minor - 1st Movement"
* Lou Bega -- "[[OneHitWonder Mambo No. 5]]"
* Bell Biv Devoe -- "Poison"
* Drake Bell -- "[[Series/DrakeAndJosh I Found a Way]]"
* Music/BelleAndSebastian -- "The Boy with the Arab Strap"
* Music/BenFoldsFive -- "Brick"
* Benny Benassi -- "Satisfaction" in Europe; "Cinema" in America
* Music/PatBenatar -- "Love is a Battlefield" or "Hit Me With Your Best Shot"
* Berlin -- "Take My Breath Away" (ironically, the one hit single they had that they didn't actually write themselves)
* Music/GeorgeBenson -- "Give Me The Night"
* Music/LeonardBernstein -- "Somewhere", "Tonight", "I Feel Pretty"... Pretty much the entirety of Theatre/WestSideStory
* Music/ChuckBerry -- "[[Film/BackToTheFuture Johnny B. Goode]]"[[note]]even though "My Ding-A-Ling" was his sole #1 hit[[/note]]
* Music/BestCoast -- "Boyfriend"
* Better Than Ezra -- "Good"
* Music/BetweenTheBuriedAndMe -- "White Walls"
* Beware of Darkness -- "Howl"
* Music/{{Beyonce}} -- "Irreplaceable", "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" or "Crazy in Love"
* Music/JustinBieber -- "Baby" for his TeenIdol era, and "What Do You Mean" for his CareerResurrection
* Music/BiffyClyro -- "[[TheXFactor Many]] [[CoveredUp of]] [[RefrainFromAssuming Horror]]", and maybe "[[VideoGame/GuitarHeroLive Victory Over the Sun]]"
* Big & Rich -- Initially "Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)", then "Lost In This Moment," but has since gone back to being "Save A Horse"
* Music/BigBang -- "Fantastic Baby"
* Music/BigBlack -- "Kerosene"
* Music/TheBigBopper - "Chantilly Lace".
* Big Data -- "Dangerous"
* Music/BigSean -- "Dance (A$$)" or "I Don't Fuck With You"
* Music/BigStar -- "September Gurls"
* Series/BigTimeRush -- "Big Time Rush"
* Big Tymers -- "Still Fly"
* Music/BikiniKill -- "Rebel Girl"
* Music/BillHaleyAndHisComets -- "Rock Around the Clock"
* The Bird & The Bee -- "Fucking Boyfriend"
* Birdy -- "Skinny Love"
* Birds of Tokyo -- "Plans" or "Lanterns"
* Music/TheBirthdayMassacre -- "Happy Birthday" or "Music/{{Blue}}"
* The Birthday Party -- "Relese the Bats"
* Georges Bizet -- "Les Toreadors"
* Music/{{Bjork}} -- "It's Oh So Quiet" (from ''Music/{{Post}}'')
* Aloe Blacc -- Overall, his uncredited appearance on Avicii's "Wake Me Up!"; for his solo work, "I Need a Dollar" in Europe and "The Man" in North America
* Black -- "Wonderful Life"
* Music/RebeccaBlack -- "Music/{{Friday}}"
** Mike Bauer -- "Friday, as performed by Bob Dylan"
** Funnyz -- "Friday (Music Video Parody)" (AKA the "Fried Eggs" parody)
* Music/TheBlackCrowes -- Their cover of Otis Redding's "Hard to Handle"
* Music/BlackEyedPeas -- used to be "Where is the Love?", then "Let's Get [[strike:Retarded]] It Started" or "My Humps", now "I Gotta Feeling"
** will.i.am -- "Scream & Shout"
** Fergie -- "Big Girls Don't Cry" or "Fergalicious"
* Music/BlackFlag -- "Rise Above"
** The Rollins Band -- "Liar"
* Music/TheBlackKeys -- "Tighten Up", "Howlin' For You", "Lonely Boy", or, for newer fans, "Gold On The Ceiling". Prior to ''Music/{{Brothers}}'', it was "Strange Times".
** The Arcs -- "Outta My Mind"
* Black Lab -- "Wash it Away"
* Music/BlackLabelSociety -- "Stillborn"
* Black Stone Cherry -- "White Trash Millionaire"
* Blessid Union of Souls -- Initially "I Believe", but has been gradually displaced by "Hey Leonardo (She Likes Me For Me)". ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' fans would cite "Brother My Brother".
* Music/BlackSabbath -- "[[Film/ThreeHundredRiseOfAnEmpire War Pigs]]", "Paranoid", or "Iron Man", depending on where you live
** Music/RonnieJamesDio era -- "Heaven & Hell"
* Music/BlackVeilBrides -- "In the End"
* Bleachers -- "I Wanna Get Better"
* Music/MaryJBlige -- "Be Without You" or "Family Affair","Not Gonna Cry", or even "Real Love"
* Music/BlindGuardian -- "The Bard's Song, "In the Forest" or "Mirror Mirror"
* Music/BlindMelon -- "[[OneHitWonder No Rain]]"
* Music/{{Blink 182}} -- "All the Small Things"
* Music/BlocParty -- "Helicopter"
* Music/{{Blondie}} -- "One Way or Another" [[note]]previously "Heart of Glass"[[/note]]
* Music/BloodhoundGang -- "The Bad Touch"
* Blue -- "One Love"
* Blue Cheer -- "Summertime Blues"
* Music/BlueOysterCult -- "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (from ''Music/AgentsOfFortune'')
* Blue October -- "Hate Me"
* Music/BlueStahli -- "Ultranumb"
* Blues Traveler -- "Run-Around"
* Blue Swede -- "[[CoveredUp Hooked]] [[Film/ReservoirDogs on a]] [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Feeling]]"
* Music/JamesBlunt -- "You're Beautiful"
* Music/{{Blur}} -- "Song 2" in the US, "Parklife" in the UK
* Blut Aus Nord -- "Epitome I"
* Music/BoardsOfCanada -- "Roygbiv"
* Bone Crusher -- "(I Ain't) Never Scared"
* Music/BonJovi -- "Livin' on a Prayer", "You Give Love a Bad Name", or "Wanted Dead or Alive"
** Creator/JonBonJovi -- "Blaze of Glory"
* Music/BoneThugsNHarmony -- "Tha Crossroads"
* Boney M. -- "Rasputin"
* The Boo Radleys -- "Wake Up Boo!"
* The Boomtown Rats -- "I Don't Like Mondays"
* Music/{{Boston}} -- "More Than a Feeling"
* Music/DavidBowie -- By album:
** ''Music/SpaceOddity'' -- "Space Oddity"
** ''Music/TheManWhoSoldTheWorld'' -- "The Man Who Sold the World"
** ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' -- "Ziggy Stardust"
** ''Music/DiamondDogs'' -- "Rebel Rebel"
** ''Music/YoungAmericans'' -- "Fame"
** ''Music/{{Heroes}}'' -- "Heroes"
** ''Music/LetsDance'' -- "Let's Dance"
** ''Music/{{Earthling}}'' -- "I'm Afraid of Americans"
** ''Music/{{Blackstar}}'' -- "Lazarus"
* Music/BowlingForSoup -- "1985"
* Bow Wow -- "Fresh Azimiz"
* Boys Like Girls -- "The Great Escape"
* Music/BoyzIIMen -- "End of the Road"
* Music/{{Boyzone}} -- "No Matter What" or/and "I Love The Way You Love Me"
** Music/RonanKeating -- "[[Film/NottingHill When You Say Nothing At All]]"
** Music/StephenGately -- "New Beginning"
* Billy Bragg -- "A New England"
* Music/MichelleBranch -- "Everywhere"
* Music/GeorgesBrassens -- "Les Copains D' Abord"
* Music/JohannesBrahms — Lullaby (Wiegenlied) in E Flat (often referred to as "Brahms' Lullaby")
* Brainpower -- "Dansplaat" in Europe; "[[Podcast/WelcometoNightVale Mijn Manier]]" to a certain desert community.
* Music/MichelleBranch -- "Everywhere"
* Music/{{Brand New}} -- "Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades"
* Brand New Heavies -- [[CoveredUp "Midnight at the Oasis"]]
* Toni Braxton -- "Un-Break My Heart"
* Music/BreakingBenjamin -- "The Diary of Jane" or "I Will Not Bow" for their original lineup (or "[[VideoGame/{{Halo2}} Blow Me Away]]" for VideoGame/{{Halo}} fans), and "Failure" for their comeback.
* Breathe Carolina -- "Blackout"
* Music/JacquesBrel -- "Ne Me Quitte Pas" and "Le Plat Pays"
* Edie Brickell & New Bohemians -- "What I Am"
* Bright Eyes -- "Lua" or "First Day of My Life"
* Music/BringMeTheHorizon -- "Throne"
* Music/GarthBrooks -- "The Dance" or "Friends in Low Places"
* Meredith Brooks -- "Bitch"
* Brooks & Dunn -- "Boot Scootin' Boogie"
* Music/ChrisBrown -- "Run It!", "Yeah 3x" or "Look At Me Now"
* Music/HavanaBrown -- "We Run The Night"
* Music/JamesBrown -- "I Got You (I Feel Good)"
* Sawyer Brown -- "Drive Me Wild"
* Music/ZacBrownBand -- "Chicken Fried" (and, to a lesser degree, "Toes") plus "[[Music/ChrisCornell Heavy is the Head]]" for rock audiences
* Music/JacksonBrowne -- "Doctor My Eyes"
* Brownsville Station -- "Smokin' in the Boys Room"
* Brothers Osborne -- "Stay a Little Longer"
* The Dave Brubeck Quartet -- "Take Five"
* Luke Bryan -- "That's My Kind Of Night"
* Chase Bryant -- "Take It On Back"
* Peabo Bryson -- "If Ever You're in My Arms Again"
* Music/{{BT}} -- "Flaming June"
* Music/MichaelBuble -- "Haven't Met You Yet"
* Music/{{Buckethead}} -- "[[VideoGame/GuitarHero Jordan]]"
* Music/{{Buckcherry}} -- "Crazy Bitch" to rock audiences; "Sorry" to mainstream audiences
* Buckner & Garcia -- "Pac-Man Fever"
* Buckwheat Boyz -- "Peanut Butter Jelly Time"
* Music/BuffaloSpringfield -- "For What It's Worth"
* Music/JimmyBuffett -- "Margaritaville"
* Music/TheBuggles -- [[{{MTV}} "Video Killed the Radio Star"]]
* Building 147 -- "Where I Belong"
* Music/BuiltToSpill -- "Car"
* Music/BulletForMyValentine -- "Tears Don't Fall", with "You Want a Battle? (Here's a War)" becoming a strong contender.
* Burial -- "Archangel"
* Solomon Burke -- "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" or "Got to Get You Off My Mind"
* Burn Halo -- "Dirty Little Girl"
* Music/{{Burzum}} -- "Dunkelheit" or "My Journey to the Stars"
* Bush -- "Everything Zen"
* Music/KateBush -- "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)"
* Stan Bush -- "[[TransformersTheMovie The Touch]]"
* Music/BustaRhymes -- "Woo-Hah!! Got You All In Check"
* Music/ButtholeSurfers -- "Pepper"
* Armin van Buuren -- "This Is What It Feels Like"
* Music/{{Buzzcocks}} -- "Ever Fallen In Love" or "Everybody's Happy Nowadays"
* Music/TheByrds -- [[CoveredUp "Mr. Tambourine Man]] (from ''Music/MisterTambourineMan'') or [[CoveredUp "Turn, Turn, Turn"]] (from ''Music/TurnTurnTurn'')
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[[folder:C]]
* Cabaret Voltaire -- "Yashar"
* Caesars -- "Jerk It Out"
* Music/JohnCage -- "4'33"" [[note]][[SilenceIsGolden So his most famous song is literally nothing...]][[/note]]
* Music/CageTheElephant -- "[[VideoGame/{{Borderlands}} Ain't No Rest For the Wicked]]"
* Cali Swag District -- "Teach Me How to Dougie"
* Music/ColbieCaillat -- "Bubbly"
* Music/{{CAKE}} -- "The Distance"
* Music/TheCalling -- "Wherever You Will Go"
* Cab Calloway -- "Minnie the Moocher"
* Cam -- "Burning House"
* Music/{{Camel}} -- "Echoes"
* Cameo -- "Word Up!"
* Craig Campbell -- "Keep Them Kisses Comin'"
* Music/CamperVanBeethoven -- "Take the Skinheads Bowling"
* Candlebox -- "Far Behind"
* Music/{{Candlemass}} -- "Demon's Gate" or "The Black Dwarf"
* Music/CannedHeat -- "Going Up the Country"
* Music/CannibalCorpse -- "Hammer Smashed Face"
* Capital Cities -- "Safe & Sound"
* Tim Cappello -- "I Still Believe"
* Music/AlessiaCara -- "Here"
* Caramell -- "[[MemeticMutation Caramelldansen]]"
* Music/{{Carcass}} -- "Heartwork" or "Corporal Jigsore Quandary"
* Ian Carey -- "Amnesia"
* Music/MariahCarey -- "Hero" or "Fantasy" for her earlier era, and "We Belong Together" more recently
* Caribou -- "Odessa"
* Belinda Carlisle -- "Heaven Is a Place on Earth"
* Kim Carnes -- [[CoveredUp "Bette Davis Eyes"]]
* Music/VanessaCarlton -- "A Thousand Miles"
* Music/TheCars -- "Just What I Needed"
* The Cardigans -- "Lovefool"
* Music/{{Cascada}} -- "Everytime We Touch"
* Music/JohnnyCash -- "Ring of Fire" or "I Walk the Line"
* Music/CashCash -- "Take Me Home"
* Ca$h Out -- "Cashing Out"
* Cassie -- "Me & U"
* Music/{{Cathedral}} -- "Hopkins (The Witchfinder General)"
* Music/NickCave -- "Red Right Hand" (from ''Music/LetLoveIn'') (or "[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows O Children]]" for HarryPotter fans)
* Cavo -- "Champagne"
* Music/CeeLoGreen -- "Fuck/Forget You!"
** Music/GnarlsBarkley -- "Crazy"
** Goodie Mob -- "Cell Therapy"
* Music/{{Celldweller}} -- "Switchback" or, for their orchestral era, "[[Film/RealSteel Wings of Icarus]]"
* Music/CelticFrost -- "Circle of The Tyrants" or "Into Crypt of Rays"
* Peter Cetera -- "Glory of Love"
* Chad & Jeremy -- "A Summer Song"
* The Chainsmokers -- "Roses"
* Chairmen of the Board -- "Give Me Just a Little More Time"
* The Chambers Brothers -- "Time Has Come Today"
* Chamillionare -- "Ridin'"
* The Champs -- "Tequila"
* Gene Chandler -- "Duke of Earl"
* Music/HarryChapin -- "Cats in the Cradle"
* Music/TracyChapman -- "Fast Car"
* Music/RayCharles -- "Georgia On My Mind" or "Hit The Road Jack"
* Music/CharliXCX -- "[[Film/TheFaultInOurStars Boom Clap]]"
* Music/CheapTrick -- "I Want You to Want Me" or "Surrender"
* Chubby Checker -- "The Twist"
* Music/TheChemicalBrothers -- "Hey Girl Hey Boy" or "Galvanize"
* Music/{{Cher}} -- "Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves" for her older work, "Believe" for her newer material.
* Cherish -- "Do It To It"
* Music/{{Chevelle}} -- "The Red", "Send The Pain Below" or, for newer fans, "Jars"
* Eagle-Eye Cherry -- "Save Tonight"
* Neneh Cherry -- "Buffalo Stance"
* Cherry Poppin' Daddies -- "Zoot Suit Riot"
* Kenny Chesney -- "The Good Stuff"
* Creator/MauriceChevalier -- "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" (at least in America). In France "Valentine" is considered to be his SignatureSong.
* Music/{{Chic}} -- "Le Freak"
* Music/{{Chicago}} -- "25 or 6 to 4"
* Music/ChiefKeef -- "I Don't Like"
* The Chiffons -- "He's So Fine"
* Music/ChildrenOfBodom -- "Needled 24/7" or "Are You Dead Yet?"
* The Chi-Lites -- "Have You Seen Her" or "Oh Girl"
* Music/{{Chimaira}} -- "Pure Hatred"
* Chingy -- "Right Thurr"
* [[WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks The Chipmunks]] -- "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)"
* Music/{{Chiodos}} -- "Baby, You Wouldn't Last A Minuite on The Creek"
* Music/FryderykChopin -- "Funeral March"
* The Chordettes -- "Mr. Sandman" or "Lollipop"
* Lou Christie -- "Lightning Strikes"
* Chromeo -- "Jealous (I Ain't With It)"
* Music/{{Chumbawamba}} -- "Tubthumping"
* Eric Church -- "Springsteen"
* The Church -- "Under the Milky Way"
* Music/{{CHVRCHES}} -- "The Mother We Share"
* Music/{{Ciara}} -- "Goodies" or "1, 2 Step"
* Music/{{Cimorelli}} -- "Made in America" or "Hearts on Fire"
* Circa Survive -- "The Difference Between Medicine and Drugs is in the Dose"
* Creator/CirqueDuSoleil -- "Theatre/{{Alegria}}" (the only song that appears in some way on each of their first three [[GreatestHitsAlbum greatest hits albums]]) or "[[Theatre/{{Mystere}} Kunya Sobe]]".
* Citizen King -- "Better Days (And the Bottom Drops Out)"
* City High -- "What Would You Do?"
* Civil Twilight -- "Letters From the Sky"
* The Civil Wars -- "Barton Hollow"
* Music/EricClapton -- "Tears in Heaven"
* Dave Clark Five -- "Glad All Over"
* Petula Clark -- "Downtown"
* Music/KellyClarkson -- "Since U Been Gone" or "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)"
* Alex Clare -- "Too Close"
* Music/TheClash -- "London Calling" (from ''Music/LondonCalling'') or "Should I Stay Or Should I Go"
* Classified -- "Inner Ninja"
* Classixx -- "All You're Waiting For"
* Music/CleanBandit -- "Rather Be"
* Clipse -- "Grinding"
* Music/{{Clutch}} -- "Electric Worry"
* Music/CNBlue -- "I'm A Loner"
* The Coasters -- "Yakety Yak" or "[[Film/DeathProof Down in Mexico]]"
* Music/CobraStarship -- "Good Girls Go Bad" or "You Make Me Feel…"
* Tom Cochrane -- "Life Is A Highway"
* Music/CoheedAndCambria -- "Welcome Home"
* Music/LeonardCohen -- "Hallelujah"
** "Suzanne" (from ''Music/SongsOfLeonardCohen'') in his earlier period
* Marc Cohn -- "Walking In Memphis"
* Cold -- "Stupid Girl"
* Music/ColdChisel -- "Khe Sahn"
* Music/{{Coldplay}} -- "Viva la Vida" (or "Clocks" from ''Music/ARushOfBloodToTheHead'' for older fans)
* Music/ColdWarKids -- formerly "Hang Me Up to Dry", but now "First"
* Keyshia Cole -- "I've Should've Cheated"
* Music/NatKingCole -- "Unforgettable" or "Mona Lisa"
* Natalie Cole -- "Inseparable"
* Music/PaulaCole -- [[Series/DawsonsCreek "I Don't Want To Wait"]]
* [[Creator/ZendayaColeman Zendaya]] -- "Replay"
* Coleman Hell -- "2 Heads"
* Music/CollectiveSoul -- "Shine"
* Edwyn Collins -- [[Film/EmpireRecords "A Girl Like You"]]
* Judy Collins -- "Both Sides Now"
* Music/PhilCollins -- "In the Air Tonight" (from ''Music/FaceValue'') or [[Literature/AmericanPsycho "Sussudio"]]
* Color Me Badd -- "[[Film/NewJackCity I Wanna Sex You Up]]"
* Shawn Colvin -- "Sunny Came Home"
* Combichrist -- "Get Your Body Beat"
* The Commodores -- "Brick House"
* Common -- "Glory"
* Music/ConquerDivide -- "Nightmares"
* Coolio -- "Gangsta's Paradise"
* Music/AliceCooper -- "School's Out"
* Music/{{Copeland}} -- "No One Really Wins"
* Core -- "Angle"
* Cornershop -- "Brimful of Asha"
* Music/TheCorrs -- "Runaway" or/and "Breathless"
* Music/{{cosMo}} -- Depending on whether you ask the Music/{{VOCALOID}} fanbase or the ''VideoGame/SoundVoltex'' fanbase: "The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku" or "For [=UltraPlayers=]", respectively.
* Music/ElvisCostello -- "Pump It Up" (from ''Music/ThisYearsModel'') and "I Want You" (from ''Music/BloodAndChocolate'')
* Music/JonathanCoulton -- "[[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Still Alive]]"
* Course of Nature -- "Caught in the Sun"
* Music/CountingCrows -- "Mr. Jones"
* Deborah Cox -- "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here"
* Cracker -- "Low" or "Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)"
* Music/CradleOfFilth -- "Her Ghost in the Fog"
* Music/TheCramps -- "Human Fly"
* The Cranberries -- "Zombie"
* Music/CrashTestDummies -- "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm"
* Crash Kings -- "Mountain Man"
* Music/{{Cream}} -- "Sunshine of Your Love"
* Music/{{Creed}} -- "Higher" or "With Arms Wide Open"
* Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival -- "Fortunate Son" (from ''Music/WillyAndThePoorBoys'') or "Bad Moon Rising"
** John Fogerty -- "Centerfield"
* Music/BingCrosby -- [[Music/MerryChristmas "White Christmas"]]
** Although he used "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" as his 'official' signature tune. In one Creator/BobHope movie, Bing Crosby's surprise cameo appearance at the very end was accompanied by an orchestra version of the opening bars of this song.
* Music/CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung -- "Woodstock"
* Christopher Cross -- "Ride Like the Wind"
* Music/SherylCrow -- "All I Wanna Do"
* Music/{{Crowbar}} -- "All I Had (I Gave)"
* Music/CrowdedHouse -- "Don't Dream It's Over"
* Mark Crozer and the Rels -- "[[Wrestling/TheWyattFamily Live in Fear]] [[Wrestling/BrayWyatt (Broken Out in Love)]]"
* Music/{{Crush 40}} -- "[[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 Live and Learn]]" and "[[VideoGame/SonicAdventure Open Your Heart]]"
* Music/TheCruxshadows -- "Birthday"
* Taio Cruz -- "Dynamite"
* Music/CrystalCastles -- "Vanished"
* The Crystal Method -- "Name of the Game"
* Music/{{Cryoshell}} -- "[[Main/{{BIONICLE}} Creeping in my Soul]]"
* Culture Beat -- "Mr Vain"
* Culture Club -- "Karma Chameleon" or "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?"
* Cupid -- "Cupid Shuffle"
* Music/TheCure -- "Love Song", "Just Like Heaven", or "Friday I'm In Love"
* Cut Copy -- "Hearts on Fire"
* Cutting Crew -- "(I Just) Died in Your Arms"
* Music/CypressHill -- "Insane in the Brain"
* Billy Ray Cyrus -- "Achy Breaky Heart"
* Music/MileyCyrus -- "Party in the USA" for her Disney-era material; "Wrecking Ball" for her mature era
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[[folder:D]]
* Music/{{D}} -- "Night-ship "D""
* D-Cru -- "I Will Be Waiting"
** Craig Smart -- "I Miss You"
* Music/DaYoopers — "Second Week of Deer Camp", "Rusty Chevrolet", or "Grandpa Got Run Over by a Beer Truck"
* Daddy Yankee -- "Rompe"
* Music/DaftPunk
** Earlier work -- "One More Time"
** 2013 comeback -- "Get Lucky"
*** Stardust -- "[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Music Sounds Better With You]]", which couldn't be helped as it was the ''[[OneBookAuthor only song]]'' they ever recorded
* The Damned -- "New Rose"
* Dick Dale -- "[[Film/PulpFiction Misirlou]]"
* Music/TheDandyWarhols -- "Bohemian Like You" or "[[Series/VeronicaMars We Used to Be Friends]]"
* The Charlie Daniels Band -- "The Devil Went Down To Georgia"
* Danity Kane -- "Damaged"
* Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip -- "Thou Shalt Always Kill"
* Music/{{Danzig}} -- "Mother"
* Terence Trent D'arby -- "Wishing Well"
* Bobby Darin -- "Splish Splash" or "Mack the Knife"
* The Darkness -- "I Believe in a Thing Called Love"
* Dark New Day -- "Brother"
* Music/{{DarkThrone}} -- "Transylvanian Hunger"
* Music/DarkTranquillity -- "Lethe" or "Punish My Heaven"
* Darude -- "Sandstorm"
* Roscoe Dash -- "Show Out"
* Dash Rip Rock -- "(Let's Go) Smoke Some Pot"
* Music/{{Daughtry}} -- "It's Not Over"
* Creator/BetteDavis -- "They're Either Too Young Or Too Old"
* Music/MilesDavis -- "So What" (from ''Music/KindOfBlue'') or "Bitches Brew" (from ''Music/BitchesBrew'')
* Paul Davis -- "I Go Crazy"
* Howie Day -- "Collide"
* Daya -- "Hide Away"
* Days of the New -- "Touch, Peel and Stand"
* DC Talk -- "Jesus Freak" to their fans. However their biggest mainstream hit was "Just Between You and Me" and is the song they're best known for to the average listener.
* Music/ClaudeDebussy -- "Claire de Lune"
* Dead By April -- "Promise Me" or "Losing You"
* Music/DeadKennedys -- "California Über Alles" or "Holiday in Cambodia" (from ''Music/FreshFruitForRottingVegetables'')
* The Dead Milkmen -- "Punk Rock Girl" or "Bitchin' Camaro"
* Music/{{deadmau5}} -- "Ghosts n' Stuff"
* Music/DeadOrAlive -- "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)"
* Music/DeadSara -- "Weatherman" or "[[VideoGame/InfamousSecondSon Heart]]-[[Music/{{Nirvana}} Shaped Box]]"
* Deafheaven -- "Dream House" or "Brought to the Water"
* Jimmy Dean -- "Big Bad John"
* Music/{{Death}} -- "Evil Dead," "The Philosopher," or "Crystal Mountain"
* Music/DeathCabForCutie -- "I Will Follow You Into The Dark" or "I Will Possess Your Heart"
* Death From Above 1979 -- "Trainwreck 1979"
* Music/DeathGrips -- "Hacker"
* Music/DeathInJune -- "Little Black Angel" or "All Pigs Must Die"
* Death In Vegas -- "Dirge"
* [=DeBarge=] -- "Rhythm of the Night"
* Music/ChrisDeBurgh -- "The Lady in Red"
* Music/TheDecemberists -- "This Is Why We Fight", or "The Perfect Crime"
* Deee-lite -- "Groove is in the Heart"
* Deep Blue Something -- "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
* Deerhunter -- "Nothing Ever Happened"
* Music/DeepPurple -- "Smoke on the Water" (from ''Music/MachineHeadAlbum Machine Head]]'')
* Default -- "Wasting My Time"
** Dallas Smith -- "Tippin' Point", or "Jumped Right In" in Canada
* Music/DefLeppard -- "Pour Some Sugar On Me"
* Music/{{Deftones}} -- "Change (In The House of Flies)", with "Diamond Eyes" a strong contender for second place.
* Gavin [=DeGraw=] -- "[[Series/OneTreeHill I Don't Want To Be]]"
* Music/{{Deicide}} -- "Trifixion"
* Alice [=DeeJay=] -- "Better Off Alone"
* Dej Loaf -- "Try Me"
* Del Amitri -- "Roll To Me"
* Music/LanaDelRey -- "Born to Die" or "Summertime Sadness"
* De La Soul -- "Me Myself & I"
* Music/{{Deltron 3030}} -- "Positive Contact"
* Kat [=DeLuna=] -- "Run the Show"
* Dem Franchize Boys -- "Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It"
* Cathy Dennis -- "Touch Me (All Night Long)"
* John Denver -- "Take Me Home, Country Roads," especially in West Virginia. In the Rockies, especially Colorado, it's "Rocky Mountain High".
* Music/DepecheMode -- "Just Can't Get Enough" or "Enjoy the Silence"
* Rick Derringer -- "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" or "[[Wrestling/HulkHogan Real American]]"
* Jason Derulo -- "Whatcha Say" for his earlier material, "Talk Dirty" or "Want to Want Me" for his later work.
* Jackie [=DeShannon=] -- "Put A Little Love In Your Heart" or "What The World Needs Now Is Love"
* Des'ree -- "You Gotta Be"
* Shawn Desman -- "Let's Go" or "Night Like This"
* Music/DestinysChild -- "Survivor" and "Say My Name"
* [[WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}} Dethklok]] -- "Thunderhorse"
* Music/{{dEUS}}: "Suds & Soda" (from ''Music/WorstCaseScenario'')
* Dev -- "In the Dark"
* Device ('80s synth-pop group) -- "Hanging on a Heart Attack"
* Music/{{Device}} (metal band fronted by [[Music/{{Disturbed}} David Draiman]]) -- "Vilify"
* Music/DevinTownsend -- "Kingdom"
* Music/{{Devo}} -- "Whip It" (from ''Music/FreedomOfChoice'')
* Devour the Day -- "Good Man"
* Lee [=DeWyze=] -- "Sweet Serendipity"
* Music/{{Device}} -- "Vilify"
* Music/DexysMidnightRunners -- "Come On Eileen" or "Geno" in the UK, "Come On Eileen" indisputably in the US
* D4L -- "Laffy Taffy"
* Diamond Head -- "Am I Evil?"
* Music/NeilDiamond -- "Sweet Caroline" or "America"
* Music/BoDiddley -- "Bo Diddley"
* Dido -- "Thank You"
* Music/DieAntwoord -- "Enter The Ninja"
* Creator/MarleneDietrich -- "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt" ("Falling in Love Again"), "Lili Marleen"
* Digital Underground -- "The Humpty Dance"
* Digitalism -- "Pogo"
* Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan -- "43% Burnt"
* Music/DimmuBorgir -- "Progenies of the Great Apocalypse"
* Music/DinosaurJr -- " Start Choppin'"
* [[Music/RonnieJamesDio Dio]] -- "Holy Diver" and "Rainbow In The Dark"
* Dion -- "Runaround Sue"
* Music/CelineDion -- "[[Film/{{Titanic 1997}} My Heart Will Go On]]"
* Music/DireStraits -- "Sultans of Swing", "Money For Nothing" (from ''Music/BrothersInArms'') or "Walk of Life"
* Dirty Heads -- "Lay Me Down"
* Dirty Radio -- "Ground Shake" or "Found You"
* Dirty Vegas -- "Days Go By"
* Discharge -- "Free Speech for the Dumb"
* Disclosure -- "White Noise" in the UK, "Latch" in the U.S.[[note]]Though, it's more associated with Sam Smith over there than with them.[[/note]], and maybe "Magnets" for alt-rock audiences [[note]]Albeit it's more associated with Music/{{Lorde}} than them[[/note]]
* Dishwalla -- "Counting Blue Cars"
* Dissection -- "Where Dead Angels Lie"
* Music/{{Disturbed}} -- "Down with the Sickness"
* Disparition -- [[Podcast/WelcometoNightVale The Ballad of Fiedler and Mundt]]"
* Divide the Day -- "[[Wrestling/WWESmackDown Let it Roll]]"
* Divine Heresy - "Failed Creation"
* Divinyls -- "I Touch Myself"
* Dixie Chicks -- "Goodbye Earl" or "[[Music/FleetwoodMac Landslide]]"
* Music/ColtonDixon-- "Never Gone"
* Dizzee Rascal -- "Bonkers"
* DJ Felli Fel -- "Get Buck In Here"
* DJ Jazzy Jeff and [[Creator/WillSmith The Fresh Prince]] -- "Parents Just Don't Understand" or "Summertime"
* DJ Khaled -- "All I Do Is Win"
* [[Music/{{BEMANI}} DJ Mass MAD Izm*]] -- "[[VideoGame/{{beatmania}} Shakunetsu]] [[GimmickLevel Beach Side]] [[ThatOneBoss Bunny]]"
* DJ Sammy -- [[CoveredUp "Heaven"]]
* Music/DJShadow -- "Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt" or "[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious Six Days]]"
* DJ Snake -- "Turn Down For What" (shared with Lil Jon), with "You Know You Like It" (shared with [=AlunaGeorge=]) in second place
* DJ Unk -- "Walk It Out"
* [[Music/{{BEMANI}} DJ YOSHITAKA]] -- [[VideoGame/{{jubeat}} "FLO]][[VideoGame/ReflecBeat WER"]]
* Ramin Djawadi -- The ''Series/GameOfThrones'' Theme
* DMX -- "Party Up (Up In Here)"
* Fefe Dobson -- "Ghost" or "Stuttering"
* Doctor P -- "Sweet Shop"
* Music/DoesItOffendYouYeah -- "We Are Rockstars"
* Dog's Eye View -- "Everything Falls Apart"
* Thomas Dolby -- "She Blinded Me With Science"
* Dolla -- "Who The Fuck Is That"
* Doman & Gooding -- "Runnin'"
* Lonnie Donegan -- "Rock Island Line" or "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor"
* Donora -- "Boom Boom" or "Champion"
* Music/{{Donovan}} -- "Sunshine Superman"
* The Doobie Brothers -- "Black Water" or "What a Fool Believes"
* Dobie Gray -- "Drift Away"
* Music/TheDoors -- "Light My Fire" and "The End" (from ''Music/{{The Doors|Album}}'')
* Dorrough -- "Ice Cream Paint Job"
* Music/RobDougan -- "[[Film/TheMatrix Clubbed to Death]]"
* Carl Douglas -- "Kung Fu Fighting"
* Down With Webster -- "Big Wheels" or "Your Man"
* Downstait -- "[[Wrestling/TheMiz I Came To Play]]"
* The Downtown Fiction -- "I Just Wanna Run"
* Music/DrDre -- "Nuthin' But A G Thang" or "Still D.R.E."
* Dr. Hook -- "The Cover of Rolling Stone"
* Dr. John -- "Right Place, Wrong Time"
* Music/{{Dragonforce}} -- "[[VideoGame/GuitarHero Through The Fire And Flames]]" or "[[Website/{{YTMND}} Fury of the Storm]]" Undeniably the former to Guitar Hero fans, unless they started with "Warriors of Rock".
* Music/{{Drake}} -- "Hotline Bling"
* Music/NickDrake -- "Pink Moon"
* Dream -- "He Loves U Not"
* The-Dream -- "Shawty Is A Ten"
* The Dream Academy -- "Life in a Northern Town"
* Music/DreamTheater -- "Pull Me Under" or "Metropolis Pt. 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper"
* The Dropkick Murphys -- "[[TheDeparted I'm Shipping Up To Boston]]"
* DrowningPool -- "[[Wrestling/{{ECW}} Bodies]]"
* Dru -- "Getting It In" or "She Can Ride"
* Dru Hill -- "In My Bed"
** Sisqo -- "Thong Song" [[note]]despite the fact that "Incomplete" was actually his only #1 hit[[/note]]
* The Drums -- "Let's Go Surfing"
* Music/DschinghisKhan -- "Moskau"
* Duck Sauce -- "Barbra Streisand"
* Hilary Duff -- "Come Clean"
* Duffy -- "Mercy"
* Paul Dukas -- "[[Disney/{{Fantasia}} The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]"
* Duke Dumont -- "I Got U"
* Music/DuranDuran -- "Hungry Like the Wolf" or "The Reflex"
* Music/IanDuryAndTheBlockheads -- "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" or "[[Series/DoctorWho Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick]]"
* Music/AntoninDvorak -- "Symphony of the New World (4th movement)"
* Music/DyingFetus -- "Praise the Lord (Opium of the Masses)"
* Music/BobDylan -- "The Times, They Are a-Changin'" (from ''Music/TheTimesTheyAreAChangin'') or "Like a Rolling Stone" (from ''Music/Highway61Revisited'')
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[[folder:E-F]]
* E-40 -- "Tell Me When to Go"
* Music/{{Eagles}} -- "Hotel California" (from ''Music/HotelCalifornia'')
** Glenn Frey -- [[Film/BeverlyHillsCop "The Heat is On"]]
** Don Henley -- "Boys of Summer"
** Joe Walsh -- "Life's Been Good"
* Music/EaglesOfDeathMetal -- "Don't Speak" or "Wannabe in L.A."
* Eamon -- "Fuck It! (I Don't Want You Back)"
* Music/SteveEarle -- "Copperhead Road"
* Earshot -- "Get Away"
* Music/EarthWindAndFire -- "September"
* Sheena Easton -- "Morning Train (9 to 5)"
* Echo and the Bunnymen -- "The Killing Moon"
* Echosmith -- "Cool Kids"
* Edgar Winter Group -- "Frankenstein" or "Free Ride"
* Music/{{Eels}} -- "Souljacker, Part I" (from ''Music/{{Souljacker}}'') or "Novocaine for the Soul" (from ''Music/BeautifulFreak'').
* Egypt Central -- "White Rabbit"
* Eiffel 65 -- "Blue (Da Ba Dee)"
* David Glen Eisley -- "[[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Sweet Victory]]"
* El Ten Eleven -- "My Only Swerving"
* Brett Eldredge -- "Don't Ya"
* Electric Light Orchestra -- "Don't Bring Me Down"
* Electric Six -- "Gay Bar" (To the chagrin of many fans)
* Music/ElectricWizard -- "Funeralpolis"
* Music/DannyElfman -- Theme for Tim Burton's "Film/{{Batman}}" or "Film/EdwardScissorhands".
* Music/{{Edguy}} -- "Ministry of Saints" and "Superheroes"
* Editors -- "Bones" or "[[Series/{{Primeval}} All Sparks]]"
* Music/EdwardElgar -- "Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 1 in D Major"
* Music/DukeEllington -- "Take the 'A' Train".
* Music/MissyElliott -- "Get Ur Freak On"
* Music/{{Eluveitie}} -- "Inis Mona", "Thousandfold"
* Music/{{Emarosa}} -- "The Game Played Right"
* [=emblem3=] -- "Chloe (You're The One I Want)"
* Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer -- "Karn Evil 9 First Impression Part 2"
* EMF -- "Unbelievable"
* Music/{{Eminem}} -- By album:
** ''Music/TheSlimShadyLP'' -- "My Name Is"
** ''Music/TheMarshallMathersLP'' -- "Stan" or "The Real Slim Shady"
** ''Music/TheEminemShow" -- "Without Me"
** ''Film/EightMile'' -- "Lose Yourself"
** ''Recovery'' -- "Not Afraid" or "Love The Way You Lie"
** ''The Marshall Mathers LP 2'' -- "Rap God" ("The Monster" is another contender, shared with Rihanna)
*** D12 -- "My Band"
*** Bad Meets Evil -- "Lighters"
* Music/{{Emperor}} -- "I am the Black Wizards"
* Emphatic -- "Bounce"
* En Vogue -- "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)"
* The English Beat -- "Mirror in the Bathroom"
* [=EndeverafteR=] -- "[[Wrestling/JeffHardy No More Words]]"
* Music/{{Ensiferum}} -- "Lai Lai Hei"
* Enslaved -- "Havenless"
* Enter Shikari -- "Sorry, You're Not A Winner" or "Destabilise"
* Music/{{Enya}} -- "Only Time"
* Music/TheEraserheads -- "Pare Ko" and ''Ang Huling El Bimbo''
* Music/{{Erasure}} -- "[[SugarWiki/RobotUnicornAttack Always]]"
* Eric Prydz -- "Call On Me"
* The Escape Club -- "Wild, Wild West"
* Music/{{Escape the Fate}} -- "Situations" (with Ronnie); "Issues" (with Craig)
* Music/GloriaEstefan -- "Conga"
* Estelle -- "American Boy"
* Melissa Etheridge -- "Come To My Window"
* Music/{{Europe}} -- Initially "Carrie", but now unquestionably "The Final Countdown" (which was always their signature outside of the USA)
* Music/{{Eurythmics}} -- "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
** Music/AnnieLennox -- "Walking on Broken Glass"
* Evan & Jaron -- "[[Series/DawsonsCreek Crazy for This Girl]]".
* Music/{{Evanescence}} -- [[Film/{{Daredevil}} "Bring Me To Life", with "My Immortal" being a clear second.]]
* Evans Blue -- "Cold (But I'm Still Here)"
* Eve 6 -- "Inside Out"
* Eve to Adam -- "Immortal"
* Music/{{Everclear}} -- "Santa Monica"
* The Everlove -- "[[Series/GameOfThrones Cities In]] [[CoveredUp Dust]]"
* Jace Everett -- "[[Series/TrueBlood Bad Things]]"
* Every Avenue -- "Tell Me I'm a Wreck"
* Everything But The Girl -- "Missing" (specifically the Todd Terry remix)
* Music/TheEverlyBrothers -- "'Wake Up Little Susie"
* Evil Nine -- "Crooked", "All The Cash", "The Black Brad Pitt" or "No Manners"
* Example -- "Changed the Way You Kissed Me".
* The Exies -- "Ugly"
* Exposé -- "Point of No Return"
* Music/{{Extreme}} -- "[[BlackSheepHit More Than Words]]"
* George Ezra -- "Budapest"
* Fabolous -- "Breathe"
* Face to Face -- "Disconnected"
* Music/FairportConvention -- "Meet on the Ledge"
* Music/FaithNoMore -- "Epic"
* Chet Faker -- "Talk is Cheap" in Australia, "Gold" in the U.S.
* Music/{{Falco}} -- "Rock Me Amadeus"
* Music/{{Falling in Reverse}} -- "The Drug In Me Is You"
* Music/TheFallOfTroy -- "Sledgehammer" or "FCPREMIX"
* Music/FallOutBoy -- By album:
** ''From Under the Cork Tree" -- "Dance Dance" or "Sugar, We're Goin' Down"
** ''Infinity on High'' -- "Thnks Fr th Mmrs"
** ''Save Rock and Roll'' -- "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark"
** ''American Beauty/American Psycho''-- "Centuries" or "Uma Thurman"
** Patrick Stump -- "This City"
** The Damned Things -- "We've Got a Situation Here"
* Far East Movement -- "Like A [=G6=]"
* Tyler Farr -- "Redneck Crazy"
* Farewell, My Love -- "Portraits"
* John Farnham -- "You're the Voice"
* Fastball -- "The Way"
* Music/FatboySlim -- "The Rockafeller Skank"
* Fat Joe -- "Get It Poppin"
** Terror Squad -- "Lean Back"
* Music/FearFactory -- "Replica"
* Jose Feliciano -- "Feliz Navidad"
* Music/{{Feeder}} -- "Buck Rogers" in the UK; "High" in the United States
* Music/{{Feist}} -- "1234"
* Felt -- "Primitive Painters"
* Jay Ferguson -- "Thunder Island"
* Danny Fernandes -- "Curious" or "Take Me Away"
* Fetty Wap -- "Trap Queen"
* [[Music/TheKnife Fever Ray]] -- "If I Had a Heart"
* Music/LupeFiasco -- "The Show Goes On"
* FIDLAR -- "No Waves" or "Cheap Beer"
* Music/FifthHarmony -- Previously "Sledgehammer" but now "Worth It"
* Filter -- "[[IronMan Hey Man Nice Shot]]" or "Take A Picture"
* Finatticz - "Don't Drop That Thun Thun"
* Fine Young Cannibals -- "She Drives Me Crazy"
* Finger Eleven -- Initially "One Thing", but now "Paralyzer" (maybe [[Wrestling/{{Kane}} "Slow Chemical"]] if you're a wrestling fan)
* Music/{{Finntroll}} -- "Trollhammaren"
* Melanie Fiona -- "Give It To Me Right"
* Firefall -- "You Are the Woman"
* Firehouse -- "Love of a Lifetime"
* First Aid Kit -- Was "Emmylou", but "My Silver Lining" seems to have supplanted it.
* Fishbone -- "Party at Ground Zero"
* Fit For Rivals -- "[[Wrestling/{{WWE}} Crash]]"
* Fitz & the Tantrums -- "Out of my League" or "The Walker"
* Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch -- "Coming Down" or "Hard to See"
* Five for Fighting -- "Superman (It's Not Easy)"
* Music/FiveIronFrenzy -- "Handbook for the Sellout" or "Every New Day"
* The Fixx -- "One Thing Leads To Another"
* Roberta Flack -- "Killing Me Softly With His Song"
* Music/FlamingLips -- "Do you Realize" (State rock song of Oklahoma)
* Music/FleetFoxes -- "Mykonos"
* Music/FleetwoodMac -- "Dreams" or "Go Your Own Way" (from ''Music/{{Rumours}}'')
** "Albatross" for the original incarnation with Peter Green
** Stevie Nicks -- "Edge of Seventeen"
* Flight Facilities -- "Crave You"
* Music/FlightOfTheConchords -- "Business Time"
* Flipper -- "Sex Bomb"
* The Flirts -- "Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime)"
* Music/FloRida -- "Low", "Right Round", or "Whistle"
* Flobots -- "Handlebars"
* Music/AFlockOfSeagulls -- "I Ran (So Far Away)"
* Floetry -- "Say Yes"
* Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine -- "Dog Days Are Over" or "[[Series/GameOfThrones Seven Devils]]"
* Music/FloridaGeorgiaLine -- "Cruise" (both the original and the remix with Nelly)
* Flow -- "[[Manga/{{Naruto}} GO!]]"
* Eddie Floyd -- "Knock On Wood"
* Flux Pavilion -- "I Can't Stop" or "Cracks"
* Music/FlyingLotus -- "Never Catch Me"
* Music/{{Flyleaf}} -- "I'm So Sick"
* The Flys -- "Got You (Where I Want You)"
* Focus -- "Hocus Pocus"
* Foghat -- "Slow Ride"
* Fonogenio -- "Reason"
* Music/BenFolds -- "Rockin' the Suburbs"
* Music/FooFighters -- "Everlong" or "The Pretender"
* Lita Ford -- "Kiss Me Deadly"
* Music/{{Foreigner}} -- "I Want To Know What Love Is"
* Music/FosterThePeople -- "Pumped Up Kicks"
* The Foundations -- "Build Me Up Buttercup"
* Music/FountainsOfWayne -- "Stacy's Mom"
* The Four Seasons -- "December 1963 (Oh What a Night)"
* The Four Tops -- "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)"
* Music/{{Foxes}} -- "Let Go for Tonight"
* Creator/JamieFoxx -- "Blame It"
* Foxy -- "Get Off"
* Foxy Shazam -- "I Like It"
* Music/{{Fozzy}} -- "Enemy"
* Framing Hanley -- "[[Music/LilWayne Lollipop]]"
* Music/PeterFrampton -- "Show Me the Way"
* Frankie Beverly & Maze -- "Back In Stride"
* Music/FrankieGoesToHollywood -- "Relax"
* Frankie J -- "Obsession (No Es Amor)"
* Music/ArethaFranklin -- "[[CoveredUp Respect]]"
* Music/KirkFranklin -- "Stomp"
* Music/FranzFerdinand -- "Take Me Out"
* The Fratellis -- "Chelsea Dagger"
* Music/TheFray -- "How to Save a Life"
* Free -- "All Right Now"
* Aaron Fresh -- "Spending All My Time"
* Music/FromAshesToNew -- "Through It All"
* Music/Front242 -- "Headhunter"
* FrontLineAssembly -- "Mindphaser"
* Music/FrouFrou -- "Let Go" or "Breathe In"
* Music/FTIsland - "Lovesick" or "I Hope"
* Julius Fucik -- "Entry of the Gladiators"
* Fuel -- "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)"
* Music/{{Fugazi}} -- "Waiting Room"
* Music/TheFugees -- [[CoveredUp "Killing Me Softly"]] or "Ready or Not" (from ''Music/TheScore'')
** Music/LaurynHill -- "Doo Wop (That Thing)" (from ''Music/TheMiseducationOfLaurynHill'')
** Wyclef Jean -- "Gone Till November"
** Pras -- "Ghetto Supastar"
* Music/{{Fun}} -- "We Are Young" or "Some Nights"
** Nate Ruess -- "Nothing Without Love"
* Fun Factory -- "I Wanna B With U"
* Music/FunLovinCriminals -- "[[Creator/QuentinTarantino Scooby Snacks]]"
* Music/FuneralForAFriend -- "Roses For the Dead" or "Red is the New Black"
* Music/{{Funkadelic}} -- [[Music/OneNationUnderAGroove "One Nation Under a Groove"]]
* Music/NellyFurtado -- "I'm Like a Bird" or "Promiscuous"
* Future -- "Turn On The Lights"
* Future Leaders of the World -- "Let Me Out"
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* Music/PeterGabriel -- "Sledgehammer," "Solsbury Hill", or "[[Film/SayAnything In Your Eyes]]"
* Music/{{Gabrielle}} -- "Dreams" or "[[Film/BridgetJonesDiary Out of Reach]]"
* Gackt -- "Vanilla"
* The GAG Quartet -- "Le Internet Medley"
* Music/TheGame -- "How We Do" or "Hate It or Love It" (although the latter is more commonly thought of as 50 Cent's song)
* Music/TheGazette -- "Reila", "Cassis"
* Music/SergeGainsbourg -- "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Je T' Aime... Moi Non Plus"
* Gallery -- "Nice To Be With You"
* Music/ChildishGambino -- "Freaks & Geeks"
* Music/{{Garbage}} -- "Only Happy When It Rains" or "Stupid Girl"
* Art Garfunkel -- "Bright Eyes"
* Creator/JudyGarland -- "[[Film/TheWizardOfOz Over the Rainbow]]"
* Martin Garrix -- "Animals"
* Music/MarvinGaye -- "What's Going On," "Let's Get It On" (from ''Music/WhatsGoingOn'') or "[[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier Trouble Man]]". You could also make a case for "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Sexual Healing".
* Gloria Gaynor -- "I Will Survive"
* Music/GEazy -- "Me, Myself, & I"
* General Public -- "Tenderness"
* Music/{{Genesis}} (pop era) -- "Land of Confusion" or "Invisible Touch"
** (prog era) -- "Supper's Ready"
* Genki Rockets -- "Heavenly Star"
* George Baker Selection -- "Little Green Bag"
* The Georgia Satellites -- "Keep Your Hands to Yourself"
* Gerardo -- "Rico Suave"
* The Germs -- "Lexicon Devil"
* Music/GeorgeGershwin -- "Rhapsody in Blue", "[[Theatre/PorgyAndBess Summertime]]"
* Music/GetScared-- "Sarcasm"
* Music/GetoBoys -- "[[Film/OfficeSpace Damn it Feels Good to Be a Gangsta]]"
* Stan Getz -- "The Girl From Ipanema"
* Music/{{Ghost}} -- "Cirice"
* Ghostface Killah -- "Back Like That"
* Brantley Gilbert -- "Bottoms Up"
* Music/GinBlossoms -- "Hey Jealousy"
* Ginuwine -- "Pony"
* Girlicious -- "2 In The Morning"
* Girlschool -- "Emergency" or "Race With The Devil"
* Music/GirlsAloud -- "Biology", "Love Machine", "The Promise", "Call The Shots"
** Music/CherylCole -- "Fight For This Love"
** Music/NadinelCoyle -- "Insatiable"
** Music/NicolaRoberts -- A weird example. "Beat of My Drum" is technically her most commercially successful song, but her unofficially released single "Sticks + Stones" is widely considered as her best song (to date) and is an EnsembleDarkhorse track on her debut album.
** Music/KimberleyWalsh -- "Like U Like", though it's technically an Music/AggroSantos song.
* Music/GirlsGeneration -- "Gee" or "Tell Me Your Wish (Genie)"
* Music/{{Giulietta}} -- "Vertigo"
* Music/{{Glassjaw}} -- "Tip Your Bartender" or "Cosmopolitan Bloodlust"
* Jess Glynne -- "Hold My Hand" for her solo material, but she's best-known overall for her appearance on Music/CleanBandit's "Rather Be".
* Glaze -- "Nightmare Night" or "Beyond Her Garden"
* Music/{{Godsmack}} -- "[[Film/TheScorpionKing I Stand Alone]]" or "Voodoo"
* The Go-Gos -- "Our Lips Are Sealed" or "We Got the Beat"
* Music/{{Gojira}} -- "Flying Whales"
* Music/GoldenEarring -- "Radar Love" or "Twilight Zone"
* Goldfinger -- "Superman"
* Music/{{Goldfrapp}} -- "Ooh la La" or "Strict Machine"
* Music/SelenaGomez & [[FaceOfTheBand The Scene]] -- "Love You Like A Love Song"
** Selena Gomez (without The Scene) -- Contenders include "Come and Get It", "The Heart Wants What It Wants", "Good For You", and "Same Old Love".
* Music/GoodCharlotte -- "The Anthem"
** The Madden Brothers -- "We Are Done"
* Music/BennyGoodman -- "Sing, Sing, Sing"
* Music/TheGooGooDolls -- "[[Film/CityOfAngels Iris]]"
* Lesley Gore -- "It's My Party" or "My Boyfriend's Back"
* Music/{{Gorillaz}} -- "Feel Good, Inc.", "DARE" (both from ''Music/DemonDays'') or "Clint Eastwood" (from ''[[Music/GorillazAlbum Gorillaz]]'') in the UK, easily the former in the US
* Music/{{Gorgoroth}} -- "Profeten Apenbaring," "Incipit Satan," or "Carving a Giant"
* Mark Gormley -- "Without You" or "Little Wings"
* Music/{{Gotye}} -- "Somebody That I Used To Know"
* Music/EllieGoulding -- "[[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey Love Me Like You Do]]" is indisputably this in most countries, although "Lights" is a rival in the U.S..
* Go West -- "King of Wishful Thinking"
* Andy Grammer -- Formerly "Keep Your Head Up", but now "Honey I'm Good"
* Music/GrandFunkRailroad -- "We're an American Band"
* Music/ArianaGrande -- "Problem"
* Music/GrandmasterFlashAndTheFuriousFive -- [[Music/TheMessage "The Message"]]
* Amy Grant -- "Baby Baby"
* Eddy Grant -- "Electric Avenue"
* Music/TheGratefulDead -- "Casey Jones", though younger fans would cite "Touch of Gray"
* Graveland -- "Thurisaz"
* David Gray -- "Babylon"
* Macy Gray -- "I Try"
* Music/GreatBigSea -- "Ordinary Day"
* A Great Big World -- "Say Something" (specifically the re-recording with Christina Aguilera)
* Great White -- "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"
* Music/AlGreen -- "Music/LetsStayTogether"
* GreenCarnation -- [[EpicRocking "Light of Day, Day of Darkness"]]
* Music/GreenDay -- [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"]] or "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (from ''Music/AmericanIdiot''). "Basket Case" (''Music/{{Dookie}}'')
* Norman Greenbaum -- "Spirit in the Sky"
* Lee Greenwood -- "God Bless The USA"
* The Greg Kihn Band -- Initially "Jepoardy", but now "The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em)"
* Edvard Grieg -- "Hall of the Mountain King" (which isn't a song, by the way)
* Music/{{Grimes}} -- "Oblivion"
* Grizzly Bear -- "Two Weeks"
* Music/{{Grouplove}} -- "Tongue Tied"
* GS Boyz -- "Stanky Legg"
* Music/GuanoApes -- "Open Your Eyes"
* Music/VinceGuaraldi -- "[[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Linus and Lucy]]"
* The Guess Who -- "American Woman"
* Music/DavidGuetta -- "Love Is Gone", "Titanium", or for his later work, "Hey Mama"
* Music/GuidedByVoices -- "I Am A Scientist" and "Teenage FBI"
* Music/GunsNRoses -- "Sweet Child O' Mine", "Welcome to the Jungle", or "Paradise City"
* Musi/ArloGuthrie -- [[Music/AlicesRestaurant "Alice's Restaurant"]]
* Music/WoodyGuthrie -- "This Land Is Your Land"
* Guttermouth -- "She's Got the Look"
* Music/GymClassHeroes -- "Cupid's Chokehold" or "Stereo Hearts"
** Travie [=McCoy=] -- "Billionaire"
* GZA -- "Liquid Swords"
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* Haddaway -- "What is Love?"
* Hadouken! -- "That Boy, That Girl"
* Sammy Hagar -- "I Can't Drive 55" as a solo artist, "Why Can't This Be Love?" with Music/VanHalen
* Hail The Villain -- "Runaway"
* Haim -- "The Wire"
* Music.{{Halestorm}} -- "I Get Off", "Love Bites", or "I Miss the Misery"
* Hall And Oates -- "Maneater", "Out of Touch" or "Rich Girl"
* Music/{{Halsey}} -- "New Americana", "Ghost", and "Hold Me Down" vie for the position.
* Music/{{Hammerfall}} -- "Hearts On Fire"
* Hampton the Hampster -- "Hampster Dance"
* Music/{{Hatebreed}} -- "I Will Be Heard"
* Music/HerbieHancock -- "Chameleon" (from ''Music/HeadHunters'') or "Rockit" (from ''Music/FutureShock'')
* Music/GeorgeFredericHandel -- "Messiah," (more specifically the "Hallelujah Chorus" at the end of Part II)
* Music/{{Hanson}} -- "[=MMMbop=]"
* Music/{{Happy Mondays}} -- "Step On"
* Music/{{Hardline}} -- "Hot Cherie"
* Music/CalvinHarris -- "Acceptable in the 80s" for his earlier work, "Summer" for his later material.
* Richard Harris -- "[=MacArthur=] Park"
* Music/GeorgeHarrison -- "My Sweet Lord" (from ''Music/AllThingsMustPass'')
* Corey Hart -- "Sunglasses at Night"
* Jonn Hart -- "Who Booty"
* Dan Hartman -- "I Can Dream About You"
* Music/PJHarvey -- "Down By The Water" (from ''Music/ToBringYouMyLove'')
* Music/HarveyDanger -- "Flagpole Sitta"
* Donnie Hathaway -- "[[CoveredUp A Song For You]]"
** Hathaway and Roberta Flack -- "The Closer I Get To You"
* Sophie B. Hawkins -- "As I Lay Me Down" or "Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover"
* Music/{{Hawkwind}} -- "Silver Machine"
* Music/HawthorneHeights -- "Saying Sorry" or "Ohio Is For Lovers"
* Music/JosephHaydn -- "[[UsefulNotes/{{Germany}} Emperor Quartet - 2nd Movement/Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser]]"
* Music/HunterHayes -- "Wanted"
* Music/IsaacHayes -- "Theme from Shaft"
* He Is We -- "All About Us" [[note]] Specifically, the one with Music/OwlCity [[/note]]
* Murray Head -- "[[Theatre/{{Chess}} One Night in Bangkok]]"
* Head East -- "Never Been Any Reason"
* Headstones -- "When Something Stands for Nothing" or "Smile and Wave"
* The Head and the Heart -- "Down in the Valley"
* Heather Headley -- "In My Mind"
* Music/{{Heart}} -- "Alone" or " Barracuda"
* Heatwave -- "Always and Forever"
* Music/TheHeavy -- "How You Like Me Now?" or "Short Change Hero". "What Makes a Good Man" is also a contender in the UK.
* Heavy D and the Boyz -- "Now That We Found Love"
* Hedley -- "Perfect"
* Oliver Heldens -- "Gecko (Overdrive)".
* Hella -- "Biblical Violance"
* Hellhammer -- "The Triumph of Death"
* Music/{{Helloween}} -- "I Want Out"
* Hellyeah -- "You Wouldn't Know"
* Bobby Helms -- "Jingle Bell Rock"
* Ella Henderson -- "Ghost"
* Music/JimiHendrix -- "Purple Haze" (from ''Music/AreYouExperienced''), though "All Along the Watchtower" (from ''Music/ElectricLadyland'') is also fairly well-known (and his only Top 40 hit).
* Music/HermansHermits -- "I'm Into Something Good"
* Hey Monday -- "How You Love Me Now"
** Cassadee Pope -- "Wasting All These Tears"
* Hi-Five -- "I Like The Way (The Kissing Game)"
* Highly Suspect -- "Lydia"
* Music/FaithHill -- "Breathe"
* Hilltop Hoods -- "The Nosebleed Section", "Chase That Feeling"
* Keri Hilson -- "Knock You Down"
* H.I.M. -- "Wings Of A Butterfly"
* Hinder -- "Lips of an Angel"
* Music/TheHives -- "Hate To Say I Told You So"
* Music/TheHoldSteady -- "The Swish"
* Hoku -- "Another Dumb Blonde" or "Perfect Day"
* Music/{{Hole}} -- "Celebrity Skin"
* J. Holiday -- "Bed"
* Music/TheHollies -- "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother", "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress"
* Music/BuddyHolly -- "Peggy Sue" or "That'll Be The Day"
* Music/HollywoodUndead -- "Undead"
* Rupert Holmes -- "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)"
* Music/GustavHolst -- "The Planets Suite, Op. 32"
* The Honeyrods -- "Love Bee"
* Hoobastank -- "The Reason"
* Music/TheHoosiers -- "Cops and Robbers"
* The Hooters -- "And We Danced"
* Hootie and the Blowfish -- "Only Wanna Be With You"
** Darius Rucker -- "Wagon Wheel"
* Creator/BobHope -- "Thanks for the Memories"
* Bruce Hornsby and the Range -- "The Way It Is"
* Hot Chelle Rae -- "Tonight Tonight"
* Hot Chocolate -- "You Sexy Thing"
* Tomoyasu Hotei -- "[[Film/KillBill Battle Without Honor or Humanity]]"
* Thelma Houston -- "Don't Leave Me This Way"
* Music/WhitneyHouston -- "[[CoveredUp I Will Always Love You]]"
* House of Pain -- "Jump Around"
** Everlast -- "What It's Like"
* Randy Houser -- "Runnin' Outta Moonlight"
* James Newton Howard -- "[[Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1 The Hanging Tree]]". Ditto for Creator/JenniferLawrence.
* Music/HowlinWolf -- "Smokestack Lightnin'"
* Music/{{Hozier}} -- "Take Me To Church"
* Huey -- "Pop, Lock, & Drop It"
* The Human League -- "Don't You Want Me"
* Sam Hunt -- First "Leave The Night On," now "Take Your Time"
* Hunters & Collectors -- "Throw Your Arms Around Me"
* Hurricane Chris -- "A Bay Bay"
* Hurt -- "Ten Ton Brick" or "Rapture"
* Hurts -- "Wonderful Life"
* Music/HuskerDu -- "Makes No Sense At All"
* Brian Hyland -- "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini"
* Music/{{Hyuna}} -- "Ice Cream"
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* I Am Empire -- "Gravity Bomb"
* I Prevail -- "[[Music/TaylorSwift Blank Space]]"
* Music/JanisIan -- "At Seventeen"
* Music/IceCube -- "It Was a Good Day" or "Check Yo Self"
* Music/IcedEarth -- "Travel in Stygian"
* Icehouse -- "Great Southern Land" or "Electric Blue"
* Music/IceT -- "6 in the Mornin' "
** Music/BodyCount -- "Cop Killer", from ''[[Music/BodyCountAlbum Body Count]]''
* Music/IconaPop -- "I Love It"
* Music/BillyIdol -- "Dancing With Myself," "Rebel Yell" or "White Wedding"
* Music/EnriqueIglesias -- "[[Film/WildWildWest Bailamos]]", "Hero," or "Be with You"
* I Heart Memphis -- "Hit The Quan"
* I Love Makonnen -- "Tuesday" (though it's more associated with Music/{{Drake}})
* Music/ImagineDragons -- Previously "It's Time," but now far and away "Radioactive"
* Music/NatalieImbruglia -- "[[CoveredUp Torn]]"
* Music/{{Immortal}} -- "Call of the Wintermoon"
* Music/ImogenHeap -- "Hide and Seek"
* Music/InThisMoment -- "Blood"
* Music/{{Incubus}} -- "Drive"
* Music/{{India Arie}} -- "Video"
* The Indigy -- "Apache (Warrior Bow)"
* Music/InFlames -- "Behind Space" or "Moonshield" for their earlier work; "Take This Life" or "Cloud Connected" for their later work
* Chuck Inglish -- "[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Came Thru/Easily]]"
* Injected -- "Faithless"
* Music/{{Interpol}} -- "Obstacle 1"
* INXS -- "Need You Tonight"
* Donnie Iris -- "Ah, Leah!"
* Iron & Wine -- "Flightless Bird, American Mouth"
* Music/IronButterfly -- "Music/InAGaddaDaVida"
* Music/IronMaiden -- "Run to the Hills" or "The Number of the Beast"
* Music/ChrisIsaak -- "Wicked Game"
* Ish -- "Rollin'"
* The Isley Brothers -- "Shout" (for the original line up), "Who's That Lady" (for the "3x3" lineup)
* Music/{{Issues}} -- "Stingray Affliction"
* Music/{{IU}} -- "Good Day"
* IYAZ -- "Replay"
* Music/JCole -- "Workout"
* Terry Jacks -- "Seasons in the Sun"
* Freddie Jackson -- "You Are My Lady" or "Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake)"
* Music/JanetJackson -- "Nasty" & "Rhythm Nation". Later "That's the Way Love Goes"
* Joe Jackson -- "Steppin' Out"
* Music/MichaelJackson -- By album:
** ''Music/OffTheWall'' -- "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"
** ''Music/{{Thriller}}'' -- "Thriller", "Beat It" or "Billie Jean"
** ''Music/{{Bad}}'' -- "Bad" or "Smooth Criminal"
** ''Dangerous'' -- "Black or White"
* Rebbie Jackson -- "Centipede"
* Music/TheJacksonFive -- "I Want You Back", "[=ABC=]" or "I'll Be There". When they changed their name to the Jacksons: ''Blame It On The Boogie'' was their greatest hit.
* Jack Ü -- "Where Are Ü Now" [[note]]Although it's probably more associated with Justin Bieber[[/note]]
* Felix Jaehn -- "Ain't Nobody (Loves Me Better)" as a lead artist, overall he's best known for his remix of OMI's "Cheerleader".
* Jagged Edge-- "Where the Party At"
* Music/JAMProject -- "[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWars SKILL]], or [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha GONG]]"
* Music/TheJam -- "Going Underground"
* James -- "Sit Down" in the UK, "Laid" in the U.S.
* Music/EttaJames -- "At Last"
* Rick James -- "[[Music/MCHammer Super]] [[SampledUp Freak]]"
* Tommy James -- "Hanky Panky"
* Trinidad James -- "All Gold Everything"
* Music/{{Jamiroquai}} -- "Virtual Insanity", "[[Film/NapoleonDynamite Canned Heat]]"
* Music/JanesAddiction -- "Jane Says", or "Been Caught Stealing"
* Chris Janson -- "Buy Me a Boat"
* Janus -- "Eyesore"
* Ja Rule -- "Always on Time"
* Music/JayRock -- "[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Hood Gone Love It]]"
* Music/JayZ -- "99 Problems", with "Empire State of Mind" [[note]]though people tend to associate the latter just as much with Music/AliciaKeys as with him[[/note]] a strong runner-up
* J Dash -- "Wop"
* Music/JeffersonAirplane -- "Somebody To Love" or "White Rabbit" (from ''Music/SurrealisticPillow'')
* Sean Jenness -- "[[{{Sheamus}} Written In My Face]]"
* Music/CarlyRaeJepsen -- "Call Me Maybe"
* Jeremih -- "Birthday Sex", "Down On Me" or "Don't Tell 'Em"
* Music/JessieJ -- "Price Tag", "Domino" or "Bang Bang" (though it's probably more associated with Music/ArianaGrande and Music/NickiMinaj in the US)
* Music/TheJesusandMaryChain -- "Just Like Honey" or "Head On"
* Jesus Jones -- "Right Here, Right Now"
* Jet -- "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"
* Music/JethroTull -- "Aqualung" (from ''[[Music/AqualungJethroTullAlbum Aqualung]]'')
* Music/JoanJett -- [[CoveredUp "I Love Rock 'n' Roll"]] or "Bad Reputation"
* Jewel -- "Who Will Save Your Soul" and "You Were Meant for Me"
* Music/TheJGeilsBand -- "Centerfold" or "Freeze Frame"
* Jibbs -- "Chain Hang Low"
* Jimmie's Chicken Shack -- "Do Right"
* Music/JimmyEatWorld -- "[[TheSorcerersApprentice The]] [[BlackSheepHit Middle]]"
* J-Kwon -- "Tipsy"
* JLS -- "Beat Again"
* Jo Boxers -- "Just Got Lucky"
* Joe -- "Stutter"
* Music/BillyJoel -- "Piano Man"
* Music/EltonJohn -- "Your Song", "Rocket Man", or "Candle in the Wind 1997"
* Robert John -- "Sad Eyes"
* Johnny Hates Jazz -- "Shattered Dreams"
* [=JoJo=] -- "Leave (Get Out)"
* Don Johnson -- "Heartbeat"
* Freedy Johnston -- "Bad Reputation"
* [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} Jim Johnston]] -- "[[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin I Won't Do What You Tell Me]]'' or "[[Wrestling/{{Fandango}} ChaChaLaLa]]"
** [=CFO$=] -- "[[Wrestling/{{Paige}} Stars In The Night]]"
** Kromestatik -- "[[Wrestling/WWERaw The Night]]"
* Music/JonasBrothers -- "Burnin' Up"
** Music/JoeJonas -- "See No More"
*** DNCE -- "Cake By The Ocean"
** Music/NickJonas -- "Jealous"
*** Nick Jonas & The Administration -- "Who I Am"
* George Jones -- "He Stopped Loving Her Today"
* Glenn Jones -- "Here I Go Again"
* Jim Jones -- "We Fly High"
* Music/NorahJones -- "Don't Know Why" (from ''Music/ComeAwayWithMe'')
* Tom Jones -- "It's Not Unusual" or "Delilah"
* Music/JanisJoplin -- "Me & Bobby [=McGee=]"
** Big Brother & the Holding Company -- "Piece of My Heart" (from ''Music/CheapThrills'')
* Music/ScottJoplin -- "The Entertainer"
* Eric Johnson -- "Cliffs of Dover"
* Montell Jordan -- "This Is How We Do It"
* Music/{{Journey}} -- "Don't Stop Believin'" [[note]]although prior to its mid-2000s resurrection "Open Arms" was considered this.[[/note]]
* Music/VanceJoy -- "Riptide"
* Music/JoyDivision -- "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
* JRDN -- "U Can Have It All"
* Juanes -- "A Dios le Pido"
* Music/JudasPriest --"Living After Midnight," "Breaking the Law" (Both from ''Music/BritishSteel''), or "You Got Another Thing Comin'"
* Music/JulienK -- [[VideoGame/SonicHeroes "This Machine"]] or [[Film/{{Transformers}} "Technical Difficulties"]]
* Jungle -- "Busy Earnin'"
* Music/{{Juniel}} - "Illa Illa"
* Justice -- "D.A.N.C.E."
* Juvenile -- Previously either "Back That Azz Up" or "Slow Motion", but now indisputably the former.
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* K'naan -- "Wavin' Flag"
* Kaiser Cartel -- "[[Film/LiberalArts Favorite Song]]"
* Kajagoogoo -- "Too Shy"
* Music/KaiserChiefs -- "I Predict A Riot" or "Ruby"
* Music/KaizersOrchestra -- "Kontroll på kontinentet"
* Music/{{Kamelot}} -- "The Haunting"
* Music/{{Kamikazee}} -- "Narda"
* Kansas -- Initially "Dust in the Wind", but over time has become "Carry On Wayward Son"
* Music/{{Kara}} -- "Mister"
* Kardinal Offishall -- "Dangerous"
* Karmin -- "Brokenhearted"
* Karnivool -- "Themata"
* Kasabian -- "[[Film/{{Serenity}} Club Foot]]" or possibly "[[Film/{{Takers}} Underdog]]"
* Katy B -- "Katy on a mission" or "Crying for No Reason"
* Music/{{Kaya}} -- "Chocolat"
* KC and the Sunshine Band -- "That's The Way (I Like It)"
* KC-i and Jojo -- "All My Life"
* KDA -- "Turn the Music Louder (Rumble)" (though it's probably more associated with Music/TinieTempah and/or Katy B)
* Keane -- "Somewhere Only We Know" in the UK, "Is It Any Wonder?" in the U.S.
* Toby Keith -- "Red Solo Cup"
* Kelis -- "Milkshake"
* Paul Kelly -- "To Her Door", "Before Too Long", or "Darling It Hurts"
* Music/RKelly --For the 90s, "I Believe I Can Fly," for the 00s, all chapters of TrappedInTheCloset
* Tori Kelly -- "Should've Been Us" ("Nobody Love" is also fairly well-known, but the MTV Video Music Awards exposure gives the former the edge)
* Creator/AnnaKendrick -- "[[Film/PitchPerfect Cups (''Pitch Perfect's'' When I'm Gone)]]"
* Kenny G -- "Songbird"
* Music/AliciaKeys -- "Fallin'"
* [[Music/{{Kesha}} Ke$ha]] -- "Tik Tok"
* Aram Khachaturian -- "Sabre Dance"
* Khaled -- "Didi" and/or "Aïcha"
* Wiz Khalifa -- "Black & Yellow" or "[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious See You Again]]" (from the ''Music/Furious7Soundtrack'') to the hip-hop/urban community; indisputably the latter to mainstream audiences
* Chaka Khan -- "I'm Every Woman"
** Rufus & Chaka Khan -- "Tell Me Something Good"
* Eduard Khil -- "I am Glad Because I'm Finally Returning Home"
* Kid Cudi -- "Day 'n' Nite"
* Music/KidRock:
** "Cowboy" or "Bawitdaba" (NuMetal era)
** "All Summer Long" (country era)
* Music/{{Kiesza}} -- "Hideaway"
* Killer Be Killed -- "Wings of Feather and Wax"
* Music/TheKillers -- "Mr. Brightside"
* Music/KillingJoke -- "Love Like Blood"
* Kill It Kid -- "Blood Stop and Run"
* Music/KillswitchEngage -- "My Curse" (Howard Jones era), "In Due Time" (Jesse Leach era).
* Andy Kim -- "Rock Me Gently"
* Ben E. King -- "Film/StandByMe"
* Music/CaroleKing -- "It's Too Late" (from ''Music/{{Tapestry}}'')
* Elle King -- "Ex's and Oh's"
* Music/KingCrimson -- "21st Century Schizoid Man" (from ''Music/InTheCourtOfTheCrimsonKing'')
* Music/KingDiamond -- "The Family Ghost" or "Welcome Home"
* Music/KingMissile -- "Detachable Penis"
* Kings of Leon -- "Sex on Fire" or "Use Somebody" to rock audiences; indisputably "Use Somebody" to general audiences
* The Kingsmen -- "Louie, Louie"
* Sean Kingston -- "Beautiful Girls"
* Music/TheKinks -- "You Really Got Me"
* Creator/EmilyKinney -- "Be Good"
* Music/{{KISS}} -- "Rock and Roll All Nite"
* Music/{{Kitty Pryde}} -- "okcupid"
* Michael Kiwanuka -- "Home Again"
* Music/TheKLF -- "3 AM Eternal"
* Music/{{KMFDM}} -- "Juke Joint Jezebel" or "Megalomaniac"
* The Knack -- "My Sharona"
* Music/KnifeParty -- "Internet Friends"
* Gladys Knight and the Pips -- "Midnight Train To Georgia"
* Koan Sound -- "Funk Blaster"
* Koji Kondo -- The "SuperMarioBros" overworld theme
* Kome Kome Club -- "Kimi ga Iru Dake de"
* KONGOS -- "[[Film/{{HolyMotors}} Come With]] [[Film/{{TheExpendables}} Me Now]]"
* John Kongos -- "He's Gonna Step On You Again"
* The Kooks -- "Naive"
* Kool & the Gang -- "Celebration"
* Music/{{Korn}} -- "Blind" or "Freak on a Leash"
* Music/{{Korpiklaani}} -- "Wooden Pints"
* [[Music/{{BEMANI}} kors k]] -- "smooooch・∀・"
* Music/{{Kraftwerk}} -- "Das Modell"[/]"The Model" from ''Music/TheManMachine'' or "Autobahn" from ''Music/{{Autobahn}}''.
* Lenny Kravitz -- "Fly Away" or "Are You Gonna Go My Way?"
* Music/{{Kreator}} -- "Ripping Corpse"
* Kreayshawn -- "Gucci Gucci"
* Music/{{Krewella}} -- "Alive"
* Kris Kross -- "Jump"
* Kris Kristofferson -- "Why Me?"
* Krokus -- "Eat the Rich"
* Music/YevgenyKrylatov -- "[[GuestFromTheFuture Beautiful Tomorrow]]"
* Kula Shaker -- "Tattva"
* Music/KyaryPamyuPamyu -- "PONPONPON"
* Kygo -- "Firestone" or "Stole The Show" in Europe; indisuptably the former in North America
* Music/{{Kyuss}} -- "One Inch Man"
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