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* Music/{{L7}} -- "Pretend We're Dead"
* Music/TheLas -- "There She Goes"
* Music/{{La Dispute}} -- "Said the King to the River"
* Music/LaRoux -- "Bulletproof"
* Labelle/Patti Labelle -- "Lady Marmalade"
* Labrinth -- "Beneath Your Beautiful" or "Earthquake" in the U.K.; indisputably the former everywhere else
* Music/LacunaCoil -- "Our Truth"
* Music/LadyAntebellum -- "Need You Now", with "Just A Kiss" a clear second.
* Music/LadyGaga -- By album:
** ''The Fame'' -- "Just Dance" and "Poker Face"
** ''The Fame Monster'' -- "Bad Romance"
** ''Born This Way'' -- The title track.
** ''Artpop'' -- "Applause"
** ''Joanne'' -- "Million Reasons"
** ''Film/AStarIsBorn2018'' -- "Shallow" (co-shared with Creator/BradleyCooper) and "I'll Never Love Again"
** ''Chromatica'' -- "Stupid Love" and "Rain on Me"
** Overall -- "Poker Face", "Bad Romance", "Born This Way" or "Shallow" (or "Just Dance" for older fans)
* The Lady of Rage -- "Afro Puffs"
* Music/{{Ladytron}} -- "Destroy Everything You Touch"
* Lagwagon -- "[[VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater May 16]]"
* Music/KendrickLamar -- By album:
** ''Section.80'' -- "ADHD", "[=HiiiPoWeR=]"
** ''Music/GoodKidMAADCity'' -- "Swimming Pools (Drank)" or "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe"
** ''To Pimp a Butterfly'' -- "i", "King Kunta", "Alright"
** ''untitled unmastered.'' -- "untitled 07 | levitate"
** ''DAMN.'': "HUMBLE."
** ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}: The Album'': “All the Stars” or “Pray for Me” (shared with Music/TheWeeknd)
** Overall: While "Swimming Pools" was his first mainstream success, "Alright" won him a Grammy for Best Rap Song and later on became a Black Lives Matter anthem. However, "HUMBLE." seems to have won the title overall.
* Music/LambOfGod -- "Redneck"
* Music/AdamLambert -- "Whataya Want From Me", or "For Your Entertainment"
* Music/MirandaLambert -- "Gunpowder & Lead," "The House That Built Me," and "Over You"
* Tory Lanez -- "Say It" or "LUV"
* Stef Lang -- “Mr. Immature”
* Music/LarcEnCiel -- "[[Anime/FullMetalAlchemist Ready, Steady, Go]]"
* Amel Larrieux -- "For Real"
* Music/ZaraLarsson -- "Lush Life" or "Never Forget You" (shared with [=MNEK=]) in Europe; the latter indisputably in the US.
* The Last Goodnight -- "Pictures of You"
* Music/CyndiLauper -- "[[CoveredUp Girls Just Want to Have Fun]]", with "Time After Time" being a close second.
* Music/AvrilLavigne -- "Complicated", "[=Sk8rBoi=]" or "Girlfriend". By album:
** ''Let Go''-- "Complicated", "[=Sk8rBoi=]" or "I'm With You''
** ''Under My Skin'' -- "My Happy Ending"
** ''The Best Damn Thing'' -- "Girlfriend"
** ''Goodbye Lullaby'' -- "What the Hell"
** ''Avril Lavigne'' -- "Here's to Never Growing Up" or "Hello Kitty"
** ''Head Above Water'': The title track
* Creator/JenniferLawrence -- "[[Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1 The Hanging Tree]]" (shared with Music/JamesNewtonHoward)
* Lawson -- "Brokenhearted"
* Lazlo Bane -- "[[Series/{{Scrubs}} Superman]]"
* Music/LCDSoundsystem -- "Music/DaftPunk Is Playing at My House" or "All my Friends"
* Ledisi -- "Pieces of Me"
* Music/LedZeppelin -- "Stairway to Heaven" overall. By album:
** ''[[Music/LedZeppelin1969 Led Zeppelin]]'' -- "Dazed and Confused", "Good Times, Bad Times" and "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You"
** ''Music/LedZeppelinII'' -- "Whole Lotta Love" or "Ramble On"
** ''Music/LedZeppelinIII'' -- "Immigrant Song"
** ''Music/LedZeppelinIV'' -- "Stairway To Heaven" (with "Rock and Roll", "Black Dog and "Going to California" not far behind.)
** ''Music/HousesOfTheHoly'' -- "Over the Hills and Far Away" and "D'yer Mak'er"
** ''Music/PhysicalGraffiti'' -- "Kashmir"
** ''Presence'' -- "Achilles Last Stand" or "Nobody's Fault but Mine"
** ''In Through the Out Door'' -- "All My Love" and "Fool in the Rain"
** ''Coda'' -- "Darlene"
** ''Boxed Set'' -- "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do" or "Travelling Riverside Blues"
** ''Boxed Set 2'' -- "Baby Come On Home"
** ''BBC Sessions'' -- "The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair"
* Brenda Lee -- "I'm Sorry" and "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"
* The Left Banke -- "Pretty Ballerina" and "Walk Away Renee"
* Music/JohnLegend -- Previously "Ordinary People," but now "All of Me"
* Music/TomLehrer -- "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park"
* Lemar -- "If There's Any Justice"
* Music/LemonDemon -- "Music/UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny"
* The Lemon Pipers -- "Green Tambourine"
* The Lemonheads -- "Mrs. Robinson"
* Len -- "Steal My Sunshine"
* Lene Marlin -- "Sitting Down Here"
* Lenka -- "The Show" or "Everything at Once"
* Music/JohnLennon -- "Music/{{Imagine}}"
* Creator/BethanyJoyLenz-- [[Series/OneTreeHill "Feel This"]]
* Music/LessThanJake -- "All My Best Friends are Metalheads"
* Music/{{Letlive}} -- "Younger"
* Letoya - "Torn"
* Letters to Cleo -- "Here & Now"
* Level 42 -- "Lessons In Love" in the UK, "Something About You" in the U.S.
* [=LeVert=] -- "Casanova"
* Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews -- "[[Film/BackToTheFuture The Power of Love]]" or (according to [[Literature/AmericanPsycho Patrick Bateman]]) "Hip To Be Square"
* Music/JerryLeeLewis -- "Great Balls of Fire"
* Donna Lewis -- "I Love You, Always Forever"
* Music/LeonaLewis -- "Bleeding Love"
* Music/TheLibertines -- "Can't Stand Me Now"
* Liberty X -- "Just A Little"
* Music/{{Lifehouse}} -- "Hanging By A Moment"
* LFO -- "Summer Girls"
* Gordon Lightfoot -- "If You Could Read My Mind," "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," or "Sundown"
* The Lightning Seeds -- "Three Lions"
* Music/{{Lights}} -- "February Air"
* Like a Storm -- "Love the Way You Hate Me" or "Become the Enemy"
* Music/LilB -- "Wonton Soup" or "I'm Paris Hilton"
* Lil Boosie -- "Wipe Me Down"
* Lil Chris -- "Checkin' It Out
* Music/LilDicky -- "$ave Dat Money", "Professional Rapper" or “Freaky Friday”
* Lil Duval -- “Smile Bitch”
* Lil' Flip -- "Sunshine"
* Music/LilJon & The Eastside Boyz -- "[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedUnderground Get Low]]"
** Lil Jon -- "Turn Down for What" (shared with DJ Snake)
* Music/LilKim -- "Queen Bitch"
* Lil Mama -- Originally "Lip Gloss" or "Shawty Get Loose", but now unquestionably the former
* Music/LilNasX -- “Old Town Road”
* Music/LilPeep -- "Awful Things" or “I’ve Been Waiting”
* Music/LilPump -- "Gucci Gang"
* Lil Scrappy -- "Money In The Bank"
* Lil Tecca -- “Ransom”
* Lil Uzi Vert -- "XO TOUR [=Llif3=]"
* Music/LilWayne -- "Lollipop"
** Young Money -- "Bedrock"
* Lil Yatchy -- "Peek-a-Boo", although as a featured artist, "Broccoli" and "[=iSpy=]"
* Lillywood & the Prick -- "Prayer in C" (specifically the remix by Robin Schulz)
* Music/LimpBizkit -- By album:
** ''Three Dollar Bill, Y'all$'' -- "Counterfeit" or "[[Music/GeorgeMichael Faith]]"
** ''Significant Other'' -- "Nookie" or "Break Stuff" (or "N 2 Gether Now" for hip-hop listeners)
** ''Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water'' -- "Rollin'" (or to a lesser extent "My Way", because it always brings pleasant memories of ''Wrestling/WrestleMania [[Awesome/ProfessionalWrestling X-Seven]]'', or "[[Film/MissionImpossibleII Take a Look Around]]" for ''Series/MissionImpossible'' fans)
** ''Results May Vary'' -- "Eat You Alive" or "[[Music/TheWho Behind Blue Eyes]]"
** ''Gold Cobra'' -- "Shotgun"
** Overall -- "Nookie", "Break Stuff", and "Rollin'" are the frontrunners.
* Music/{{Lindisfarne}} -- "Fog on the Tyne"
* Music/LinkinPark -- By album:
** ''Music/HybridTheory'' -- "In the End" (or possibly "Crawling", for [[MemeticMutation all the]] [[{{Wangst}} wrong reasons]], and also "One Step Closer")
*** ''Reanimation'' -- "Pts.OF.Athrty"
** ''Music/{{Meteora}}'' -- "Numb", "Faint", "Breaking the Habit" or "Somewhere I Belong"
** ''Collision Course'' -- "Numb/Encore" (shared with Music/JayZ)
** ''Music/MinutesToMidnight'' -- "What I've Done" or "Bleed It Out"
** ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen soundtrack'' -- "New Divide"
** ''A Thousand Suns'' -- "The Catalyst", "Waiting for the End" or "Iridescent"
** ''Living Things'' -- "Burn It Down" or "Castle of Glass"
*** ''Recharged'' -- "A Light that Never Comes"
** ''The Hunting Party'' -- "Guilty All the Same" or "Until It's Gone"
** ''One More Light'' -- "Heavy" initially, though "Talking to Myself" is set to displace it due to being released on the same day as Chester Bennington's tragic death. The title track also counts, especially after the deaths of both Bennington and his friend Music/ChrisCornell.
** Overall -- "In The End", "Numb", and "What I've Done" are the main frontrunners, with "One Step Closer", "Faint", "New Divide", "Burn It Down" and either "One More Light" or "Talking to Myself" as secondary headliners.
*** Music/FortMinor -- Initially "Where'd You Go?", but has over time become "Remember The Name"
*** Dead By Sunrise -- "Crawl Back In"
*** Mike Shinoda -- "Watching As I Fall"
* Lion -- [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie "The Transformers (Theme)"]]
* Music/DuaLipa -- "New Rules" or "Don't Start Now"
* Lipps Inc. -- "Funky Town"
* Music/FranzLiszt -- "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2"
* Lit -- "My Own Worst Enemy"
* Little Big Town -- Tough call between "Pontoon" or "Girl Crush". The former was their biggest hit on country radio and their most popular song amongst their core demographic. The latter, on the other hand, is their most widely known and beloved song to general audiences. "Better Man" is also a contender.
* Little Birdy -- "Come On, Come On"
* Little Eva -- "The Locomotion"
* Little Feat -- "Dixie Chicken"
* Music/LittleMix -- "Wings", "Shout Out to My Ex", or "Black Magic"
* Music/LittleRichard -- "Tutti Frutti" (from ''Music/HeresLittleRichard'')
* Little River Band -- "Reminiscing"
* Little Texas -- "What Might Have Been"
* Live -- "Lightning Crashes"
* Music/LivingColour -- "[[Wrestling/CMPunk Cult of Personality]]"
* The Living End -- "Prisoner of Society"
* Music/TheLivingTombstone -- "Discord (Remix)"
* Lizzo -- “Truth Hurts”
* Music/LLCoolJ -- "Mama Said Knock You Out" or "I Can't Live Without My Radio"
* Lloyd -- "You"
* Music/CherLloyd -- "Swagger Jagger" in the UK, "Want U Back" in the US
* Creator/AndrewLloydWebber -- "Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera," "[[Theatre/{{Cats}} Memory]]," or "[[Theatre/{{Evita}} Don't Cry for Me, Argentina]]" %% His family name is Lloyd Webber, not Webber.
* Music/{{LMFAO}} -- "Party Rock Anthem" or "Sexy and I Know It"
* LMNT -- "Juliet"
* Local H -- "Bound for the Floor"
* [=LoCash=] -- "I Love This Life"
* [[Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid Löded Diper]] -- "Exploded Diper"
* Lo-Fidelity Allstars -- "Battle Flag"
* Music/KennyLoggins -- "Film/{{Footloose}}" or "[[Film/TopGun Danger Zone]]"
* Logic - "1-800-273-8255"
* London After Midnight -- "Kiss"
* London Grammar -- "Strong", "Hey Now" or "Wasting My Young Years"
* Music/TheLonelyIsland -- "I'm on a Boat" or "I Just Had Sex"
* Lonestar -- "Amazed"
* Long Beach Dub Allstars -- "Sunny Hours"
* Longo & Wainwright -- "One Life Stand"
* Loose Ends -- "Hangin' on the String (Contemplating)"
* Music/JenniferLopez -- "Jenny From the Block" and "Let's Get Loud"
* Lo-Pro -- "Sunday"
* Lord Huron -- "The Night We Met"
* Music/{{Lorde}} -- "Royals" (from ''Music/TheLoveClub'' and ''Music/PureHeroine'') [[note]]with "Team" a close second.[[/note]]
* Music/{{Lordi}} -- "Hard Rock Hallelujah"
* Loreen -- "Euphoria"
* Lorn -- "Acid Rain"
* Los Fabulosos Cadillacs -- "El Matador"
* Lost Boyz -- "Renee"
* Lost Frequencies -- "Are You With Me?"
* Music/{{Lostprophets}} -- "Last Train Home" or "Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)"
* Los Lobos -- "La Bamba"
* Los Del Rio -- "Macarena"
* Los Lonely Boys -- "Heaven"
* Music/PixieLott -- "Mama Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh)"
* Music/DemiLovato -- "Skyscraper", "Give Your Heart A Break", "Heart Attack" or "Cool For the Summer"
* Music/{{Love}} -- Initially "7 Plus 7 Is", but now "Alone Again Or"
* Music/LoveAndRockets -- "No New Tale to Tell" or "So Alive"
* Love Battery -- "Out of Focus"
* Loverance -- "Up"
* Music/{{Loverboy}} -- "Working For the Weekend"
* The Lovin' Spoonful -- "Summer in the City" or "Do You Believe in Magic?"
* Low -- "Lullaby"
* Lower Than Atlantis -- "Here We Go"
* LP -- "Lost On You"
* Music/{{Ludacris}} -- "Move Bitch"
* Ludo -- "Love Me Dead"
* Lukas Graham -- "7 Years" or "Mama Said" in Denmark, indisputably the former everywhere else
* Luke Nasty -- "Might Be"
* The Lumineers -- "Ho Hey"
* Lunatic Calm -- "[[Film/TheMatrix Leave You Far Behind]]"
* [=LunchMoney=] Lewis -- "Bills"
* Luniz -- "I Got 5 on It"
* Luscious Jackson -- "Naked Eye"
* Lustra -- "[[Film/EuroTrip Scotty Doesn't Know]]"
* Dustin Lynch -- "Cowboys and Angels" or "Hell of a Night"
* Music/LynyrdSkynyrd -- "Sweet Home Alabama" to general audiences; "Free Bird" to the rock community (to the point that the IconicSongRequest became a MemeticMutation!)
** Not far behind there's "Simple Man"
* Kevin Lyttle -- "Turn Me On"
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* M -- "Pop Muzik"
* [=M2M=] -- "[[Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie Don't Say You Love Me]]"
* Music/{{M83}} -- "Midnight City"
* M People -- "Moving On Up", "Search for the Hero", "One Night in Heaven" are all well-known hits
* Mabel -- “Don’t Call Me Up”
* Amy Macdonald -- "Mr Rock & Roll"
* Mac Dre -- "Thizzelle Dance"
* Music/MachineGunKelly -- "[[Music/CamilaCabello Bad Things]]"
* Music/MachineHead -- "Davidian" or "Block"
* Music/{{Macklemore}} & Ryan Lewis -- "Thrift Shop" or "Can't Hold Us"
* Music/MaddieAndTae -- "Girl in a Country Song," later "Die from a Broken Heart"
* Music/{{Madeon}} -- "Finale", "Pay No Mind"[[note]]shared with Music/PassionPit[[/note]], or "Anime/{{Shelter}}"[[note]]shared with Music/PorterRobinson[[/note]]
* Madison Avenue -- "Don't Call Me Baby"
* Music/{{Madness}} -- "House of Fun" in the UK, "Our House" from ''Music/TheRiseAndFall'' in the U.S.
* Music/{{Madonna}} -- By album:
** ''[[Music/MadonnaAlbum Madonna]]'' -- "Holiday" or "Borderline"
** ''Music/LikeAVirgin'' -- "Material Girl", "Into the Groove", or the title track
** ''Music/TrueBlue'' -- "Papa Don't Preach" or "Open Your Heart"
** ''Film/WhosThatGirl'' -- The title track
** ''Music/LikeAPrayer'' -- The title track or "Express Yourself"
** ''Music/ImBreathless'' -- "Vogue"
** ''The Immaculate Collection'' -- "Justify My Love"
** ''Music/{{Erotica}}'' -- The title track
** ''Music/BedtimeStories'' -- "Take a Bow"
** ''Something to Remember'' -- "You'll See"
** ''Film/{{Evita}}'' -- "Don't Cry For Me Argentina"
** ''Music/RayOfLight'' -- The title track
** ''Music/MusicAlbum'' -- The title track
** ''Music/AmericanLife'' -- The title track
** ''Music/ConfessionsOnADanceFloor'' -- "Hung Up"
** ''Hard Candy'' -- "4 Minutes"
** ''Celebration'' -- The title track
** ''MDNA'' -- "Give Me All Your Lovin'"
** ''Rebel Heart'' -- "Bitch I'm Madonna"
** ''Music/MadameX'' -- "Medellín" or "I Rise"
** Overall -- "Virgin", "Material Girl", "Prayer", and "Vogue" are probably the ones she's best known for throughout her career.
* MAGIC! -- "Rude"
* Austin Mahone -- "What About Love?" or "MMM Yeah"
* Maino -- "Hi Hater" ("All the Above" would be this were it not more commonly associated with T-Pain)
* Mango -- "Oro"
* Music/MajorLazer -- "Lean On" from ''Music/PeaceIsTheMission''
* Music/MazzyStar -- "Fade Into You"
* Miriam Makeba -- "Pata Pata"
* Malfunkshun -- "With Yo' Heart (Not Yo' Hand)" or "My Only Fan"
* Music/MaliceMizer -- "Beast of Blood"
* The Mamas and the Papas -- "California Dreamin"' or "Monday, Monday"
* Manfred Mann -- "Doo Wah Diddy Diddy" for his first band, "Blinded By The Light" for the Earth Band
* The Manhattans -- Kiss and Say Goodbye
* Music/ManicStreetPreachers -- "A Design FManhattans
or Life" or "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next"
* Music/ManillaRoad -- "Necropolis"
* Music/BarryManilow -- "Copacabana" & "Mandy"
* Man Overboard -- "Where I Left You"
* Music/{{Manowar}} -- "Kings of Metal," 'Metal Warriors," or "Achilles, Agony and Ecstasy in Eight Parts."
* Clint Mansell -- "[[Film/RequiemForADream Lux]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Aeterna]]"
* Music/MarcyPlayground -- "Sex and Candy"
* Marian Hill -- "Down", and maybe "Back to Me" for Music/FifthHarmony fans
* Music/MarianasTrench -- "Cross My Heart" or "All To Myself"
* Teena Marie -- "Lovergirl"
* Music/{{Marillion}} -- "Kayleigh"
* Mario -- "Let Me Love You"
* Music/BrunoMars -- "Uptown Funk!" overall.[[note]]even though it's officially a Mark Ronson song.[[/note]] By album:
** ''Doo-wops and Hooligans'' -- "Just The Way You Are" and "Grenade"
** ''Unorthodox Jukebox'' -- "Locked out of Heaven"
** ''24k Magic'' -- "That's What I Like"
* The Marshall Tucker Band -- "Can't You See", "Fire On The Mountain", or "Heard It In A Love Song"
* Marshmello -- "Alone" for solo works, "FRIENDS" or "Happier" for collaborations.
* Music/MelanieMartinez -- "Dollhouse" or "Pity Party"
* Chuck Mangione -- "Feels So Good"
* Music/MarilynManson -- "The Beautiful People" overall. By album:
** ''Music/PortraitOfAnAmericanFamily'': "Get Your Gun"
** ''Music/SmellsLikeChildren'' -- "[[Music/{{Eurythmics}} Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)]]"
** ''Music/AntichristSuperstar'' -- "[[Wrestling/WWESmackdown The Beautiful People]]"
** ''Music/MechanicalAnimals'' -- "The Dope Show"
** ''Music/HolyWoodInTheShadowOfTheValleyOfDeath'' -- "Disposable Teens" or "The Fight Song"
** ''The Golden Age of Grotesque'' -- "mOBSCENE", "(s)AINT", "This Is The New Shit", or [[CoveredUp "Tainted Love"]]
** ''Lest We Forget'' -- "[[Music/DepecheMode Personal Jesus]]"
** ''Eat Me, Drink Me'' -- "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)"
** ''The High End of Low'' -- "Arma-Goddamn-Motherfuckin'-Geddon"
** ''Born Villain'' -- "No Reflection"
** ''The Pale Emperor'' -- "Deep Six"
** ''Heaven Upside Down'' -- "We Know Where You Fucking Live"
* Music/MarinaDiamandis -- "Primadonna"
* Martika -- "Toy Soldiers"
* Music/BobMarley -- "No Woman No Cry" (from ''Music/NattyDread'', but better known in the live version of ''[[Music/LiveBobMarleyAlbum Live!]]''). A close second is "I Shot The Sherrif" (from ''Music/{{Burnin}}''), followed by "Three Little Birds", "Jamming" and "One Love" (from ''Music/ExodusAlbum Exodus]]'')
* Damian Marley -- "Welcome to Jamrock"
* Ziggy Marley -- "Tomorrow People" or "[[WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}} Believe in Yourself]]"
* Music/{{Maroon 5}}-- By album:
** ''Songs About Jane'' -- "She Will Be Loved" or "This Love"
** ''It Won't Be Soon Before Long''-- "Makes Me Wonder"
** ''[[NewSoundAlbum Hands All Over]]''-- "Misery"
*** Re-issue -- "Moves Like Jagger"
** ''Overexposed''-- "Payphone" or "One More Night"
** ''V''-- "Sugar"
** ''Red Pill Blues'' -- "Girls Like You”
** Overall -- The ''Songs About Jane'' signatures and "Moves Like Jagger"
* M|A|R|R|S -- "Pump Up the Volume" (which was literally the only single the group ever released)
* Music/TheMarsVolta -- "L'via L'viaquez"
* Mia Martina -- "Latin Moon" or "[=HeartBreaker=]"
* Music/DeanMartin -- "That's Amore" and "Everybody Loves Somebody"
* Music/RickyMartin -- "Livin' La Vida Loca". Though [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball football]] fans of a certain age may argue for "The Cup of Life" (''La copa de la vida''), the official theme song of the [[UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup 1998 FIFA World Cup]].
* Music/RichardMarx -- "Right Here Waiting"
* Mary Mary -- "Shackles"
* Mashina -- "Rakevet Layla Le Kahir"
* Massari -- "Be Easy" or "Real Love"
* Music/MassiveAttack -- By album:
** ''Blue Lines'' -- "Unfinished Sympathy"
** ''Protection'' -- The TitleTrack or "Karmacoma".
** ''Music/{{Mezzanine}}'' -- "Angel" or [[Series/{{House}} "Teardrop"]]
** ''[=100th=] Window'' -- "Butterfly Caught"
** ''Heligoland'' -- "Paradise Circus"
** Overall -- "Unfinished Sympathy" was their first signature song, however it would be later ousted by "Teardrop" thanks to a certain medical drama.
* Music/Master P -- "Mr. Ice Cream Man"& "Make Em say Ugh"
* Masterboy -- "Feel The Heat Of The Night"
* Music/{{Mastodon}} -- "Blood and Thunder", possibly "Oblivion"
* Mattafix -- "Big City Life"
** Marlon Roudette -- "When The Beat Drops Out"
* Matchbook Romance -- “Monsters”
* Music/MatchboxTwenty -- "3 A.M." or "Unwell"
** Music/RobThomas -- "Lonely No More" or/and "Smooth" (the latter shared with Music/CarlosSantana).
* Material Issue -- "Valerie Loves Me"
* Matisyahu -- "King Without a Crown"
* Matt and Kim -- "Daylight"
* Music/DaveMatthewsBand -- "Ants Marching"
* Ava Max — "Sweet but Psycho" or "Kings and Queens"
* Music/MaximumTheHormone -- "[[Manga/DeathNote What's Up, People?!]]" and also [[Manga/DeathNote Zetsubou Billy]]" "[[Manga/DragonBall F]]" for Dragon Ball Z fans.
* Edward Maya -- "Stereo Love"
* Maybeshewill -- "He Films the Clouds Pt. 2"
* Music/JohnMayer -- "New Light", "Your Body is a Wonderland", "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room", "Gravity", "No Such Thing" or "Waiting On The World To Change"
* Music/{{Mayhem}} -- "Deathcrush" or "Freezing Moon"
* Conor Maynard -- "Vegas Girl"
* Music/MC5 -- "Music/KickOutTheJams"
* MC 900 Ft. Jesus -- "If I Only Had a Brain"
* Music/MCHammer -- "U Can't Touch This" (which, ironically, was only his ''fifth'' highest charting song) and maybe "2 Legit 2 Quit" for baseball fans.
* Music/MartinaMcBride -- "Independence Day"
* Music/JesseMcCartney -- "Beautiful Soul" or "Leavin'"
** Dream Street -- "It Happens Everytime"
* Music/PaulMcCartney -- "Another Day" (see also Beatles above, and Wings below)
* Music/RebaMcEntire -- "Fancy" or "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" for her older work. "Consider Me Gone" for her newer work. And maybe "I'm a Survivor" for fans of [[Series/{{Reba}} her sitcom]].
* Music/McFly -- "Five Colours in Her Hair" & "All About You"
* Music/TimMcGraw -- "Live Like You Were Dying"
* Andrew [=McMahon=] in the Wilderness -- "Cecilia and the Satellite"
* Wrestling/VinceMcMahon -- "Stand Back"
* Music/MeatLoaf -- "Paradise by the Dashboard Light", "Bat Out of Hell", or "I'd Do Anything For Love". At the album level, ''eight'' of the eighteen songs in his GreatestHits collection (which includes three original songs) come from two albums: "Bat Out of Hell" and "Bat Out of Hell II", making those his signature albums.
* Music/MeatPuppets -- "Plateau" or "Lake of Fire"
* Music/{{Megadeth}} -- "Symphony of Destruction" or "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due". By album:
** ''Killing is My Business... And Business Is Good!'' -- "Chosen Ones" or "Last Rites/Loved to Death"
** ''Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?'' -- The title track.
** ''So Far, So Good... So What!'' -- "In My Darkest Hour"
** ''Rust In Peace'' -- "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" or "Hangar 18"
** ''Countdown to Extinction'' -- "Symphony of Destruction"
** ''Youthanasia'' -- "A Tout Le Monde"
** ''Cryptic Writings'' -- "Trust"
** ''Risk'' -- "Crush 'Em"
** ''The World Needs a Hero'' -- "Promises"
** ''The System Has Failed'' -- [[WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers "Back in the Day"]]
** ''United Abominations'' -- "A Tout Le Monde (Set Me Free)"
** ''Endgame'' -- "Head Crusher"
** ''Thirteen'' -- [[VideoGame/GuitarHero "Sudden Death"]]
** ''Super Collider'' -- The title track.
** ''Dystopia'' -- The title track or [[VideoGame/WatchDogs2 "Fatal Illusion"]]
* Daler Mehndi - "Tunak Tunak Tun"
* Music/JohnMellencamp -- "Jack and Diane"
* Music/{{Melvins}} -- "Honey Bucket"
* Music/MenAtWork -- formerly a tie between "Who Can It Be Now?" and "Down Under"; now undisputably the latter
* Mental As Anything -- "The Nips Are Gettin' Bigger" and "Live It Up"
* Music/MenWithoutHats -- "The Safety Dance"
* Music/FelixMendelssohn -- "Wedding March"
* Music/ShawnMendes -- "Stitches" from ''Handwritten'', "Treat You Better" or "There’s Nothing Holding Me Back" from ''Illuminate''.
* Music/BridgitMendler -- "Ready or Not"
* Creator/IdinaMenzel -- "[[Theatre/{{Wicked}} Defying Gravity]]" or "[[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Let It Go]]"
* Mercy Drive -- "[[Wrestling/RandyOrton Burn In My Light]]"
* Music/MercyfulFate -- "Melissa," "Evil," or "Curse of the Pharaohs"
* [=MercyMe=] -- "I Can Only Imagine"
* Merrilee Rush & The Turnabouts -- "Angel of the Morning"
* Alice Merton -- "No Roots"
* Music/{{Merzbow}} -- "Woodpecker No. 1" or "I Lead You Towards Glorious Times" [[note]]The loudest song ever pressed on CD.[[/note]]
* Music/{{Meshuggah}} -- "Bleed" overall. By album:
** ''Destroy Erase Improve'' -- "Future Breed Machine"
** ''Chaosphere'' -- "New Millennium Cyanide Christ"
** ''Nothing'' -- "Rational Gaze"
** ''Catch Thirtythree'' -- "Shed"
** ''obZen'' -- "Bleed"
** ''Koloss'' -- "Demiurge"
** ''The Violent Sleep of Reason'' -- "Clockworks"
* Music/JoDeeMessina -- "Lesson in Leavin'", "I'm Alright", "Bye, Bye" or "My Give a Damn's Busted"
* Music/{{Metallica}} -- "Master of Puppets", "One", or "Enter Sandman" overall. By album:
** ''Kill 'Em All'' -- "Seek & Destroy"
** ''Music/RideTheLightning'' -- "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
** ''Music/MasterOfPuppets'' -- The title track
** ''...And Justice for All'' -- "One"
** ''Music/{{Metallica|Album}}'' (The Black Album) -- "Enter Sandman"[[note]](especially for fans of [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball Virginia Tech football]] and the [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams New York Yankees]])[[/note]], and "Nothing Else Matters"
** ''Load'' -- "Until it Sleeps" or "King Nothing"
** ''Reload'' -- "Fuel"
** ''Music/GarageInc'' -- Formerly a tie between "Turn the Page" or "Whiskey in the Jar", but now indisputably the latter.
** ''S&M'' -- "No Leaf Clover"
** ''St. Anger'' -- The title track
** ''Death Magnetic'' -- "The Day That Never Comes"
** ''Hardwired… To Self-Destruct'' -- "Hardwired"
* Music/{{Metric}} -- "[[Film/{{Defendor}} Help I'm Alive]]", "Gold Guns Girls", or "Dead Disco".
* Music/MeWithoutYou -- "January 1979" or "In a Sweater Poorly Knit"
* MGMT -- "Electric Feel", "Kids" or "Time to Pretend" from ''Music/OracularSpectacular''.
* Music/{{MIA}} -- [[Film/PineappleExpress "Paper Planes"]], with "Bad Girls" a close runner-up
* Music/MichaelLearnsToRock -- By album:
** ''First SelfTitledAlbum'' -- "The Actor"
** ''Colours'' -- "Sleeping Child". In some countries (Asia specifically), "25 Minutes" and "Out of the Blue" are just as iconic, if not more.
** ''Played On Pepper'' -- "That's Why (You Go Away)".
** ''Nothing To Lose'' -- "Paint My Love". In some countries (Asia specifically), the TitleTrack, "I'm Gonna Be Around", and "Breaking My Heart" are just as iconic, if not more.
** ''Blue Night'' -- "You Took My Heart Away".
** ''Second SelfTitledAlbum'' -- "Take Me To Your Heart"
** ''Eternity'' -- Depends on the country. In the UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}} and UsefulNotes/{{India}}, it's "It's Gonna Make Sense". In UsefulNotes/{{Thailand}}, it's "Sweetest Surprise".
** ''Scandinavia'' -- In the UsefulNotes/{{Indonesia}}, UsefulNotes/{{India}}, and their native UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}}, it's "Any Way You Want It".
* Music/GeorgeMichael -- "Faith" or "Freedom '90"
* Julia Michaels -- "Issues"
* Wrestling/ShawnMichaels -- "Sexy Boy"
* Music/MidnightOil -- "Beds Are Burning"
* Creator/BetteMidler -- "The Rose", "Wind Beneath My Wings" or "From a Distance".
* Music/TheMightyMightyBosstones -- "The Impression That I Get"
* Migos -- Formerly "Versace", but now "Bad and Boujee" (and to a lesser extent, "T-Shirt" and "Slippery")
* Miguel -- "Adorn"
* MIGGS -- "Ordinary"
* Miike Snow -- "Animal" at first, but now most definitely "Music/GenghisKhan", though the former is back to being this for them in the UK due to the remix being used as the theme tune of ''Series/FridayNightDinner''.
* Music/{{Mika}} -- "Grace Kelly"
* Music/MikeAndTheMechanics -- "Silent Running" and "The Living Years"
* Miki Imai - "Part of Your World" cover from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'' (by American standards, at least).
* Robert Miles — "Children"
* Milky Chance -- "Stolen Dance"
* Music/GlennMiller -- "In the Mood", though "Moonlight Serenade" was his band's official theme song.
* Music/MacMiller -- "Donald Trump"
* Music/SteveMillerBand -- "The Joker"
* The Miller Stain Limit -- "Cellophane"
* Music/MeekMill -- "I'm A Boss" or "Dreams and Nightmares (Intro)"
* Christina Milian -- "Dip It Low"
* M.I.M.S. -- "This Is Why I'm Hot"
* Music/NickiMinaj -- "Super Bass" or "Starships"
* Music/{{Ministry}} -- "Jesus Built My Hot Rod"
* Music/KylieMinogue --
** Early Work: "I Should Be So Lucky"
** Early 2000's: "Spinning Around"
** Recent Work: "Can't Get You Out of My Head"
* Music/MinorThreat -- "Straight Edge"
* Masayoshi Minoshima -- "[[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Bad Apple!!]] feat. nomico"
* Music/{{Minutemen}} -- "Corona" or "This Ain't No Picnic"
* Music/TheMisfits -- "Last Caress", "Hybrid Moments", or "Where Eagles Dare"
* MISSIO -- "Middle Fingers"
* Music/MissionOfBurma -- "That's When I Reach for My Revolver"
* Music/MisTeeq -- "Scandalous"
* Music/JoniMitchell -- "Big Yellow Taxi", or “Both Sides Now”
* [[Music/{{VOCALOID}} Mitchie M]] -- "Freely Tomorrow" and "Ai Dee"
* [=MKTO=] -- "Classic" in the U.S., "Thank You" in Oceania
* [=MNEK=] -- "Never Forget You" (shared with Zara Larsson); in his native UK, "Ready For Your Love" (shared with Gorgon City) is a possible rival
* Mobb Deep -- "Shook Ones Pt. II"
* Music/{{Moby}} -- "Natural Blues" or "Porcelain"
* Music/MobyGrape -- "Omaha"
* Mo-Do -- "Ein Zwei Polizei"
* Music/TheModernLovers -- "Roadrunner"
* Music/ModestMouse -- "Float On"
* Moe Shop -- "Love Taste"
* Music/TheMoffats -- "I'll Be There For You"
* Mohombi -- "Bumpy Ride"
* The Moldy Peaches -- "Anyone Else But You"
* Molly Hatchet -- "Flirtin' with Disaster"
* Moloko -- "Sing It Back"
* Music/JanelleMonae -- "Tightrope" or "Cold War"
* Eddie Money -- "Take Me Home Tonight" and "Two Tickets to Paradise"
* Monica -- "Angel of Mine", "So Gone", or "Don't Take It Personal (Just One of Dem Days)" .
* Music/TheMonkees -- "I'm A Believer" or "Daydream Believer"
* Bill Monroe -- "Blue Moon of Kentucky" or "Uncle Pen"
* Vaughn Monroe -- "Racing with the Moon", the song was even used on the advertisements he recorded for RCA Victor, "Ghost Riders In The Sky" is another contender.
* Monster Magnet -- "Space Lord" (or "[[Wrestling/MattHardy Live for the Moment]]" to wrestling fans). More recently, "[[ComicBook/XMen Negasonic Teenage Warhead]]" has become a possible contender.
* Music/MontgomeryGentry -- "Gone"
* John Michael Montgomery -- "I Swear"
* Creator/MontyPython – "[[Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian Always Look on the Bright Side of Life]]"
* Music/TheMoodyBlues -- "Nights In White Satin" or "Go Now"
* Chanté Moore -- "Chanté's Got a Man"
* Gary Moore -- "Out in the Fields"
* Justin Moore -- "Small Town USA"
* Music/MandyMoore -- "Candy," "[[Film/AWalkToRemember Cry]]" and "[[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} I See the Light]]".
* Willy Moon -- "Yeah Yeah"
* M.O.P. -- "Ante Up"
* Music/MorbidAngel -- "Chapel of Ghouls," "Immortal Rites," or "God of Emptiness"
* Adam Morenoff -- "[[Wrestling/ChrisJericho Break Down the Walls]]"
* Meli'sa Morgan -- "[[CoveredUp Do Me, Baby]]"
* Music/AlanisMorissette -- "Ironic" and "You Oughta Know" (both from ''Music/JaggedLittlePill'')
* Morning Parade -- "Alienation"
* Morphine -- "The Night" or "Early to Bed"
* Music/EnnioMorricone -- "Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly" Theme
* Music/MarenMorris -- "My Church" for her core country base and "[[Music/{{Zedd}} The Middle]]" for mainstream audiences, although "The Bones" has become a contender for both demographics
* Music/{{Morrissey}} -- "Irish Blood, English Heart"
* Glenn Morrison -- "Goodbye"
* Mark Morrison -- "Return of the Mack"
* Music/VanMorrison -- "Brown Eyed Girl"
** Them -- "Gloria"
* Mother Love Bone -- "Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns"
* Mother Mother -- "Hayloft"
* Music/MotionlessInWhite -- "Reincarnate"
* Music/MotleyCrue -- "Dr. Feelgood" or "Girls, Girls, Girls"
** "Kickstart My Heart" is also a serious contender.
* Music/{{Motorhead}} -- "Ace of Spades". For wrestling fans, "[[Wrestling/TripleH The Game]]".
* Mountain -- "Mississippi Queen"
* Music/TheMountainGoats -- "No Children"
* The Mowgli's -- "San Francisco"
* Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart — Requiem, especially "Dies Irae" or "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - 1st Movement"
* Mr. Mister -- ""Broken Wings" or "Kyrie"
* Mr. Pink / The Program -- "Love and Affection", a CoverVersion of Joan Armatrading's song.
* Mr. President -- "Coco Jamboo"
* Mr. Probz -- "Waves" (specifically the remix by Robin Schulz)
* Jason Mraz -- Initially "The Remedy," but now "I'm Yours"
* Ms Mr -- "[[Series/GameOfThrones Bones]]" or "Hurricane"
* Music/{{Mudhoney}} -- "Touch Me, I'm Sick"
* Music/{{Mudvayne}} -- "Happy?" overall. By album:
** ''L.D. 50'' -- "Dig"
** ''The End of All Things to Come'' -- "Not Falling"
** ''Lost and Found'' -- "Happy?"
** ''By the People for the People'' -- "Dull Boy"
** ''The New Game'' -- "Do What You Do"
** ''Mudvayne'' -- "Scream with Me"
* Music/MumfordAndSons -- "Little Lion Man", "The Cave" or "I Will Wait"
* Mumm-Ra -- "[[Film/FiveHundredDaysOfSummer She's Got You High]]"
* Mungo Jerry -- "In the Summertime"
* Music/PeterMurphy -- "Cuts You Up"
* Olly Murs -- "Troublemaker" in the U.S., other contenders in the UK include "Please Don't Let Me Go", "Heart Skips a Beat", "Dance With Me Tonight", and "Wrapped Up".
* Music/{{Muse}} -- "Uprising" overall. By album:
** ''Showbiz'' -- "Sunburn", "Muscle Museum," or the title track.
** ''Origin of Symmetry'' -- "Plug In Baby" and "[[CoveredUp Feeling Good]]"
** ''Absolution'' -- "Time is Running Out" or "Hysteria"
** ''Black Holes & Revalations'' -- "Knights of Cydonia" and "Supermassive Black Hole"
** ''The Resistance'' -- "Uprising"
** ''The 2nd Law'' -- "Madness"
** ''Drones'' -- "Dead Inside" or "Reapers"
** ''Simulation Theory'' -- "Pressure"
* Music/KaceyMusgraves -- "Merry Go Round" (to the core country audience) and "Follow Your Arrow" (to more mainstream audiences) off her earlier, more straightforward country work. From newer work that's more pop/soft rock inspired, it'd be "Space Cowboy" or "High Horse".
* Mustard Plug -- "Mr. Smiley"
* Mya -- "Case of the Ex". She was also part of the collaboration for 'Lady Marmalade'.
* Music/MyBloodyValentine -- "You Made Me Realise" or "Only Shallow"
* Music/MyChemicalRomance -- By album:
** ''I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love'' - "Vampires Will Never Hurt You"
** ''Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge'' -- "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" or "Helena"
** ''The Black Parade'' -- "Welcome to the Black Parade"
** ''Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys'' -- "Sing"
** Overall: "Welcome To The Black Parade"
* My Darkest Days -- "Porn Star Dancing"
* My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult -- "A Daisy Chain 4 Satan"
* My Name Is Kay -- "My Name Is Kay"
* Alannah Myles -- "Black Velvet"
* David Myles -- "So Blind"
* Music/{{Myrath}} -- "Born to Survive"
* Music/MysterySkulls -- "Ghost"
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* The Naked and Famous -- "Young Blood"
* Naked Eyes -- "[[CoveredUp Always Something There to Remind Me]]"
* Anna Nalick -- "Breathe (2 AM)"
* Music/NapalmDeath -- "You Suffer"
* Nargaroth -- "Black Metal ist Krieg" or "The Day Music/{{Burzum}} Killed Music/{{Mayhem}}"
* Music/{{Nas}} -- "N.Y. State of Mind"
* Johnny Nash -- "I Can See Clearly Now"
* Kate Nash -- "Foundations"
* Music/TheNational -- "Bloodbuzz Ohio" or "[[VideoGame/Portal2 Exile (Vilify)]]"
* Naughty Boy -- "La La La" (with Sam Smith)
* Naughty by Nature -- "O.P.P."
* Nayer -- "Suave (Kiss Me)" [[note]]Although she's best known for her appearance on "[[Music/{{Pitbull}} Give Me Everything]]".[[/note]]
* Nazareth -- "Hair of the Dog" or "Love Hurts"
* Meshell Ndegeocello -- "Fool of Me"
* Youssou N'Dour -- "7 Seconds"
* Music/TheNeighbourhood -- "Sweater Weather"
* Nelly -- "Hot in Herre", "Ride wit Me", or "Dilemma"
* Rick Nelson -- "Hello, Mary Lou"
* Music/WillieNelson -- "On the Road Again"
* Music/{{Nena}} -- "99 Luftballons" (99 Red Balloons)
* Neon Jungle -- "Braveheart"
* Music/NeonTrees -- "Animal" or "Everybody Talks"
* Nephew -- "Movie Klip"
* Nerf Herder -- "Van Halen" or the Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer theme
* Music/{{Nero}} -- "Promises" or [[VideoGame/ForzaMotorsport "Me and You"]]
* Netta -- "Toy"
* Music/NeutralMilkHotel -- "Music/InTheAeroplaneOverTheSea" or "Holland, 1945"
* Music/{{Nevermore}} -- "Believe in Nothing"
* New Boyz -- "You're A Jerk"
* Music/NewEdition -- "Can You Stand the Rain"
* Music/NewFoundGlory -- "My Friends Over You"
* Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock -- "Step by Step"
* New Medicine -- "Race You to the Bottom"
* Music/NewOrder -- "Blue Monday" (available on ''Music/PowerCorruptionAndLies'')
* [[Music/JasonNewsted Newsted]] -- "King of the Underdogs"
* John Newman -- "Love Me Again" (although in the U.S. he is better known as the featured vocalist on Calvin Harris' "Blame")
* Music/RandyNewman:
** Soundtrack work -- "[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory You've Got a Friend In Me]]"
** Solo career -- "Short People"
* Newsboys -- "Shine" (early years) and "God's Not Dead" (more recent work)
* Music/OliviaNewtonJohn - "Physical"
* Next - "Too Close"
* Music/NeYo -- By album:
** ''In My Own Words'' -- "So Sick"
** ''Because of You'' -- The title track
** ''Year of the Gentleman'' -- "Closer" or "Miss Independent"
** ''Libra Scale'' -- "Beautiful Monster"
** ''R.E.D.'' -- "Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)" or "Let's Go" (the latter shared with Music/CalvinHarris)
** ''Non-Fiction'' -- "She Knows" or "Time of Our Lives" (the latter shared with Music/{{Pitbull}})
** Overall: "So Sick" and the ''Year of the Gentleman'' signatures
* Music/{{NF}} -- “Let You Down”. Before that, it was either “Mansion” or “How Could You Leave Us?”
* Music/{{Nickelback}} -- "How You Remind Me" overall. By album:
** ''Silver Side Up'' -- "How You Remind Me"
** ''The Long Road'' -- "Someday"
** ''All The Right Reasons'' -- "Photograph" and "Rockstar"
** ''Dark Horse'' -- "Gotta Be Somebody"
** ''Here and Now'' -- "Lullaby"
* Nico & Vinz -- "Am I Wrong?"
* 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.
* Jerrod Niemann -- “[[CoveredUp Lover, Lover]]”
* Music/NightRanger -- "Sister Christian"
* Music/{{Nightwish}} -- "Wish I Had an Angel" or "End of All Hope", "Planet Hell" to those who play RuneScape
* Harry Nilsson -- "[[CoveredUp Without]] [[Music/{{Badfinger}} You]]". For material that he both wrote and performed, "Coconut".
* Nine Days -- "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)"
* Music/NineInchNails -- "Closer", from ''Music/TheDownwardSpiral''
* Music/NinjaSexParty -- "Dinosaur Laser Fight" or "Dragon Slayer"
** Starbomb -- "Luigi's Ballad" or "It's Dangerous To Go Alone"
* Music/{{Nirvana}} -- "Smells Like Teen Spirit" overall. By album:
** ''{{Music/Bleach}}'' -- "About a Girl"
** ''{{Music/Nevermind}}'' -- "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "Come As You Are" and "Lithium"
** ''Music/InUtero'' -- "Heart-Shaped Box"
** ''Music/MTVUnpluggedInNewYork'' -- "[[Music/MeatPuppets Lake of Fire]]" or "[[Music/DavidBowie The Man]] [[Music/TheManWhoSoldTheWorld Who Sold the World]]"
** ''Nirvana'' -- "You Know You're Right"
* The Nixons -- "Sister"
* No Address -- "Sadie (When I'm Gone)"
* Creator/NobuoUematsu -- "[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII One Winged Angel]]"
* Music/NoDoubt -- "Don't Speak" or "Just A Girl"
** Gwen Stefani -- "Hollaback Girl", with "The Sweet Escape" being a close second
* Music/{{NOFX}} -- "Linoleum"
* Noisestorm -- "[[MemeticMutation Crab Rave]]"
* Nokturnal Mortum -- "Perun's Celestial Silver"
* NOMA -- [[VideoGame/SoundVoltex "Brain Power"]]
* Music/KlausNomi -- "Total Eclipse"
* NONONO - "Pumpin' Blood"
* Nonpoint -- "Bullet with a Name" By album:
** ''Statement'': "What a Day"
** ''Development'': "Your Signs"
** ''Recoil'': "[[Music/PhilCollins In the Air Tonight]]"
** ''To the Pain'': "Bullet with a Name"
** ''Vengeance'': "March of War"
** ''Miracle'': The title track
** ''Nonpoint'': "That Day"
** ''The Return'': "Breaking Skin"
** ''The Poison Red'': "Generation Idiot"
* Music/{{Noisia}} -- "Machine Gun"
* Nothing But Thieves -- "Trip Switch"
* Nothing More -- "This Is The Time (Ballast)", "Jenny" or "Go to War"
* Music/TheNotoriousBIG -- "Juicy", "Hypnotize" or "Mo Money Mo Problems"
* Music/{{NSYNC}} -- "Bye Bye Bye" [[note]]Although "It's Gonna Be Me" was their only #1 hit.[[/note]]
* Music/TedNugent -- "Journey To The Center of My Mind" (Amboy Dukes era), "Cat Scratch Fever" (solo years), "High Enough" (with Damn Yankees)
* Music/GaryNuman -- "Cars"
* Nump -- Originally "I Got Grapes", but now indisputably "WesternAnimation/TheNutshack"
* Paolo Nutini -- "New Shoes"
* Music/{{NWA}} -- "Straight Outta Compton" or "Fuck Tha Police" from ''Music/StraightOuttaCompton''.
* O-Town -- "All Or Nothing"
* O-Zone -- "Dragostea Din Tei" [[MemeticMutation (the "Numa Numa" song)]]
* The Oak Ridge Boys -- "Elvira"
* O.A.R. -- "Shattered (Turn the Car Around)" or "Love and Memories"
* Music/{{Oasis}} -- "Wonderwall"
* Oberhofer -- "Away Frm U"
* Billy Ocean -- "Caribbean Queen"
* Ocean Colour Scene -- "The Riverboat Song"
* Music/SineadOConnor -- Her [[CoveredUp cover]] of Music/{{Prince}}'s "Nothing Compares 2 U"
* Odessa -- "I Will Be There"
* ODESZA -- "Say My Name" or "Sun Models"
* Colby O'Donis -- "What You Got" (although he is probably better known as the featured vocalist on Music/LadyGaga's "Just Dance")
* Music/OfMiceAndMen -- "Second and Sebring" for their earlier material; more recently "Would You Still Be There?"
* Music/OfMonstersAndMen -- "Little Talks"
* Music/JacquesOffenbach -- "Galop Infernal" from "Orphée aux enfers", probably better known to most people as the "Can-Can".
* Music/TheOffspring -- "PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy", "Come Out and Play" or "Self Esteem". "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" fits for their later work.
* Music/{{OFWGKTA}} -- "Oldie". By member:
** Tyler, the Creator -- "Yonkers"
** Earl Sweatshirt -- "Chum"
** Frank Ocean -- "Thinkin Bout You", "Pyramids" or "Pink + White"
** Hodgy -- "Rella" or "Barbell"
*** [=MellowHype=] -- "Grill"
** Domo Genesis -- "Dapper"
** Casey Veggies -- "Backflip"
** Syd -- "All About Me"
*** The Internet -- "Girl" or "Special Affair"
* The Ohio Players -- "Love Rollercoaster" or "[[Series/HellsKitchen Fire]]"
* Music/OingoBoingo -- "Dead Man's Party" or "Weird Science"
* The O'Jays -- "Love Train"
* Music/OKGo -- "Here It Goes Again"
* Ol' Dirty Bastard -- "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" or "Brooklyn Zoo"
* Music/OldCrowMedicineShow -- "Wagon Wheel"
* Old Dominion -- "Break Up With Him"
* Music/MikeOldfield -- "[[Film/TheExorcist Tubular Bells, Pt. I]]" for his instrumental work, "Moonlight Shadow" for his pop/rock work.
* Oleander -- "Why I'm Here"
* Don Omar -- "[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious Danza Kuduro]]"
* Omarion -- "Ice Box" for his earlier work, "Post to Be" for his later material.
** [=B2K=] -- “Bump, Bump, Bump”
* OMC -- "How Bizarre"
* OMFG -- "Hello"
* OMI -- "Cheerleader" [[note]]specifically the Felix Jaehn remix[[/note]]
* OPM -- "Heaven is a Halfpipe"
* Alexander O'Neal -- "Fake"
* Music/OneDirection -- "What Makes You Beautiful"
** Music/{{Zayn}} -- "Pillowtalk"
** Niall Horan -- "Slow Hands"
** Louis Tomlinson -- "Just Hold On" (despite it technically being Steve Aoki's song); "Back to You" for his own material
** Music/HarryStyles -- "Watermelon Sugar"
** Liam Payne -- "Strip That Down"
* Music/OneOKRock -- "Kanzen Kankaku Dreamer" in Japan, "[[Film/RurouniKenshin The Beginning]]" internationally
* Music/OneRepublic -- Previously "Apologize", but now "Counting Stars"
* Onesidezero -- "[[Series/{{Smallville}} New World Order]]"
* One Way -- "Cutie Pie"
* Only Living Witness -- "December"
* Operation Ivy -- "Knowledge" or "Unity"
* Operator -- "Soulcrusher"
* Music/{{Opeth}} -- "The Drapery Falls" or "Deliverance".
* Music/RitaOra -- "How We Do (Party)" or "I Will Never Let You Down" in the U.S., although "R.I.P." is also a candidate in the UK.
* Music/RoyOrbison -- "Oh, Pretty Woman"
* Orbital -- "Halcyon" or "Chime"
* Carl Orff -- "[[Music/CarminaBurana O Fortuna]]"
* Orianthi -- "According To You"
* The Orion Experience -- "Obsessed With You" or "Queen of White Lies"
* Orleans -- "Dance With Me" or "Still the One"
* Orson -- "No Tomorrow"
* Jeffrey Osborne -- "You Should Be Mine (The Woo-Woo Song)"
* Music/OzzyOsbourne -- "Crazy Train"
* Music/TheOsmonds -- "One Bad Apple"
* Otherwise -- "I Don't Apologize (1000 Pictures)"
* Ai Otsuka -- "Sakuranbo"
* Music/OurLadyPeace -- "Somewhere Out There" and "Clumsy"
* Music/OutKast -- "B.O.B." or "Ms. Jackson" to the hip-hop/urban community, "Hey Ya!" to pop audiences
** Big Boi -- “Shutterbugg”
* The Outlaws -- "Green Grass and High Tides"
* Outasight -- "Tonight Is The Night"
* Music/{{Overkill}} -- "Hello from the Gutter"
* Jake Owen -- "Barefoot Blue Jean Night"
* Music/OwlCity -- "Fireflies"
** Sky Sailing -- "Brielle"
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* Johann Pachelbel -- "Canon in D Major", informally known as "Pachelbel's Canon"
* Patti Page -- "Tennessee Waltz"
* Jennifer Paige -- "Crush"
* Pain -- "Follow Me" or "Shut Your Mouth"
* Music/PainOfSalvation -- "Ashes"
* Music/BradPaisley —- "Mud on the Tires" or "Accidental Racist"
* Music/AmandaPalmer -- "Leeds United" or "Oasis"
* Robert Palmer -- "Addicted to Love", "Simply Irresistible", or "Bad Case of Lovin' You"
* Music/PanicAtTheDisco: "I Write Sins, Not Tragedies" and "High Hopes" overall. By album
** ''A Fever You Can't Sweat Out'': "I Write Sins, Not Tragedies", with "Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off" and "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage" not far behind.
** ''Pretty. Odd.'': "Northern Downpour" or "Nine in the Afternoon"
** ''Vices & Virtues'': "The Ballad of Mona Lisa"
** ''Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!'': "Miss Jackson" or "This Is Gospel"
** ''Death of a Bachelor'': "Victorious", "Emperor's New Clothes", or "Don't Threaten Me With a Good Time"
** ''Pray For the Wicked'': "High Hopes" with "Say Amen (Saturday Night)" and "Hey Look Ma, I Made It", not far behind
* Music/{{Pantera}}: by album:
** ''Cowboys from Hell'': The title track
** ''Vulgar Display of Power'': "Walk"
** ''Far Beyond Driven'': "I'm Broken"
** ''The Great Southern Trendkill'': "Floods"
** ''Reinventing the Steel'': "Revolution is My Name"
** Overall: "Walk", with "Cowboys" a close second.
*** Damageplan -- "Save Me"
* Music/PapaRoach -- "Last Resort" overall. By album:
** ''Infest'' -- "Last Resort"
** ''Lovehatetragedy'' -- "She Loves Me Not"
** ''Getting Away with Murder'' -- "Scars"
** ''The Paramour Sessions'' -- "Forever" or "...To Be Loved"
** ''Metamorphosis'' -- "Lifeline" or "Hollywood Whore"
** ''Time for Annihilation'' -- "Kick in the Teeth"
** ''The Connection'' -- "Still Swingin'"
** ''F.E.A.R.'' -- "[[Music/InThisMoment Gravity]]" or "Face Everything And Rise"
** ''Crooked Teeth'' -- "Help"
* Paper Tongues -- "Ride To California"
* Music/ParadiseLost -- "As I Die"
* [=ParagonX9=] -- "Chaoz Fantasy"
* Music/{{Paramore}}
** Older work: "Misery Business"
** Newer material: "Still Into You" or "Ain't It Fun"
* Ray Parker Jr. -- "Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}"
* Parkway Drive -- "Vice Grip" or "The Void"
* [[Music/GeorgeClinton Parliament]] -- "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)" (from ''Music/MothershipConnection'')
* Music/DollyParton -- "Jolene" or "Nine to Five". “I Will Always Love You” is by far her best-known song, but it’s universally associated with Music/WhitneyHouston instead.
* Passenger -- "Let Her Go"
* Music/PassionPit -- "Take a Walk"
* Patent Pending -- "Hey Mario", a tribute to ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''
* Music/PaulRevereAndTheRaiders -- "Kicks" or "Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)"
* Billy Paul -- "Me and Mrs. Jones"
* Sean Paul -- "Get Busy" or "Temperature"
* Music/{{Pavement}} -- "Cut Your Hair", "Summer Babe", or "Gold Soundz"
* Music/PearlJam -- By album:
** ''Music/{{Ten|PearlJamAlbum}}'' (and overall) -- "Black", "Alive", "Even Flow", or "Jeremy"
** ''Vs.'' -- "Daughter"
** ''Vitalogy'' -- "Better Man"
** ''Merkin Ball'' -- "I Got Id"
** ''No Code'' -- "Who You Are"
** ''Yield'' -- "Given to Fly" or "Do the Evolution"
** ''No Boundaries'' -- "Last Kiss"
** ''Binaural'' -- "Nothing as it Seems"
** ''Riot Act'' -- "I Am Mine"
** ''Pearl Jam'' -- "World Wide Suicide"
** ''Backspacer'' -- "The Fixer"
** ''Lightning Bolt'' -- "Mind Your Manners"
* Gayla Peevey -- "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas"
* Peking Duk -- "High" or "Say My Name"
* Music/{{Pendulum}} -- Formerly "Slam", but now "Propane Nightmares"
* Pennywise -- "Fuck Authority"
* Music/{{Pentagram}} -- "Forever My Queen" or "Living on a Ram's Head"
* Music/{{Pentatonix}} -- Excluding covers and mashups, "Can't Sleep Love"
* Pepper -- "No Control"
* Music/{{Perfume}} -- "Polyrhythm," "Chocolate Disco"
* Music/{{Periphery}} -- "Icarus Lives" or "Alpha"
* Christina Perri -- "Jar of Hearts" or "[[Literature/{{Twilight}} A Thousand Years]]"
* Music/KatyPerry -- By album:
** ''One of the Boys'' -- "I Kissed a Girl" or "Hot n Cold"
** ''Teenage Dream'' -- "California Gurls", "Teenage Dream" or "Firework"
*** ''Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection'' -- "Part of Me" or "Wide Awake"
** ''Prism''-- "Roar" or "Dark Horse"
** ''Witness'' -- "Chained to the Rhythm", "Bon Appetit" or "Swish Swish"
** ''Smile'' -- "Never Really Over"
** Overall -- "I Kissed a Girl", "Firework", and the ''Prism'' signatures tend to be the frontrunners.
* Music/PetShopBoys -- "West End Girls" overall. By album:
** ''Please'' -- "West End Girls" or "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)"
** ''Actually'' -- "It's a Sin" or "What Have I Done To Deserve This?"
** ''Introspective'' -- [[CoveredUp "Always on My Mind"]] or "Domino Dancing"
** ''Behaviour'' -- "Being Boring"
** ''Very'' -- "Can You Forgive Her?" or "Go West"
** ''Bilingual'' -- "Somewhere"
** ''Nightlife'' -- "New York City Boy"
** ''Release'' -- "Home And Dry"
** ''Fundamental'' -- "I'm With Stupid"
** ''Yes'' -- "Love Etc."
** ''Elysium'' -- "Winner"
** ''Electric'' -- "Love is a Bourgeois Construct" or "Thursday"
** ''Super'' -- "The Pop Kids" or "Say It To Me"
* Peter, Bjorn and John -- "Young Folks"
* Peter, Paul & Mary -- "Leaving on a Jet Plane"
* Petey Pablo -- "Raise Up"
* Music/TomPetty -- "Free Fallin'" (and "American Girl" for his songs with the Heartbreakers), with "I Won't Back Down", "Runnin' Down A Dream", "Mary Jane's Last Dance" and "Learning To Fly" as runner up songs overall. By album:
** ''Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers'': "American Girl" particularly, but also "Breakdown" is very well-remembered.
** ''You're Gonna Get It'': "Listen to Her Heart".
** ''Damn The Torpedoes'': "Refugee" and "Don't Do Me Like That", with "Here Comes My Girl" as a runner up.
** ''Hard Promises'': "The Waiting".
** ''Long After Dark'': "You Got Lucky".
** ''Southern Accents'': "Don't Come Around Here No More".
** ''Full Moon Fever'': "Free Fallin'" (most popular song overall), "I Won't Back Down" and "Runnin' Down A Dream".
** ''Into The Great Wide Open'': "Learning To Fly", although the title track is also very well-remembered.
** ''Greatest Hits'': "Mary Jane's Last Dance".
** ''Wildflowers'': "You Don't Know How It Feels" and, surprisingly, the title track, which wasn't even released as a single but became the most streamed song on the album. "You Wreck Me" is also well-remembered and was a very popular concert song.
** Overall, his later albums don't really have songs that can be considered Petty's signature songs. Perhaps his best-known hits here are "Walls" from the OST album ''Songs and Music from "She's the One"'' and "Saving Grace" from his third and last solo album ''Highway Companion''.
* Music/LizPhair -- "Why Can't I"
* Phantogram -- "Fall In Love" overall. By album:
** ''Eyelid Movies'' -- "When I'm Small"
** ''Nightlife'' -- "Don't Move"
** ''Voices'' -- "Fall In Love" or "Black Out Days"
** ''Three'' -- "Same Old Blues" or "You Don't Get Me High Anymore"
* Phantom Planet -- "[[Series/TheOC California]]"
* The Pharcyde -- "Passin' Me By"
* Music/{{Pharrell|Williams}} -- [[WesternAnimation/DespicableMe2 "Happy"]]
** N.E.R.D. -- "She Wants to Move", "Rock Star" or “Lemon”
* Music/{{Phish}} -- "You Enjoy Myself"
* Phil Phillips - "Sea of Love"
* Phillip Phillips -- "Home" or "Gone, Gone, Gone" to adult contemporary listeners, indisputably the first to general audiences
* Phoenix -- "If I Ever Feel Better" for their early work, "1901" for their later material. By album:
** ''United'' -- "If I Ever Feel Better"
** ''Alphabetical'' -- "Everything is Everything"
** ''It's Never Been Like That'' -- "Long Distance Call"
** ''Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix'' -- "1901" or "Lisztomania"
** ''Bankrupt!'' -- "Entertainment" or "Trying To Be Cool"
** ''Ti Amo'' -- "J-Boy"
* Music/EdithPiaf -- "Non, je ne regrette rien"
* Wilson Pickett -- "In the Midnight Hour" or "Land of 1,000 Dances"
* The Pierces -- "[[Series/PrettyLittleLiars Secret]]"
* Music/PierceTheVeil -- "King for a Day" or "Circles"
* The Pillows -- "Little Busters"
* Pilot -- "Magic"
* Music/{{Pink}} -- "Get the Party Started", "Just Like a Pill" and "So What"
* Music/PinkFloyd -- "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" or "Comfortably Numb" (from ''Music/TheWall''), "Money" (from ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'') or possibly the title track of ''Music/WishYouWereHere''. Funny, considering the former [[BlackSheepHit is not representative of their sound]].
** By album:
*** ''Music/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn'' -- "Astronomy Domine" or "Interstellar Overdrive"
*** ''Music/ASaucerfulOfSecrets'' -- "Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun", "Corporal Clegg", or "Jugband Blues"
*** ''Music/{{More}}'' -- "The Nile Song" or "Cymbaline"
*** ''Music/{{Ummagumma}}'' -- "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict"
*** ''Film/ZabriskiePoint'' -- "Heart Beat, Pig Meat", "Crumbling Land", or "Come in Number 51, Your Time Is Up"
*** ''Music/AtomHeartMother'' -- "Atom Heart Mother Suite" or "Fat Old Sun"
*** ''Music/{{Meddle}}'' -- "One of These Days" or "[[EpicRocking Echoes]]"
*** ''Music/ObscuredByClouds'' -- The title track or "Free Four"
*** ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'' -- "Time", "Money", "Us and Them", or "[[SiameseTwinSongs Brain Damage/Eclipse]]"
*** ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' -- "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" or "Wish You Were Here"
*** ''Music/{{Animals}}'' -- "Dogs", "Pigs (Three Different Ones)", or "Sheep"
*** ''Music/TheWall'' -- "Another Brick In the Wall, Part II", "Hey You", "Comfortably Numb", or "Run Like Hell"
*** ''Music/TheFinalCut'' -- "The Fletcher Memorial Home" or "The Final Cut"
*** ''Music/AMomentaryLapseOfReason'' -- "Learning to Fly", "On the Turning Away", or "Sorrow"
*** ''Music/TheDivisionBell'' -- "Take It Back", "Keep Talking", or "High Hopes"
*** ''Music/TheEndlessRiver'' -- "Louder Than Words"
*** Singles -- "Arnold Layne", "See Emily Play", "CarefulWithThatAxe, Eugene", "Embryo", or "When the Tigers Broke Free"
* Creator/{{Pinkfong}} -- "Baby Shark"
* Music/{{Pitbull}} -- By album:
** ''M.I.A.M.I.'' -- "Culo"
** ''Money Is Still a Major Issue'' -- "Everybody Get Up"
** ''El Mariel'' -- "Bojangles" or "Ay Chico (Lengua Afuera)"
** ''The Boatlift'' -- "The Anthem"
** ''Pitbull Starring in Rebelution'' -- "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)"
** ''Armando'' -- "Bon, Bon"
** ''Planet Pit'' -- "Give Me Everything"
** ''Global Warming'' -- "[[Film/MenInBlack3 Back in Time]]" or "Feel This Moment"
** ''Meltdown'' -- "Timber"
** ''Globalization'' -- "Time of Our Lives"
** ''Dale'' -- "Como Yo Le Doy"
** ''Climate Change'' -- "Messin' Around"
** Overall -- "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)", "Give Me Everything" and "Timber" are the frontrunners.
* Music/ThePixies -- "Where is My Mind?" (from ''Music/SurferRosa''), "Monkey Gone to Heaven", or "Debaser" (from ''Music/{{Doolittle}}'')
* Pizzicato Five -- "Baby Love Child"
* Placebo -- "Every You, Every Me"
* Plain White T's -- "Hey There Delilah"
* Plan B -- "She Said"
* Music/RachelPlatten -- "Fight Song" or "Stand By You" to adult contemporary audiences, indisputably the former to general audiences.
* Playboi Carti -- “Magnolia”
* Plies -- "Bust It Baby, Pt.2". Later on "Ran Off on the Plug Twice"
* Polaris -- "[[Series/TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete Hey Sandy]]"
* [[Music/{{POD}} P.O.D.]] -- "Youth of the Nation", with "Alive" a close second.
* Music/{{Poe}} -- "Angry Johnny"
* Music/ThePogues -- "Fairytale of New York"
* The Pointer Sisters -- "Jump (For My Love)" or "I'm So Excited"
* Music/{{Poison}} -- "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" or "Nothin' But a Good Time"
* Music/ThePolice -- "Every Breath You Take", "Roxanne", or "Message In a Bottle"
* Amilcare Ponchielli -- "Dance of the Hours"
* Music/IggyPop -- "The Passenger" and "Lust For Life" (both from ''Music/LustForLife'')
* Pop Evil -- "Trenches", "Footsteps", or "Deal with the Devil"
* Pop Will Eat Itself -- "Ich Bin Ein Auslander"
* The Poppy Family -- "Which Way You Goin', Billy?"
* Music/{{Porcupine Tree}} -- "Trains"
* Music/PorterRobinson -- "Language", "Sad Machine" or "Anime/{{Shelter}}"[[note]]shared with Madeon[[/note]]
* Music/{{Portishead}} -- "Glory Box" or "Sour Times" (both from ''Music/{{Dummy}}'')
* Portugal. The Man -- "Feel It Still"
* Mike Posner -- "I Took a Pill in Ibiza", with "Cooler Than Me" not far behind.
* Possessed -- "The Exorcist" or "Death Metal"
* Music/PostMalone -- "Rockstar”
* The Postal Service -- "Such Great Heights"
* Grace Potter & the Nocturnals -- "Paris (Ooh La La)"
* Powderfinger -- "My Happiness" or "These Days"
* Music/{{Powerman 5000}} -- "When Worlds Collide"
* Daniel Powter -- "Bad Day"
* The Presidents of the United States of America -- "Lump", with "Peaches" in second place
* Music/ElvisPresley -- "Heartbreak Hotel", "Jailhouse Rock", "A Little Less Conversation" [[note]](especially the Junkie XL remix)[[/note]], or "[[CoveredUp Hound Dog]]"
* The Pretenders -- "Brass in Pocket"
* Music/ThePrettyReckless -- Previously "[[Film/KickAss Make Me Wanna Die]]", but now "Heaven Knows"
* Pretty Ricky -- "Grind On Me"
** Pleasure P -- "Did You Wrong"
* PRTY [=H3RO=] -- "Life of the PRTY"
* Priestess -- “Lay Down”
* Music/PrimalScream -- "[[Film/TheWorldsEnd Loaded]]"
* Primordial -- "The Coffin Ships"
* Music/{{Primus}} -- "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" or "My Name is Mud"
* Music/{{Prince}} -- "Purple Rain" and "When Doves Cry" overall. By album:
** ''1999'' -- "1999" or "Little Red Corvette"
** ''Music/{{Purple Rain|Album}}'' -- "Purple Rain", "When Doves Cry", or "Let's Go Crazy" (from ''Film/PurpleRain'')
** ''Around the World in a Day'' -- "Raspberry Beret" or "[[{{Defictionalization}} Paisley Park]]"
** ''Parade'' -- "Kiss"
** ''Batman'' -- "Partyman" (from ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'')
** ''The Gold Experience'' -- "P. Control", "Endorphinmachine", "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World", or "Gold"
* Music/PrettyLights -- "Hot Like Dimes"
* Primer 55 -- "Loose"
* Music/TheProclaimers -- "[[Film/BennyAndJoon I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)]]" or "[[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} I'm On My Way]]"
* Music/TheProdigy -- "Firestarter," "Breathe", or "Smack My Bitch Up" (all from ''Music/TheFatOfTheLand'') in the UK; originally the former but now strictly the latter in the United States
* Prong -- "Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck"
* Propellerheads -- "[[Film/TheMatrix Spybreak!]]"
* Prophets of Rage -- "Prophets of Rage"
* Music/ProtestTheHero -- "Bloodmeat"
* Music/TheProtomen -- "Light Up the Night"
* Music/{{PSY}} -- "Music/GangnamStyle" internationally, although in his native South Korea this is debatable.
* PTAF -- "Boss Ass Bitch"
* Music/PublicEnemy -- "[[Film/DoTheRightThing Fight the Power]]" (from ''Music/FearOfABlackPlanet''), while in the UK it's "[[Series/TheLastLeg Harder Than You Think]]" (from ''How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?'')
* Music/PublicServiceBroadcasting -- [[{{UsefulNotes/YuriGagarin}} "Gagarin"]]
* Music/PuddleOfMudd -- "Blurry"
* Music/TitoPuente -- "Oye Como Va"
* [[IHaveManyNames Puff Daddy/P.Diddy/Diddy]] -- "I'll Be Missing You"
** Diddy-Dirty Money -- "Coming Home"
* Music/AllaPugacheva -- "Harlequin," "Million Scarlet Roses," or "This World"
* Music/{{Pulp}} -- "Common People"
* Puscifer -- "Rev 22:20" or "Momma Sed"
* Purple Ribbon All-Stars -- "Kryptonite (I'm On It)"
* Music/CharliePuth -- "See You Again" (shared with Wiz Khalifa). For his own songs, "One Call Away", "We Don't Talk Anymore" and "Attention".
* Quad City DJ's -- "C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)" or "Film/SpaceJam"
* Suzi Quatro -- "Devil Gate Drive"
* Quarashi -- "Stick 'Em Up"
* Music/{{Queen}} -- By album:
** ''Music/{{Queen|1973}}'' -- "Keep Yourself Alive" or "Great King Rat"
** ''Music/QueenII'' -- "Seven Seas of Rhye"
** ''Music/SheerHeartAttack'' -- "Killer Queen" or "[[Film/{{Cruella}} Stone Cold Crazy]]"
** ''Music/ANightAtTheOpera'' -- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
** ''Music/ADayAtTheRaces'' -- "Somebody to Love"
** ''Music/{{News of the World|Queen}}'' -- [[SiameseTwinSongs "We Will Rock You"/"We Are the Champions"]]
** ''Music/{{Jazz}}'' -- "[[Film/HardcoreHenry Don't Stop Me Now]]" or "Bicycle Race"
** ''Music/{{The Game|Queen}}'' -- "Another One Bites the Dust" or "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
** ''[[Film/FlashGordon1980 Flash Gordon]]'' -- "Flash"
** ''Music/HotSpace'' -- "Under Pressure" with Music/DavidBowie
** ''Music/TheWorks'' -- "Radio Ga Ga" or "I Want to Break Free"
** ''Music/AKindOfMagic'' -- [[Film/{{Highlander}} "Who Wants to Live Forever" or "Princes of The Universe"]]
** ''Music/TheMiracle'' -- "I Want It All" or "The Invisible Man"
** ''Music/{{Innuendo}}'' -- "The Show Must Go On", or possibly "These Are the Days of Our Lives"
** ''Music/MadeInHeaven'' -- "Made in Heaven" (even if it's a cover of one of Freddie Mercury's solo songs)
** Overall -- "Bohemian Rhapsody" and the ''News of the World'' signatures are the frontrunners, with "Dust", "Pressure" and "Don't Stop" not far behind.
* Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge -- "No One Knows" from ''Music/SongsForTheDeaf'', overall. By album:
** SelfTitledAlbum -- "If Only"
** ''Rated R'' -- "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" or "The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret"
** ''Songs for the Deaf'' -- "No One Knows" or "Go With The Flow"
** ''Lullabies to Paralyze'' -- "In My Head" or "Little Sister"
** ''Era Vulgaris'' - "3's & 7's" or "Make It Wit Chu"
** ''Like Clockwork'' -- "My God Is The Sun"
** ''Villains'' -- "The Way You Used To Do"
* Music/{{Queensryche}} -- "Silent Lucidity"
* Question Mark & the Mysterians -- "96 Tears"
* Music/QuietRiot -- "Bang Your Head (Metal Health)" or "[[CoveredUp Cum on Feel the Noize]]"
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* R. City -- "Locked Away" (although it is probably more associated with Creator/AdamLevine[=/=]Music/{{Maroon 5}})
* Ra -- "Do You Call My Name?"
* The Raconteurs -- "Steady, As She Goes"
* Music/{{Radiohead}} -- "Creep" (from ''Music/PabloHoney''), "Paranoid Android" and "Karma Police" (from ''Music/OKComputer'')
* Rae Sremmurd -- Originally "No Flex Zone" or "No Type", but now "Black Beatles" thanks to the Mannequin Challenge.
* Music/GerryRafferty -- "Baker Street"
* Music/{{Rainbow}} -- "Stargazer"
* Music/{{Rage}} -- "Don't Fear the Winter"
* Music/RageAgainstTheMachine -- "Killing in the Name" overall. By album:
** ''Rage Against the Machine'' -- "Killing in the Name"
** ''Evil Empire'' -- "Bulls on Parade"
** ''The Battle of Los Angeles'' -- "Guerilla Radio"
** ''Renegades'' -- "[[CoverVersion Renegades of Funk]]"
* Raghav -- "Angel Eyes" for the first half of his career, "Fire" for the second half.
* Music/BonnieRaitt -- "Something To Talk About"
* Music/{{Rammstein}} -- "Du hast" internationally, "Engel" in their native Germany.
* Music/TheRamones -- "Blitzkrieg Bop" (from ''Music/{{Ramones}}'')
* Music/{{Rancid}} -- "Time Bomb"
* Boots Randolph -- "[[Series/TheBennyHillShow Yakety Sax]]"
* Music/RascalFlatts — "[[CoveredUp What Hurts the Most]]" or "[[WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} Life Is]] [[CoveredUp a Highway]]"
* Music/TheRasmus -- "In The Shadows"
* The Raspberries -- "Go All the Way"
* Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats -- "S.O.B."
* Music/{{Ratt}} - "Round and Round"
* Music/MauriceRavel -- "Bolero"
* Michael Ray -- "Kiss You in the Morning"
* Ray J -- "One Wish" and "Sexy Can I"
* Ready for the World -- "Oh Sheila" and "Love You Down"
* Music/TheReadySet -- "Love Like Woe"
* [=RealFaction=] -- "[[VideoGame/CastleCrashers Simple Sight]]"
* Real [=McCoy=] -- "Another Night"
* Redbone -- "The Witch Queen of New Orleans" and more recently, "Come and Get Your Love", thanks to its inclusion in the opening scene of ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' and as the RealSongThemeTune of ''WesternAnimation/FIsForFamily''.
* Helen Reddy -- "I Am Woman"
* Music/OtisRedding -- "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay" (from ''Music/TheDockOfTheBay'')
* Rednex -- "Cotton Eye Joe"
* Music/{{Red}} -- "Breathe Into Me"
* Music/RedHotChiliPeppers -- "Under the Bridge", "Californication" and "Snow" overall. By album:
** ''The Red Hot Chili Peppers'' -- "True Men Don't Kill Coyotes"
** ''The Uplift Mofo Party Plan'' -- "Me and My Friends"
** ''Mother's Milk'' -- "[[Music/StevieWonder Higher Ground]]"
** ''Music/BloodSugarSexMagik'' -- "Under the Bridge" or "Give it Away"
** ''One Hot Minute'' -- "My Friends"
** ''Music/{{Californication}}'' -- the title track, "Scar Tissue" and "Otherside".
** ''By the Way'' -- The title track, "Can't Stop" or "The Zephyr Song"
** ''Music/StadiumArcadium'' -- "Dani California" or "Snow (Hey Oh)"
** ''I'm with You'' -- "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie"
** ''The Getaway'' -- "Dark Necessities"
* Music/TheRedJumpsuitApparatus -- "Face Down"
* Red Rider -- "Lunatic Fringe"
* Red Sun Rising -- "Thw Otherside" and "Emotionless"
* Redlight King -- "Bullet in My Hand"
* Jerry Reed -- [[Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit "East Bound and Down"]]
* Jimmy Reed -- "Big Boss Man" or "Baby What You Want Me to Do"
* Music/LouReed -- "Perfect Day" and "Walk on the Wild Side" (from ''Music/{{Transformer}}'')
* Reel 2 Real -- [[WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}} "I Like to Move It"]]
* Music/ReelBigFish -- "Sell Out"
* Music/DjangoReinhardt -- "Minor Swing"
* Refused -- Pre-reunion, "New Noise" or "Refused are Fucking Dead". Post-reunion, "Elektra".
* Music/RelientK -- "Be My Escape"
* Music/{{REM}} -- "Losing My Religion" (from ''Music/OutOfTime''), followed by "[[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)]]" (from ''Music/{{Document}}'') and BlackSheepHit "Everybody Hurts" (from ''Music/AutomaticForThePeople'') overall. By album:
** ''Music/{{Murmur}}'' -- "Radio Free Europe", followed by "Talk About the Passion"
** ''Music/{{Reckoning}}'' -- "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" and "(Don't Go Back to (Rockville)"
** ''Music/FablesOfTheReconstruction'' -- "Driver 8"
** ''Music/LifesRichPageant'' -- "Fall on Me", but also their CoveredUp version of "Superman"
** ''Music/{{Document}}'' -- "The One I Love" and "[[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)]]"
** ''Music/{{Green}}'' -- "Orange Crush" and "Stand"
** ''Music/OutOfTime'' -- "Losing My Religion", their overall signature, and "Shiny Happy People" (much to their chagrin)
** ''Music/AutomaticForThePeople'' -- "Everybody Hurts", "Man on the Moon" and "Nightswimming"
** ''[[Music/MonsterREMAlbum Monster]]'' -- "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" especially, but also "Bang and Blame"
** ''Music/NewAdventuresInHiFi''-- "E-Bow the Letter" and "Electrolite"
** ''Up'' -- "Daysleeper" and "At My Most Beautiful"
** ''Film/ManOnTheMoon'' -- "The Great Beyond"
** ''Reveal'' -- "Imitation of Life"
** ''In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003'' -- "Bad Day"
** ''Around the Sun'' -- "Leaving New York"
** ''Music/{{Accelerate}}'' -- "Supernatural Superserious"
** ''Music/CollapseIntoNow'' -- "Überlin"
** ''Part Lies, Part Truth, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011'' -- "We All Go Back to Where We Belong"
* The Rembrandts -- "[[Series/{{Friends}} I'll Be There For You]]"
* Remy Zero -- "[[Series/{{Smallville}} Save Me]]"
* Chris Rene -- "Young Homie"
* Theatre/{{RENT}} Cast -- "Seasons of Love"
* Music/REOSpeedwagon -- "Time For Me To Fly", "Keep On Loving You", "Take It On The Run", or "Can't Fight This Feeling"
* Music/TheReplacements -- "I Will Dare" or "Unsatisfied"
* Republica -- Originally a tie between "Ready to Go" and "Drop Dead Gorgeous", but now indisputably the former; outside the UK it was never contested.
* Rev Theory -- "[[Wrestling/RandyOrton Voices]]"
* Revis -- "Caught in the Rain"
* Music/{{Revocation}} -- [[Film/PowerRangers2017 "Communion"]]
* Music/BebeRexha -- "[[Music/FloridaGeorgiaLine Meant to Be]]"; its only competition for the title, "Me, Myself, & I" is officially Music/GEazy’s song and is more associated with him than her.
* Malvina Reynolds -- "Little Boxes"
* Music/RhapsodyOfFire -- "Emerald Sword"
* Thomas Rhett -- "Die a Happy Man"
* Damien Rice -- "Cannonball"
* Rich Boy -- "Throw Some D's"
* Rich Gang -- "Lifestyle"
* Rich Homie Quan -- "Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh)"
* Music/LionelRichie -- "Hello"
* The Righteous Brothers -- "[[Film/{{Ghost}} Unchained Melody]]"
* Music/{{Rihanna}} -- By album:
** ''Music of the Sun'' -- "Pon de Replay"
** ''A Girl Like Me'' -- "SOS" or "Unfaithful"
** ''Good Girl Gone Bad'' -- "Umbrella"
*** ''Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded'' -- "Disturbia"
** ''Rated R'' -- "Rude Boy"
** ''Loud'' -- "Only Girl (In the World)" or "California King Bed"
** ''Talk That Talk'' -- "[[Music/CalvinHarris We Found Love]]"
** ''Unapologetic'' -- "Diamonds" or "Stay"
** ''Anti'' -- "Work"
** Overall -- "Umbrella", with "We Found Love" easily in second.
* Music/LeAnnRimes -- "Blue"
* Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov -- "Flight of the Bumblebee"
* Music/RiseAgainst -- "Prayer of the Refugee", "Give It All", or "Savior" overall. By album:
** ''The Unraveling'' -- "Everchanging"
** ''Revolutions Per Minute'' -- "Like The Angel"
** ''Siren Song of the Counter-Culture'' -- "Give It All"
** ''The Sufferer & The Witness'' -- "Prayer of the Refugee"
** ''Appeal To Reason'' -- "Savior"
** ''Endgame'' -- "Help Is On The Way" or "Satellite"
** ''The Black Market'' -- "I Don't Want To Be Here Anymore"
** ''Wolves'' -- "The Violence"
* Rival Sons -- "Do Your Worst"
* Rixton -- "Me and My Broken Heart"
* Music/RobZombie -- "Dragula"
* Marty Robbins -- "El Paso" and "[[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Big Iron]]" (both of these are from ''Music/GunfighterBalladsAndTrailSongs'')
* Vicki Sue Robinson -- "Turn The Beat Around"
* Music/{{Robyn}} -- "Show Me Love" for her earlier work, "Dancing On My Own" more recently.
* Rockapella -- "[[Series/WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?]]"
* Rocket From the Crypt -- "On a Rope"
* A Rocket to the Moon -- “Like We Used To”
* Roddy Ricch -- "The Box"
* Music/OliviaRodrigo -- "Drivers License"
* Music/KennyRogers -- "The Gambler" or "Lady"
* Stan Rogers -- "Barrett's Privateers"
* Roll Deep -- "When I'm Ere"
* Music/TheRollingStones -- "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (from ''Music/OutOfOurHeads'') and "Paint It Black" (from ''Music/{{Aftermath}}'') tie for gold, although they have many runner-ups, including "Sympathy for the Devil" (from ''Music/BeggarsBanquet''), "Brown Sugar" (from ''Music/StickyFingers''), "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (single), "Start Me Up" (from ''Music/TattooYou''), "Gimme Shelter" (from ''Music/LetItBleed''), "Miss You" and "Beast of Burden" (from ''Music/SomeGirls'').
* The Romantics -- Initially "Talking In Your Sleep", but through RevivalByCommercialization has become "What I Like About You"
* Romanthony -- "Hold On" for his solo works, though he's most recognized for being the vocalist on "One More Time" and "Too Long" by Music/DaftPunk.
* Romeo Void -- "Never Say Never"
* The Ronettes -- "Be My Baby" or "Sleigh Ride"
* Music/LindaRonstadt -- "You're No Good"
* Mark Ronson -- "Uptown Funk!"[[note]]Though it's more associated with Music/BrunoMars. In the UK, this previously belonged to "Valerie" (which also got more associated with its [[Music/AmyWinehouse vocalist]])[[/note]]
* Rose Royce -- "Car Wash"
* Natalie La Rose -- "Somebody"
* Music/RickRoss -- "Hustlin'"
* Music/{{Roxette}} -- "The Look"
* Billy Joe Royal -- "Down in the Boondocks"
* Music/RoyalBlood -- "Out of the Black"
* Royksopp -- "Remind Me", "Eple", "Poor Leno", or "The Girl and the Robot"
* Music/GioachinoRossini -- "William Tell Overture"
* Asher Roth -- "I Love College"
* Route 94 -- "My Love" (though it's probably more associated with Jess Glynne)
* Music/KellyRowland -- "Stole" or “Motivation” for her solo work. She's best known for her appearances on Nelly's "Dilemma" and David Guetta's "When Love Takes Over".
* The Rubens -- "My Gun" or "Hoops"
* Rudimental -- "Feel The Love" in the U.K., "Lay It All On Me" in the U.S (albeit it is more associated with Ed Sheeran)
* Kevin Rudolf -- "Let It Rock"
* The Rumjacks -- "An Irish Pub Song"
* Music/RunDMC -- "It's Like That", "King of Rock", "It's Tricky", or "[[Music/{{Aerosmith}} Walk This Way]]"
* Run the Jewels -- "Run the Jewels", "Blockbuster Night Part 1", "Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)", or [[Film/BlackPanther2018 "Legend Has It"]]
* Music/TheRunaways -- "[[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Cherry Bomb]]"
* Music/ToddRundgren -- "Hello It's Me" or "Bang the Drum All Day" (the latter especially so for [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Green Bay Packers]] fans)
* Runner Runner -- “So Obvious”
* Music/RunningWild -- "Under Jolly Roger"
* Jennifer Rush -- "The Power of Love"; "Flames of Paradise" was this is the U.S. but even there she is now mostly known for the former.
* Music/{{Rush}} -- "Tom Sawyer"
* Patrice Rushen -- "Forget Me Nots"
* Ruth B -- "Lost Boy"
* Rusted Root -- "[[Film/{{Matilda}} Send Me]] [[WesternAnimation/IceAge On My Way]]"
* Rusty Eye -- "11.02 Day of the Dead"
* Serena Ryder -- "Stompa"
* Music/RozaRymbaeva -- "Alia" or "Love Has Come"
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* Music/{{Sabaton}}
** "To Hell and Back", "The Last Stand", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRbDLIXAp4o "Primo Victoria"]] (about the D-Day invasion, which was the song that got the band noticed and started their theme of [[HorribleHistoryMetal songs based on military history]] that they've hewed to ever since) and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-lU7A4Jfmg "Ghost Division"]] (since it came out on their 2008 album ''The Art of War'': they've opened most of their concerts with it ever since).
** [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff For the Polish market, though,]], it's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epeQwq-aYV0 "40:1"]] and to a lesser extent [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01IaKb6DmTw "Uprising"]], both of which star the Poles' furious but doomed resistance against the Germans in World War II.
* Sacramentum -- "Fog's Kiss"
* Music/{{Sade}} -- "Smooth Operator"
* [=SafetySuit=] -- "Stay"
* Sage the Gemini -- "Gas Pedal"
* Saint Asonia -- "Better Place"
* Saint Motel -- "My Type"
* Sak Noel -- "Loca People (WTF)"
* Saliva -- "Click Click Boom" overall. By album:
** ''Every Six Seconds'' -- Initially "Your Disease", but over time became "[[Wrestling/NoMercy Click Click Boom]]"
** ''Back into Your System'' -- "[[Wrestling/SurvivorSeries Always]]"
** ''Survival of the Sickest'' -- [[Wrestling/UnforgivenWrestling The title track]]
** ''Blood Stained Love Story'' -- "[[Wrestling/{{Wrestlemania}} Ladies and Gentlemen]]"
** ''Cinco Diablo'' -- "Family Reunion"
** ''Under Your Skin'' -- "Badass"
* Music/SaltNPepa -- "Push It"
* Sam and The Womp -- "Bom Bom"
* Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs -- "Lil' Red Riding Hood" or "Wooly Bully"
* Sanctuary -- "Battle Angels"
* Music/EmeliSande -- "Heaven" in the UK, "Next to Me" in the US
* Music/{{Santana}}(pre-comeback) -- "Black Magic Woman" (from ''Music/{{Abraxas}}'')
** Santana (post-comeback) -- "Smooth" (shared with Music/RobThomas).
* Juelz Santana -- "There It Go! (The Whistle Song)"
* Aggro Santos -- "Candy"
* Saosin -- "You're Not Alone" or "Seven Years"
* Marvin Sapp -- "Never Would Have Made It"
* Sash! -- "Ecuador"
* Jacob Sartorius -- "Sweatshirt"
* Music/JoeSatriani -- "Surfing with the Alien" or "Satch Boogie"
* Music/SavageGarden -- "Truly, Madly, Deeply", "To The Moon And Back", and [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable "I Want You"]] are the contenders.
** Music/DarrenHayes -- "Insatiable".
* Music/{{Savatage}} -- "Hall of the Mountain King"
* Saves the Day -- "Freakish"
* Music/SavingAbel -- "Addicted"
* Saving Jane -- "GirlNextDoor"
* Saweetie -- "Best Friend" (shared with Doja Cat)
* Music/SayAnything -- "Wow, I Can Be Sexual Too", "Alive With The Glory of Love", or "Every Man Has A Molly"
* Saxon -- "Princess of the Night" or "Denim and Leather"
* Scandal -- "The Warrior" or "Goodbye to You"
* Music/ScarSymmetry - "Morphogenesis"
* Scary Kids Scaring Kids -- "My Darkest Hour"
* Music/ScatmanJohn -- "Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)"
* Nicole Scherzinger -- "Don't Hold Your Breath"
* Peter Schilling -- "Major Tom (Coming Home)"
* [=ScHoolboy=] Q -- "Collard Greens"
* Music/FranzSchubert -- His Eighth "Unfinished" Symphony or the "[[Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows Trout Quintet]]"
* Robin Schulz -- For songs he was credited as a lead on, "Sugar". For his overall work, it's "Waves" in North America and "Prayer in C" in Europe.
* Music/{{S Club 7}} -- "Reach" in the UK, "Never Had a Dream Come True" in America
* Music/ScissorSisters -- "I Don't Feel Like Dancing" or "[[Series/DoctorWho I Can't Decide]]"
* Music/{{Scorpions}} -- "No One Like You","Rock You Like A Hurricane", and "Wind of Change"
* Music/JillScott -- "A Long Walk"
* Raymond Scott -- "Powerhouse"
* Music/TravisScott -- "Sicko Mode"
* Music/GilScottHeron -- "Music/TheRevolutionWillNotBeTelevised"
* Scratch Acid -- "Cannibal"
* Screaming Trees -- "Nearly Lost You"
* Music/TheScript -- "Breakeven"
* Music/{{Seal}} -- "[[Film/BatmanForever Kiss from a Rose]]"
* Seals & Crofts -- "Summer Breeze"
* Jay Sean -- "Down"
* Seaweed -- "Losing Skin" or "Go your own way"
* Sebadoh -- "Rebound"
* Music/GuySebastian - “Angels Brought Me Here”, “Battle Scars”, “Choir”
* Music/NeilSedaka -- "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" (both versions) or "Oh! Carol"
* The Seeds -- "Pushin' Too Hard"
* Music/{{Seether}} -- By album:
** ''Fragile'' and ''Disclaimer'' -- "Fine Again"
** ''Disclaimer II'' -- "Broken"
** ''Karma and Effect'' -- "[[Wrestling/{{SummerSlam}} Remedy]]"
** ''Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces'' -- "[[Wrestling/NoWayOutWrestling Fake It]]"
** ''Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray'' -- "Country Song"
** ''Seether: 2002-2013'' -- "Weak"
** ''Isolate and Medicate'' -- "Words as Weapons"
** ''Poison the Parish'' -- "Let You Down"
** Overall -- "Fake It" is their signature for rock fans (with "Remedy" and "Country Song" tying for second), whole "Broken" (which features Music/AmyLee) is it in general.
* Music/BobSeger -- [[Film/RiskyBusiness "Old Time Rock and Roll"]]
* Semisonic -- "Closing Time"
* Music/SensesFail -- "Can't Be Saved"
* Music/{{Sepultura}} -- "Roots Bloody Roots" or "Refuse/Resist"
* Set It Off -- "Why Worry" or "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing"
* Music/{{Sevendust}} -- By album:
** ''Sevendust'' -- "Black"
** ''Home'' -- "Denial"
** ''Animosity'' -- "Praise"
** ''Seasons'' -- "Enemy"
** ''Next'' -- "Ugly"
** ''Alpha'' -- "Driven"
** ''Chapter VII'' -- "Prodigal Son''
** ''Cold Day Memory'' -- "Unraveling"
** ''Black out the Sun'' -- "Decay"
** ''Kill the Flaw'' -- "Thank You"
* Seven Mary Three -- "Cumbersome"
* Conrad Sewell -- "Hold Me Up" in the U.S. and "Start Again" in Australia as a solo artist, but he's best known overall for his appearance on Kygo's "Firestone".
* Music/SexPistols -- "Anarchy in the U.K." and "God Save The Queen" (from ''Music/NeverMindTheBollocksHeresTheSexPistols'')
* Shaggy -- "Angel", "It Wasn't Me" or "Boombastic"
* Shai -- "If I Ever Fall In Love Again"
* Music/{{Shakira}} -- Overall "Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)", "Whenever, Wherever", "Chantaje" and "Hips Don't Lie"
** ''Laundry Service'' -- "Whenever, Wherever", "Underneath Your Clothes"
** ''Oral Fixations 2" -- "Hips Don't Lie"
** ''She Wolf'' -- "She Wolf", "Gypsy"
** ''Sale e Sol'' -- "Loca", "Addicted To You"
** ''Shakira'' -- "Can't Remember to Forget You", "La La La"
** ''El Dorado'' -- "Chantaje"
* Music/TupacShakur -- "California Love"
* Shalamar -- "The Second Time Around"
** Howard Hewett -- "I'm For Real" or "Say Amen"
* Shaman's Harvest -- "Dragonfly" to rock audiences; "[[Wrestling/DrewMcIntyre Broken Dreams]]" to wrestling fans
* The Shamen -- "Ebenezer Goode" in the UK, "Move Any Mountain" in the U.S.
* Tyler Shaw -- "Kiss Goodnight"
* Creator/WilliamShatner -- His covers of "[[Music/{{Pulp}} Common People]]" or "[[Music/EltonJohn Rocket Man]]"
* Shawnna -- "Gettin' Some" or her verse on Disturbin' Tha Peace's gang cut "Get The Fuck Back"
* [[Creator/ZooeyDeschanel She]] & [[Music/MWard Him]] -- "In the Sun".
* Music/SheWantsRevenge -- "[[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryHotel Tear You Apart]]"
* Sheck Wes -- "Mo Bamba"
* Music/EdSheeran -- By album:
** ''+'' --"The A Team"
** ''x'' -- "Thinking Out Loud"
** ''÷'' -- "Shape of You" or “Perfect”
* Frank Shelley -- "[[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder Rockhouse]]"
* Music/BlakeShelton — "God Gave Me You" or "Boys Round Here"
* Kenny Wayne Shepherd -- "Blue on Black"
* Sheppard -- "Geronimo"
* Sherlock Brothers -- "My Way"
* Creator/AllanSherman -- "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh"
* Music/{{SHINee}} -- "Lucifer"
* Music/{{Shinedown}} -- "Second Chance" overall. By album:
** ''Leave a Whisper'': "Fly From the Inside", "45", or "[[Music/LynyrdSkynyrd Simple Man]]"
** ''Us and Them'': "[[Wrestling/NoMercy Save Me]]"
** ''The Sound of Madness'': "Second Chance"
** ''Amaryllis'': "Bully" and "[[Wrestling/WWERaw Enemies]]"
** ''Threat to Survival'': "Cut the Cord"
** ''Attention Attention'' "Devil"
* The Shins -- "[[Film/GardenState New Slang]]"
* Shiny Toy Guns -- "Le Disko"
* Michelle Shocked -- "Anchorage", [[FirstInstallmentWins her debut single]].
* Shonan No Kaze -- "Junrenka" in their native Japan, [[VideoGame/Yakuza0 "Bubble"]] everywhere else
* The Shondells -- "Crimson & Clover"
* Shop Boyz -- "Party Like A Rock Star"
* Howard Shore -- "Film/TheLordOfTheRings" theme
* Music/ShortStack -- "Sweet December"
* Bobby Shmurda -- "Hot Nigga (Hot Boy)"
* Shout Out Louds -- "[[Film/{{Happythankyoumoreplease}} My Friend and the Ink on his Fingers]]"
* Shriekback -- "My Spine is the Baseline"
* Shy FX -- "Original Nuttah"
* Music/{{Sia}} -- "Chandelier" or "Cheap Thrills"
* Sigrid -- “Strangers”
* Music/{{Silencer}} -- "Sterile Nails and Thunderbowels" or "Death - Pierce Me"
* Silentó -- "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)"
* The Silent Comedy -- "Bartholomew"
* Silk -- "Freak Me" or "Girl U For Me"
* Music/{{Silverchair}} -- "Tomorrow"
* Music/SilversunPickups -- "Lazy Eye" or "Panic Switch"
* Music/AlanSilvestri -- The ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' theme or ''[[Film/TheAvengers2012 The Avengers]]'' theme.
* Silvertide -- "Ain't Comin' Home"
* Music/CarlySimon -- "You're So Vain"
* Music/PaulSimon -- "You Can Call Me Al" (from ''Music/{{Graceland}}'')
* Music/SimonAndGarfunkel -- "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "The Sound of Silence"
* Music/NinaSimone -- "I Got Life" or "Feeling Good"
* Music/SimpleMinds -- In the U.S., it was initially either "[[Film/TheBreakfastClub Don't You (Forget About Me)]]" or "Alive and Kicking", but now it's easily the former. Back in the UK however, both are in the running with "Waterfront" also a rival.
* Music/SimplePlan -- "Welcome to My Life"
* Music/SimplyRed -- "Holding Back the Years" and "Stars"
* Cody Simpson -- "[=iYiYi=]"
* Music/SigurRos -- "Hoppípolla" or "[[Series/GameOfThrones The Rains of Castamere]]"
* Music/FrankSinatra -- "My Way" (from ''Music/MyWay'') or "New York, New York"
* Nancy Sinatra -- "These Boots Are Made For Walkin"'
* Since October -- "Guilty"
* Bob Sinclar -- "Love Generation"
* Siouxsie and the Banshees -- "Hong Kong Garden" or "Cities In Dust"
* [[Music/SirMixALot Sir Mix-A-Lot]] -- "Baby Got Back"
* Music/{{Sirusho}} -- "[=PreGomesh=] or "Qéle Qéle"
* Sister Sledge -- "We Are Family"
* Music/TheSistersOfMercy -- "This Corrosion"
* Troye Sivan -- "Youth"
* Six Feet Under -- "Amerika the Brutal" or "One Bullet Left"
* Music/SixpenceNoneTheRicher -- [[Film/ShesAllThat "Kiss Me"]]
* Sixx: A.M. -- "Life is Beautiful" or "Lies of the Beautiful People"
* Skee-Lo -- "I Wish"
* Skepta -- "Konnichiwa" in the US. It's much harder to say in his native UK, though, albeit "That's Not Me" and "Shutdown" are the lead candidates there.
* Music/SkidRow -- "18 and Life". In 2017, said song got remade though Kevin Michael Lee replaces Ricky.
* Music/{{Skillet}} -- "Hero", "Monster", "[[Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon Awake and Alive]]", and "Feel Invincible" are the contenders. By album;
** ''Comatose'' -- "Rebirthing" and "Whispers in the Dark"
** ''Awake'' -- "Hero", "Monster" or "Awake and Alive"
** ''Rise'' -- "Not Gonna Die"
** '' Unleashed'' -- "Feel Invincible"
** ''Victorious'' -- "[[Wrestling/WWERaw Legendary]]"
* Skindred -- "Nobody"
* Music/SkinnyPuppy -- "Assimilate"
* Skin Yard -- "Hallowed Ground", "The Birds"
* Music/{{Skrillex}} -- "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" or "Bangarang"
* Skunk Anansie -- "Twisted (Everyday Hurts)" or "Hedonism (Just Because You Feel Good)"
* Skycyle -- "[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo It's Terror Time Again]]"
* Sky Eats Airplane-- "Giants in the Ocean"
* Slade -- "Cum on Feel the Noize"
* Music/{{Slapshock}} -- "Agent Orange"
* Slash -- "You're a Lie"
* Harry Slash & the Slashtones — "[[Wrestling/ExtremeChampionshipWrestling This Is Extreme!]]"
* Slaughterhouse -- "Throw That"
* Music/{{Slayer}} -- "Raining Blood", "Angel of Death" (both from ''Music/ReignInBlood'')
* Music/{{Sleep}} -- "Dragonaut" or [[EpicRocking "Dopesmoker"]]
* Sleeping with Sirens -- "If I'm James Dean, You're Audrey Hepburn" or "If You Can't Hang"
* Sleepwave -- "Through The Looking Glass"
* Music/SleighBells -- "[[KickAss2 Infinity Guitars]]" or "Bitter Rivals"
* Slightly Stoopid -- "Closer to the Sun"
* Music/{{Slipknot}} -- "Psychosocial" overall. By album:
** ''Slipknot'' -- "Wait and Bleed"
** ''Iowa'' -- "Left Behind"
** ''Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses)'' -- "Duality" and "Before I Forget"
** ''All Hope Is Gone'' -- "Psychosocial"
** ''.5: The Grey Chapter'' -- "The Devil in I"
** ''We Are Not Your Kind'' -- "Unsainted" and "Solway Firth"
* Sloan - "Money City Maniacs"
* Music/SlyAndTheFamilyStone -- "Everyday People" (from ''Music/{{Stand}}'')
* Music/TheSmallFaces -- "Itchycoo Park"
* Smallpools -- "Dreaming"
* Smash Into Pieces -- "Disaster Highway"
* Music/SmashMouth -- "[[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} All Star]]", though "Walkin' on the Sun" and their cover of "I'm A Believer" aren't far off.
* Music/TheSmashingPumpkins -- "Bullet With Butterfly Wings", "1979", or "Today" (from ''Music/MellonCollieAndTheInfiniteSadness'')
* smile.dk -- "Butterfly"
* Smile Empty Soul -- "Bottom of a Bottle"
* Canaan Smith -- "Love You Like That"
* Music/ElliottSmith -- "Miss Misery"
* Granger Smith -- "Backroad Song"
* Michael W. Smith – "Friends" (from his early work) or "Breathe" (from his later worship-oriented material) to his core Christian audience; "Place in this World" to more general audiences.
* Music/PattiSmith -- "Because the Night"
* Music/SamSmith -- "Money on My Mind" and "Stay with Me" in the UK, "Stay with Me" and "I'm Not the Only One" in the U.S. For Smith's featured credits, Disclosure's "Latch" in North America and Naughty Boy's "La La La" everywhere else. Though Film/JamesBond fans might argue for "[[Film/{{Spectre}} Writing's on the Wall]]". %% Smith identifies as non-binary, but using "their" as a singular pronoun is still improper usage to many.
* Creator/WillSmith -- "Film/MenInBlack" or "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It"
* Music/TheSmiths -- "How Soon is Now?" or "There is a Light That Never Goes Out" (from ''The Queen is Dead'')
* Smokey Robinson & the Miracles — "The Tears of a Clown"
** Robinson as a solo artist: "Being with You"
* Snail's House -- "Pixel Galaxy"
* Snap! -- "The Power" and "Rhythm is a Dancer"
* Music/SnoopDogg -- "Gin and Juice" or "Drop It Like It's Hot"
* Snow -- "Informer"
* Mark Snow -- "Series/TheXFiles" theme
* Music/SnowPatrol -- "[[Series/GreysAnatomy Chasing Cars]]"
* Socialburn -- "Down"
* Music/SocialDistortion -- "Ball and Chain," "I Was Wrong," or "Story of My Life"
* Music/SodaStereo -- "De Musica Ligera"
* Sodom -- "Agent Orange"
* Music/SoftCell -- "[[CoveredUp Tainted Love]]". It has also become Marc Almond's signature song as a solo artist, although his version is not as well-known as the original.
* [=SoKo=] -- "We Could Be Dead By Tomorrow"
* Soil -- "Redefine"
* The Solids -- "[[Series/HowIMetYourMother Hey Beautiful]]"
* Martin Solveig -- "Hello". Ditto for Dragonette.
* Something Corporate -- "Konstantine"
* Music/SonataArctica -- "Full Moon"
* Music/StephenSondheim -- "Send in the Clowns"
* Music/SonicYouth -- "Teenage Riot" (from ''Music/DaydreamNation'') or "Kool Thing" (from ''Music/{{Goo}}'')
* The Sonics -- "Strychnine"
* Music/{{Sonny|Bono}} and Music/{{Cher}} -- "I Got You, Babe"
* Sophie & Magaly -- "Le Papa Pingouin"
* The S.O.S. Band - "Take Your Time (Do It Right)"
* Soul Asylum -- "Runaway Train"
* Music/SoulCoughing -- "Circles"
* Soul Embraced -- "My Tourniquet"
* Musiq Soulchild -- "Halfcrazy"
* Music/{{Soulfly}} -- "[[Music/{{Limp Bizkit}} Bleed]]"
* Music/SouljaBoy -- "Crank That (Soulja Boy)"
* Music/{{Soundgarden}} -- "[[BlackSheepHit Black Hole Sun]]", or "Spoonman"
** Music/ChrisCornell -- "Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart" or [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 "You Know My Name"]]
* Soup Dragons -- "[[CoveredUp I'm Free]]" or "Divine Thing"; the latter did chart higher than the former in the US, but is mostly recognized in the UK.
* John Philip Sousa -- "Stars and Stripes Forever"
* Music/{{Space}} -- "Female of the Species"
* Spacehog -- "In The Meantime"
* Spandau Ballet -- "True"
* Music/{{Sparks}} -- "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us"
* Bubba Sparxxx -- "Ms. New Booty", "Deliverance" or "Ugly" to rap fans; indisputably the first to general audiences
* Tommy Sparks -- "[[UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh She's Got]] [[VideoGame/JustDance Me Dancing]]"
* Music/SpawnOfPossession -- "Apparition"
* Music/BritneySpears:
** Early Material: "...Baby One More Time", "Oops!... I Did It Again", "Toxic" or "I'm a Slave 4 U"
** Newer Material: "Womanizer", "Gimme More" and "Work Bitch"
* The Specials -- "A Message to You, Rudy"
* Music/ReginaSpektor -- "Fidelity" to her older fans; "[[Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack You've Got Time]]" to younger audiences.
* Music/SpiceGirls -- "Wannabe"
** Music/GeriHalliwell -- "[[Film/BridgetJonesDiary It's Raining]] [[CoveredUp Men]]".
** Music/MelanieC -- Depends on which place. In her home country in the U.K, it's "[[Film/BendItLikeBeckham I Turn To You]]". In other parts of Europe, it's "First Day of My Life". Everywhere else, it's "Never Be The Same Again".
** Music/EmmaBunton -- "What Took You So Long?"
** Music/MelB -- "I Want You Back".
** Music/VictoriaBeckham --"A Mind of its Own"
* Spinal Tap -- "Stonehenge"
* Spin Doctors -- "Two Princes"
* Spinners -- "Working My Way Back To You"
* Split Enz -- "I Got You"
* Sponge -- "Plowed" and "Molly (16 Candles)"
* Music/RickSpringfield -- "Jessie's Girl"
* Music/BruceSpringsteen -- "Dancing In The Dark" is his biggest hit, but "Born in the USA" or "Born to Run" (from ''Music/BornToRun'') are sure more representative of his songwriting.
* Music/{{Squarepusher}} -- "Beep Street", "My Red Hot Car", or "[[Film/LostInTranslation Tommib]]"
* Music/BillySquier -- "The Stroke"
* Squirrel Nut Zippers -- "Hell"
* Music/{{Squeeze}} -- "Tempted", "Cool for Cats"
* SR-71 -- "Right Now"
* Music/StVincent -- "Birth In Reverse"
* Stabbing Westward -- "Save Yourself"
* Staind -- "It's Been Awhile"
* Music/MeganTheeStallion -- "Savage"
* Stampeders -- "Sweet City Woman"
* Alexandra Stan -- "Mr. Saxobeat"
* The Standells -- "Dirty Water"
* The Staple Singers -- "I'll Take You There"
* Vince Staples -- "Norf Norf" or "Big Fish"
* Chris Stapleton -- "Tennessee Whiskey" or "Nobody to Blame"
* Starcastle -- "Lady of the Lake"
* Music/{{Starflyer 59}} -- "No New Kinda Story"
* Starland Vocal Band -- "Afternoon Delight"
* Edwin Starr -- "War"
* Music/RingoStarr -- "It Don't Come Easy"
* Music/{{Starset}} -- "My Demons" or "Monster"
* Music/JeffersonStarship -- "We Built This City", "Sara" or "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"
* State of Shock -- "Money Honey"
* Static-X -- "Push It" or "I'm with Stupid"
** Wayne Static -- "Assassins of Youth"
* Music/StatusQuo -- "Whatever You Want" or [[CoveredUp their covers]] of John Fogerty's "Rockin' All Over The World" and Bolland & Bolland's "In The Army Now"
* Stealers Wheel -- "[[Film/ReservoirDogs Stuck in the Middle With You]]"
* Steam -- "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"
* Music/SteamPoweredGiraffe -- "Honeybee"
* Music/SteelyDan -- "Reelin' in the Years" from ''Can't Buy A Thrill''.
* Creator/HaileeSteinfeld -- "Starving"
* Music/{{Steppenwolf}} -- Either "[[Film/EasyRider Born to Be Wild]]" or "Magic Carpet Ride"
* Music/{{Steps}} -- "5, 6, 7, 8", though their CoverVersion of "[[Music/TheBeeGees Tragedy]]" is more revered in their home country.
* Stereo MC's -- "Connected"
* Music/{{Stereolab}} -- "French Disko". A possible challenger is "Metronomic Underground" which wasn't a hit anywhere but over the years has emerged as something of an EnsembleDarkhorse.
* Stereomud -- "Pain"
* Stereophonics -- "Dakota"
* Stereos -- "Butterflies" or "Turn it Up"
* Cat Stevens -- "Peace Train", his only original song to hit #1 on the charts[[note]]He also did a cover of the traditional hymn "Morning Has Broken" which hit #1[[/note]] although these days he's better known for "Father and Son", "Wild World" and "Moonshadow".
* Music/SufjanStevens -- "Chicago"
* Music/AlStewart -- "Year of the Cat"
* Music/RodStewart -- "Maggie May" or "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"
* Stiff Little Fingers -- "Alternative Ulster"
* Curtis Stigers -- "I Wonder Why" to older audiences, "[[Series/SonsOfAnarchy This Life]]" to younger ones.
* Stephen Stills -- "[[Film/{{Prometheus}} Love the One You're With]]"
* Music/{{Sting}} -- "Fields of Gold"
* Music/LindseyStirling -- "Crystallize" or "Shatter Me"
* Music/JossStone -- "Fell In Love With a Boy", "You Had Me"
* Stonefree Experience -- "[[Wrestling/JohnMorrison Ain't No Make Believe]]"
* Music/StoneSour -- "Through Glass" overall. By album:
** ''Stone Sour'': "Bother"
** ''Come What(ever) May'': "Through Glass"
** ''Audio Secrecy'': "Say You'll Haunt Me"
** ''House of Gold & Bones - Part 1'': "Gone Sovereign/Absolute Zero"
** ''House of Gold & Bones - Part 2'': "Do Me a Favor"
** ''Hydrograd'': "Song #3"
* Music/TheStoneRoses -- "One Love", "Fool's Gold" or "I Wanna Be Adored"
* Music/StoneTemplePilots -- "Interstate Love Song" or "Plush"
* Music/TheStooges -- "Search and Destroy" (from ''Music/RawPower'') and "I Wanna Be Your Dog" (from ''[[Music/TheStoogesAlbum The Stooges]]'')
* Stormzy -- "Shut Up"
* Story of the Year -- "Until The Day I Die"
* The Story so Far -- "Quicksand"
* The Stranglers -- "Golden Brown" or "Peaches"
* [[Music/DevinTownsend Strapping Young Lad]] -- "Detox" or "Love?"
* Music/{{Stratovarius}} -- "Black Diamond"
* Music/IgorStravinsky -- Theatre/TheRiteOfSpring, Theatre/TheFirebird
* Johann Strauss -- "Blue Danube"
* Richard Strauss -- "Music/AlsoSprachZarathustra"
* The Strawbs -- "Part of the Union"
* Sevyn Streeter -- "It Won't Stop" or "[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious How Bad Do You Want It (Oh Yeah)]]"
* Music/StreetlightManifesto -- "A Better Place, a Better Time"
* The Streets -- "Dry Your Eyes"
* Music/TheStrokes -- "Last Nite" or "Reptilia"
* Music/{{Stromae}} -- "Alors on danse" or "Formidable"
* The Strumbellas -- "Spirits"
* The Struts -- "Could Have Been Me"
* Harry Styles -- "Sign of the Times"
* Music/{{Styx}} -- "Come Sail Away", "Renegade", or "Mr. Roboto"
* Music/{{Sublime}} -- "Santeria" or "What I Got"
* Submersed -- "Hollow"
* Suede -- "Animal Nitrate" or "So Young"
* Music/{{Suffocation}}" -- "Jesus Wept," "Liege of Inveracity", "Infecting the Crypts", "Pierced from Within", or "Thrones of Blood"
* Music/SufjanStevens -- "Chicago"
* Music/{{Sugababes}} -- "Round Round"
* The Sugarcubes-- "Birthday"
* Sugarland -- "Stuck Like Glue"
* Sugarloaf -- "Green-Eyed Lady"
* Music/SugarRay -- "Fly", or "Every Morning".
* Music/TheSugarhillGang -- "Rapper's Delight"
* Music/SuicidalTendencies -- "Institutionalized"
* Music/{{Suicide}} -- "Ghost Rider"
* Suicide Silence -- "Wake Up"
* Jazmine Sullivan -- "Need U Bad"
* Sum 41 -- "Fat Lip", "In Too Deep", or "Still Waiting"
* Sumerlands -- "The Seventh Seal"
* Music/DonnaSummer -- "I Feel Love", "Last Dance", or "Hot Stuff"
* Sunny Day Real Estate -- "Seven"
* Sunn O))) -- "Hunting and Gathering (Cydonia)" (Aside from their Scott Walker colab, probably the closest thing they have to an actual "song")
* Music/SuperFurryAnimals -- "The Man Don't Give a Fuck" (stand-alone single) or "Juxtapozed with U" (From ''Rings Around the World'')
* Music/SuperJunior -- "Sorry, Sorry", "Superman" and "Mr. Simple"
* Music/{{Supertramp}} -- "Give a Little Bit", "Dreamer", "The Logical Song" or "Breakfast in America"
* Music/TheSupremes -- "Stop! In the Name of Love" with "Baby Love", "You Can't Hurry Love", "Keep Me Hanging On," "Come See About Me", and "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" as runners-up.
** Music/DianaRoss -- "I'm Coming Out", "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and "Upside Down"
* Surface -- "The First Time"
* Music/{{Survivor}} -- "[[Film/RockyIII Eye of the Tiger]]" with "I Can't Hold Back" and "High on You" as runners-up.
* Music/{{Swans}} -- "I Crawled"
** Newer fans will think it's "A Little God in my Hands" or "The Seer".
* Keith Sweat -- "I Want Her" or "Twisted"
* Music/SwedishHouseMafia -- "Don't You Worry Child"
* Music/{{Sweet}} -- "Ballroom Blitz" and "Fox On The Run"
* Skye Sweetnam -- "Tangled Up In Me"
* Music/TaylorSwift: By album:
** ''Taylor Swift'' -- "Teardrops on my Guitar"
** ''Fearless'' -- "[[Film/LettersToJuliet Love Story]]" or "You Belong With Me"
** ''Speak Now'' -- "Mine", "Back to December" or "Mean"
** ''Red'' -- "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" or "I Knew You Were Trouble"
** ''1989'' -- "Shake It Off", "Blank Space" or "Bad Blood"
** ''Reputation'' -- "Look What You Made Me Do" or “Delicate”
** ''Lover'' -- “ME!” or “You Need to Calm Down”
** ''folklore'' -- “cardigan”
** ''evermore'' -- “willow”
** Overall -- The ''Fearless'' signatures for her country era and the ''1989'' signatures for her pop era
* Music/{{Switchfoot}} -- "Meant to Live" or "Dare You To Move"
* Music/{{Sybreed}} -- "Bioactive"
* Music/SystemOfADown -- "Chop Suey!" or "BYOB"
** Serj Tankian -- "Empty Walls" and "Sky Is Over"
** Scars on Broadway -- "Lives"
* Music/{{SZA}} -- "Love Galore" or "The Weekend"
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* T-Spoon -- "Sex on the Beach"
* T-Square -- "Truth"
** Masahiro Andoh -- [[VideoGame/GranTurismo "Moon Over The Castle"]]
* [[Music/MarcBolan T. Rex]] -- "Get it On (Bang a Gong)"
* Taco -- "Puttin' on the Ritz"
* Music/TakeThatBand -- "Back For Good"
* Mariya Takeuchi -- "Plastic Love"
* Music/TakingBackSunday -- "[=MakeDamnSure=]" or "Cute Without the 'E'"
* Music/BillyTalent -- "[[VideoGame/{{SSX}} Red Flag]]"
* Music/TalkTalk -- "It's My Life"
* Music/TalkingHeads -- "Psycho Killer", "Once in a Lifetime" and "Burning Down the House" overall. By album--
** ''Music/TalkingHeads77'' -- "Psycho Killer"
** ''Music/MoreSongsAboutBuildingsAndFood'' -- [[CoverVersion "Take Me to the River"]]
** ''Music/FearOfMusic'' -- "Life During Wartime"
** ''Music/RemainInLight'' -- "Once in a Lifetime"
** ''Music/SpeakingInTongues'' -- "Burning Down the House" or "This Must Be the Place"
** ''Music/LittleCreatures'' -- "And She Was"
** ''Music/TrueStories'' -- "Wild Wild Life"
** ''Music/{{Naked}}'' -- "(Nothing But) Flowers"
* Music/TameImpala: By album --
** ''Innerspeaker'' -- "Solitude is Bliss"
** ''Lonerism'' -- "Feels Like We Only Go Backwards" or "Elephant"
** ''Currents'' -- "Let It Happen", "The Less I Know The Better", or "New Person, Same Old Mistakes"
** ''The Slow Rush'' -- "Borderline" or "Lost in Yesterday"
** Overall -- Most fans point at the ''Lonerism'' and the first two ''Currents'' signatures, although the mainstream crowd point at "New Person, Same Old Mistakes" due to Music/{{Rihanna}}'s cover.
* Tantric -- "Breakdown"
* Taproot -- "Poem"
* Music/{{Tarot}} -- "Wings of Darkness"
* Music/{{Tatu}} -- "All the Things She Said"
** Lena Katina -- "Never Forget"
** Yulia Volkova -- "Didn't Wanna Do It"
* Music/PyotrIlychTchaikovsky -- "[[Theatre/TheNutcracker The Nutcracker Suite]]" or "1812 Overture"
* Teapacks -- "Rikudi Amba" or "Eize Olam"
* Music/TheTeaParty -- "Heaven Coming Down"
* Music/TearsForFears -- "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" or "Shout"
** By their first three albums:
*** ''The Hurting'' - "Pale Shelter" or "Mad World"
*** ''Songs from the Big Chair'' - "Shout", "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", or "Head Over Heels".
*** ''The Seeds of Love'' - "Woman In Chains" or "Sowing the Seeds of Love".
* Music/TechN9ne -- "Hood Go Crazy" to mainstream audiences, within the core community it's much harder to say.
* Music/TeganAndSara -- "Closer" or "[[WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie Everything Is Awesome]]"
* Michel Teló -- "Ai Se Eu Te Pego"
* Téléphone -- "Un autre monde"
* Music/TinieTempah -- "Written In The Stars"
* Technotronic -- "Pump Up The Jam"
* The Temperance Movement - "Take it Back"
* Temple of the Dog -- "Hunger Strike"
* the [=GazettE=] -- "Reila", "Cassis"
* The Temptations -- "My Girl"
* Temposhark -- "Don't Mess With Me"
* Music/TenaciousD -- "Tribute"
* Music/TessaViolet -- "Crush"
* Music/{{Testament}} -- "Practice What You Preach" or "Over the Wall"
* Texas -- "Say What You Want"
* Texas is the Reason -- "Back and to the Left"
* Theory of a Deadman -- "Bad Girlfriend" to rock audiences, "Not Meant to Be" to pop audiences
* There for Tomorrow -- "A Little Faster" or "Deathbed"
* This Will Destroy You -- "The Mighty Rio Grande"
* BJ Thomas -- "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"; "Hooked on a Feeling" is more known via its cover by Blue Swede.
* Those Poor Bastards -- "Pills I Took"
* Music/TheyMightBeGiants -- "[[CoveredUp Istanbul (Not Constantinople)]]", "Particle Man", or "Birdhouse In Your Soul" (all from ''Music/{{Flood}}'') overall. For their other albums:
** ''They Might Be Giants'' (Album) -- "Don't Let's Start"
** ''Music/{{Lincoln}}'' -- "Ana Ng"
** ''Music/Apollo18'' -- "I Palindrome I'', "The Statue Got Me High", or "Fingertips"
** ''Music/JohnHenry'' -- "Subliminal", "Snail Shell", or "End of the Tour"
** ''Music/FactoryShowroom'' -- "Till My Head Falls Off" or "Spiraling Shape"
** ''Severe Tire Damage'' -- [[WesternAnimation/{{Kablam}} "Doctor Worm"]]
** ''Music/LongTallWeekend'' -- "Older"
** ''Music/MinkCar'' -- "Man, It's So Loud In Here" or the title track
** ''Music/TheSpine'' -- [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner "Experimental Film"]]
** ''The Else'' -- "The Mesopotamians" or ''Careful What You Pack"
** ''Join Us'' -- "You Probably Get That A Lot", "When Will You Die?" or "Can't Keep Johnny Down"
** ''Nanobots'' -- The title track or "You're On Fire" initially, "Stuff Is Way" thanks to MemeticMutation
** ''Glean'' -- "Erase" or "Unpronouncable"
** ''Phone Power'' -- "I Love You For Psychological Reasons" or "ECNALUBMA"
** ''Music/ILikeFun'' -- "I Left My Body", the title track, or "The Greatest"
** ''My Murdered Remains'' -- "The Communists Have The Music"
* Music/RobinThicke -- "Lost Without U" or "Blurred Lines" to R&B audiences, easily the latter to the mainstream
* Music/ThinLizzy -- "The Boys Are Back In Town" in the United States, in their native Ireland it's debatable.
* Music/ThirdEyeBlind -- "Semi-Charmed Life" or "Jumper"
* Music/ThirtySecondsToMars -- "The Kill" or "This is War"
* Jasmine Thompson -- "Ain't Nobody" [[note]] Specifically, the Felix Jaehn remix [[/note]] or "Adore"
* Music/RichardThompson -- "1952 Vincent Black Lightning"
* Thompson Square -- "Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not?"
* Thompson Twins -- "Hold Me Now" or "[[WesternAnimation/RegularShow Lies]]"
* George Thorogood & the Destroyers -- "Bad to the Bone"
* Music/ThousandFootKrutch -- "War of Change"
* A Thousand Horses -- "Smoke"
* Music/ThreeDaysGrace -- "I Hate Everything About You" overall. By album:
** ''Three Days Grace'' -- "I Hate Everything About You"
** ''One-X'' -- "Animal I Have Become" and "Never Too Late".
** ''Life Starts Now'' -- "Break"
** ''Transit of Venus'' -- "Chalk Outline"
** ''Human'' -- "Painkiller" or "I Am Machine"
** ''Outsider'' -- "The Mountain"
* Three Dog Night -- "Joy to the World"
* Music/ThreeSixMafia -- "[[Film/HustleAndFlow It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp]]"
** Juicy J -- "Bandz a Make Her Dance"
* Music/{{Thrice}} -- "The Artist in the Ambulance" or "Image of the Invisible" (formerly "Deadbolt", an IconicSongRequest to this day). "Black Honey" has also become a contender.
* The Thrills -- "Big Sur"
* Music/ThrobbingGristle -- "Hamburger Lady"
* Music/{{Thursday}} -- "Understanding in a Car Crash"
* Music/{{TI}} -- By album:
** ''I'm Serious'' -- The title track
** ''Trap Muzik'' -- "[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedUnderground 24's]]" or "Rubber Band Man"
** ''Urban Legend'' -- "Bring 'Em Out"
** ''King'' -- "What You Know"
** ''T.I. vs T.I.P.'' -- "Big Shit Poppin' (Do It)"
** ''Paper Trail'' (and overall) -- "Whatever You Like" ("Live Your Life" would've been it, had it not been more commonly associated with Rihanna)
** ''No Mercy'' -- “I’m Back” or "Got Your Back"
** ''Trouble Man: Heavy is the Head'' -- "Go Get It" or "Ball"
** ''Paperwork'' -- "About the Money"
** ''Dime Trap'' -- "The Weekend"
* Frank Ticheli -- "Earth Song"
* Tiësto -- "Adagio for Strings" for his trance works, "Red Lights" post GenreShift
* Tiffany -- Formerly a tie between "I Think We're Alone Now" and "Could've Been", but now indisputably the former.
* Tanita Tikaram -- There was a time when it would definitely have been "Good Tradition", but "Twist in My Sobriety" is probably the song she's most known for now, even though on paper [[ChartDisplacement it was a much smaller hit]].
* Bryson Tiller -- "Don't"
* Til Tuesday -- "Voices Carry"
** Aimee Mann -- "[[Film/{{Magnolia}} Save Me]]"
* Timbaland -- "The Way I Are"
* Music/JustinTimberlake -- "[=SexyBack=]", "Can't Stop the Feeling!" and "Cry Me A River"
* Timbuk3 -- "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades"
* Timmy Trumpet -- "[[MemeticMutation Freaks]]"
* Music/{{Tinashe}} -- "2 On"
* Music/TinyTim -- "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" and "[[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight]]"
* Music/{{TLC}} -- "Waterfalls" or "No Scrubs"
* Music/TMRevolution -- "[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Ignited]]"
* Music/{{TNT}} -- "10,000 Lovers In One"
* Toadies -- "Possum Kingdom"
* Toad the Wet Sprocket -- "All I Want"
* [[Music/TobyFox Toby "Radiation" Fox]] -- "Megalovania"
* Music/TokioHotel -- "Humanoid" or "Monsoon"
* Music/TomTomClub -- "Genius of Love"
* Tommy Tutone -- "867-5309 (Jenny)"
* Tone Loc -- "Wild Thing"
* Music/TonesAndI - “Dance Monkey”
* Music/TonesOnTail -- "Go!"
* [[OutsiderMusic Tonetta]] -- "Pressure Zone" or "Drugs Drugs Drugs"
* Tonic -- "If You Could Only See"
* Tony! Toni! Tone! -- "If I Had No Loot"
* Music/{{Tool}} -- "Schism"
* Music/{{Toto}} -- "Africa", "Rosanna", or "Hold the Line"
* Toto Coelo -- "I Eat Cannibals"
* Music/ToveLo -- "Habits (Stay High)"
* Toxik -- "Heart Attack"
* Music/TPain -- "I'm 'n Luv (wit A Stripper)"
* T'Pau -- "China in Your Hand" in Europe, "Heart & Soul" in the U.S.
* Traffic -- "Dear Mr. Fantasy"
* Music/TheTragicallyHip -- "Little Bones"
* Music/{{Train}} -- "Drops of Jupiter" for their early work, "Hey, Soul Sister" for their reunion
* Music/MeghanTrainor -- "All About That Bass"
* Music/TransSiberianOrchestra -- "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" or "Wizards in Winter"
* Trapt -- "Headstrong"
* The Trashmen -- "[[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Surfin' Bird]]"
* Music/TheTravelingWilburys -- "Handle with Care" or "End of the Line"
* Travis -- "[[Series/{{Torchwood}} Si]][[Series/TheOfficeUS ng]]"
* Music/RandyTravis -- "Forever and Ever, Amen" or "On the Other Hand".
* Charles Trenet -- "La Mer"
* Trentemøller -- "Moan" or "Take Me Into Your Skin"
* Music/TreySongz -- "Say Aah" or "Bottoms Up"
* Music/ATribeCalledQuest -- "Scenario", "Electric Relaxation" or "Bonita Applebaum"
* Music/{{Tribulation}} -- "Melancholia" or "Nightbound"
* Trick-Trick -- "Welcome 2 Detroit"
* Tricky -- "Hell Is Round the Corner"
* Music/TheTriffids -- "Wide Open Road"
* Trillville -- "Some Cut"
* Trippie Redd -- “Dark Knight Dummo”
* Music/TravisTritt -- "Anymore"
* Triumph -- "Lay It on the Line" or "Fight the Good Fight"
* Music/{{Trivium}} -- By album:
** ''Ascendancy'' -- "Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr"
** ''The Crusade'' -- "Anthem (We Are the Fire)"
** ''Shogun'' -- "[[VideoGame/WWEVideoGames Down from the Sky]]"
** ''In Waves'' -- "Built to Fall"
** ''Vengeance Falls'' -- "Strife"
** ''Silence in the Snow'' -- "Until the World Goes Cold"
** ''The Sin and the Sentence'' -- "The Heart from Your Hate"
* Trixter -- "Give It To Me Good"
* The Troggs -- "Wild Thing" (''very'' different from Tone Lõc's song of the same title)
* Trust -- "[[VideoGame/RaymanLegends Antisocial]]"
* Music/ViktorTsoi -- "Gruppa krovi"
* [=TRUSTCompany=] -- "Downfall"
* The Tubes -- "She's a Beauty"
* Tubeway Army -- "Are 'Friends' Electric?"
* [=TUnE=]-[=YaRdS=] -- "Water Fountain"
* Music/{{Turisas}} -- "Stand Up and Fight"
* Music/KTTunstall -- "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" or "Suddenly I See"
* Josh Turner -- "Long Black Train" or "Your Man"
* Music/TinaTurner -- "What's Love Got To Do With It"
** Ike & Tina Turner -- "[[CoveredUp Proud Mary]]"
* Music/TheTurtles -- "Happy Together"
* Music/TVOnTheRadio -- "Wolf Like Me"
* Music/ShaniaTwain -- "Man! I Feel Like a Woman"
* T-Wayne -- "Nasty Freestyle"
* Music/TwentyOnePilots -- "Stressed Out" for mainstream audiences. “Car Radio” for long-time fans.
* Twista -- "Overnight Celebrity"
* Music/TwistedSister -- "We're Not Gonna Take It" or "I Wanna Rock"
* WebVideo/TwistedTranslations -- "[[Music/EdSheeran Shape of You]]", especially its [[TranslationTrainWreck "Gradually watermelon" refrain]].
* Music/TwoDoorCinemaClub -- "Something Good Can Work"
* Two Mix -- "[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Just Communication]]"
* Tycho -- "Cascade"
* Ty Dolla $ign -- "Paranoid"
* Tyga -- "Rack City"
* Tyketto -- "Forever Young"
* Bonnie Tyler -- "Total Eclipse of the Heart" or "Holding Out for a Hero" [[note]]Tough call between the two. "Eclipse" was a massive hit upon release, being one of the best-selling singles of TheEighties. However, "Hero" has been featured and referenced numerous times in media, so people born from TheNineties onward are likely to be more familiar with it.[[/note]]
* Music/TypeONegative -- "Black No. 1"
* Music/{{Tyr}} -- "Hold the Heathen Hammer High"
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* Music/{{U2}} -- By album:
** ''Boy'': "I Will Follow"
** ''Music/WarU2Album'': "New Year's Day" and particularly "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
** ''The Unforgettable Fire'': "Pride (In the Name of Love)"
** ''The Joshua Tree'': "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", "Where the Streets Have No Name" and "With or Without You" (perhaps the latter is their signature songs overall)
** ''Rattle and Hum'': "Desire"
** ''Achtung Baby'': "Zoo Station", "One", and "Mysterious Ways"
** ''Zooropa'': "Stay (Faraway, So Close)"
** ''Original Soundtracks 1'': "Miss Sarajevo"
** ''Pop'': "Staring at the Sun"
** ''The Best of 1980-1990'': "Sweetest Thing"
** ''Music/AllThatYouCantLeaveBehind'': "Beautiful Day", "Elevation", or "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of"
** ''The Best of 1990-2000'': "Electrical Storm"
** ''How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb'': "Vertigo"
** ''No Line on the Horizon'': "Magnificent"
** ''Songs of Innocence'': "Every Breaking Wave"
** ''Songs of Experience'': "You're the Best Thing About Me"
** Overall: "I Will Follow", "Sunday Bloody Sunday", "Pride (In the Name of Love)", ''The Joshua Tree'', ''Achtung Baby'', ''All That You Can't Leave Behind'' signatures and "Vertigo" are the frontrunners.
* [=UB40=] -- "Red Red Wine"
* Ubiquitious Synergy Seeker -- "This Is the Best"
* [=UFO=] -- "Doctor Doctor"
* Music/{{UGK}} -- "Pocket Full Of Stones" Or "Diamonds & Wood"
* Ultravox -- "Vienna"
* Music/UncleKracker -- "Follow Me" and his cover of "Drift Away"
* Music/{{Underoath}} -- "Reinventing Your Exit"
* The Undertones -- "Teenage Kicks"
* Music/CarrieUnderwood -- "Before He Cheats"
* Music/{{Underworld}} -- "[[Film/{{Trainspotting}} Born Slippy .NUXX]]"
* Under The Influence Of Giants -- "Mama's Room"
* Union J -- "Carry You"
* The Union Underground -- "[[Wrestling/{{WWE Raw}} Across the Nation]]"
* Unk - "Walk It Out"
* Upon This Dawning - their cover of Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe"
* Music/KeithUrban -- "Somebody Like You"
* The Urge -- "[[WesternAnimation/{{Daria}} Jump Right In]]" or "Too Much Stereo"
* Music/UriahHeep -- "Easy Livin'"
* Music/TheUsed -- "All That I've Got" or "The Bird and the Worm"
* Music/{{Usher}} -- "Yeah!" overall. By album:
** ''Usher'': "Think of You"
** ''My Way'': "You Make Me Wanna…''
** ''8701'': "U Remind Me" or "U Got It Bad"
** ''Confessions'': "Yeah!"
** ''Here I Stand'': "Love in this Club"
** ''Raymond v Raymond'': "OMG" or "More"
** ''Versus'': "DJ Got Us Fallin in Love Again"
** ''Looking 4 Myself'': "Scream"
** ''Hard II Love'': "No Limit"
* Music/UtadaHikaru -- "First Love" or "Automatic". To her international audiences, [[Franchise/KingdomHearts "Simple and Clean" and "Sanctuary"]]
* Music/UVERWorld -- "[[Manga/{{Bleach}} D-Technolife]]"
* Music/SteveVai -- "For the Love of God"
* Music/HollyValance -- "Kiss Kiss"
* Music/RitchieValens -- "La Bamba"
* The Vamps -- "Can We Dance" in the UK, "Somebody to You" in the U.S.
* Music/VampireWeekend -- "A-Punk"
* Music/LutherVandross -- "[[CoveredUp Superstar]]", "Here And Now" or "Dance With My Father" overall. Or, for college basketball fans, "[[CoveredUp One Shining Moment]]". By album.
** ''Never Too Much'': The title track.
** ''Forever, for Always, for Love'': "Bad Boy[=/=]Having a Party"
** ''Busy Body'': "Superstar[=/=]Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)"
** ''The Night I Fell in Love'': The title track.
** ''Give Me the Reason'': The title track, "Stop to Love", or "There's Nothing Better Than Love"
** ''Any Love'': The title track.
** ''The Best of Luther Vandross... The Best of Love'': "Here and Now"
** ''The Power of Love'': "Power of Love[=/=]Love Power"
** ''Never Let Me Go'': "Heaven Knows"
** ''Songs'': "Endless Love" (shared with Mariah Carey) or "Always and Forever"
** ''This is Christmas'': "Every Year, Every Christmas"
** ''Your Secret Love'': The title track or "I Can Make it Better"
** ''I Know'': "Nights in Harlem" or the title track.
** ''Luther Vandross'': "Take You Out" or "I Rather"
** ''Dance with My Father'': The title track, "Think About You", or "The Closer I Get To You " (shared with Beyonce)
* ''Vangelis'' -- "[[Film/ChariotsOfFire Titles.]]"
* Paul van Dyk -- "For an Angel"
* Music/VanHalen: By lead singer:
** David Lee Roth: "Jump", "Hot for Teacher", and "Panama"
** Sammy Hagar: "Why Can't this Be Love"
** Gary Cherone: "Without You"
* Armand van Helden -- "You Don't Know Me" for his older work, and "Bonkers" (shared with Dizzee Rascal) for his newer work.
* Music/VanillaIce -- "Ice Ice Baby"
* Värttinä -- "Matalii Ja Mustii" (in America, at least)
* The Vaselines -- "Son of a Gun" or "Molly's Lips" (because of them being CoveredUp by Music/{{Nirvana}})
* Music/StevieRayVaughan -- "Crossfire" or "Pride & Joy"
* The Veer Union -- "[[Wrestling/{{Backlash}} Seasons]]"
* Music/SuzanneVega -- "Tom's Diner" (thanks to its DNA remix). "Luka" is also a contender.
* Vektroid -- "Lisa Frank 420 / Modern Computing"
* Velvet Revolver -- "Slither"
* Music/VelvetUnderground -- "All Tomorrow's Parties", "Heroin", "I'm Waiting for the Man", or "Venus in Furs" (all from ''Music/TheVelvetUndergroundAndNico''); "Sweet Jane" is another one and probably became the best known Velvet Underground song during Lou Reed's solo career.
* Julieta Venegas -- "Me Voy"
* Music/VenetianSnares -- "Hajnal" or "Szamar Madar"
* Music/{{Venom}} -- "Angel Dust" or "Witching Hour"
* [[Music/{{BEMANI}} VENUS]] -- "Wow Wow VENUS"
* Music/{{Versailles}} -- "The Revenant Choir"
* Veruca Salt -- "Seether"
* Vertical Horizon -- "Everything You Want"
* Music/TheVerve -- "Bitter Sweet Symphony"
* The Verve Pipe -- "The Freshmen"
* V.I.C. -- Initially "Get Silly", but over time became "Wobble"
* Music/VillagePeople -- "YMCA", though "Macho Man" is a very close second.
* Vince Vance & the Valiants -- "All I Want for Christmas is You"[[note]]No relation to the Mariah Carey song[[/note]]
* The Vines -- "Get Free"
* Violent Femmes -- "Blister in the Sun"
* Viper the Rapper -- "You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack"
* Virgin Steele -- "We Rule the Night" or "The Burning of Rome (Cry for Pompeii)"
* Vitamin C -- "Graduation (Friends Forever)"
* Vitamin Z -- "Burning Flame"
* Music/AntonioVivaldi -- "The Four Seasons" (specifically, the first movement, "Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269, "La primavera" (Spring) Allegro")
* Music/{{Voivod}} - [[Music/PinkFloyd "Astronomy Domine"]]
* Music/{{Volbeat}} -- "A Warrior's Call," "Still Counting" or "Seal the Deal"
* Music/{{Voltaire}} -- "When You're Evil" or "[[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy BRAINS!]]"
* Vonray -- "Inside Out"
* Music/VladimirVysotsky -- "Song About a Friend"
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* Music/RichardWagner -- [[Music/RideOfTheValkyries "The Ride of the Valkyries"]]
* Music/TomWaits -- "Downtown Train" from ''Music/RainDogs'' and "Martha" from ''Music/ClosingTime''.
* Music/WakaFlockaFlame -- "No Hands" or "Hard In The Paint"
* Music/WakingTheCadaver -- "Chased Through The Woods By A Rapist", in that it perfectly exemplifies every criticism against them, as well as giving the world the "I LIKE SHREDDED WHEAT" [[MemeticMutation meme]].
* Wale -- "Bag Of Money" or "Bad"
* Alan Walker -- "Faded" or "Sing Me to Sleep" in his native Norway; the former indisputably everywhere else.
* Music/WalkOffTheEarth -- "Red Hands" or their cover of "[[Music/{{Gotye}} Somebody That I Used To Know]]"
* Music/WalkTheMoon -- "Shut Up and Dance"
* Music/FatsWaller -- "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Honeysuckle Rose"
* The Wallflowers -- "One Headlight"
* Wallpaper -- "Best Song Everr"
* Music/WangChung -- "Dance Hall Days" in the UK, "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" in the U.S.
* Music/TheWanted -- "All Time Low" in the UK, "Glad You Came" in the U.S.
* War -- "Low Rider" or "Why Can't We Be Friends"
* Jessie Ware -- "[[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey Say You Love Me]]"
* Warlock -- "All We Are"
* Music/{{Warrant}} -- Originally "Heaven" but over time became "Cherry Pie" -- despite the major CreatorBacklash
* Warren G -- "Regulate"
* The Chris Warren Band -- "[[Wrestling/DGenerationX Break it Down]]"
* Music/WasNotWas -- "Walk the Dinosaur"
* The Waterboys -- "The Whole of the Moon"
* Waterflame -- "Glorious Morning" or "[[VideoGame/CastleCrashers Jum]][[VideoGame/GeometryDash per]]"
* Waterproof Blonde -- "[[Wrestling/{{Christian}} Just Close Your Eyes]]"
* Music/RogerWaters -- "The Tide Is Turning"
* Wavves -- "[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Nine is God]]"
* Wax -- "California"
* We Are Harlot -- "Dancing on Nails"
* We As Human -- "[[Music/{{Flyleaf}} Take the Bullets Away]]"
* We Came As Romans - "The World I Used to Know"
* We The Kings - "Check Yes Juliet"
* The Weather Girls -- "It's Raining Men"
* Weather Report -- "Birdland"
* Ryn Weaver -- "[=OctaHate=]"
* Webbie -- "Independent"
* Music/TheWeeknd -- "Can't Feel My Face" or "Blinding Lights" overall. By mixtape/album:
** ''House of Balloons'' -- "High for This" or "Wicked Games"
** ''Thursday'' -- "The Zone"
** ''Echoes of Silence'' -- "Montreal" or "Initiation"
** ''Kiss Land'' -- "Wanderlust"
** ''Beauty Behind the Madness'' -- [[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey "Earned It"]], "The Hills" or "Can't Feel My Face"
** ''Starboy'' -- The title track or "I Feel It Coming"
** ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}: The Album'' -- "Pray for Me" (shared with Music/KendrickLamar)
** ''My Dear Melancholy,'' -- "Call Out My Name"
** ''After Hours'' -- "Blinding Lights"
* Music/{{Ween}} -- "[[WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie Ocean Man]]" or "[[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Loop de Loop]]"
** Early in their career, it was "Push Th' Little Daisies".
* Music/{{Weezer}} -- "Buddy Holly" or "Say It Ain't So" overall. By album:
** ''Music/WeezerTheBlueAlbum'' -- "Buddy Holly" or "Say It Ain't So"
** ''Music/{{Pinkerton}}'' -- "El Scorcho"
** ''The Green Album'' -- "Hash Pipe" or "Island in the Sun"
** ''Maladroit'' -- "Dope Nose"
** ''Make Believe'' -- "Beverly Hills"
** ''The Red Album'' -- "Pork and Beans"
** ''Raditude'' -- "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To"
** ''Hurley'' -- "Memories"
** ''Everything Will Be Alright in the End'' -- "Back to the Shack"
** ''The White Album'' -- "Thank God for Girls"
** ''Pacific Daydream'' -- “Feels Like Summer”
** ''The Teal Album'' -- “[[Music/{{Toto}} Africa]]”
** ''The Black Album'' -- “Can’t Knock the Hustle”
* Music/WesleyWillis -- "Rock & Roll UsefulNotes/McDonalds"
* Music/KanyeWest -- By album:
** ''The College Dropout'' -- "Jesus Walks" or "Through the Wire"
** ''Late Registration'' -- "Gold Digger" or "Heard 'Em Say"
** ''Graduation'' -- "Stronger"
** ''808's & Heartbreak'' -- "Heartless"
** ''Music/MyBeautifulDarkTwistedFantasy'' -- "POWER", "Monster" or "All of the Lights"
** ''Music/{{Yeezus}}'' -- "Black Skinhead" or "Bound 2"
** ''The Life of Pablo'' -- "Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1", "Famous" or "Fade"
** ''ye'' -- "All Mine"
** ''GOOD Music Cruel Summer'' -- "Mercy"
** Overall -- "Gold Digger" and "Stronger" are the frontrunners.
* Music/{{Westlife}} -- "Swear It Again" or "[[Anime/Pokemon2000 Flying Without Wings]]"
* Westside Connection -- "Bow Down"
* Weyes Blood -- "Movies"
* Music/{{Wham}} -- "Last Christmas", "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go", "Careless Whisper", or "Everything She Wants"
* Wheatus -- "Teenage Dirtbag"
* The Whispers -- "Rock Steady"
* Eric Whitacre -- "Lux Aurumque"
* Music/BarryWhite -- "You're The First, The Last, My Everything" and "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe"
* Watt White -- "[[Wrestling/ZackRyder Radio]]"
* White Rabbits -- "Percussion Gun"
* Music/{{Whitesnake}} -- "Here I Go Again" (the 1987 re-recording from their self-titled album)
* Music/TheWhiteStripes -- Originally "Seven Nation Army" from ''Music/{{Elephant}}'', later "Icky Thump" but has since gone back to being "Seven Nation Army".
** Jack White -- "Lazaretto"
* White Town -- "Your Woman"
* [[Music/RobZombie White Zombie]] -- "More Human Than Human"
* Music/TheWho -- "Baba O' Riley", "My Generation", "Behind Blue Eyes", "Who Are You", "Pinball Wizard" and "Won't Get Fooled Again".
** Pete Townshend -- "Let My Love Open the Door"
* Whodini -- "Friends" or "The Freaks Come Out at Night"
* Why Don’t We -- "8 Letters"
* Music/{{Wilco}} -- "Jesus, Etc."
* Music/DavidWilcox -- "Eye of the Hurricane"
* Wild Cherry -- "Play That Funky Music"
* Eugene Wilde -- "Gotta Get You Home Tonight"
* Music/KimWilde -- "Kids in America"
* Music/AndyWilliams -- [[Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys "Moon River"]] (to the point he named his theater in Branson after it)
* Deniece Williams -- "Let's Hear It For The Boy"
* Music/HankWilliams -- "Hey, Good Lookin'"
* Music/HankWilliamsJr -- "Monday Night Football" theme, "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"
* Music/JohnWilliams -- The "Franchise/StarWars" theme
* Nikki Williams -- "Glowing"
* Music/RobbieWilliams -- "Angels"
* Music/BrianWilson -- "Love and Mercy"
* Gretchen Wilson -- "Redneck Woman"
* Jackie Wilson -- "Lonely Teardrops" or "Your Love Keeps Lifting Me (Higher and Higher)"
* Music/AmyWinehouse -- "Rehab", "Back to Black" (from ''Music/BackToBlack'') or "[[CoveredUp Vale]][[BillingDisplacement rie]]" depending on the countries.
* Music/{{Wings}} -- "Band On The Run" or "Live And Let Die"
* Steve Winwood -- "Higher Love"
* Bill Withers -- "Lean On Me"
* Music/WithinTemptation -- "Ice Queen", "What Have You Done?" or "Stand My Ground"
* David Wise - "[[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest Stickerbush Symphony]]"
* Music/AndrewWK -- "Party Hard"
* Music/{{Wolfmother}} -- "Woman" or "Joker & the Thief"
* Music/WuTangClan -- "Triumph", "C.R.E.A.M." or "Protect Ya Neck"
** Ghostface Killah -- "Back Like That"
* Music/LeeAnnWomack -- "I Hope You Dance"
* The Wonder Years -- "Passing through a Screen Door"
* Music/StevieWonder -- "Superstition" from ''Music/TalkingBook''
* Faye Wong -- "[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Eyes On Me]]"
* Creator/VictoriaWood - "The Ballad of Barry and Freda"
* Woodkid -- "Run Boy Run"
* The Word Alive -- "Lighthouse"
* Henry Clay Work -- "Marching Through Georgia" or "My Grandfather's Clock"
* The Wreckage -- "[[LetsPlay/VanossGamingAndCompany Breaking Through]]"
* The Wreckers -- "Leave the Pieces"
* Jaguar Wright -- "The What If's"
* [[Music/TheRollingStones Bill Wyman]] -- "A New Fashion", "Come Back Suzanne" or "(Si, Si) Je Suis un Rockstar"
* Tammy Wynette -- "Stand By Your Man"
* Music/XUSBand -- "Los Angeles" or "We're Desperate"
* X Ambassadors -- Originally "Jungle" but now "Renegades."
* Music/XJapan -- "Art of Life" or "Kurenai"
* The X-Ecutioners -- "It's Goin' Down", It's also attributed to [[Music/{{LinkinPark}} Mike Shinoda]].
* Music/XRaySpex -- "Oh Bondage, Up Yours!"
* Music/{{XTC}} -- "Dear God" in the U.S., "Making Plans for Nigel" or "Senses Working Overtime" everywhere else.
* xi -- "[[VideoGame/{{osu}} FREE]][[VideoGame/{{Cytus}} DOM]] [[ThatOneBoss DiVE]]↓"
* Music/TheXX -- "Islands" or "Crystallized"
* Music/{{XXXTENTACION}} -- "SAD!"
* Music/WeirdAlYankovic -- "White and Nerdy", "Eat It" or "Amish Paradise"
* Wye Oak -- "Civilian"
* Music/TheYardbirds -- "For Your Love"
* YBN Nahmir -- "Rubbin Off the Paint"
* YC -- "Racks"
* Music/YeahYeahYeahs -- "Maps"
* Years & Years -- "King"
* Music/TrishaYearwood -- "She's in Love with the Boy" or "[[CoverVersion How Do I Live]]".
* Yelawolf -- "'Till It's Gone"
* Music/{{Yello}} -- "Oh Yeah"
* Music/{{Yellowcard}} -- "Ocean Avenue", but also "[[VideoGame/{{SSX}} Way]] [[VideoGame/MaddenNFL Away]]" for your 2000s video game players.
* Music/{{Yes}} -- "[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure Roundabout]]" and "Owner of a Lonely Heart"
* YFN Lucci -- "Everyday We Lit"
* YG -- “My Nigga” or “Big Bank”
* Ying Yang Twins -- "Wait (The Whisper Song)"
* Music/{{Ylvis}} -- "The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?)"
* Music/DwightYoakam -- "I Sang Dixie", "[[CoverVersion Suspicious Minds]]", "Streets of Bakersfield" (a duet with Buck Owen) or "A Thousand Miles from Nowhere"
* Yo Gotti -- "Down in the DM" or "Rake It Up"
* Music/YokoKanno -- "[[Anime/CowboyBebop Tank]]"
* Yothu Yindi -- "Treaty"
* You Me At Six -- "Bite My Tongue" or "Lived a Lie" in the UK, "Room to Breathe" in the U.S.
* Music/NeilYoung -- "Old Man" or "Heart of Gold"
* Young Empires -- "White Doves"
* Young Guns -- "Bones"
* Young MC -- "Bust a Move"
* Young The Giant -- "Cough Syrup"
* Young Dro -- "Shoulder Lean"
* Young Greatness - "Moolah"
* Young Jeezy -- "Put On"
* Young M.A. -- "OOOUUU"
* Young Thug -- “The London”
* The Youngbloods -- "Get Together"
* Youngblood Hawke -- "We Come Running"
* Yung Berg -- "Sexy Lady"
* Yunggoth✰ —- “idk how to kill myself”
* Yung Joc -- "It's Goin' Down"
* Music/{{Zayn}} -- "Pillowtalk"
* Zapp -- "More Bounce To The Ounce"
* Music/FrankZappa -- "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow" (from ''Music/OverNiteSensation''), "Peaches En Regalia" (from ''Music/HotRats'') and in Europe: "Bobby Brown Goes Down" (from ''Music/SheikYerbouti'').
* Zebra -- "Tell Me What You Want" or "Who's Behind the Door"
* Music/{{Zedd}} -- "Clarity"
* Mans Zelmerlow -- "Heroes"
* Music/WarrenZevon -- "Werewolves of London"
* Music/HansZimmer -- "[[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean He's A Pirate]]", "[[Film/{{Inception}} Time]]" or "[[Film/BatmanBegins Vespertilio]]"
* Chaim Zinovich (a.k.a Hasaruf) -- "Hevel Hachen Sheker Hayofi"
* Music/TheZombies -- "Time of the Season" (from ''Music/OdesseyAndOracle'') and "She's Not There" (from ''Music/BeginHere'')
* Music/TayZonday -- "Chocolate Rain"
* The Zutons -- "Valerie"
* Zwei -- "Dragon"
* Music/ZZTop -- "La Grange" and "SharpDressedMan", with "Tush", "Gimme All Your Lovin'" and "[[ShesGotLegs Legs]]" not far behind.
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* Music/{{L7}} -- "Pretend We're Dead"
* Music/TheLas -- "There She Goes"
* Music/{{La Dispute}} -- "Said the King to the River"
* Music/LaRoux -- "Bulletproof"
* Labelle/Patti Labelle -- "Lady Marmalade"
* Labrinth -- "Beneath Your Beautiful" or "Earthquake" in the U.K.; indisputably the former everywhere else
* Music/LacunaCoil -- "Our Truth"
* Music/LadyAntebellum -- "Need You Now", with "Just A Kiss" a clear second.
* Music/LadyGaga -- By album:
** ''The Fame'' -- "Just Dance" and "Poker Face"
** ''The Fame Monster'' -- "Bad Romance"
** ''Born This Way'' -- The title track.
** ''Artpop'' -- "Applause"
** ''Joanne'' -- "Million Reasons"
** ''Film/AStarIsBorn2018'' -- "Shallow" (co-shared with Creator/BradleyCooper) and "I'll Never Love Again"
** ''Chromatica'' -- "Stupid Love" and "Rain on Me"
** Overall -- "Poker Face", "Bad Romance", "Born This Way" or "Shallow" (or "Just Dance" for older fans)
* The Lady of Rage -- "Afro Puffs"
* Music/{{Ladytron}} -- "Destroy Everything You Touch"
* Lagwagon -- "[[VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater May 16]]"
* Music/KendrickLamar -- By album:
** ''Section.80'' -- "ADHD", "[=HiiiPoWeR=]"
** ''Music/GoodKidMAADCity'' -- "Swimming Pools (Drank)" or "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe"
** ''To Pimp a Butterfly'' -- "i", "King Kunta", "Alright"
** ''untitled unmastered.'' -- "untitled 07 | levitate"
** ''DAMN.'': "HUMBLE."
** ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}: The Album'': “All the Stars” or “Pray for Me” (shared with Music/TheWeeknd)
** Overall: While "Swimming Pools" was his first mainstream success, "Alright" won him a Grammy for Best Rap Song and later on became a Black Lives Matter anthem. However, "HUMBLE." seems to have won the title overall.
* Music/LambOfGod -- "Redneck"
* Music/AdamLambert -- "Whataya Want From Me", or "For Your Entertainment"
* Music/MirandaLambert -- "Gunpowder & Lead," "The House That Built Me," and "Over You"
* Tory Lanez -- "Say It" or "LUV"
* Stef Lang -- “Mr. Immature”
* Music/LarcEnCiel -- "[[Anime/FullMetalAlchemist Ready, Steady, Go]]"
* Amel Larrieux -- "For Real"
* Music/ZaraLarsson -- "Lush Life" or "Never Forget You" (shared with [=MNEK=]) in Europe; the latter indisputably in the US.
* The Last Goodnight -- "Pictures of You"
* Music/CyndiLauper -- "[[CoveredUp Girls Just Want to Have Fun]]", with "Time After Time" being a close second.
* Music/AvrilLavigne -- "Complicated", "[=Sk8rBoi=]" or "Girlfriend". By album:
** ''Let Go''-- "Complicated", "[=Sk8rBoi=]" or "I'm With You''
** ''Under My Skin'' -- "My Happy Ending"
** ''The Best Damn Thing'' -- "Girlfriend"
** ''Goodbye Lullaby'' -- "What the Hell"
** ''Avril Lavigne'' -- "Here's to Never Growing Up" or "Hello Kitty"
** ''Head Above Water'': The title track
* Creator/JenniferLawrence -- "[[Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1 The Hanging Tree]]" (shared with Music/JamesNewtonHoward)
* Lawson -- "Brokenhearted"
* Lazlo Bane -- "[[Series/{{Scrubs}} Superman]]"
* Music/LCDSoundsystem -- "Music/DaftPunk Is Playing at My House" or "All my Friends"
* Ledisi -- "Pieces of Me"
* Music/LedZeppelin -- "Stairway to Heaven" overall. By album:
** ''[[Music/LedZeppelin1969 Led Zeppelin]]'' -- "Dazed and Confused", "Good Times, Bad Times" and "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You"
** ''Music/LedZeppelinII'' -- "Whole Lotta Love" or "Ramble On"
** ''Music/LedZeppelinIII'' -- "Immigrant Song"
** ''Music/LedZeppelinIV'' -- "Stairway To Heaven" (with "Rock and Roll", "Black Dog and "Going to California" not far behind.)
** ''Music/HousesOfTheHoly'' -- "Over the Hills and Far Away" and "D'yer Mak'er"
** ''Music/PhysicalGraffiti'' -- "Kashmir"
** ''Presence'' -- "Achilles Last Stand" or "Nobody's Fault but Mine"
** ''In Through the Out Door'' -- "All My Love" and "Fool in the Rain"
** ''Coda'' -- "Darlene"
** ''Boxed Set'' -- "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do" or "Travelling Riverside Blues"
** ''Boxed Set 2'' -- "Baby Come On Home"
** ''BBC Sessions'' -- "The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair"
* Brenda Lee -- "I'm Sorry" and "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"
* The Left Banke -- "Pretty Ballerina" and "Walk Away Renee"
* Music/JohnLegend -- Previously "Ordinary People," but now "All of Me"
* Music/TomLehrer -- "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park"
* Lemar -- "If There's Any Justice"
* Music/LemonDemon -- "Music/UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny"
* The Lemon Pipers -- "Green Tambourine"
* The Lemonheads -- "Mrs. Robinson"
* Len -- "Steal My Sunshine"
* Lene Marlin -- "Sitting Down Here"
* Lenka -- "The Show" or "Everything at Once"
* Music/JohnLennon -- "Music/{{Imagine}}"
* Creator/BethanyJoyLenz-- [[Series/OneTreeHill "Feel This"]]
* Music/LessThanJake -- "All My Best Friends are Metalheads"
* Music/{{Letlive}} -- "Younger"
* Letoya - "Torn"
* Letters to Cleo -- "Here & Now"
* Level 42 -- "Lessons In Love" in the UK, "Something About You" in the U.S.
* [=LeVert=] -- "Casanova"
* Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews -- "[[Film/BackToTheFuture The Power of Love]]" or (according to [[Literature/AmericanPsycho Patrick Bateman]]) "Hip To Be Square"
* Music/JerryLeeLewis -- "Great Balls of Fire"
* Donna Lewis -- "I Love You, Always Forever"
* Music/LeonaLewis -- "Bleeding Love"
* Music/TheLibertines -- "Can't Stand Me Now"
* Liberty X -- "Just A Little"
* Music/{{Lifehouse}} -- "Hanging By A Moment"
* LFO -- "Summer Girls"
* Gordon Lightfoot -- "If You Could Read My Mind," "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," or "Sundown"
* The Lightning Seeds -- "Three Lions"
* Music/{{Lights}} -- "February Air"
* Like a Storm -- "Love the Way You Hate Me" or "Become the Enemy"
* Music/LilB -- "Wonton Soup" or "I'm Paris Hilton"
* Lil Boosie -- "Wipe Me Down"
* Lil Chris -- "Checkin' It Out
* Music/LilDicky -- "$ave Dat Money", "Professional Rapper" or “Freaky Friday”
* Lil Duval -- “Smile Bitch”
* Lil' Flip -- "Sunshine"
* Music/LilJon & The Eastside Boyz -- "[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedUnderground Get Low]]"
** Lil Jon -- "Turn Down for What" (shared with DJ Snake)
* Music/LilKim -- "Queen Bitch"
* Lil Mama -- Originally "Lip Gloss" or "Shawty Get Loose", but now unquestionably the former
* Music/LilNasX -- “Old Town Road”
* Music/LilPeep -- "Awful Things" or “I’ve Been Waiting”
* Music/LilPump -- "Gucci Gang"
* Lil Scrappy -- "Money In The Bank"
* Lil Tecca -- “Ransom”
* Lil Uzi Vert -- "XO TOUR [=Llif3=]"
* Music/LilWayne -- "Lollipop"
** Young Money -- "Bedrock"
* Lil Yatchy -- "Peek-a-Boo", although as a featured artist, "Broccoli" and "[=iSpy=]"
* Lillywood & the Prick -- "Prayer in C" (specifically the remix by Robin Schulz)
* Music/LimpBizkit -- By album:
** ''Three Dollar Bill, Y'all$'' -- "Counterfeit" or "[[Music/GeorgeMichael Faith]]"
** ''Significant Other'' -- "Nookie" or "Break Stuff" (or "N 2 Gether Now" for hip-hop listeners)
** ''Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water'' -- "Rollin'" (or to a lesser extent "My Way", because it always brings pleasant memories of ''Wrestling/WrestleMania [[Awesome/ProfessionalWrestling X-Seven]]'', or "[[Film/MissionImpossibleII Take a Look Around]]" for ''Series/MissionImpossible'' fans)
** ''Results May Vary'' -- "Eat You Alive" or "[[Music/TheWho Behind Blue Eyes]]"
** ''Gold Cobra'' -- "Shotgun"
** Overall -- "Nookie", "Break Stuff", and "Rollin'" are the frontrunners.
* Music/{{Lindisfarne}} -- "Fog on the Tyne"
* Music/LinkinPark -- By album:
** ''Music/HybridTheory'' -- "In the End" (or possibly "Crawling", for [[MemeticMutation all the]] [[{{Wangst}} wrong reasons]], and also "One Step Closer")
*** ''Reanimation'' -- "Pts.OF.Athrty"
** ''Music/{{Meteora}}'' -- "Numb", "Faint", "Breaking the Habit" or "Somewhere I Belong"
** ''Collision Course'' -- "Numb/Encore" (shared with Music/JayZ)
** ''Music/MinutesToMidnight'' -- "What I've Done" or "Bleed It Out"
** ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen soundtrack'' -- "New Divide"
** ''A Thousand Suns'' -- "The Catalyst", "Waiting for the End" or "Iridescent"
** ''Living Things'' -- "Burn It Down" or "Castle of Glass"
*** ''Recharged'' -- "A Light that Never Comes"
** ''The Hunting Party'' -- "Guilty All the Same" or "Until It's Gone"
** ''One More Light'' -- "Heavy" initially, though "Talking to Myself" is set to displace it due to being released on the same day as Chester Bennington's tragic death. The title track also counts, especially after the deaths of both Bennington and his friend Music/ChrisCornell.
** Overall -- "In The End", "Numb", and "What I've Done" are the main frontrunners, with "One Step Closer", "Faint", "New Divide", "Burn It Down" and either "One More Light" or "Talking to Myself" as secondary headliners.
*** Music/FortMinor -- Initially "Where'd You Go?", but has over time become "Remember The Name"
*** Dead By Sunrise -- "Crawl Back In"
*** Mike Shinoda -- "Watching As I Fall"
* Lion -- [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie "The Transformers (Theme)"]]
* Music/DuaLipa -- "New Rules" or "Don't Start Now"
* Lipps Inc. -- "Funky Town"
* Music/FranzLiszt -- "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2"
* Lit -- "My Own Worst Enemy"
* Little Big Town -- Tough call between "Pontoon" or "Girl Crush". The former was their biggest hit on country radio and their most popular song amongst their core demographic. The latter, on the other hand, is their most widely known and beloved song to general audiences. "Better Man" is also a contender.
* Little Birdy -- "Come On, Come On"
* Little Eva -- "The Locomotion"
* Little Feat -- "Dixie Chicken"
* Music/LittleMix -- "Wings", "Shout Out to My Ex", or "Black Magic"
* Music/LittleRichard -- "Tutti Frutti" (from ''Music/HeresLittleRichard'')
* Little River Band -- "Reminiscing"
* Little Texas -- "What Might Have Been"
* Live -- "Lightning Crashes"
* Music/LivingColour -- "[[Wrestling/CMPunk Cult of Personality]]"
* The Living End -- "Prisoner of Society"
* Music/TheLivingTombstone -- "Discord (Remix)"
* Lizzo -- “Truth Hurts”
* Music/LLCoolJ -- "Mama Said Knock You Out" or "I Can't Live Without My Radio"
* Lloyd -- "You"
* Music/CherLloyd -- "Swagger Jagger" in the UK, "Want U Back" in the US
* Creator/AndrewLloydWebber -- "Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera," "[[Theatre/{{Cats}} Memory]]," or "[[Theatre/{{Evita}} Don't Cry for Me, Argentina]]" %% His family name is Lloyd Webber, not Webber.
* Music/{{LMFAO}} -- "Party Rock Anthem" or "Sexy and I Know It"
* LMNT -- "Juliet"
* Local H -- "Bound for the Floor"
* [=LoCash=] -- "I Love This Life"
* [[Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid Löded Diper]] -- "Exploded Diper"
* Lo-Fidelity Allstars -- "Battle Flag"
* Music/KennyLoggins -- "Film/{{Footloose}}" or "[[Film/TopGun Danger Zone]]"
* Logic - "1-800-273-8255"
* London After Midnight -- "Kiss"
* London Grammar -- "Strong", "Hey Now" or "Wasting My Young Years"
* Music/TheLonelyIsland -- "I'm on a Boat" or "I Just Had Sex"
* Lonestar -- "Amazed"
* Long Beach Dub Allstars -- "Sunny Hours"
* Longo & Wainwright -- "One Life Stand"
* Loose Ends -- "Hangin' on the String (Contemplating)"
* Music/JenniferLopez -- "Jenny From the Block" and "Let's Get Loud"
* Lo-Pro -- "Sunday"
* Lord Huron -- "The Night We Met"
* Music/{{Lorde}} -- "Royals" (from ''Music/TheLoveClub'' and ''Music/PureHeroine'') [[note]]with "Team" a close second.[[/note]]
* Music/{{Lordi}} -- "Hard Rock Hallelujah"
* Loreen -- "Euphoria"
* Lorn -- "Acid Rain"
* Los Fabulosos Cadillacs -- "El Matador"
* Lost Boyz -- "Renee"
* Lost Frequencies -- "Are You With Me?"
* Music/{{Lostprophets}} -- "Last Train Home" or "Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)"
* Los Lobos -- "La Bamba"
* Los Del Rio -- "Macarena"
* Los Lonely Boys -- "Heaven"
* Music/PixieLott -- "Mama Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh)"
* Music/DemiLovato -- "Skyscraper", "Give Your Heart A Break", "Heart Attack" or "Cool For the Summer"
* Music/{{Love}} -- Initially "7 Plus 7 Is", but now "Alone Again Or"
* Music/LoveAndRockets -- "No New Tale to Tell" or "So Alive"
* Love Battery -- "Out of Focus"
* Loverance -- "Up"
* Music/{{Loverboy}} -- "Working For the Weekend"
* The Lovin' Spoonful -- "Summer in the City" or "Do You Believe in Magic?"
* Low -- "Lullaby"
* Lower Than Atlantis -- "Here We Go"
* LP -- "Lost On You"
* Music/{{Ludacris}} -- "Move Bitch"
* Ludo -- "Love Me Dead"
* Lukas Graham -- "7 Years" or "Mama Said" in Denmark, indisputably the former everywhere else
* Luke Nasty -- "Might Be"
* The Lumineers -- "Ho Hey"
* Lunatic Calm -- "[[Film/TheMatrix Leave You Far Behind]]"
* [=LunchMoney=] Lewis -- "Bills"
* Luniz -- "I Got 5 on It"
* Luscious Jackson -- "Naked Eye"
* Lustra -- "[[Film/EuroTrip Scotty Doesn't Know]]"
* Dustin Lynch -- "Cowboys and Angels" or "Hell of a Night"
* Music/LynyrdSkynyrd -- "Sweet Home Alabama" to general audiences; "Free Bird" to the rock community (to the point that the IconicSongRequest became a MemeticMutation!)
** Not far behind there's "Simple Man"
* Kevin Lyttle -- "Turn Me On"
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[[folder:M]]
* M -- "Pop Muzik"
* [=M2M=] -- "[[Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie Don't Say You Love Me]]"
* Music/{{M83}} -- "Midnight City"
* M People -- "Moving On Up", "Search for the Hero", "One Night in Heaven" are all well-known hits
* Mabel -- “Don’t Call Me Up”
* Amy Macdonald -- "Mr Rock & Roll"
* Mac Dre -- "Thizzelle Dance"
* Music/MachineGunKelly -- "[[Music/CamilaCabello Bad Things]]"
* Music/MachineHead -- "Davidian" or "Block"
* Music/{{Macklemore}} & Ryan Lewis -- "Thrift Shop" or "Can't Hold Us"
* Music/MaddieAndTae -- "Girl in a Country Song," later "Die from a Broken Heart"
* Music/{{Madeon}} -- "Finale", "Pay No Mind"[[note]]shared with Music/PassionPit[[/note]], or "Anime/{{Shelter}}"[[note]]shared with Music/PorterRobinson[[/note]]
* Madison Avenue -- "Don't Call Me Baby"
* Music/{{Madness}} -- "House of Fun" in the UK, "Our House" from ''Music/TheRiseAndFall'' in the U.S.
* Music/{{Madonna}} -- By album:
** ''[[Music/MadonnaAlbum Madonna]]'' -- "Holiday" or "Borderline"
** ''Music/LikeAVirgin'' -- "Material Girl", "Into the Groove", or the title track
** ''Music/TrueBlue'' -- "Papa Don't Preach" or "Open Your Heart"
** ''Film/WhosThatGirl'' -- The title track
** ''Music/LikeAPrayer'' -- The title track or "Express Yourself"
** ''Music/ImBreathless'' -- "Vogue"
** ''The Immaculate Collection'' -- "Justify My Love"
** ''Music/{{Erotica}}'' -- The title track
** ''Music/BedtimeStories'' -- "Take a Bow"
** ''Something to Remember'' -- "You'll See"
** ''Film/{{Evita}}'' -- "Don't Cry For Me Argentina"
** ''Music/RayOfLight'' -- The title track
** ''Music/MusicAlbum'' -- The title track
** ''Music/AmericanLife'' -- The title track
** ''Music/ConfessionsOnADanceFloor'' -- "Hung Up"
** ''Hard Candy'' -- "4 Minutes"
** ''Celebration'' -- The title track
** ''MDNA'' -- "Give Me All Your Lovin'"
** ''Rebel Heart'' -- "Bitch I'm Madonna"
** ''Music/MadameX'' -- "Medellín" or "I Rise"
** Overall -- "Virgin", "Material Girl", "Prayer", and "Vogue" are probably the ones she's best known for throughout her career.
* MAGIC! -- "Rude"
* Austin Mahone -- "What About Love?" or "MMM Yeah"
* Maino -- "Hi Hater" ("All the Above" would be this were it not more commonly associated with T-Pain)
* Mango -- "Oro"
* Music/MajorLazer -- "Lean On" from ''Music/PeaceIsTheMission''
* Music/MazzyStar -- "Fade Into You"
* Miriam Makeba -- "Pata Pata"
* Malfunkshun -- "With Yo' Heart (Not Yo' Hand)" or "My Only Fan"
* Music/MaliceMizer -- "Beast of Blood"
* The Mamas and the Papas -- "California Dreamin"' or "Monday, Monday"
* Manfred Mann -- "Doo Wah Diddy Diddy" for his first band, "Blinded By The Light" for the Earth Band
* The Manhattans -- Kiss and Say Goodbye
* Music/ManicStreetPreachers -- "A Design FManhattans
or Life" or "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next"
* Music/ManillaRoad -- "Necropolis"
* Music/BarryManilow -- "Copacabana" & "Mandy"
* Man Overboard -- "Where I Left You"
* Music/{{Manowar}} -- "Kings of Metal," 'Metal Warriors," or "Achilles, Agony and Ecstasy in Eight Parts."
* Clint Mansell -- "[[Film/RequiemForADream Lux]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Aeterna]]"
* Music/MarcyPlayground -- "Sex and Candy"
* Marian Hill -- "Down", and maybe "Back to Me" for Music/FifthHarmony fans
* Music/MarianasTrench -- "Cross My Heart" or "All To Myself"
* Teena Marie -- "Lovergirl"
* Music/{{Marillion}} -- "Kayleigh"
* Mario -- "Let Me Love You"
* Music/BrunoMars -- "Uptown Funk!" overall.[[note]]even though it's officially a Mark Ronson song.[[/note]] By album:
** ''Doo-wops and Hooligans'' -- "Just The Way You Are" and "Grenade"
** ''Unorthodox Jukebox'' -- "Locked out of Heaven"
** ''24k Magic'' -- "That's What I Like"
* The Marshall Tucker Band -- "Can't You See", "Fire On The Mountain", or "Heard It In A Love Song"
* Marshmello -- "Alone" for solo works, "FRIENDS" or "Happier" for collaborations.
* Music/MelanieMartinez -- "Dollhouse" or "Pity Party"
* Chuck Mangione -- "Feels So Good"
* Music/MarilynManson -- "The Beautiful People" overall. By album:
** ''Music/PortraitOfAnAmericanFamily'': "Get Your Gun"
** ''Music/SmellsLikeChildren'' -- "[[Music/{{Eurythmics}} Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)]]"
** ''Music/AntichristSuperstar'' -- "[[Wrestling/WWESmackdown The Beautiful People]]"
** ''Music/MechanicalAnimals'' -- "The Dope Show"
** ''Music/HolyWoodInTheShadowOfTheValleyOfDeath'' -- "Disposable Teens" or "The Fight Song"
** ''The Golden Age of Grotesque'' -- "mOBSCENE", "(s)AINT", "This Is The New Shit", or [[CoveredUp "Tainted Love"]]
** ''Lest We Forget'' -- "[[Music/DepecheMode Personal Jesus]]"
** ''Eat Me, Drink Me'' -- "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)"
** ''The High End of Low'' -- "Arma-Goddamn-Motherfuckin'-Geddon"
** ''Born Villain'' -- "No Reflection"
** ''The Pale Emperor'' -- "Deep Six"
** ''Heaven Upside Down'' -- "We Know Where You Fucking Live"
* Music/MarinaDiamandis -- "Primadonna"
* Martika -- "Toy Soldiers"
* Music/BobMarley -- "No Woman No Cry" (from ''Music/NattyDread'', but better known in the live version of ''[[Music/LiveBobMarleyAlbum Live!]]''). A close second is "I Shot The Sherrif" (from ''Music/{{Burnin}}''), followed by "Three Little Birds", "Jamming" and "One Love" (from ''Music/ExodusAlbum Exodus]]'')
* Damian Marley -- "Welcome to Jamrock"
* Ziggy Marley -- "Tomorrow People" or "[[WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}} Believe in Yourself]]"
* Music/{{Maroon 5}}-- By album:
** ''Songs About Jane'' -- "She Will Be Loved" or "This Love"
** ''It Won't Be Soon Before Long''-- "Makes Me Wonder"
** ''[[NewSoundAlbum Hands All Over]]''-- "Misery"
*** Re-issue -- "Moves Like Jagger"
** ''Overexposed''-- "Payphone" or "One More Night"
** ''V''-- "Sugar"
** ''Red Pill Blues'' -- "Girls Like You”
** Overall -- The ''Songs About Jane'' signatures and "Moves Like Jagger"
* M|A|R|R|S -- "Pump Up the Volume" (which was literally the only single the group ever released)
* Music/TheMarsVolta -- "L'via L'viaquez"
* Mia Martina -- "Latin Moon" or "[=HeartBreaker=]"
* Music/DeanMartin -- "That's Amore" and "Everybody Loves Somebody"
* Music/RickyMartin -- "Livin' La Vida Loca". Though [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball football]] fans of a certain age may argue for "The Cup of Life" (''La copa de la vida''), the official theme song of the [[UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup 1998 FIFA World Cup]].
* Music/RichardMarx -- "Right Here Waiting"
* Mary Mary -- "Shackles"
* Mashina -- "Rakevet Layla Le Kahir"
* Massari -- "Be Easy" or "Real Love"
* Music/MassiveAttack -- By album:
** ''Blue Lines'' -- "Unfinished Sympathy"
** ''Protection'' -- The TitleTrack or "Karmacoma".
** ''Music/{{Mezzanine}}'' -- "Angel" or [[Series/{{House}} "Teardrop"]]
** ''[=100th=] Window'' -- "Butterfly Caught"
** ''Heligoland'' -- "Paradise Circus"
** Overall -- "Unfinished Sympathy" was their first signature song, however it would be later ousted by "Teardrop" thanks to a certain medical drama.
* Music/Master P -- "Mr. Ice Cream Man"& "Make Em say Ugh"
* Masterboy -- "Feel The Heat Of The Night"
* Music/{{Mastodon}} -- "Blood and Thunder", possibly "Oblivion"
* Mattafix -- "Big City Life"
** Marlon Roudette -- "When The Beat Drops Out"
* Matchbook Romance -- “Monsters”
* Music/MatchboxTwenty -- "3 A.M." or "Unwell"
** Music/RobThomas -- "Lonely No More" or/and "Smooth" (the latter shared with Music/CarlosSantana).
* Material Issue -- "Valerie Loves Me"
* Matisyahu -- "King Without a Crown"
* Matt and Kim -- "Daylight"
* Music/DaveMatthewsBand -- "Ants Marching"
* Ava Max — "Sweet but Psycho" or "Kings and Queens"
* Music/MaximumTheHormone -- "[[Manga/DeathNote What's Up, People?!]]" and also [[Manga/DeathNote Zetsubou Billy]]" "[[Manga/DragonBall F]]" for Dragon Ball Z fans.
* Edward Maya -- "Stereo Love"
* Maybeshewill -- "He Films the Clouds Pt. 2"
* Music/JohnMayer -- "New Light", "Your Body is a Wonderland", "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room", "Gravity", "No Such Thing" or "Waiting On The World To Change"
* Music/{{Mayhem}} -- "Deathcrush" or "Freezing Moon"
* Conor Maynard -- "Vegas Girl"
* Music/MC5 -- "Music/KickOutTheJams"
* MC 900 Ft. Jesus -- "If I Only Had a Brain"
* Music/MCHammer -- "U Can't Touch This" (which, ironically, was only his ''fifth'' highest charting song) and maybe "2 Legit 2 Quit" for baseball fans.
* Music/MartinaMcBride -- "Independence Day"
* Music/JesseMcCartney -- "Beautiful Soul" or "Leavin'"
** Dream Street -- "It Happens Everytime"
* Music/PaulMcCartney -- "Another Day" (see also Beatles above, and Wings below)
* Music/RebaMcEntire -- "Fancy" or "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" for her older work. "Consider Me Gone" for her newer work. And maybe "I'm a Survivor" for fans of [[Series/{{Reba}} her sitcom]].
* Music/McFly -- "Five Colours in Her Hair" & "All About You"
* Music/TimMcGraw -- "Live Like You Were Dying"
* Andrew [=McMahon=] in the Wilderness -- "Cecilia and the Satellite"
* Wrestling/VinceMcMahon -- "Stand Back"
* Music/MeatLoaf -- "Paradise by the Dashboard Light", "Bat Out of Hell", or "I'd Do Anything For Love". At the album level, ''eight'' of the eighteen songs in his GreatestHits collection (which includes three original songs) come from two albums: "Bat Out of Hell" and "Bat Out of Hell II", making those his signature albums.
* Music/MeatPuppets -- "Plateau" or "Lake of Fire"
* Music/{{Megadeth}} -- "Symphony of Destruction" or "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due". By album:
** ''Killing is My Business... And Business Is Good!'' -- "Chosen Ones" or "Last Rites/Loved to Death"
** ''Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?'' -- The title track.
** ''So Far, So Good... So What!'' -- "In My Darkest Hour"
** ''Rust In Peace'' -- "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" or "Hangar 18"
** ''Countdown to Extinction'' -- "Symphony of Destruction"
** ''Youthanasia'' -- "A Tout Le Monde"
** ''Cryptic Writings'' -- "Trust"
** ''Risk'' -- "Crush 'Em"
** ''The World Needs a Hero'' -- "Promises"
** ''The System Has Failed'' -- [[WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers "Back in the Day"]]
** ''United Abominations'' -- "A Tout Le Monde (Set Me Free)"
** ''Endgame'' -- "Head Crusher"
** ''Thirteen'' -- [[VideoGame/GuitarHero "Sudden Death"]]
** ''Super Collider'' -- The title track.
** ''Dystopia'' -- The title track or [[VideoGame/WatchDogs2 "Fatal Illusion"]]
* Daler Mehndi - "Tunak Tunak Tun"
* Music/JohnMellencamp -- "Jack and Diane"
* Music/{{Melvins}} -- "Honey Bucket"
* Music/MenAtWork -- formerly a tie between "Who Can It Be Now?" and "Down Under"; now undisputably the latter
* Mental As Anything -- "The Nips Are Gettin' Bigger" and "Live It Up"
* Music/MenWithoutHats -- "The Safety Dance"
* Music/FelixMendelssohn -- "Wedding March"
* Music/ShawnMendes -- "Stitches" from ''Handwritten'', "Treat You Better" or "There’s Nothing Holding Me Back" from ''Illuminate''.
* Music/BridgitMendler -- "Ready or Not"
* Creator/IdinaMenzel -- "[[Theatre/{{Wicked}} Defying Gravity]]" or "[[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Let It Go]]"
* Mercy Drive -- "[[Wrestling/RandyOrton Burn In My Light]]"
* Music/MercyfulFate -- "Melissa," "Evil," or "Curse of the Pharaohs"
* [=MercyMe=] -- "I Can Only Imagine"
* Merrilee Rush & The Turnabouts -- "Angel of the Morning"
* Alice Merton -- "No Roots"
* Music/{{Merzbow}} -- "Woodpecker No. 1" or "I Lead You Towards Glorious Times" [[note]]The loudest song ever pressed on CD.[[/note]]
* Music/{{Meshuggah}} -- "Bleed" overall. By album:
** ''Destroy Erase Improve'' -- "Future Breed Machine"
** ''Chaosphere'' -- "New Millennium Cyanide Christ"
** ''Nothing'' -- "Rational Gaze"
** ''Catch Thirtythree'' -- "Shed"
** ''obZen'' -- "Bleed"
** ''Koloss'' -- "Demiurge"
** ''The Violent Sleep of Reason'' -- "Clockworks"
* Music/JoDeeMessina -- "Lesson in Leavin'", "I'm Alright", "Bye, Bye" or "My Give a Damn's Busted"
* Music/{{Metallica}} -- "Master of Puppets", "One", or "Enter Sandman" overall. By album:
** ''Kill 'Em All'' -- "Seek & Destroy"
** ''Music/RideTheLightning'' -- "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
** ''Music/MasterOfPuppets'' -- The title track
** ''...And Justice for All'' -- "One"
** ''Music/{{Metallica|Album}}'' (The Black Album) -- "Enter Sandman"[[note]](especially for fans of [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball Virginia Tech football]] and the [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams New York Yankees]])[[/note]], and "Nothing Else Matters"
** ''Load'' -- "Until it Sleeps" or "King Nothing"
** ''Reload'' -- "Fuel"
** ''Music/GarageInc'' -- Formerly a tie between "Turn the Page" or "Whiskey in the Jar", but now indisputably the latter.
** ''S&M'' -- "No Leaf Clover"
** ''St. Anger'' -- The title track
** ''Death Magnetic'' -- "The Day That Never Comes"
** ''Hardwired… To Self-Destruct'' -- "Hardwired"
* Music/{{Metric}} -- "[[Film/{{Defendor}} Help I'm Alive]]", "Gold Guns Girls", or "Dead Disco".
* Music/MeWithoutYou -- "January 1979" or "In a Sweater Poorly Knit"
* MGMT -- "Electric Feel", "Kids" or "Time to Pretend" from ''Music/OracularSpectacular''.
* Music/{{MIA}} -- [[Film/PineappleExpress "Paper Planes"]], with "Bad Girls" a close runner-up
* Music/MichaelLearnsToRock -- By album:
** ''First SelfTitledAlbum'' -- "The Actor"
** ''Colours'' -- "Sleeping Child". In some countries (Asia specifically), "25 Minutes" and "Out of the Blue" are just as iconic, if not more.
** ''Played On Pepper'' -- "That's Why (You Go Away)".
** ''Nothing To Lose'' -- "Paint My Love". In some countries (Asia specifically), the TitleTrack, "I'm Gonna Be Around", and "Breaking My Heart" are just as iconic, if not more.
** ''Blue Night'' -- "You Took My Heart Away".
** ''Second SelfTitledAlbum'' -- "Take Me To Your Heart"
** ''Eternity'' -- Depends on the country. In the UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}} and UsefulNotes/{{India}}, it's "It's Gonna Make Sense". In UsefulNotes/{{Thailand}}, it's "Sweetest Surprise".
** ''Scandinavia'' -- In the UsefulNotes/{{Indonesia}}, UsefulNotes/{{India}}, and their native UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}}, it's "Any Way You Want It".
* Music/GeorgeMichael -- "Faith" or "Freedom '90"
* Julia Michaels -- "Issues"
* Wrestling/ShawnMichaels -- "Sexy Boy"
* Music/MidnightOil -- "Beds Are Burning"
* Creator/BetteMidler -- "The Rose", "Wind Beneath My Wings" or "From a Distance".
* Music/TheMightyMightyBosstones -- "The Impression That I Get"
* Migos -- Formerly "Versace", but now "Bad and Boujee" (and to a lesser extent, "T-Shirt" and "Slippery")
* Miguel -- "Adorn"
* MIGGS -- "Ordinary"
* Miike Snow -- "Animal" at first, but now most definitely "Music/GenghisKhan", though the former is back to being this for them in the UK due to the remix being used as the theme tune of ''Series/FridayNightDinner''.
* Music/{{Mika}} -- "Grace Kelly"
* Music/MikeAndTheMechanics -- "Silent Running" and "The Living Years"
* Miki Imai - "Part of Your World" cover from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'' (by American standards, at least).
* Robert Miles — "Children"
* Milky Chance -- "Stolen Dance"
* Music/GlennMiller -- "In the Mood", though "Moonlight Serenade" was his band's official theme song.
* Music/MacMiller -- "Donald Trump"
* Music/SteveMillerBand -- "The Joker"
* The Miller Stain Limit -- "Cellophane"
* Music/MeekMill -- "I'm A Boss" or "Dreams and Nightmares (Intro)"
* Christina Milian -- "Dip It Low"
* M.I.M.S. -- "This Is Why I'm Hot"
* Music/NickiMinaj -- "Super Bass" or "Starships"
* Music/{{Ministry}} -- "Jesus Built My Hot Rod"
* Music/KylieMinogue --
** Early Work: "I Should Be So Lucky"
** Early 2000's: "Spinning Around"
** Recent Work: "Can't Get You Out of My Head"
* Music/MinorThreat -- "Straight Edge"
* Masayoshi Minoshima -- "[[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Bad Apple!!]] feat. nomico"
* Music/{{Minutemen}} -- "Corona" or "This Ain't No Picnic"
* Music/TheMisfits -- "Last Caress", "Hybrid Moments", or "Where Eagles Dare"
* MISSIO -- "Middle Fingers"
* Music/MissionOfBurma -- "That's When I Reach for My Revolver"
* Music/MisTeeq -- "Scandalous"
* Music/JoniMitchell -- "Big Yellow Taxi", or “Both Sides Now”
* [[Music/{{VOCALOID}} Mitchie M]] -- "Freely Tomorrow" and "Ai Dee"
* [=MKTO=] -- "Classic" in the U.S., "Thank You" in Oceania
* [=MNEK=] -- "Never Forget You" (shared with Zara Larsson); in his native UK, "Ready For Your Love" (shared with Gorgon City) is a possible rival
* Mobb Deep -- "Shook Ones Pt. II"
* Music/{{Moby}} -- "Natural Blues" or "Porcelain"
* Music/MobyGrape -- "Omaha"
* Mo-Do -- "Ein Zwei Polizei"
* Music/TheModernLovers -- "Roadrunner"
* Music/ModestMouse -- "Float On"
* Moe Shop -- "Love Taste"
* Music/TheMoffats -- "I'll Be There For You"
* Mohombi -- "Bumpy Ride"
* The Moldy Peaches -- "Anyone Else But You"
* Molly Hatchet -- "Flirtin' with Disaster"
* Moloko -- "Sing It Back"
* Music/JanelleMonae -- "Tightrope" or "Cold War"
* Eddie Money -- "Take Me Home Tonight" and "Two Tickets to Paradise"
* Monica -- "Angel of Mine", "So Gone", or "Don't Take It Personal (Just One of Dem Days)" .
* Music/TheMonkees -- "I'm A Believer" or "Daydream Believer"
* Bill Monroe -- "Blue Moon of Kentucky" or "Uncle Pen"
* Vaughn Monroe -- "Racing with the Moon", the song was even used on the advertisements he recorded for RCA Victor, "Ghost Riders In The Sky" is another contender.
* Monster Magnet -- "Space Lord" (or "[[Wrestling/MattHardy Live for the Moment]]" to wrestling fans). More recently, "[[ComicBook/XMen Negasonic Teenage Warhead]]" has become a possible contender.
* Music/MontgomeryGentry -- "Gone"
* John Michael Montgomery -- "I Swear"
* Creator/MontyPython – "[[Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian Always Look on the Bright Side of Life]]"
* Music/TheMoodyBlues -- "Nights In White Satin" or "Go Now"
* Chanté Moore -- "Chanté's Got a Man"
* Gary Moore -- "Out in the Fields"
* Justin Moore -- "Small Town USA"
* Music/MandyMoore -- "Candy," "[[Film/AWalkToRemember Cry]]" and "[[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} I See the Light]]".
* Willy Moon -- "Yeah Yeah"
* M.O.P. -- "Ante Up"
* Music/MorbidAngel -- "Chapel of Ghouls," "Immortal Rites," or "God of Emptiness"
* Adam Morenoff -- "[[Wrestling/ChrisJericho Break Down the Walls]]"
* Meli'sa Morgan -- "[[CoveredUp Do Me, Baby]]"
* Music/AlanisMorissette -- "Ironic" and "You Oughta Know" (both from ''Music/JaggedLittlePill'')
* Morning Parade -- "Alienation"
* Morphine -- "The Night" or "Early to Bed"
* Music/EnnioMorricone -- "Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly" Theme
* Music/MarenMorris -- "My Church" for her core country base and "[[Music/{{Zedd}} The Middle]]" for mainstream audiences, although "The Bones" has become a contender for both demographics
* Music/{{Morrissey}} -- "Irish Blood, English Heart"
* Glenn Morrison -- "Goodbye"
* Mark Morrison -- "Return of the Mack"
* Music/VanMorrison -- "Brown Eyed Girl"
** Them -- "Gloria"
* Mother Love Bone -- "Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns"
* Mother Mother -- "Hayloft"
* Music/MotionlessInWhite -- "Reincarnate"
* Music/MotleyCrue -- "Dr. Feelgood" or "Girls, Girls, Girls"
** "Kickstart My Heart" is also a serious contender.
* Music/{{Motorhead}} -- "Ace of Spades". For wrestling fans, "[[Wrestling/TripleH The Game]]".
* Mountain -- "Mississippi Queen"
* Music/TheMountainGoats -- "No Children"
* The Mowgli's -- "San Francisco"
* Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart — Requiem, especially "Dies Irae" or "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - 1st Movement"
* Mr. Mister -- ""Broken Wings" or "Kyrie"
* Mr. Pink / The Program -- "Love and Affection", a CoverVersion of Joan Armatrading's song.
* Mr. President -- "Coco Jamboo"
* Mr. Probz -- "Waves" (specifically the remix by Robin Schulz)
* Jason Mraz -- Initially "The Remedy," but now "I'm Yours"
* Ms Mr -- "[[Series/GameOfThrones Bones]]" or "Hurricane"
* Music/{{Mudhoney}} -- "Touch Me, I'm Sick"
* Music/{{Mudvayne}} -- "Happy?" overall. By album:
** ''L.D. 50'' -- "Dig"
** ''The End of All Things to Come'' -- "Not Falling"
** ''Lost and Found'' -- "Happy?"
** ''By the People for the People'' -- "Dull Boy"
** ''The New Game'' -- "Do What You Do"
** ''Mudvayne'' -- "Scream with Me"
* Music/MumfordAndSons -- "Little Lion Man", "The Cave" or "I Will Wait"
* Mumm-Ra -- "[[Film/FiveHundredDaysOfSummer She's Got You High]]"
* Mungo Jerry -- "In the Summertime"
* Music/PeterMurphy -- "Cuts You Up"
* Olly Murs -- "Troublemaker" in the U.S., other contenders in the UK include "Please Don't Let Me Go", "Heart Skips a Beat", "Dance With Me Tonight", and "Wrapped Up".
* Music/{{Muse}} -- "Uprising" overall. By album:
** ''Showbiz'' -- "Sunburn", "Muscle Museum," or the title track.
** ''Origin of Symmetry'' -- "Plug In Baby" and "[[CoveredUp Feeling Good]]"
** ''Absolution'' -- "Time is Running Out" or "Hysteria"
** ''Black Holes & Revalations'' -- "Knights of Cydonia" and "Supermassive Black Hole"
** ''The Resistance'' -- "Uprising"
** ''The 2nd Law'' -- "Madness"
** ''Drones'' -- "Dead Inside" or "Reapers"
** ''Simulation Theory'' -- "Pressure"
* Music/KaceyMusgraves -- "Merry Go Round" (to the core country audience) and "Follow Your Arrow" (to more mainstream audiences) off her earlier, more straightforward country work. From newer work that's more pop/soft rock inspired, it'd be "Space Cowboy" or "High Horse".
* Mustard Plug -- "Mr. Smiley"
* Mya -- "Case of the Ex". She was also part of the collaboration for 'Lady Marmalade'.
* Music/MyBloodyValentine -- "You Made Me Realise" or "Only Shallow"
* Music/MyChemicalRomance -- By album:
** ''I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love'' - "Vampires Will Never Hurt You"
** ''Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge'' -- "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" or "Helena"
** ''The Black Parade'' -- "Welcome to the Black Parade"
** ''Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys'' -- "Sing"
** Overall: "Welcome To The Black Parade"
* My Darkest Days -- "Porn Star Dancing"
* My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult -- "A Daisy Chain 4 Satan"
* My Name Is Kay -- "My Name Is Kay"
* Alannah Myles -- "Black Velvet"
* David Myles -- "So Blind"
* Music/{{Myrath}} -- "Born to Survive"
* Music/MysterySkulls -- "Ghost"
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* The Naked and Famous -- "Young Blood"
* Naked Eyes -- "[[CoveredUp Always Something There to Remind Me]]"
* Anna Nalick -- "Breathe (2 AM)"
* Music/NapalmDeath -- "You Suffer"
* Nargaroth -- "Black Metal ist Krieg" or "The Day Music/{{Burzum}} Killed Music/{{Mayhem}}"
* Music/{{Nas}} -- "N.Y. State of Mind"
* Johnny Nash -- "I Can See Clearly Now"
* Kate Nash -- "Foundations"
* Music/TheNational -- "Bloodbuzz Ohio" or "[[VideoGame/Portal2 Exile (Vilify)]]"
* Naughty Boy -- "La La La" (with Sam Smith)
* Naughty by Nature -- "O.P.P."
* Nayer -- "Suave (Kiss Me)" [[note]]Although she's best known for her appearance on "[[Music/{{Pitbull}} Give Me Everything]]".[[/note]]
* Nazareth -- "Hair of the Dog" or "Love Hurts"
* Meshell Ndegeocello -- "Fool of Me"
* Youssou N'Dour -- "7 Seconds"
* Music/TheNeighbourhood -- "Sweater Weather"
* Nelly -- "Hot in Herre", "Ride wit Me", or "Dilemma"
* Rick Nelson -- "Hello, Mary Lou"
* Music/WillieNelson -- "On the Road Again"
* Music/{{Nena}} -- "99 Luftballons" (99 Red Balloons)
* Neon Jungle -- "Braveheart"
* Music/NeonTrees -- "Animal" or "Everybody Talks"
* Nephew -- "Movie Klip"
* Nerf Herder -- "Van Halen" or the Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer theme
* Music/{{Nero}} -- "Promises" or [[VideoGame/ForzaMotorsport "Me and You"]]
* Netta -- "Toy"
* Music/NeutralMilkHotel -- "Music/InTheAeroplaneOverTheSea" or "Holland, 1945"
* Music/{{Nevermore}} -- "Believe in Nothing"
* New Boyz -- "You're A Jerk"
* Music/NewEdition -- "Can You Stand the Rain"
* Music/NewFoundGlory -- "My Friends Over You"
* Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock -- "Step by Step"
* New Medicine -- "Race You to the Bottom"
* Music/NewOrder -- "Blue Monday" (available on ''Music/PowerCorruptionAndLies'')
* [[Music/JasonNewsted Newsted]] -- "King of the Underdogs"
* John Newman -- "Love Me Again" (although in the U.S. he is better known as the featured vocalist on Calvin Harris' "Blame")
* Music/RandyNewman:
** Soundtrack work -- "[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory You've Got a Friend In Me]]"
** Solo career -- "Short People"
* Newsboys -- "Shine" (early years) and "God's Not Dead" (more recent work)
* Music/OliviaNewtonJohn - "Physical"
* Next - "Too Close"
* Music/NeYo -- By album:
** ''In My Own Words'' -- "So Sick"
** ''Because of You'' -- The title track
** ''Year of the Gentleman'' -- "Closer" or "Miss Independent"
** ''Libra Scale'' -- "Beautiful Monster"
** ''R.E.D.'' -- "Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)" or "Let's Go" (the latter shared with Music/CalvinHarris)
** ''Non-Fiction'' -- "She Knows" or "Time of Our Lives" (the latter shared with Music/{{Pitbull}})
** Overall: "So Sick" and the ''Year of the Gentleman'' signatures
* Music/{{NF}} -- “Let You Down”. Before that, it was either “Mansion” or “How Could You Leave Us?”
* Music/{{Nickelback}} -- "How You Remind Me" overall. By album:
** ''Silver Side Up'' -- "How You Remind Me"
** ''The Long Road'' -- "Someday"
** ''All The Right Reasons'' -- "Photograph" and "Rockstar"
** ''Dark Horse'' -- "Gotta Be Somebody"
** ''Here and Now'' -- "Lullaby"
* Nico & Vinz -- "Am I Wrong?"
* 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.
* Jerrod Niemann -- “[[CoveredUp Lover, Lover]]”
* Music/NightRanger -- "Sister Christian"
* Music/{{Nightwish}} -- "Wish I Had an Angel" or "End of All Hope", "Planet Hell" to those who play RuneScape
* Harry Nilsson -- "[[CoveredUp Without]] [[Music/{{Badfinger}} You]]". For material that he both wrote and performed, "Coconut".
* Nine Days -- "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)"
* Music/NineInchNails -- "Closer", from ''Music/TheDownwardSpiral''
* Music/NinjaSexParty -- "Dinosaur Laser Fight" or "Dragon Slayer"
** Starbomb -- "Luigi's Ballad" or "It's Dangerous To Go Alone"
* Music/{{Nirvana}} -- "Smells Like Teen Spirit" overall. By album:
** ''{{Music/Bleach}}'' -- "About a Girl"
** ''{{Music/Nevermind}}'' -- "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "Come As You Are" and "Lithium"
** ''Music/InUtero'' -- "Heart-Shaped Box"
** ''Music/MTVUnpluggedInNewYork'' -- "[[Music/MeatPuppets Lake of Fire]]" or "[[Music/DavidBowie The Man]] [[Music/TheManWhoSoldTheWorld Who Sold the World]]"
** ''Nirvana'' -- "You Know You're Right"
* The Nixons -- "Sister"
* No Address -- "Sadie (When I'm Gone)"
* Creator/NobuoUematsu -- "[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII One Winged Angel]]"
* Music/NoDoubt -- "Don't Speak" or "Just A Girl"
** Gwen Stefani -- "Hollaback Girl", with "The Sweet Escape" being a close second
* Music/{{NOFX}} -- "Linoleum"
* Noisestorm -- "[[MemeticMutation Crab Rave]]"
* Nokturnal Mortum -- "Perun's Celestial Silver"
* NOMA -- [[VideoGame/SoundVoltex "Brain Power"]]
* Music/KlausNomi -- "Total Eclipse"
* NONONO - "Pumpin' Blood"
* Nonpoint -- "Bullet with a Name" By album:
** ''Statement'': "What a Day"
** ''Development'': "Your Signs"
** ''Recoil'': "[[Music/PhilCollins In the Air Tonight]]"
** ''To the Pain'': "Bullet with a Name"
** ''Vengeance'': "March of War"
** ''Miracle'': The title track
** ''Nonpoint'': "That Day"
** ''The Return'': "Breaking Skin"
** ''The Poison Red'': "Generation Idiot"
* Music/{{Noisia}} -- "Machine Gun"
* Nothing But Thieves -- "Trip Switch"
* Nothing More -- "This Is The Time (Ballast)", "Jenny" or "Go to War"
* Music/TheNotoriousBIG -- "Juicy", "Hypnotize" or "Mo Money Mo Problems"
* Music/{{NSYNC}} -- "Bye Bye Bye" [[note]]Although "It's Gonna Be Me" was their only #1 hit.[[/note]]
* Music/TedNugent -- "Journey To The Center of My Mind" (Amboy Dukes era), "Cat Scratch Fever" (solo years), "High Enough" (with Damn Yankees)
* Music/GaryNuman -- "Cars"
* Nump -- Originally "I Got Grapes", but now indisputably "WesternAnimation/TheNutshack"
* Paolo Nutini -- "New Shoes"
* Music/{{NWA}} -- "Straight Outta Compton" or "Fuck Tha Police" from ''Music/StraightOuttaCompton''.
* O-Town -- "All Or Nothing"
* O-Zone -- "Dragostea Din Tei" [[MemeticMutation (the "Numa Numa" song)]]
* The Oak Ridge Boys -- "Elvira"
* O.A.R. -- "Shattered (Turn the Car Around)" or "Love and Memories"
* Music/{{Oasis}} -- "Wonderwall"
* Oberhofer -- "Away Frm U"
* Billy Ocean -- "Caribbean Queen"
* Ocean Colour Scene -- "The Riverboat Song"
* Music/SineadOConnor -- Her [[CoveredUp cover]] of Music/{{Prince}}'s "Nothing Compares 2 U"
* Odessa -- "I Will Be There"
* ODESZA -- "Say My Name" or "Sun Models"
* Colby O'Donis -- "What You Got" (although he is probably better known as the featured vocalist on Music/LadyGaga's "Just Dance")
* Music/OfMiceAndMen -- "Second and Sebring" for their earlier material; more recently "Would You Still Be There?"
* Music/OfMonstersAndMen -- "Little Talks"
* Music/JacquesOffenbach -- "Galop Infernal" from "Orphée aux enfers", probably better known to most people as the "Can-Can".
* Music/TheOffspring -- "PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy", "Come Out and Play" or "Self Esteem". "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" fits for their later work.
* Music/{{OFWGKTA}} -- "Oldie". By member:
** Tyler, the Creator -- "Yonkers"
** Earl Sweatshirt -- "Chum"
** Frank Ocean -- "Thinkin Bout You", "Pyramids" or "Pink + White"
** Hodgy -- "Rella" or "Barbell"
*** [=MellowHype=] -- "Grill"
** Domo Genesis -- "Dapper"
** Casey Veggies -- "Backflip"
** Syd -- "All About Me"
*** The Internet -- "Girl" or "Special Affair"
* The Ohio Players -- "Love Rollercoaster" or "[[Series/HellsKitchen Fire]]"
* Music/OingoBoingo -- "Dead Man's Party" or "Weird Science"
* The O'Jays -- "Love Train"
* Music/OKGo -- "Here It Goes Again"
* Ol' Dirty Bastard -- "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" or "Brooklyn Zoo"
* Music/OldCrowMedicineShow -- "Wagon Wheel"
* Old Dominion -- "Break Up With Him"
* Music/MikeOldfield -- "[[Film/TheExorcist Tubular Bells, Pt. I]]" for his instrumental work, "Moonlight Shadow" for his pop/rock work.
* Oleander -- "Why I'm Here"
* Don Omar -- "[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious Danza Kuduro]]"
* Omarion -- "Ice Box" for his earlier work, "Post to Be" for his later material.
** [=B2K=] -- “Bump, Bump, Bump”
* OMC -- "How Bizarre"
* OMFG -- "Hello"
* OMI -- "Cheerleader" [[note]]specifically the Felix Jaehn remix[[/note]]
* OPM -- "Heaven is a Halfpipe"
* Alexander O'Neal -- "Fake"
* Music/OneDirection -- "What Makes You Beautiful"
** Music/{{Zayn}} -- "Pillowtalk"
** Niall Horan -- "Slow Hands"
** Louis Tomlinson -- "Just Hold On" (despite it technically being Steve Aoki's song); "Back to You" for his own material
** Music/HarryStyles -- "Watermelon Sugar"
** Liam Payne -- "Strip That Down"
* Music/OneOKRock -- "Kanzen Kankaku Dreamer" in Japan, "[[Film/RurouniKenshin The Beginning]]" internationally
* Music/OneRepublic -- Previously "Apologize", but now "Counting Stars"
* Onesidezero -- "[[Series/{{Smallville}} New World Order]]"
* One Way -- "Cutie Pie"
* Only Living Witness -- "December"
* Operation Ivy -- "Knowledge" or "Unity"
* Operator -- "Soulcrusher"
* Music/{{Opeth}} -- "The Drapery Falls" or "Deliverance".
* Music/RitaOra -- "How We Do (Party)" or "I Will Never Let You Down" in the U.S., although "R.I.P." is also a candidate in the UK.
* Music/RoyOrbison -- "Oh, Pretty Woman"
* Orbital -- "Halcyon" or "Chime"
* Carl Orff -- "[[Music/CarminaBurana O Fortuna]]"
* Orianthi -- "According To You"
* The Orion Experience -- "Obsessed With You" or "Queen of White Lies"
* Orleans -- "Dance With Me" or "Still the One"
* Orson -- "No Tomorrow"
* Jeffrey Osborne -- "You Should Be Mine (The Woo-Woo Song)"
* Music/OzzyOsbourne -- "Crazy Train"
* Music/TheOsmonds -- "One Bad Apple"
* Otherwise -- "I Don't Apologize (1000 Pictures)"
* Ai Otsuka -- "Sakuranbo"
* Music/OurLadyPeace -- "Somewhere Out There" and "Clumsy"
* Music/OutKast -- "B.O.B." or "Ms. Jackson" to the hip-hop/urban community, "Hey Ya!" to pop audiences
** Big Boi -- “Shutterbugg”
* The Outlaws -- "Green Grass and High Tides"
* Outasight -- "Tonight Is The Night"
* Music/{{Overkill}} -- "Hello from the Gutter"
* Jake Owen -- "Barefoot Blue Jean Night"
* Music/OwlCity -- "Fireflies"
** Sky Sailing -- "Brielle"
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* Johann Pachelbel -- "Canon in D Major", informally known as "Pachelbel's Canon"
* Patti Page -- "Tennessee Waltz"
* Jennifer Paige -- "Crush"
* Pain -- "Follow Me" or "Shut Your Mouth"
* Music/PainOfSalvation -- "Ashes"
* Music/BradPaisley —- "Mud on the Tires" or "Accidental Racist"
* Music/AmandaPalmer -- "Leeds United" or "Oasis"
* Robert Palmer -- "Addicted to Love", "Simply Irresistible", or "Bad Case of Lovin' You"
* Music/PanicAtTheDisco: "I Write Sins, Not Tragedies" and "High Hopes" overall. By album
** ''A Fever You Can't Sweat Out'': "I Write Sins, Not Tragedies", with "Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off" and "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage" not far behind.
** ''Pretty. Odd.'': "Northern Downpour" or "Nine in the Afternoon"
** ''Vices & Virtues'': "The Ballad of Mona Lisa"
** ''Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!'': "Miss Jackson" or "This Is Gospel"
** ''Death of a Bachelor'': "Victorious", "Emperor's New Clothes", or "Don't Threaten Me With a Good Time"
** ''Pray For the Wicked'': "High Hopes" with "Say Amen (Saturday Night)" and "Hey Look Ma, I Made It", not far behind
* Music/{{Pantera}}: by album:
** ''Cowboys from Hell'': The title track
** ''Vulgar Display of Power'': "Walk"
** ''Far Beyond Driven'': "I'm Broken"
** ''The Great Southern Trendkill'': "Floods"
** ''Reinventing the Steel'': "Revolution is My Name"
** Overall: "Walk", with "Cowboys" a close second.
*** Damageplan -- "Save Me"
* Music/PapaRoach -- "Last Resort" overall. By album:
** ''Infest'' -- "Last Resort"
** ''Lovehatetragedy'' -- "She Loves Me Not"
** ''Getting Away with Murder'' -- "Scars"
** ''The Paramour Sessions'' -- "Forever" or "...To Be Loved"
** ''Metamorphosis'' -- "Lifeline" or "Hollywood Whore"
** ''Time for Annihilation'' -- "Kick in the Teeth"
** ''The Connection'' -- "Still Swingin'"
** ''F.E.A.R.'' -- "[[Music/InThisMoment Gravity]]" or "Face Everything And Rise"
** ''Crooked Teeth'' -- "Help"
* Paper Tongues -- "Ride To California"
* Music/ParadiseLost -- "As I Die"
* [=ParagonX9=] -- "Chaoz Fantasy"
* Music/{{Paramore}}
** Older work: "Misery Business"
** Newer material: "Still Into You" or "Ain't It Fun"
* Ray Parker Jr. -- "Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}"
* Parkway Drive -- "Vice Grip" or "The Void"
* [[Music/GeorgeClinton Parliament]] -- "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)" (from ''Music/MothershipConnection'')
* Music/DollyParton -- "Jolene" or "Nine to Five". “I Will Always Love You” is by far her best-known song, but it’s universally associated with Music/WhitneyHouston instead.
* Passenger -- "Let Her Go"
* Music/PassionPit -- "Take a Walk"
* Patent Pending -- "Hey Mario", a tribute to ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''
* Music/PaulRevereAndTheRaiders -- "Kicks" or "Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)"
* Billy Paul -- "Me and Mrs. Jones"
* Sean Paul -- "Get Busy" or "Temperature"
* Music/{{Pavement}} -- "Cut Your Hair", "Summer Babe", or "Gold Soundz"
* Music/PearlJam -- By album:
** ''Music/{{Ten|PearlJamAlbum}}'' (and overall) -- "Black", "Alive", "Even Flow", or "Jeremy"
** ''Vs.'' -- "Daughter"
** ''Vitalogy'' -- "Better Man"
** ''Merkin Ball'' -- "I Got Id"
** ''No Code'' -- "Who You Are"
** ''Yield'' -- "Given to Fly" or "Do the Evolution"
** ''No Boundaries'' -- "Last Kiss"
** ''Binaural'' -- "Nothing as it Seems"
** ''Riot Act'' -- "I Am Mine"
** ''Pearl Jam'' -- "World Wide Suicide"
** ''Backspacer'' -- "The Fixer"
** ''Lightning Bolt'' -- "Mind Your Manners"
* Gayla Peevey -- "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas"
* Peking Duk -- "High" or "Say My Name"
* Music/{{Pendulum}} -- Formerly "Slam", but now "Propane Nightmares"
* Pennywise -- "Fuck Authority"
* Music/{{Pentagram}} -- "Forever My Queen" or "Living on a Ram's Head"
* Music/{{Pentatonix}} -- Excluding covers and mashups, "Can't Sleep Love"
* Pepper -- "No Control"
* Music/{{Perfume}} -- "Polyrhythm," "Chocolate Disco"
* Music/{{Periphery}} -- "Icarus Lives" or "Alpha"
* Christina Perri -- "Jar of Hearts" or "[[Literature/{{Twilight}} A Thousand Years]]"
* Music/KatyPerry -- By album:
** ''One of the Boys'' -- "I Kissed a Girl" or "Hot n Cold"
** ''Teenage Dream'' -- "California Gurls", "Teenage Dream" or "Firework"
*** ''Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection'' -- "Part of Me" or "Wide Awake"
** ''Prism''-- "Roar" or "Dark Horse"
** ''Witness'' -- "Chained to the Rhythm", "Bon Appetit" or "Swish Swish"
** ''Smile'' -- "Never Really Over"
** Overall -- "I Kissed a Girl", "Firework", and the ''Prism'' signatures tend to be the frontrunners.
* Music/PetShopBoys -- "West End Girls" overall. By album:
** ''Please'' -- "West End Girls" or "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)"
** ''Actually'' -- "It's a Sin" or "What Have I Done To Deserve This?"
** ''Introspective'' -- [[CoveredUp "Always on My Mind"]] or "Domino Dancing"
** ''Behaviour'' -- "Being Boring"
** ''Very'' -- "Can You Forgive Her?" or "Go West"
** ''Bilingual'' -- "Somewhere"
** ''Nightlife'' -- "New York City Boy"
** ''Release'' -- "Home And Dry"
** ''Fundamental'' -- "I'm With Stupid"
** ''Yes'' -- "Love Etc."
** ''Elysium'' -- "Winner"
** ''Electric'' -- "Love is a Bourgeois Construct" or "Thursday"
** ''Super'' -- "The Pop Kids" or "Say It To Me"
* Peter, Bjorn and John -- "Young Folks"
* Peter, Paul & Mary -- "Leaving on a Jet Plane"
* Petey Pablo -- "Raise Up"
* Music/TomPetty -- "Free Fallin'" (and "American Girl" for his songs with the Heartbreakers), with "I Won't Back Down", "Runnin' Down A Dream", "Mary Jane's Last Dance" and "Learning To Fly" as runner up songs overall. By album:
** ''Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers'': "American Girl" particularly, but also "Breakdown" is very well-remembered.
** ''You're Gonna Get It'': "Listen to Her Heart".
** ''Damn The Torpedoes'': "Refugee" and "Don't Do Me Like That", with "Here Comes My Girl" as a runner up.
** ''Hard Promises'': "The Waiting".
** ''Long After Dark'': "You Got Lucky".
** ''Southern Accents'': "Don't Come Around Here No More".
** ''Full Moon Fever'': "Free Fallin'" (most popular song overall), "I Won't Back Down" and "Runnin' Down A Dream".
** ''Into The Great Wide Open'': "Learning To Fly", although the title track is also very well-remembered.
** ''Greatest Hits'': "Mary Jane's Last Dance".
** ''Wildflowers'': "You Don't Know How It Feels" and, surprisingly, the title track, which wasn't even released as a single but became the most streamed song on the album. "You Wreck Me" is also well-remembered and was a very popular concert song.
** Overall, his later albums don't really have songs that can be considered Petty's signature songs. Perhaps his best-known hits here are "Walls" from the OST album ''Songs and Music from "She's the One"'' and "Saving Grace" from his third and last solo album ''Highway Companion''.
* Music/LizPhair -- "Why Can't I"
* Phantogram -- "Fall In Love" overall. By album:
** ''Eyelid Movies'' -- "When I'm Small"
** ''Nightlife'' -- "Don't Move"
** ''Voices'' -- "Fall In Love" or "Black Out Days"
** ''Three'' -- "Same Old Blues" or "You Don't Get Me High Anymore"
* Phantom Planet -- "[[Series/TheOC California]]"
* The Pharcyde -- "Passin' Me By"
* Music/{{Pharrell|Williams}} -- [[WesternAnimation/DespicableMe2 "Happy"]]
** N.E.R.D. -- "She Wants to Move", "Rock Star" or “Lemon”
* Music/{{Phish}} -- "You Enjoy Myself"
* Phil Phillips - "Sea of Love"
* Phillip Phillips -- "Home" or "Gone, Gone, Gone" to adult contemporary listeners, indisputably the first to general audiences
* Phoenix -- "If I Ever Feel Better" for their early work, "1901" for their later material. By album:
** ''United'' -- "If I Ever Feel Better"
** ''Alphabetical'' -- "Everything is Everything"
** ''It's Never Been Like That'' -- "Long Distance Call"
** ''Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix'' -- "1901" or "Lisztomania"
** ''Bankrupt!'' -- "Entertainment" or "Trying To Be Cool"
** ''Ti Amo'' -- "J-Boy"
* Music/EdithPiaf -- "Non, je ne regrette rien"
* Wilson Pickett -- "In the Midnight Hour" or "Land of 1,000 Dances"
* The Pierces -- "[[Series/PrettyLittleLiars Secret]]"
* Music/PierceTheVeil -- "King for a Day" or "Circles"
* The Pillows -- "Little Busters"
* Pilot -- "Magic"
* Music/{{Pink}} -- "Get the Party Started", "Just Like a Pill" and "So What"
* Music/PinkFloyd -- "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" or "Comfortably Numb" (from ''Music/TheWall''), "Money" (from ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'') or possibly the title track of ''Music/WishYouWereHere''. Funny, considering the former [[BlackSheepHit is not representative of their sound]].
** By album:
*** ''Music/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn'' -- "Astronomy Domine" or "Interstellar Overdrive"
*** ''Music/ASaucerfulOfSecrets'' -- "Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun", "Corporal Clegg", or "Jugband Blues"
*** ''Music/{{More}}'' -- "The Nile Song" or "Cymbaline"
*** ''Music/{{Ummagumma}}'' -- "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict"
*** ''Film/ZabriskiePoint'' -- "Heart Beat, Pig Meat", "Crumbling Land", or "Come in Number 51, Your Time Is Up"
*** ''Music/AtomHeartMother'' -- "Atom Heart Mother Suite" or "Fat Old Sun"
*** ''Music/{{Meddle}}'' -- "One of These Days" or "[[EpicRocking Echoes]]"
*** ''Music/ObscuredByClouds'' -- The title track or "Free Four"
*** ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'' -- "Time", "Money", "Us and Them", or "[[SiameseTwinSongs Brain Damage/Eclipse]]"
*** ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' -- "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" or "Wish You Were Here"
*** ''Music/{{Animals}}'' -- "Dogs", "Pigs (Three Different Ones)", or "Sheep"
*** ''Music/TheWall'' -- "Another Brick In the Wall, Part II", "Hey You", "Comfortably Numb", or "Run Like Hell"
*** ''Music/TheFinalCut'' -- "The Fletcher Memorial Home" or "The Final Cut"
*** ''Music/AMomentaryLapseOfReason'' -- "Learning to Fly", "On the Turning Away", or "Sorrow"
*** ''Music/TheDivisionBell'' -- "Take It Back", "Keep Talking", or "High Hopes"
*** ''Music/TheEndlessRiver'' -- "Louder Than Words"
*** Singles -- "Arnold Layne", "See Emily Play", "CarefulWithThatAxe, Eugene", "Embryo", or "When the Tigers Broke Free"
* Creator/{{Pinkfong}} -- "Baby Shark"
* Music/{{Pitbull}} -- By album:
** ''M.I.A.M.I.'' -- "Culo"
** ''Money Is Still a Major Issue'' -- "Everybody Get Up"
** ''El Mariel'' -- "Bojangles" or "Ay Chico (Lengua Afuera)"
** ''The Boatlift'' -- "The Anthem"
** ''Pitbull Starring in Rebelution'' -- "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)"
** ''Armando'' -- "Bon, Bon"
** ''Planet Pit'' -- "Give Me Everything"
** ''Global Warming'' -- "[[Film/MenInBlack3 Back in Time]]" or "Feel This Moment"
** ''Meltdown'' -- "Timber"
** ''Globalization'' -- "Time of Our Lives"
** ''Dale'' -- "Como Yo Le Doy"
** ''Climate Change'' -- "Messin' Around"
** Overall -- "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)", "Give Me Everything" and "Timber" are the frontrunners.
* Music/ThePixies -- "Where is My Mind?" (from ''Music/SurferRosa''), "Monkey Gone to Heaven", or "Debaser" (from ''Music/{{Doolittle}}'')
* Pizzicato Five -- "Baby Love Child"
* Placebo -- "Every You, Every Me"
* Plain White T's -- "Hey There Delilah"
* Plan B -- "She Said"
* Music/RachelPlatten -- "Fight Song" or "Stand By You" to adult contemporary audiences, indisputably the former to general audiences.
* Playboi Carti -- “Magnolia”
* Plies -- "Bust It Baby, Pt.2". Later on "Ran Off on the Plug Twice"
* Polaris -- "[[Series/TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete Hey Sandy]]"
* [[Music/{{POD}} P.O.D.]] -- "Youth of the Nation", with "Alive" a close second.
* Music/{{Poe}} -- "Angry Johnny"
* Music/ThePogues -- "Fairytale of New York"
* The Pointer Sisters -- "Jump (For My Love)" or "I'm So Excited"
* Music/{{Poison}} -- "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" or "Nothin' But a Good Time"
* Music/ThePolice -- "Every Breath You Take", "Roxanne", or "Message In a Bottle"
* Amilcare Ponchielli -- "Dance of the Hours"
* Music/IggyPop -- "The Passenger" and "Lust For Life" (both from ''Music/LustForLife'')
* Pop Evil -- "Trenches", "Footsteps", or "Deal with the Devil"
* Pop Will Eat Itself -- "Ich Bin Ein Auslander"
* The Poppy Family -- "Which Way You Goin', Billy?"
* Music/{{Porcupine Tree}} -- "Trains"
* Music/PorterRobinson -- "Language", "Sad Machine" or "Anime/{{Shelter}}"[[note]]shared with Madeon[[/note]]
* Music/{{Portishead}} -- "Glory Box" or "Sour Times" (both from ''Music/{{Dummy}}'')
* Portugal. The Man -- "Feel It Still"
* Mike Posner -- "I Took a Pill in Ibiza", with "Cooler Than Me" not far behind.
* Possessed -- "The Exorcist" or "Death Metal"
* Music/PostMalone -- "Rockstar”
* The Postal Service -- "Such Great Heights"
* Grace Potter & the Nocturnals -- "Paris (Ooh La La)"
* Powderfinger -- "My Happiness" or "These Days"
* Music/{{Powerman 5000}} -- "When Worlds Collide"
* Daniel Powter -- "Bad Day"
* The Presidents of the United States of America -- "Lump", with "Peaches" in second place
* Music/ElvisPresley -- "Heartbreak Hotel", "Jailhouse Rock", "A Little Less Conversation" [[note]](especially the Junkie XL remix)[[/note]], or "[[CoveredUp Hound Dog]]"
* The Pretenders -- "Brass in Pocket"
* Music/ThePrettyReckless -- Previously "[[Film/KickAss Make Me Wanna Die]]", but now "Heaven Knows"
* Pretty Ricky -- "Grind On Me"
** Pleasure P -- "Did You Wrong"
* PRTY [=H3RO=] -- "Life of the PRTY"
* Priestess -- “Lay Down”
* Music/PrimalScream -- "[[Film/TheWorldsEnd Loaded]]"
* Primordial -- "The Coffin Ships"
* Music/{{Primus}} -- "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" or "My Name is Mud"
* Music/{{Prince}} -- "Purple Rain" and "When Doves Cry" overall. By album:
** ''1999'' -- "1999" or "Little Red Corvette"
** ''Music/{{Purple Rain|Album}}'' -- "Purple Rain", "When Doves Cry", or "Let's Go Crazy" (from ''Film/PurpleRain'')
** ''Around the World in a Day'' -- "Raspberry Beret" or "[[{{Defictionalization}} Paisley Park]]"
** ''Parade'' -- "Kiss"
** ''Batman'' -- "Partyman" (from ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'')
** ''The Gold Experience'' -- "P. Control", "Endorphinmachine", "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World", or "Gold"
* Music/PrettyLights -- "Hot Like Dimes"
* Primer 55 -- "Loose"
* Music/TheProclaimers -- "[[Film/BennyAndJoon I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)]]" or "[[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} I'm On My Way]]"
* Music/TheProdigy -- "Firestarter," "Breathe", or "Smack My Bitch Up" (all from ''Music/TheFatOfTheLand'') in the UK; originally the former but now strictly the latter in the United States
* Prong -- "Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck"
* Propellerheads -- "[[Film/TheMatrix Spybreak!]]"
* Prophets of Rage -- "Prophets of Rage"
* Music/ProtestTheHero -- "Bloodmeat"
* Music/TheProtomen -- "Light Up the Night"
* Music/{{PSY}} -- "Music/GangnamStyle" internationally, although in his native South Korea this is debatable.
* PTAF -- "Boss Ass Bitch"
* Music/PublicEnemy -- "[[Film/DoTheRightThing Fight the Power]]" (from ''Music/FearOfABlackPlanet''), while in the UK it's "[[Series/TheLastLeg Harder Than You Think]]" (from ''How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?'')
* Music/PublicServiceBroadcasting -- [[{{UsefulNotes/YuriGagarin}} "Gagarin"]]
* Music/PuddleOfMudd -- "Blurry"
* Music/TitoPuente -- "Oye Como Va"
* [[IHaveManyNames Puff Daddy/P.Diddy/Diddy]] -- "I'll Be Missing You"
** Diddy-Dirty Money -- "Coming Home"
* Music/AllaPugacheva -- "Harlequin," "Million Scarlet Roses," or "This World"
* Music/{{Pulp}} -- "Common People"
* Puscifer -- "Rev 22:20" or "Momma Sed"
* Purple Ribbon All-Stars -- "Kryptonite (I'm On It)"
* Music/CharliePuth -- "See You Again" (shared with Wiz Khalifa). For his own songs, "One Call Away", "We Don't Talk Anymore" and "Attention".
* Quad City DJ's -- "C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)" or "Film/SpaceJam"
* Suzi Quatro -- "Devil Gate Drive"
* Quarashi -- "Stick 'Em Up"
* Music/{{Queen}} -- By album:
** ''Music/{{Queen|1973}}'' -- "Keep Yourself Alive" or "Great King Rat"
** ''Music/QueenII'' -- "Seven Seas of Rhye"
** ''Music/SheerHeartAttack'' -- "Killer Queen" or "[[Film/{{Cruella}} Stone Cold Crazy]]"
** ''Music/ANightAtTheOpera'' -- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
** ''Music/ADayAtTheRaces'' -- "Somebody to Love"
** ''Music/{{News of the World|Queen}}'' -- [[SiameseTwinSongs "We Will Rock You"/"We Are the Champions"]]
** ''Music/{{Jazz}}'' -- "[[Film/HardcoreHenry Don't Stop Me Now]]" or "Bicycle Race"
** ''Music/{{The Game|Queen}}'' -- "Another One Bites the Dust" or "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
** ''[[Film/FlashGordon1980 Flash Gordon]]'' -- "Flash"
** ''Music/HotSpace'' -- "Under Pressure" with Music/DavidBowie
** ''Music/TheWorks'' -- "Radio Ga Ga" or "I Want to Break Free"
** ''Music/AKindOfMagic'' -- [[Film/{{Highlander}} "Who Wants to Live Forever" or "Princes of The Universe"]]
** ''Music/TheMiracle'' -- "I Want It All" or "The Invisible Man"
** ''Music/{{Innuendo}}'' -- "The Show Must Go On", or possibly "These Are the Days of Our Lives"
** ''Music/MadeInHeaven'' -- "Made in Heaven" (even if it's a cover of one of Freddie Mercury's solo songs)
** Overall -- "Bohemian Rhapsody" and the ''News of the World'' signatures are the frontrunners, with "Dust", "Pressure" and "Don't Stop" not far behind.
* Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge -- "No One Knows" from ''Music/SongsForTheDeaf'', overall. By album:
** SelfTitledAlbum -- "If Only"
** ''Rated R'' -- "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" or "The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret"
** ''Songs for the Deaf'' -- "No One Knows" or "Go With The Flow"
** ''Lullabies to Paralyze'' -- "In My Head" or "Little Sister"
** ''Era Vulgaris'' - "3's & 7's" or "Make It Wit Chu"
** ''Like Clockwork'' -- "My God Is The Sun"
** ''Villains'' -- "The Way You Used To Do"
* Music/{{Queensryche}} -- "Silent Lucidity"
* Question Mark & the Mysterians -- "96 Tears"
* Music/QuietRiot -- "Bang Your Head (Metal Health)" or "[[CoveredUp Cum on Feel the Noize]]"
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* R. City -- "Locked Away" (although it is probably more associated with Creator/AdamLevine[=/=]Music/{{Maroon 5}})
* Ra -- "Do You Call My Name?"
* The Raconteurs -- "Steady, As She Goes"
* Music/{{Radiohead}} -- "Creep" (from ''Music/PabloHoney''), "Paranoid Android" and "Karma Police" (from ''Music/OKComputer'')
* Rae Sremmurd -- Originally "No Flex Zone" or "No Type", but now "Black Beatles" thanks to the Mannequin Challenge.
* Music/GerryRafferty -- "Baker Street"
* Music/{{Rainbow}} -- "Stargazer"
* Music/{{Rage}} -- "Don't Fear the Winter"
* Music/RageAgainstTheMachine -- "Killing in the Name" overall. By album:
** ''Rage Against the Machine'' -- "Killing in the Name"
** ''Evil Empire'' -- "Bulls on Parade"
** ''The Battle of Los Angeles'' -- "Guerilla Radio"
** ''Renegades'' -- "[[CoverVersion Renegades of Funk]]"
* Raghav -- "Angel Eyes" for the first half of his career, "Fire" for the second half.
* Music/BonnieRaitt -- "Something To Talk About"
* Music/{{Rammstein}} -- "Du hast" internationally, "Engel" in their native Germany.
* Music/TheRamones -- "Blitzkrieg Bop" (from ''Music/{{Ramones}}'')
* Music/{{Rancid}} -- "Time Bomb"
* Boots Randolph -- "[[Series/TheBennyHillShow Yakety Sax]]"
* Music/RascalFlatts — "[[CoveredUp What Hurts the Most]]" or "[[WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} Life Is]] [[CoveredUp a Highway]]"
* Music/TheRasmus -- "In The Shadows"
* The Raspberries -- "Go All the Way"
* Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats -- "S.O.B."
* Music/{{Ratt}} - "Round and Round"
* Music/MauriceRavel -- "Bolero"
* Michael Ray -- "Kiss You in the Morning"
* Ray J -- "One Wish" and "Sexy Can I"
* Ready for the World -- "Oh Sheila" and "Love You Down"
* Music/TheReadySet -- "Love Like Woe"
* [=RealFaction=] -- "[[VideoGame/CastleCrashers Simple Sight]]"
* Real [=McCoy=] -- "Another Night"
* Redbone -- "The Witch Queen of New Orleans" and more recently, "Come and Get Your Love", thanks to its inclusion in the opening scene of ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' and as the RealSongThemeTune of ''WesternAnimation/FIsForFamily''.
* Helen Reddy -- "I Am Woman"
* Music/OtisRedding -- "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay" (from ''Music/TheDockOfTheBay'')
* Rednex -- "Cotton Eye Joe"
* Music/{{Red}} -- "Breathe Into Me"
* Music/RedHotChiliPeppers -- "Under the Bridge", "Californication" and "Snow" overall. By album:
** ''The Red Hot Chili Peppers'' -- "True Men Don't Kill Coyotes"
** ''The Uplift Mofo Party Plan'' -- "Me and My Friends"
** ''Mother's Milk'' -- "[[Music/StevieWonder Higher Ground]]"
** ''Music/BloodSugarSexMagik'' -- "Under the Bridge" or "Give it Away"
** ''One Hot Minute'' -- "My Friends"
** ''Music/{{Californication}}'' -- the title track, "Scar Tissue" and "Otherside".
** ''By the Way'' -- The title track, "Can't Stop" or "The Zephyr Song"
** ''Music/StadiumArcadium'' -- "Dani California" or "Snow (Hey Oh)"
** ''I'm with You'' -- "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie"
** ''The Getaway'' -- "Dark Necessities"
* Music/TheRedJumpsuitApparatus -- "Face Down"
* Red Rider -- "Lunatic Fringe"
* Red Sun Rising -- "Thw Otherside" and "Emotionless"
* Redlight King -- "Bullet in My Hand"
* Jerry Reed -- [[Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit "East Bound and Down"]]
* Jimmy Reed -- "Big Boss Man" or "Baby What You Want Me to Do"
* Music/LouReed -- "Perfect Day" and "Walk on the Wild Side" (from ''Music/{{Transformer}}'')
* Reel 2 Real -- [[WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}} "I Like to Move It"]]
* Music/ReelBigFish -- "Sell Out"
* Music/DjangoReinhardt -- "Minor Swing"
* Refused -- Pre-reunion, "New Noise" or "Refused are Fucking Dead". Post-reunion, "Elektra".
* Music/RelientK -- "Be My Escape"
* Music/{{REM}} -- "Losing My Religion" (from ''Music/OutOfTime''), followed by "[[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)]]" (from ''Music/{{Document}}'') and BlackSheepHit "Everybody Hurts" (from ''Music/AutomaticForThePeople'') overall. By album:
** ''Music/{{Murmur}}'' -- "Radio Free Europe", followed by "Talk About the Passion"
** ''Music/{{Reckoning}}'' -- "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" and "(Don't Go Back to (Rockville)"
** ''Music/FablesOfTheReconstruction'' -- "Driver 8"
** ''Music/LifesRichPageant'' -- "Fall on Me", but also their CoveredUp version of "Superman"
** ''Music/{{Document}}'' -- "The One I Love" and "[[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)]]"
** ''Music/{{Green}}'' -- "Orange Crush" and "Stand"
** ''Music/OutOfTime'' -- "Losing My Religion", their overall signature, and "Shiny Happy People" (much to their chagrin)
** ''Music/AutomaticForThePeople'' -- "Everybody Hurts", "Man on the Moon" and "Nightswimming"
** ''[[Music/MonsterREMAlbum Monster]]'' -- "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" especially, but also "Bang and Blame"
** ''Music/NewAdventuresInHiFi''-- "E-Bow the Letter" and "Electrolite"
** ''Up'' -- "Daysleeper" and "At My Most Beautiful"
** ''Film/ManOnTheMoon'' -- "The Great Beyond"
** ''Reveal'' -- "Imitation of Life"
** ''In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003'' -- "Bad Day"
** ''Around the Sun'' -- "Leaving New York"
** ''Music/{{Accelerate}}'' -- "Supernatural Superserious"
** ''Music/CollapseIntoNow'' -- "Überlin"
** ''Part Lies, Part Truth, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011'' -- "We All Go Back to Where We Belong"
* The Rembrandts -- "[[Series/{{Friends}} I'll Be There For You]]"
* Remy Zero -- "[[Series/{{Smallville}} Save Me]]"
* Chris Rene -- "Young Homie"
* Theatre/{{RENT}} Cast -- "Seasons of Love"
* Music/REOSpeedwagon -- "Time For Me To Fly", "Keep On Loving You", "Take It On The Run", or "Can't Fight This Feeling"
* Music/TheReplacements -- "I Will Dare" or "Unsatisfied"
* Republica -- Originally a tie between "Ready to Go" and "Drop Dead Gorgeous", but now indisputably the former; outside the UK it was never contested.
* Rev Theory -- "[[Wrestling/RandyOrton Voices]]"
* Revis -- "Caught in the Rain"
* Music/{{Revocation}} -- [[Film/PowerRangers2017 "Communion"]]
* Music/BebeRexha -- "[[Music/FloridaGeorgiaLine Meant to Be]]"; its only competition for the title, "Me, Myself, & I" is officially Music/GEazy’s song and is more associated with him than her.
* Malvina Reynolds -- "Little Boxes"
* Music/RhapsodyOfFire -- "Emerald Sword"
* Thomas Rhett -- "Die a Happy Man"
* Damien Rice -- "Cannonball"
* Rich Boy -- "Throw Some D's"
* Rich Gang -- "Lifestyle"
* Rich Homie Quan -- "Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh)"
* Music/LionelRichie -- "Hello"
* The Righteous Brothers -- "[[Film/{{Ghost}} Unchained Melody]]"
* Music/{{Rihanna}} -- By album:
** ''Music of the Sun'' -- "Pon de Replay"
** ''A Girl Like Me'' -- "SOS" or "Unfaithful"
** ''Good Girl Gone Bad'' -- "Umbrella"
*** ''Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded'' -- "Disturbia"
** ''Rated R'' -- "Rude Boy"
** ''Loud'' -- "Only Girl (In the World)" or "California King Bed"
** ''Talk That Talk'' -- "[[Music/CalvinHarris We Found Love]]"
** ''Unapologetic'' -- "Diamonds" or "Stay"
** ''Anti'' -- "Work"
** Overall -- "Umbrella", with "We Found Love" easily in second.
* Music/LeAnnRimes -- "Blue"
* Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov -- "Flight of the Bumblebee"
* Music/RiseAgainst -- "Prayer of the Refugee", "Give It All", or "Savior" overall. By album:
** ''The Unraveling'' -- "Everchanging"
** ''Revolutions Per Minute'' -- "Like The Angel"
** ''Siren Song of the Counter-Culture'' -- "Give It All"
** ''The Sufferer & The Witness'' -- "Prayer of the Refugee"
** ''Appeal To Reason'' -- "Savior"
** ''Endgame'' -- "Help Is On The Way" or "Satellite"
** ''The Black Market'' -- "I Don't Want To Be Here Anymore"
** ''Wolves'' -- "The Violence"
* Rival Sons -- "Do Your Worst"
* Rixton -- "Me and My Broken Heart"
* Music/RobZombie -- "Dragula"
* Marty Robbins -- "El Paso" and "[[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Big Iron]]" (both of these are from ''Music/GunfighterBalladsAndTrailSongs'')
* Vicki Sue Robinson -- "Turn The Beat Around"
* Music/{{Robyn}} -- "Show Me Love" for her earlier work, "Dancing On My Own" more recently.
* Rockapella -- "[[Series/WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?]]"
* Rocket From the Crypt -- "On a Rope"
* A Rocket to the Moon -- “Like We Used To”
* Roddy Ricch -- "The Box"
* Music/OliviaRodrigo -- "Drivers License"
* Music/KennyRogers -- "The Gambler" or "Lady"
* Stan Rogers -- "Barrett's Privateers"
* Roll Deep -- "When I'm Ere"
* Music/TheRollingStones -- "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (from ''Music/OutOfOurHeads'') and "Paint It Black" (from ''Music/{{Aftermath}}'') tie for gold, although they have many runner-ups, including "Sympathy for the Devil" (from ''Music/BeggarsBanquet''), "Brown Sugar" (from ''Music/StickyFingers''), "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (single), "Start Me Up" (from ''Music/TattooYou''), "Gimme Shelter" (from ''Music/LetItBleed''), "Miss You" and "Beast of Burden" (from ''Music/SomeGirls'').
* The Romantics -- Initially "Talking In Your Sleep", but through RevivalByCommercialization has become "What I Like About You"
* Romanthony -- "Hold On" for his solo works, though he's most recognized for being the vocalist on "One More Time" and "Too Long" by Music/DaftPunk.
* Romeo Void -- "Never Say Never"
* The Ronettes -- "Be My Baby" or "Sleigh Ride"
* Music/LindaRonstadt -- "You're No Good"
* Mark Ronson -- "Uptown Funk!"[[note]]Though it's more associated with Music/BrunoMars. In the UK, this previously belonged to "Valerie" (which also got more associated with its [[Music/AmyWinehouse vocalist]])[[/note]]
* Rose Royce -- "Car Wash"
* Natalie La Rose -- "Somebody"
* Music/RickRoss -- "Hustlin'"
* Music/{{Roxette}} -- "The Look"
* Billy Joe Royal -- "Down in the Boondocks"
* Music/RoyalBlood -- "Out of the Black"
* Royksopp -- "Remind Me", "Eple", "Poor Leno", or "The Girl and the Robot"
* Music/GioachinoRossini -- "William Tell Overture"
* Asher Roth -- "I Love College"
* Route 94 -- "My Love" (though it's probably more associated with Jess Glynne)
* Music/KellyRowland -- "Stole" or “Motivation” for her solo work. She's best known for her appearances on Nelly's "Dilemma" and David Guetta's "When Love Takes Over".
* The Rubens -- "My Gun" or "Hoops"
* Rudimental -- "Feel The Love" in the U.K., "Lay It All On Me" in the U.S (albeit it is more associated with Ed Sheeran)
* Kevin Rudolf -- "Let It Rock"
* The Rumjacks -- "An Irish Pub Song"
* Music/RunDMC -- "It's Like That", "King of Rock", "It's Tricky", or "[[Music/{{Aerosmith}} Walk This Way]]"
* Run the Jewels -- "Run the Jewels", "Blockbuster Night Part 1", "Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)", or [[Film/BlackPanther2018 "Legend Has It"]]
* Music/TheRunaways -- "[[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Cherry Bomb]]"
* Music/ToddRundgren -- "Hello It's Me" or "Bang the Drum All Day" (the latter especially so for [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Green Bay Packers]] fans)
* Runner Runner -- “So Obvious”
* Music/RunningWild -- "Under Jolly Roger"
* Jennifer Rush -- "The Power of Love"; "Flames of Paradise" was this is the U.S. but even there she is now mostly known for the former.
* Music/{{Rush}} -- "Tom Sawyer"
* Patrice Rushen -- "Forget Me Nots"
* Ruth B -- "Lost Boy"
* Rusted Root -- "[[Film/{{Matilda}} Send Me]] [[WesternAnimation/IceAge On My Way]]"
* Rusty Eye -- "11.02 Day of the Dead"
* Serena Ryder -- "Stompa"
* Music/RozaRymbaeva -- "Alia" or "Love Has Come"
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* Music/{{Sabaton}}
** "To Hell and Back", "The Last Stand", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRbDLIXAp4o "Primo Victoria"]] (about the D-Day invasion, which was the song that got the band noticed and started their theme of [[HorribleHistoryMetal songs based on military history]] that they've hewed to ever since) and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-lU7A4Jfmg "Ghost Division"]] (since it came out on their 2008 album ''The Art of War'': they've opened most of their concerts with it ever since).
** [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff For the Polish market, though,]], it's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epeQwq-aYV0 "40:1"]] and to a lesser extent [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01IaKb6DmTw "Uprising"]], both of which star the Poles' furious but doomed resistance against the Germans in World War II.
* Sacramentum -- "Fog's Kiss"
* Music/{{Sade}} -- "Smooth Operator"
* [=SafetySuit=] -- "Stay"
* Sage the Gemini -- "Gas Pedal"
* Saint Asonia -- "Better Place"
* Saint Motel -- "My Type"
* Sak Noel -- "Loca People (WTF)"
* Saliva -- "Click Click Boom" overall. By album:
** ''Every Six Seconds'' -- Initially "Your Disease", but over time became "[[Wrestling/NoMercy Click Click Boom]]"
** ''Back into Your System'' -- "[[Wrestling/SurvivorSeries Always]]"
** ''Survival of the Sickest'' -- [[Wrestling/UnforgivenWrestling The title track]]
** ''Blood Stained Love Story'' -- "[[Wrestling/{{Wrestlemania}} Ladies and Gentlemen]]"
** ''Cinco Diablo'' -- "Family Reunion"
** ''Under Your Skin'' -- "Badass"
* Music/SaltNPepa -- "Push It"
* Sam and The Womp -- "Bom Bom"
* Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs -- "Lil' Red Riding Hood" or "Wooly Bully"
* Sanctuary -- "Battle Angels"
* Music/EmeliSande -- "Heaven" in the UK, "Next to Me" in the US
* Music/{{Santana}}(pre-comeback) -- "Black Magic Woman" (from ''Music/{{Abraxas}}'')
** Santana (post-comeback) -- "Smooth" (shared with Music/RobThomas).
* Juelz Santana -- "There It Go! (The Whistle Song)"
* Aggro Santos -- "Candy"
* Saosin -- "You're Not Alone" or "Seven Years"
* Marvin Sapp -- "Never Would Have Made It"
* Sash! -- "Ecuador"
* Jacob Sartorius -- "Sweatshirt"
* Music/JoeSatriani -- "Surfing with the Alien" or "Satch Boogie"
* Music/SavageGarden -- "Truly, Madly, Deeply", "To The Moon And Back", and [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable "I Want You"]] are the contenders.
** Music/DarrenHayes -- "Insatiable".
* Music/{{Savatage}} -- "Hall of the Mountain King"
* Saves the Day -- "Freakish"
* Music/SavingAbel -- "Addicted"
* Saving Jane -- "GirlNextDoor"
* Saweetie -- "Best Friend" (shared with Doja Cat)
* Music/SayAnything -- "Wow, I Can Be Sexual Too", "Alive With The Glory of Love", or "Every Man Has A Molly"
* Saxon -- "Princess of the Night" or "Denim and Leather"
* Scandal -- "The Warrior" or "Goodbye to You"
* Music/ScarSymmetry - "Morphogenesis"
* Scary Kids Scaring Kids -- "My Darkest Hour"
* Music/ScatmanJohn -- "Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)"
* Nicole Scherzinger -- "Don't Hold Your Breath"
* Peter Schilling -- "Major Tom (Coming Home)"
* [=ScHoolboy=] Q -- "Collard Greens"
* Music/FranzSchubert -- His Eighth "Unfinished" Symphony or the "[[Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows Trout Quintet]]"
* Robin Schulz -- For songs he was credited as a lead on, "Sugar". For his overall work, it's "Waves" in North America and "Prayer in C" in Europe.
* Music/{{S Club 7}} -- "Reach" in the UK, "Never Had a Dream Come True" in America
* Music/ScissorSisters -- "I Don't Feel Like Dancing" or "[[Series/DoctorWho I Can't Decide]]"
* Music/{{Scorpions}} -- "No One Like You","Rock You Like A Hurricane", and "Wind of Change"
* Music/JillScott -- "A Long Walk"
* Raymond Scott -- "Powerhouse"
* Music/TravisScott -- "Sicko Mode"
* Music/GilScottHeron -- "Music/TheRevolutionWillNotBeTelevised"
* Scratch Acid -- "Cannibal"
* Screaming Trees -- "Nearly Lost You"
* Music/TheScript -- "Breakeven"
* Music/{{Seal}} -- "[[Film/BatmanForever Kiss from a Rose]]"
* Seals & Crofts -- "Summer Breeze"
* Jay Sean -- "Down"
* Seaweed -- "Losing Skin" or "Go your own way"
* Sebadoh -- "Rebound"
* Music/GuySebastian - “Angels Brought Me Here”, “Battle Scars”, “Choir”
* Music/NeilSedaka -- "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" (both versions) or "Oh! Carol"
* The Seeds -- "Pushin' Too Hard"
* Music/{{Seether}} -- By album:
** ''Fragile'' and ''Disclaimer'' -- "Fine Again"
** ''Disclaimer II'' -- "Broken"
** ''Karma and Effect'' -- "[[Wrestling/{{SummerSlam}} Remedy]]"
** ''Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces'' -- "[[Wrestling/NoWayOutWrestling Fake It]]"
** ''Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray'' -- "Country Song"
** ''Seether: 2002-2013'' -- "Weak"
** ''Isolate and Medicate'' -- "Words as Weapons"
** ''Poison the Parish'' -- "Let You Down"
** Overall -- "Fake It" is their signature for rock fans (with "Remedy" and "Country Song" tying for second), whole "Broken" (which features Music/AmyLee) is it in general.
* Music/BobSeger -- [[Film/RiskyBusiness "Old Time Rock and Roll"]]
* Semisonic -- "Closing Time"
* Music/SensesFail -- "Can't Be Saved"
* Music/{{Sepultura}} -- "Roots Bloody Roots" or "Refuse/Resist"
* Set It Off -- "Why Worry" or "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing"
* Music/{{Sevendust}} -- By album:
** ''Sevendust'' -- "Black"
** ''Home'' -- "Denial"
** ''Animosity'' -- "Praise"
** ''Seasons'' -- "Enemy"
** ''Next'' -- "Ugly"
** ''Alpha'' -- "Driven"
** ''Chapter VII'' -- "Prodigal Son''
** ''Cold Day Memory'' -- "Unraveling"
** ''Black out the Sun'' -- "Decay"
** ''Kill the Flaw'' -- "Thank You"
* Seven Mary Three -- "Cumbersome"
* Conrad Sewell -- "Hold Me Up" in the U.S. and "Start Again" in Australia as a solo artist, but he's best known overall for his appearance on Kygo's "Firestone".
* Music/SexPistols -- "Anarchy in the U.K." and "God Save The Queen" (from ''Music/NeverMindTheBollocksHeresTheSexPistols'')
* Shaggy -- "Angel", "It Wasn't Me" or "Boombastic"
* Shai -- "If I Ever Fall In Love Again"
* Music/{{Shakira}} -- Overall "Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)", "Whenever, Wherever", "Chantaje" and "Hips Don't Lie"
** ''Laundry Service'' -- "Whenever, Wherever", "Underneath Your Clothes"
** ''Oral Fixations 2" -- "Hips Don't Lie"
** ''She Wolf'' -- "She Wolf", "Gypsy"
** ''Sale e Sol'' -- "Loca", "Addicted To You"
** ''Shakira'' -- "Can't Remember to Forget You", "La La La"
** ''El Dorado'' -- "Chantaje"
* Music/TupacShakur -- "California Love"
* Shalamar -- "The Second Time Around"
** Howard Hewett -- "I'm For Real" or "Say Amen"
* Shaman's Harvest -- "Dragonfly" to rock audiences; "[[Wrestling/DrewMcIntyre Broken Dreams]]" to wrestling fans
* The Shamen -- "Ebenezer Goode" in the UK, "Move Any Mountain" in the U.S.
* Tyler Shaw -- "Kiss Goodnight"
* Creator/WilliamShatner -- His covers of "[[Music/{{Pulp}} Common People]]" or "[[Music/EltonJohn Rocket Man]]"
* Shawnna -- "Gettin' Some" or her verse on Disturbin' Tha Peace's gang cut "Get The Fuck Back"
* [[Creator/ZooeyDeschanel She]] & [[Music/MWard Him]] -- "In the Sun".
* Music/SheWantsRevenge -- "[[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryHotel Tear You Apart]]"
* Sheck Wes -- "Mo Bamba"
* Music/EdSheeran -- By album:
** ''+'' --"The A Team"
** ''x'' -- "Thinking Out Loud"
** ''÷'' -- "Shape of You" or “Perfect”
* Frank Shelley -- "[[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder Rockhouse]]"
* Music/BlakeShelton — "God Gave Me You" or "Boys Round Here"
* Kenny Wayne Shepherd -- "Blue on Black"
* Sheppard -- "Geronimo"
* Sherlock Brothers -- "My Way"
* Creator/AllanSherman -- "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh"
* Music/{{SHINee}} -- "Lucifer"
* Music/{{Shinedown}} -- "Second Chance" overall. By album:
** ''Leave a Whisper'': "Fly From the Inside", "45", or "[[Music/LynyrdSkynyrd Simple Man]]"
** ''Us and Them'': "[[Wrestling/NoMercy Save Me]]"
** ''The Sound of Madness'': "Second Chance"
** ''Amaryllis'': "Bully" and "[[Wrestling/WWERaw Enemies]]"
** ''Threat to Survival'': "Cut the Cord"
** ''Attention Attention'' "Devil"
* The Shins -- "[[Film/GardenState New Slang]]"
* Shiny Toy Guns -- "Le Disko"
* Michelle Shocked -- "Anchorage", [[FirstInstallmentWins her debut single]].
* Shonan No Kaze -- "Junrenka" in their native Japan, [[VideoGame/Yakuza0 "Bubble"]] everywhere else
* The Shondells -- "Crimson & Clover"
* Shop Boyz -- "Party Like A Rock Star"
* Howard Shore -- "Film/TheLordOfTheRings" theme
* Music/ShortStack -- "Sweet December"
* Bobby Shmurda -- "Hot Nigga (Hot Boy)"
* Shout Out Louds -- "[[Film/{{Happythankyoumoreplease}} My Friend and the Ink on his Fingers]]"
* Shriekback -- "My Spine is the Baseline"
* Shy FX -- "Original Nuttah"
* Music/{{Sia}} -- "Chandelier" or "Cheap Thrills"
* Sigrid -- “Strangers”
* Music/{{Silencer}} -- "Sterile Nails and Thunderbowels" or "Death - Pierce Me"
* Silentó -- "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)"
* The Silent Comedy -- "Bartholomew"
* Silk -- "Freak Me" or "Girl U For Me"
* Music/{{Silverchair}} -- "Tomorrow"
* Music/SilversunPickups -- "Lazy Eye" or "Panic Switch"
* Music/AlanSilvestri -- The ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' theme or ''[[Film/TheAvengers2012 The Avengers]]'' theme.
* Silvertide -- "Ain't Comin' Home"
* Music/CarlySimon -- "You're So Vain"
* Music/PaulSimon -- "You Can Call Me Al" (from ''Music/{{Graceland}}'')
* Music/SimonAndGarfunkel -- "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "The Sound of Silence"
* Music/NinaSimone -- "I Got Life" or "Feeling Good"
* Music/SimpleMinds -- In the U.S., it was initially either "[[Film/TheBreakfastClub Don't You (Forget About Me)]]" or "Alive and Kicking", but now it's easily the former. Back in the UK however, both are in the running with "Waterfront" also a rival.
* Music/SimplePlan -- "Welcome to My Life"
* Music/SimplyRed -- "Holding Back the Years" and "Stars"
* Cody Simpson -- "[=iYiYi=]"
* Music/SigurRos -- "Hoppípolla" or "[[Series/GameOfThrones The Rains of Castamere]]"
* Music/FrankSinatra -- "My Way" (from ''Music/MyWay'') or "New York, New York"
* Nancy Sinatra -- "These Boots Are Made For Walkin"'
* Since October -- "Guilty"
* Bob Sinclar -- "Love Generation"
* Siouxsie and the Banshees -- "Hong Kong Garden" or "Cities In Dust"
* [[Music/SirMixALot Sir Mix-A-Lot]] -- "Baby Got Back"
* Music/{{Sirusho}} -- "[=PreGomesh=] or "Qéle Qéle"
* Sister Sledge -- "We Are Family"
* Music/TheSistersOfMercy -- "This Corrosion"
* Troye Sivan -- "Youth"
* Six Feet Under -- "Amerika the Brutal" or "One Bullet Left"
* Music/SixpenceNoneTheRicher -- [[Film/ShesAllThat "Kiss Me"]]
* Sixx: A.M. -- "Life is Beautiful" or "Lies of the Beautiful People"
* Skee-Lo -- "I Wish"
* Skepta -- "Konnichiwa" in the US. It's much harder to say in his native UK, though, albeit "That's Not Me" and "Shutdown" are the lead candidates there.
* Music/SkidRow -- "18 and Life". In 2017, said song got remade though Kevin Michael Lee replaces Ricky.
* Music/{{Skillet}} -- "Hero", "Monster", "[[Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon Awake and Alive]]", and "Feel Invincible" are the contenders. By album;
** ''Comatose'' -- "Rebirthing" and "Whispers in the Dark"
** ''Awake'' -- "Hero", "Monster" or "Awake and Alive"
** ''Rise'' -- "Not Gonna Die"
** '' Unleashed'' -- "Feel Invincible"
** ''Victorious'' -- "[[Wrestling/WWERaw Legendary]]"
* Skindred -- "Nobody"
* Music/SkinnyPuppy -- "Assimilate"
* Skin Yard -- "Hallowed Ground", "The Birds"
* Music/{{Skrillex}} -- "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" or "Bangarang"
* Skunk Anansie -- "Twisted (Everyday Hurts)" or "Hedonism (Just Because You Feel Good)"
* Skycyle -- "[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo It's Terror Time Again]]"
* Sky Eats Airplane-- "Giants in the Ocean"
* Slade -- "Cum on Feel the Noize"
* Music/{{Slapshock}} -- "Agent Orange"
* Slash -- "You're a Lie"
* Harry Slash & the Slashtones — "[[Wrestling/ExtremeChampionshipWrestling This Is Extreme!]]"
* Slaughterhouse -- "Throw That"
* Music/{{Slayer}} -- "Raining Blood", "Angel of Death" (both from ''Music/ReignInBlood'')
* Music/{{Sleep}} -- "Dragonaut" or [[EpicRocking "Dopesmoker"]]
* Sleeping with Sirens -- "If I'm James Dean, You're Audrey Hepburn" or "If You Can't Hang"
* Sleepwave -- "Through The Looking Glass"
* Music/SleighBells -- "[[KickAss2 Infinity Guitars]]" or "Bitter Rivals"
* Slightly Stoopid -- "Closer to the Sun"
* Music/{{Slipknot}} -- "Psychosocial" overall. By album:
** ''Slipknot'' -- "Wait and Bleed"
** ''Iowa'' -- "Left Behind"
** ''Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses)'' -- "Duality" and "Before I Forget"
** ''All Hope Is Gone'' -- "Psychosocial"
** ''.5: The Grey Chapter'' -- "The Devil in I"
** ''We Are Not Your Kind'' -- "Unsainted" and "Solway Firth"
* Sloan - "Money City Maniacs"
* Music/SlyAndTheFamilyStone -- "Everyday People" (from ''Music/{{Stand}}'')
* Music/TheSmallFaces -- "Itchycoo Park"
* Smallpools -- "Dreaming"
* Smash Into Pieces -- "Disaster Highway"
* Music/SmashMouth -- "[[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} All Star]]", though "Walkin' on the Sun" and their cover of "I'm A Believer" aren't far off.
* Music/TheSmashingPumpkins -- "Bullet With Butterfly Wings", "1979", or "Today" (from ''Music/MellonCollieAndTheInfiniteSadness'')
* smile.dk -- "Butterfly"
* Smile Empty Soul -- "Bottom of a Bottle"
* Canaan Smith -- "Love You Like That"
* Music/ElliottSmith -- "Miss Misery"
* Granger Smith -- "Backroad Song"
* Michael W. Smith – "Friends" (from his early work) or "Breathe" (from his later worship-oriented material) to his core Christian audience; "Place in this World" to more general audiences.
* Music/PattiSmith -- "Because the Night"
* Music/SamSmith -- "Money on My Mind" and "Stay with Me" in the UK, "Stay with Me" and "I'm Not the Only One" in the U.S. For Smith's featured credits, Disclosure's "Latch" in North America and Naughty Boy's "La La La" everywhere else. Though Film/JamesBond fans might argue for "[[Film/{{Spectre}} Writing's on the Wall]]". %% Smith identifies as non-binary, but using "their" as a singular pronoun is still improper usage to many.
* Creator/WillSmith -- "Film/MenInBlack" or "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It"
* Music/TheSmiths -- "How Soon is Now?" or "There is a Light That Never Goes Out" (from ''The Queen is Dead'')
* Smokey Robinson & the Miracles — "The Tears of a Clown"
** Robinson as a solo artist: "Being with You"
* Snail's House -- "Pixel Galaxy"
* Snap! -- "The Power" and "Rhythm is a Dancer"
* Music/SnoopDogg -- "Gin and Juice" or "Drop It Like It's Hot"
* Snow -- "Informer"
* Mark Snow -- "Series/TheXFiles" theme
* Music/SnowPatrol -- "[[Series/GreysAnatomy Chasing Cars]]"
* Socialburn -- "Down"
* Music/SocialDistortion -- "Ball and Chain," "I Was Wrong," or "Story of My Life"
* Music/SodaStereo -- "De Musica Ligera"
* Sodom -- "Agent Orange"
* Music/SoftCell -- "[[CoveredUp Tainted Love]]". It has also become Marc Almond's signature song as a solo artist, although his version is not as well-known as the original.
* [=SoKo=] -- "We Could Be Dead By Tomorrow"
* Soil -- "Redefine"
* The Solids -- "[[Series/HowIMetYourMother Hey Beautiful]]"
* Martin Solveig -- "Hello". Ditto for Dragonette.
* Something Corporate -- "Konstantine"
* Music/SonataArctica -- "Full Moon"
* Music/StephenSondheim -- "Send in the Clowns"
* Music/SonicYouth -- "Teenage Riot" (from ''Music/DaydreamNation'') or "Kool Thing" (from ''Music/{{Goo}}'')
* The Sonics -- "Strychnine"
* Music/{{Sonny|Bono}} and Music/{{Cher}} -- "I Got You, Babe"
* Sophie & Magaly -- "Le Papa Pingouin"
* The S.O.S. Band - "Take Your Time (Do It Right)"
* Soul Asylum -- "Runaway Train"
* Music/SoulCoughing -- "Circles"
* Soul Embraced -- "My Tourniquet"
* Musiq Soulchild -- "Halfcrazy"
* Music/{{Soulfly}} -- "[[Music/{{Limp Bizkit}} Bleed]]"
* Music/SouljaBoy -- "Crank That (Soulja Boy)"
* Music/{{Soundgarden}} -- "[[BlackSheepHit Black Hole Sun]]", or "Spoonman"
** Music/ChrisCornell -- "Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart" or [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 "You Know My Name"]]
* Soup Dragons -- "[[CoveredUp I'm Free]]" or "Divine Thing"; the latter did chart higher than the former in the US, but is mostly recognized in the UK.
* John Philip Sousa -- "Stars and Stripes Forever"
* Music/{{Space}} -- "Female of the Species"
* Spacehog -- "In The Meantime"
* Spandau Ballet -- "True"
* Music/{{Sparks}} -- "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us"
* Bubba Sparxxx -- "Ms. New Booty", "Deliverance" or "Ugly" to rap fans; indisputably the first to general audiences
* Tommy Sparks -- "[[UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh She's Got]] [[VideoGame/JustDance Me Dancing]]"
* Music/SpawnOfPossession -- "Apparition"
* Music/BritneySpears:
** Early Material: "...Baby One More Time", "Oops!... I Did It Again", "Toxic" or "I'm a Slave 4 U"
** Newer Material: "Womanizer", "Gimme More" and "Work Bitch"
* The Specials -- "A Message to You, Rudy"
* Music/ReginaSpektor -- "Fidelity" to her older fans; "[[Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack You've Got Time]]" to younger audiences.
* Music/SpiceGirls -- "Wannabe"
** Music/GeriHalliwell -- "[[Film/BridgetJonesDiary It's Raining]] [[CoveredUp Men]]".
** Music/MelanieC -- Depends on which place. In her home country in the U.K, it's "[[Film/BendItLikeBeckham I Turn To You]]". In other parts of Europe, it's "First Day of My Life". Everywhere else, it's "Never Be The Same Again".
** Music/EmmaBunton -- "What Took You So Long?"
** Music/MelB -- "I Want You Back".
** Music/VictoriaBeckham --"A Mind of its Own"
* Spinal Tap -- "Stonehenge"
* Spin Doctors -- "Two Princes"
* Spinners -- "Working My Way Back To You"
* Split Enz -- "I Got You"
* Sponge -- "Plowed" and "Molly (16 Candles)"
* Music/RickSpringfield -- "Jessie's Girl"
* Music/BruceSpringsteen -- "Dancing In The Dark" is his biggest hit, but "Born in the USA" or "Born to Run" (from ''Music/BornToRun'') are sure more representative of his songwriting.
* Music/{{Squarepusher}} -- "Beep Street", "My Red Hot Car", or "[[Film/LostInTranslation Tommib]]"
* Music/BillySquier -- "The Stroke"
* Squirrel Nut Zippers -- "Hell"
* Music/{{Squeeze}} -- "Tempted", "Cool for Cats"
* SR-71 -- "Right Now"
* Music/StVincent -- "Birth In Reverse"
* Stabbing Westward -- "Save Yourself"
* Staind -- "It's Been Awhile"
* Music/MeganTheeStallion -- "Savage"
* Stampeders -- "Sweet City Woman"
* Alexandra Stan -- "Mr. Saxobeat"
* The Standells -- "Dirty Water"
* The Staple Singers -- "I'll Take You There"
* Vince Staples -- "Norf Norf" or "Big Fish"
* Chris Stapleton -- "Tennessee Whiskey" or "Nobody to Blame"
* Starcastle -- "Lady of the Lake"
* Music/{{Starflyer 59}} -- "No New Kinda Story"
* Starland Vocal Band -- "Afternoon Delight"
* Edwin Starr -- "War"
* Music/RingoStarr -- "It Don't Come Easy"
* Music/{{Starset}} -- "My Demons" or "Monster"
* Music/JeffersonStarship -- "We Built This City", "Sara" or "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"
* State of Shock -- "Money Honey"
* Static-X -- "Push It" or "I'm with Stupid"
** Wayne Static -- "Assassins of Youth"
* Music/StatusQuo -- "Whatever You Want" or [[CoveredUp their covers]] of John Fogerty's "Rockin' All Over The World" and Bolland & Bolland's "In The Army Now"
* Stealers Wheel -- "[[Film/ReservoirDogs Stuck in the Middle With You]]"
* Steam -- "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"
* Music/SteamPoweredGiraffe -- "Honeybee"
* Music/SteelyDan -- "Reelin' in the Years" from ''Can't Buy A Thrill''.
* Creator/HaileeSteinfeld -- "Starving"
* Music/{{Steppenwolf}} -- Either "[[Film/EasyRider Born to Be Wild]]" or "Magic Carpet Ride"
* Music/{{Steps}} -- "5, 6, 7, 8", though their CoverVersion of "[[Music/TheBeeGees Tragedy]]" is more revered in their home country.
* Stereo MC's -- "Connected"
* Music/{{Stereolab}} -- "French Disko". A possible challenger is "Metronomic Underground" which wasn't a hit anywhere but over the years has emerged as something of an EnsembleDarkhorse.
* Stereomud -- "Pain"
* Stereophonics -- "Dakota"
* Stereos -- "Butterflies" or "Turn it Up"
* Cat Stevens -- "Peace Train", his only original song to hit #1 on the charts[[note]]He also did a cover of the traditional hymn "Morning Has Broken" which hit #1[[/note]] although these days he's better known for "Father and Son", "Wild World" and "Moonshadow".
* Music/SufjanStevens -- "Chicago"
* Music/AlStewart -- "Year of the Cat"
* Music/RodStewart -- "Maggie May" or "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"
* Stiff Little Fingers -- "Alternative Ulster"
* Curtis Stigers -- "I Wonder Why" to older audiences, "[[Series/SonsOfAnarchy This Life]]" to younger ones.
* Stephen Stills -- "[[Film/{{Prometheus}} Love the One You're With]]"
* Music/{{Sting}} -- "Fields of Gold"
* Music/LindseyStirling -- "Crystallize" or "Shatter Me"
* Music/JossStone -- "Fell In Love With a Boy", "You Had Me"
* Stonefree Experience -- "[[Wrestling/JohnMorrison Ain't No Make Believe]]"
* Music/StoneSour -- "Through Glass" overall. By album:
** ''Stone Sour'': "Bother"
** ''Come What(ever) May'': "Through Glass"
** ''Audio Secrecy'': "Say You'll Haunt Me"
** ''House of Gold & Bones - Part 1'': "Gone Sovereign/Absolute Zero"
** ''House of Gold & Bones - Part 2'': "Do Me a Favor"
** ''Hydrograd'': "Song #3"
* Music/TheStoneRoses -- "One Love", "Fool's Gold" or "I Wanna Be Adored"
* Music/StoneTemplePilots -- "Interstate Love Song" or "Plush"
* Music/TheStooges -- "Search and Destroy" (from ''Music/RawPower'') and "I Wanna Be Your Dog" (from ''[[Music/TheStoogesAlbum The Stooges]]'')
* Stormzy -- "Shut Up"
* Story of the Year -- "Until The Day I Die"
* The Story so Far -- "Quicksand"
* The Stranglers -- "Golden Brown" or "Peaches"
* [[Music/DevinTownsend Strapping Young Lad]] -- "Detox" or "Love?"
* Music/{{Stratovarius}} -- "Black Diamond"
* Music/IgorStravinsky -- Theatre/TheRiteOfSpring, Theatre/TheFirebird
* Johann Strauss -- "Blue Danube"
* Richard Strauss -- "Music/AlsoSprachZarathustra"
* The Strawbs -- "Part of the Union"
* Sevyn Streeter -- "It Won't Stop" or "[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious How Bad Do You Want It (Oh Yeah)]]"
* Music/StreetlightManifesto -- "A Better Place, a Better Time"
* The Streets -- "Dry Your Eyes"
* Music/TheStrokes -- "Last Nite" or "Reptilia"
* Music/{{Stromae}} -- "Alors on danse" or "Formidable"
* The Strumbellas -- "Spirits"
* The Struts -- "Could Have Been Me"
* Harry Styles -- "Sign of the Times"
* Music/{{Styx}} -- "Come Sail Away", "Renegade", or "Mr. Roboto"
* Music/{{Sublime}} -- "Santeria" or "What I Got"
* Submersed -- "Hollow"
* Suede -- "Animal Nitrate" or "So Young"
* Music/{{Suffocation}}" -- "Jesus Wept," "Liege of Inveracity", "Infecting the Crypts", "Pierced from Within", or "Thrones of Blood"
* Music/SufjanStevens -- "Chicago"
* Music/{{Sugababes}} -- "Round Round"
* The Sugarcubes-- "Birthday"
* Sugarland -- "Stuck Like Glue"
* Sugarloaf -- "Green-Eyed Lady"
* Music/SugarRay -- "Fly", or "Every Morning".
* Music/TheSugarhillGang -- "Rapper's Delight"
* Music/SuicidalTendencies -- "Institutionalized"
* Music/{{Suicide}} -- "Ghost Rider"
* Suicide Silence -- "Wake Up"
* Jazmine Sullivan -- "Need U Bad"
* Sum 41 -- "Fat Lip", "In Too Deep", or "Still Waiting"
* Sumerlands -- "The Seventh Seal"
* Music/DonnaSummer -- "I Feel Love", "Last Dance", or "Hot Stuff"
* Sunny Day Real Estate -- "Seven"
* Sunn O))) -- "Hunting and Gathering (Cydonia)" (Aside from their Scott Walker colab, probably the closest thing they have to an actual "song")
* Music/SuperFurryAnimals -- "The Man Don't Give a Fuck" (stand-alone single) or "Juxtapozed with U" (From ''Rings Around the World'')
* Music/SuperJunior -- "Sorry, Sorry", "Superman" and "Mr. Simple"
* Music/{{Supertramp}} -- "Give a Little Bit", "Dreamer", "The Logical Song" or "Breakfast in America"
* Music/TheSupremes -- "Stop! In the Name of Love" with "Baby Love", "You Can't Hurry Love", "Keep Me Hanging On," "Come See About Me", and "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" as runners-up.
** Music/DianaRoss -- "I'm Coming Out", "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and "Upside Down"
* Surface -- "The First Time"
* Music/{{Survivor}} -- "[[Film/RockyIII Eye of the Tiger]]" with "I Can't Hold Back" and "High on You" as runners-up.
* Music/{{Swans}} -- "I Crawled"
** Newer fans will think it's "A Little God in my Hands" or "The Seer".
* Keith Sweat -- "I Want Her" or "Twisted"
* Music/SwedishHouseMafia -- "Don't You Worry Child"
* Music/{{Sweet}} -- "Ballroom Blitz" and "Fox On The Run"
* Skye Sweetnam -- "Tangled Up In Me"
* Music/TaylorSwift: By album:
** ''Taylor Swift'' -- "Teardrops on my Guitar"
** ''Fearless'' -- "[[Film/LettersToJuliet Love Story]]" or "You Belong With Me"
** ''Speak Now'' -- "Mine", "Back to December" or "Mean"
** ''Red'' -- "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" or "I Knew You Were Trouble"
** ''1989'' -- "Shake It Off", "Blank Space" or "Bad Blood"
** ''Reputation'' -- "Look What You Made Me Do" or “Delicate”
** ''Lover'' -- “ME!” or “You Need to Calm Down”
** ''folklore'' -- “cardigan”
** ''evermore'' -- “willow”
** Overall -- The ''Fearless'' signatures for her country era and the ''1989'' signatures for her pop era
* Music/{{Switchfoot}} -- "Meant to Live" or "Dare You To Move"
* Music/{{Sybreed}} -- "Bioactive"
* Music/SystemOfADown -- "Chop Suey!" or "BYOB"
** Serj Tankian -- "Empty Walls" and "Sky Is Over"
** Scars on Broadway -- "Lives"
* Music/{{SZA}} -- "Love Galore" or "The Weekend"
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* T-Spoon -- "Sex on the Beach"
* T-Square -- "Truth"
** Masahiro Andoh -- [[VideoGame/GranTurismo "Moon Over The Castle"]]
* [[Music/MarcBolan T. Rex]] -- "Get it On (Bang a Gong)"
* Taco -- "Puttin' on the Ritz"
* Music/TakeThatBand -- "Back For Good"
* Mariya Takeuchi -- "Plastic Love"
* Music/TakingBackSunday -- "[=MakeDamnSure=]" or "Cute Without the 'E'"
* Music/BillyTalent -- "[[VideoGame/{{SSX}} Red Flag]]"
* Music/TalkTalk -- "It's My Life"
* Music/TalkingHeads -- "Psycho Killer", "Once in a Lifetime" and "Burning Down the House" overall. By album--
** ''Music/TalkingHeads77'' -- "Psycho Killer"
** ''Music/MoreSongsAboutBuildingsAndFood'' -- [[CoverVersion "Take Me to the River"]]
** ''Music/FearOfMusic'' -- "Life During Wartime"
** ''Music/RemainInLight'' -- "Once in a Lifetime"
** ''Music/SpeakingInTongues'' -- "Burning Down the House" or "This Must Be the Place"
** ''Music/LittleCreatures'' -- "And She Was"
** ''Music/TrueStories'' -- "Wild Wild Life"
** ''Music/{{Naked}}'' -- "(Nothing But) Flowers"
* Music/TameImpala: By album --
** ''Innerspeaker'' -- "Solitude is Bliss"
** ''Lonerism'' -- "Feels Like We Only Go Backwards" or "Elephant"
** ''Currents'' -- "Let It Happen", "The Less I Know The Better", or "New Person, Same Old Mistakes"
** ''The Slow Rush'' -- "Borderline" or "Lost in Yesterday"
** Overall -- Most fans point at the ''Lonerism'' and the first two ''Currents'' signatures, although the mainstream crowd point at "New Person, Same Old Mistakes" due to Music/{{Rihanna}}'s cover.
* Tantric -- "Breakdown"
* Taproot -- "Poem"
* Music/{{Tarot}} -- "Wings of Darkness"
* Music/{{Tatu}} -- "All the Things She Said"
** Lena Katina -- "Never Forget"
** Yulia Volkova -- "Didn't Wanna Do It"
* Music/PyotrIlychTchaikovsky -- "[[Theatre/TheNutcracker The Nutcracker Suite]]" or "1812 Overture"
* Teapacks -- "Rikudi Amba" or "Eize Olam"
* Music/TheTeaParty -- "Heaven Coming Down"
* Music/TearsForFears -- "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" or "Shout"
** By their first three albums:
*** ''The Hurting'' - "Pale Shelter" or "Mad World"
*** ''Songs from the Big Chair'' - "Shout", "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", or "Head Over Heels".
*** ''The Seeds of Love'' - "Woman In Chains" or "Sowing the Seeds of Love".
* Music/TechN9ne -- "Hood Go Crazy" to mainstream audiences, within the core community it's much harder to say.
* Music/TeganAndSara -- "Closer" or "[[WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie Everything Is Awesome]]"
* Michel Teló -- "Ai Se Eu Te Pego"
* Téléphone -- "Un autre monde"
* Music/TinieTempah -- "Written In The Stars"
* Technotronic -- "Pump Up The Jam"
* The Temperance Movement - "Take it Back"
* Temple of the Dog -- "Hunger Strike"
* the [=GazettE=] -- "Reila", "Cassis"
* The Temptations -- "My Girl"
* Temposhark -- "Don't Mess With Me"
* Music/TenaciousD -- "Tribute"
* Music/TessaViolet -- "Crush"
* Music/{{Testament}} -- "Practice What You Preach" or "Over the Wall"
* Texas -- "Say What You Want"
* Texas is the Reason -- "Back and to the Left"
* Theory of a Deadman -- "Bad Girlfriend" to rock audiences, "Not Meant to Be" to pop audiences
* There for Tomorrow -- "A Little Faster" or "Deathbed"
* This Will Destroy You -- "The Mighty Rio Grande"
* BJ Thomas -- "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"; "Hooked on a Feeling" is more known via its cover by Blue Swede.
* Those Poor Bastards -- "Pills I Took"
* Music/TheyMightBeGiants -- "[[CoveredUp Istanbul (Not Constantinople)]]", "Particle Man", or "Birdhouse In Your Soul" (all from ''Music/{{Flood}}'') overall. For their other albums:
** ''They Might Be Giants'' (Album) -- "Don't Let's Start"
** ''Music/{{Lincoln}}'' -- "Ana Ng"
** ''Music/Apollo18'' -- "I Palindrome I'', "The Statue Got Me High", or "Fingertips"
** ''Music/JohnHenry'' -- "Subliminal", "Snail Shell", or "End of the Tour"
** ''Music/FactoryShowroom'' -- "Till My Head Falls Off" or "Spiraling Shape"
** ''Severe Tire Damage'' -- [[WesternAnimation/{{Kablam}} "Doctor Worm"]]
** ''Music/LongTallWeekend'' -- "Older"
** ''Music/MinkCar'' -- "Man, It's So Loud In Here" or the title track
** ''Music/TheSpine'' -- [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner "Experimental Film"]]
** ''The Else'' -- "The Mesopotamians" or ''Careful What You Pack"
** ''Join Us'' -- "You Probably Get That A Lot", "When Will You Die?" or "Can't Keep Johnny Down"
** ''Nanobots'' -- The title track or "You're On Fire" initially, "Stuff Is Way" thanks to MemeticMutation
** ''Glean'' -- "Erase" or "Unpronouncable"
** ''Phone Power'' -- "I Love You For Psychological Reasons" or "ECNALUBMA"
** ''Music/ILikeFun'' -- "I Left My Body", the title track, or "The Greatest"
** ''My Murdered Remains'' -- "The Communists Have The Music"
* Music/RobinThicke -- "Lost Without U" or "Blurred Lines" to R&B audiences, easily the latter to the mainstream
* Music/ThinLizzy -- "The Boys Are Back In Town" in the United States, in their native Ireland it's debatable.
* Music/ThirdEyeBlind -- "Semi-Charmed Life" or "Jumper"
* Music/ThirtySecondsToMars -- "The Kill" or "This is War"
* Jasmine Thompson -- "Ain't Nobody" [[note]] Specifically, the Felix Jaehn remix [[/note]] or "Adore"
* Music/RichardThompson -- "1952 Vincent Black Lightning"
* Thompson Square -- "Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not?"
* Thompson Twins -- "Hold Me Now" or "[[WesternAnimation/RegularShow Lies]]"
* George Thorogood & the Destroyers -- "Bad to the Bone"
* Music/ThousandFootKrutch -- "War of Change"
* A Thousand Horses -- "Smoke"
* Music/ThreeDaysGrace -- "I Hate Everything About You" overall. By album:
** ''Three Days Grace'' -- "I Hate Everything About You"
** ''One-X'' -- "Animal I Have Become" and "Never Too Late".
** ''Life Starts Now'' -- "Break"
** ''Transit of Venus'' -- "Chalk Outline"
** ''Human'' -- "Painkiller" or "I Am Machine"
** ''Outsider'' -- "The Mountain"
* Three Dog Night -- "Joy to the World"
* Music/ThreeSixMafia -- "[[Film/HustleAndFlow It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp]]"
** Juicy J -- "Bandz a Make Her Dance"
* Music/{{Thrice}} -- "The Artist in the Ambulance" or "Image of the Invisible" (formerly "Deadbolt", an IconicSongRequest to this day). "Black Honey" has also become a contender.
* The Thrills -- "Big Sur"
* Music/ThrobbingGristle -- "Hamburger Lady"
* Music/{{Thursday}} -- "Understanding in a Car Crash"
* Music/{{TI}} -- By album:
** ''I'm Serious'' -- The title track
** ''Trap Muzik'' -- "[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedUnderground 24's]]" or "Rubber Band Man"
** ''Urban Legend'' -- "Bring 'Em Out"
** ''King'' -- "What You Know"
** ''T.I. vs T.I.P.'' -- "Big Shit Poppin' (Do It)"
** ''Paper Trail'' (and overall) -- "Whatever You Like" ("Live Your Life" would've been it, had it not been more commonly associated with Rihanna)
** ''No Mercy'' -- “I’m Back” or "Got Your Back"
** ''Trouble Man: Heavy is the Head'' -- "Go Get It" or "Ball"
** ''Paperwork'' -- "About the Money"
** ''Dime Trap'' -- "The Weekend"
* Frank Ticheli -- "Earth Song"
* Tiësto -- "Adagio for Strings" for his trance works, "Red Lights" post GenreShift
* Tiffany -- Formerly a tie between "I Think We're Alone Now" and "Could've Been", but now indisputably the former.
* Tanita Tikaram -- There was a time when it would definitely have been "Good Tradition", but "Twist in My Sobriety" is probably the song she's most known for now, even though on paper [[ChartDisplacement it was a much smaller hit]].
* Bryson Tiller -- "Don't"
* Til Tuesday -- "Voices Carry"
** Aimee Mann -- "[[Film/{{Magnolia}} Save Me]]"
* Timbaland -- "The Way I Are"
* Music/JustinTimberlake -- "[=SexyBack=]", "Can't Stop the Feeling!" and "Cry Me A River"
* Timbuk3 -- "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades"
* Timmy Trumpet -- "[[MemeticMutation Freaks]]"
* Music/{{Tinashe}} -- "2 On"
* Music/TinyTim -- "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" and "[[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight]]"
* Music/{{TLC}} -- "Waterfalls" or "No Scrubs"
* Music/TMRevolution -- "[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Ignited]]"
* Music/{{TNT}} -- "10,000 Lovers In One"
* Toadies -- "Possum Kingdom"
* Toad the Wet Sprocket -- "All I Want"
* [[Music/TobyFox Toby "Radiation" Fox]] -- "Megalovania"
* Music/TokioHotel -- "Humanoid" or "Monsoon"
* Music/TomTomClub -- "Genius of Love"
* Tommy Tutone -- "867-5309 (Jenny)"
* Tone Loc -- "Wild Thing"
* Music/TonesAndI - “Dance Monkey”
* Music/TonesOnTail -- "Go!"
* [[OutsiderMusic Tonetta]] -- "Pressure Zone" or "Drugs Drugs Drugs"
* Tonic -- "If You Could Only See"
* Tony! Toni! Tone! -- "If I Had No Loot"
* Music/{{Tool}} -- "Schism"
* Music/{{Toto}} -- "Africa", "Rosanna", or "Hold the Line"
* Toto Coelo -- "I Eat Cannibals"
* Music/ToveLo -- "Habits (Stay High)"
* Toxik -- "Heart Attack"
* Music/TPain -- "I'm 'n Luv (wit A Stripper)"
* T'Pau -- "China in Your Hand" in Europe, "Heart & Soul" in the U.S.
* Traffic -- "Dear Mr. Fantasy"
* Music/TheTragicallyHip -- "Little Bones"
* Music/{{Train}} -- "Drops of Jupiter" for their early work, "Hey, Soul Sister" for their reunion
* Music/MeghanTrainor -- "All About That Bass"
* Music/TransSiberianOrchestra -- "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" or "Wizards in Winter"
* Trapt -- "Headstrong"
* The Trashmen -- "[[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Surfin' Bird]]"
* Music/TheTravelingWilburys -- "Handle with Care" or "End of the Line"
* Travis -- "[[Series/{{Torchwood}} Si]][[Series/TheOfficeUS ng]]"
* Music/RandyTravis -- "Forever and Ever, Amen" or "On the Other Hand".
* Charles Trenet -- "La Mer"
* Trentemøller -- "Moan" or "Take Me Into Your Skin"
* Music/TreySongz -- "Say Aah" or "Bottoms Up"
* Music/ATribeCalledQuest -- "Scenario", "Electric Relaxation" or "Bonita Applebaum"
* Music/{{Tribulation}} -- "Melancholia" or "Nightbound"
* Trick-Trick -- "Welcome 2 Detroit"
* Tricky -- "Hell Is Round the Corner"
* Music/TheTriffids -- "Wide Open Road"
* Trillville -- "Some Cut"
* Trippie Redd -- “Dark Knight Dummo”
* Music/TravisTritt -- "Anymore"
* Triumph -- "Lay It on the Line" or "Fight the Good Fight"
* Music/{{Trivium}} -- By album:
** ''Ascendancy'' -- "Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr"
** ''The Crusade'' -- "Anthem (We Are the Fire)"
** ''Shogun'' -- "[[VideoGame/WWEVideoGames Down from the Sky]]"
** ''In Waves'' -- "Built to Fall"
** ''Vengeance Falls'' -- "Strife"
** ''Silence in the Snow'' -- "Until the World Goes Cold"
** ''The Sin and the Sentence'' -- "The Heart from Your Hate"
* Trixter -- "Give It To Me Good"
* The Troggs -- "Wild Thing" (''very'' different from Tone Lõc's song of the same title)
* Trust -- "[[VideoGame/RaymanLegends Antisocial]]"
* Music/ViktorTsoi -- "Gruppa krovi"
* [=TRUSTCompany=] -- "Downfall"
* The Tubes -- "She's a Beauty"
* Tubeway Army -- "Are 'Friends' Electric?"
* [=TUnE=]-[=YaRdS=] -- "Water Fountain"
* Music/{{Turisas}} -- "Stand Up and Fight"
* Music/KTTunstall -- "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" or "Suddenly I See"
* Josh Turner -- "Long Black Train" or "Your Man"
* Music/TinaTurner -- "What's Love Got To Do With It"
** Ike & Tina Turner -- "[[CoveredUp Proud Mary]]"
* Music/TheTurtles -- "Happy Together"
* Music/TVOnTheRadio -- "Wolf Like Me"
* Music/ShaniaTwain -- "Man! I Feel Like a Woman"
* T-Wayne -- "Nasty Freestyle"
* Music/TwentyOnePilots -- "Stressed Out" for mainstream audiences. “Car Radio” for long-time fans.
* Twista -- "Overnight Celebrity"
* Music/TwistedSister -- "We're Not Gonna Take It" or "I Wanna Rock"
* WebVideo/TwistedTranslations -- "[[Music/EdSheeran Shape of You]]", especially its [[TranslationTrainWreck "Gradually watermelon" refrain]].
* Music/TwoDoorCinemaClub -- "Something Good Can Work"
* Two Mix -- "[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Just Communication]]"
* Tycho -- "Cascade"
* Ty Dolla $ign -- "Paranoid"
* Tyga -- "Rack City"
* Tyketto -- "Forever Young"
* Bonnie Tyler -- "Total Eclipse of the Heart" or "Holding Out for a Hero" [[note]]Tough call between the two. "Eclipse" was a massive hit upon release, being one of the best-selling singles of TheEighties. However, "Hero" has been featured and referenced numerous times in media, so people born from TheNineties onward are likely to be more familiar with it.[[/note]]
* Music/TypeONegative -- "Black No. 1"
* Music/{{Tyr}} -- "Hold the Heathen Hammer High"
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* Music/{{U2}} -- By album:
** ''Boy'': "I Will Follow"
** ''Music/WarU2Album'': "New Year's Day" and particularly "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
** ''The Unforgettable Fire'': "Pride (In the Name of Love)"
** ''The Joshua Tree'': "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", "Where the Streets Have No Name" and "With or Without You" (perhaps the latter is their signature songs overall)
** ''Rattle and Hum'': "Desire"
** ''Achtung Baby'': "Zoo Station", "One", and "Mysterious Ways"
** ''Zooropa'': "Stay (Faraway, So Close)"
** ''Original Soundtracks 1'': "Miss Sarajevo"
** ''Pop'': "Staring at the Sun"
** ''The Best of 1980-1990'': "Sweetest Thing"
** ''Music/AllThatYouCantLeaveBehind'': "Beautiful Day", "Elevation", or "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of"
** ''The Best of 1990-2000'': "Electrical Storm"
** ''How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb'': "Vertigo"
** ''No Line on the Horizon'': "Magnificent"
** ''Songs of Innocence'': "Every Breaking Wave"
** ''Songs of Experience'': "You're the Best Thing About Me"
** Overall: "I Will Follow", "Sunday Bloody Sunday", "Pride (In the Name of Love)", ''The Joshua Tree'', ''Achtung Baby'', ''All That You Can't Leave Behind'' signatures and "Vertigo" are the frontrunners.
* [=UB40=] -- "Red Red Wine"
* Ubiquitious Synergy Seeker -- "This Is the Best"
* [=UFO=] -- "Doctor Doctor"
* Music/{{UGK}} -- "Pocket Full Of Stones" Or "Diamonds & Wood"
* Ultravox -- "Vienna"
* Music/UncleKracker -- "Follow Me" and his cover of "Drift Away"
* Music/{{Underoath}} -- "Reinventing Your Exit"
* The Undertones -- "Teenage Kicks"
* Music/CarrieUnderwood -- "Before He Cheats"
* Music/{{Underworld}} -- "[[Film/{{Trainspotting}} Born Slippy .NUXX]]"
* Under The Influence Of Giants -- "Mama's Room"
* Union J -- "Carry You"
* The Union Underground -- "[[Wrestling/{{WWE Raw}} Across the Nation]]"
* Unk - "Walk It Out"
* Upon This Dawning - their cover of Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe"
* Music/KeithUrban -- "Somebody Like You"
* The Urge -- "[[WesternAnimation/{{Daria}} Jump Right In]]" or "Too Much Stereo"
* Music/UriahHeep -- "Easy Livin'"
* Music/TheUsed -- "All That I've Got" or "The Bird and the Worm"
* Music/{{Usher}} -- "Yeah!" overall. By album:
** ''Usher'': "Think of You"
** ''My Way'': "You Make Me Wanna…''
** ''8701'': "U Remind Me" or "U Got It Bad"
** ''Confessions'': "Yeah!"
** ''Here I Stand'': "Love in this Club"
** ''Raymond v Raymond'': "OMG" or "More"
** ''Versus'': "DJ Got Us Fallin in Love Again"
** ''Looking 4 Myself'': "Scream"
** ''Hard II Love'': "No Limit"
* Music/UtadaHikaru -- "First Love" or "Automatic". To her international audiences, [[Franchise/KingdomHearts "Simple and Clean" and "Sanctuary"]]
* Music/UVERWorld -- "[[Manga/{{Bleach}} D-Technolife]]"
* Music/SteveVai -- "For the Love of God"
* Music/HollyValance -- "Kiss Kiss"
* Music/RitchieValens -- "La Bamba"
* The Vamps -- "Can We Dance" in the UK, "Somebody to You" in the U.S.
* Music/VampireWeekend -- "A-Punk"
* Music/LutherVandross -- "[[CoveredUp Superstar]]", "Here And Now" or "Dance With My Father" overall. Or, for college basketball fans, "[[CoveredUp One Shining Moment]]". By album.
** ''Never Too Much'': The title track.
** ''Forever, for Always, for Love'': "Bad Boy[=/=]Having a Party"
** ''Busy Body'': "Superstar[=/=]Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)"
** ''The Night I Fell in Love'': The title track.
** ''Give Me the Reason'': The title track, "Stop to Love", or "There's Nothing Better Than Love"
** ''Any Love'': The title track.
** ''The Best of Luther Vandross... The Best of Love'': "Here and Now"
** ''The Power of Love'': "Power of Love[=/=]Love Power"
** ''Never Let Me Go'': "Heaven Knows"
** ''Songs'': "Endless Love" (shared with Mariah Carey) or "Always and Forever"
** ''This is Christmas'': "Every Year, Every Christmas"
** ''Your Secret Love'': The title track or "I Can Make it Better"
** ''I Know'': "Nights in Harlem" or the title track.
** ''Luther Vandross'': "Take You Out" or "I Rather"
** ''Dance with My Father'': The title track, "Think About You", or "The Closer I Get To You " (shared with Beyonce)
* ''Vangelis'' -- "[[Film/ChariotsOfFire Titles.]]"
* Paul van Dyk -- "For an Angel"
* Music/VanHalen: By lead singer:
** David Lee Roth: "Jump", "Hot for Teacher", and "Panama"
** Sammy Hagar: "Why Can't this Be Love"
** Gary Cherone: "Without You"
* Armand van Helden -- "You Don't Know Me" for his older work, and "Bonkers" (shared with Dizzee Rascal) for his newer work.
* Music/VanillaIce -- "Ice Ice Baby"
* Värttinä -- "Matalii Ja Mustii" (in America, at least)
* The Vaselines -- "Son of a Gun" or "Molly's Lips" (because of them being CoveredUp by Music/{{Nirvana}})
* Music/StevieRayVaughan -- "Crossfire" or "Pride & Joy"
* The Veer Union -- "[[Wrestling/{{Backlash}} Seasons]]"
* Music/SuzanneVega -- "Tom's Diner" (thanks to its DNA remix). "Luka" is also a contender.
* Vektroid -- "Lisa Frank 420 / Modern Computing"
* Velvet Revolver -- "Slither"
* Music/VelvetUnderground -- "All Tomorrow's Parties", "Heroin", "I'm Waiting for the Man", or "Venus in Furs" (all from ''Music/TheVelvetUndergroundAndNico''); "Sweet Jane" is another one and probably became the best known Velvet Underground song during Lou Reed's solo career.
* Julieta Venegas -- "Me Voy"
* Music/VenetianSnares -- "Hajnal" or "Szamar Madar"
* Music/{{Venom}} -- "Angel Dust" or "Witching Hour"
* [[Music/{{BEMANI}} VENUS]] -- "Wow Wow VENUS"
* Music/{{Versailles}} -- "The Revenant Choir"
* Veruca Salt -- "Seether"
* Vertical Horizon -- "Everything You Want"
* Music/TheVerve -- "Bitter Sweet Symphony"
* The Verve Pipe -- "The Freshmen"
* V.I.C. -- Initially "Get Silly", but over time became "Wobble"
* Music/VillagePeople -- "YMCA", though "Macho Man" is a very close second.
* Vince Vance & the Valiants -- "All I Want for Christmas is You"[[note]]No relation to the Mariah Carey song[[/note]]
* The Vines -- "Get Free"
* Violent Femmes -- "Blister in the Sun"
* Viper the Rapper -- "You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack"
* Virgin Steele -- "We Rule the Night" or "The Burning of Rome (Cry for Pompeii)"
* Vitamin C -- "Graduation (Friends Forever)"
* Vitamin Z -- "Burning Flame"
* Music/AntonioVivaldi -- "The Four Seasons" (specifically, the first movement, "Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269, "La primavera" (Spring) Allegro")
* Music/{{Voivod}} - [[Music/PinkFloyd "Astronomy Domine"]]
* Music/{{Volbeat}} -- "A Warrior's Call," "Still Counting" or "Seal the Deal"
* Music/{{Voltaire}} -- "When You're Evil" or "[[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy BRAINS!]]"
* Vonray -- "Inside Out"
* Music/VladimirVysotsky -- "Song About a Friend"
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* Music/RichardWagner -- [[Music/RideOfTheValkyries "The Ride of the Valkyries"]]
* Music/TomWaits -- "Downtown Train" from ''Music/RainDogs'' and "Martha" from ''Music/ClosingTime''.
* Music/WakaFlockaFlame -- "No Hands" or "Hard In The Paint"
* Music/WakingTheCadaver -- "Chased Through The Woods By A Rapist", in that it perfectly exemplifies every criticism against them, as well as giving the world the "I LIKE SHREDDED WHEAT" [[MemeticMutation meme]].
* Wale -- "Bag Of Money" or "Bad"
* Alan Walker -- "Faded" or "Sing Me to Sleep" in his native Norway; the former indisputably everywhere else.
* Music/WalkOffTheEarth -- "Red Hands" or their cover of "[[Music/{{Gotye}} Somebody That I Used To Know]]"
* Music/WalkTheMoon -- "Shut Up and Dance"
* Music/FatsWaller -- "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Honeysuckle Rose"
* The Wallflowers -- "One Headlight"
* Wallpaper -- "Best Song Everr"
* Music/WangChung -- "Dance Hall Days" in the UK, "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" in the U.S.
* Music/TheWanted -- "All Time Low" in the UK, "Glad You Came" in the U.S.
* War -- "Low Rider" or "Why Can't We Be Friends"
* Jessie Ware -- "[[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey Say You Love Me]]"
* Warlock -- "All We Are"
* Music/{{Warrant}} -- Originally "Heaven" but over time became "Cherry Pie" -- despite the major CreatorBacklash
* Warren G -- "Regulate"
* The Chris Warren Band -- "[[Wrestling/DGenerationX Break it Down]]"
* Music/WasNotWas -- "Walk the Dinosaur"
* The Waterboys -- "The Whole of the Moon"
* Waterflame -- "Glorious Morning" or "[[VideoGame/CastleCrashers Jum]][[VideoGame/GeometryDash per]]"
* Waterproof Blonde -- "[[Wrestling/{{Christian}} Just Close Your Eyes]]"
* Music/RogerWaters -- "The Tide Is Turning"
* Wavves -- "[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Nine is God]]"
* Wax -- "California"
* We Are Harlot -- "Dancing on Nails"
* We As Human -- "[[Music/{{Flyleaf}} Take the Bullets Away]]"
* We Came As Romans - "The World I Used to Know"
* We The Kings - "Check Yes Juliet"
* The Weather Girls -- "It's Raining Men"
* Weather Report -- "Birdland"
* Ryn Weaver -- "[=OctaHate=]"
* Webbie -- "Independent"
* Music/TheWeeknd -- "Can't Feel My Face" or "Blinding Lights" overall. By mixtape/album:
** ''House of Balloons'' -- "High for This" or "Wicked Games"
** ''Thursday'' -- "The Zone"
** ''Echoes of Silence'' -- "Montreal" or "Initiation"
** ''Kiss Land'' -- "Wanderlust"
** ''Beauty Behind the Madness'' -- [[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey "Earned It"]], "The Hills" or "Can't Feel My Face"
** ''Starboy'' -- The title track or "I Feel It Coming"
** ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}: The Album'' -- "Pray for Me" (shared with Music/KendrickLamar)
** ''My Dear Melancholy,'' -- "Call Out My Name"
** ''After Hours'' -- "Blinding Lights"
* Music/{{Ween}} -- "[[WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie Ocean Man]]" or "[[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Loop de Loop]]"
** Early in their career, it was "Push Th' Little Daisies".
* Music/{{Weezer}} -- "Buddy Holly" or "Say It Ain't So" overall. By album:
** ''Music/WeezerTheBlueAlbum'' -- "Buddy Holly" or "Say It Ain't So"
** ''Music/{{Pinkerton}}'' -- "El Scorcho"
** ''The Green Album'' -- "Hash Pipe" or "Island in the Sun"
** ''Maladroit'' -- "Dope Nose"
** ''Make Believe'' -- "Beverly Hills"
** ''The Red Album'' -- "Pork and Beans"
** ''Raditude'' -- "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To"
** ''Hurley'' -- "Memories"
** ''Everything Will Be Alright in the End'' -- "Back to the Shack"
** ''The White Album'' -- "Thank God for Girls"
** ''Pacific Daydream'' -- “Feels Like Summer”
** ''The Teal Album'' -- “[[Music/{{Toto}} Africa]]”
** ''The Black Album'' -- “Can’t Knock the Hustle”
* Music/WesleyWillis -- "Rock & Roll UsefulNotes/McDonalds"
* Music/KanyeWest -- By album:
** ''The College Dropout'' -- "Jesus Walks" or "Through the Wire"
** ''Late Registration'' -- "Gold Digger" or "Heard 'Em Say"
** ''Graduation'' -- "Stronger"
** ''808's & Heartbreak'' -- "Heartless"
** ''Music/MyBeautifulDarkTwistedFantasy'' -- "POWER", "Monster" or "All of the Lights"
** ''Music/{{Yeezus}}'' -- "Black Skinhead" or "Bound 2"
** ''The Life of Pablo'' -- "Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1", "Famous" or "Fade"
** ''ye'' -- "All Mine"
** ''GOOD Music Cruel Summer'' -- "Mercy"
** Overall -- "Gold Digger" and "Stronger" are the frontrunners.
* Music/{{Westlife}} -- "Swear It Again" or "[[Anime/Pokemon2000 Flying Without Wings]]"
* Westside Connection -- "Bow Down"
* Weyes Blood -- "Movies"
* Music/{{Wham}} -- "Last Christmas", "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go", "Careless Whisper", or "Everything She Wants"
* Wheatus -- "Teenage Dirtbag"
* The Whispers -- "Rock Steady"
* Eric Whitacre -- "Lux Aurumque"
* Music/BarryWhite -- "You're The First, The Last, My Everything" and "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe"
* Watt White -- "[[Wrestling/ZackRyder Radio]]"
* White Rabbits -- "Percussion Gun"
* Music/{{Whitesnake}} -- "Here I Go Again" (the 1987 re-recording from their self-titled album)
* Music/TheWhiteStripes -- Originally "Seven Nation Army" from ''Music/{{Elephant}}'', later "Icky Thump" but has since gone back to being "Seven Nation Army".
** Jack White -- "Lazaretto"
* White Town -- "Your Woman"
* [[Music/RobZombie White Zombie]] -- "More Human Than Human"
* Music/TheWho -- "Baba O' Riley", "My Generation", "Behind Blue Eyes", "Who Are You", "Pinball Wizard" and "Won't Get Fooled Again".
** Pete Townshend -- "Let My Love Open the Door"
* Whodini -- "Friends" or "The Freaks Come Out at Night"
* Why Don’t We -- "8 Letters"
* Music/{{Wilco}} -- "Jesus, Etc."
* Music/DavidWilcox -- "Eye of the Hurricane"
* Wild Cherry -- "Play That Funky Music"
* Eugene Wilde -- "Gotta Get You Home Tonight"
* Music/KimWilde -- "Kids in America"
* Music/AndyWilliams -- [[Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys "Moon River"]] (to the point he named his theater in Branson after it)
* Deniece Williams -- "Let's Hear It For The Boy"
* Music/HankWilliams -- "Hey, Good Lookin'"
* Music/HankWilliamsJr -- "Monday Night Football" theme, "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"
* Music/JohnWilliams -- The "Franchise/StarWars" theme
* Nikki Williams -- "Glowing"
* Music/RobbieWilliams -- "Angels"
* Music/BrianWilson -- "Love and Mercy"
* Gretchen Wilson -- "Redneck Woman"
* Jackie Wilson -- "Lonely Teardrops" or "Your Love Keeps Lifting Me (Higher and Higher)"
* Music/AmyWinehouse -- "Rehab", "Back to Black" (from ''Music/BackToBlack'') or "[[CoveredUp Vale]][[BillingDisplacement rie]]" depending on the countries.
* Music/{{Wings}} -- "Band On The Run" or "Live And Let Die"
* Steve Winwood -- "Higher Love"
* Bill Withers -- "Lean On Me"
* Music/WithinTemptation -- "Ice Queen", "What Have You Done?" or "Stand My Ground"
* David Wise - "[[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest Stickerbush Symphony]]"
* Music/AndrewWK -- "Party Hard"
* Music/{{Wolfmother}} -- "Woman" or "Joker & the Thief"
* Music/WuTangClan -- "Triumph", "C.R.E.A.M." or "Protect Ya Neck"
** Ghostface Killah -- "Back Like That"
* Music/LeeAnnWomack -- "I Hope You Dance"
* The Wonder Years -- "Passing through a Screen Door"
* Music/StevieWonder -- "Superstition" from ''Music/TalkingBook''
* Faye Wong -- "[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Eyes On Me]]"
* Creator/VictoriaWood - "The Ballad of Barry and Freda"
* Woodkid -- "Run Boy Run"
* The Word Alive -- "Lighthouse"
* Henry Clay Work -- "Marching Through Georgia" or "My Grandfather's Clock"
* The Wreckage -- "[[LetsPlay/VanossGamingAndCompany Breaking Through]]"
* The Wreckers -- "Leave the Pieces"
* Jaguar Wright -- "The What If's"
* [[Music/TheRollingStones Bill Wyman]] -- "A New Fashion", "Come Back Suzanne" or "(Si, Si) Je Suis un Rockstar"
* Tammy Wynette -- "Stand By Your Man"
* Music/XUSBand -- "Los Angeles" or "We're Desperate"
* X Ambassadors -- Originally "Jungle" but now "Renegades."
* Music/XJapan -- "Art of Life" or "Kurenai"
* The X-Ecutioners -- "It's Goin' Down", It's also attributed to [[Music/{{LinkinPark}} Mike Shinoda]].
* Music/XRaySpex -- "Oh Bondage, Up Yours!"
* Music/{{XTC}} -- "Dear God" in the U.S., "Making Plans for Nigel" or "Senses Working Overtime" everywhere else.
* xi -- "[[VideoGame/{{osu}} FREE]][[VideoGame/{{Cytus}} DOM]] [[ThatOneBoss DiVE]]↓"
* Music/TheXX -- "Islands" or "Crystallized"
* Music/{{XXXTENTACION}} -- "SAD!"
* Music/WeirdAlYankovic -- "White and Nerdy", "Eat It" or "Amish Paradise"
* Wye Oak -- "Civilian"
* Music/TheYardbirds -- "For Your Love"
* YBN Nahmir -- "Rubbin Off the Paint"
* YC -- "Racks"
* Music/YeahYeahYeahs -- "Maps"
* Years & Years -- "King"
* Music/TrishaYearwood -- "She's in Love with the Boy" or "[[CoverVersion How Do I Live]]".
* Yelawolf -- "'Till It's Gone"
* Music/{{Yello}} -- "Oh Yeah"
* Music/{{Yellowcard}} -- "Ocean Avenue", but also "[[VideoGame/{{SSX}} Way]] [[VideoGame/MaddenNFL Away]]" for your 2000s video game players.
* Music/{{Yes}} -- "[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure Roundabout]]" and "Owner of a Lonely Heart"
* YFN Lucci -- "Everyday We Lit"
* YG -- “My Nigga” or “Big Bank”
* Ying Yang Twins -- "Wait (The Whisper Song)"
* Music/{{Ylvis}} -- "The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?)"
* Music/DwightYoakam -- "I Sang Dixie", "[[CoverVersion Suspicious Minds]]", "Streets of Bakersfield" (a duet with Buck Owen) or "A Thousand Miles from Nowhere"
* Yo Gotti -- "Down in the DM" or "Rake It Up"
* Music/YokoKanno -- "[[Anime/CowboyBebop Tank]]"
* Yothu Yindi -- "Treaty"
* You Me At Six -- "Bite My Tongue" or "Lived a Lie" in the UK, "Room to Breathe" in the U.S.
* Music/NeilYoung -- "Old Man" or "Heart of Gold"
* Young Empires -- "White Doves"
* Young Guns -- "Bones"
* Young MC -- "Bust a Move"
* Young The Giant -- "Cough Syrup"
* Young Dro -- "Shoulder Lean"
* Young Greatness - "Moolah"
* Young Jeezy -- "Put On"
* Young M.A. -- "OOOUUU"
* Young Thug -- “The London”
* The Youngbloods -- "Get Together"
* Youngblood Hawke -- "We Come Running"
* Yung Berg -- "Sexy Lady"
* Yunggoth✰ —- “idk how to kill myself”
* Yung Joc -- "It's Goin' Down"
* Music/{{Zayn}} -- "Pillowtalk"
* Zapp -- "More Bounce To The Ounce"
* Music/FrankZappa -- "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow" (from ''Music/OverNiteSensation''), "Peaches En Regalia" (from ''Music/HotRats'') and in Europe: "Bobby Brown Goes Down" (from ''Music/SheikYerbouti'').
* Zebra -- "Tell Me What You Want" or "Who's Behind the Door"
* Music/{{Zedd}} -- "Clarity"
* Mans Zelmerlow -- "Heroes"
* Music/WarrenZevon -- "Werewolves of London"
* Music/HansZimmer -- "[[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean He's A Pirate]]", "[[Film/{{Inception}} Time]]" or "[[Film/BatmanBegins Vespertilio]]"
* Chaim Zinovich (a.k.a Hasaruf) -- "Hevel Hachen Sheker Hayofi"
* Music/TheZombies -- "Time of the Season" (from ''Music/OdesseyAndOracle'') and "She's Not There" (from ''Music/BeginHere'')
* Music/TayZonday -- "Chocolate Rain"
* The Zutons -- "Valerie"
* Zwei -- "Dragon"
* Music/ZZTop -- "La Grange" and "SharpDressedMan", with "Tush", "Gimme All Your Lovin'" and "[[ShesGotLegs Legs]]" not far behind.
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* Music/{{L7}} -- "Pretend We're Dead"
* Music/TheLas -- "There She Goes"
* Music/{{La Dispute}} -- "Said the King to the River"
* Music/LaRoux -- "Bulletproof"
* Labelle/Patti Labelle -- "Lady Marmalade"
* Labrinth -- "Beneath Your Beautiful" or "Earthquake" in the U.K.; indisputably the former everywhere else
* Music/LacunaCoil -- "Our Truth"
* Music/LadyAntebellum -- "Need You Now", with "Just A Kiss" a clear second.
* Music/LadyGaga -- By album:
** ''The Fame'' -- "Just Dance" and "Poker Face"
** ''The Fame Monster'' -- "Bad Romance"
** ''Born This Way'' -- The title track.
** ''Artpop'' -- "Applause"
** ''Joanne'' -- "Million Reasons"
** ''Film/AStarIsBorn2018'' -- "Shallow" (co-shared with Creator/BradleyCooper) and "I'll Never Love Again"
** ''Chromatica'' -- "Stupid Love" and "Rain on Me"
** Overall -- "Poker Face", "Bad Romance", "Born This Way" or "Shallow" (or "Just Dance" for older fans)
* The Lady of Rage -- "Afro Puffs"
* Music/{{Ladytron}} -- "Destroy Everything You Touch"
* Lagwagon -- "[[VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater May 16]]"
* Music/KendrickLamar -- By album:
** ''Section.80'' -- "ADHD", "[=HiiiPoWeR=]"
** ''Music/GoodKidMAADCity'' -- "Swimming Pools (Drank)" or "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe"
** ''To Pimp a Butterfly'' -- "i", "King Kunta", "Alright"
** ''untitled unmastered.'' -- "untitled 07 | levitate"
** ''DAMN.'': "HUMBLE."
** ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}: The Album'': “All the Stars” or “Pray for Me” (shared with Music/TheWeeknd)
** Overall: While "Swimming Pools" was his first mainstream success, "Alright" won him a Grammy for Best Rap Song and later on became a Black Lives Matter anthem. However, "HUMBLE." seems to have won the title overall.
* Music/LambOfGod -- "Redneck"
* Music/AdamLambert -- "Whataya Want From Me", or "For Your Entertainment"
* Music/MirandaLambert -- "Gunpowder & Lead," "The House That Built Me," and "Over You"
* Tory Lanez -- "Say It" or "LUV"
* Stef Lang -- “Mr. Immature”
* Music/LarcEnCiel -- "[[Anime/FullMetalAlchemist Ready, Steady, Go]]"
* Amel Larrieux -- "For Real"
* Music/ZaraLarsson -- "Lush Life" or "Never Forget You" (shared with [=MNEK=]) in Europe; the latter indisputably in the US.
* The Last Goodnight -- "Pictures of You"
* Music/CyndiLauper -- "[[CoveredUp Girls Just Want to Have Fun]]", with "Time After Time" being a close second.
* Music/AvrilLavigne -- "Complicated", "[=Sk8rBoi=]" or "Girlfriend". By album:
** ''Let Go''-- "Complicated", "[=Sk8rBoi=]" or "I'm With You''
** ''Under My Skin'' -- "My Happy Ending"
** ''The Best Damn Thing'' -- "Girlfriend"
** ''Goodbye Lullaby'' -- "What the Hell"
** ''Avril Lavigne'' -- "Here's to Never Growing Up" or "Hello Kitty"
** ''Head Above Water'': The title track
* Creator/JenniferLawrence -- "[[Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1 The Hanging Tree]]" (shared with Music/JamesNewtonHoward)
* Lawson -- "Brokenhearted"
* Lazlo Bane -- "[[Series/{{Scrubs}} Superman]]"
* Music/LCDSoundsystem -- "Music/DaftPunk Is Playing at My House" or "All my Friends"
* Ledisi -- "Pieces of Me"
* Music/LedZeppelin -- "Stairway to Heaven" overall. By album:
** ''[[Music/LedZeppelin1969 Led Zeppelin]]'' -- "Dazed and Confused", "Good Times, Bad Times" and "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You"
** ''Music/LedZeppelinII'' -- "Whole Lotta Love" or "Ramble On"
** ''Music/LedZeppelinIII'' -- "Immigrant Song"
** ''Music/LedZeppelinIV'' -- "Stairway To Heaven" (with "Rock and Roll", "Black Dog and "Going to California" not far behind.)
** ''Music/HousesOfTheHoly'' -- "Over the Hills and Far Away" and "D'yer Mak'er"
** ''Music/PhysicalGraffiti'' -- "Kashmir"
** ''Presence'' -- "Achilles Last Stand" or "Nobody's Fault but Mine"
** ''In Through the Out Door'' -- "All My Love" and "Fool in the Rain"
** ''Coda'' -- "Darlene"
** ''Boxed Set'' -- "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do" or "Travelling Riverside Blues"
** ''Boxed Set 2'' -- "Baby Come On Home"
** ''BBC Sessions'' -- "The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair"
* Brenda Lee -- "I'm Sorry" and "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"
* The Left Banke -- "Pretty Ballerina" and "Walk Away Renee"
* Music/JohnLegend -- Previously "Ordinary People," but now "All of Me"
* Music/TomLehrer -- "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park"
* Lemar -- "If There's Any Justice"
* Music/LemonDemon -- "Music/UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny"
* The Lemon Pipers -- "Green Tambourine"
* The Lemonheads -- "Mrs. Robinson"
* Len -- "Steal My Sunshine"
* Lene Marlin -- "Sitting Down Here"
* Lenka -- "The Show" or "Everything at Once"
* Music/JohnLennon -- "Music/{{Imagine}}"
* Creator/BethanyJoyLenz-- [[Series/OneTreeHill "Feel This"]]
* Music/LessThanJake -- "All My Best Friends are Metalheads"
* Music/{{Letlive}} -- "Younger"
* Letoya - "Torn"
* Letters to Cleo -- "Here & Now"
* Level 42 -- "Lessons In Love" in the UK, "Something About You" in the U.S.
* [=LeVert=] -- "Casanova"
* Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews -- "[[Film/BackToTheFuture The Power of Love]]" or (according to [[Literature/AmericanPsycho Patrick Bateman]]) "Hip To Be Square"
* Music/JerryLeeLewis -- "Great Balls of Fire"
* Donna Lewis -- "I Love You, Always Forever"
* Music/LeonaLewis -- "Bleeding Love"
* Music/TheLibertines -- "Can't Stand Me Now"
* Liberty X -- "Just A Little"
* Music/{{Lifehouse}} -- "Hanging By A Moment"
* LFO -- "Summer Girls"
* Gordon Lightfoot -- "If You Could Read My Mind," "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," or "Sundown"
* The Lightning Seeds -- "Three Lions"
* Music/{{Lights}} -- "February Air"
* Like a Storm -- "Love the Way You Hate Me" or "Become the Enemy"
* Music/LilB -- "Wonton Soup" or "I'm Paris Hilton"
* Lil Boosie -- "Wipe Me Down"
* Lil Chris -- "Checkin' It Out
* Music/LilDicky -- "$ave Dat Money", "Professional Rapper" or “Freaky Friday”
* Lil Duval -- “Smile Bitch”
* Lil' Flip -- "Sunshine"
* Music/LilJon & The Eastside Boyz -- "[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedUnderground Get Low]]"
** Lil Jon -- "Turn Down for What" (shared with DJ Snake)
* Music/LilKim -- "Queen Bitch"
* Lil Mama -- Originally "Lip Gloss" or "Shawty Get Loose", but now unquestionably the former
* Music/LilNasX -- “Old Town Road”
* Music/LilPeep -- "Awful Things" or “I’ve Been Waiting”
* Music/LilPump -- "Gucci Gang"
* Lil Scrappy -- "Money In The Bank"
* Lil Tecca -- “Ransom”
* Lil Uzi Vert -- "XO TOUR [=Llif3=]"
* Music/LilWayne -- "Lollipop"
** Young Money -- "Bedrock"
* Lil Yatchy -- "Peek-a-Boo", although as a featured artist, "Broccoli" and "[=iSpy=]"
* Lillywood & the Prick -- "Prayer in C" (specifically the remix by Robin Schulz)
* Music/LimpBizkit -- By album:
** ''Three Dollar Bill, Y'all$'' -- "Counterfeit" or "[[Music/GeorgeMichael Faith]]"
** ''Significant Other'' -- "Nookie" or "Break Stuff" (or "N 2 Gether Now" for hip-hop listeners)
** ''Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water'' -- "Rollin'" (or to a lesser extent "My Way", because it always brings pleasant memories of ''Wrestling/WrestleMania [[Awesome/ProfessionalWrestling X-Seven]]'', or "[[Film/MissionImpossibleII Take a Look Around]]" for ''Series/MissionImpossible'' fans)
** ''Results May Vary'' -- "Eat You Alive" or "[[Music/TheWho Behind Blue Eyes]]"
** ''Gold Cobra'' -- "Shotgun"
** Overall -- "Nookie", "Break Stuff", and "Rollin'" are the frontrunners.
* Music/{{Lindisfarne}} -- "Fog on the Tyne"
* Music/LinkinPark -- By album:
** ''Music/HybridTheory'' -- "In the End" (or possibly "Crawling", for [[MemeticMutation all the]] [[{{Wangst}} wrong reasons]], and also "One Step Closer")
*** ''Reanimation'' -- "Pts.OF.Athrty"
** ''Music/{{Meteora}}'' -- "Numb", "Faint", "Breaking the Habit" or "Somewhere I Belong"
** ''Collision Course'' -- "Numb/Encore" (shared with Music/JayZ)
** ''Music/MinutesToMidnight'' -- "What I've Done" or "Bleed It Out"
** ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen soundtrack'' -- "New Divide"
** ''A Thousand Suns'' -- "The Catalyst", "Waiting for the End" or "Iridescent"
** ''Living Things'' -- "Burn It Down" or "Castle of Glass"
*** ''Recharged'' -- "A Light that Never Comes"
** ''The Hunting Party'' -- "Guilty All the Same" or "Until It's Gone"
** ''One More Light'' -- "Heavy" initially, though "Talking to Myself" is set to displace it due to being released on the same day as Chester Bennington's tragic death. The title track also counts, especially after the deaths of both Bennington and his friend Music/ChrisCornell.
** Overall -- "In The End", "Numb", and "What I've Done" are the main frontrunners, with "One Step Closer", "Faint", "New Divide", "Burn It Down" and either "One More Light" or "Talking to Myself" as secondary headliners.
*** Music/FortMinor -- Initially "Where'd You Go?", but has over time become "Remember The Name"
*** Dead By Sunrise -- "Crawl Back In"
*** Mike Shinoda -- "Watching As I Fall"
* Lion -- [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie "The Transformers (Theme)"]]
* Music/DuaLipa -- "New Rules" or "Don't Start Now"
* Lipps Inc. -- "Funky Town"
* Music/FranzLiszt -- "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2"
* Lit -- "My Own Worst Enemy"
* Little Big Town -- Tough call between "Pontoon" or "Girl Crush". The former was their biggest hit on country radio and their most popular song amongst their core demographic. The latter, on the other hand, is their most widely known and beloved song to general audiences. "Better Man" is also a contender.
* Little Birdy -- "Come On, Come On"
* Little Eva -- "The Locomotion"
* Little Feat -- "Dixie Chicken"
* Music/LittleMix -- "Wings", "Shout Out to My Ex", or "Black Magic"
* Music/LittleRichard -- "Tutti Frutti" (from ''Music/HeresLittleRichard'')
* Little River Band -- "Reminiscing"
* Little Texas -- "What Might Have Been"
* Live -- "Lightning Crashes"
* Music/LivingColour -- "[[Wrestling/CMPunk Cult of Personality]]"
* The Living End -- "Prisoner of Society"
* Music/TheLivingTombstone -- "Discord (Remix)"
* Lizzo -- “Truth Hurts”
* Music/LLCoolJ -- "Mama Said Knock You Out" or "I Can't Live Without My Radio"
* Lloyd -- "You"
* Music/CherLloyd -- "Swagger Jagger" in the UK, "Want U Back" in the US
* Creator/AndrewLloydWebber -- "Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera," "[[Theatre/{{Cats}} Memory]]," or "[[Theatre/{{Evita}} Don't Cry for Me, Argentina]]" %% His family name is Lloyd Webber, not Webber.
* Music/{{LMFAO}} -- "Party Rock Anthem" or "Sexy and I Know It"
* LMNT -- "Juliet"
* Local H -- "Bound for the Floor"
* [=LoCash=] -- "I Love This Life"
* [[Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid Löded Diper]] -- "Exploded Diper"
* Lo-Fidelity Allstars -- "Battle Flag"
* Music/KennyLoggins -- "Film/{{Footloose}}" or "[[Film/TopGun Danger Zone]]"
* Logic - "1-800-273-8255"
* London After Midnight -- "Kiss"
* London Grammar -- "Strong", "Hey Now" or "Wasting My Young Years"
* Music/TheLonelyIsland -- "I'm on a Boat" or "I Just Had Sex"
* Lonestar -- "Amazed"
* Long Beach Dub Allstars -- "Sunny Hours"
* Longo & Wainwright -- "One Life Stand"
* Loose Ends -- "Hangin' on the String (Contemplating)"
* Music/JenniferLopez -- "Jenny From the Block" and "Let's Get Loud"
* Lo-Pro -- "Sunday"
* Lord Huron -- "The Night We Met"
* Music/{{Lorde}} -- "Royals" (from ''Music/TheLoveClub'' and ''Music/PureHeroine'') [[note]]with "Team" a close second.[[/note]]
* Music/{{Lordi}} -- "Hard Rock Hallelujah"
* Loreen -- "Euphoria"
* Lorn -- "Acid Rain"
* Los Fabulosos Cadillacs -- "El Matador"
* Lost Boyz -- "Renee"
* Lost Frequencies -- "Are You With Me?"
* Music/{{Lostprophets}} -- "Last Train Home" or "Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)"
* Los Lobos -- "La Bamba"
* Los Del Rio -- "Macarena"
* Los Lonely Boys -- "Heaven"
* Music/PixieLott -- "Mama Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh)"
* Music/DemiLovato -- "Skyscraper", "Give Your Heart A Break", "Heart Attack" or "Cool For the Summer"
* Music/{{Love}} -- Initially "7 Plus 7 Is", but now "Alone Again Or"
* Music/LoveAndRockets -- "No New Tale to Tell" or "So Alive"
* Love Battery -- "Out of Focus"
* Loverance -- "Up"
* Music/{{Loverboy}} -- "Working For the Weekend"
* The Lovin' Spoonful -- "Summer in the City" or "Do You Believe in Magic?"
* Low -- "Lullaby"
* Lower Than Atlantis -- "Here We Go"
* LP -- "Lost On You"
* Music/{{Ludacris}} -- "Move Bitch"
* Ludo -- "Love Me Dead"
* Lukas Graham -- "7 Years" or "Mama Said" in Denmark, indisputably the former everywhere else
* Luke Nasty -- "Might Be"
* The Lumineers -- "Ho Hey"
* Lunatic Calm -- "[[Film/TheMatrix Leave You Far Behind]]"
* [=LunchMoney=] Lewis -- "Bills"
* Luniz -- "I Got 5 on It"
* Luscious Jackson -- "Naked Eye"
* Lustra -- "[[Film/EuroTrip Scotty Doesn't Know]]"
* Dustin Lynch -- "Cowboys and Angels" or "Hell of a Night"
* Music/LynyrdSkynyrd -- "Sweet Home Alabama" to general audiences; "Free Bird" to the rock community (to the point that the IconicSongRequest became a MemeticMutation!)
** Not far behind there's "Simple Man"
* Kevin Lyttle -- "Turn Me On"
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* M -- "Pop Muzik"
* [=M2M=] -- "[[Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie Don't Say You Love Me]]"
* Music/{{M83}} -- "Midnight City"
* M People -- "Moving On Up", "Search for the Hero", "One Night in Heaven" are all well-known hits
* Mabel -- “Don’t Call Me Up”
* Amy Macdonald -- "Mr Rock & Roll"
* Mac Dre -- "Thizzelle Dance"
* Music/MachineGunKelly -- "[[Music/CamilaCabello Bad Things]]"
* Music/MachineHead -- "Davidian" or "Block"
* Music/{{Macklemore}} & Ryan Lewis -- "Thrift Shop" or "Can't Hold Us"
* Music/MaddieAndTae -- "Girl in a Country Song," later "Die from a Broken Heart"
* Music/{{Madeon}} -- "Finale", "Pay No Mind"[[note]]shared with Music/PassionPit[[/note]], or "Anime/{{Shelter}}"[[note]]shared with Music/PorterRobinson[[/note]]
* Madison Avenue -- "Don't Call Me Baby"
* Music/{{Madness}} -- "House of Fun" in the UK, "Our House" from ''Music/TheRiseAndFall'' in the U.S.
* Music/{{Madonna}} -- By album:
** ''[[Music/MadonnaAlbum Madonna]]'' -- "Holiday" or "Borderline"
** ''Music/LikeAVirgin'' -- "Material Girl", "Into the Groove", or the title track
** ''Music/TrueBlue'' -- "Papa Don't Preach" or "Open Your Heart"
** ''Film/WhosThatGirl'' -- The title track
** ''Music/LikeAPrayer'' -- The title track or "Express Yourself"
** ''Music/ImBreathless'' -- "Vogue"
** ''The Immaculate Collection'' -- "Justify My Love"
** ''Music/{{Erotica}}'' -- The title track
** ''Music/BedtimeStories'' -- "Take a Bow"
** ''Something to Remember'' -- "You'll See"
** ''Film/{{Evita}}'' -- "Don't Cry For Me Argentina"
** ''Music/RayOfLight'' -- The title track
** ''Music/MusicAlbum'' -- The title track
** ''Music/AmericanLife'' -- The title track
** ''Music/ConfessionsOnADanceFloor'' -- "Hung Up"
** ''Hard Candy'' -- "4 Minutes"
** ''Celebration'' -- The title track
** ''MDNA'' -- "Give Me All Your Lovin'"
** ''Rebel Heart'' -- "Bitch I'm Madonna"
** ''Music/MadameX'' -- "Medellín" or "I Rise"
** Overall -- "Virgin", "Material Girl", "Prayer", and "Vogue" are probably the ones she's best known for throughout her career.
* MAGIC! -- "Rude"
* Austin Mahone -- "What About Love?" or "MMM Yeah"
* Maino -- "Hi Hater" ("All the Above" would be this were it not more commonly associated with T-Pain)
* Mango -- "Oro"
* Music/MajorLazer -- "Lean On" from ''Music/PeaceIsTheMission''
* Music/MazzyStar -- "Fade Into You"
* Miriam Makeba -- "Pata Pata"
* Malfunkshun -- "With Yo' Heart (Not Yo' Hand)" or "My Only Fan"
* Music/MaliceMizer -- "Beast of Blood"
* The Mamas and the Papas -- "California Dreamin"' or "Monday, Monday"
* Manfred Mann -- "Doo Wah Diddy Diddy" for his first band, "Blinded By The Light" for the Earth Band
* The Manhattans -- Kiss and Say Goodbye
* Music/ManicStreetPreachers -- "A Design FManhattans
or Life" or "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next"
* Music/ManillaRoad -- "Necropolis"
* Music/BarryManilow -- "Copacabana" & "Mandy"
* Man Overboard -- "Where I Left You"
* Music/{{Manowar}} -- "Kings of Metal," 'Metal Warriors," or "Achilles, Agony and Ecstasy in Eight Parts."
* Clint Mansell -- "[[Film/RequiemForADream Lux]] [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Aeterna]]"
* Music/MarcyPlayground -- "Sex and Candy"
* Marian Hill -- "Down", and maybe "Back to Me" for Music/FifthHarmony fans
* Music/MarianasTrench -- "Cross My Heart" or "All To Myself"
* Teena Marie -- "Lovergirl"
* Music/{{Marillion}} -- "Kayleigh"
* Mario -- "Let Me Love You"
* Music/BrunoMars -- "Uptown Funk!" overall.[[note]]even though it's officially a Mark Ronson song.[[/note]] By album:
** ''Doo-wops and Hooligans'' -- "Just The Way You Are" and "Grenade"
** ''Unorthodox Jukebox'' -- "Locked out of Heaven"
** ''24k Magic'' -- "That's What I Like"
* The Marshall Tucker Band -- "Can't You See", "Fire On The Mountain", or "Heard It In A Love Song"
* Marshmello -- "Alone" for solo works, "FRIENDS" or "Happier" for collaborations.
* Music/MelanieMartinez -- "Dollhouse" or "Pity Party"
* Chuck Mangione -- "Feels So Good"
* Music/MarilynManson -- "The Beautiful People" overall. By album:
** ''Music/PortraitOfAnAmericanFamily'': "Get Your Gun"
** ''Music/SmellsLikeChildren'' -- "[[Music/{{Eurythmics}} Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)]]"
** ''Music/AntichristSuperstar'' -- "[[Wrestling/WWESmackdown The Beautiful People]]"
** ''Music/MechanicalAnimals'' -- "The Dope Show"
** ''Music/HolyWoodInTheShadowOfTheValleyOfDeath'' -- "Disposable Teens" or "The Fight Song"
** ''The Golden Age of Grotesque'' -- "mOBSCENE", "(s)AINT", "This Is The New Shit", or [[CoveredUp "Tainted Love"]]
** ''Lest We Forget'' -- "[[Music/DepecheMode Personal Jesus]]"
** ''Eat Me, Drink Me'' -- "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)"
** ''The High End of Low'' -- "Arma-Goddamn-Motherfuckin'-Geddon"
** ''Born Villain'' -- "No Reflection"
** ''The Pale Emperor'' -- "Deep Six"
** ''Heaven Upside Down'' -- "We Know Where You Fucking Live"
* Music/MarinaDiamandis -- "Primadonna"
* Martika -- "Toy Soldiers"
* Music/BobMarley -- "No Woman No Cry" (from ''Music/NattyDread'', but better known in the live version of ''[[Music/LiveBobMarleyAlbum Live!]]''). A close second is "I Shot The Sherrif" (from ''Music/{{Burnin}}''), followed by "Three Little Birds", "Jamming" and "One Love" (from ''Music/ExodusAlbum Exodus]]'')
* Damian Marley -- "Welcome to Jamrock"
* Ziggy Marley -- "Tomorrow People" or "[[WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}} Believe in Yourself]]"
* Music/{{Maroon 5}}-- By album:
** ''Songs About Jane'' -- "She Will Be Loved" or "This Love"
** ''It Won't Be Soon Before Long''-- "Makes Me Wonder"
** ''[[NewSoundAlbum Hands All Over]]''-- "Misery"
*** Re-issue -- "Moves Like Jagger"
** ''Overexposed''-- "Payphone" or "One More Night"
** ''V''-- "Sugar"
** ''Red Pill Blues'' -- "Girls Like You”
** Overall -- The ''Songs About Jane'' signatures and "Moves Like Jagger"
* M|A|R|R|S -- "Pump Up the Volume" (which was literally the only single the group ever released)
* Music/TheMarsVolta -- "L'via L'viaquez"
* Mia Martina -- "Latin Moon" or "[=HeartBreaker=]"
* Music/DeanMartin -- "That's Amore" and "Everybody Loves Somebody"
* Music/RickyMartin -- "Livin' La Vida Loca". Though [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball football]] fans of a certain age may argue for "The Cup of Life" (''La copa de la vida''), the official theme song of the [[UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup 1998 FIFA World Cup]].
* Music/RichardMarx -- "Right Here Waiting"
* Mary Mary -- "Shackles"
* Mashina -- "Rakevet Layla Le Kahir"
* Massari -- "Be Easy" or "Real Love"
* Music/MassiveAttack -- By album:
** ''Blue Lines'' -- "Unfinished Sympathy"
** ''Protection'' -- The TitleTrack or "Karmacoma".
** ''Music/{{Mezzanine}}'' -- "Angel" or [[Series/{{House}} "Teardrop"]]
** ''[=100th=] Window'' -- "Butterfly Caught"
** ''Heligoland'' -- "Paradise Circus"
** Overall -- "Unfinished Sympathy" was their first signature song, however it would be later ousted by "Teardrop" thanks to a certain medical drama.
* Music/Master P -- "Mr. Ice Cream Man"& "Make Em say Ugh"
* Masterboy -- "Feel The Heat Of The Night"
* Music/{{Mastodon}} -- "Blood and Thunder", possibly "Oblivion"
* Mattafix -- "Big City Life"
** Marlon Roudette -- "When The Beat Drops Out"
* Matchbook Romance -- “Monsters”
* Music/MatchboxTwenty -- "3 A.M." or "Unwell"
** Music/RobThomas -- "Lonely No More" or/and "Smooth" (the latter shared with Music/CarlosSantana).
* Material Issue -- "Valerie Loves Me"
* Matisyahu -- "King Without a Crown"
* Matt and Kim -- "Daylight"
* Music/DaveMatthewsBand -- "Ants Marching"
* Ava Max — "Sweet but Psycho" or "Kings and Queens"
* Music/MaximumTheHormone -- "[[Manga/DeathNote What's Up, People?!]]" and also [[Manga/DeathNote Zetsubou Billy]]" "[[Manga/DragonBall F]]" for Dragon Ball Z fans.
* Edward Maya -- "Stereo Love"
* Maybeshewill -- "He Films the Clouds Pt. 2"
* Music/JohnMayer -- "New Light", "Your Body is a Wonderland", "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room", "Gravity", "No Such Thing" or "Waiting On The World To Change"
* Music/{{Mayhem}} -- "Deathcrush" or "Freezing Moon"
* Conor Maynard -- "Vegas Girl"
* Music/MC5 -- "Music/KickOutTheJams"
* MC 900 Ft. Jesus -- "If I Only Had a Brain"
* Music/MCHammer -- "U Can't Touch This" (which, ironically, was only his ''fifth'' highest charting song) and maybe "2 Legit 2 Quit" for baseball fans.
* Music/MartinaMcBride -- "Independence Day"
* Music/JesseMcCartney -- "Beautiful Soul" or "Leavin'"
** Dream Street -- "It Happens Everytime"
* Music/PaulMcCartney -- "Another Day" (see also Beatles above, and Wings below)
* Music/RebaMcEntire -- "Fancy" or "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" for her older work. "Consider Me Gone" for her newer work. And maybe "I'm a Survivor" for fans of [[Series/{{Reba}} her sitcom]].
* Music/McFly -- "Five Colours in Her Hair" & "All About You"
* Music/TimMcGraw -- "Live Like You Were Dying"
* Andrew [=McMahon=] in the Wilderness -- "Cecilia and the Satellite"
* Wrestling/VinceMcMahon -- "Stand Back"
* Music/MeatLoaf -- "Paradise by the Dashboard Light", "Bat Out of Hell", or "I'd Do Anything For Love". At the album level, ''eight'' of the eighteen songs in his GreatestHits collection (which includes three original songs) come from two albums: "Bat Out of Hell" and "Bat Out of Hell II", making those his signature albums.
* Music/MeatPuppets -- "Plateau" or "Lake of Fire"
* Music/{{Megadeth}} -- "Symphony of Destruction" or "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due". By album:
** ''Killing is My Business... And Business Is Good!'' -- "Chosen Ones" or "Last Rites/Loved to Death"
** ''Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?'' -- The title track.
** ''So Far, So Good... So What!'' -- "In My Darkest Hour"
** ''Rust In Peace'' -- "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" or "Hangar 18"
** ''Countdown to Extinction'' -- "Symphony of Destruction"
** ''Youthanasia'' -- "A Tout Le Monde"
** ''Cryptic Writings'' -- "Trust"
** ''Risk'' -- "Crush 'Em"
** ''The World Needs a Hero'' -- "Promises"
** ''The System Has Failed'' -- [[WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers "Back in the Day"]]
** ''United Abominations'' -- "A Tout Le Monde (Set Me Free)"
** ''Endgame'' -- "Head Crusher"
** ''Thirteen'' -- [[VideoGame/GuitarHero "Sudden Death"]]
** ''Super Collider'' -- The title track.
** ''Dystopia'' -- The title track or [[VideoGame/WatchDogs2 "Fatal Illusion"]]
* Daler Mehndi - "Tunak Tunak Tun"
* Music/JohnMellencamp -- "Jack and Diane"
* Music/{{Melvins}} -- "Honey Bucket"
* Music/MenAtWork -- formerly a tie between "Who Can It Be Now?" and "Down Under"; now undisputably the latter
* Mental As Anything -- "The Nips Are Gettin' Bigger" and "Live It Up"
* Music/MenWithoutHats -- "The Safety Dance"
* Music/FelixMendelssohn -- "Wedding March"
* Music/ShawnMendes -- "Stitches" from ''Handwritten'', "Treat You Better" or "There’s Nothing Holding Me Back" from ''Illuminate''.
* Music/BridgitMendler -- "Ready or Not"
* Creator/IdinaMenzel -- "[[Theatre/{{Wicked}} Defying Gravity]]" or "[[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Let It Go]]"
* Mercy Drive -- "[[Wrestling/RandyOrton Burn In My Light]]"
* Music/MercyfulFate -- "Melissa," "Evil," or "Curse of the Pharaohs"
* [=MercyMe=] -- "I Can Only Imagine"
* Merrilee Rush & The Turnabouts -- "Angel of the Morning"
* Alice Merton -- "No Roots"
* Music/{{Merzbow}} -- "Woodpecker No. 1" or "I Lead You Towards Glorious Times" [[note]]The loudest song ever pressed on CD.[[/note]]
* Music/{{Meshuggah}} -- "Bleed" overall. By album:
** ''Destroy Erase Improve'' -- "Future Breed Machine"
** ''Chaosphere'' -- "New Millennium Cyanide Christ"
** ''Nothing'' -- "Rational Gaze"
** ''Catch Thirtythree'' -- "Shed"
** ''obZen'' -- "Bleed"
** ''Koloss'' -- "Demiurge"
** ''The Violent Sleep of Reason'' -- "Clockworks"
* Music/JoDeeMessina -- "Lesson in Leavin'", "I'm Alright", "Bye, Bye" or "My Give a Damn's Busted"
* Music/{{Metallica}} -- "Master of Puppets", "One", or "Enter Sandman" overall. By album:
** ''Kill 'Em All'' -- "Seek & Destroy"
** ''Music/RideTheLightning'' -- "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
** ''Music/MasterOfPuppets'' -- The title track
** ''...And Justice for All'' -- "One"
** ''Music/{{Metallica|Album}}'' (The Black Album) -- "Enter Sandman"[[note]](especially for fans of [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball Virginia Tech football]] and the [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams New York Yankees]])[[/note]], and "Nothing Else Matters"
** ''Load'' -- "Until it Sleeps" or "King Nothing"
** ''Reload'' -- "Fuel"
** ''Music/GarageInc'' -- Formerly a tie between "Turn the Page" or "Whiskey in the Jar", but now indisputably the latter.
** ''S&M'' -- "No Leaf Clover"
** ''St. Anger'' -- The title track
** ''Death Magnetic'' -- "The Day That Never Comes"
** ''Hardwired… To Self-Destruct'' -- "Hardwired"
* Music/{{Metric}} -- "[[Film/{{Defendor}} Help I'm Alive]]", "Gold Guns Girls", or "Dead Disco".
* Music/MeWithoutYou -- "January 1979" or "In a Sweater Poorly Knit"
* MGMT -- "Electric Feel", "Kids" or "Time to Pretend" from ''Music/OracularSpectacular''.
* Music/{{MIA}} -- [[Film/PineappleExpress "Paper Planes"]], with "Bad Girls" a close runner-up
* Music/MichaelLearnsToRock -- By album:
** ''First SelfTitledAlbum'' -- "The Actor"
** ''Colours'' -- "Sleeping Child". In some countries (Asia specifically), "25 Minutes" and "Out of the Blue" are just as iconic, if not more.
** ''Played On Pepper'' -- "That's Why (You Go Away)".
** ''Nothing To Lose'' -- "Paint My Love". In some countries (Asia specifically), the TitleTrack, "I'm Gonna Be Around", and "Breaking My Heart" are just as iconic, if not more.
** ''Blue Night'' -- "You Took My Heart Away".
** ''Second SelfTitledAlbum'' -- "Take Me To Your Heart"
** ''Eternity'' -- Depends on the country. In the UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}} and UsefulNotes/{{India}}, it's "It's Gonna Make Sense". In UsefulNotes/{{Thailand}}, it's "Sweetest Surprise".
** ''Scandinavia'' -- In the UsefulNotes/{{Indonesia}}, UsefulNotes/{{India}}, and their native UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}}, it's "Any Way You Want It".
* Music/GeorgeMichael -- "Faith" or "Freedom '90"
* Julia Michaels -- "Issues"
* Wrestling/ShawnMichaels -- "Sexy Boy"
* Music/MidnightOil -- "Beds Are Burning"
* Creator/BetteMidler -- "The Rose", "Wind Beneath My Wings" or "From a Distance".
* Music/TheMightyMightyBosstones -- "The Impression That I Get"
* Migos -- Formerly "Versace", but now "Bad and Boujee" (and to a lesser extent, "T-Shirt" and "Slippery")
* Miguel -- "Adorn"
* MIGGS -- "Ordinary"
* Miike Snow -- "Animal" at first, but now most definitely "Music/GenghisKhan", though the former is back to being this for them in the UK due to the remix being used as the theme tune of ''Series/FridayNightDinner''.
* Music/{{Mika}} -- "Grace Kelly"
* Music/MikeAndTheMechanics -- "Silent Running" and "The Living Years"
* Miki Imai - "Part of Your World" cover from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'' (by American standards, at least).
* Robert Miles — "Children"
* Milky Chance -- "Stolen Dance"
* Music/GlennMiller -- "In the Mood", though "Moonlight Serenade" was his band's official theme song.
* Music/MacMiller -- "Donald Trump"
* Music/SteveMillerBand -- "The Joker"
* The Miller Stain Limit -- "Cellophane"
* Music/MeekMill -- "I'm A Boss" or "Dreams and Nightmares (Intro)"
* Christina Milian -- "Dip It Low"
* M.I.M.S. -- "This Is Why I'm Hot"
* Music/NickiMinaj -- "Super Bass" or "Starships"
* Music/{{Ministry}} -- "Jesus Built My Hot Rod"
* Music/KylieMinogue --
** Early Work: "I Should Be So Lucky"
** Early 2000's: "Spinning Around"
** Recent Work: "Can't Get You Out of My Head"
* Music/MinorThreat -- "Straight Edge"
* Masayoshi Minoshima -- "[[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Bad Apple!!]] feat. nomico"
* Music/{{Minutemen}} -- "Corona" or "This Ain't No Picnic"
* Music/TheMisfits -- "Last Caress", "Hybrid Moments", or "Where Eagles Dare"
* MISSIO -- "Middle Fingers"
* Music/MissionOfBurma -- "That's When I Reach for My Revolver"
* Music/MisTeeq -- "Scandalous"
* Music/JoniMitchell -- "Big Yellow Taxi", or “Both Sides Now”
* [[Music/{{VOCALOID}} Mitchie M]] -- "Freely Tomorrow" and "Ai Dee"
* [=MKTO=] -- "Classic" in the U.S., "Thank You" in Oceania
* [=MNEK=] -- "Never Forget You" (shared with Zara Larsson); in his native UK, "Ready For Your Love" (shared with Gorgon City) is a possible rival
* Mobb Deep -- "Shook Ones Pt. II"
* Music/{{Moby}} -- "Natural Blues" or "Porcelain"
* Music/MobyGrape -- "Omaha"
* Mo-Do -- "Ein Zwei Polizei"
* Music/TheModernLovers -- "Roadrunner"
* Music/ModestMouse -- "Float On"
* Moe Shop -- "Love Taste"
* Music/TheMoffats -- "I'll Be There For You"
* Mohombi -- "Bumpy Ride"
* The Moldy Peaches -- "Anyone Else But You"
* Molly Hatchet -- "Flirtin' with Disaster"
* Moloko -- "Sing It Back"
* Music/JanelleMonae -- "Tightrope" or "Cold War"
* Eddie Money -- "Take Me Home Tonight" and "Two Tickets to Paradise"
* Monica -- "Angel of Mine", "So Gone", or "Don't Take It Personal (Just One of Dem Days)" .
* Music/TheMonkees -- "I'm A Believer" or "Daydream Believer"
* Bill Monroe -- "Blue Moon of Kentucky" or "Uncle Pen"
* Vaughn Monroe -- "Racing with the Moon", the song was even used on the advertisements he recorded for RCA Victor, "Ghost Riders In The Sky" is another contender.
* Monster Magnet -- "Space Lord" (or "[[Wrestling/MattHardy Live for the Moment]]" to wrestling fans). More recently, "[[ComicBook/XMen Negasonic Teenage Warhead]]" has become a possible contender.
* Music/MontgomeryGentry -- "Gone"
* John Michael Montgomery -- "I Swear"
* Creator/MontyPython – "[[Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian Always Look on the Bright Side of Life]]"
* Music/TheMoodyBlues -- "Nights In White Satin" or "Go Now"
* Chanté Moore -- "Chanté's Got a Man"
* Gary Moore -- "Out in the Fields"
* Justin Moore -- "Small Town USA"
* Music/MandyMoore -- "Candy," "[[Film/AWalkToRemember Cry]]" and "[[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} I See the Light]]".
* Willy Moon -- "Yeah Yeah"
* M.O.P. -- "Ante Up"
* Music/MorbidAngel -- "Chapel of Ghouls," "Immortal Rites," or "God of Emptiness"
* Adam Morenoff -- "[[Wrestling/ChrisJericho Break Down the Walls]]"
* Meli'sa Morgan -- "[[CoveredUp Do Me, Baby]]"
* Music/AlanisMorissette -- "Ironic" and "You Oughta Know" (both from ''Music/JaggedLittlePill'')
* Morning Parade -- "Alienation"
* Morphine -- "The Night" or "Early to Bed"
* Music/EnnioMorricone -- "Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly" Theme
* Music/MarenMorris -- "My Church" for her core country base and "[[Music/{{Zedd}} The Middle]]" for mainstream audiences, although "The Bones" has become a contender for both demographics
* Music/{{Morrissey}} -- "Irish Blood, English Heart"
* Glenn Morrison -- "Goodbye"
* Mark Morrison -- "Return of the Mack"
* Music/VanMorrison -- "Brown Eyed Girl"
** Them -- "Gloria"
* Mother Love Bone -- "Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns"
* Mother Mother -- "Hayloft"
* Music/MotionlessInWhite -- "Reincarnate"
* Music/MotleyCrue -- "Dr. Feelgood" or "Girls, Girls, Girls"
** "Kickstart My Heart" is also a serious contender.
* Music/{{Motorhead}} -- "Ace of Spades". For wrestling fans, "[[Wrestling/TripleH The Game]]".
* Mountain -- "Mississippi Queen"
* Music/TheMountainGoats -- "No Children"
* The Mowgli's -- "San Francisco"
* Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart — Requiem, especially "Dies Irae" or "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - 1st Movement"
* Mr. Mister -- ""Broken Wings" or "Kyrie"
* Mr. Pink / The Program -- "Love and Affection", a CoverVersion of Joan Armatrading's song.
* Mr. President -- "Coco Jamboo"
* Mr. Probz -- "Waves" (specifically the remix by Robin Schulz)
* Jason Mraz -- Initially "The Remedy," but now "I'm Yours"
* Ms Mr -- "[[Series/GameOfThrones Bones]]" or "Hurricane"
* Music/{{Mudhoney}} -- "Touch Me, I'm Sick"
* Music/{{Mudvayne}} -- "Happy?" overall. By album:
** ''L.D. 50'' -- "Dig"
** ''The End of All Things to Come'' -- "Not Falling"
** ''Lost and Found'' -- "Happy?"
** ''By the People for the People'' -- "Dull Boy"
** ''The New Game'' -- "Do What You Do"
** ''Mudvayne'' -- "Scream with Me"
* Music/MumfordAndSons -- "Little Lion Man", "The Cave" or "I Will Wait"
* Mumm-Ra -- "[[Film/FiveHundredDaysOfSummer She's Got You High]]"
* Mungo Jerry -- "In the Summertime"
* Music/PeterMurphy -- "Cuts You Up"
* Olly Murs -- "Troublemaker" in the U.S., other contenders in the UK include "Please Don't Let Me Go", "Heart Skips a Beat", "Dance With Me Tonight", and "Wrapped Up".
* Music/{{Muse}} -- "Uprising" overall. By album:
** ''Showbiz'' -- "Sunburn", "Muscle Museum," or the title track.
** ''Origin of Symmetry'' -- "Plug In Baby" and "[[CoveredUp Feeling Good]]"
** ''Absolution'' -- "Time is Running Out" or "Hysteria"
** ''Black Holes & Revalations'' -- "Knights of Cydonia" and "Supermassive Black Hole"
** ''The Resistance'' -- "Uprising"
** ''The 2nd Law'' -- "Madness"
** ''Drones'' -- "Dead Inside" or "Reapers"
** ''Simulation Theory'' -- "Pressure"
* Music/KaceyMusgraves -- "Merry Go Round" (to the core country audience) and "Follow Your Arrow" (to more mainstream audiences) off her earlier, more straightforward country work. From newer work that's more pop/soft rock inspired, it'd be "Space Cowboy" or "High Horse".
* Mustard Plug -- "Mr. Smiley"
* Mya -- "Case of the Ex". She was also part of the collaboration for 'Lady Marmalade'.
* Music/MyBloodyValentine -- "You Made Me Realise" or "Only Shallow"
* Music/MyChemicalRomance -- By album:
** ''I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love'' - "Vampires Will Never Hurt You"
** ''Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge'' -- "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" or "Helena"
** ''The Black Parade'' -- "Welcome to the Black Parade"
** ''Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys'' -- "Sing"
** Overall: "Welcome To The Black Parade"
* My Darkest Days -- "Porn Star Dancing"
* My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult -- "A Daisy Chain 4 Satan"
* My Name Is Kay -- "My Name Is Kay"
* Alannah Myles -- "Black Velvet"
* David Myles -- "So Blind"
* Music/{{Myrath}} -- "Born to Survive"
* Music/MysterySkulls -- "Ghost"
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* The Naked and Famous -- "Young Blood"
* Naked Eyes -- "[[CoveredUp Always Something There to Remind Me]]"
* Anna Nalick -- "Breathe (2 AM)"
* Music/NapalmDeath -- "You Suffer"
* Nargaroth -- "Black Metal ist Krieg" or "The Day Music/{{Burzum}} Killed Music/{{Mayhem}}"
* Music/{{Nas}} -- "N.Y. State of Mind"
* Johnny Nash -- "I Can See Clearly Now"
* Kate Nash -- "Foundations"
* Music/TheNational -- "Bloodbuzz Ohio" or "[[VideoGame/Portal2 Exile (Vilify)]]"
* Naughty Boy -- "La La La" (with Sam Smith)
* Naughty by Nature -- "O.P.P."
* Nayer -- "Suave (Kiss Me)" [[note]]Although she's best known for her appearance on "[[Music/{{Pitbull}} Give Me Everything]]".[[/note]]
* Nazareth -- "Hair of the Dog" or "Love Hurts"
* Meshell Ndegeocello -- "Fool of Me"
* Youssou N'Dour -- "7 Seconds"
* Music/TheNeighbourhood -- "Sweater Weather"
* Nelly -- "Hot in Herre", "Ride wit Me", or "Dilemma"
* Rick Nelson -- "Hello, Mary Lou"
* Music/WillieNelson -- "On the Road Again"
* Music/{{Nena}} -- "99 Luftballons" (99 Red Balloons)
* Neon Jungle -- "Braveheart"
* Music/NeonTrees -- "Animal" or "Everybody Talks"
* Nephew -- "Movie Klip"
* Nerf Herder -- "Van Halen" or the Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer theme
* Music/{{Nero}} -- "Promises" or [[VideoGame/ForzaMotorsport "Me and You"]]
* Netta -- "Toy"
* Music/NeutralMilkHotel -- "Music/InTheAeroplaneOverTheSea" or "Holland, 1945"
* Music/{{Nevermore}} -- "Believe in Nothing"
* New Boyz -- "You're A Jerk"
* Music/NewEdition -- "Can You Stand the Rain"
* Music/NewFoundGlory -- "My Friends Over You"
* Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock -- "Step by Step"
* New Medicine -- "Race You to the Bottom"
* Music/NewOrder -- "Blue Monday" (available on ''Music/PowerCorruptionAndLies'')
* [[Music/JasonNewsted Newsted]] -- "King of the Underdogs"
* John Newman -- "Love Me Again" (although in the U.S. he is better known as the featured vocalist on Calvin Harris' "Blame")
* Music/RandyNewman:
** Soundtrack work -- "[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory You've Got a Friend In Me]]"
** Solo career -- "Short People"
* Newsboys -- "Shine" (early years) and "God's Not Dead" (more recent work)
* Music/OliviaNewtonJohn - "Physical"
* Next - "Too Close"
* Music/NeYo -- By album:
** ''In My Own Words'' -- "So Sick"
** ''Because of You'' -- The title track
** ''Year of the Gentleman'' -- "Closer" or "Miss Independent"
** ''Libra Scale'' -- "Beautiful Monster"
** ''R.E.D.'' -- "Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)" or "Let's Go" (the latter shared with Music/CalvinHarris)
** ''Non-Fiction'' -- "She Knows" or "Time of Our Lives" (the latter shared with Music/{{Pitbull}})
** Overall: "So Sick" and the ''Year of the Gentleman'' signatures
* Music/{{NF}} -- “Let You Down”. Before that, it was either “Mansion” or “How Could You Leave Us?”
* Music/{{Nickelback}} -- "How You Remind Me" overall. By album:
** ''Silver Side Up'' -- "How You Remind Me"
** ''The Long Road'' -- "Someday"
** ''All The Right Reasons'' -- "Photograph" and "Rockstar"
** ''Dark Horse'' -- "Gotta Be Somebody"
** ''Here and Now'' -- "Lullaby"
* Nico & Vinz -- "Am I Wrong?"
* 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.
* Jerrod Niemann -- “[[CoveredUp Lover, Lover]]”
* Music/NightRanger -- "Sister Christian"
* Music/{{Nightwish}} -- "Wish I Had an Angel" or "End of All Hope", "Planet Hell" to those who play RuneScape
* Harry Nilsson -- "[[CoveredUp Without]] [[Music/{{Badfinger}} You]]". For material that he both wrote and performed, "Coconut".
* Nine Days -- "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)"
* Music/NineInchNails -- "Closer", from ''Music/TheDownwardSpiral''
* Music/NinjaSexParty -- "Dinosaur Laser Fight" or "Dragon Slayer"
** Starbomb -- "Luigi's Ballad" or "It's Dangerous To Go Alone"
* Music/{{Nirvana}} -- "Smells Like Teen Spirit" overall. By album:
** ''{{Music/Bleach}}'' -- "About a Girl"
** ''{{Music/Nevermind}}'' -- "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "Come As You Are" and "Lithium"
** ''Music/InUtero'' -- "Heart-Shaped Box"
** ''Music/MTVUnpluggedInNewYork'' -- "[[Music/MeatPuppets Lake of Fire]]" or "[[Music/DavidBowie The Man]] [[Music/TheManWhoSoldTheWorld Who Sold the World]]"
** ''Nirvana'' -- "You Know You're Right"
* The Nixons -- "Sister"
* No Address -- "Sadie (When I'm Gone)"
* Creator/NobuoUematsu -- "[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII One Winged Angel]]"
* Music/NoDoubt -- "Don't Speak" or "Just A Girl"
** Gwen Stefani -- "Hollaback Girl", with "The Sweet Escape" being a close second
* Music/{{NOFX}} -- "Linoleum"
* Noisestorm -- "[[MemeticMutation Crab Rave]]"
* Nokturnal Mortum -- "Perun's Celestial Silver"
* NOMA -- [[VideoGame/SoundVoltex "Brain Power"]]
* Music/KlausNomi -- "Total Eclipse"
* NONONO - "Pumpin' Blood"
* Nonpoint -- "Bullet with a Name" By album:
** ''Statement'': "What a Day"
** ''Development'': "Your Signs"
** ''Recoil'': "[[Music/PhilCollins In the Air Tonight]]"
** ''To the Pain'': "Bullet with a Name"
** ''Vengeance'': "March of War"
** ''Miracle'': The title track
** ''Nonpoint'': "That Day"
** ''The Return'': "Breaking Skin"
** ''The Poison Red'': "Generation Idiot"
* Music/{{Noisia}} -- "Machine Gun"
* Nothing But Thieves -- "Trip Switch"
* Nothing More -- "This Is The Time (Ballast)", "Jenny" or "Go to War"
* Music/TheNotoriousBIG -- "Juicy", "Hypnotize" or "Mo Money Mo Problems"
* Music/{{NSYNC}} -- "Bye Bye Bye" [[note]]Although "It's Gonna Be Me" was their only #1 hit.[[/note]]
* Music/TedNugent -- "Journey To The Center of My Mind" (Amboy Dukes era), "Cat Scratch Fever" (solo years), "High Enough" (with Damn Yankees)
* Music/GaryNuman -- "Cars"
* Nump -- Originally "I Got Grapes", but now indisputably "WesternAnimation/TheNutshack"
* Paolo Nutini -- "New Shoes"
* Music/{{NWA}} -- "Straight Outta Compton" or "Fuck Tha Police" from ''Music/StraightOuttaCompton''.
* O-Town -- "All Or Nothing"
* O-Zone -- "Dragostea Din Tei" [[MemeticMutation (the "Numa Numa" song)]]
* The Oak Ridge Boys -- "Elvira"
* O.A.R. -- "Shattered (Turn the Car Around)" or "Love and Memories"
* Music/{{Oasis}} -- "Wonderwall"
* Oberhofer -- "Away Frm U"
* Billy Ocean -- "Caribbean Queen"
* Ocean Colour Scene -- "The Riverboat Song"
* Music/SineadOConnor -- Her [[CoveredUp cover]] of Music/{{Prince}}'s "Nothing Compares 2 U"
* Odessa -- "I Will Be There"
* ODESZA -- "Say My Name" or "Sun Models"
* Colby O'Donis -- "What You Got" (although he is probably better known as the featured vocalist on Music/LadyGaga's "Just Dance")
* Music/OfMiceAndMen -- "Second and Sebring" for their earlier material; more recently "Would You Still Be There?"
* Music/OfMonstersAndMen -- "Little Talks"
* Music/JacquesOffenbach -- "Galop Infernal" from "Orphée aux enfers", probably better known to most people as the "Can-Can".
* Music/TheOffspring -- "PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy", "Come Out and Play" or "Self Esteem". "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" fits for their later work.
* Music/{{OFWGKTA}} -- "Oldie". By member:
** Tyler, the Creator -- "Yonkers"
** Earl Sweatshirt -- "Chum"
** Frank Ocean -- "Thinkin Bout You", "Pyramids" or "Pink + White"
** Hodgy -- "Rella" or "Barbell"
*** [=MellowHype=] -- "Grill"
** Domo Genesis -- "Dapper"
** Casey Veggies -- "Backflip"
** Syd -- "All About Me"
*** The Internet -- "Girl" or "Special Affair"
* The Ohio Players -- "Love Rollercoaster" or "[[Series/HellsKitchen Fire]]"
* Music/OingoBoingo -- "Dead Man's Party" or "Weird Science"
* The O'Jays -- "Love Train"
* Music/OKGo -- "Here It Goes Again"
* Ol' Dirty Bastard -- "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" or "Brooklyn Zoo"
* Music/OldCrowMedicineShow -- "Wagon Wheel"
* Old Dominion -- "Break Up With Him"
* Music/MikeOldfield -- "[[Film/TheExorcist Tubular Bells, Pt. I]]" for his instrumental work, "Moonlight Shadow" for his pop/rock work.
* Oleander -- "Why I'm Here"
* Don Omar -- "[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious Danza Kuduro]]"
* Omarion -- "Ice Box" for his earlier work, "Post to Be" for his later material.
** [=B2K=] -- “Bump, Bump, Bump”
* OMC -- "How Bizarre"
* OMFG -- "Hello"
* OMI -- "Cheerleader" [[note]]specifically the Felix Jaehn remix[[/note]]
* OPM -- "Heaven is a Halfpipe"
* Alexander O'Neal -- "Fake"
* Music/OneDirection -- "What Makes You Beautiful"
** Music/{{Zayn}} -- "Pillowtalk"
** Niall Horan -- "Slow Hands"
** Louis Tomlinson -- "Just Hold On" (despite it technically being Steve Aoki's song); "Back to You" for his own material
** Music/HarryStyles -- "Watermelon Sugar"
** Liam Payne -- "Strip That Down"
* Music/OneOKRock -- "Kanzen Kankaku Dreamer" in Japan, "[[Film/RurouniKenshin The Beginning]]" internationally
* Music/OneRepublic -- Previously "Apologize", but now "Counting Stars"
* Onesidezero -- "[[Series/{{Smallville}} New World Order]]"
* One Way -- "Cutie Pie"
* Only Living Witness -- "December"
* Operation Ivy -- "Knowledge" or "Unity"
* Operator -- "Soulcrusher"
* Music/{{Opeth}} -- "The Drapery Falls" or "Deliverance".
* Music/RitaOra -- "How We Do (Party)" or "I Will Never Let You Down" in the U.S., although "R.I.P." is also a candidate in the UK.
* Music/RoyOrbison -- "Oh, Pretty Woman"
* Orbital -- "Halcyon" or "Chime"
* Carl Orff -- "[[Music/CarminaBurana O Fortuna]]"
* Orianthi -- "According To You"
* The Orion Experience -- "Obsessed With You" or "Queen of White Lies"
* Orleans -- "Dance With Me" or "Still the One"
* Orson -- "No Tomorrow"
* Jeffrey Osborne -- "You Should Be Mine (The Woo-Woo Song)"
* Music/OzzyOsbourne -- "Crazy Train"
* Music/TheOsmonds -- "One Bad Apple"
* Otherwise -- "I Don't Apologize (1000 Pictures)"
* Ai Otsuka -- "Sakuranbo"
* Music/OurLadyPeace -- "Somewhere Out There" and "Clumsy"
* Music/OutKast -- "B.O.B." or "Ms. Jackson" to the hip-hop/urban community, "Hey Ya!" to pop audiences
** Big Boi -- “Shutterbugg”
* The Outlaws -- "Green Grass and High Tides"
* Outasight -- "Tonight Is The Night"
* Music/{{Overkill}} -- "Hello from the Gutter"
* Jake Owen -- "Barefoot Blue Jean Night"
* Music/OwlCity -- "Fireflies"
** Sky Sailing -- "Brielle"
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* Johann Pachelbel -- "Canon in D Major", informally known as "Pachelbel's Canon"
* Patti Page -- "Tennessee Waltz"
* Jennifer Paige -- "Crush"
* Pain -- "Follow Me" or "Shut Your Mouth"
* Music/PainOfSalvation -- "Ashes"
* Music/BradPaisley —- "Mud on the Tires" or "Accidental Racist"
* Music/AmandaPalmer -- "Leeds United" or "Oasis"
* Robert Palmer -- "Addicted to Love", "Simply Irresistible", or "Bad Case of Lovin' You"
* Music/PanicAtTheDisco: "I Write Sins, Not Tragedies" and "High Hopes" overall. By album
** ''A Fever You Can't Sweat Out'': "I Write Sins, Not Tragedies", with "Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off" and "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage" not far behind.
** ''Pretty. Odd.'': "Northern Downpour" or "Nine in the Afternoon"
** ''Vices & Virtues'': "The Ballad of Mona Lisa"
** ''Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!'': "Miss Jackson" or "This Is Gospel"
** ''Death of a Bachelor'': "Victorious", "Emperor's New Clothes", or "Don't Threaten Me With a Good Time"
** ''Pray For the Wicked'': "High Hopes" with "Say Amen (Saturday Night)" and "Hey Look Ma, I Made It", not far behind
* Music/{{Pantera}}: by album:
** ''Cowboys from Hell'': The title track
** ''Vulgar Display of Power'': "Walk"
** ''Far Beyond Driven'': "I'm Broken"
** ''The Great Southern Trendkill'': "Floods"
** ''Reinventing the Steel'': "Revolution is My Name"
** Overall: "Walk", with "Cowboys" a close second.
*** Damageplan -- "Save Me"
* Music/PapaRoach -- "Last Resort" overall. By album:
** ''Infest'' -- "Last Resort"
** ''Lovehatetragedy'' -- "She Loves Me Not"
** ''Getting Away with Murder'' -- "Scars"
** ''The Paramour Sessions'' -- "Forever" or "...To Be Loved"
** ''Metamorphosis'' -- "Lifeline" or "Hollywood Whore"
** ''Time for Annihilation'' -- "Kick in the Teeth"
** ''The Connection'' -- "Still Swingin'"
** ''F.E.A.R.'' -- "[[Music/InThisMoment Gravity]]" or "Face Everything And Rise"
** ''Crooked Teeth'' -- "Help"
* Paper Tongues -- "Ride To California"
* Music/ParadiseLost -- "As I Die"
* [=ParagonX9=] -- "Chaoz Fantasy"
* Music/{{Paramore}}
** Older work: "Misery Business"
** Newer material: "Still Into You" or "Ain't It Fun"
* Ray Parker Jr. -- "Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}"
* Parkway Drive -- "Vice Grip" or "The Void"
* [[Music/GeorgeClinton Parliament]] -- "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)" (from ''Music/MothershipConnection'')
* Music/DollyParton -- "Jolene" or "Nine to Five". “I Will Always Love You” is by far her best-known song, but it’s universally associated with Music/WhitneyHouston instead.
* Passenger -- "Let Her Go"
* Music/PassionPit -- "Take a Walk"
* Patent Pending -- "Hey Mario", a tribute to ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''
* Music/PaulRevereAndTheRaiders -- "Kicks" or "Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)"
* Billy Paul -- "Me and Mrs. Jones"
* Sean Paul -- "Get Busy" or "Temperature"
* Music/{{Pavement}} -- "Cut Your Hair", "Summer Babe", or "Gold Soundz"
* Music/PearlJam -- By album:
** ''Music/{{Ten|PearlJamAlbum}}'' (and overall) -- "Black", "Alive", "Even Flow", or "Jeremy"
** ''Vs.'' -- "Daughter"
** ''Vitalogy'' -- "Better Man"
** ''Merkin Ball'' -- "I Got Id"
** ''No Code'' -- "Who You Are"
** ''Yield'' -- "Given to Fly" or "Do the Evolution"
** ''No Boundaries'' -- "Last Kiss"
** ''Binaural'' -- "Nothing as it Seems"
** ''Riot Act'' -- "I Am Mine"
** ''Pearl Jam'' -- "World Wide Suicide"
** ''Backspacer'' -- "The Fixer"
** ''Lightning Bolt'' -- "Mind Your Manners"
* Gayla Peevey -- "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas"
* Peking Duk -- "High" or "Say My Name"
* Music/{{Pendulum}} -- Formerly "Slam", but now "Propane Nightmares"
* Pennywise -- "Fuck Authority"
* Music/{{Pentagram}} -- "Forever My Queen" or "Living on a Ram's Head"
* Music/{{Pentatonix}} -- Excluding covers and mashups, "Can't Sleep Love"
* Pepper -- "No Control"
* Music/{{Perfume}} -- "Polyrhythm," "Chocolate Disco"
* Music/{{Periphery}} -- "Icarus Lives" or "Alpha"
* Christina Perri -- "Jar of Hearts" or "[[Literature/{{Twilight}} A Thousand Years]]"
* Music/KatyPerry -- By album:
** ''One of the Boys'' -- "I Kissed a Girl" or "Hot n Cold"
** ''Teenage Dream'' -- "California Gurls", "Teenage Dream" or "Firework"
*** ''Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection'' -- "Part of Me" or "Wide Awake"
** ''Prism''-- "Roar" or "Dark Horse"
** ''Witness'' -- "Chained to the Rhythm", "Bon Appetit" or "Swish Swish"
** ''Smile'' -- "Never Really Over"
** Overall -- "I Kissed a Girl", "Firework", and the ''Prism'' signatures tend to be the frontrunners.
* Music/PetShopBoys -- "West End Girls" overall. By album:
** ''Please'' -- "West End Girls" or "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)"
** ''Actually'' -- "It's a Sin" or "What Have I Done To Deserve This?"
** ''Introspective'' -- [[CoveredUp "Always on My Mind"]] or "Domino Dancing"
** ''Behaviour'' -- "Being Boring"
** ''Very'' -- "Can You Forgive Her?" or "Go West"
** ''Bilingual'' -- "Somewhere"
** ''Nightlife'' -- "New York City Boy"
** ''Release'' -- "Home And Dry"
** ''Fundamental'' -- "I'm With Stupid"
** ''Yes'' -- "Love Etc."
** ''Elysium'' -- "Winner"
** ''Electric'' -- "Love is a Bourgeois Construct" or "Thursday"
** ''Super'' -- "The Pop Kids" or "Say It To Me"
* Peter, Bjorn and John -- "Young Folks"
* Peter, Paul & Mary -- "Leaving on a Jet Plane"
* Petey Pablo -- "Raise Up"
* Music/TomPetty -- "Free Fallin'" (and "American Girl" for his songs with the Heartbreakers), with "I Won't Back Down", "Runnin' Down A Dream", "Mary Jane's Last Dance" and "Learning To Fly" as runner up songs overall. By album:
** ''Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers'': "American Girl" particularly, but also "Breakdown" is very well-remembered.
** ''You're Gonna Get It'': "Listen to Her Heart".
** ''Damn The Torpedoes'': "Refugee" and "Don't Do Me Like That", with "Here Comes My Girl" as a runner up.
** ''Hard Promises'': "The Waiting".
** ''Long After Dark'': "You Got Lucky".
** ''Southern Accents'': "Don't Come Around Here No More".
** ''Full Moon Fever'': "Free Fallin'" (most popular song overall), "I Won't Back Down" and "Runnin' Down A Dream".
** ''Into The Great Wide Open'': "Learning To Fly", although the title track is also very well-remembered.
** ''Greatest Hits'': "Mary Jane's Last Dance".
** ''Wildflowers'': "You Don't Know How It Feels" and, surprisingly, the title track, which wasn't even released as a single but became the most streamed song on the album. "You Wreck Me" is also well-remembered and was a very popular concert song.
** Overall, his later albums don't really have songs that can be considered Petty's signature songs. Perhaps his best-known hits here are "Walls" from the OST album ''Songs and Music from "She's the One"'' and "Saving Grace" from his third and last solo album ''Highway Companion''.
* Music/LizPhair -- "Why Can't I"
* Phantogram -- "Fall In Love" overall. By album:
** ''Eyelid Movies'' -- "When I'm Small"
** ''Nightlife'' -- "Don't Move"
** ''Voices'' -- "Fall In Love" or "Black Out Days"
** ''Three'' -- "Same Old Blues" or "You Don't Get Me High Anymore"
* Phantom Planet -- "[[Series/TheOC California]]"
* The Pharcyde -- "Passin' Me By"
* Music/{{Pharrell|Williams}} -- [[WesternAnimation/DespicableMe2 "Happy"]]
** N.E.R.D. -- "She Wants to Move", "Rock Star" or “Lemon”
* Music/{{Phish}} -- "You Enjoy Myself"
* Phil Phillips - "Sea of Love"
* Phillip Phillips -- "Home" or "Gone, Gone, Gone" to adult contemporary listeners, indisputably the first to general audiences
* Phoenix -- "If I Ever Feel Better" for their early work, "1901" for their later material. By album:
** ''United'' -- "If I Ever Feel Better"
** ''Alphabetical'' -- "Everything is Everything"
** ''It's Never Been Like That'' -- "Long Distance Call"
** ''Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix'' -- "1901" or "Lisztomania"
** ''Bankrupt!'' -- "Entertainment" or "Trying To Be Cool"
** ''Ti Amo'' -- "J-Boy"
* Music/EdithPiaf -- "Non, je ne regrette rien"
* Wilson Pickett -- "In the Midnight Hour" or "Land of 1,000 Dances"
* The Pierces -- "[[Series/PrettyLittleLiars Secret]]"
* Music/PierceTheVeil -- "King for a Day" or "Circles"
* The Pillows -- "Little Busters"
* Pilot -- "Magic"
* Music/{{Pink}} -- "Get the Party Started", "Just Like a Pill" and "So What"
* Music/PinkFloyd -- "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" or "Comfortably Numb" (from ''Music/TheWall''), "Money" (from ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'') or possibly the title track of ''Music/WishYouWereHere''. Funny, considering the former [[BlackSheepHit is not representative of their sound]].
** By album:
*** ''Music/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn'' -- "Astronomy Domine" or "Interstellar Overdrive"
*** ''Music/ASaucerfulOfSecrets'' -- "Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun", "Corporal Clegg", or "Jugband Blues"
*** ''Music/{{More}}'' -- "The Nile Song" or "Cymbaline"
*** ''Music/{{Ummagumma}}'' -- "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict"
*** ''Film/ZabriskiePoint'' -- "Heart Beat, Pig Meat", "Crumbling Land", or "Come in Number 51, Your Time Is Up"
*** ''Music/AtomHeartMother'' -- "Atom Heart Mother Suite" or "Fat Old Sun"
*** ''Music/{{Meddle}}'' -- "One of These Days" or "[[EpicRocking Echoes]]"
*** ''Music/ObscuredByClouds'' -- The title track or "Free Four"
*** ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'' -- "Time", "Money", "Us and Them", or "[[SiameseTwinSongs Brain Damage/Eclipse]]"
*** ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' -- "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" or "Wish You Were Here"
*** ''Music/{{Animals}}'' -- "Dogs", "Pigs (Three Different Ones)", or "Sheep"
*** ''Music/TheWall'' -- "Another Brick In the Wall, Part II", "Hey You", "Comfortably Numb", or "Run Like Hell"
*** ''Music/TheFinalCut'' -- "The Fletcher Memorial Home" or "The Final Cut"
*** ''Music/AMomentaryLapseOfReason'' -- "Learning to Fly", "On the Turning Away", or "Sorrow"
*** ''Music/TheDivisionBell'' -- "Take It Back", "Keep Talking", or "High Hopes"
*** ''Music/TheEndlessRiver'' -- "Louder Than Words"
*** Singles -- "Arnold Layne", "See Emily Play", "CarefulWithThatAxe, Eugene", "Embryo", or "When the Tigers Broke Free"
* Creator/{{Pinkfong}} -- "Baby Shark"
* Music/{{Pitbull}} -- By album:
** ''M.I.A.M.I.'' -- "Culo"
** ''Money Is Still a Major Issue'' -- "Everybody Get Up"
** ''El Mariel'' -- "Bojangles" or "Ay Chico (Lengua Afuera)"
** ''The Boatlift'' -- "The Anthem"
** ''Pitbull Starring in Rebelution'' -- "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)"
** ''Armando'' -- "Bon, Bon"
** ''Planet Pit'' -- "Give Me Everything"
** ''Global Warming'' -- "[[Film/MenInBlack3 Back in Time]]" or "Feel This Moment"
** ''Meltdown'' -- "Timber"
** ''Globalization'' -- "Time of Our Lives"
** ''Dale'' -- "Como Yo Le Doy"
** ''Climate Change'' -- "Messin' Around"
** Overall -- "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)", "Give Me Everything" and "Timber" are the frontrunners.
* Music/ThePixies -- "Where is My Mind?" (from ''Music/SurferRosa''), "Monkey Gone to Heaven", or "Debaser" (from ''Music/{{Doolittle}}'')
* Pizzicato Five -- "Baby Love Child"
* Placebo -- "Every You, Every Me"
* Plain White T's -- "Hey There Delilah"
* Plan B -- "She Said"
* Music/RachelPlatten -- "Fight Song" or "Stand By You" to adult contemporary audiences, indisputably the former to general audiences.
* Playboi Carti -- “Magnolia”
* Plies -- "Bust It Baby, Pt.2". Later on "Ran Off on the Plug Twice"
* Polaris -- "[[Series/TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete Hey Sandy]]"
* [[Music/{{POD}} P.O.D.]] -- "Youth of the Nation", with "Alive" a close second.
* Music/{{Poe}} -- "Angry Johnny"
* Music/ThePogues -- "Fairytale of New York"
* The Pointer Sisters -- "Jump (For My Love)" or "I'm So Excited"
* Music/{{Poison}} -- "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" or "Nothin' But a Good Time"
* Music/ThePolice -- "Every Breath You Take", "Roxanne", or "Message In a Bottle"
* Amilcare Ponchielli -- "Dance of the Hours"
* Music/IggyPop -- "The Passenger" and "Lust For Life" (both from ''Music/LustForLife'')
* Pop Evil -- "Trenches", "Footsteps", or "Deal with the Devil"
* Pop Will Eat Itself -- "Ich Bin Ein Auslander"
* The Poppy Family -- "Which Way You Goin', Billy?"
* Music/{{Porcupine Tree}} -- "Trains"
* Music/PorterRobinson -- "Language", "Sad Machine" or "Anime/{{Shelter}}"[[note]]shared with Madeon[[/note]]
* Music/{{Portishead}} -- "Glory Box" or "Sour Times" (both from ''Music/{{Dummy}}'')
* Portugal. The Man -- "Feel It Still"
* Mike Posner -- "I Took a Pill in Ibiza", with "Cooler Than Me" not far behind.
* Possessed -- "The Exorcist" or "Death Metal"
* Music/PostMalone -- "Rockstar”
* The Postal Service -- "Such Great Heights"
* Grace Potter & the Nocturnals -- "Paris (Ooh La La)"
* Powderfinger -- "My Happiness" or "These Days"
* Music/{{Powerman 5000}} -- "When Worlds Collide"
* Daniel Powter -- "Bad Day"
* The Presidents of the United States of America -- "Lump", with "Peaches" in second place
* Music/ElvisPresley -- "Heartbreak Hotel", "Jailhouse Rock", "A Little Less Conversation" [[note]](especially the Junkie XL remix)[[/note]], or "[[CoveredUp Hound Dog]]"
* The Pretenders -- "Brass in Pocket"
* Music/ThePrettyReckless -- Previously "[[Film/KickAss Make Me Wanna Die]]", but now "Heaven Knows"
* Pretty Ricky -- "Grind On Me"
** Pleasure P -- "Did You Wrong"
* PRTY [=H3RO=] -- "Life of the PRTY"
* Priestess -- “Lay Down”
* Music/PrimalScream -- "[[Film/TheWorldsEnd Loaded]]"
* Primordial -- "The Coffin Ships"
* Music/{{Primus}} -- "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" or "My Name is Mud"
* Music/{{Prince}} -- "Purple Rain" and "When Doves Cry" overall. By album:
** ''1999'' -- "1999" or "Little Red Corvette"
** ''Music/{{Purple Rain|Album}}'' -- "Purple Rain", "When Doves Cry", or "Let's Go Crazy" (from ''Film/PurpleRain'')
** ''Around the World in a Day'' -- "Raspberry Beret" or "[[{{Defictionalization}} Paisley Park]]"
** ''Parade'' -- "Kiss"
** ''Batman'' -- "Partyman" (from ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'')
** ''The Gold Experience'' -- "P. Control", "Endorphinmachine", "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World", or "Gold"
* Music/PrettyLights -- "Hot Like Dimes"
* Primer 55 -- "Loose"
* Music/TheProclaimers -- "[[Film/BennyAndJoon I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)]]" or "[[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} I'm On My Way]]"
* Music/TheProdigy -- "Firestarter," "Breathe", or "Smack My Bitch Up" (all from ''Music/TheFatOfTheLand'') in the UK; originally the former but now strictly the latter in the United States
* Prong -- "Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck"
* Propellerheads -- "[[Film/TheMatrix Spybreak!]]"
* Prophets of Rage -- "Prophets of Rage"
* Music/ProtestTheHero -- "Bloodmeat"
* Music/TheProtomen -- "Light Up the Night"
* Music/{{PSY}} -- "Music/GangnamStyle" internationally, although in his native South Korea this is debatable.
* PTAF -- "Boss Ass Bitch"
* Music/PublicEnemy -- "[[Film/DoTheRightThing Fight the Power]]" (from ''Music/FearOfABlackPlanet''), while in the UK it's "[[Series/TheLastLeg Harder Than You Think]]" (from ''How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?'')
* Music/PublicServiceBroadcasting -- [[{{UsefulNotes/YuriGagarin}} "Gagarin"]]
* Music/PuddleOfMudd -- "Blurry"
* Music/TitoPuente -- "Oye Como Va"
* [[IHaveManyNames Puff Daddy/P.Diddy/Diddy]] -- "I'll Be Missing You"
** Diddy-Dirty Money -- "Coming Home"
* Music/AllaPugacheva -- "Harlequin," "Million Scarlet Roses," or "This World"
* Music/{{Pulp}} -- "Common People"
* Puscifer -- "Rev 22:20" or "Momma Sed"
* Purple Ribbon All-Stars -- "Kryptonite (I'm On It)"
* Music/CharliePuth -- "See You Again" (shared with Wiz Khalifa). For his own songs, "One Call Away", "We Don't Talk Anymore" and "Attention".
* Quad City DJ's -- "C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)" or "Film/SpaceJam"
* Suzi Quatro -- "Devil Gate Drive"
* Quarashi -- "Stick 'Em Up"
* Music/{{Queen}} -- By album:
** ''Music/{{Queen|1973}}'' -- "Keep Yourself Alive" or "Great King Rat"
** ''Music/QueenII'' -- "Seven Seas of Rhye"
** ''Music/SheerHeartAttack'' -- "Killer Queen" or "[[Film/{{Cruella}} Stone Cold Crazy]]"
** ''Music/ANightAtTheOpera'' -- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
** ''Music/ADayAtTheRaces'' -- "Somebody to Love"
** ''Music/{{News of the World|Queen}}'' -- [[SiameseTwinSongs "We Will Rock You"/"We Are the Champions"]]
** ''Music/{{Jazz}}'' -- "[[Film/HardcoreHenry Don't Stop Me Now]]" or "Bicycle Race"
** ''Music/{{The Game|Queen}}'' -- "Another One Bites the Dust" or "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
** ''[[Film/FlashGordon1980 Flash Gordon]]'' -- "Flash"
** ''Music/HotSpace'' -- "Under Pressure" with Music/DavidBowie
** ''Music/TheWorks'' -- "Radio Ga Ga" or "I Want to Break Free"
** ''Music/AKindOfMagic'' -- [[Film/{{Highlander}} "Who Wants to Live Forever" or "Princes of The Universe"]]
** ''Music/TheMiracle'' -- "I Want It All" or "The Invisible Man"
** ''Music/{{Innuendo}}'' -- "The Show Must Go On", or possibly "These Are the Days of Our Lives"
** ''Music/MadeInHeaven'' -- "Made in Heaven" (even if it's a cover of one of Freddie Mercury's solo songs)
** Overall -- "Bohemian Rhapsody" and the ''News of the World'' signatures are the frontrunners, with "Dust", "Pressure" and "Don't Stop" not far behind.
* Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge -- "No One Knows" from ''Music/SongsForTheDeaf'', overall. By album:
** SelfTitledAlbum -- "If Only"
** ''Rated R'' -- "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" or "The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret"
** ''Songs for the Deaf'' -- "No One Knows" or "Go With The Flow"
** ''Lullabies to Paralyze'' -- "In My Head" or "Little Sister"
** ''Era Vulgaris'' - "3's & 7's" or "Make It Wit Chu"
** ''Like Clockwork'' -- "My God Is The Sun"
** ''Villains'' -- "The Way You Used To Do"
* Music/{{Queensryche}} -- "Silent Lucidity"
* Question Mark & the Mysterians -- "96 Tears"
* Music/QuietRiot -- "Bang Your Head (Metal Health)" or "[[CoveredUp Cum on Feel the Noize]]"
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* R. City -- "Locked Away" (although it is probably more associated with Creator/AdamLevine[=/=]Music/{{Maroon 5}})
* Ra -- "Do You Call My Name?"
* The Raconteurs -- "Steady, As She Goes"
* Music/{{Radiohead}} -- "Creep" (from ''Music/PabloHoney''), "Paranoid Android" and "Karma Police" (from ''Music/OKComputer'')
* Rae Sremmurd -- Originally "No Flex Zone" or "No Type", but now "Black Beatles" thanks to the Mannequin Challenge.
* Music/GerryRafferty -- "Baker Street"
* Music/{{Rainbow}} -- "Stargazer"
* Music/{{Rage}} -- "Don't Fear the Winter"
* Music/RageAgainstTheMachine -- "Killing in the Name" overall. By album:
** ''Rage Against the Machine'' -- "Killing in the Name"
** ''Evil Empire'' -- "Bulls on Parade"
** ''The Battle of Los Angeles'' -- "Guerilla Radio"
** ''Renegades'' -- "[[CoverVersion Renegades of Funk]]"
* Raghav -- "Angel Eyes" for the first half of his career, "Fire" for the second half.
* Music/BonnieRaitt -- "Something To Talk About"
* Music/{{Rammstein}} -- "Du hast" internationally, "Engel" in their native Germany.
* Music/TheRamones -- "Blitzkrieg Bop" (from ''Music/{{Ramones}}'')
* Music/{{Rancid}} -- "Time Bomb"
* Boots Randolph -- "[[Series/TheBennyHillShow Yakety Sax]]"
* Music/RascalFlatts — "[[CoveredUp What Hurts the Most]]" or "[[WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} Life Is]] [[CoveredUp a Highway]]"
* Music/TheRasmus -- "In The Shadows"
* The Raspberries -- "Go All the Way"
* Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats -- "S.O.B."
* Music/{{Ratt}} - "Round and Round"
* Music/MauriceRavel -- "Bolero"
* Michael Ray -- "Kiss You in the Morning"
* Ray J -- "One Wish" and "Sexy Can I"
* Ready for the World -- "Oh Sheila" and "Love You Down"
* Music/TheReadySet -- "Love Like Woe"
* [=RealFaction=] -- "[[VideoGame/CastleCrashers Simple Sight]]"
* Real [=McCoy=] -- "Another Night"
* Redbone -- "The Witch Queen of New Orleans" and more recently, "Come and Get Your Love", thanks to its inclusion in the opening scene of ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' and as the RealSongThemeTune of ''WesternAnimation/FIsForFamily''.
* Helen Reddy -- "I Am Woman"
* Music/OtisRedding -- "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay" (from ''Music/TheDockOfTheBay'')
* Rednex -- "Cotton Eye Joe"
* Music/{{Red}} -- "Breathe Into Me"
* Music/RedHotChiliPeppers -- "Under the Bridge", "Californication" and "Snow" overall. By album:
** ''The Red Hot Chili Peppers'' -- "True Men Don't Kill Coyotes"
** ''The Uplift Mofo Party Plan'' -- "Me and My Friends"
** ''Mother's Milk'' -- "[[Music/StevieWonder Higher Ground]]"
** ''Music/BloodSugarSexMagik'' -- "Under the Bridge" or "Give it Away"
** ''One Hot Minute'' -- "My Friends"
** ''Music/{{Californication}}'' -- the title track, "Scar Tissue" and "Otherside".
** ''By the Way'' -- The title track, "Can't Stop" or "The Zephyr Song"
** ''Music/StadiumArcadium'' -- "Dani California" or "Snow (Hey Oh)"
** ''I'm with You'' -- "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie"
** ''The Getaway'' -- "Dark Necessities"
* Music/TheRedJumpsuitApparatus -- "Face Down"
* Red Rider -- "Lunatic Fringe"
* Red Sun Rising -- "Thw Otherside" and "Emotionless"
* Redlight King -- "Bullet in My Hand"
* Jerry Reed -- [[Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit "East Bound and Down"]]
* Jimmy Reed -- "Big Boss Man" or "Baby What You Want Me to Do"
* Music/LouReed -- "Perfect Day" and "Walk on the Wild Side" (from ''Music/{{Transformer}}'')
* Reel 2 Real -- [[WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}} "I Like to Move It"]]
* Music/ReelBigFish -- "Sell Out"
* Music/DjangoReinhardt -- "Minor Swing"
* Refused -- Pre-reunion, "New Noise" or "Refused are Fucking Dead". Post-reunion, "Elektra".
* Music/RelientK -- "Be My Escape"
* Music/{{REM}} -- "Losing My Religion" (from ''Music/OutOfTime''), followed by "[[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)]]" (from ''Music/{{Document}}'') and BlackSheepHit "Everybody Hurts" (from ''Music/AutomaticForThePeople'') overall. By album:
** ''Music/{{Murmur}}'' -- "Radio Free Europe", followed by "Talk About the Passion"
** ''Music/{{Reckoning}}'' -- "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" and "(Don't Go Back to (Rockville)"
** ''Music/FablesOfTheReconstruction'' -- "Driver 8"
** ''Music/LifesRichPageant'' -- "Fall on Me", but also their CoveredUp version of "Superman"
** ''Music/{{Document}}'' -- "The One I Love" and "[[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)]]"
** ''Music/{{Green}}'' -- "Orange Crush" and "Stand"
** ''Music/OutOfTime'' -- "Losing My Religion", their overall signature, and "Shiny Happy People" (much to their chagrin)
** ''Music/AutomaticForThePeople'' -- "Everybody Hurts", "Man on the Moon" and "Nightswimming"
** ''[[Music/MonsterREMAlbum Monster]]'' -- "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" especially, but also "Bang and Blame"
** ''Music/NewAdventuresInHiFi''-- "E-Bow the Letter" and "Electrolite"
** ''Up'' -- "Daysleeper" and "At My Most Beautiful"
** ''Film/ManOnTheMoon'' -- "The Great Beyond"
** ''Reveal'' -- "Imitation of Life"
** ''In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003'' -- "Bad Day"
** ''Around the Sun'' -- "Leaving New York"
** ''Music/{{Accelerate}}'' -- "Supernatural Superserious"
** ''Music/CollapseIntoNow'' -- "Überlin"
** ''Part Lies, Part Truth, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011'' -- "We All Go Back to Where We Belong"
* The Rembrandts -- "[[Series/{{Friends}} I'll Be There For You]]"
* Remy Zero -- "[[Series/{{Smallville}} Save Me]]"
* Chris Rene -- "Young Homie"
* Theatre/{{RENT}} Cast -- "Seasons of Love"
* Music/REOSpeedwagon -- "Time For Me To Fly", "Keep On Loving You", "Take It On The Run", or "Can't Fight This Feeling"
* Music/TheReplacements -- "I Will Dare" or "Unsatisfied"
* Republica -- Originally a tie between "Ready to Go" and "Drop Dead Gorgeous", but now indisputably the former; outside the UK it was never contested.
* Rev Theory -- "[[Wrestling/RandyOrton Voices]]"
* Revis -- "Caught in the Rain"
* Music/{{Revocation}} -- [[Film/PowerRangers2017 "Communion"]]
* Music/BebeRexha -- "[[Music/FloridaGeorgiaLine Meant to Be]]"; its only competition for the title, "Me, Myself, & I" is officially Music/GEazy’s song and is more associated with him than her.
* Malvina Reynolds -- "Little Boxes"
* Music/RhapsodyOfFire -- "Emerald Sword"
* Thomas Rhett -- "Die a Happy Man"
* Damien Rice -- "Cannonball"
* Rich Boy -- "Throw Some D's"
* Rich Gang -- "Lifestyle"
* Rich Homie Quan -- "Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh)"
* Music/LionelRichie -- "Hello"
* The Righteous Brothers -- "[[Film/{{Ghost}} Unchained Melody]]"
* Music/{{Rihanna}} -- By album:
** ''Music of the Sun'' -- "Pon de Replay"
** ''A Girl Like Me'' -- "SOS" or "Unfaithful"
** ''Good Girl Gone Bad'' -- "Umbrella"
*** ''Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded'' -- "Disturbia"
** ''Rated R'' -- "Rude Boy"
** ''Loud'' -- "Only Girl (In the World)" or "California King Bed"
** ''Talk That Talk'' -- "[[Music/CalvinHarris We Found Love]]"
** ''Unapologetic'' -- "Diamonds" or "Stay"
** ''Anti'' -- "Work"
** Overall -- "Umbrella", with "We Found Love" easily in second.
* Music/LeAnnRimes -- "Blue"
* Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov -- "Flight of the Bumblebee"
* Music/RiseAgainst -- "Prayer of the Refugee", "Give It All", or "Savior" overall. By album:
** ''The Unraveling'' -- "Everchanging"
** ''Revolutions Per Minute'' -- "Like The Angel"
** ''Siren Song of the Counter-Culture'' -- "Give It All"
** ''The Sufferer & The Witness'' -- "Prayer of the Refugee"
** ''Appeal To Reason'' -- "Savior"
** ''Endgame'' -- "Help Is On The Way" or "Satellite"
** ''The Black Market'' -- "I Don't Want To Be Here Anymore"
** ''Wolves'' -- "The Violence"
* Rival Sons -- "Do Your Worst"
* Rixton -- "Me and My Broken Heart"
* Music/RobZombie -- "Dragula"
* Marty Robbins -- "El Paso" and "[[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Big Iron]]" (both of these are from ''Music/GunfighterBalladsAndTrailSongs'')
* Vicki Sue Robinson -- "Turn The Beat Around"
* Music/{{Robyn}} -- "Show Me Love" for her earlier work, "Dancing On My Own" more recently.
* Rockapella -- "[[Series/WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?]]"
* Rocket From the Crypt -- "On a Rope"
* A Rocket to the Moon -- “Like We Used To”
* Roddy Ricch -- "The Box"
* Music/OliviaRodrigo -- "Drivers License"
* Music/KennyRogers -- "The Gambler" or "Lady"
* Stan Rogers -- "Barrett's Privateers"
* Roll Deep -- "When I'm Ere"
* Music/TheRollingStones -- "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (from ''Music/OutOfOurHeads'') and "Paint It Black" (from ''Music/{{Aftermath}}'') tie for gold, although they have many runner-ups, including "Sympathy for the Devil" (from ''Music/BeggarsBanquet''), "Brown Sugar" (from ''Music/StickyFingers''), "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (single), "Start Me Up" (from ''Music/TattooYou''), "Gimme Shelter" (from ''Music/LetItBleed''), "Miss You" and "Beast of Burden" (from ''Music/SomeGirls'').
* The Romantics -- Initially "Talking In Your Sleep", but through RevivalByCommercialization has become "What I Like About You"
* Romanthony -- "Hold On" for his solo works, though he's most recognized for being the vocalist on "One More Time" and "Too Long" by Music/DaftPunk.
* Romeo Void -- "Never Say Never"
* The Ronettes -- "Be My Baby" or "Sleigh Ride"
* Music/LindaRonstadt -- "You're No Good"
* Mark Ronson -- "Uptown Funk!"[[note]]Though it's more associated with Music/BrunoMars. In the UK, this previously belonged to "Valerie" (which also got more associated with its [[Music/AmyWinehouse vocalist]])[[/note]]
* Rose Royce -- "Car Wash"
* Natalie La Rose -- "Somebody"
* Music/RickRoss -- "Hustlin'"
* Music/{{Roxette}} -- "The Look"
* Billy Joe Royal -- "Down in the Boondocks"
* Music/RoyalBlood -- "Out of the Black"
* Royksopp -- "Remind Me", "Eple", "Poor Leno", or "The Girl and the Robot"
* Music/GioachinoRossini -- "William Tell Overture"
* Asher Roth -- "I Love College"
* Route 94 -- "My Love" (though it's probably more associated with Jess Glynne)
* Music/KellyRowland -- "Stole" or “Motivation” for her solo work. She's best known for her appearances on Nelly's "Dilemma" and David Guetta's "When Love Takes Over".
* The Rubens -- "My Gun" or "Hoops"
* Rudimental -- "Feel The Love" in the U.K., "Lay It All On Me" in the U.S (albeit it is more associated with Ed Sheeran)
* Kevin Rudolf -- "Let It Rock"
* The Rumjacks -- "An Irish Pub Song"
* Music/RunDMC -- "It's Like That", "King of Rock", "It's Tricky", or "[[Music/{{Aerosmith}} Walk This Way]]"
* Run the Jewels -- "Run the Jewels", "Blockbuster Night Part 1", "Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)", or [[Film/BlackPanther2018 "Legend Has It"]]
* Music/TheRunaways -- "[[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Cherry Bomb]]"
* Music/ToddRundgren -- "Hello It's Me" or "Bang the Drum All Day" (the latter especially so for [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Green Bay Packers]] fans)
* Runner Runner -- “So Obvious”
* Music/RunningWild -- "Under Jolly Roger"
* Jennifer Rush -- "The Power of Love"; "Flames of Paradise" was this is the U.S. but even there she is now mostly known for the former.
* Music/{{Rush}} -- "Tom Sawyer"
* Patrice Rushen -- "Forget Me Nots"
* Ruth B -- "Lost Boy"
* Rusted Root -- "[[Film/{{Matilda}} Send Me]] [[WesternAnimation/IceAge On My Way]]"
* Rusty Eye -- "11.02 Day of the Dead"
* Serena Ryder -- "Stompa"
* Music/RozaRymbaeva -- "Alia" or "Love Has Come"
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* Music/{{Sabaton}}
** "To Hell and Back", "The Last Stand", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRbDLIXAp4o "Primo Victoria"]] (about the D-Day invasion, which was the song that got the band noticed and started their theme of [[HorribleHistoryMetal songs based on military history]] that they've hewed to ever since) and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-lU7A4Jfmg "Ghost Division"]] (since it came out on their 2008 album ''The Art of War'': they've opened most of their concerts with it ever since).
** [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff For the Polish market, though,]], it's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epeQwq-aYV0 "40:1"]] and to a lesser extent [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01IaKb6DmTw "Uprising"]], both of which star the Poles' furious but doomed resistance against the Germans in World War II.
* Sacramentum -- "Fog's Kiss"
* Music/{{Sade}} -- "Smooth Operator"
* [=SafetySuit=] -- "Stay"
* Sage the Gemini -- "Gas Pedal"
* Saint Asonia -- "Better Place"
* Saint Motel -- "My Type"
* Sak Noel -- "Loca People (WTF)"
* Saliva -- "Click Click Boom" overall. By album:
** ''Every Six Seconds'' -- Initially "Your Disease", but over time became "[[Wrestling/NoMercy Click Click Boom]]"
** ''Back into Your System'' -- "[[Wrestling/SurvivorSeries Always]]"
** ''Survival of the Sickest'' -- [[Wrestling/UnforgivenWrestling The title track]]
** ''Blood Stained Love Story'' -- "[[Wrestling/{{Wrestlemania}} Ladies and Gentlemen]]"
** ''Cinco Diablo'' -- "Family Reunion"
** ''Under Your Skin'' -- "Badass"
* Music/SaltNPepa -- "Push It"
* Sam and The Womp -- "Bom Bom"
* Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs -- "Lil' Red Riding Hood" or "Wooly Bully"
* Sanctuary -- "Battle Angels"
* Music/EmeliSande -- "Heaven" in the UK, "Next to Me" in the US
* Music/{{Santana}}(pre-comeback) -- "Black Magic Woman" (from ''Music/{{Abraxas}}'')
** Santana (post-comeback) -- "Smooth" (shared with Music/RobThomas).
* Juelz Santana -- "There It Go! (The Whistle Song)"
* Aggro Santos -- "Candy"
* Saosin -- "You're Not Alone" or "Seven Years"
* Marvin Sapp -- "Never Would Have Made It"
* Sash! -- "Ecuador"
* Jacob Sartorius -- "Sweatshirt"
* Music/JoeSatriani -- "Surfing with the Alien" or "Satch Boogie"
* Music/SavageGarden -- "Truly, Madly, Deeply", "To The Moon And Back", and [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable "I Want You"]] are the contenders.
** Music/DarrenHayes -- "Insatiable".
* Music/{{Savatage}} -- "Hall of the Mountain King"
* Saves the Day -- "Freakish"
* Music/SavingAbel -- "Addicted"
* Saving Jane -- "GirlNextDoor"
* Saweetie -- "Best Friend" (shared with Doja Cat)
* Music/SayAnything -- "Wow, I Can Be Sexual Too", "Alive With The Glory of Love", or "Every Man Has A Molly"
* Saxon -- "Princess of the Night" or "Denim and Leather"
* Scandal -- "The Warrior" or "Goodbye to You"
* Music/ScarSymmetry - "Morphogenesis"
* Scary Kids Scaring Kids -- "My Darkest Hour"
* Music/ScatmanJohn -- "Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)"
* Nicole Scherzinger -- "Don't Hold Your Breath"
* Peter Schilling -- "Major Tom (Coming Home)"
* [=ScHoolboy=] Q -- "Collard Greens"
* Music/FranzSchubert -- His Eighth "Unfinished" Symphony or the "[[Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows Trout Quintet]]"
* Robin Schulz -- For songs he was credited as a lead on, "Sugar". For his overall work, it's "Waves" in North America and "Prayer in C" in Europe.
* Music/{{S Club 7}} -- "Reach" in the UK, "Never Had a Dream Come True" in America
* Music/ScissorSisters -- "I Don't Feel Like Dancing" or "[[Series/DoctorWho I Can't Decide]]"
* Music/{{Scorpions}} -- "No One Like You","Rock You Like A Hurricane", and "Wind of Change"
* Music/JillScott -- "A Long Walk"
* Raymond Scott -- "Powerhouse"
* Music/TravisScott -- "Sicko Mode"
* Music/GilScottHeron -- "Music/TheRevolutionWillNotBeTelevised"
* Scratch Acid -- "Cannibal"
* Screaming Trees -- "Nearly Lost You"
* Music/TheScript -- "Breakeven"
* Music/{{Seal}} -- "[[Film/BatmanForever Kiss from a Rose]]"
* Seals & Crofts -- "Summer Breeze"
* Jay Sean -- "Down"
* Seaweed -- "Losing Skin" or "Go your own way"
* Sebadoh -- "Rebound"
* Music/GuySebastian - “Angels Brought Me Here”, “Battle Scars”, “Choir”
* Music/NeilSedaka -- "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" (both versions) or "Oh! Carol"
* The Seeds -- "Pushin' Too Hard"
* Music/{{Seether}} -- By album:
** ''Fragile'' and ''Disclaimer'' -- "Fine Again"
** ''Disclaimer II'' -- "Broken"
** ''Karma and Effect'' -- "[[Wrestling/{{SummerSlam}} Remedy]]"
** ''Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces'' -- "[[Wrestling/NoWayOutWrestling Fake It]]"
** ''Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray'' -- "Country Song"
** ''Seether: 2002-2013'' -- "Weak"
** ''Isolate and Medicate'' -- "Words as Weapons"
** ''Poison the Parish'' -- "Let You Down"
** Overall -- "Fake It" is their signature for rock fans (with "Remedy" and "Country Song" tying for second), whole "Broken" (which features Music/AmyLee) is it in general.
* Music/BobSeger -- [[Film/RiskyBusiness "Old Time Rock and Roll"]]
* Semisonic -- "Closing Time"
* Music/SensesFail -- "Can't Be Saved"
* Music/{{Sepultura}} -- "Roots Bloody Roots" or "Refuse/Resist"
* Set It Off -- "Why Worry" or "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing"
* Music/{{Sevendust}} -- By album:
** ''Sevendust'' -- "Black"
** ''Home'' -- "Denial"
** ''Animosity'' -- "Praise"
** ''Seasons'' -- "Enemy"
** ''Next'' -- "Ugly"
** ''Alpha'' -- "Driven"
** ''Chapter VII'' -- "Prodigal Son''
** ''Cold Day Memory'' -- "Unraveling"
** ''Black out the Sun'' -- "Decay"
** ''Kill the Flaw'' -- "Thank You"
* Seven Mary Three -- "Cumbersome"
* Conrad Sewell -- "Hold Me Up" in the U.S. and "Start Again" in Australia as a solo artist, but he's best known overall for his appearance on Kygo's "Firestone".
* Music/SexPistols -- "Anarchy in the U.K." and "God Save The Queen" (from ''Music/NeverMindTheBollocksHeresTheSexPistols'')
* Shaggy -- "Angel", "It Wasn't Me" or "Boombastic"
* Shai -- "If I Ever Fall In Love Again"
* Music/{{Shakira}} -- Overall "Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)", "Whenever, Wherever", "Chantaje" and "Hips Don't Lie"
** ''Laundry Service'' -- "Whenever, Wherever", "Underneath Your Clothes"
** ''Oral Fixations 2" -- "Hips Don't Lie"
** ''She Wolf'' -- "She Wolf", "Gypsy"
** ''Sale e Sol'' -- "Loca", "Addicted To You"
** ''Shakira'' -- "Can't Remember to Forget You", "La La La"
** ''El Dorado'' -- "Chantaje"
* Music/TupacShakur -- "California Love"
* Shalamar -- "The Second Time Around"
** Howard Hewett -- "I'm For Real" or "Say Amen"
* Shaman's Harvest -- "Dragonfly" to rock audiences; "[[Wrestling/DrewMcIntyre Broken Dreams]]" to wrestling fans
* The Shamen -- "Ebenezer Goode" in the UK, "Move Any Mountain" in the U.S.
* Tyler Shaw -- "Kiss Goodnight"
* Creator/WilliamShatner -- His covers of "[[Music/{{Pulp}} Common People]]" or "[[Music/EltonJohn Rocket Man]]"
* Shawnna -- "Gettin' Some" or her verse on Disturbin' Tha Peace's gang cut "Get The Fuck Back"
* [[Creator/ZooeyDeschanel She]] & [[Music/MWard Him]] -- "In the Sun".
* Music/SheWantsRevenge -- "[[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryHotel Tear You Apart]]"
* Sheck Wes -- "Mo Bamba"
* Music/EdSheeran -- By album:
** ''+'' --"The A Team"
** ''x'' -- "Thinking Out Loud"
** ''÷'' -- "Shape of You" or “Perfect”
* Frank Shelley -- "[[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder Rockhouse]]"
* Music/BlakeShelton — "God Gave Me You" or "Boys Round Here"
* Kenny Wayne Shepherd -- "Blue on Black"
* Sheppard -- "Geronimo"
* Sherlock Brothers -- "My Way"
* Creator/AllanSherman -- "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh"
* Music/{{SHINee}} -- "Lucifer"
* Music/{{Shinedown}} -- "Second Chance" overall. By album:
** ''Leave a Whisper'': "Fly From the Inside", "45", or "[[Music/LynyrdSkynyrd Simple Man]]"
** ''Us and Them'': "[[Wrestling/NoMercy Save Me]]"
** ''The Sound of Madness'': "Second Chance"
** ''Amaryllis'': "Bully" and "[[Wrestling/WWERaw Enemies]]"
** ''Threat to Survival'': "Cut the Cord"
** ''Attention Attention'' "Devil"
* The Shins -- "[[Film/GardenState New Slang]]"
* Shiny Toy Guns -- "Le Disko"
* Michelle Shocked -- "Anchorage", [[FirstInstallmentWins her debut single]].
* Shonan No Kaze -- "Junrenka" in their native Japan, [[VideoGame/Yakuza0 "Bubble"]] everywhere else
* The Shondells -- "Crimson & Clover"
* Shop Boyz -- "Party Like A Rock Star"
* Howard Shore -- "Film/TheLordOfTheRings" theme
* Music/ShortStack -- "Sweet December"
* Bobby Shmurda -- "Hot Nigga (Hot Boy)"
* Shout Out Louds -- "[[Film/{{Happythankyoumoreplease}} My Friend and the Ink on his Fingers]]"
* Shriekback -- "My Spine is the Baseline"
* Shy FX -- "Original Nuttah"
* Music/{{Sia}} -- "Chandelier" or "Cheap Thrills"
* Sigrid -- “Strangers”
* Music/{{Silencer}} -- "Sterile Nails and Thunderbowels" or "Death - Pierce Me"
* Silentó -- "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)"
* The Silent Comedy -- "Bartholomew"
* Silk -- "Freak Me" or "Girl U For Me"
* Music/{{Silverchair}} -- "Tomorrow"
* Music/SilversunPickups -- "Lazy Eye" or "Panic Switch"
* Music/AlanSilvestri -- The ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' theme or ''[[Film/TheAvengers2012 The Avengers]]'' theme.
* Silvertide -- "Ain't Comin' Home"
* Music/CarlySimon -- "You're So Vain"
* Music/PaulSimon -- "You Can Call Me Al" (from ''Music/{{Graceland}}'')
* Music/SimonAndGarfunkel -- "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "The Sound of Silence"
* Music/NinaSimone -- "I Got Life" or "Feeling Good"
* Music/SimpleMinds -- In the U.S., it was initially either "[[Film/TheBreakfastClub Don't You (Forget About Me)]]" or "Alive and Kicking", but now it's easily the former. Back in the UK however, both are in the running with "Waterfront" also a rival.
* Music/SimplePlan -- "Welcome to My Life"
* Music/SimplyRed -- "Holding Back the Years" and "Stars"
* Cody Simpson -- "[=iYiYi=]"
* Music/SigurRos -- "Hoppípolla" or "[[Series/GameOfThrones The Rains of Castamere]]"
* Music/FrankSinatra -- "My Way" (from ''Music/MyWay'') or "New York, New York"
* Nancy Sinatra -- "These Boots Are Made For Walkin"'
* Since October -- "Guilty"
* Bob Sinclar -- "Love Generation"
* Siouxsie and the Banshees -- "Hong Kong Garden" or "Cities In Dust"
* [[Music/SirMixALot Sir Mix-A-Lot]] -- "Baby Got Back"
* Music/{{Sirusho}} -- "[=PreGomesh=] or "Qéle Qéle"
* Sister Sledge -- "We Are Family"
* Music/TheSistersOfMercy -- "This Corrosion"
* Troye Sivan -- "Youth"
* Six Feet Under -- "Amerika the Brutal" or "One Bullet Left"
* Music/SixpenceNoneTheRicher -- [[Film/ShesAllThat "Kiss Me"]]
* Sixx: A.M. -- "Life is Beautiful" or "Lies of the Beautiful People"
* Skee-Lo -- "I Wish"
* Skepta -- "Konnichiwa" in the US. It's much harder to say in his native UK, though, albeit "That's Not Me" and "Shutdown" are the lead candidates there.
* Music/SkidRow -- "18 and Life". In 2017, said song got remade though Kevin Michael Lee replaces Ricky.
* Music/{{Skillet}} -- "Hero", "Monster", "[[Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon Awake and Alive]]", and "Feel Invincible" are the contenders. By album;
** ''Comatose'' -- "Rebirthing" and "Whispers in the Dark"
** ''Awake'' -- "Hero", "Monster" or "Awake and Alive"
** ''Rise'' -- "Not Gonna Die"
** '' Unleashed'' -- "Feel Invincible"
** ''Victorious'' -- "[[Wrestling/WWERaw Legendary]]"
* Skindred -- "Nobody"
* Music/SkinnyPuppy -- "Assimilate"
* Skin Yard -- "Hallowed Ground", "The Birds"
* Music/{{Skrillex}} -- "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" or "Bangarang"
* Skunk Anansie -- "Twisted (Everyday Hurts)" or "Hedonism (Just Because You Feel Good)"
* Skycyle -- "[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo It's Terror Time Again]]"
* Sky Eats Airplane-- "Giants in the Ocean"
* Slade -- "Cum on Feel the Noize"
* Music/{{Slapshock}} -- "Agent Orange"
* Slash -- "You're a Lie"
* Harry Slash & the Slashtones — "[[Wrestling/ExtremeChampionshipWrestling This Is Extreme!]]"
* Slaughterhouse -- "Throw That"
* Music/{{Slayer}} -- "Raining Blood", "Angel of Death" (both from ''Music/ReignInBlood'')
* Music/{{Sleep}} -- "Dragonaut" or [[EpicRocking "Dopesmoker"]]
* Sleeping with Sirens -- "If I'm James Dean, You're Audrey Hepburn" or "If You Can't Hang"
* Sleepwave -- "Through The Looking Glass"
* Music/SleighBells -- "[[KickAss2 Infinity Guitars]]" or "Bitter Rivals"
* Slightly Stoopid -- "Closer to the Sun"
* Music/{{Slipknot}} -- "Psychosocial" overall. By album:
** ''Slipknot'' -- "Wait and Bleed"
** ''Iowa'' -- "Left Behind"
** ''Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses)'' -- "Duality" and "Before I Forget"
** ''All Hope Is Gone'' -- "Psychosocial"
** ''.5: The Grey Chapter'' -- "The Devil in I"
** ''We Are Not Your Kind'' -- "Unsainted" and "Solway Firth"
* Sloan - "Money City Maniacs"
* Music/SlyAndTheFamilyStone -- "Everyday People" (from ''Music/{{Stand}}'')
* Music/TheSmallFaces -- "Itchycoo Park"
* Smallpools -- "Dreaming"
* Smash Into Pieces -- "Disaster Highway"
* Music/SmashMouth -- "[[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} All Star]]", though "Walkin' on the Sun" and their cover of "I'm A Believer" aren't far off.
* Music/TheSmashingPumpkins -- "Bullet With Butterfly Wings", "1979", or "Today" (from ''Music/MellonCollieAndTheInfiniteSadness'')
* smile.dk -- "Butterfly"
* Smile Empty Soul -- "Bottom of a Bottle"
* Canaan Smith -- "Love You Like That"
* Music/ElliottSmith -- "Miss Misery"
* Granger Smith -- "Backroad Song"
* Michael W. Smith – "Friends" (from his early work) or "Breathe" (from his later worship-oriented material) to his core Christian audience; "Place in this World" to more general audiences.
* Music/PattiSmith -- "Because the Night"
* Music/SamSmith -- "Money on My Mind" and "Stay with Me" in the UK, "Stay with Me" and "I'm Not the Only One" in the U.S. For Smith's featured credits, Disclosure's "Latch" in North America and Naughty Boy's "La La La" everywhere else. Though Film/JamesBond fans might argue for "[[Film/{{Spectre}} Writing's on the Wall]]". %% Smith identifies as non-binary, but using "their" as a singular pronoun is still improper usage to many.
* Creator/WillSmith -- "Film/MenInBlack" or "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It"
* Music/TheSmiths -- "How Soon is Now?" or "There is a Light That Never Goes Out" (from ''The Queen is Dead'')
* Smokey Robinson & the Miracles — "The Tears of a Clown"
** Robinson as a solo artist: "Being with You"
* Snail's House -- "Pixel Galaxy"
* Snap! -- "The Power" and "Rhythm is a Dancer"
* Music/SnoopDogg -- "Gin and Juice" or "Drop It Like It's Hot"
* Snow -- "Informer"
* Mark Snow -- "Series/TheXFiles" theme
* Music/SnowPatrol -- "[[Series/GreysAnatomy Chasing Cars]]"
* Socialburn -- "Down"
* Music/SocialDistortion -- "Ball and Chain," "I Was Wrong," or "Story of My Life"
* Music/SodaStereo -- "De Musica Ligera"
* Sodom -- "Agent Orange"
* Music/SoftCell -- "[[CoveredUp Tainted Love]]". It has also become Marc Almond's signature song as a solo artist, although his version is not as well-known as the original.
* [=SoKo=] -- "We Could Be Dead By Tomorrow"
* Soil -- "Redefine"
* The Solids -- "[[Series/HowIMetYourMother Hey Beautiful]]"
* Martin Solveig -- "Hello". Ditto for Dragonette.
* Something Corporate -- "Konstantine"
* Music/SonataArctica -- "Full Moon"
* Music/StephenSondheim -- "Send in the Clowns"
* Music/SonicYouth -- "Teenage Riot" (from ''Music/DaydreamNation'') or "Kool Thing" (from ''Music/{{Goo}}'')
* The Sonics -- "Strychnine"
* Music/{{Sonny|Bono}} and Music/{{Cher}} -- "I Got You, Babe"
* Sophie & Magaly -- "Le Papa Pingouin"
* The S.O.S. Band - "Take Your Time (Do It Right)"
* Soul Asylum -- "Runaway Train"
* Music/SoulCoughing -- "Circles"
* Soul Embraced -- "My Tourniquet"
* Musiq Soulchild -- "Halfcrazy"
* Music/{{Soulfly}} -- "[[Music/{{Limp Bizkit}} Bleed]]"
* Music/SouljaBoy -- "Crank That (Soulja Boy)"
* Music/{{Soundgarden}} -- "[[BlackSheepHit Black Hole Sun]]", or "Spoonman"
** Music/ChrisCornell -- "Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart" or [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 "You Know My Name"]]
* Soup Dragons -- "[[CoveredUp I'm Free]]" or "Divine Thing"; the latter did chart higher than the former in the US, but is mostly recognized in the UK.
* John Philip Sousa -- "Stars and Stripes Forever"
* Music/{{Space}} -- "Female of the Species"
* Spacehog -- "In The Meantime"
* Spandau Ballet -- "True"
* Music/{{Sparks}} -- "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us"
* Bubba Sparxxx -- "Ms. New Booty", "Deliverance" or "Ugly" to rap fans; indisputably the first to general audiences
* Tommy Sparks -- "[[UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh She's Got]] [[VideoGame/JustDance Me Dancing]]"
* Music/SpawnOfPossession -- "Apparition"
* Music/BritneySpears:
** Early Material: "...Baby One More Time", "Oops!... I Did It Again", "Toxic" or "I'm a Slave 4 U"
** Newer Material: "Womanizer", "Gimme More" and "Work Bitch"
* The Specials -- "A Message to You, Rudy"
* Music/ReginaSpektor -- "Fidelity" to her older fans; "[[Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack You've Got Time]]" to younger audiences.
* Music/SpiceGirls -- "Wannabe"
** Music/GeriHalliwell -- "[[Film/BridgetJonesDiary It's Raining]] [[CoveredUp Men]]".
** Music/MelanieC -- Depends on which place. In her home country in the U.K, it's "[[Film/BendItLikeBeckham I Turn To You]]". In other parts of Europe, it's "First Day of My Life". Everywhere else, it's "Never Be The Same Again".
** Music/EmmaBunton -- "What Took You So Long?"
** Music/MelB -- "I Want You Back".
** Music/VictoriaBeckham --"A Mind of its Own"
* Spinal Tap -- "Stonehenge"
* Spin Doctors -- "Two Princes"
* Spinners -- "Working My Way Back To You"
* Split Enz -- "I Got You"
* Sponge -- "Plowed" and "Molly (16 Candles)"
* Music/RickSpringfield -- "Jessie's Girl"
* Music/BruceSpringsteen -- "Dancing In The Dark" is his biggest hit, but "Born in the USA" or "Born to Run" (from ''Music/BornToRun'') are sure more representative of his songwriting.
* Music/{{Squarepusher}} -- "Beep Street", "My Red Hot Car", or "[[Film/LostInTranslation Tommib]]"
* Music/BillySquier -- "The Stroke"
* Squirrel Nut Zippers -- "Hell"
* Music/{{Squeeze}} -- "Tempted", "Cool for Cats"
* SR-71 -- "Right Now"
* Music/StVincent -- "Birth In Reverse"
* Stabbing Westward -- "Save Yourself"
* Staind -- "It's Been Awhile"
* Music/MeganTheeStallion -- "Savage"
* Stampeders -- "Sweet City Woman"
* Alexandra Stan -- "Mr. Saxobeat"
* The Standells -- "Dirty Water"
* The Staple Singers -- "I'll Take You There"
* Vince Staples -- "Norf Norf" or "Big Fish"
* Chris Stapleton -- "Tennessee Whiskey" or "Nobody to Blame"
* Starcastle -- "Lady of the Lake"
* Music/{{Starflyer 59}} -- "No New Kinda Story"
* Starland Vocal Band -- "Afternoon Delight"
* Edwin Starr -- "War"
* Music/RingoStarr -- "It Don't Come Easy"
* Music/{{Starset}} -- "My Demons" or "Monster"
* Music/JeffersonStarship -- "We Built This City", "Sara" or "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"
* State of Shock -- "Money Honey"
* Static-X -- "Push It" or "I'm with Stupid"
** Wayne Static -- "Assassins of Youth"
* Music/StatusQuo -- "Whatever You Want" or [[CoveredUp their covers]] of John Fogerty's "Rockin' All Over The World" and Bolland & Bolland's "In The Army Now"
* Stealers Wheel -- "[[Film/ReservoirDogs Stuck in the Middle With You]]"
* Steam -- "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"
* Music/SteamPoweredGiraffe -- "Honeybee"
* Music/SteelyDan -- "Reelin' in the Years" from ''Can't Buy A Thrill''.
* Creator/HaileeSteinfeld -- "Starving"
* Music/{{Steppenwolf}} -- Either "[[Film/EasyRider Born to Be Wild]]" or "Magic Carpet Ride"
* Music/{{Steps}} -- "5, 6, 7, 8", though their CoverVersion of "[[Music/TheBeeGees Tragedy]]" is more revered in their home country.
* Stereo MC's -- "Connected"
* Music/{{Stereolab}} -- "French Disko". A possible challenger is "Metronomic Underground" which wasn't a hit anywhere but over the years has emerged as something of an EnsembleDarkhorse.
* Stereomud -- "Pain"
* Stereophonics -- "Dakota"
* Stereos -- "Butterflies" or "Turn it Up"
* Cat Stevens -- "Peace Train", his only original song to hit #1 on the charts[[note]]He also did a cover of the traditional hymn "Morning Has Broken" which hit #1[[/note]] although these days he's better known for "Father and Son", "Wild World" and "Moonshadow".
* Music/SufjanStevens -- "Chicago"
* Music/AlStewart -- "Year of the Cat"
* Music/RodStewart -- "Maggie May" or "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"
* Stiff Little Fingers -- "Alternative Ulster"
* Curtis Stigers -- "I Wonder Why" to older audiences, "[[Series/SonsOfAnarchy This Life]]" to younger ones.
* Stephen Stills -- "[[Film/{{Prometheus}} Love the One You're With]]"
* Music/{{Sting}} -- "Fields of Gold"
* Music/LindseyStirling -- "Crystallize" or "Shatter Me"
* Music/JossStone -- "Fell In Love With a Boy", "You Had Me"
* Stonefree Experience -- "[[Wrestling/JohnMorrison Ain't No Make Believe]]"
* Music/StoneSour -- "Through Glass" overall. By album:
** ''Stone Sour'': "Bother"
** ''Come What(ever) May'': "Through Glass"
** ''Audio Secrecy'': "Say You'll Haunt Me"
** ''House of Gold & Bones - Part 1'': "Gone Sovereign/Absolute Zero"
** ''House of Gold & Bones - Part 2'': "Do Me a Favor"
** ''Hydrograd'': "Song #3"
* Music/TheStoneRoses -- "One Love", "Fool's Gold" or "I Wanna Be Adored"
* Music/StoneTemplePilots -- "Interstate Love Song" or "Plush"
* Music/TheStooges -- "Search and Destroy" (from ''Music/RawPower'') and "I Wanna Be Your Dog" (from ''[[Music/TheStoogesAlbum The Stooges]]'')
* Stormzy -- "Shut Up"
* Story of the Year -- "Until The Day I Die"
* The Story so Far -- "Quicksand"
* The Stranglers -- "Golden Brown" or "Peaches"
* [[Music/DevinTownsend Strapping Young Lad]] -- "Detox" or "Love?"
* Music/{{Stratovarius}} -- "Black Diamond"
* Music/IgorStravinsky -- Theatre/TheRiteOfSpring, Theatre/TheFirebird
* Johann Strauss -- "Blue Danube"
* Richard Strauss -- "Music/AlsoSprachZarathustra"
* The Strawbs -- "Part of the Union"
* Sevyn Streeter -- "It Won't Stop" or "[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious How Bad Do You Want It (Oh Yeah)]]"
* Music/StreetlightManifesto -- "A Better Place, a Better Time"
* The Streets -- "Dry Your Eyes"
* Music/TheStrokes -- "Last Nite" or "Reptilia"
* Music/{{Stromae}} -- "Alors on danse" or "Formidable"
* The Strumbellas -- "Spirits"
* The Struts -- "Could Have Been Me"
* Harry Styles -- "Sign of the Times"
* Music/{{Styx}} -- "Come Sail Away", "Renegade", or "Mr. Roboto"
* Music/{{Sublime}} -- "Santeria" or "What I Got"
* Submersed -- "Hollow"
* Suede -- "Animal Nitrate" or "So Young"
* Music/{{Suffocation}}" -- "Jesus Wept," "Liege of Inveracity", "Infecting the Crypts", "Pierced from Within", or "Thrones of Blood"
* Music/SufjanStevens -- "Chicago"
* Music/{{Sugababes}} -- "Round Round"
* The Sugarcubes-- "Birthday"
* Sugarland -- "Stuck Like Glue"
* Sugarloaf -- "Green-Eyed Lady"
* Music/SugarRay -- "Fly", or "Every Morning".
* Music/TheSugarhillGang -- "Rapper's Delight"
* Music/SuicidalTendencies -- "Institutionalized"
* Music/{{Suicide}} -- "Ghost Rider"
* Suicide Silence -- "Wake Up"
* Jazmine Sullivan -- "Need U Bad"
* Sum 41 -- "Fat Lip", "In Too Deep", or "Still Waiting"
* Sumerlands -- "The Seventh Seal"
* Music/DonnaSummer -- "I Feel Love", "Last Dance", or "Hot Stuff"
* Sunny Day Real Estate -- "Seven"
* Sunn O))) -- "Hunting and Gathering (Cydonia)" (Aside from their Scott Walker colab, probably the closest thing they have to an actual "song")
* Music/SuperFurryAnimals -- "The Man Don't Give a Fuck" (stand-alone single) or "Juxtapozed with U" (From ''Rings Around the World'')
* Music/SuperJunior -- "Sorry, Sorry", "Superman" and "Mr. Simple"
* Music/{{Supertramp}} -- "Give a Little Bit", "Dreamer", "The Logical Song" or "Breakfast in America"
* Music/TheSupremes -- "Stop! In the Name of Love" with "Baby Love", "You Can't Hurry Love", "Keep Me Hanging On," "Come See About Me", and "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" as runners-up.
** Music/DianaRoss -- "I'm Coming Out", "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and "Upside Down"
* Surface -- "The First Time"
* Music/{{Survivor}} -- "[[Film/RockyIII Eye of the Tiger]]" with "I Can't Hold Back" and "High on You" as runners-up.
* Music/{{Swans}} -- "I Crawled"
** Newer fans will think it's "A Little God in my Hands" or "The Seer".
* Keith Sweat -- "I Want Her" or "Twisted"
* Music/SwedishHouseMafia -- "Don't You Worry Child"
* Music/{{Sweet}} -- "Ballroom Blitz" and "Fox On The Run"
* Skye Sweetnam -- "Tangled Up In Me"
* Music/TaylorSwift: By album:
** ''Taylor Swift'' -- "Teardrops on my Guitar"
** ''Fearless'' -- "[[Film/LettersToJuliet Love Story]]" or "You Belong With Me"
** ''Speak Now'' -- "Mine", "Back to December" or "Mean"
** ''Red'' -- "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" or "I Knew You Were Trouble"
** ''1989'' -- "Shake It Off", "Blank Space" or "Bad Blood"
** ''Reputation'' -- "Look What You Made Me Do" or “Delicate”
** ''Lover'' -- “ME!” or “You Need to Calm Down”
** ''folklore'' -- “cardigan”
** ''evermore'' -- “willow”
** Overall -- The ''Fearless'' signatures for her country era and the ''1989'' signatures for her pop era
* Music/{{Switchfoot}} -- "Meant to Live" or "Dare You To Move"
* Music/{{Sybreed}} -- "Bioactive"
* Music/SystemOfADown -- "Chop Suey!" or "BYOB"
** Serj Tankian -- "Empty Walls" and "Sky Is Over"
** Scars on Broadway -- "Lives"
* Music/{{SZA}} -- "Love Galore" or "The Weekend"
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* T-Spoon -- "Sex on the Beach"
* T-Square -- "Truth"
** Masahiro Andoh -- [[VideoGame/GranTurismo "Moon Over The Castle"]]
* [[Music/MarcBolan T. Rex]] -- "Get it On (Bang a Gong)"
* Taco -- "Puttin' on the Ritz"
* Music/TakeThatBand -- "Back For Good"
* Mariya Takeuchi -- "Plastic Love"
* Music/TakingBackSunday -- "[=MakeDamnSure=]" or "Cute Without the 'E'"
* Music/BillyTalent -- "[[VideoGame/{{SSX}} Red Flag]]"
* Music/TalkTalk -- "It's My Life"
* Music/TalkingHeads -- "Psycho Killer", "Once in a Lifetime" and "Burning Down the House" overall. By album--
** ''Music/TalkingHeads77'' -- "Psycho Killer"
** ''Music/MoreSongsAboutBuildingsAndFood'' -- [[CoverVersion "Take Me to the River"]]
** ''Music/FearOfMusic'' -- "Life During Wartime"
** ''Music/RemainInLight'' -- "Once in a Lifetime"
** ''Music/SpeakingInTongues'' -- "Burning Down the House" or "This Must Be the Place"
** ''Music/LittleCreatures'' -- "And She Was"
** ''Music/TrueStories'' -- "Wild Wild Life"
** ''Music/{{Naked}}'' -- "(Nothing But) Flowers"
* Music/TameImpala: By album --
** ''Innerspeaker'' -- "Solitude is Bliss"
** ''Lonerism'' -- "Feels Like We Only Go Backwards" or "Elephant"
** ''Currents'' -- "Let It Happen", "The Less I Know The Better", or "New Person, Same Old Mistakes"
** ''The Slow Rush'' -- "Borderline" or "Lost in Yesterday"
** Overall -- Most fans point at the ''Lonerism'' and the first two ''Currents'' signatures, although the mainstream crowd point at "New Person, Same Old Mistakes" due to Music/{{Rihanna}}'s cover.
* Tantric -- "Breakdown"
* Taproot -- "Poem"
* Music/{{Tarot}} -- "Wings of Darkness"
* Music/{{Tatu}} -- "All the Things She Said"
** Lena Katina -- "Never Forget"
** Yulia Volkova -- "Didn't Wanna Do It"
* Music/PyotrIlychTchaikovsky -- "[[Theatre/TheNutcracker The Nutcracker Suite]]" or "1812 Overture"
* Teapacks -- "Rikudi Amba" or "Eize Olam"
* Music/TheTeaParty -- "Heaven Coming Down"
* Music/TearsForFears -- "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" or "Shout"
** By their first three albums:
*** ''The Hurting'' - "Pale Shelter" or "Mad World"
*** ''Songs from the Big Chair'' - "Shout", "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", or "Head Over Heels".
*** ''The Seeds of Love'' - "Woman In Chains" or "Sowing the Seeds of Love".
* Music/TechN9ne -- "Hood Go Crazy" to mainstream audiences, within the core community it's much harder to say.
* Music/TeganAndSara -- "Closer" or "[[WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie Everything Is Awesome]]"
* Michel Teló -- "Ai Se Eu Te Pego"
* Téléphone -- "Un autre monde"
* Music/TinieTempah -- "Written In The Stars"
* Technotronic -- "Pump Up The Jam"
* The Temperance Movement - "Take it Back"
* Temple of the Dog -- "Hunger Strike"
* the [=GazettE=] -- "Reila", "Cassis"
* The Temptations -- "My Girl"
* Temposhark -- "Don't Mess With Me"
* Music/TenaciousD -- "Tribute"
* Music/TessaViolet -- "Crush"
* Music/{{Testament}} -- "Practice What You Preach" or "Over the Wall"
* Texas -- "Say What You Want"
* Texas is the Reason -- "Back and to the Left"
* Theory of a Deadman -- "Bad Girlfriend" to rock audiences, "Not Meant to Be" to pop audiences
* There for Tomorrow -- "A Little Faster" or "Deathbed"
* This Will Destroy You -- "The Mighty Rio Grande"
* BJ Thomas -- "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"; "Hooked on a Feeling" is more known via its cover by Blue Swede.
* Those Poor Bastards -- "Pills I Took"
* Music/TheyMightBeGiants -- "[[CoveredUp Istanbul (Not Constantinople)]]", "Particle Man", or "Birdhouse In Your Soul" (all from ''Music/{{Flood}}'') overall. For their other albums:
** ''They Might Be Giants'' (Album) -- "Don't Let's Start"
** ''Music/{{Lincoln}}'' -- "Ana Ng"
** ''Music/Apollo18'' -- "I Palindrome I'', "The Statue Got Me High", or "Fingertips"
** ''Music/JohnHenry'' -- "Subliminal", "Snail Shell", or "End of the Tour"
** ''Music/FactoryShowroom'' -- "Till My Head Falls Off" or "Spiraling Shape"
** ''Severe Tire Damage'' -- [[WesternAnimation/{{Kablam}} "Doctor Worm"]]
** ''Music/LongTallWeekend'' -- "Older"
** ''Music/MinkCar'' -- "Man, It's So Loud In Here" or the title track
** ''Music/TheSpine'' -- [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner "Experimental Film"]]
** ''The Else'' -- "The Mesopotamians" or ''Careful What You Pack"
** ''Join Us'' -- "You Probably Get That A Lot", "When Will You Die?" or "Can't Keep Johnny Down"
** ''Nanobots'' -- The title track or "You're On Fire" initially, "Stuff Is Way" thanks to MemeticMutation
** ''Glean'' -- "Erase" or "Unpronouncable"
** ''Phone Power'' -- "I Love You For Psychological Reasons" or "ECNALUBMA"
** ''Music/ILikeFun'' -- "I Left My Body", the title track, or "The Greatest"
** ''My Murdered Remains'' -- "The Communists Have The Music"
* Music/RobinThicke -- "Lost Without U" or "Blurred Lines" to R&B audiences, easily the latter to the mainstream
* Music/ThinLizzy -- "The Boys Are Back In Town" in the United States, in their native Ireland it's debatable.
* Music/ThirdEyeBlind -- "Semi-Charmed Life" or "Jumper"
* Music/ThirtySecondsToMars -- "The Kill" or "This is War"
* Jasmine Thompson -- "Ain't Nobody" [[note]] Specifically, the Felix Jaehn remix [[/note]] or "Adore"
* Music/RichardThompson -- "1952 Vincent Black Lightning"
* Thompson Square -- "Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not?"
* Thompson Twins -- "Hold Me Now" or "[[WesternAnimation/RegularShow Lies]]"
* George Thorogood & the Destroyers -- "Bad to the Bone"
* Music/ThousandFootKrutch -- "War of Change"
* A Thousand Horses -- "Smoke"
* Music/ThreeDaysGrace -- "I Hate Everything About You" overall. By album:
** ''Three Days Grace'' -- "I Hate Everything About You"
** ''One-X'' -- "Animal I Have Become" and "Never Too Late".
** ''Life Starts Now'' -- "Break"
** ''Transit of Venus'' -- "Chalk Outline"
** ''Human'' -- "Painkiller" or "I Am Machine"
** ''Outsider'' -- "The Mountain"
* Three Dog Night -- "Joy to the World"
* Music/ThreeSixMafia -- "[[Film/HustleAndFlow It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp]]"
** Juicy J -- "Bandz a Make Her Dance"
* Music/{{Thrice}} -- "The Artist in the Ambulance" or "Image of the Invisible" (formerly "Deadbolt", an IconicSongRequest to this day). "Black Honey" has also become a contender.
* The Thrills -- "Big Sur"
* Music/ThrobbingGristle -- "Hamburger Lady"
* Music/{{Thursday}} -- "Understanding in a Car Crash"
* Music/{{TI}} -- By album:
** ''I'm Serious'' -- The title track
** ''Trap Muzik'' -- "[[VideoGame/NeedForSpeedUnderground 24's]]" or "Rubber Band Man"
** ''Urban Legend'' -- "Bring 'Em Out"
** ''King'' -- "What You Know"
** ''T.I. vs T.I.P.'' -- "Big Shit Poppin' (Do It)"
** ''Paper Trail'' (and overall) -- "Whatever You Like" ("Live Your Life" would've been it, had it not been more commonly associated with Rihanna)
** ''No Mercy'' -- “I’m Back” or "Got Your Back"
** ''Trouble Man: Heavy is the Head'' -- "Go Get It" or "Ball"
** ''Paperwork'' -- "About the Money"
** ''Dime Trap'' -- "The Weekend"
* Frank Ticheli -- "Earth Song"
* Tiësto -- "Adagio for Strings" for his trance works, "Red Lights" post GenreShift
* Tiffany -- Formerly a tie between "I Think We're Alone Now" and "Could've Been", but now indisputably the former.
* Tanita Tikaram -- There was a time when it would definitely have been "Good Tradition", but "Twist in My Sobriety" is probably the song she's most known for now, even though on paper [[ChartDisplacement it was a much smaller hit]].
* Bryson Tiller -- "Don't"
* Til Tuesday -- "Voices Carry"
** Aimee Mann -- "[[Film/{{Magnolia}} Save Me]]"
* Timbaland -- "The Way I Are"
* Music/JustinTimberlake -- "[=SexyBack=]", "Can't Stop the Feeling!" and "Cry Me A River"
* Timbuk3 -- "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades"
* Timmy Trumpet -- "[[MemeticMutation Freaks]]"
* Music/{{Tinashe}} -- "2 On"
* Music/TinyTim -- "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" and "[[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight]]"
* Music/{{TLC}} -- "Waterfalls" or "No Scrubs"
* Music/TMRevolution -- "[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Ignited]]"
* Music/{{TNT}} -- "10,000 Lovers In One"
* Toadies -- "Possum Kingdom"
* Toad the Wet Sprocket -- "All I Want"
* [[Music/TobyFox Toby "Radiation" Fox]] -- "Megalovania"
* Music/TokioHotel -- "Humanoid" or "Monsoon"
* Music/TomTomClub -- "Genius of Love"
* Tommy Tutone -- "867-5309 (Jenny)"
* Tone Loc -- "Wild Thing"
* Music/TonesAndI - “Dance Monkey”
* Music/TonesOnTail -- "Go!"
* [[OutsiderMusic Tonetta]] -- "Pressure Zone" or "Drugs Drugs Drugs"
* Tonic -- "If You Could Only See"
* Tony! Toni! Tone! -- "If I Had No Loot"
* Music/{{Tool}} -- "Schism"
* Music/{{Toto}} -- "Africa", "Rosanna", or "Hold the Line"
* Toto Coelo -- "I Eat Cannibals"
* Music/ToveLo -- "Habits (Stay High)"
* Toxik -- "Heart Attack"
* Music/TPain -- "I'm 'n Luv (wit A Stripper)"
* T'Pau -- "China in Your Hand" in Europe, "Heart & Soul" in the U.S.
* Traffic -- "Dear Mr. Fantasy"
* Music/TheTragicallyHip -- "Little Bones"
* Music/{{Train}} -- "Drops of Jupiter" for their early work, "Hey, Soul Sister" for their reunion
* Music/MeghanTrainor -- "All About That Bass"
* Music/TransSiberianOrchestra -- "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" or "Wizards in Winter"
* Trapt -- "Headstrong"
* The Trashmen -- "[[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Surfin' Bird]]"
* Music/TheTravelingWilburys -- "Handle with Care" or "End of the Line"
* Travis -- "[[Series/{{Torchwood}} Si]][[Series/TheOfficeUS ng]]"
* Music/RandyTravis -- "Forever and Ever, Amen" or "On the Other Hand".
* Charles Trenet -- "La Mer"
* Trentemøller -- "Moan" or "Take Me Into Your Skin"
* Music/TreySongz -- "Say Aah" or "Bottoms Up"
* Music/ATribeCalledQuest -- "Scenario", "Electric Relaxation" or "Bonita Applebaum"
* Music/{{Tribulation}} -- "Melancholia" or "Nightbound"
* Trick-Trick -- "Welcome 2 Detroit"
* Tricky -- "Hell Is Round the Corner"
* Music/TheTriffids -- "Wide Open Road"
* Trillville -- "Some Cut"
* Trippie Redd -- “Dark Knight Dummo”
* Music/TravisTritt -- "Anymore"
* Triumph -- "Lay It on the Line" or "Fight the Good Fight"
* Music/{{Trivium}} -- By album:
** ''Ascendancy'' -- "Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr"
** ''The Crusade'' -- "Anthem (We Are the Fire)"
** ''Shogun'' -- "[[VideoGame/WWEVideoGames Down from the Sky]]"
** ''In Waves'' -- "Built to Fall"
** ''Vengeance Falls'' -- "Strife"
** ''Silence in the Snow'' -- "Until the World Goes Cold"
** ''The Sin and the Sentence'' -- "The Heart from Your Hate"
* Trixter -- "Give It To Me Good"
* The Troggs -- "Wild Thing" (''very'' different from Tone Lõc's song of the same title)
* Trust -- "[[VideoGame/RaymanLegends Antisocial]]"
* Music/ViktorTsoi -- "Gruppa krovi"
* [=TRUSTCompany=] -- "Downfall"
* The Tubes -- "She's a Beauty"
* Tubeway Army -- "Are 'Friends' Electric?"
* [=TUnE=]-[=YaRdS=] -- "Water Fountain"
* Music/{{Turisas}} -- "Stand Up and Fight"
* Music/KTTunstall -- "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" or "Suddenly I See"
* Josh Turner -- "Long Black Train" or "Your Man"
* Music/TinaTurner -- "What's Love Got To Do With It"
** Ike & Tina Turner -- "[[CoveredUp Proud Mary]]"
* Music/TheTurtles -- "Happy Together"
* Music/TVOnTheRadio -- "Wolf Like Me"
* Music/ShaniaTwain -- "Man! I Feel Like a Woman"
* T-Wayne -- "Nasty Freestyle"
* Music/TwentyOnePilots -- "Stressed Out" for mainstream audiences. “Car Radio” for long-time fans.
* Twista -- "Overnight Celebrity"
* Music/TwistedSister -- "We're Not Gonna Take It" or "I Wanna Rock"
* WebVideo/TwistedTranslations -- "[[Music/EdSheeran Shape of You]]", especially its [[TranslationTrainWreck "Gradually watermelon" refrain]].
* Music/TwoDoorCinemaClub -- "Something Good Can Work"
* Two Mix -- "[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Just Communication]]"
* Tycho -- "Cascade"
* Ty Dolla $ign -- "Paranoid"
* Tyga -- "Rack City"
* Tyketto -- "Forever Young"
* Bonnie Tyler -- "Total Eclipse of the Heart" or "Holding Out for a Hero" [[note]]Tough call between the two. "Eclipse" was a massive hit upon release, being one of the best-selling singles of TheEighties. However, "Hero" has been featured and referenced numerous times in media, so people born from TheNineties onward are likely to be more familiar with it.[[/note]]
* Music/TypeONegative -- "Black No. 1"
* Music/{{Tyr}} -- "Hold the Heathen Hammer High"
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* Music/{{U2}} -- By album:
** ''Boy'': "I Will Follow"
** ''Music/WarU2Album'': "New Year's Day" and particularly "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
** ''The Unforgettable Fire'': "Pride (In the Name of Love)"
** ''The Joshua Tree'': "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", "Where the Streets Have No Name" and "With or Without You" (perhaps the latter is their signature songs overall)
** ''Rattle and Hum'': "Desire"
** ''Achtung Baby'': "Zoo Station", "One", and "Mysterious Ways"
** ''Zooropa'': "Stay (Faraway, So Close)"
** ''Original Soundtracks 1'': "Miss Sarajevo"
** ''Pop'': "Staring at the Sun"
** ''The Best of 1980-1990'': "Sweetest Thing"
** ''Music/AllThatYouCantLeaveBehind'': "Beautiful Day", "Elevation", or "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of"
** ''The Best of 1990-2000'': "Electrical Storm"
** ''How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb'': "Vertigo"
** ''No Line on the Horizon'': "Magnificent"
** ''Songs of Innocence'': "Every Breaking Wave"
** ''Songs of Experience'': "You're the Best Thing About Me"
** Overall: "I Will Follow", "Sunday Bloody Sunday", "Pride (In the Name of Love)", ''The Joshua Tree'', ''Achtung Baby'', ''All That You Can't Leave Behind'' signatures and "Vertigo" are the frontrunners.
* [=UB40=] -- "Red Red Wine"
* Ubiquitious Synergy Seeker -- "This Is the Best"
* [=UFO=] -- "Doctor Doctor"
* Music/{{UGK}} -- "Pocket Full Of Stones" Or "Diamonds & Wood"
* Ultravox -- "Vienna"
* Music/UncleKracker -- "Follow Me" and his cover of "Drift Away"
* Music/{{Underoath}} -- "Reinventing Your Exit"
* The Undertones -- "Teenage Kicks"
* Music/CarrieUnderwood -- "Before He Cheats"
* Music/{{Underworld}} -- "[[Film/{{Trainspotting}} Born Slippy .NUXX]]"
* Under The Influence Of Giants -- "Mama's Room"
* Union J -- "Carry You"
* The Union Underground -- "[[Wrestling/{{WWE Raw}} Across the Nation]]"
* Unk - "Walk It Out"
* Upon This Dawning - their cover of Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe"
* Music/KeithUrban -- "Somebody Like You"
* The Urge -- "[[WesternAnimation/{{Daria}} Jump Right In]]" or "Too Much Stereo"
* Music/UriahHeep -- "Easy Livin'"
* Music/TheUsed -- "All That I've Got" or "The Bird and the Worm"
* Music/{{Usher}} -- "Yeah!" overall. By album:
** ''Usher'': "Think of You"
** ''My Way'': "You Make Me Wanna…''
** ''8701'': "U Remind Me" or "U Got It Bad"
** ''Confessions'': "Yeah!"
** ''Here I Stand'': "Love in this Club"
** ''Raymond v Raymond'': "OMG" or "More"
** ''Versus'': "DJ Got Us Fallin in Love Again"
** ''Looking 4 Myself'': "Scream"
** ''Hard II Love'': "No Limit"
* Music/UtadaHikaru -- "First Love" or "Automatic". To her international audiences, [[Franchise/KingdomHearts "Simple and Clean" and "Sanctuary"]]
* Music/UVERWorld -- "[[Manga/{{Bleach}} D-Technolife]]"
* Music/SteveVai -- "For the Love of God"
* Music/HollyValance -- "Kiss Kiss"
* Music/RitchieValens -- "La Bamba"
* The Vamps -- "Can We Dance" in the UK, "Somebody to You" in the U.S.
* Music/VampireWeekend -- "A-Punk"
* Music/LutherVandross -- "[[CoveredUp Superstar]]", "Here And Now" or "Dance With My Father" overall. Or, for college basketball fans, "[[CoveredUp One Shining Moment]]". By album.
** ''Never Too Much'': The title track.
** ''Forever, for Always, for Love'': "Bad Boy[=/=]Having a Party"
** ''Busy Body'': "Superstar[=/=]Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)"
** ''The Night I Fell in Love'': The title track.
** ''Give Me the Reason'': The title track, "Stop to Love", or "There's Nothing Better Than Love"
** ''Any Love'': The title track.
** ''The Best of Luther Vandross... The Best of Love'': "Here and Now"
** ''The Power of Love'': "Power of Love[=/=]Love Power"
** ''Never Let Me Go'': "Heaven Knows"
** ''Songs'': "Endless Love" (shared with Mariah Carey) or "Always and Forever"
** ''This is Christmas'': "Every Year, Every Christmas"
** ''Your Secret Love'': The title track or "I Can Make it Better"
** ''I Know'': "Nights in Harlem" or the title track.
** ''Luther Vandross'': "Take You Out" or "I Rather"
** ''Dance with My Father'': The title track, "Think About You", or "The Closer I Get To You " (shared with Beyonce)
* ''Vangelis'' -- "[[Film/ChariotsOfFire Titles.]]"
* Paul van Dyk -- "For an Angel"
* Music/VanHalen: By lead singer:
** David Lee Roth: "Jump", "Hot for Teacher", and "Panama"
** Sammy Hagar: "Why Can't this Be Love"
** Gary Cherone: "Without You"
* Armand van Helden -- "You Don't Know Me" for his older work, and "Bonkers" (shared with Dizzee Rascal) for his newer work.
* Music/VanillaIce -- "Ice Ice Baby"
* Värttinä -- "Matalii Ja Mustii" (in America, at least)
* The Vaselines -- "Son of a Gun" or "Molly's Lips" (because of them being CoveredUp by Music/{{Nirvana}})
* Music/StevieRayVaughan -- "Crossfire" or "Pride & Joy"
* The Veer Union -- "[[Wrestling/{{Backlash}} Seasons]]"
* Music/SuzanneVega -- "Tom's Diner" (thanks to its DNA remix). "Luka" is also a contender.
* Vektroid -- "Lisa Frank 420 / Modern Computing"
* Velvet Revolver -- "Slither"
* Music/VelvetUnderground -- "All Tomorrow's Parties", "Heroin", "I'm Waiting for the Man", or "Venus in Furs" (all from ''Music/TheVelvetUndergroundAndNico''); "Sweet Jane" is another one and probably became the best known Velvet Underground song during Lou Reed's solo career.
* Julieta Venegas -- "Me Voy"
* Music/VenetianSnares -- "Hajnal" or "Szamar Madar"
* Music/{{Venom}} -- "Angel Dust" or "Witching Hour"
* [[Music/{{BEMANI}} VENUS]] -- "Wow Wow VENUS"
* Music/{{Versailles}} -- "The Revenant Choir"
* Veruca Salt -- "Seether"
* Vertical Horizon -- "Everything You Want"
* Music/TheVerve -- "Bitter Sweet Symphony"
* The Verve Pipe -- "The Freshmen"
* V.I.C. -- Initially "Get Silly", but over time became "Wobble"
* Music/VillagePeople -- "YMCA", though "Macho Man" is a very close second.
* Vince Vance & the Valiants -- "All I Want for Christmas is You"[[note]]No relation to the Mariah Carey song[[/note]]
* The Vines -- "Get Free"
* Violent Femmes -- "Blister in the Sun"
* Viper the Rapper -- "You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack"
* Virgin Steele -- "We Rule the Night" or "The Burning of Rome (Cry for Pompeii)"
* Vitamin C -- "Graduation (Friends Forever)"
* Vitamin Z -- "Burning Flame"
* Music/AntonioVivaldi -- "The Four Seasons" (specifically, the first movement, "Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269, "La primavera" (Spring) Allegro")
* Music/{{Voivod}} - [[Music/PinkFloyd "Astronomy Domine"]]
* Music/{{Volbeat}} -- "A Warrior's Call," "Still Counting" or "Seal the Deal"
* Music/{{Voltaire}} -- "When You're Evil" or "[[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy BRAINS!]]"
* Vonray -- "Inside Out"
* Music/VladimirVysotsky -- "Song About a Friend"
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* Music/RichardWagner -- [[Music/RideOfTheValkyries "The Ride of the Valkyries"]]
* Music/TomWaits -- "Downtown Train" from ''Music/RainDogs'' and "Martha" from ''Music/ClosingTime''.
* Music/WakaFlockaFlame -- "No Hands" or "Hard In The Paint"
* Music/WakingTheCadaver -- "Chased Through The Woods By A Rapist", in that it perfectly exemplifies every criticism against them, as well as giving the world the "I LIKE SHREDDED WHEAT" [[MemeticMutation meme]].
* Wale -- "Bag Of Money" or "Bad"
* Alan Walker -- "Faded" or "Sing Me to Sleep" in his native Norway; the former indisputably everywhere else.
* Music/WalkOffTheEarth -- "Red Hands" or their cover of "[[Music/{{Gotye}} Somebody That I Used To Know]]"
* Music/WalkTheMoon -- "Shut Up and Dance"
* Music/FatsWaller -- "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Honeysuckle Rose"
* The Wallflowers -- "One Headlight"
* Wallpaper -- "Best Song Everr"
* Music/WangChung -- "Dance Hall Days" in the UK, "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" in the U.S.
* Music/TheWanted -- "All Time Low" in the UK, "Glad You Came" in the U.S.
* War -- "Low Rider" or "Why Can't We Be Friends"
* Jessie Ware -- "[[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey Say You Love Me]]"
* Warlock -- "All We Are"
* Music/{{Warrant}} -- Originally "Heaven" but over time became "Cherry Pie" -- despite the major CreatorBacklash
* Warren G -- "Regulate"
* The Chris Warren Band -- "[[Wrestling/DGenerationX Break it Down]]"
* Music/WasNotWas -- "Walk the Dinosaur"
* The Waterboys -- "The Whole of the Moon"
* Waterflame -- "Glorious Morning" or "[[VideoGame/CastleCrashers Jum]][[VideoGame/GeometryDash per]]"
* Waterproof Blonde -- "[[Wrestling/{{Christian}} Just Close Your Eyes]]"
* Music/RogerWaters -- "The Tide Is Turning"
* Wavves -- "[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Nine is God]]"
* Wax -- "California"
* We Are Harlot -- "Dancing on Nails"
* We As Human -- "[[Music/{{Flyleaf}} Take the Bullets Away]]"
* We Came As Romans - "The World I Used to Know"
* We The Kings - "Check Yes Juliet"
* The Weather Girls -- "It's Raining Men"
* Weather Report -- "Birdland"
* Ryn Weaver -- "[=OctaHate=]"
* Webbie -- "Independent"
* Music/TheWeeknd -- "Can't Feel My Face" or "Blinding Lights" overall. By mixtape/album:
** ''House of Balloons'' -- "High for This" or "Wicked Games"
** ''Thursday'' -- "The Zone"
** ''Echoes of Silence'' -- "Montreal" or "Initiation"
** ''Kiss Land'' -- "Wanderlust"
** ''Beauty Behind the Madness'' -- [[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey "Earned It"]], "The Hills" or "Can't Feel My Face"
** ''Starboy'' -- The title track or "I Feel It Coming"
** ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}: The Album'' -- "Pray for Me" (shared with Music/KendrickLamar)
** ''My Dear Melancholy,'' -- "Call Out My Name"
** ''After Hours'' -- "Blinding Lights"
* Music/{{Ween}} -- "[[WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie Ocean Man]]" or "[[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Loop de Loop]]"
** Early in their career, it was "Push Th' Little Daisies".
* Music/{{Weezer}} -- "Buddy Holly" or "Say It Ain't So" overall. By album:
** ''Music/WeezerTheBlueAlbum'' -- "Buddy Holly" or "Say It Ain't So"
** ''Music/{{Pinkerton}}'' -- "El Scorcho"
** ''The Green Album'' -- "Hash Pipe" or "Island in the Sun"
** ''Maladroit'' -- "Dope Nose"
** ''Make Believe'' -- "Beverly Hills"
** ''The Red Album'' -- "Pork and Beans"
** ''Raditude'' -- "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To"
** ''Hurley'' -- "Memories"
** ''Everything Will Be Alright in the End'' -- "Back to the Shack"
** ''The White Album'' -- "Thank God for Girls"
** ''Pacific Daydream'' -- “Feels Like Summer”
** ''The Teal Album'' -- “[[Music/{{Toto}} Africa]]”
** ''The Black Album'' -- “Can’t Knock the Hustle”
* Music/WesleyWillis -- "Rock & Roll UsefulNotes/McDonalds"
* Music/KanyeWest -- By album:
** ''The College Dropout'' -- "Jesus Walks" or "Through the Wire"
** ''Late Registration'' -- "Gold Digger" or "Heard 'Em Say"
** ''Graduation'' -- "Stronger"
** ''808's & Heartbreak'' -- "Heartless"
** ''Music/MyBeautifulDarkTwistedFantasy'' -- "POWER", "Monster" or "All of the Lights"
** ''Music/{{Yeezus}}'' -- "Black Skinhead" or "Bound 2"
** ''The Life of Pablo'' -- "Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1", "Famous" or "Fade"
** ''ye'' -- "All Mine"
** ''GOOD Music Cruel Summer'' -- "Mercy"
** Overall -- "Gold Digger" and "Stronger" are the frontrunners.
* Music/{{Westlife}} -- "Swear It Again" or "[[Anime/Pokemon2000 Flying Without Wings]]"
* Westside Connection -- "Bow Down"
* Weyes Blood -- "Movies"
* Music/{{Wham}} -- "Last Christmas", "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go", "Careless Whisper", or "Everything She Wants"
* Wheatus -- "Teenage Dirtbag"
* The Whispers -- "Rock Steady"
* Eric Whitacre -- "Lux Aurumque"
* Music/BarryWhite -- "You're The First, The Last, My Everything" and "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe"
* Watt White -- "[[Wrestling/ZackRyder Radio]]"
* White Rabbits -- "Percussion Gun"
* Music/{{Whitesnake}} -- "Here I Go Again" (the 1987 re-recording from their self-titled album)
* Music/TheWhiteStripes -- Originally "Seven Nation Army" from ''Music/{{Elephant}}'', later "Icky Thump" but has since gone back to being "Seven Nation Army".
** Jack White -- "Lazaretto"
* White Town -- "Your Woman"
* [[Music/RobZombie White Zombie]] -- "More Human Than Human"
* Music/TheWho -- "Baba O' Riley", "My Generation", "Behind Blue Eyes", "Who Are You", "Pinball Wizard" and "Won't Get Fooled Again".
** Pete Townshend -- "Let My Love Open the Door"
* Whodini -- "Friends" or "The Freaks Come Out at Night"
* Why Don’t We -- "8 Letters"
* Music/{{Wilco}} -- "Jesus, Etc."
* Music/DavidWilcox -- "Eye of the Hurricane"
* Wild Cherry -- "Play That Funky Music"
* Eugene Wilde -- "Gotta Get You Home Tonight"
* Music/KimWilde -- "Kids in America"
* Music/AndyWilliams -- [[Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys "Moon River"]] (to the point he named his theater in Branson after it)
* Deniece Williams -- "Let's Hear It For The Boy"
* Music/HankWilliams -- "Hey, Good Lookin'"
* Music/HankWilliamsJr -- "Monday Night Football" theme, "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"
* Music/JohnWilliams -- The "Franchise/StarWars" theme
* Nikki Williams -- "Glowing"
* Music/RobbieWilliams -- "Angels"
* Music/BrianWilson -- "Love and Mercy"
* Gretchen Wilson -- "Redneck Woman"
* Jackie Wilson -- "Lonely Teardrops" or "Your Love Keeps Lifting Me (Higher and Higher)"
* Music/AmyWinehouse -- "Rehab", "Back to Black" (from ''Music/BackToBlack'') or "[[CoveredUp Vale]][[BillingDisplacement rie]]" depending on the countries.
* Music/{{Wings}} -- "Band On The Run" or "Live And Let Die"
* Steve Winwood -- "Higher Love"
* Bill Withers -- "Lean On Me"
* Music/WithinTemptation -- "Ice Queen", "What Have You Done?" or "Stand My Ground"
* David Wise - "[[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest Stickerbush Symphony]]"
* Music/AndrewWK -- "Party Hard"
* Music/{{Wolfmother}} -- "Woman" or "Joker & the Thief"
* Music/WuTangClan -- "Triumph", "C.R.E.A.M." or "Protect Ya Neck"
** Ghostface Killah -- "Back Like That"
* Music/LeeAnnWomack -- "I Hope You Dance"
* The Wonder Years -- "Passing through a Screen Door"
* Music/StevieWonder -- "Superstition" from ''Music/TalkingBook''
* Faye Wong -- "[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Eyes On Me]]"
* Creator/VictoriaWood - "The Ballad of Barry and Freda"
* Woodkid -- "Run Boy Run"
* The Word Alive -- "Lighthouse"
* Henry Clay Work -- "Marching Through Georgia" or "My Grandfather's Clock"
* The Wreckage -- "[[LetsPlay/VanossGamingAndCompany Breaking Through]]"
* The Wreckers -- "Leave the Pieces"
* Jaguar Wright -- "The What If's"
* [[Music/TheRollingStones Bill Wyman]] -- "A New Fashion", "Come Back Suzanne" or "(Si, Si) Je Suis un Rockstar"
* Tammy Wynette -- "Stand By Your Man"
* Music/XUSBand -- "Los Angeles" or "We're Desperate"
* X Ambassadors -- Originally "Jungle" but now "Renegades."
* Music/XJapan -- "Art of Life" or "Kurenai"
* The X-Ecutioners -- "It's Goin' Down", It's also attributed to [[Music/{{LinkinPark}} Mike Shinoda]].
* Music/XRaySpex -- "Oh Bondage, Up Yours!"
* Music/{{XTC}} -- "Dear God" in the U.S., "Making Plans for Nigel" or "Senses Working Overtime" everywhere else.
* xi -- "[[VideoGame/{{osu}} FREE]][[VideoGame/{{Cytus}} DOM]] [[ThatOneBoss DiVE]]↓"
* Music/TheXX -- "Islands" or "Crystallized"
* Music/{{XXXTENTACION}} -- "SAD!"
* Music/WeirdAlYankovic -- "White and Nerdy", "Eat It" or "Amish Paradise"
* Wye Oak -- "Civilian"
* Music/TheYardbirds -- "For Your Love"
* YBN Nahmir -- "Rubbin Off the Paint"
* YC -- "Racks"
* Music/YeahYeahYeahs -- "Maps"
* Years & Years -- "King"
* Music/TrishaYearwood -- "She's in Love with the Boy" or "[[CoverVersion How Do I Live]]".
* Yelawolf -- "'Till It's Gone"
* Music/{{Yello}} -- "Oh Yeah"
* Music/{{Yellowcard}} -- "Ocean Avenue", but also "[[VideoGame/{{SSX}} Way]] [[VideoGame/MaddenNFL Away]]" for your 2000s video game players.
* Music/{{Yes}} -- "[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure Roundabout]]" and "Owner of a Lonely Heart"
* YFN Lucci -- "Everyday We Lit"
* YG -- “My Nigga” or “Big Bank”
* Ying Yang Twins -- "Wait (The Whisper Song)"
* Music/{{Ylvis}} -- "The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?)"
* Music/DwightYoakam -- "I Sang Dixie", "[[CoverVersion Suspicious Minds]]", "Streets of Bakersfield" (a duet with Buck Owen) or "A Thousand Miles from Nowhere"
* Yo Gotti -- "Down in the DM" or "Rake It Up"
* Music/YokoKanno -- "[[Anime/CowboyBebop Tank]]"
* Yothu Yindi -- "Treaty"
* You Me At Six -- "Bite My Tongue" or "Lived a Lie" in the UK, "Room to Breathe" in the U.S.
* Music/NeilYoung -- "Old Man" or "Heart of Gold"
* Young Empires -- "White Doves"
* Young Guns -- "Bones"
* Young MC -- "Bust a Move"
* Young The Giant -- "Cough Syrup"
* Young Dro -- "Shoulder Lean"
* Young Greatness - "Moolah"
* Young Jeezy -- "Put On"
* Young M.A. -- "OOOUUU"
* Young Thug -- “The London”
* The Youngbloods -- "Get Together"
* Youngblood Hawke -- "We Come Running"
* Yung Berg -- "Sexy Lady"
* Yunggoth✰ —- “idk how to kill myself”
* Yung Joc -- "It's Goin' Down"
* Music/{{Zayn}} -- "Pillowtalk"
* Zapp -- "More Bounce To The Ounce"
* Music/FrankZappa -- "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow" (from ''Music/OverNiteSensation''), "Peaches En Regalia" (from ''Music/HotRats'') and in Europe: "Bobby Brown Goes Down" (from ''Music/SheikYerbouti'').
* Zebra -- "Tell Me What You Want" or "Who's Behind the Door"
* Music/{{Zedd}} -- "Clarity"
* Mans Zelmerlow -- "Heroes"
* Music/WarrenZevon -- "Werewolves of London"
* Music/HansZimmer -- "[[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean He's A Pirate]]", "[[Film/{{Inception}} Time]]" or "[[Film/BatmanBegins Vespertilio]]"
* Chaim Zinovich (a.k.a Hasaruf) -- "Hevel Hachen Sheker Hayofi"
* Music/TheZombies -- "Time of the Season" (from ''Music/OdesseyAndOracle'') and "She's Not There" (from ''Music/BeginHere'')
* Music/TayZonday -- "Chocolate Rain"
* The Zutons -- "Valerie"
* Zwei -- "Dragon"
* Music/ZZTop -- "La Grange" and "SharpDressedMan", with "Tush", "Gimme All Your Lovin'" and "[[ShesGotLegs Legs]]" not far behind.
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* Music/{{REM}} -- "Losing My Religion" (from ''Music/OutOfTime''), followed by "[[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)]]" (from ''Music/{{Document}}'') and BlackSheepHit "Everybody Hurts" (from ''Music/AutomaticForThePeople'')
** ''Music/{{Murmur}}'' -- "Radio Free Europe"
** ''Music/{{Reckoning}}'' -- "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)"
** ''Music/FablesOfTheReconstruction'' -- "Cant Get There from Here"
** ''Music/LifesRichPageant'' -- "Fall on Me" and "[[CoveredUp Superman]]"
** ''Music/{{Murmur}}'' -- "Radio Free Europe"
** ''Music/{{Reckoning}}'' -- "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)"
** ''Music/FablesOfTheReconstruction'' -- "Cant Get There from Here"
** ''Music/LifesRichPageant'' -- "Fall on Me" and "[[CoveredUp Superman]]"
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* Music/{{REM}} -- "Losing My Religion" (from ''Music/OutOfTime''), followed by "[[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)]]" (from ''Music/{{Document}}'') and BlackSheepHit "Everybody Hurts" (from ''Music/AutomaticForThePeople'')
''Music/AutomaticForThePeople'') overall. By album:
** ''Music/{{Murmur}}'' -- "Radio FreeEurope"
Europe", followed by "Talk About the Passion"
** ''Music/{{Reckoning}}'' -- "So. Central Rain (I'mSorry)"
Sorry)" and "(Don't Go Back to (Rockville)"
** ''Music/FablesOfTheReconstruction'' --"Cant Get There from Here"
"Driver 8"
** ''Music/LifesRichPageant'' -- "Fall onMe" and "[[CoveredUp Superman]]"Me", but also their CoveredUp version of "Superman"
** ''Music/{{Murmur}}'' -- "Radio Free
** ''Music/{{Reckoning}}'' -- "So. Central Rain (I'm
** ''Music/FablesOfTheReconstruction'' --
** ''Music/LifesRichPageant'' -- "Fall on
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** ''Music/OutOfTime'' -- "Losing My Religion"
** ''Music/AutomaticForThePeople'' -- "Everybody Hurts"
** ''[[Music/MonsterREMAlbum Monster]]'' -- "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" and "Bang and Blame"
** ''Music/NewAdventuresInHiFi''-- "E-Bow the Letter"
** ''Up'' -- "Daysleeper"
** ''Music/AutomaticForThePeople'' -- "Everybody Hurts"
** ''[[Music/MonsterREMAlbum Monster]]'' -- "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" and "Bang and Blame"
** ''Music/NewAdventuresInHiFi''-- "E-Bow the Letter"
** ''Up'' -- "Daysleeper"
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** ''Music/OutOfTime'' -- "Losing My Religion"
Religion", their overall signature, and "Shiny Happy People" (much to their chagrin)
** ''Music/AutomaticForThePeople'' -- "EverybodyHurts"
Hurts", "Man on the Moon" and "Nightswimming"
** ''[[Music/MonsterREMAlbum Monster]]'' -- "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"and especially, but also "Bang and Blame"
** ''Music/NewAdventuresInHiFi''-- "E-Bow theLetter"
Letter" and "Electrolite"
** ''Up'' --"Daysleeper""Daysleeper" and "At My Most Beautiful"
** ''Music/AutomaticForThePeople'' -- "Everybody
** ''[[Music/MonsterREMAlbum Monster]]'' -- "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"
** ''Music/NewAdventuresInHiFi''-- "E-Bow the
** ''Up'' --
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* Mother Mother -- "Hayloft"
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* Romanthony -- "Hold On" for his solo works, though he's most recognized for being the vocalist on "One More Time" and "Too Long" by Music/DaftPunk.
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* Sash! -- "Ecuador"
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* Armand van Helden -- "You Don't Know Me" for his older work, and "Bonkers" (shared with Dizzee Rascal) for his newer work.
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* NOFX -- "Don't Call Me White"
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* NOFX Music/{{NOFX}} -- "Don't Call Me White""Linoleum"
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* [=M83=] -- "Midnight City"
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* [=M83=] Music/{{M83}} -- "Midnight City"
* Odessa -- "I Will Be There"
* Ai Otsuka -- "Sakuranbo"
* [=RealFaction=] -- "[[VideoGame/CastleCrashers Simple Sight]]"
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* Olivia Rodrigo -- "Drivers License"
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* Olivia Rodrigo Music/OliviaRodrigo -- "Drivers License"
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* Music/TheSmashingPumpkins -- "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" or "Today" (from ''Music/MellonCollieAndTheInfiniteSadness'')
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* Music/TheSmashingPumpkins -- "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" Wings", "1979", or "Today" (from ''Music/MellonCollieAndTheInfiniteSadness'')
* Music/ThrobbingGristle -- "Hamburger Lady"
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* Was (Not Was) -- "Walk the Dinosaur"
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* Was (Not Was) Music/WasNotWas -- "Walk the Dinosaur"
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* Music/YokoKanno -- "Tank"
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* Music/YokoKanno -- "Tank""[[Anime/CowboyBebop Tank]]"
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** ''The Green Album'' -- "Hash Pipe"
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** ''The Green Album'' -- "Hash Pipe"Pipe" or "Island in the Sun"
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* Music/{{Ladytron}} -- "Destroy Everything You Touch"
* Music/{{Merzbow}} -- "Woodpecker No. 1" or "I Lead You Towards Glorious Times" [[note]]The loudest song ever pressed on CD.[[/note]]
* Moe Shop -- "Love Taste"
* [=ParagonX9=] -- "Chaoz Fantasy"
* Snail's House -- "Pixel Galaxy"
* Music/{{Squarepusher}} -- "Beep Street", "My Red Hot Car", or "[[Film/LostInTranslation Tommib]]"
* Music/VenetianSnares -- "Hajnal" or "Szamar Madar"
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* Waterflame -- "Glorious Morning"
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* Waterflame -- "Glorious Morning"Morning" or "[[VideoGame/CastleCrashers Jum]][[VideoGame/GeometryDash per]]"
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* Hank Williams -- "Hey Good Lookin'"
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* Hank Williams Music/HankWilliams -- "Hey "Hey, Good Lookin'"
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* Music/MarinaAndTheDiamonds -- "Primadonna"
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* Music/MarinaAndTheDiamonds Music/MarinaDiamandis -- "Primadonna"
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* Thompson Twins -- "Hold Me Now"
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* Thompson Twins -- "Hold Me Now"Now" or "[[WesternAnimation/RegularShow Lies]]"
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* Music/{{Ween}} -- "Ocean Man"
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* Music/{{Ween}} -- "Ocean Man""[[WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie Ocean Man]]" or "[[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Loop de Loop]]"
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** ''The College Dropout'': "Jesus Walks"
** ''Late Registration'': "Gold Digger" or "Heard 'Em Say"
** ''Graduation'': "Stronger"
** ''808's & Heartbreak'': "Heartless"
** ''Music/MyBeautifulDarkTwistedFantasy'': "POWER", "Monster" or "All of the Lights"
** ''Music/{{Yeezus}}'': "Black Skinhead" or "Bound 2"
** ''The Life of Pablo'': "Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1", "Famous" or "Fade"
** ''ye'': "All Mine"
** ''Late Registration'': "Gold Digger" or "Heard 'Em Say"
** ''Graduation'': "Stronger"
** ''808's & Heartbreak'': "Heartless"
** ''Music/MyBeautifulDarkTwistedFantasy'': "POWER", "Monster" or "All of the Lights"
** ''Music/{{Yeezus}}'': "Black Skinhead" or "Bound 2"
** ''The Life of Pablo'': "Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1", "Famous" or "Fade"
** ''ye'': "All Mine"
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** ''The College Dropout'': Dropout'' -- "Jesus Walks"
Walks" or "Through the Wire"
** ''LateRegistration'': Registration'' -- "Gold Digger" or "Heard 'Em Say"
**''Graduation'': ''Graduation'' -- "Stronger"
** ''808's &Heartbreak'': Heartbreak'' -- "Heartless"
**''Music/MyBeautifulDarkTwistedFantasy'': ''Music/MyBeautifulDarkTwistedFantasy'' -- "POWER", "Monster" or "All of the Lights"
**''Music/{{Yeezus}}'': ''Music/{{Yeezus}}'' -- "Black Skinhead" or "Bound 2"
** ''The Life ofPablo'': Pablo'' -- "Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1", "Famous" or "Fade"
**''ye'': ''ye'' -- "All Mine"
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** ''808's &
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** ''The Life of
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** Overall: "Gold Digger" and "Stronger" are the frontrunners.
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** Overall: Overall -- "Gold Digger" and "Stronger" are the frontrunners.
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Changed line(s) 1937 (click to see context) from:
* Music/RichardWagner -- "Music/TheRideOfTheValkyries"
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* Music/RichardWagner -- "Music/TheRideOfTheValkyries"[[Music/RideOfTheValkyries "The Ride of the Valkyries"]]
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* Music/{{Voltaire}} -- "When You're Evil"
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* Music/{{Voltaire}} -- "When You're Evil"Evil" or "[[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy BRAINS!]]"
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*** ''Music/ASaucerfulOfSecrets'' -- "Set Controls For the Heart of the Sun" or "Jugband Blues"
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*** ''Music/ASaucerfulOfSecrets'' -- "Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun" Sun", "Corporal Clegg", or "Jugband Blues"
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* Music/PinkFloyd -- "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" or "Comfortably Numb" (from ''Music/TheWall''), "Money" (from ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'') or possibly the title track of ''Music/WishYouWereHere''. Funny, considering the former [[BlackSheepHit is not representative of their sound.]]
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* Music/PinkFloyd -- "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" or "Comfortably Numb" (from ''Music/TheWall''), "Money" (from ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'') or possibly the title track of ''Music/WishYouWereHere''. Funny, considering the former [[BlackSheepHit is not representative of their sound.]]sound]].
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*** ''Music/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn'': "Astronomy Domine", "Interstellar Overdrive", or "See Emily Play"
*** ''Music/ASaucerfulOfSecrets'': "Set Controls For the Heart of the Sun" or "Jugband Blues"
*** ''Music/{{More}}'': "The Nile Song" or "Cymbaline"
*** ''Music/{{Ummagumma}}'': "CarefulWithThatAxe, Eugene"
*** ''Music/AtomHeartMother'': "Atom Heart Mother Suite" or "Fat Old Sun"
*** ''Music/{{Meddle}}'': "One of These Days" or "[[EpicRocking Echoes]]"
*** ''Music/ObscuredByClouds'': The title track or "Free Four"
*** ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'': "Time", "Money", "Us and Them", or "Brain Damage/Eclipse"
*** ''Music/WishYouWereHere'': "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" or "Wish You Were Here"
*** ''Music/{{Animals}}'': "Dogs", "Pigs (Three Different Ones)", or "Sheep"
*** ''Music/TheWall'': "Another Brick In the Wall, Part II", "Hey You", "Comfortably Numb", or "Run Like Hell"
*** ''Music/TheFinalCut'': "When the Tigers Broke Free", "The Fletcher Memorial Home", or "The Final Cut"
*** ''Music/AMomentaryLapseOfReason'': "Learning to Fly" or "Sorrow"
*** ''Music/TheDivisionBell'': "High Hopes", "Keep Talking", or "Take It Back"
*** ''Music/TheEndlessRiver'': "Louder Than Words"
* Creator/{{Pinkfong}} -- “Baby Shark”
*** ''Music/ASaucerfulOfSecrets'': "Set Controls For the Heart of the Sun" or "Jugband Blues"
*** ''Music/{{More}}'': "The Nile Song" or "Cymbaline"
*** ''Music/{{Ummagumma}}'': "CarefulWithThatAxe, Eugene"
*** ''Music/AtomHeartMother'': "Atom Heart Mother Suite" or "Fat Old Sun"
*** ''Music/{{Meddle}}'': "One of These Days" or "[[EpicRocking Echoes]]"
*** ''Music/ObscuredByClouds'': The title track or "Free Four"
*** ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'': "Time", "Money", "Us and Them", or "Brain Damage/Eclipse"
*** ''Music/WishYouWereHere'': "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" or "Wish You Were Here"
*** ''Music/{{Animals}}'': "Dogs", "Pigs (Three Different Ones)", or "Sheep"
*** ''Music/TheWall'': "Another Brick In the Wall, Part II", "Hey You", "Comfortably Numb", or "Run Like Hell"
*** ''Music/TheFinalCut'': "When the Tigers Broke Free", "The Fletcher Memorial Home", or "The Final Cut"
*** ''Music/AMomentaryLapseOfReason'': "Learning to Fly" or "Sorrow"
*** ''Music/TheDivisionBell'': "High Hopes", "Keep Talking", or "Take It Back"
*** ''Music/TheEndlessRiver'': "Louder Than Words"
* Creator/{{Pinkfong}} -- “Baby Shark”
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*** ''Music/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn'': ''Music/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn'' -- "Astronomy Domine", Domine" or "Interstellar Overdrive", or "See Emily Play"
Overdrive"
***''Music/ASaucerfulOfSecrets'': ''Music/ASaucerfulOfSecrets'' -- "Set Controls For the Heart of the Sun" or "Jugband Blues"
***''Music/{{More}}'': ''Music/{{More}}'' -- "The Nile Song" or "Cymbaline"
***''Music/{{Ummagumma}}'': "CarefulWithThatAxe, Eugene"
''Music/{{Ummagumma}}'' -- "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict"
***''Music/AtomHeartMother'': ''Film/ZabriskiePoint'' -- "Heart Beat, Pig Meat", "Crumbling Land", or "Come in Number 51, Your Time Is Up"
*** ''Music/AtomHeartMother'' -- "Atom Heart Mother Suite" or "Fat Old Sun"
***''Music/{{Meddle}}'': ''Music/{{Meddle}}'' -- "One of These Days" or "[[EpicRocking Echoes]]"
***''Music/ObscuredByClouds'': ''Music/ObscuredByClouds'' -- The title track or "Free Four"
***''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'': ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'' -- "Time", "Money", "Us and Them", or "Brain Damage/Eclipse"
"[[SiameseTwinSongs Brain Damage/Eclipse]]"
***''Music/WishYouWereHere'': ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' -- "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" or "Wish You Were Here"
***''Music/{{Animals}}'': ''Music/{{Animals}}'' -- "Dogs", "Pigs (Three Different Ones)", or "Sheep"
***''Music/TheWall'': ''Music/TheWall'' -- "Another Brick In the Wall, Part II", "Hey You", "Comfortably Numb", or "Run Like Hell"
***''Music/TheFinalCut'': "When the Tigers Broke Free", ''Music/TheFinalCut'' -- "The Fletcher Memorial Home", Home" or "The Final Cut"
***''Music/AMomentaryLapseOfReason'': ''Music/AMomentaryLapseOfReason'' -- "Learning to Fly" Fly", "On the Turning Away", or "Sorrow"
***''Music/TheDivisionBell'': "High Hopes", ''Music/TheDivisionBell'' -- "Take It Back", "Keep Talking", or "Take It Back"
"High Hopes"
***''Music/TheEndlessRiver'': ''Music/TheEndlessRiver'' -- "Louder Than Words"
*** Singles -- "Arnold Layne", "See Emily Play", "CarefulWithThatAxe, Eugene", "Embryo", or "When the Tigers Broke Free"
* Creator/{{Pinkfong}} --“Baby Shark”"Baby Shark"
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*** ''Music/AtomHeartMother'' -- "Atom Heart Mother Suite" or "Fat Old Sun"
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*** Singles -- "Arnold Layne", "See Emily Play", "CarefulWithThatAxe, Eugene", "Embryo", or "When the Tigers Broke Free"
* Creator/{{Pinkfong}} --
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** ''Music/SheerHeartAttack'' -- "Killer Queen" or "Stone Cold Crazy"
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** ''Music/SheerHeartAttack'' -- "Killer Queen" or "Stone "[[Film/{{Cruella}} Stone Cold Crazy"Crazy]]"
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** ''Music/{{News Of The World|Queen}}'' -- [[SiameseTwinSongs "We Will Rock You"/"We Are the Champions"]]
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** ''Music/{{News Of The of the World|Queen}}'' -- [[SiameseTwinSongs "We Will Rock You"/"We Are the Champions"]]
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** ''[[Music/Queen1973 Queen]]'' -- "Keep Yourself Alive" or "Great King Rat"
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** ''[[Music/Queen1973 Queen]]'' ''Music/{{Queen|1973}}'' -- "Keep Yourself Alive" or "Great King Rat"
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** ''Music/NewsOfTheWorldQueen'' -- [[SiameseTwinSongs "We Will Rock You"/"We Are the Champions"]]
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** ''Music/NewsOfTheWorldQueen'' ''Music/{{News Of The World|Queen}}'' -- [[SiameseTwinSongs "We Will Rock You"/"We Are the Champions"]]
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* Music/{{Poison}} -- "Every Rose Has Its Thorn"
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* Music/{{Poison}} -- "Every Rose Has Its Thorn"Thorn" or "Nothin' But a Good Time"
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* Saweetie -- "Best Friend" (shared with Doja Cat)
