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* +44 -- "When Your Heart Stops Beating"
* 10 Years -- "Wasteland"
* Music/TenCc - "I'm Not In Love" and "Dreadlock Holiday"
* Music/HundredGecs -- "Money Machine"
* Music/The13thFloorElevators -- "You're Gonna Miss Me"
* Music/SixteenHorsepower -- "Black Soul Choir"
* 21 Savage -- "X" or "Bank Account"
* 2Cellos -- "[[Music/MichaelJackson Smooth]] [[Series/{{Glee}} Criminal]]"
* Music/TwoChainz -- "Birthday Song" or "I'm Different"
* Music/TwoLiveCrew -- "Me So Horny"
* 2 Unlimited -- "No Limit" in Europe, "Get Ready For This" in North America
* 20 Fingers -- “Short Dick Man”
* Music/TwoNEOne -- "I Am The Best"
* Music/ThreeEleven -- "Down" or "Amber"
* Music/ThreeDaysGrace -- "I Hate Everything About You" or "Just Like You"
* Music/ThreeDoorsDown -- "Kryptonite", with "Here Without You" as a close second.
* Music/ThreeInchesOfBlood -- "Deadly Sinners" or "Destroy the Orcs"
* 3OH!3 -- "Don't Trust Me"
* 38 Special -- "Hold On Loosely" or "Caught Up In You"
* The 411 -- "On My Knees"
* 4 Non Blondes -- "What's Up?"
* 5ive -- "Keep On Movin'".
* [[Music/RobZombie John]] [[Music/MarilynManson 5]] -- "[[SerialKiller Black Widow of]] [[Creator/{{cs188}} La Porte]]"
* Music/FiveSecondsOfSummer -- "She Looks So Perfect" for their pop-punk days, "Youngblood" for their most recent material (and probably overall).
* [[Music/FiftyCent 50 Cent]] -- "In Da Club" or "Candy Shop"
* The 5th Dimension -- "[[Theatre/{{Hair}} Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In]]"
* 65daysofstatic -- "Radio Protector"
* 69 Boyz -- "Tootsie Roll"
* 6ix9ine -- "Fefe"
* 808 State -- "Pacific 202"
* The 88 -- "[[Series/{{Community}} At Least It Was Here]]"
* 8ball & MJG -- "Space Age Pimpin"
* [[Music/TheNineteenSeventyFive The 1975]] -- "Chocolate", "Love Me" and "The Sound" are becoming contenders.
* 911 -- "Love Sensation"
* 98 Degrees -- "Give Me Just One Night (Una Noche)"
** Nick Lachey -- "What's Left of Me"
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[[folder:A]]
* Music/{{A1}} -- "Same Old Brand New You"
* Music/{{Aaliyah}} -- [[Film/DrDolittle "Are You That Somebody"]], [[Film/RomeoMustDie "Try Again"]], or "One in a Million"
* Music/{{ABBA}} -- "Mamma Mia" (from ''Music/ABBAAlbum'') or "Dancing Queen" (from ''Music/{{Arrival|Album}}'')
* Music/{{ABC}} -- "The Look of Love"
* Music/PaulaAbdul -- "Forever your Girl", "Straight Up" or "Opposites Attract"
* Music/{{Abnormality}} -- "[[VideoGame/RockBand Visions]]"
* Music/{{ACDC}} -- By album:
** ''TNT'' -- "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" was Bon Scott's signature song, and so identified with him that Brian Johnson won't perform it. It's also regarded as the band's signature song in their native Australia. The title track is another contender.
** ''Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap'' -- The title track.
** ''Highway to Hell'' -- "Highway to Hell" is regarded as Bon Scott's signature song in America.
** ''Music/BackInBlack'' -- "Back in Black", which is Brian Johnson's signature song in America, or "You Shook Me All Night Long"
** ''The Razors Edge'' -- "Thunderstruck", considered Brian Johnson's signature song in Australia
* Music/{{Accept}} -- "Balls to the Wall"
* Ace Hood -- "Bugatti"
* Music/AceOfBase -- "[[Film/PitchPerfect The Sign]]"
* Action Bronson — “Baby Blue”
* Music/AdamAndTheAnts -- "Prince Charming"
* Music/BryanAdams -- "Summer of '69", "Heaven" or [[Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You"]]
* Music/{{Adele}} -- "Rolling in the Deep", "Someone Like You", "Set Fire to the Rain" or "Hello"
* Adelitas Way -- "Sick"
* Music/{{Adema}} -- "Giving In"
* Music/ADayToRemember -- "All I Want"
* Aero Chord -- "Surface"
* Music/{{Aerosmith}} -- "Dream On", "Walk This Way" (shared with Music/RunDMC), and "Sweet Emotion" for their earlier work, "[[Film/{{Armageddon}} I Don't Want To Miss A Thing]]" for their later years
* Music/AesopRock -- "Daylight" or "None Shall Pass"
* Afghan Whigs -- "Debonair"
* Music/{{AFI}} -- "Prelude 12-21/Miss Murder" (or "God Called In Sick Today" for older fans)
* Afroman -- "Because I Got High" or "Colt 45"
* After 7 -- "Ready or Not" and "Can't Stop"
* The Afters -- "Light Up the Sky" or “Broken Hallelujah overall; “Beautiful Love” for MTV fans.
* Age Against the Machine -- "[[Wrestling/JackSwagger Get on Your Knees]]"
* Agent Orange -- "Bloodstains"
* Music/ChristinaAguilera -- "Beautiful" or "Genie In A Bottle"
* Music/{{aha}} -- "Take On Me"
* Aiden -- "Die Romantic"
* Music/{{Air}} -- "All I Need"
* Airbourne -- "Runnin' Wild" or "Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast"
* The Airborne Toxic Event -- “Sometime Around Midnight”
* Air Supply -- "All Out of Love"
* Music/{{AJR}} -- "[[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants I'm Ready]]", "Weak", "Sober Up", "Burn The House Down", or "Bang!"
* Akon -- "I Wanna Love You"
* Alabama 3 -- "[[Series/TheSopranos Woke Up this Morning]]"
* Music/TheAlanParsonsProject -- "Eye in the Sky". Or, to fans of various sports teams and figures, especially the [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation Chicago Bulls]] and Wrestling/RickySteamboat, its instrumental lead-in "Sirius".
* Hans Albers -- "La Paloma" and "Auf der Reeperbahn Nachts um halb Eins"
* Music/JasonAldean -- "Dirt Road Anthem"
* Alesso -- "Heroes (We Could Be)" (although associated more with Music/ToveLo)
* Music/{{Alestorm}} -- [[Series/LazyTown You Are a Pirate]]
* Music/{{Alexisonfire}} -- "This Could Be Anywhere in the World"
* Music/AliceInChains -- "Man in the Box", "Would", or "Rooster"
** Post-Layne Staley: "Check my Brain" or "Hollow"
** Creator/JerryCantrell: "Cut You In" or "Anger Rising"
* Music/AlienAntFarm -- Their {{cover|edUp}} of "[[Music/MichaelJackson Smooth Criminal]]"
* Alkaline Trio -- "Calling All Skeletons" (or "Time to Waste" for older fans)
* Music/LilyAllen -- "Smile", "[[Film/PitchPerfect Fuck You]]".
* All Levels at Once -- "Flutershy's Lament" or "Pony Should Pony Pony"
* Music/AllSaints -- "Never Ever" and "[[Film/TheBeach Pure Shores]]".
* Music/AllThatRemains -- By album:
** ''This Darkened Heart'' -- The title track.
** ''The Fall of Ideals'' -- "This Calling"
** ''Overcome'' -- "Two Weeks"
** ''For We Are Many'' -- "The Last Time"
** ''A War You Cannot Win'' -- "What If I Was Nothing"
** ''The Order of Things'' -- "This Probably Won't End Well"
** ''Madness'' -- "[[Music/GarthBrooks The Thunder Rolls]]"
** Overall: "Two Weeks"
* Music/AllTimeLow -- "Dear Maria, Count Me In"
* Music/TheAllAmericanRejects -- "Gives You Hell", "Swing Swing" and "Dirty Little Secret". Among ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' fans, it's "Move Along".
** Tyson Ritter -- "Air"
* Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand -- "Whipping Post", "Midnight Rider, "Ramblin' Man", or "Jessica"
* Jarrod Alonge -- excluding his various covers and medleys, overall, "First World Tragedy" for his comedy music and "Shinebox" for his serious band, CrazyEightyEight. By individual "bands":
** [[Main/{{PopPunk}} Sunrise Skater Kids]] -- used to be "Pop Punk Pizza Party" but was replaced by "First World Tragedy" when ''Beating a Dead Horse'' was released
** [[Main/{{EmoMusic}} Canadian Softball]] -- "The Distance Between You and Me Is Longer Than the Title of This Song" or "Your Validation"
** [[Main/{{Metalcore}} Amidst The Grave's Demons]] -- used to be "I'm So Scene" but was replaced with "The Swimmer" when ''Beating a Dead Horse'' was released
** [[Main/{{HardcorePunk}} Chewed Up]] -- "Unbreakable"
** [[Main/{{Deathcore}} Vermicide Violence]] -- used to be "Pray For Progress" (ironic considering it's a song parodying [[Music/{{BringMeTheHorizon}} Bring Me The Horizon]]'s shift from deathcore to more melodic, alternative rock), but it's been replaced with "Coronaviscerated" with the release of ''The Praxis of Prophylaxis''
** [[Main/{{Djent}} Rectangles]] -- "Cosmic Metaphysical Verisimilitude"
** [[Main/{{Crunkcore}} $wagCh0de]] -- "2 Freaky 4 Da Club"
** CrazyEightyEight -- "Shinebox"
* Alphabeat -- "Fascination"
* Alpinestars -- "Carbon Kid"
* Music/AltJ -- "Breezeblocks" and "Left Hand Free"
* Music/AlterBridge -- "Open Your Eyes" or "Rise Today" to rock fans; "[[Wrestling/{{Edge}} Metalingus]]" to wrestling fans.
* [=AlunaGeorge=] -- "Attracting Flies" in the UK, "You Know You Like It"[[note]]specifically the official remix by DJ Snake[[/note]] internationally
* Music/{{Amaranthe}} -- "Drop Dead Cynical"
* Amber Pacific -- "Always You (Good Times)" or "Fall Back Into My Life"
* Marsha Ambrosius -- "Far Away" or "Butterflies"
* Music/{{America}} -- "A Horse with No Name"
* American Authors -- "Best Day of My Life"
* Music/{{Amerie}} - "[[Film/{{Hitch}} 1 Thing]]"
* Amiina -- "Seoul"
* Music/AmonAmarth -- "The Pursuit of Vikings", "Death in Fire", or "Twilight of the Thunder God"
* Music/ToriAmos -- "Cornflake Girl"
* Music/{{Anastacia}} -- "I'm Outta Love", "Left Outside Alone"
* Music/{{Anberlin}} -- "Feel Good Drag"
* And One -- "Military Fashion Show"
* Peter Andre -- "Mysterious Girl"
* Andee -- "Never Gone"
* Music/LaurieAnderson -- "O Superman"
* The Angels (Australian band) -- "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again"
* The Angels (American girl group) -- "My Boyfriend's Back"
* Angels & Airwaves -- "The Adventure"
* Music/{{Angelspit}} -- "100%" or "Vena Cava"
* Aneka -- "Japanese Boy"
* Anggun -- "Snow on the Sahara"
* Music/AnimalCollective -- "My Girls"
* Music/TheAnimals -- "[[CoveredUp The House of the Rising Sun]]"
* Anjulie -- "Brand New Bitch" or "Stand Behind the Music"
* Anne-Marie -- "Friends" (shared with Marshmello) or "Rockabye" (shared with Clean Bandit). For songs exclusively associated with her, "2002" is probably the strongest contender.
* Music/{{Annihilator}} -- "Alison Hell"
* Another Animal -- "Broken Again"
* Another Level -- "Freak Me"
* Marc Anthony -- "Vivir Mi Vida" (Spanish); "You Sang to Me" or "I Need to Know" (English)
* Music/{{Anthrax}} -- "[[Music/PublicEnemy Bring the Noise]]" or "Caught in a Mosh" for the Joey Belladonna years, "Only" for John Bush's tenure.
* Antony and the Johnsons -- "Hope There's Someone"
** Hercules and Love Affair -- "Blind" (Features vocals from Antony Hagerty)
* Music/{{AOA}} -- "Miniskirt" for the dance unit and the group's most well-known song overall
* A Perfect Circle -- "Judith"
* Music/AphexTwin -- "Windowlicker", "Come to Daddy" and "Avril 14th"
* Music/AphroditesChild -- Now "The Four Horsemen", was "Rain And Tears"
* Music/APink -- "No No No"
* Music/FionaApple -- "Criminal"
* Music/{{Apocalyptica}} -- "I Don't Care" (Often {{misattributed|Song}} to Music/ThreeDaysGrace since Adam Gontier sings it)
* Music/Apollo440 -- "Stop The Rock"
* Music/{{Aqua}} -- "Barbie Girl"
* Aranda -- "[=WhyYaWannaBringMeDown=]"
* Music/ArcadeFire -- "Wake Up" or "My Body Is A Cage"
* Music/ArcticMonkeys -- "I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor" (from ''Music/WhateverPeopleSayIAmThatsWhatIAmNot'') or "Do I Wanna Know?" in the UK; unquestionably the latter in the U.S.
* Arch Enemy -- "Nemesis"
* The Archies -- "Sugar, Sugar"
* Music/DavidArchuleta -- "Crush"
* Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti -- "Round and Round"
* Arkona -- "Rus'" for older listeners,"[[Series/TheOfficeUS Yarilo]]" for newer ones
* Music/LouisArmstrong -- "West End Blues", "Potato Head Blues" (collected on ''Music/TheCompleteHotFiveAndHotSevenRecordings''), "Theatre/HelloDolly" and "What a Wonderful World"
* Music/ArtOfDying -- "Die Trying"
* Army of Anyone -- "Goodbye"
* [=AronChupa=] -- "I'm An Albatraoz"
* Music/ArrestedDevelopment -- "Tennessee"
* Music/EduardArtemyev -- "Film/{{Siberiade}}" theme
* James Arthur -- "Say You Won't Let Go"
* Shlomo Artzi -- "At Va'ani"
* A$AP Ferg -- "Work", "Shabba", or "New Level"
* [[Music/ASAPRocky A$AP Rocky]] -- "Fuckin' Problems"
* Cory Asbury -- “Reckless Love”
* Ash -- "Girl from Mars"
* Ashanti -- "Foolish"
* Ashes Divide -- "The Stone"
* Music/{{Asia}} -- "Heat of the Moment"
* Music/AsianKungFuGeneration -- "[[Manga/{{Naruto}} Haruka Kanata]] to western audiences, in Japan it's debatable.
* As It Is -- "Dial Tones"
* Music/AskingAlexandria -- "The Final Episode"
* Music/RickAstley -- Initially either "Never Gonna Give You Up" or "Together Forever", but now indisputably [[JustForFun/{{Rickroll}} the former]].
* Music/AtTheDriveIn -- "One-Armed Scissor"
* Music/AtTheGates -- "Blinded by Fear"
* The Ataris -- Their cover of Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer"
* Athlete -- "Wires"
* Atlantic Starr -- "Always"
* Atlas Genius -- "Trojans"
* Music/{{Atmosphere}} -- "Trying to Find a Balance"
* Music/AtomicKitten -- "[[CoverVersion Eternal Flame", "The Tide is High]]" or "Whole Again"
* Atom Smash -- "Do Her Wrong"
* Atreyu -- "Bleeding Mascara" or "Becoming The Bull"
* Attack -- "Ooa Hela Natten"
* Attack Attack! -- "Stick Stickly"
* Attila -- "About that Life"
* Music/{{Audioslave}} -- "Like a Stone"
* Augustana -- "Boston"
* Music/{{Autechre}} -- "Bike" or "Gantz Graf"
* The Automatic -- "Monster" (from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' among others)
* Autopilot Off -- "Clockwork" or "Make a Sound"
* Music/TheAvalanches -- "Frontier Psychiatrist"
* Mickey Avalon -- "My Dick"
* Music/{{Avantasia}} -- "Dying for an Angel"
* Music/AvengedSevenfold -- By album:
** ''Waking the Fallen'': "[[VideoGame/MaddenNFL Chapter Four]]"
** ''City of Evil'' (and overall) -- "Bat Country" or "Beast and the Harlot"
** ''Avenged Sevenfold'' -- "Almost Easy"
** ''Nightmare'' -- "Nightmare" or "So Far Away"
** ''Hail to the King'' -- "Hail to the King" or "Shepherd of Fire"
** ''The Stage'' -- The title track.
* Music/{{Avicii}} -- "Levels" or "Wake Me Up!" to EDM audiences, unquestionably the latter to mainstream ones.
* Music/{{AWOLNATION}} -- "Sail"
* Axwell /\ Ingrosso -- "Sun Is Shining"
* Music/IggyAzalea -- "Fancy"
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* Music/BBKing -- "[[CoveredUp The Thrill Is Gone]]"
* [[{{Music/Bob}} B.o.B]] -- "Airplanes" or "Nothin' On You" (although the former is just as much associated with [[Music/{{Paramore}} Hayley Williams]] and and the latter almost universally with Music/BrunoMars, who sing their choruses).
* Music/TheB52s -- "Love Shack" or "Rock Lobster"
* Baauer -- [[MemeticMutation "Harlem Shake"]]
* Baby Bash -- "Suga Suga" or "Cyclone"
* Babybird -- "You're Gorgeous"
* Music/{{Babyface}} -- "When Can I See You"
* Music/BabyMetal -- "Gimme Chocolate!!"
* Music/JohannSebastianBach -- "Music/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor" or the "Mass in B minor"
* Tal Bachman -- "She's So High"
* Bachman–Turner Overdrive -- Initially "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"; more recently "Takin' Care Of Business"
* Music/BackstreetBoys -- "I Want It That Way", "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)", and "As Long As You Love Me" are the contenders overall. By album:
** ''Backstreet Boys'' -- "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)"
** ''Backstreet's Back'' -- "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" and "As Long As You Love Me"
** ''Millennium'' -- "I Want It That Way", followed closely by "Larger Than Life"
** ''Black & Blue'' -- "Shape of My Heart"
** ''Never Gone'' -- "Incomplete"
** ''Unbreakable'' -- "Inconsolable"
** ''This Is Us'' -- "Straight Through My Heart"
** ''In a World Like This'' -- The title track
** ''DNA'' -- "Don’t Go Breaking My Heart"
* Music/BadBrains -- "Pay to Cum"
* Music/BadCompany -- "Bad Company" . . . from the album [[SelfTitledAlbum Bad Company]] (and later a hit for Five Finger Death Punch).
* Music/BadLipReading -- "[[Music/RebeccaBlack Gang Fight]]", "[[Music/MichaelBuble Russian Unicorn]]" or “[[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Seagulls! (Stop It Now)]]”
* Music/BadReligion -- "American Jesus", "21st Century Digital Boy", or "Infected"
* Badfinger -- "No Matter What" and "Day After Day" in their heyday; "[[Series/BreakingBad Baby Blue]]" more recently
* Bad Wolves -- "[[Music/TheCranberries Zombie]]", with "Learn to Live" being a close second.
* Music/ErykahBadu -- "Tyrone"
* Music/JoanBaez -- "Diamonds & Rust"
* Bag Raiders -- [[MemeticMutation Shooting Stars]]
* Baha Men -- "Who Let the Dogs Out?"
* Anita Baker -- "Sweet Love"
* Creator/JosephineBaker -- "J'ai deux amours"
* Balance and Composure -- "Quake"
* Balkan Beat Box -- "[[SampledUp Hermetico]]"
* Kelsea Ballerini -- "Love Me Like You Mean It", "Dibs", or "Peter Pan"
* Baltimora -- "[[OneHitWonder Tarzan Boy]]"
* Music/AfrikaBambaataa -- "Planet Rock"
* Music/TheBand -- "The Weight" (from ''Music from Big Pink'')
* BAND-MAID -- "Thrill" or "Real Existence"
* Band of Skulls -- "Death by Diamonds and Pearls", "Light of the Morning" or "Himalayan"
* Music/TheBandPerry -- "If I Die Young"
* Moe Bandy: "Bandy the Rodeo Clown"
* Bang Camaro -- "Push Push (Lady Lightning)"
* Chiddy Bang --"Opposite of Adults"
* Music/TheBangles -- "Walk Like an Egyptian"
* Kirko Bangz -- "Drank In My Cup"
* Music/AzealiaBanks -- "212"
* Music/{{BANKS}} -- "Beggin For Thread"
* David Banner -- "Play"
* The Bar-Kays -- (Original lineup) "Soul Finger", (New Lineup) "Freakshow On The Dance Floor"
* Music/SaraBareilles -- "Love Song"; with "King of Anything" or "Brave" as runners-up.
* Music/BarenakedLadies -- "One Week", "[[WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle One Little Slip]]", or "[[Series/TheBigBangTheory The History of Everything]]"
* Barnes & Barnes -- "Fish Heads"
* Jimmy Barnes -- "Working Class Man"
* Courtney Barnett -- "Pedestrian At Best"
* Music/SydBarrett -- "See Emily Play" or "Astronomy Domine"(from ''Music/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn'') with Music/PinkFloyd, "Dark Globe" as a solo artist
* Toni Basil -- "[[OneHitWonder Mickey]]"
* Music/BasementJaxx -- "Where's Your Head At?"
* Bass Drum of Death -- "Crawling After You"
* Shirley Bassey -- "[[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Goldfinger]]"
* Basshunter -- "[=DotA=]"
* Bastille -- "Pompeii" in the U.S., although "Of the Night" is also a candidate in the UK. "Happier" can also count, although that’s primarily seen as Marshmello’s song.
* Jeff Bates -- "Long Slow Kisses" (particularly the 2004 re-recording)
* Music/BatForLashes -- "Daniel"
* Music/{{Bathory}} -- "A Fine Day to Die" or "One Rode to Asa Bay"
* Music/{{Battles}} -- "[[VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet Atlas]]"
* Music/{{Bauhaus}} -- "Bela Lugosi's Dead"
* James Bay - "Hold Back the River" or "Let It Go"
* Bayside -- "Devotion and Desire" or "Killing Time"
* Bazzi -- "Mine" or "[[Music/CamilaCabello Beautiful]]"
* Music/BeastieBoys -- "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)" (despite the CreatorBacklash) or "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" for their '80s material, "[[Film/StarTrekBeyond Sabotage]]" or "Intergalactic" for their '90s output.
* Music/BeachHouse -- "Norway" or "Zebra"
* Music/TheBeachBoys -- From their psychedelic era: "Good Vibrations" (from ''Music/SmileySmile'') and "God Only Knows" or "Wouldn't It Be Nice" (from ''Music/PetSounds''). From their "surf rock" era: "I Get Around" (from ''All Summer Long''), "California Girls" (from ''Music/SummerDaysAndSummerNights'') and "Surfin' USA" (from the eponymous album). From their post-psychedelic era: "Sail On Sailor" (from ''Music/{{Holland}}'')
* Beartooth -- Initially it was "In Between", but "Hated" later overtook it. However, this seems to have reversed over time and "In Between" is once again considered their signature.
* Music/BeatHappening -- "Indian Summer"
* Music/TheBeatles -- Contenders by album include:
** ''Music/PleasePleaseMe'' -- "Love Me Do"
** ''Music/WithTheBeatles'' -- "All My Love"
** ''Music/AHardDaysNight'' -- "A Hard Day's Night"
** ''Music/BeatlesForSale'' -- "Eight Days a Week"
** ''Music/{{Help}}'' -- "Help!", "Ticket to Ride", or "Yesterday"
** ''Music/RubberSoul'' -- "In My Life"
** ''Music/{{Revolver}}'' -- "Elanor Rigby" or "Yellow Submarine"
** ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' -- "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"
** ''Music/MagicalMysteryTour'' -- "Strawberry Fields Forever"
** ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'' -- "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
** ''Music/YellowSubmarine'' -- "Hey Bulldog"
** ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' -- "Come Together", "Something", or "Here Comes the Sun"
** ''Music/LetItBe'' -- "Let It Be"
** ''Music/PastMasters'' -- "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", or "Hey Jude"
* Music/TheBeautifulSouth -- "Rotterdam"
* Music/{{Beck}} -- "Loser" (from ''Music/MellowGold'')
* Becky G -- "Shower"
* Music/DanielBedingfield -- "Gotta Get Through This" or "[[Film/MaidInManhattan If You're Not The One]]"
* Natasha Bedingfield -- "Unwritten" or "[[Film/EasyA Pocketful of Sunshine]]"
* Music/TheBeeGees -- "Stayin' Alive" overall. By album:
** ''Main Course'' -- "Jive Talkin'"
** ''Children of the World'' -- "You Should Be Dancing"
** ''Film/SaturdayNightFever Soundtrack'' -- "Stayin' Alive", with "Night Fever" and "How Deep is Your Love?" being other contenders.
** ''Spirits Having Flown'' -- "Tragedy"
** ''Still Waters'' -- "Alone"
* Music/LudwigVanBeethoven -- "Ode to Joy" or "Symphony No. 5 in C Minor - 1st Movement"
* Lou Bega -- "[[OneHitWonder Mambo No. 5]]"
* Harry Belafonte -- "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)"
* Bell Biv Devoe -- "Poison"
* Drake Bell -- "[[Series/DrakeAndJosh I Found a Way]]"
* The Bellamy Brothers -- "Let Your Love Flow"
* Music/BelleAndSebastian -- "The Boy with the Arab Strap"
* Jon Bellion -- "All Time Low"
* Belly (rock band) -- "Feed the Tree"
* Belly (rapper) -- "Might Not", although it's more associated with Music/TheWeeknd
* Music/BenFoldsFive -- "Brick"
* BENEE -- "Supalonely"
* Benny Benassi -- "Satisfaction" in Europe; "Cinema" in America
* Music/PatBenatar -- "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" or "Love is a Battlefield"
* Alec Benjamin -- “Let Me Down Slowly”
* Music/MitchBenn -- was "Everything Sounds Like Coldplay Now", is now "Proud of the BBC".
* Music/GeorgeBenson -- "Give Me the Night"
* Music/DierksBentley -- "What Was I Thinkin'" overall. By album:
** ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Dierks Bentley]]'' -- "What Was I Thinkin'"
** ''Modern Day Drifter'' -- "Lot of Leavin' Left to Do", "Come a Little Closer" and "Settle for a Slowdown"
** ''Long Trip Alone'' -- "Every Mile a Memory", "[[TitleTrack Long Trip Alone]]", "Tryin' to Stop Your Leavin'", and "Free and Easy (Down The Road I Go)"
** ''Feel That Fire'' -- "Sideways", "[[TitleTrack Feel That Fire]]" and "I Wanna Make You Close Your Eyes"
** ''Up on the Ridge'' -- "Up on the Ridge"
** ''Home'' -- "Am I the Only One", "Tip It On Back" or "[[TitleTrack Home]]"
** ''Riser'' -- "I Hold On", "Drunk on a Plane" or "Say You Do"
** ''Black'' -- "Somewhere on a Beach" or "Different for Girls"
** ''The Mountain'' -- "Woman, Amen" and "Living"
* Berlin -- [[Film/TopGun "Take My Breath Away"]] (ironically, the one hit single they had that they didn't actually write themselves)
* Music/LeonardBernstein -- "Somewhere", "Tonight", "I Feel Pretty"... Pretty much the entirety of Theatre/WestSideStory
* Music/ChuckBerry -- "[[Film/BackToTheFuture Johnny B. Goode]]"[[note]]even though "My Ding-A-Ling" was his sole #1 hit[[/note]]
* Music/BestCoast -- "Boyfriend"
* Better Than Ezra -- "Good"
* Music/BetweenTheBuriedAndMe -- "White Walls"
* Beware of Darkness -- "Howl"
* Music/{{Beyonce}} -- "Crazy in Love", "Irreplaceable", "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)", "Halo" or "If I Were a Boy"
* Music/JustinBieber -- "Baby" for his TeenIdol era; "Sorry" and "Love Yourself" for his CareerResurrection
* Music/BiffyClyro -- "[[Series/TheXFactor Many of Horror]]", and maybe "[[VideoGame/GuitarHeroLive Victory Over the Sun]]"
* Music/BigAndRich -- Initially "Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)", then "Lost In This Moment," but has since gone back to being "Save A Horse"
* Music/BigBang -- "Fantastic Baby"
* Music/BigBlack -- "Kerosene"
* Music/TheBigBopper - "Chantilly Lace".
* Big Data -- "Dangerous"
* Big L -- "Ebonics"
* Music/BigPun -- "Still Not a Player"
* Music/BigSean -- "Dance (A$$)", "I Don't Fuck With You" or "Bounce Back"
* Music/BigStar -- "September Gurls"
* Music/BigTimeRush -- "Big Time Rush"
* Big Tymers -- "Still Fly"
* Music/BikiniKill -- "Rebel Girl"
* Music/BillHaleyAndHisComets -- "Rock Around the Clock"
* The Bird & The Bee -- "Fucking Boyfriend"
* Birdman -- "Stuntin' Like My Daddy" (shared with Music/LilWayne) or "Money to Blow"
* Birdy -- "Skinny Love"
* Birds of Tokyo -- "Plans" or "Lanterns"
* Music/TheBirthdayMassacre -- "Happy Birthday" or "Blue"
* The Birthday Party -- "Relese the Bats"
* Bishop Bullwinkle -- "Hell to Da Naw Naw Naw"
* Georges Bizet -- "Les Toreadors"
* Music/{{Bjork}} -- "It's Oh So Quiet" (from ''Music/{{Post}}'')
* Aloe Blacc -- Overall, his uncredited appearance on Avicii's "Wake Me Up!"; for his solo work, "I Need a Dollar" in Europe and "The Man" in North America
* Black -- "Wonderful Life"
* blackbear -- “do re mi”
* Music/RebeccaBlack -- "Music/{{Friday}}"
** Mike Bauer -- "Friday, as performed by Bob Dylan"
** Funnyz -- "Friday (Music Video Parody)" (AKA the "Fried Eggs" parody)
* Music/TheBlackCrowes -- Their cover of Otis Redding's "Hard to Handle"; "She Talks to Angels" for their original work.
* Music/BlackEyedPeas -- used to be "Where is the Love?", then "Let's Get It Started" or "My Humps", now "I Gotta Feeling"
** will.i.am -- "Scream & Shout"
** Fergie -- "Big Girls Don't Cry" or "Fergalicious"
* Music/BlackFlag -- "Rise Above"
** The Rollins Band -- "Liar"
* Music/TheBlackKeys -- "Tighten Up", "Howlin' For You", "Lonely Boy", or, for newer fans, "Gold On The Ceiling". Prior to ''Music/{{Brothers}}'', it was "Strange Times".
** The Arcs -- "Outta My Mind"
* Blackfoot -- "Highway Song" or "Train, Train" (both from ''Strikes'')
* Black Lab -- "Wash it Away"
* Music/BlackLabelSociety -- "Stillborn"
* Black Stone Cherry -- "White Trash Millionaire"
* BLΛNK BΛNSHΣΣ - "Teen Pregnancy"
* Algebra Blessett -- "Nobody But You"
* Blessid Union of Souls -- Initially "I Believe", but has been gradually displaced by "Hey Leonardo (She Likes Me For Me)"; [[Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie Brother My Brother]]" for ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' fans.
* Music/BlackSabbath -- "[[Film/ThreeHundredRiseOfAnEmpire War Pigs]]", "Paranoid", or "Iron Man", depending on where you live
** Music/RonnieJamesDio era -- "Heaven & Hell"
* [[Creator/AndyBiersack Andy Black]] -- "We Don't Have To Dance"
* Music/BlackVeilBrides -- "In the End"
* Benny Blanco -- "Eastside" (shared with Halsey and Khalid)
* Bleachers -- "I Wanna Get Better"
* Music/MaryJBlige -- "Be Without You" or "Family Affair","Not Gonna Cry", or even "Real Love"
* Music/BlindGuardian -- "The Bard's Song, "In the Forest" or "Mirror Mirror"
* Music/BlindMelon -- "[[OneHitWonder No Rain]]"
* Music/{{Blink 182}} -- "All the Small Things" overall. By album:
** ''Dude Ranch'' -- "Dammit"
** ''Enema of the State'' -- "All the Small Things" (though "What's My Age Again?" and "Adam's Song" could count to alt radio listeners)
** ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket'' -- "The Rock Show" and “First Date”
** ''Blink-182'' -- "I Miss You"
** ''Neighborhoods'' -- "Up All Night"
** ''California'' -- "Bored to Death" or "She's Out Of My Mind"
* Music/BlocParty -- "Helicopter" or "Banquet"
* Music/{{Blondie}} -- "One Way or Another" [[note]]previously "Heart of Glass"[[/note]]
* Music/BloodhoundGang -- "The Bad Touch", and to a lesser extent "Fire Water Burn"
* Blue -- "All Rise"
* Jonas Blue -- "[[Music/TracyChapman Fast]] [[CoverVersion Car]]", "Perfect Strangers", "Mama" and "Rise"
* Blue Cheer -- "Summertime Blues"
* Music/BlueOysterCult -- "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (from ''Music/AgentsOfFortune'') "Godzilla", "or Burnin For You"
* Blue October -- "Hate Me"
* Music/BlueStahli -- "Ultranumb"
* Blues Traveler -- "Run-Around"
* Blue Swede -- "[[CoveredUp Hooked on a Feeling]]"
* Music/JamesBlunt -- "You're Beautiful"
* Music/{{Blur}} -- "Song 2" in the US, "Parklife" in the UK
* Blut Aus Nord -- "Epitome I"
* Music/BoardsOfCanada -- "Roygbiv"
* Bon Iver -- "Skinny Love" or "Blood Bank"
* Music/BonJovi -- "Livin' on a Prayer" is this, although "You Give Love a Bad Name", "Wanted Dead or Alive", "Always" and "It's My Life" aren't far behind in popularity.
** Creator/JonBonJovi -- "Blaze of Glory"
* Bone Crusher -- "(I Ain't) Never Scared"
* Music/BoneThugsNHarmony -- "Tha Crossroads"
* Boney M. -- "Rasputin"
* Music/TheBooRadleys -- "Wake Up Boo!"
* A Boogie wit da Hoodie — “Drowning”
* Booker T. & the M.G.'s -- "Green Onions"
* The Boomtown Rats -- "I Don't Like Mondays"
* Booty Luv -- "Boogie 2Nite"
* Bossfight -- "[[VideoGame/JustShapesAndBeats Milky Ways]]"
* Music/{{Boston}} -- "More Than a Feeling"
* Music/DavidBowie -- "Space Oddity", and ""Heroes"" overall. By album:
** ''Music/DavidBowie1967'' -- While the album's obscurity and generally poor reception makes it hard to pin down a signature song, "Rubber Band" might come closest on the virtue of it being the lead single.
** ''Music/SpaceOddity'' -- "Space Oddity"
** ''Music/TheManWhoSoldTheWorld'' -- "The Man Who Sold the World"
** ''Music/HunkyDory'' -- "Changes" or "Life on Mars?"
** ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' -- "Ziggy Stardust" or "Starman"
** ''Music/AladdinSane'' -- "The Jean Genie"
** ''Music/DiamondDogs'' -- "Rebel Rebel"
** ''Music/YoungAmericans'' -- "Fame"
** ''Music/StationToStation'' -- "Golden Years"
** ''Music/LowDavidBowieAlbum'' -- "Sound and Vision"
** ''Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum'' -- ""Heroes""
** ''Music/{{Lodger}}'' -- "Boys Keep Swinging"
** ''Music/ScaryMonstersAndSuperCreeps'' -- "Ashes to Ashes"
** ''Music/LetsDance'' -- "Let's Dance"
** ''Music/{{Tonight}}'' -- "Loving the Alien" or "Blue Jean"
** ''Music/NeverLetMeDown'' -- "Time Will Crawl"
** ''Music/BlackTieWhiteNoise'' -- "Jump They Say"
** ''[[Music/{{Outside}} 1. Outside]]'' -- "The Hearts Filthy Lesson" or "Hallo Spaceboy" (specifically the Music/PetShopBoys remix)
** ''Music/{{Earthling}}'' -- "I'm Afraid of Americans"
** ''Music/{{Hours}}'' -- "Thurdsay's Child"
** ''Music/{{Heathen}}'' -- "Slow Burn"
** ''Music/{{Reality}}'' -- "New Killer Star" or "Bring Me the Disco King"
** ''Music/TheNextDay'' -- "Where Are We Now"
** ''[[Music/BlackstarAlbum ★]]'' -- "Lazarus"
* Music/BowlingForSoup -- "1985"
* Bow Wow -- "Fresh Azimiz"
* Boys Like Girls -- "The Great Escape"
* Music/BoyzIIMen -- "End of the Road" or "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday"
* Music/{{Boyzone}} -- "No Matter What" or/and "I Love The Way You Love Me"
** Music/RonanKeating -- "[[Film/NottingHill When You Say Nothing At All]]"
** Music/StephenGately -- "New Beginning"
* Creator/WayneBrady -- "Ordinary"
* Music/BillyBragg -- "A New England"
* Music/GeorgesBrassens -- "Les Copains D' Abord"
* Creator/JohannesBrahms — Lullaby (Wiegenlied) in E Flat (often referred to as "Brahms' Lullaby")
* Brainpower -- "Dansplaat" in Europe; "[[Podcast/WelcometoNightVale Mijn Manier]]" to a certain desert community.
* Music/MichelleBranch -- "Everywhere"
* Music/BrandNew -- "Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades"
* Brand New Heavies -- [[CoverVersion "Midnight at the Oasis"]]
* Brand New Sin -- "[[Wrestling/BigShow Crank it Up]]"
* Music/{{Brandy}} -- "I Wanna Be Down", "Have You Ever?" or even "Sittin' Up in My Room"
* Toni Braxton -- "Un-Break My Heart"
* Breakbot -- "Baby I'm Yours"
* Music/BreakingBenjamin -- "The Diary of Jane" overall. By album:
** ''Saturate'' -- "Polyamorous"
** ''We Are Not Alone'' -- "So Cold"
*** ''So Cold EP'' -- "[[VideoGame/Halo2 Blow Me Away]]"
** ''Phobia'' -- "The Diary of Jane"
** ''Dear Agony'' -- "I Will Not Bow"
** ''Dark Before Dawn'' -- "Failure"
** ''Ember'' -- "Torn in Two"
** ''Aurora'' -- "Far Away"
* Breathe Carolina -- "Blackout"
* Music/JacquesBrel -- "Ne Me Quitte Pas" and "Le Plat Pays"
* Edie Brickell & New Bohemians -- "What I Am"
* Brick + Mortar -- "Locked in a Cage", or their cover of "Voodoo Child"
* Bright Eyes -- "Lua" or "First Day of My Life"
* Music/BringMeTheHorizon -- By album:
** ''Count Your Blessings'' -- "Pray For Plagues"
** ''Suicide Season'' -- "Chelsea Smile''
** ''There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret'' -- "Crucify Me" or "It Never Ends"
** ''Sempiternal'' -- "Can You Feel My Heart", "Sleepwalking" or "Shadow Moses"
** ''That's the Spirit'' -- "Throne"
** ''amo'' -- "Medicine"
** Overall -- "Throne" and "Sleepwalking" are the most common candidates. "Pray For Plagues" and "Chelsea Smile" are this instead for their {{deathcore}}[=/=]{{metalcore}} era.
* Music/GarthBrooks -- "The Dance" or "Friends in Low Places"
* Meredith Brooks -- "Bitch"
* Brooks & Dunn -- "Boot Scootin' Boogie"
* The Brothers Johnson -- "[[Film/PulpFiction Strawberry Letter 23]]"
* Blanco Brown -- “The Git Up”
* Music/ChrisBrown -- By album:
** ''Chris Brown'': "Run It!"
** ''Exclusive'': "Forever"
** ''Graffiti'': “I Can Transform Ya”
** ''F.A.M.E.'': “Look At Me Now”
** ''Fortune'': “Don’t Wake Me Up”
** ''X'': “Loyal”
** ''Fan of a Fan: The Album'': “Ayo” (shared with Tyga)
** ''Royalty'': “Back to Sleep”
** ''Heartbreak on a Full Moon'': “Party”
** ''Indigo'': “No Guidance”
* Music/HavanaBrown -- "We Run The Night"
* Music/JamesBrown -- "I Got You (I Feel Good)"
* Sawyer Brown -- "Drive Me Wild"
* Music/ZacBrownBand -- "Chicken Fried" (and, to a lesser degree, "Toes") plus "[[Music/ChrisCornell Heavy is the Head]]" for rock audiences
* Music/JacksonBrowne -- "Doctor My Eyes"
* Brownsville Station -- "Smokin' in the Boys Room"
* Brothers Osborne -- "Stay a Little Longer"
* The Dave Brubeck Quartet -- "Take Five"
* Luke Bryan -- "That's My Kind Of Night"
* Chase Bryant -- "Take It On Back"
* Peabo Bryson -- "If Ever You're in My Arms Again" or "Can You Stop the Rain"
* Music/{{BT}} -- "Flaming June"
* Music/{{BTS}} -- "Dynamite", at least in America.
* Music/MichaelBuble -- "Haven't Met You Yet"
* Joe Budden -- "Pump It Up"
* Music/{{Buckethead}} -- "[[VideoGame/GuitarHero Jordan]]"
* Music/{{Buckcherry}} -- "Crazy Bitch" to rock audiences; "Sorry" to mainstream audiences
* Music/JeffBuckley -- His [[CoveredUp cover]] of Music/LeonardCohen's "Hallelujah"
* Music/TimBuckley -- "Song to the Siren"
* Buckner & Garcia -- "Pac-Man Fever"
* Buckwheat Boyz -- "Peanut Butter Jelly Time"
* Music/BuffaloSpringfield -- "For What It's Worth"
* Music/JimmyBuffett -- "Margaritaville"
* Music/TheBuggles -- [[{{Creator/MTV}} "Video Killed the Radio Star"]]
* Building 147 -- "Where I Belong"
* Music/BuiltToSpill -- "Car"
* Music/BulletForMyValentine -- "Tears Don't Fall", with "You Want a Battle? (Here's a War)" becoming a strong contender.
* Music/EmmaBunton -- "What Took You So Long?"
* Music/{{Burial}} -- "Archangel"
* Solomon Burke -- "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" or "Got to Get You Off My Mind"
* Burn Halo -- "Dirty Little Girl"
* Peter Bursuker -- "[[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon No Chance in Hell]]"
* Music/{{Burzum}} -- "Dunkelheit" or "My Journey to the Stars"
* Bush -- "Everything Zen", "Comedown", "Swallowed", and "Glycerine" are the frontrunners
* Music/KateBush -- "Wuthering Heights" or "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)"
* Stan Bush -- "[[WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie The Touch]]"
* Music/BustaRhymes -- "Woo-Hah!! Got You All In Check"
* Music/{{Busted}} -- "Year 3000"
** "What I Go to School For."
* Music/ButtholeSurfers -- "Pepper"
* Armin van Buuren -- "This Is What It Feels Like"
* Music/{{Buzzcocks}} -- "Ever Fallen In Love" or "Everybody's Happy Nowadays"
* Music/TheByrds -- [[CoveredUp "Mr. Tambourine Man]] (from ''Music/MrTambourineMan'') or [[CoveredUp "Turn, Turn, Turn"]] (from ''Turn! Turn! Turn!'')
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* Music/TheCab -- “Angel with a Shotgun”
* Cabaret Voltaire -- "Yashar"
* Caesars -- "Jerk It Out"
* Music/JohnCage -- "4'33"" [[note]][[SilenceIsGolden So his most famous song is literally nothing...]][[/note]]
* Music/CageTheElephant -- "[[VideoGame/{{Borderlands}} Ain't No Rest For the Wicked]]"
* [=Cage9=] -- "[[Wrestling/DolphZiggler I am Perfection]]"
* Bobby Caldwell -- "What You Won't Do For Love"
* Cali Swag District -- "Teach Me How to Dougie"
* Music/ColbieCaillat -- "Bubbly"
* Music/{{CAKE}} -- "The Distance"
* Music/TheCalling -- "Wherever You Will Go"
* Cab Calloway -- "Minnie the Moocher"
* Cam -- "Burning House"
* Music/{{Camel}} -- "Echoes" or "Lady Fantasy"
* Cameo -- "Word Up!"
* Blu Cantrell -- "Hit 'Em Up Style!"
* Craig Campbell -- "Keep Them Kisses Comin'"
* Music/CamperVanBeethoven -- "Take the Skinheads Bowling"
* Music/{{Can}} -- For their EpicRocking style, "Yoo Doo Right" or "Halleluwah". For their more [[RadioFriendliness radio friendly]] side, "Spoon".
* Cancer Killing Gemini -- "[[Wrestling/CoreyGraves Christcontrol]]"
* Candlebox -- "Far Behind"
* Music/{{Candlemass}} -- "Demon's Gate" or "The Black Dwarf"
* Music/CannedHeat -- "Going Up the Country"
* Music/CannibalCorpse -- "Hammer Smashed Face"
* Lewis Capaldi -- "Someone You Loved" worldwide, although in the UK this is debatable
* Capital Cities -- "Safe & Sound"
* Tim Cappello -- "I Still Believe"
* Music/CaptainAndTennille -- Probably "Love Will Keep Us Together", though "The Way I Want to Touch You", "Muskrat Love", and "Do That to Me One More Time" are contenders.
* Music/AlessiaCara -- "Here"
* Caramell -- "[[MemeticMutation Caramelldansen]]"
* Music/{{Caravan}} -- For their serious side "Nine Feet Underground", for their poppy, whimsical side "Golf Girl".
* Music/CaravanPalace -- "Lone Digger"
* Music/{{Carcass}} -- "Heartwork" or "Corporal Jigsore Quandary"
* Music/TheCardigans -- "Lovefool"
* Ian Carey -- "Amnesia"
* Music/MariahCarey -- "Vision of Love", "Hero", or "Fantasy" for her earlier era; "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and "We Belong Together" for more recent endeavors
* Caribou -- "Odessa"
* Music/CardiB -- "Bodak Yellow" or “I Like It”, "WAP"
* Belinda Carlisle -- "Heaven Is a Place on Earth"
* Music/{{Carpenters}} — By album:
** ''Close to You'': "(They Long to Be) Close to You", "We've Only Just Begun"
** ''Carpenters'': "For All We Know", "Rainy Days and Mondays", "Superstar"
** ''A Song for You'': "Top of the World", "Hurting Each Other"
** ''Now & Then'': "Sing", "Yesterday Once More"
* Kim Carnes -- [[CoveredUp "Bette Davis Eyes"]]
* Music/VanessaCarlton -- "A Thousand Miles"
* Eric Carmen -- "All By Myself" or "[[Film/DirtyDancing Hungry Eyes]]"
* Music/TheCars -- "Just What I Needed"
* Music/SofiaCarson -- "Back to Beautiful" [[note]]with Alan Walker[[/note]]
* Music/AaronCarter -- "Aaron's Party (Come Get It)" for his teen idol era; "Fool's Gold" for his later work
* Clarence Carter -- "Strokin'"
* Music/{{Cascada}} -- "Everytime We Touch"
* Music/{{The Cascades}} -- "Rhythmn of the Falling Rain"
* Music/JohnnyCash -- "A Boy Named Sue", "Ring of Fire" and "I Walk the Line"; for his later-day material, his cover of Music/NineInchNails' "Hurt"
* Music/CashCash -- "Take Me Home"
* Ca$h Out -- "Cashing Out"
* Eva Cassidy -- "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" or "Fields of Gold"
* Cassie -- "Me & U"
* Catatonia -- "Road Rage" or "Mulder & Scully"
* Music/{{Cathedral}} -- "Hopkins (The Witchfinder General)"
* Music/NickCave -- "Red Right Hand" (from ''Music/LetLoveIn'') (or "[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows O Children]]" for Franchise/HarryPotter fans)
* Cavo -- "Champagne"
* Cazwell -- "Ice Cream Truck"
* Music/CeeLoGreen -- "Fuck/Forget You!"
** Music/GnarlsBarkley -- "Crazy"
** Goodie Mob -- "Cell Therapy"
* Music/{{Celldweller}} -- "Switchback" or, for their orchestral works, "[[Film/RealSteel Wings of Icarus]]"
** Circle of Dust -- "Nothing Sacred", "Contagion" post-return
** Scandroid -- "Salvation Code"
* Wrestling/JohnCena -- "My Time Is Now"
* Music/CelticFrost -- "Circle of The Tyrants" or "Into Crypt of Rays"
* Peter Cetera -- "Glory of Love"
* Chad & Jeremy -- "A Summer Song"
* Music/TheChainsmokers -- "Closer", with "Don't Let Me Down" a clear second; "#[=SELFIE=]" prior to 2016.
* Chairmen of the Board -- "Give Me Just a Little More Time"
* The Chambers Brothers -- "Time Has Come Today"
* Chamillionare -- "Ridin'"
* The Champs -- "Tequila"
* Chance the Rapper -- "No Problem"
* Gene Chandler -- "Duke of Earl"
* Music/HarryChapin -- "Cats in the Cradle"
* Music/TracyChapman -- "Fast Car" was her biggest hit, though "Talkin' 'Bout A Revolution" is probably about equal in the Signature Song stakes.
* The Charlatans -- "The Only One I Know"
* Music/RayCharles -- "Georgia On My Mind" or "Hit The Road Jack"
* Tina Charles -- "I Love to Love (But My Baby Just Loves to Dance)"
* Music/CharliXCX -- "[[Film/TheFaultInOurStars Boom Clap]]"
* Music/CheapTrick -- "I Want You to Want Me" or "Surrender" (or "The Flame" for their later material)
* Oliver Cheatham -- "Get Down Saturday Night"
* Chubby Checker -- "The Twist"
* Music/TheChemicalBrothers:
** ''Exit Planet Dust'': "Chemical Beats" or "Leave Home"
** ''Dig Your Own Hole'': "Block Rockin' Beats" or "Elektrobank"
** ''Surrender'': "Hey Boy, Hey Girl" or "Under The Influence"
** ''Come with Us'': "Star Guitar"
** ''Push the Button'': "Galvanize"
** ''We Are the Night'': "Do It Again" or "The Salmon Dance"
** ''Further'': "Swoon"
** ''Born in the Echoes'': "Go", "Under Neon Lights" or "Wide Open"
** ''No Geography'': "We've Got To Try"
** Overall: "Hey Boy, Hey Girl", "Galvanize", "Do It Again" and "Go" are their most well-known songs in the mainstream crowd; their fanbase would more than likely instead point at "Block Rockin' Beats" or "Elektrobank" as their signature songs.
* Music/{{Cher}} -- "Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves" for her older work, "If I Could Turn Back Time" or "Believe" for her newer material.
* Cherish -- "Do It To It"
* Music/{{Chevelle}} -- "The Red", "Send The Pain Below" or, for newer fans, "Face to the Floor"
* Eagle-Eye Cherry -- "Save Tonight"
* Neneh Cherry -- "Buffalo Stance"
* Cherry Poppin' Daddies -- "Zoot Suit Riot"
* Music/CherylCole -- "Fight For This Love"
* Music/KennyChesney -- "The Good Stuff"
* Creator/MauriceChevalier -- "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" (at least in America). In France "Valentine" is considered to be his SignatureSong.
* Music/{{Chic}} -- "Le Freak", with "Good Times" in second place
* Music/{{Chicago}} -- "25 or 6 to 4"; "Hard To Say I'm Sorry" for their adult-contemporary period
* Chicane -- "Don't Give Up (with Music/BryanAdams)" or "Saltwater"
* Music/ChiefKeef -- "I Don't Like"
* The Chiffons -- "He's So Fine"
* Music/ChildrenOfBodom -- "Needled 24/7" or "Are You Dead Yet?"
* The Chi-Lites -- "Have You Seen Her" or "Oh Girl"
* Music/{{Chimaira}} -- "Pure Hatred"
* Chingy -- "Right Thurr"
* [[WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks The Chipmunks]] -- "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)"
* Music/{{Chiodos}} -- "Baby, You Wouldn't Last A Minuite on The Creek"
* Music/FryderykChopin -- "Funeral March"
* The Chords -- "Sh-Boom"
* The Chordettes -- "Mr. Sandman" or "Lollipop"
* Lou Christie -- "Lightning Strikes"
* Chromeo -- "Jealous (I Ain't With It)"
* Music/{{Chumbawamba}} -- "Tubthumping"
* Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! -- "In Friends We Trust"
* Eric Church -- "Springsteen" or "Drink in my Hand"
* The Church -- "Under the Milky Way"
* Music/{{CHVRCHES}} -- "The Mother We Share"
* Music/{{Ciara}} -- "Goodies" or "1, 2 Step"
* Creator/NeilCicierega -- "Bustin"
** Music/LemonDemon -- "Music/TheUltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny"
* Music/{{Cimorelli}} -- "Made in America" or "Hearts on Fire"
* Circa Survive -- "The Difference Between Medicine and Drugs is in the Dose"
* Creator/CirqueDuSoleil -- "Theatre/{{Alegria}}" (the only song that appears in some way on each of their first three [[GreatestHitsAlbum greatest hits albums]]) or "[[Theatre/{{Mystere}} Kunya Sobe]]".
* Citizen King -- "Better Days (And the Bottom Drops Out)"
* City Girls -- "Act Up"
* City High -- "What Would You Do?"
* Civil Twilight -- "Letters From the Sky"
* The Civil Wars -- "Barton Hollow"
* Music/EricClapton -- "Tears in Heaven" and "Wonderful Tonight"
* Dave Clark Five -- "Glad All Over"
* Petula Clark -- "Downtown"
* Jeremiah Clarke — "Prince of Denmark's March", often incorrectly known as "Trumpet Voluntary"
* Gary Clark Jr. -- "Bright Lights"
* Music/KellyClarkson -- Overall : “Since U Been Gone“ or "Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)“. By album:
** ''Thankful'': “Miss Independent”
** ''Breakaway'': “Since U Been Gone”
** ''My December'': “Never Again”
** ''All I Ever Wanted'': “My Life Would Suck Without You”
** ''Stronger'': The title track
** ''Piece by Piece'': “Heartbeat Song”
** ''Meaning of Life'': “Love So Soft”
* Alex Clare -- "Too Close"
* Music/TheClash -- "London Calling" (from ''Music/LondonCalling'') or "Should I Stay Or Should I Go", with "Rock the Casbah" very close behind
* Classified -- "Inner Ninja"
* Classixx -- "All You're Waiting For"
* Music/CleanBandit -- "Rather Be" and "Rockabye"
* The Click Five -- "Just the Girl"
* Clipse -- "Grinding"
* Music/{{Clutch}} -- "Electric Worry"
* Music/CNBlue -- "I'm A Loner"
* Music/CoalChamber -- "Loco"
* The Coasters -- "Yakety Yak", "Charlie Brown", or "[[Film/DeathProof Down in Mexico]]"
* Music/CobraStarship -- "Good Girls Go Bad" or "You Make Me Feel…"
* Tom Cochrane -- "Life Is a Highway"
* Joe Cocker -- His [[CoveredUp cover]] of "[[Music/TheBeatles With a Little Help from My Friends]]"
* Code Orange -- "Forever" or "Bleeding in the Blur"
* Music/CoheedAndCambria -- "[[WesternAnimation/{{Nine}} Welcome]] [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} Home]]" or "A Favor House Atlantic"
* Music/LeonardCohen -- "Hallelujah"
** "Suzanne" (from ''Music/SongsOfLeonardCohen'') or "Bird on the Wire" (from ''Songs from a Room'') in his earlier period
* Marc Cohn -- "Walking In Memphis"
* Cold -- "Stupid Girl"
* Music/ColdChisel -- "Khe Sahn"
* Music/{{Coldplay}} -- "Clocks", "The Scientist", "Yellow" and "Viva La Vida" overall. By album:
** ''Parachutes'' -- "Yellow"
** ''A Rush of Blood to the Head'' -- "Clocks" or/and "The Scientist"
** ''X&Y'' -- Originally "Speed of Sound", but overtime became "Fix You"
** ''Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends'' -- "Viva la Vida"
** ''Mylo Xyloto'' -- "Paradise"
** ''Ghost Stories'' -- "A Sky Full of Stars"
** ''A Head Full of Dreams'' -- "Adventure of a Lifetime" or "Hymn for the Weekend"
* Cold War Kids -- "First"
* Alias Conrad Coldwood -- "[[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Pepper Steak]]"
* Music/JCole -- "Work Out" or "No Role Modelz"
* Keyshia Cole -- "I Should've Cheated" or "Let It Go"
* Music/NatKingCole -- "Unforgettable" or "Mona Lisa"; "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" becomes this during the holidays
* Natalie Cole -- "Inseparable" or "This Will Be"
* Music/PaulaCole -- Initially either "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" or [[Series/DawsonsCreek "I Don't Want To Wait"]], but now indisputably the latter
* Creator/{{Zendaya}} -- "Replay"
* Coleman Hell -- "2 Heads"
* Music/CollectiveSoul -- "Shine"
* Edwyn Collins -- [[Film/EmpireRecords "A Girl Like You"]]
* Judy Collins -- "Both Sides Now"
* Music/PhilCollins -- "In the Air Tonight" (from ''Music/FaceValue'')
* Colonel Loud -- "California"
* Color Me Badd -- "[[Film/NewJackCity I Wanna Sex You Up]]"
* Shawn Colvin -- "Sunny Came Home"
* Combichrist -- "Get Your Body Beat"
* The Commodores -- "Brick House". "Machine Gun" runs it close, though, especially in Africa
* Common -- "Glory" or “I Used to Love H.E.R.”
* Music/ConquerDivide -- "Nightmares"
* Music/{{Coolio}} -- "[[Film/DangerousMinds Gangsta's Paradise]]"
* Music/AliceCooper -- "School's Out"; second place is between "Poison" or "No More Mr. Nice Guy"
* Music/{{Copeland}} -- "No One Really Wins"
* The Coral -- "Dreaming of You"
* Core -- "Angle"
* Music/{{Cormorant}} -- "Junta"
* Music/{{Cornershop}} -- "Brimful of Asha"
* Corinne Bailey Rae -- "Put Your Records On"
* Corona -- "The Rhythm of the Night"
* Music/TheCorrs -- "Runaway" or/and "Breathless" (in the U.S it's the latter, internationally it's undisputedly the former)
* Corrosion of Conformity -- "Albatross" or "Clean My Wounds" (both from ''Deliverance'')
* Cosmic Gate -- "Exploration Of Space"
* Music/{{cosMo}} -- Depending on whether you ask the Music/{{VOCALOID}} fanbase or the ''VideoGame/SoundVoltex'' fanbase: "The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku" or "For [=UltraPlayers=]", respectively.
* Music/ElvisCostello -- "Pump It Up" (from ''Music/ThisYearsModel'') and "I Want You" (from ''Music/BloodAndChocolate'')
* Music/JonathanCoulton -- "[[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Still Alive]]"
* Course of Nature -- "Caught in the Sun"
* Music/NadineCoyle -- "Insatiable"
* Music/CountingCrows -- "Mr. Jones"
* Music/{{Covenant}} -- "Dead Stars"
* Bucky Covington -- "A Different World"
* Deborah Cox -- "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here"
* Cracker -- Previously either "Low" or "Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)"; now unarguably the former.
* Music/CradleOfFilth -- "Her Ghost in the Fog"
* Music/TheCramps -- "Human Fly"
* Music/TheCranberries -- "Zombie" or "Linger"
* Music/CrashTestDummies -- "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm"
* Crash Kings -- "Mountain Man"
* Music/CreatureFeature -- "The Greatest Show Unearthed", or "A Gorey Demise".
* Music/{{Cream}} -- "Sunshine of Your Love"
* Music/{{Creed}} -- "Higher" or "With Arms Wide Open"
* Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival -- "Fortunate Son" (from ''Music/WillyAndThePoorBoys'') and "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" and "Bad Moon Rising" are likely their three best-known hits. "Down on the Corner" (also from the aforementioned album), "Proud Mary", "Up Around the Bend" and "Lookin' Out My Back Door" are all very close behind.
** John Fogerty -- "Centerfield", with "The Old Man Down The Road" very close behind.
* Crobot -- "Nowhere to Hide"
* Music/JimCroce -- "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", "You Don't Mess Around With Jim" or "Time in a Bottle".
* Music/CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung -- "Woodstock"
* Christopher Cross -- "Ride Like the Wind" or "Sailing"
** Honorable mention for [[Film/{{Arthur}} "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)"]], but that's ''really'' the signature song from its source movie (see Film on the main page) to the point that when Cross performs it in concert it doubles as a tribute to lead actor Creator/DudleyMoore.
* Crossfade -- "Cold"
* Music/SherylCrow -- "All I Wanna Do" or “Soak Up the Sun”
* Music/{{Crowbar}} -- "All I Had (I Gave)"
* Music/CrowdedHouse -- "Don't Dream It's Over"
* Mark Crozer and the Rels -- "[[Wrestling/TheWyattFamily Live in Fear]] [[Wrestling/BrayWyatt (Broken Out in Love)]]"
* Music/{{Crush 40}} -- "[[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 Live and Learn]]" and "[[VideoGame/SonicAdventure Open Your Heart]]"
* Music/TheCruxshadows -- "Birthday"
* Taio Cruz -- "Dynamite" or "Break Your Heart"
* Music/CrystalCastles -- "Vanished"
* Music/CrystalLake -- "Apollo"
* The Crystal Method -- "Name of the Game"
* Music/{{Cryoshell}} -- "[[Toys/{{BIONICLE}} Creeping in my Soul]]"
* Culture Beat -- "Mr Vain"
* Culture Club -- "Karma Chameleon" or "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?"
* Cupcakke -- "Deepthroat"
* Cupid -- "Cupid Shuffle"
* Music/TheCure -- "Love Song", "Just Like Heaven", or "Friday I'm In Love"
* Music/BillyCurrington -- "Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right" or "People Are Crazy"
* Music/CutCopy -- "Lights and Music" or "Hearts on Fire"
* Cutting Crew -- "(I Just) Died in Your Arms"
* Cybotron -- "Clear"
* Music/{{Cynic}} -- "Veil of Maya"
* Music/CypressHill -- "Insane in the Brain" overall. By album:
** ''Cypress Hill'' -- "How I Could Just Kill a Man"
** ''Black Sunday'' -- "Insane in the Brain"
** ''III: Temples of Booms'' -- "Throw You Set in the Air"
** ''IV'' -- "Dr. Greenthumb"
** ''Skull & Bones" -- "(Rock) Superstar"
** ''Stoned Raiders" -- "Lowrider"
** ''Till Death Do Us Apart'' -- "What's Your Number"
** ''Rise Up'' -- The title track.
* Music/BillyRayCyrus -- "Achy Breaky Heart"
* Music/MileyCyrus -- "Party in the USA" for her Disney-era material; "Wrecking Ball" for her mature era
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* Music/{{D}} -- "Night-ship "D""
* Music/DaYoopers — "Second Week of Deer Camp", "Rusty Chevrolet", or "Grandpa Got Run Over by a Beer Truck"
* Daddy Yankee -- "Rompe", "Gasolina" or "Despacito"
* Dae Dae -- "Wat U Mean (Aye, Aye, Aye)"
* Music/DaftPunk -- Overall: "One More Time" and "Around the World" for their earlier work, "Get Lucky" for their newer work. By album:
** ''Music/{{Homework}}'' -- "Around the World"
** ''Music/{{Discovery}}'' -- "One More Time" or "Harder Better Faster Stronger"
** ''Human After All'' -- "[[SampledUp Robot Rock]]" or "Technologic"
** ''Music/RandomAccessMemories'' -- "Get Lucky"
*** Stardust -- "[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Music Sounds Better With You]]", which couldn't be helped as it was the ''[[OneBookAuthor only song]]'' they ever recorded.
*** Thomas Bangalter -- "Club Soda" or "[[Film/{{Irreversible}} Rectum]]"
* Gigi D'Agostino -- In his native Italy and continental Europe during the 2000s, it's either "L'Amour Toujours", "La Passion" or the cover version of "[[Music/NikKershaw The Riddle]]", while in the UK, it's "In My Mind".
* Lauren Daigle -- "You Say" to secular audiences, rivaled by "Trust in You" to her core Christian fanbase.
* The Damned -- "New Rose"
* Music/DickDale -- "[[Film/PulpFiction Misirlou]]"
* Music/DanAndShay -- “Tequila”, while one of several candidates for country audiences, is indisputably this outside that demographic.
* Music/TheDandyWarhols -- "Bohemian Like You" or "[[Series/VeronicaMars We Used to Be Friends]]"
* The Charlie Daniels Band -- "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"
* Danity Kane -- "Damaged"
* Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip -- "Thou Shalt Always Kill"
* Music/{{Danzig}} -- "Mother"
* Terence Trent D'Arby -- "Wishing Well" or "Sign Your Name"
* Music/BobbyDarin -- "Splish Splash" or "Mack the Knife"
* The Darkness -- "I Believe in a Thing Called Love"
* Dark New Day -- "Brother"
* Music/{{Darkthrone}} -- "Transilvanian Hunger"
* Music/DarkTranquillity -- "Lethe" or "Punish My Heaven"
* Darude -- "Sandstorm"
* Roscoe Dash -- "Show Out"
* Dash Rip Rock -- "(Let's Go) Smoke Some Pot"
* Music/{{Daughtry}} -- "It's Not Over" and "There and Back Again"
* Craig David -- "Fill Me In" or "7 Days"
* Creator/BetteDavis -- "They're Either Too Young Or Too Old"
* Music/MilesDavis -- "So What" (from ''Music/KindOfBlue'') or "Bitches Brew" (from ''Music/BitchesBrew'')
* Paul Davis -- "I Go Crazy"
* Creator/SammyDavisJr -- "[[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory The]] [[CoveredUp Candy Man]]"
* Skeeter Davis -- "The End of the World"
* Andra Day -- "Rise Up"
* Howie Day -- "Collide"
* Music/{{Daya}} -- "Hide Away" or maybe "Sit Still, Look Pretty" as a solo artist, but overall she is best known as the vocalist on The Chainsmokers' "Don't Let Me Down".
* Days of the New -- "Touch, Peel and Stand"
* DC Talk -- "Jesus Freak" to their fans. However their biggest mainstream hit was "Just Between You and Me" and is the song they're best known for to the average listener.
* Music/DeaconBlue -- "Dignity". They've had many bigger hits, but their BreakthroughHit remains their signature song.
* Dead By April -- "Promise Me" or "Losing You"
* Music/DeadKennedys -- "California Über Alles" or "Holiday in Cambodia" (from ''Music/FreshFruitForRottingVegetables''). You can also say "[[VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater Police Truck]]" for your 2000's kids.
* Music/TheDeadMilkmen -- "Punk Rock Girl" or "Bitchin' Camaro"
* Music/{{deadmau5}} -- "Ghosts n' Stuff"
* Music/DeadOrAlive -- "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)"
* Music/DeadSara -- "Weatherman" or "[[VideoGame/InfamousSecondSon Heart]]-[[Music/{{Nirvana}} Shaped Box]]"
* Deaf Havana -- "Cassiopeia"
* Music/{{Deafheaven}} -- "Dream House", "Brought to the Water", or "Honeycomb"
* Jimmy Dean -- "Big Bad John"
* Music/{{Death}}
** ''Scream Bloody Gore'': "Zombie Ritual"
** ''Leprosy'': "Pull the Plug"
** ''Spiritual Healing'': "Living Monstrosity"
** ''Human'': "Lack of Comprehension"
** ''Individual Thought Patterns'': "The Philosopher"
** ''Symbolic'': "Crystal Mountain"
** ''The Sound of Perseverance'': "Spirit Crusher"
** Overall: "Lack of Comprehension", "The Philosopher", and "Crystal Mountain" are the frontrunners
* Music/DeathCabForCutie -- "Soul Meets Body," "I Will Follow You Into The Dark" or "I Will Possess Your Heart"
* Music/DeathFromAbove1979 -- "Romantic Rights" or "Trainwreck 1979"
* Music/DeathGrips -- By album:
** ''Death Grips EP'': "Full Moon (Death Classic)"
** ''Exmilitary'': "Guillotine"
** ''The Money Store'': "Get Got", "I've Seen Footage", or "Hacker"
** ''No Love Deep Web'': "No Love"
** ''Government Plates'': "You Might Think He Loves You For Your Money But I Know What He Really Loves You For It's Your Brand New Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat"
** ''The Powers That B'': "Inanimate Sensation"
** ''Bottomless Pit'': "Giving Bad People Good Ideas" or "Eh"
** Overall: "Full Moon", "Guillotine", the ''Money Store'' signatures, "No Love" and "Eh" are the most popular candidates.
* Music/DeathInJune -- "Little Black Angel" or "All Pigs Must Die"
* Death In Vegas -- "Dirge"
* [=DeBarge=] -- "Rhythm of the Night"
* Music/ChrisDeBurgh -- "The Lady in Red", or "Don't Pay the Ferryman" in some countries.
* Music/ClaudeDebussy -- "Clair de Lune"
* Music/TheDecemberists -- "This Is Why We Fight", or "The Perfect Crime"
* Deee-lite -- "Groove is in the Heart"
* Deep Blue Something -- "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
* Deep Forest -- "Sweet Lullaby"
* Music/DeepPurple -- "Smoke on the Water" (from ''Music/{{Machine Head|Album}}'')
* Deerhunter -- "Nothing Ever Happened"
* Default -- "Wasting My Time"
** Dallas Smith -- "Tippin' Point", or "Jumped Right In" in Canada
* Music/DefLeppard -- "Pour Some Sugar On Me"
* Music/{{Deftones}} -- "Change (In the House of Flies)" overall. By album:
** ''Adrenaline'' -- "Bored"
** ''Around the Fur'' -- "Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)"
** ''White Pony'' -- "Change (In the House of Flies)"
** ''Deftones'' -- "Minerva"
** ''Saturday Night Wrist'' -- "Hole in the Earth"
** ''Diamond Eyes'' -- The title track
** ''Koi No Yokan'' -- "Tempest"
** ''Gore'' -- "Prayers/Triangles"
** ''Ohms'' -- The title track
* Gavin [=DeGraw=] -- "[[Series/OneTreeHill I Don't Want To Be]]", and to a lesser extent, "In Love With a Girl" and "Not Over You"
* Music/{{Deicide}} -- "Trifixion"
* Alice [=DeeJay=] -- "Better Off Alone"
* Dej Loaf -- "Try Me"
* Creator/AdoreDelano -- "I Adore You"
* Del Amitri -- "Roll To Me"
* Music/LanaDelRey -- "Born to Die" or the remix of "Summertime Sadness". [[Film/{{The Great Gatsby|2013}} Young & Beautiful]] is also remembered fondly.
* De La Soul -- "Me Myself & I"
* Music/{{Deltron 3030}} -- "Positive Contact"
* Kat [=DeLuna=] -- "Run the Show"
* Dem Franchize Boys -- "Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It"
* Cathy Dennis -- "Touch Me (All Night Long)"
* Music/JohnDenver — Depends on location...
** "Take Me Home, Country Roads" in most places, especially in West Virginia.
** In the Rockies, especially Colorado, it's "Rocky Mountain High".
** In Baltimore, "Thank God I'm a Country Boy".[[note]]The [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Baltimore Orioles]] have played the song during the seventh-inning stretch [[LongRunners since 1975]].[[/note]]
** In the UK, it's "Annie's Song".
* Denzel Curry -- By album/mixtape:
** ''Nostalgic 64'' -- "Threatz"
** ''32 Zel/Planet Shrooms'' -- "Ultimate"
** ''Imperial'' -- "ULT"
** ''[=TA13OO=]'':
*** ''Act 1: Light'' -- "Black Balloons"
*** ''Act 2: Gray'' -- "Clout Cobain"
*** ''Act 3: Dark'' -- "Vengeance"
** ''ZUU'' -- "Ricky", "Speedboat" or "Birdz"
** ''Unlocked'' -- "DIET_"
** Overall -- "Ultimate" or "Clout Cobain"
* Deon Custom -- "Roses"
* Music/DepecheMode -- By album:
** ''Speak & Spell'' -- "Just Can't Get Enough"
** ''A Broken Frame'' -- "See You"
** ''Construction Time Again'' -- "Everything Counts"
** ''Some Great Reward'' -- "Master and Servant"
** ''Black Celebration'' -- "Stripped"
** ''Music for the Masses'' -- "Strangelove" or "Never Let Me Down Again"
** ''Violator'' -- "Personal Jesus" or "Enjoy the Silence"
** ''Songs of Faith and Devotion'' -- "Walking In My Shoes"
** ''Ultra'' -- "It's No Good"
** ''Exciter'' -- "Dream On"
** ''Playing the Angel'' -- "Precious" or "A Pain That I'm Used To"
** ''Sounds of the Universe'' -- "Wrong"
** ''Delta Machine'' -- "Soothe My Soul" or "Heaven"
** ''Spirit'' -- "Where's the Revolution"
** Overall -- "Just Can't Get Enough", "Never Let Me Down Again", or the ''Violator'' signatures.
* Rick Derringer -- "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" or "[[Wrestling/HulkHogan Real American]]"
* Jason Derulo -- "Whatcha Say" for his earlier material, "Talk Dirty" or "Want to Want Me" for his later work.
* Jackie [=DeShannon=] -- "Put A Little Love In Your Heart" or "What The World Needs Now Is Love"
* Des'ree -- "You Gotta Be" in the U.S., "Life" in Europe
* Desiigner -- "Panda"
* Shawn Desman -- "Let's Go" or "Night Like This"
* Music/DestinysChild -- "Survivor", "Say My Name" and "Bootylicious"
* [[WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}} Dethklok]] -- "Thunderhorse"
* Music/{{dEUS}}: "Suds & Soda" (from ''Music/WorstCaseScenario'')
* Dev -- "Bass Down Low" or "In The Dark"
* Device ('80s synth-pop group) -- "Hanging on a Heart Attack"
* Music/{{Device}} (metal band fronted by [[Music/{{Disturbed}} David Draiman]]) -- "Vilify"
* Music/DevinTownsend -- "Kingdom"
* Music/{{Devo}} -- "Whip It" (from ''Music/FreedomOfChoice'')
* Devour the Day -- "Good Man"
* Lee [=DeWyze=] -- "Sweet Serendipity"
* Music/DexysMidnightRunners -- "Come On Eileen" or "Geno" in the UK, "Come On Eileen" indisputably in the US
* [=D4L=] -- "Laffy Taffy"
* Diamond Head -- "Am I Evil?"
* Music/NeilDiamond -- "Sweet Caroline" or "America"
* Music/BoDiddley -- "Bo Diddley"
* Dido -- "Thank You" or "White Flag"
* Music/DieAntwoord -- "Enter The Ninja"
* Creator/MarleneDietrich -- "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt" ("Falling in Love Again"), "Lili Marleen"
* Digital Underground -- "The Humpty Dance"
* Digitalism -- "Pogo"
* Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan -- "43% Burnt"
* Music/DimmuBorgir -- "Progenies of the Great Apocalypse"
* Klaus Dinger -- "Cha Cha 2000", which he first recorded with Music/LaDusseldorf, then revisited in [[RearrangeTheSong new arrangements]] with every one of his subsequent groups.
* Music/DinosaurJr -- " Start Choppin'" or "Feel the Pain"
* [[Music/RonnieJamesDio Dio]] -- "Holy Diver" and "Rainbow In The Dark"
* Dion -- "Runaround Sue"
* Music/CelineDion -- "[[Film/{{Titanic 1997}} My Heart Will Go On]]"
* Music/DireStraits -- "Sultans of Swing", "Money For Nothing" and "Walk of Life" (from ''Music/BrothersInArms''), although "Romeo and Juliet" and "Brothers in Arms" are close behind.
** Mark Knopfler -- "What It Is"
* Dirty Heads -- "Lay Me Down"
* Dirty Honey -- "When I'm Gone"
* Dirty Radio -- "Ground Shake" or "Found You"
* Dirty Vegas -- "Days Go By"
* Music/TheDirtyYouth -- "Fight"
* Discharge -- "Free Speech for the Dumb"
* Disclosure -- "White Noise" in the UK, "Latch" in the U.S.[[note]]Though, it's more associated with Sam Smith over there than with them.[[/note]], and maybe "Magnets" for alt-rock audiences [[note]]Albeit it's more associated with Music/{{Lorde}} than them[[/note]]
* Dishwalla -- "Counting Blue Cars"
* Dissection -- "Where Dead Angels Lie"
* Music/{{Disturbed}} -- "Down with the Sickness" overall. By album:
** ''The Sickness'' -- "Down with the Sickness"
** ''Believe'' -- "Prayer"
** ''Ten Thousand Fists'' -- "Stricken"
** ''Indestructible'' -- The title track or "Inside the Fire"
** ''Asylum'' -- "Another Way to Die"
** ''Immortalized'' -- "[[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel The Sound of Silence]]"
* Disparition -- [[Podcast/WelcometoNightVale The Ballad of Fiedler and Mundt]]"
* Divide the Day -- "[[Wrestling/WWESmackDown Let it Roll]]"
* Divine Heresy - "Failed Creation"
* Divinyls -- "I Touch Myself"
* Music/DixieChicks -- "Goodbye Earl" or "[[Music/FleetwoodMac Landslide]]"
* Alesha Dixon -- "The Boy Does Nothing"
* Music/ColtonDixon-- "Never Gone"
* Dizzee Rascal -- "Bonkers"
* DJ Drama - "Wishing"
* DJ Earworm - "United State of Pop 2009 (Blame It on the Pop)"
* DJ Felli Fel -- "Get Buck In Here"
* DJ Jazzy Jeff and [[Creator/WillSmith The Fresh Prince]] -- "Parents Just Don't Understand" or "Summertime"
* Music/DJKhaled -- By album:
** ''Listennn… the Album'' -- "Holla at Me"
** ''We the Best'' -- "We Takin' Over" or "I'm So Hood"
** ''We Global'' -- "Out Here Grindin'"
** ''Victory'' -- "All I Do Is Win"
** ''We the Best Forever'' -- "I'm on One"
** ''Kiss the Ring'' -- "Take It to the Head"
** ''Suffering from Success'' -- "No New Friends"
** ''I Changed a Lot'' -- "Hold You Down"
** ''Major Key'' -- "For Free"
** ''Grateful'' -- "I'm the One" or "Wild Thoughts"
** ''Father of Asahd'' -- “No Brainer”
* DJ Jean -- "The Launch"
* [[Music/{{BEMANI}} DJ Mass MAD Izm*]] -- "[[VideoGame/{{beatmania}} Shakunetsu Beach Side Bunny]]"
* DJ Sammy -- [[Music/BryanAdams "Heaven"]]
* DJ Sasha -- [[VideoGame/{{Wipeout}} "Xpander"]]
* Music/DJShadow -- "Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt" or "[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious Six Days]]"
* DJ Snake -- "Turn Down For What" (shared with Lil Jon), with "You Know You Like It" (shared with [=AlunaGeorge=]), “Let Me Love You” (shared with [=Justin Bieber=]) and "Taki Taki" (shared with Selena Gomez, Cardi B and Ozuna) in second place. The most well-known song he is credited on, however, is Music/MajorLazer's "Lean On", where he is the co-lead, but the song is much more associated with Major Lazer
* DJ Splash -- "Bass is Kicking" or "[[EclipsedByTheRemix Flying High]]"
* DJ Unk -- "Walk It Out"
* [[Music/{{BEMANI}} DJ YOSHITAKA]] -- [[VideoGame/{{jubeat}} "FLO]][[VideoGame/ReflecBeat WER"]]
* Ramin Djawadi -- The ''Series/GameOfThrones'' Theme
* Music/{{DMX}} -- "Party Up (Up In Here)" and "Ruff Ryder's Anthem" were the original contender. "X Gon' Give It To Ya" has gained traction for its usage in both ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' and later ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}''.
* DNCE -- "Cake By The Ocean"
* Fefe Dobson -- "Ghost" or "Stuttering"
* Doctor P -- "Sweet Shop"
* Music/DoesItOffendYouYeah -- "We Are Rockstars"
* Dog's Eye View -- "Everything Falls Apart"
* Doja Cat -- "Say So"
* Thomas Dolby -- "She Blinded Me With Science"
* Dolla -- "Who The Fuck Is That"
* Doman & Gooding -- "Runnin'"
* Fats Domino -- "Blueberry Hill"
* Lonnie Donegan -- "Rock Island Line" or "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor"
* Donora -- "Boom Boom" or "Champion"
* Music/{{Donovan}} -- "Sunshine Superman" or "Mellow Yellow"
* The Doobie Brothers -- "Black Water" (pre-Michael [=McDonald=]) or "What a Fool Believes" (post-[=McDonald=])
* Dobie Gray -- "Drift Away"
* Don Broco -- "You Wanna Know" or "Nerve"
* The Donnas -- "Take It Off"
* Music/TheDoors -- "Light My Fire" overall. By album:
** ''Music/{{The Doors|Album}}'': "Light My Fire", "Break On Through" and "The End"
** ''Music/StrangeDays'': "People Are Strange" and "When the Music's Over"
** ''Waiting for the Sun'': "Hello, I Love You" and "Five to One"
** ''The Soft Parade'': "Touch Me"
** ''Morrison Hotel'': "Roadhouse Blues"
** ''Music/LAWoman'': "L.A. Woman" or "Riders on the Storm"
* Dorrough -- "Ice Cream Paint Job"
* Jimmy Dorsey -- "Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)"
* Tommy Dorsey -- "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You"
* Music/RobDougan -- "[[Film/TheMatrix Clubbed to Death]]"
* Carl Douglas -- "Kung Fu Fighting"
* Down With Webster -- "Big Wheels" or "Your Man"
* Downstait -- "[[Wrestling/TheMiz I Came To Play]]"
* The Downtown Fiction -- "I Just Wanna Run"
* Music/DrDre -- "Nuthin' But A G Thang" or "Still D.R.E."
* Dr. Hook -- "The Cover of Rolling Stone"
* Dr. John -- "Right Place, Wrong Time"
* Music/{{Dragonforce}} -- "[[VideoGame/GuitarHero Through The Fire And Flames]]" or "[[Website/{{YTMND}} Fury of the Storm]]" Undeniably the former to Guitar Hero fans, unless they started with "Warriors of Rock".
* Music/{{Drake}} -- By album:
** ''So Far Gone'' -- "Best I Ever Had"
** ''Thank Me Later'' -- "Find Your Love" or "Over"
** ''Take Care'' -- The title track (shared with Music/{{Rihanna}}) or "The Motto"
** ''Nothing Was the Same'' -- "Started from the Bottom" or "Hold On, We're Going Home"
** ''If You're Reading This, It's Too Late'' -- "Energy"
** ''What a Time to Be Alive'' -- "Jumpman" (shared with Future)
** ''Views'' -- "Hotline Bling" or "One Dance"
** ''More Life'' -- "Fake Love" or "Passionfruit"
** ''Scorpion'' -- “God’s Plan”, “Nice for What” or “In My Feelings”
** ''Dark Lane Demo Tapes'' -- "Toosie Slide"
** Overall -- "Best I Ever Had", "Hold On, We're Going Home", the ''Views'' signatures and the ''Scorpion'' signatures.
* Music/NickDrake -- "Pink Moon"
* D.R.A.M. -- "Broccoli"
* Dramarama -- "Anything, Anything (I'll Give You)"
* Drax Project -- “Woke Up Late”
* Dream -- "He Loves U Not"
* The-Dream -- "Shawty Is A Ten"
* The Dream Academy -- "Life in a Northern Town"
* Music/DreamTheater -- "Pull Me Under"[[note]]The band released a GreatestHitsAlbum in 2008 called ''Greatest Hit (...And 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs)''; this song was the "Greatest Hit", due to it having by far their most prominent chart success.[[/note]] or "Metropolis Pt. 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper"
* Music/DropkickMurphys -- "[[Film/TheDeparted I'm Shipping Up To Boston]]"
* Music/DrowningPool -- "[[Wrestling/{{ECW}} Bodies]]"
* Dru -- "Getting It In" or "She Can Ride"
* Dru Hill -- "In My Bed" or [[Film/RushHour "How Deep is Your Love"]]
** Sisqo -- "Thong Song" [[note]]despite the fact that "Incomplete" was actually his only #1 hit[[/note]]
* The Drums -- "Let's Go Surfing"
* Dry Cell -- "Slip Away"[[note]]Due mostly to its presence in the soundtrack to the [=PS2=] "SSX-on-motorbikes" racing game ''Freekstyle''.[[/note]]
* Music/DschinghisKhan -- "Moskau"
* Duck Sauce -- "Barbra Streisand"
** Armand van Helden -- "Bonkers"[[note]]Despite it being primarily a Dizzee Rascal song, it's his most popular song within the mainstream audience[[/note]]
** A-Trak -- "Tuna Melt"[[note]]shared with Tommy Trash[[/note]], [[BlackSheepHit "Ray-Ban Vision"]], or "Push". His remix of [[Music/YeahYeahYeahs "Heads Will Roll"]] is much better known though, due to its appearance in ''Film/ProjectX''.
* Music/HilaryDuff -- "Come Clean"
* Duffy -- "Mercy"
* Paul Dukas -- "[[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]"
* Duke Dumont -- "I Got U"
* Holly Dunn -- "Daddy's Hands"
* Music/DuranDuran -- "Hungry Like The Wolf" overall. By album:
** ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Duran Duran]]'' (1981) -- "Girls on Film"
** ''Rio'' -- "Hungry Like The Wolf" or "Save a Prayer"
** ''Seven and the Ragged Tiger'' -- "The Reflex"
** ''Notorious'' -- The title track.
** ''Big Thing'' -- "I Don't Want Your Love"
** ''Liberty'' -- "Serious"
** ''Duran Duran'' (1993) (aka ''Music/TheWeddingAlbum'') -- "Ordinary World" or "Come Undone"
** ''Medazzaland'' -- "Electric Barbarella"
** ''Pop Trash'' -- "Someone Else Not Me"
** ''Astronaut'' -- "(Reach Up For The) Sunrise"
** ''Red Carpet Massacre'' -- "Falling Down"
** ''All You Need is Now'' -- The title track.
** ''Paper Gods'' -- "Pressure Off"
* Music/IanDuryAndTheBlockheads -- "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" or "[[Series/DoctorWho Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick]]"
* Music/AntoninDvorak -- "Symphony of the New World (4th movement)"
* Music/DyingFetus -- "Praise the Lord (Opium of the Masses)"
* Music/BobDylan -- "The Times, They Are a-Changin'" (from ''Music/TheTimesTheyAreAChangin'') or "Like a Rolling Stone" (from ''Music/Highway61Revisited'')
* Dynamite Hack -- "[[Music/EazyE Boyz N the Hood]]"
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* E-40 -- "Tell Me When to Go"
* Music/{{Eagles}} -- "Hotel California" (from ''Music/HotelCalifornia'')
** Glenn Frey -- [[Film/BeverlyHillsCop "The Heat is On"]]
** Don Henley -- "The Boys of Summer"
** Joe Walsh -- "Life's Been Good"
* Music/EaglesOfDeathMetal -- "Don't Speak" or "Wannabe in L.A."; their cover of "[[Music/DuranDuran Save a Prayer]]" to people who first heard of them after the Paris attacks.
* Eamon -- "Fuck It! (I Don't Want You Back)"
* Music/SteveEarle -- "Guitar Town" to the country fan base and "Copperhead Road"to more general audiences.
* Earshot -- "Get Away" or "Wait"
* Music/EarthWindAndFire -- "September"
* Music/{{Earthists}} -- "Resonating Light" (both versions)
* East 17 -- "Stay Another Day"
* Sheena Easton -- "Morning Train (9 to 5)" or "Film/ForYourEyesOnly"
* Music/EazyE -- "Real Muthaphuckkin G's"
* Echo and the Bunnymen -- "The Killing Moon"
* Music/{{Echosmith}} -- "Cool Kids"
* Edgar Winter Group -- "Frankenstein" or "Free Ride"
* Music/{{Edguy}} -- "Ministry of Saints" and "Superheroes"
* Editors -- "Bones" or "[[Series/{{Primeval}} All Sparks]]"
* Music/{{Eels}} -- "Souljacker, Part I" (from ''Music/{{Souljacker}}'') or "Novocaine for the Soul" (from ''Music/BeautifulFreak'').
* Egypt Central -- "White Rabbit"
* Music/Eiffel65 -- "Blue (Da Ba Dee)"
* Music/BillieEilish -- "Bad Guy"
* David Glen Eisley -- "[[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Sweet Victory]]"
** Giuffria -- "Call to Your Heart"
* El Chombo -- "Chacarron Macarron" or "Dame Tu Cosita"
* El Ten Eleven -- "My Only Swerving"
* Music/{{Elbow}} -- "One Day Like This"
* Music/BrettEldredge -- "Don't Ya"
* Music/ElectricLightOrchestra -- "Don't Bring Me Down" or "Mr. Blue Sky"
* Electric Six -- "Gay Bar" (To the chagrin of many fans)
* Music/ElectricWizard -- "Funeralpolis"
* Music/DannyElfman -- Theme for ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/Batman1989'' or ''Film/EdwardScissorhands''.
* Elevation Worship -- “O Come to the Altar”
* Music/EdwardElgar -- "Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 1 in D Major"
* Music/DukeEllington -- "Take the 'A' Train".
* Music/MissyElliott -- "Get Ur Freak On", "Work It"
* Music/{{Eluveitie}} -- "Inis Mona", "Thousandfold"
* Music/{{Emarosa}} -- "The Game Played Right"
* [=emblem3=] -- "Chloe (You're The One I Want)"
* Emerson Drive -- "Moments"
* Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer -- "Karn Evil 9 First Impression Part 2"
* Gareth Emery -- "Concrete Angel"
* EMF -- "Unbelievable"
* Music/{{Eminem}} -- "Lose Yourself" overall. By album:
** ''Infinite'' -- The title track
** ''Music/TheSlimShadyLP'' -- "My Name Is"
** ''Music/TheMarshallMathersLP'' -- "Stan" or "The Real Slim Shady"
** ''Music/TheEminemShow'' -- "Without Me" originally, but has since been tied with "'Till I Collapse"
** ''Film/EightMile'' -- "Lose Yourself"
** ''Encore'' -- "Just Lose It", "Like Toy Soldiers", "Ass Like That", or "Mockingbird"
** ''Curtain Call: The Hits'' -- "When I'm Gone" or "Shake That"
** ''Relapse'' -- "Crack a Bottle" or "Beautiful"
** ''Recovery'' -- "Not Afraid" or "Love The Way You Lie" (the latter shared with Music/{{Rihanna}})
** ''The Marshall Mathers LP 2'' -- "Rap God" or "The Monster" (the latter shared with Rihanna)
** ''Revival'' -- “River”
** ''Kamikaze'' -- “Lucky You” or “Film/{{Venom|2018}}”
** ''Music To Be Murdered By'' -- "Godzilla"
*** D12 -- "My Band" or "Purple Pills"
*** Bad Meets Evil -- "Lighters"
* Music/{{Emperor}} -- "I am the Black Wizards"
* Emphatic -- "Bounce"
* Music/EmpireOfTheSunBand -- "Walking on a Dream"
* En Vogue -- "Hold On", "My Lovin (You're Never Gonna Get It)" or "Don't Let Go (Love)"
* [=EndeverafteR=] -- "[[Wrestling/JeffHardy No More Words]]"
* Paul Engemann -- "[[Film/{{Scarface 1983}} Push It to the Limit]]"
* The English Beat -- "Mirror in the Bathroom"
* Music/{{Ensiferum}} -- "Lai Lai Hei"
* Music/{{Enigma}} -- "Sadeness (Part I)", "Return to Innocence", or "[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Modern Crusaders]]"
* Enslaved -- "Havenless"
* Enter Shikari -- "Sorry, You're Not A Winner", "Juggernauts", or "Destabilise"
* Music/{{Enya}} -- "Only Time" or "Orinoco Flow". Also known for "[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing May It Be]]".
* Music/TheEraserheads -- "Pare Ko" and ''Ang Huling El Bimbo''
* Music/{{Erasure}} -- "[[VideoGame/RobotUnicornAttack Always]]" or "[[Series/{{Scrubs}} A Little Respect]]"
* Music/{{Erra}} -- "Hybrid Earth," "Skyline," and "Drift"
* Eric Prydz -- "Call On Me" for his early material; "Liberate", "Generate", and "Breathe" for his more recent works
* The Escape Club -- "Wild, Wild West"
* Music/{{Escape the Fate}}
** With Ronnie Radke: "Situations"
** With Craig Mabbit: "Issues" or "One for the Money"
* Joe "Bean" Esposito: "[[Film/TheKarateKid1984 You're The Best]]"
* Music/GloriaEstefan -- "Conga"
* Music/{{Estelle}} -- "American Boy" or [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse "Stronger Than You"]]
* Melissa Etheridge -- "Come To My Window"
* Ethnix -- "Jessica", "Tutim", and "BMW Shachora"
* Music/{{Europe}} -- Initially "Carrie", but now unquestionably "The Final Countdown" (which was always their signature outside of the USA)
* Music/{{Eurythmics}} -- "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
** [[Music/{{Eurythmics}} Annie Lennox]] -- "Walking on Broken Glass". Also known for "[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing Into the West]]".
* Evan & Jaron -- "[[Series/DawsonsCreek Crazy for This Girl]]".
* Music/{{Evanescence}} -- By album:
** ''Origin'' -- "Whisper"
** ''Music/{{Fallen}}'' -- "Bring Me To Life" or "My Immortal"
** ''The Open Door'' -- "Call Me When You're Sober"
** ''Evanescence'' -- "What You Want"
** ''Lost Whispers'' -- "Lost Whispers"
** ''Synthesis'' -- "Imperfection" or "Hi-Lo"
** ''The Bitter Truth'' -- "Use My Voice"
** Overall -- [[Film/{{Daredevil}} "Bring Me To Life", with "My Immortal" being a clear second.]]
* Evans Blue -- "Cold (But I'm Still Here)"
* Nathan Evans -- "Wellerman"
* Music/SaraEvans -- "Suds in the Bucket" or "A Little Bit Stronger"
* Eve -- "Let Me Blow Ya Mind"
* Music/Eve6 -- "Inside Out"
* Eve to Adam -- "Immortal"
* Music/{{Everclear}} -- "Santa Monica" or "Father of Mine" to rock audiences; "Wonderful" to pop audiences
* The Everlove -- "[[Series/GameOfThrones Cities In]] [[CoveredUp Dust]]"
* Jace Everett -- "[[Series/TrueBlood Bad Things]]"
* Every Avenue -- "Tell Me I'm a Wreck"
* Music/EverythingButTheGirl -- "Missing" (specifically the Todd Terry remix)
* Everything Everything -- "Kemosabe", "Cough Cough", or "Distant Past"
* Music/TheEverlyBrothers -- "'Wake Up Little Susie"
* Evil Nine -- "Crooked", "All The Cash", "The Black Brad Pitt" or "No Manners"
* Example -- "Changed the Way You Kissed Me".
* The Exies -- "Ugly" or "My Goddess"
* Exposé -- "Point of No Return"
* Music/{{Extreme}} -- "[[BlackSheepHit More Than Words]]"
* George Ezra -- "Budapest" or "Shotgun" in Europe and Australia, indisputably the former in North America
* Ella Eyre -- "Good Times"
* F-777 -- "[[VideoGame/GeometryDash Deadlocked]]"
* Fabolous -- "Breathe"
* Face to Face -- "Disconnected"
* Music/FairportConvention -- "Meet on the Ledge"
* Music/PalomaFaith -- "Only Love Can Hurt Like This"
* Music/{{Faithless}} -- "Insomnia"
* Music/FaithNoMore -- "Epic"
* Chet Faker -- "Talk is Cheap" in Australia, "Gold" in the U.S.
* Music/{{Falco}} -- "Rock Me Amadeus"
* Music/{{Falling in Reverse}} -- "The Drug In Me Is You"
* Music/TheFallOfTroy -- Initially "Sledgehammer" or "FCPREMIX", now unquestionably the latter
* Music/FallOutBoy -- By album:
** ''From Under the Cork Tree'' (and overall) -- "Dance Dance" or "Sugar, We're Goin' Down"
** ''Infinity on High'' -- Originally "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race", but now "Thnks Fr th Mmrs" (tied for overall)
** ''Save Rock and Roll'' -- "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark"
** ''American Beauty/American Psycho'' -- "Centuries" or "Uma Thurman"
** ''M A N I A'' -- “Young and Menace” or “Hold Me Tight or Don’t”
** Patrick Stump -- "This City"
** The Damned Things -- "We've Got a Situation Here"
* Far East Movement -- "Like A [=G6=]"
* Tyler Farr -- "Redneck Crazy"
* Farewell, My Love -- "Portraits"
* John Farnham -- "You're the Voice"
* Fastball -- "The Way"
* Music/FatboySlim -- "The Rockafeller Skank"
* Fat Joe -- "What's Luv?" or "Get It Poppin". Later on, "All The Way Up" (shared with Remy Ma, Music/JayZ, French Montana and Infrared)
** Terror Squad -- "Lean Back"
* [=TheFatRat=] -- "Unity" or "Monody"
* Newton Faulkner -- "Dream Catch Me"
* Music/FearFactory -- "Replica"
* José Feliciano -- "Feliz Navidad"
* Music/{{Feeder}} -- "Buck Rogers" in the UK; "High" in the United States
* The Feeling -- "Sewn"
* Feint -- "Snake Eyes" or "We Won't Be Alone"
* Music/{{Feist}} -- "1234"
* Felt -- "Primitive Painters"
* Jay Ferguson -- "Thunder Island"
* Danny Fernandes -- "Private Dancer" or "Take Me Away"
* Music/SkyFerreira -- "Everything Is Embarrassing"
* Rachelle Ferrell -- "I Can Explain"
* Fetty Wap -- "Trap Queen"
* [[Music/TheKnife Fever Ray]] -- "If I Had a Heart"
* Music/LupeFiasco -- "The Show Goes On"
* FIDLAR -- "No Waves" or "Cheap Beer"
* Field Mob -- “So What”
* Music/FifthHarmony -- "Worth It" or "Work From Home"
** Music/CamilaCabello -- "Havana"
** Normani Hamilton -- "Dancing With a Stranger" (shared with Music/SamSmith) or “Love Lies” (shared with Khalid)
** Ally Brooke -- "Low Key"
* Music/{{Filter}} -- "[[Film/IronMan Hey Man Nice Shot]]" or "Take A Picture"
* Finatticz - "Don't Drop That Thun Thun"
* Fine Young Cannibals -- "She Drives Me Crazy"
* Finger Eleven -- Initially "One Thing", but now "Paralyzer" (maybe [[Wrestling/{{Kane}} "Slow Chemical"]] if you're a wrestling fan)
* Music/{{Finntroll}} -- "Trollhammaren"
* Melanie Fiona -- "Give It To Me Right"
* Firefall -- "You Are the Woman"
* Firehouse -- "Love of a Lifetime"
* First Aid Kit -- Was "Emmylou", but "My Silver Lining" seems to have supplanted it.
* Lisa Fischer -- "How Can I Ease The Pain"
* Fishbone -- "Party at Ground Zero"
* Fit For Rivals -- "[[Wrestling/{{WWE}} Crash]]"
* Fitz & the Tantrums -- "The Walker" or "[=HandClap=]"
* Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch -- By album:
** ''The Way of the Fist'' -- "The Bleeding"
** ''War is the Answer'' -- "Hard to See" or their cover of "Music/BadCompany"
** ''American Capitalist'' -- "Coming Down"
** ''The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 1'' -- "Wrong Side of Heaven"
** ''The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 2'' -- "House of the Rising Sun"
** ''Got Your Six'' -- "Jekyll and Hyde"
** ''A Decade of Destruction'' -- "Trouble"
* Five for Fighting -- "Superman (It's Not Easy)" or "100 Years"
* Music/FiveIronFrenzy -- "Handbook for the Sellout" or "Every New Day"
* The Fixx -- "One Thing Leads To Another"
* Roberta Flack -- "Killing Me Softly With His Song"
* Music/FlamingLips -- "Do you Realize" (State rock song of Oklahoma)
* Flaw -- "Payback"
* Music/FleetFoxes -- "Mykonos"
* Music/FleetwoodMac -- Quite a few, but especially "Dreams" or "Go Your Own Way" (from ''Music/{{Rumours}}'')
** "Albatross" for the original incarnation with Peter Green
* Fletcher -- “Undrunk”
* Flight Facilities -- "Crave You"
* Music/FlightOfTheConchords -- "Business Time"
* Flipp Dinero -- “Leave Me Alone”
* Flipper -- "Sex Bomb"
* The Flirts -- "Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime)"
* Music/FloRida -- "Low" overall. By album:
** ''Mail on Sunday'': "Low"
** ''R.O.O.T.S.'': "Right Round"
** ''Only One Flo (Part 1)'': "Club Can't Handle Me"
** ''Wild Ones'': "Good Feeling", "Wild Ones" or "Whistle"
** ''My House'': "GDFR" or the title track
* Flobots -- "Handlebars"
* Music/AFlockOfSeagulls -- "I Ran (So Far Away)"
* Floetry -- "Say Yes"
* Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine -- "Dog Days Are Over" or "[[Series/GameOfThrones Seven Devils]]".
* Music/FloridaGeorgiaLine -- "Cruise" (both the original and the remix with Nelly)
* Flow -- "[[Manga/{{Naruto}} GO!]]"
* Eddie Floyd -- "Knock On Wood"
* Flume -- "Never Be Like You", though he's far better known in the UK for his remix of Disclosure's "You & Me"
* Flux Pavilion -- "I Can't Stop" or "Cracks"
* ''Flying Lotus'' -- "Never Catch Me"
* Music/{{Flyleaf}} -- "I'm So Sick" or "All Around Me"
* The Flys -- "Got You (Where I Want You)"
* Foals -- In the U.K, "My Number"; in the U.S., previously "Inhaler" but now "Mountain at My Gates"
* Focus -- "Hocus Pocus"
* Foghat -- "Slow Ride"
* Fonogenio -- "Reason"
* Music/BenFolds -- "Rockin' the Suburbs"
* Music/LuisFonsi -- To English-speaking audiences, unquestionably "Despacito" (particularly the remix with Music/JustinBieber); to Spanish-speakers the non-Bieber version of "Despacito" is the best known, and it's just one of many candidates for his signature.
* Music/FooFighters -- By album:
** ''Foo Fighters'' -- "Big Me"
** ''The Colour and the Shape'' -- "Everlong" or "My Hero"
** ''There Is Nothing Left to Lose'' -- "Learn to Fly"
** ''One by One'' -- "All My Life" or "Times Like These"
** ''In Your Honor'' -- "Best of You"
** ''Echoes, Silence, Patience, & Grace'' -- "The Pretender"
** ''Greatest Hits'' -- "Wheels"
** ''Wasting Light'' -- "Walk"
** ''Sonic Highways'' -- "Something from Nothing"
** ''Concrete and Gold'' -- "Run"
** ''Medicine At Midnight'' -- "Waiting On A War"
** Miscellaneous -- "[[Film/Godzilla1998 A320]]"
** Overall -- ''The Colour and the Shape'' signatures, "Learn to Fly", "Best of You", and "The Pretender" are the frontrunners
* For King & Country -- “God Only Knows”
* Lita Ford -- "Kiss Me Deadly"
* Music/{{Foreigner}} -- "Cold as Ice", "Waiting for a Girl Like You", and "I Want To Know What Love Is"
* Emmelie de Forest -- "Only Teardrops"
* Music/FosterThePeople -- "Pumped Up Kicks"
* The Foundations -- "Build Me Up Buttercup"
* Music/FountainsOfWayne -- "Stacy's Mom"
* The Four Seasons -- "December 1963 (Oh What a Night)"
* The Four Tops -- "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)"
* Eleni Foureira -- "Fuego"
* Music/{{Foxes}} -- "Body Talk" or "Youth"
* Creator/JamieFoxx -- "Blame It", although as a featured artist, "Gold Digger".
* Foxy -- "Get Off"
* Foxy Shazam -- "I Like It"
* Music/{{Fozzy}} -- "Enemy" originally, but has since been surpassed by "Judas"
* Framing Hanley -- "[[Music/LilWayne Lollipop]]"
* Music/PeterFrampton -- "Show Me the Way". "Baby, I Love Your Way" and "Do You Feel Like We Do" are also in the mix.
* Frankie Beverly & Maze -- "Back In Stride"
* Music/FrankieGoesToHollywood -- "Relax"
* Frankie J -- "Obsession (No Es Amor)"
* Music/ArethaFranklin -- "[[CoveredUp Respect]]", "Say A Little Prayer"
* Music/KirkFranklin -- "Stomp"
* Music/FranzFerdinand -- "Take Me Out"
* Music/TheFratellis -- "Chelsea Dagger"
* Music/TheFray -- "How to Save a Life"
* Fred V & Grafix -- "Forest Fires"[[note]]shared with Etherwood[[/note]] or "Major Happy"
* Free -- "All Right Now"
* French Montana -- "Unforgettable"
* Aaron Fresh -- "Spending All My Time"
* Music/FromAshesToNew -- "Through It All"
* From First to Last -- "Note to Self" or "Emily"
* Music/Front242 -- "Headhunter"
* Music/TheFrontBottoms -- "Twin Size Mattress"
* Music/FrontLineAssembly -- "Mindphaser"
* Music/FrouFrou -- "Let Go" or "Breathe In"
* Music/FTIsland - "Lovesick" or "I Hope"
* Julius Fucik -- "Entry of the Gladiators"
* Fuel -- "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)"
* Music/{{Fugazi}} -- "Waiting Room"
* Music/TheFugees -- [[CoveredUp "Killing Me Softly"]] or "Ready or Not" (from ''Music/TheScore'')
** Pras -- "Ghetto Supastar"
* Music/{{Fun}} -- "We Are Young" or "Some Nights"
** Nate Ruess -- "Nothing Without Love"
* Fun Factory -- "I Wanna B With U"
* Music/FunLovinCriminals -- "[[Creator/QuentinTarantino Scooby Snacks]]"
* Music/FuneralForAFriend -- "Roses For the Dead" or "Red is the New Black"
* [[Music/GeorgeClinton Funkadelic]] -- [[Music/OneNationUnderAGroove "One Nation Under a Groove"]]
* Music/NellyFurtado -- "I'm Like a Bird" or "Maneater"
* Future -- "Turn On The Lights", "Fuck Up Some Commas", "Jumpman"[[note]]shared with Drake[[/note]], or "Mask Off"
* Future Leaders of the World -- "Let Me Out"
* The Future Sound of London -- "Papua New Guinea" or [[VideoGame/{{Wipeout}} "We Have Explosive"]]
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* Music/PeterGabriel -- "Sledgehammer", "Solsbury Hill", or "[[Film/SayAnything In Your Eyes]]"
* Music/{{Gabrielle}} -- "Dreams" or "[[Film/BridgetJonesDiary Out of Reach]]"
* Gackt -- "Vanilla"
* The GAG Quartet -- "Le Internet Medley"
* Polina Gagarina -- "A Million Voices" or "Kolibelnaya"
* Galantis -- "Runaway (U & I)" or "No Money"
* Music/TheGame -- "How We Do" or "Hate It or Love It" (although the latter is more commonly thought of as 50 Cent's song)
* Music/TheGazette -- "Reila", "Cassis"
* Music/SergeGainsbourg -- "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Je t'aime... moi non plus"
* Gallery -- "Nice To Be With You"
* Music/ChildishGambino -- "Freaks & Geeks", "3005", "[[Film/GetOut2017 Redbone]]", or "This Is America"
* Music/GangStarr -- "Mass Appeal"
* The Gap Band -- "You Dropped a Bomb on Me"
* Music/{{Garbage}} -- "Only Happy When It Rains" or "Stupid Girl"
* Art Garfunkel -- "[[WesternAnimation/WatershipDown Bright Eyes]]"
* Creator/JudyGarland -- "[[Film/TheWizardOfOz (Somewhere) Over the Rainbow]]"
* Martin Garrix -- "Animals" or "In the Name of Love"
* Music/TheGaslightAnthem -- "The '59 Sound" or "45"
** Brian Fallon solo -- "Smoke"
* Kevin Gates -- "2 Phones" or "Really Really"
* Alex Gaudino -- "Destination Calabria"
* Music/MarvinGaye -- "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", "What's Going On" (the title track of his [[Music/WhatsGoingOn most famous album]]), "Let's Get It On", or "[[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier Trouble Man]]". You could also make a case for "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Sexual Healing".
** For [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] fans of a certain age, his performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the 1983 All-Star Game could also qualify.
* Gloria Gaynor -- "I Will Survive"
* Music/GEazy -- "Me, Myself, & I" to mainstream audiences, “No Limit” to rap audience.
* General Public -- "Tenderness"
* O.T. Genasis -- "[=CoCo=]" or "Cut It"
* Music/{{Genesis}} (pop era) -- "Music/LandOfConfusion", "Invisible Touch", or "That's All"
** (prog era) -- "Music/SuppersReady"
* Genki Rockets -- "Heavenly Star"
* Music/BobbieGentry-- "Ode to Billy-Joe"
* George Baker Selection -- "[[Film/ReservoirDogs Little Green Bag]]" or "Paloma Blanca"
* The Georgia Satellites -- "Keep Your Hands to Yourself"
* Gerardo -- "Rico Suave"
* The Germs -- "Lexicon Devil"
* Music/GeorgeGershwin -- "Rhapsody in Blue", "[[Theatre/PorgyAndBess Summertime]]"
* Gerry and the Pacemakers -- "You'll Never Walk Alone"
* Gesaffelstein -- “Lost in the Fire”
* Music/GetScared-- "Sarcasm"
* Music/GetoBoys -- "[[Film/OfficeSpace Damn it Feels Good to Be a Gangsta]]"
* Stan Getz -- "The Girl From Ipanema" (shared with João and Astrud Gilberto)
* Music/{{Ghost}} -- "Cirice"
* Debbie Gibson -- "Foolish Beat"
* Brantley Gilbert -- "Bottoms Up"
* Music/GinBlossoms -- "Hey Jealousy"
* Ginuwine -- "Pony"
* Gipsy Kings – "Bamboléo"
* girl in red -- "we fell in love in october"
* Girlicious -- "2 in the Morning"
* Music/{{Girlschool}} -- "Emergency" or "Race with the Devil"
* Music/GirlsAloud -- "Sound of the Underground", "Love Machine" and "The Promise"
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* Music/GirlsGeneration -- "Gee" or "Tell Me Your Wish (Genie)"
* Music/{{Giulietta}} -- "Vertigo"
* Glass Animals -- "Heat Waves"
* Music/{{Glassjaw}} -- "Ape Dos Mil"
* Glaze -- "Nightmare Night" or "Beyond Her Garden"
* Jess Glynne -- "Hold My Hand" for her solo material, but she's best-known overall for her appearance on Music/CleanBandit's "Rather Be".
* gnash -- "i hate u I love u" (shared with olivia o'brien)
* Goapele -- "Closer"
* God Lives Underwater -- "From Your Mouth"
* Music/{{Godsmack}} -- "I Stand Alone" overall. By album:
** ''Godsmack'' -- "Voodoo"
** ''Awake'' -- The title track.
** ''Faceless'' -- "[[Film/TheScorpionKing I Stand Alone]]"
** ''The Other Side -- "Running Blind"
** ''IV'' -- "Speak"
** ''The Oracle'' -- "Cryin' Like a Bitch"
** ''1000hp'' -- The title track.
* Music/GogolBordello -- "Start Wearing Purple"
* Music/TheGoGos -- "Our Lips Are Sealed" or "We Got the Beat"
* Music/{{Gojira}} -- "Silvera", "Flying Whales" was this for their earlier material
* Andrew Gold -- "Spooky Scary Skeletons", "Lonely Boy", or "Thank You for Being a Friend". Though he [[CoveredUp didn't perform]] [[Series/TheGoldenGirls the best-known version]] of the last of these.
* Music/GoldenEarring -- "Radar Love" or "Twilight Zone"
* Goldfinger -- "[[VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater Superman]]"
* Music/{{Goldfrapp}} -- "Ooh la La" or "Strict Machine"
* Music/SelenaGomez & [[FaceOfTheBand The Scene]] -- "Love You Like a Love Song"
** Selena Gomez (solo) -- "Good for You"
* Jose Gonzalez -- "Heartbeats"
* Music/GoodCharlotte -- "Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous" and/or "The Anthem"
** The Madden Brothers -- "We Are Done"
* Music/BennyGoodman -- "Sing, Sing, Sing"
* Music/GooGooDolls -- "[[Film/CityOfAngels Iris]]"
* Lesley Gore -- "It's My Party" or "You Don't Own Me"
* Music/{{Gorillaz}} -- "Feel Good, Inc." overall. By album:
** [[Music/GorillazAlbum Self-Titled Album]] -- "Clint Eastwood"
** ''Music/DemonDays'' -- "Dirty Harry" or "Demon Days"
** ''Plastic Beach'' -- "Stylo" or "On Melancholy Hill"
** ''The Fall'' -- "Revolving Doors"
** ''Humanz'' -- "Saturnz Barz", "Ascension" or "Andromeda"
** ''Song Machine'' -- "Désolé", "PAC-MAN", or "The Pink Phantom"
* Music/{{Gorgoroth}} -- "Profeten Apenbaring," "Incipit Satan," or "Carving a Giant"
* Mark Gormley -- "[[Series/WorldsDumbest Without You]]"
* Music/{{Gotye}} -- "Somebody That I Used To Know"
* Gossip -- "Standing in the Way of Control"
* Music/EllieGoulding -- "[[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey Love Me Like You Do]]" is indisputably this in most countries. "Starry Eyed" and "Lights" are contenders from her earlier work.
* Go West -- "[[Film/PrettyWoman King of Wishful Thinking]]"
* Grace -- "[[Film/SuicideSquad2016 You Don't Own Me]]"
* Andy Grammer -- Formerly "Keep Your Head Up", but now "Honey I'm Good"
* Music/GrandFunkRailroad -- "We're an American Band" or "Some Kind of Wonderful"
* Music/ArianaGrande: By album:
** ''Yours Truly'' -- "The Way"
** ''My Everything'' -- "Problem" or "Bang Bang"
** ''Dangerous Woman'' -- "Side to Side"
** ''Sweetener'' -- "No Tears Left to Cry"
** ''Thank U Next'' -- The title track or "7 Rings"
** Overall -- "Problem", "No Tears Left to Cry" and "Thank U Next" are probably the strongest contenders
* Music/GrandmasterFlashAndTheFuriousFive -- [[Music/TheMessage "The Message"]]
* Amy Grant -- "El Shaddai" with "Thy Word", "My Father's Eyes" and "Sing Your Praise To The Lord" as contenders for the Christian era, "Baby Baby" for general audiences.
* Eddy Grant -- "Electric Avenue"
* The Grass Roots -- "Let's Live for Today" or "Sooner or Later"
* Music/TheGratefulDead -- "Casey Jones", though younger fans would cite "Touch of Gray"
* Graveland -- "Thurisaz"
* David Gray -- "Babylon"
* Macy Gray -- "I Try"
* Michael Gray -- "The Weekend"
* Music/GreatBigSea -- "Ordinary Day"
* A Great Big World -- "Say Something" (specifically the re-recording with Christina Aguilera)
* Great White -- "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"
* Music/AlGreen -- "Music/LetsStayTogether"
* Vivian Green -- "Emotional Rollercoaster"
* Music/GreenCarnation -- [[EpicRocking "Light of Day, Day of Darkness"]]
* Music/GreenDay:
** To rock audiences: "Basket Case", "Welcome to Paradise", "Longview", "When I Come Around" (from ''Music/{{Dookie}}''), and [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"]] (from ''Music/{{Nimrod}}'') for their '90s material; "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", "Wake Me Up When September Ends", "Holiday", "American Idiot" (from ''Music/AmericanIdiot''), "Know Your Enemy", and "21 Guns" for their '00s work.
** To general audiences: Almost certainly "Good Riddance" for the '90s and "Idiot" and "Boulevard" for the '00s.
* Norman Greenbaum -- "Spirit in the Sky"
* Lee Greenwood -- "God Bless the USA"
* The Greg Kihn Band -- Initially "Jeopardy", but now "The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em)", as the former is better known via a parody by Music/WeirdAlYankovic
* Edvard Grieg -- "Hall of the Mountain King" (which isn't a song, by the way)
* Music/{{Grimes}} -- "Oblivion"
* Tee Grizzley –- "First Day Out"
* Grizzly Bear -- "Two Weeks"
* Music/{{Grouplove}} -- "Tongue Tied"
* Groove Armada -- "[[StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks I See You Baby]]"
* Groove Theory -- "Tell Me"
* GS Boyz -- "Stanky Legg"
* Music/GuanoApes -- "Open Your Eyes"
* Music/VinceGuaraldi -- Originally "Cast Your Fate To The Wind" (from ''Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus'') but has now become more identified by "[[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Linus and Lucy]]"
* Gucci Mane -- Initially “Spotlight”, but now "Both" or "I Get The Bag"
* The Guess Who -- "American Woman"
* Music/DavidGuetta -- "Love Is Gone", "Titanium", or for his later work, "Hey Mama"
* Music/GuidedByVoices -- "I Am A Scientist" and "Teenage FBI"
* Music/GunsNRoses -- "Sweet Child O' Mine", "Welcome to the Jungle", or "Paradise City"
* Musi/ArloGuthrie -- "[[Music/AlicesRestaurant Alice's Restaurant Massacree]]"
* Music/WoodyGuthrie -- "This Land Is Your Land"
* Guttermouth -- "She's Got the Look" or "[[VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater I'm Destroying the World]]"
* Music/GymClassHeroes -- "Cupid's Chokehold" or "Stereo Hearts"
** Travie [=McCoy=] -- "Billionaire"
* GZA -- "Liquid Swords"
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* Haddaway -- "What is Love?"
* Hadouken! -- "M.A.D."
* Sammy Hagar -- "I Can't Drive 55" as a solo artist, "Why Can't This Be Love?" with Music/VanHalen
* Hail The Villain -- "Runaway"
* Haim -- "The Wire"
* Music/{{Halestorm}} -- "I Get Off", "Love Bites (So Do I)", or "I Miss the Misery"
* Music/DarylHallAndJohnOates -- "You Make My Dreams", "Maneater", "She's Gone", "[[Manga/LuckyStar Out of Touch]]", or "Rich Girl"
* Music/GeriHalliwell -- "[[Film/BridgetJonesDiary It's Raining]] [[CoveredUp Men]]".
* Music/{{Halsey}} -- "Closer" (shared with the Chainsmokers); for her own songs, "Without Me".
* Music/{{Hammerfall}} -- "Hearts On Fire"
* Hampton the Hampster -- "Hampster Dance"
* Lionel Hampton -- "Flying Home"
* Music/{{Hatebreed}} -- "I Will Be Heard"
* Music/HerbieHancock -- "Chameleon" (from ''Music/HeadHunters'') or "Rockit" (from ''Music/FutureShock'')
* Music/GeorgeFredericHandel -- "Messiah," (more specifically the "Hallelujah Chorus" at the end of Part II)
* Music/{{Hanson}} -- "[=MMMbop=]"
* Music/HappyMondays -- "Step On"
* Music/{{Hardline}} -- "Hot Cherie"
* Steve Harley -- "Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)" (UK and Ireland) or "Sebastian" (in continental Europe).
* Music/CalvinHarris -- "Acceptable in the 80s" for his earlier work, "Summer" for his later material. By album:
** ''I Created Disco'' -- "Acceptable in the 80s"
** ''Ready for the Weekend'' -- "I'm Not Alone" or the title track
** ''18 Months'' -- "Feel So Close", "We Found Love"[[note]]shared with Music/{{Rihanna}}[[/note]] or "I Need Your Love"[[note]]shared with Music/EllieGoulding[[/note]]
** ''Motion'' -- "Summer"
** ''Funk Wav Bounces, Vol. 1'' -- "Slide"[[note]]shared with [[Music/{{OFWGKTA}} Frank Ocean]][[/note]], "Rollin"[[note]]shared with Khalid[[/note]] or "Feels". Overall, the best known song from around that time is "[[Music/{{Rihanna}} This Is What You Came For]]", but it never appeared on any album.
* Creator/RichardHarris -- "[=MacArthur=] Park"
* Music/GeorgeHarrison -- "My Sweet Lord" (from ''Music/AllThingsMustPass'') or "[[CoveredUp Got My Mind Set on You]]" (from ''Cloud Nine'')
* Corey Hart -- "Sunglasses at Night"
* Jonn Hart -- "Who Booty"
* Dan Hartman -- "I Can Dream About You"
* Music/PJHarvey -- "Down By The Water" (from ''Music/ToBringYouMyLove'')
* Music/HarveyDanger -- "Flagpole Sitta"
* Donnie Hathaway -- "[[CoveredUp A Song For You]]"
** Hathaway and Roberta Flack -- "The Closer I Get To You"
* Screamin' Jay Hawkins -- "I Put a Spell on You"
* Sophie B. Hawkins -- "As I Lay Me Down" or "Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover"
* Music/{{Hawkwind}} -- "Silver Machine"
* Music/HawthorneHeights -- "Saying Sorry" or "Ohio Is For Lovers"
* Music/JosephHaydn -- "[[UsefulNotes/{{Germany}} Emperor Quartet - 2nd Movement/Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser]]"
* Music/HunterHayes -- "Wanted"
* Music/IsaacHayes -- "Theme from Film/{{Shaft}}"
* He Is We -- "All About Us" [[note]] Specifically, the one with Music/OwlCity [[/note]]
* Murray Head -- "[[Theatre/{{Chess}} One Night in Bangkok]]"
* Head East -- "Never Been Any Reason"
* Headstones -- "When Something Stands for Nothing" or "Smile and Wave"
* The Head and the Heart -- "Down in the Valley"
* Heather Headley -- "[[CoveredUp In My Mind]]"
* Music/{{Heart}} -- "Barracuda" and "Alone".
* Heatwave -- "Boogie Nights" or "Always and Forever"
* Music/TheHeavy -- "How You Like Me Now?" or "Short Change Hero". "What Makes a Good Man" is also a contender in the UK.
* Heavy D and the Boyz -- "Now That We Found Love"
* Hedley -- "Perfect"
* Oliver Heldens -- "Gecko (Overdrive)".
* Hella -- "Biblical Violance"
* Hellhammer -- "The Triumph of Death"
* Music/{{Helloween}} -- "I Want Out"
* Hellyeah -- "You Wouldn't Know"
* Bobby Helms -- "Jingle Bell Rock"
* Zack Hemsey -- "Vengeance"
* Ella Henderson -- "Ghost"
* Music/JimiHendrix -- "Purple Haze" (from ''Music/AreYouExperienced''), or [[CoveredUp "All Along the Watchtower"]] (from ''Music/ElectricLadyland'').
* Music/HermansHermits -- "I'm Into Something Good"
* Hey Monday -- "How You Love Me Now"
** Cassadee Pope -- "Wasting All These Tears"
* Hey Violet -- "Guys My Age"
* Hi-Five -- "I Like The Way (The Kissing Game)"
* Highly Suspect -- "My Name Is Human", formerly "Lydia"
* Dan Hill – "Sometimes When We Touch" or "Can't We Try"[[note]]with Vonda Shepard[[/note]]
* Music/FaithHill -- "Breathe" and "There You'll Be"
* Music/LaurynHill -- "Doo Wop (That Thing)"
* Hillsong UNITED -- “Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)”
* Hillsong Worship -- “Who You Say I Am”
* Hilltop Hoods -- "The Nosebleed Section", "Chase That Feeling", "1955" or [[VideoGame/{{Forza}} "Higher"]]
* Keri Hilson -- "Knock You Down"
* Zay Hilfigerrr and Zayion [=McCall=] -- "Juju on Dat Beat"
* Music/{{HIM}} -- "Wings of a Butterfly" or "Join Me in Death"
* Hinder -- "Lips of an Angel"
* Music/TheHives -- "Hate To Say I Told You So"
* Music/TheHoldSteady -- "The Swish"
* Hoku -- "Another Dumb Blonde" or "Perfect Day"
* Music/{{Hole}} -- "Celebrity Skin"
* J. Holiday -- "Bed"
* Music/TheHollies -- "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother", [[InTheStyleOf "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress"]], or "The Air That I Breathe"
* Music/BuddyHolly -- "Peggy Sue" or "That'll Be The Day"
* Music/HollywoodUndead -- "Undead"
* Rupert Holmes -- "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)"
* Music/GustavHolst -- "The Planets Suite, Op. 32"
* Steve Holy -- "Good Morning Beautiful"
* The Honeyrods -- "Love Bee"
* Honeyz -- "Finally Found" or "Won't Take It Lying Down"
* Hoobastank -- "The Reason"
* Music/TheHoosiers -- "Goodbye Mr A"
* The Hooters -- "And We Danced"
* Music/HootieAndTheBlowfish -- "Hold My Hand", "Let Her Cry" or "Only Wanna Be With You"
** Music/DariusRucker -- "Wagon Wheel"
* Creator/BobHope -- "Thanks for the Memory"
* Bruce Hornsby and the Range -- "The Way It Is"
* Hot Chelle Rae -- "Tonight Tonight"
* Hot Chip -- "Over and Over"
* Hot Chocolate -- "You Sexy Thing"
* Tomoyasu Hotei -- "[[Film/KillBill Battle Without Honor or Humanity]]"
* Thelma Houston -- "Don't Leave Me This Way"
* Music/WhitneyHouston -- "[[CoveredUp I Will Always Love You]]" with "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" as another contender.
* House of Pain -- "Jump Around"
** Everlast -- "What It's Like"
* Randy Houser -- "Runnin' Outta Moonlight"
* Ben Howard -- "Only Love"
* Music/JamesNewtonHoward -- "[[Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1 The Hanging Tree]]" (shared with Creator/JenniferLawrence) was his first charting hit, but that song is generally considered Lawrence's song rather than his; he's best known for the score to ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' with Hans Zimmer.
* Music/HowlinWolf -- "Smokestack Lightnin'"
* Music/{{Hozier}} -- "Take Me To Church"
* The Hu -- "Yuve Yuve Yu"
* Music/JenniferHudson -- "Spotlight"
* Huey -- "Pop, Lock, & Drop It"
* Music/TheHumanLeague -- "Don't You Want Me"
* Music/SamHunt -- "Body Like a Back Road"
* Hunters & Collectors -- "Throw Your Arms Around Me"
* Hurricane Chris -- "A Bay Bay"
* Lord Huron -- "[[Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy The Night We Met]]"
* Hurt -- "Rapture" (although "Ten Ton Brick" was their highest-charting hit)
* Hurts -- "Wonderful Life"
* Music/HuskerDu -- "Makes No Sense At All"
* Hybrid (Welsh electronic music trio) -- "Finished Symphony", "Disappear Here", [[VideoGame/{{Driveclub}} "Be Here Now"]]
* Brian Hyland -- "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini"
* Music/{{Hyuna}} -- "Ice Cream"
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* I Am Empire -- "Gravity Bomb"
* I Prevail -- "[[Music/TaylorSwift Blank Space]]"
* Music/JanisIan -- "At Seventeen"
* Music/IceCube -- "It Was a Good Day" or "Check Yo Self"
* Music/IcedEarth -- "Travel in Stygian"
* Icehouse -- "Great Southern Land" or "Electric Blue"
* Music/IceT -- "6 in the Mornin' "
** Music/BodyCount -- "Cop Killer", from ''[[Music/BodyCountAlbum Body Count]]''
* Music/IconaPop -- "I Love It"
* Music/IconForHire -- "Make A Move"
* Music/BillyIdol -- "Dancing With Myself," "Rebel Yell" or "White Wedding"
* Music/EnriqueIglesias -- "[[Film/WildWildWest Bailamos]]" and "Hero" for his earlier material, “I Like It” and “Tonight (I’m Lovin’ You)” for his later material.
* [=IHeartMemphis=]/[=ILoveMemphis=] -- "Hit The Quan"
* [=ILoveMakonnen=] -- "Tuesday" (though it's more associated with Music/{{Drake}})
* Music/IllNino -- "What Comes Around"
* Music/ImagineDragons -- Previously "It's Time," but now far and away "Radioactive" overall. By album:
** ''Night Visions'': “Radioactive”
** ''Smoke + Mirrors'': “I Bet My Life”
** ''Evolve'': “Believer” or “Thunder”
** ''Origins'': “Natural”
* Music/NatalieImbruglia -- "[[CoveredUp Torn]]"
* Music/{{Immolation}} -- "Father, You're Not a Father"
* Music/{{Immortal}} -- "Call of the Wintermoon"
* Music/ImogenHeap -- "Hide and Seek"
* Inner Circle -- "[[Series/{{Cops}} Bad Boys]]"
* Music/{{Insomnium}} -- “While We Sleep”
* Music/InThisMoment -- "Blood"
* Music/{{Incubus}} -- "Drive"
* Music/{{India Arie}} -- "Video"
* The Indigy -- "Apache (Warrior Bow)"
* Music/InFlames -- By album:
** ''Lunar Strain'' -- "Behind Space"
** ''The Jester Race'' -- "Moonshield"
** ''Whoracle'' -- "Episode 666"
** ''Colony'' -- The title track or "Behind Space '99"
** ''Clayman'' -- "Only for the Weak" or "Pinball Map"
** ''Reroute to Remain'' -- "Cloud Connected"
** ''Soundtrack to Your Escape'' -- "The Quiet Place"
** ''Come Clarity'' -- "Take This Life"
** ''A Sense of Purpose'' -- "The Mirror's Truth"
** ''Sounds of a Playground Fading'' -- "Deliver Us"
** ''Siren Charms'' -- "Paralyzed"
** ''Battles'' -- "The Truth"
** ''I, The Mask'' -- "I Am Above"
** Overall: "Behind Space", "Moonshield", or "Only For The Weak" for their earlier work; "Take This Life", "Cloud Connected" or "Deliver Us" for their later work
* Music/InformationSociety -- "What's On Your Mind? {Pure Energy)" for general audiences; "[[VideoGame/LegacyOfKain Ozar Midrashim]]" for video-gaming audiences
* Chuck Inglish -- "[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Came Thru/Easily]]"
* James Ingram -- "Just Once", "Yah Mo B There"[[note]]with Michael [=McDonald=][[/note]] or "I Don't Have The Heart"
* Injected -- "Faithless"
* Injury Reserve -- "ttktv" or "Oh Shit!!!"
* Inna -- "Cola Song" or "Hot"
* Music/{{Interpol}} -- "Obstacle 1" or "Evil"
** Julian Plenti - "Girl on the Sporting News"
* The Interrupters -- "She's Kerosene"
* Music/{{INXS}} -- "Need You Tonight"
* Donnie Iris -- "Ah, Leah!"
* Iron & Wine -- "Flightless Bird, American Mouth"
* Music/IronButterfly -- "Music/InAGaddaDaVida"
* Music/IronMaiden -- "Run to the Hills" or "The Number of the Beast"
* Music/ChrisIsaak -- "Wicked Game"
* Ish -- "Rollin'"
* Islander -- "Coconut Dracula"
* The Isley Brothers -- "Shout" (for the original lineup), "Who's That Lady" (for the "3x3" lineup)
* Music/{{Issues}} -- "King of Amarillo", "[[Music/JustinBieber Boyfriend]]", "Hooligans", or "Stingray Affliction"
* Music/{{IU}} -- "Good Day"
* IYAZ -- "Replay"
* J Balvin -- "Ay Vamos" or "Mi Gente"
* Jack & Jack -- "Rise" (shared with Jonas Blue)
* Terry Jacks -- "Seasons in the Sun"
* Freddie Jackson -- "You Are My Lady" or "Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake)"
* Music/JanetJackson -- "That's The Way Love Goes" or "Rhythm Nation"
* Music/JoeJackson -- "Steppin' Out" or "Is She Really Going Out with Him?"
* Music/MichaelJackson -- "Billie Jean", "Beat It", "Thriller", "Black or White" and "Smooth Criminal" overall. By album:
** ''Got to Be There'' -- "Got to Be There" or "Rockin' Robin"
** ''Ben'' -- "Ben"
** ''Music and Me'' -- "Music and Me"
** ''Music/OffTheWall'' -- "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough", "Rock With You", or "Off the Wall"
** ''Music/{{Thriller}}'' -- "Thriller", "Beat It" or "Billie Jean"
** ''Music/{{Bad}}'' -- "Bad", "Speed Demon", "Man in the Mirror", "Dirty Diana", or "Smooth Criminal"
** ''Dangerous'' -- "Black or White" or "Remember the Time"
** ''[=HIStory=]'' -- "You are Not Alone", "Earth Song" or "They Don't Really Care About Us"
** ''Blood on the Dance Floor'' -- "Blood on the Dance Floor"
** ''Invincible'' -- "You Rock My World"
** ''Xscape'' -- "Love Never Felt So Good"
* Rebbie Jackson -- "Centipede"
* Music/TheJacksonFive -- By album:
** ''Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5'' -- "I Want You Back"
** ''ABC'' -- "[=ABC=]" or "The Love You Save"
** ''Third Album'' -- "I'll Be There".
** ''Maybe Tomorrow'' -- "Never Can Say Goodbye"
** ''Dancing Machine'' --"Dancing Machine"
** Following their name change to the Jacksons:
** ''The Jacksons'' -- "Enjoy Yourself"
** ''Destiny'' -- "Blame It on the Boogie" or "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)"
** ''Triumph'' -- "Can You Feel It"
** ''Victory'' -- "State of Shock"
** ''2300 Jackson Street'' --"2300 Jackson Street"
** Overall: "I Want You Back", "ABC", and "I'll Be There" as the Jackson 5; "Blame It On The Boogie" or "Can You Feel It" as the Jacksons.
* Jack Ü -- "Where Are Ü Now" [[note]]Although it's probably more associated with Justin Bieber[[/note]]
* Felix Jaehn -- "Ain't Nobody (Loves Me Better)" (shared with Jasmine Thompson) as a lead artist, overall he's best known for his remix of OMI's "Cheerleader".
* Jagged Edge-- "Where the Party At"
* Music/JAMProject -- Formerly "[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWars SKILL]] or [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha GONG]]", now unquestionably "[[Webcomic/OnePunchMan THE HERO! ~Ikareru Kobushi ni Honō wo Tsukero~]]
* Music/TheJam -- "Going Underground"
* Jamelia -- "Superstar"
* James -- "Sit Down" in the UK, "Laid" in the U.S.
* Music/EttaJames -- "At Last" and "I Just Wanna Make Love To You".
* Harry James -- "You Made Me Love You"
* Rick James -- "[[Music/MCHammer Super]] [[SampledUp Freak]]"
* Tommy James -- "Hanky Panky"
* Trinidad James -- "All Gold Everything"
* Jamie T -- "Sheila", "Emily's Heart" or "Sticks & Stones"
* Music/{{Jamiroquai}} -- "Virtual Insanity", "[[Film/NapoleonDynamite Canned Heat]]"
* Music/JanesAddiction -- "Jane Says" or "Been Caught Stealing." "Hypersonic" to those who are fans of the [[VideoGame/{{SSX}} SSX]] series.
* Chris Janson -- "Buy Me a Boat"
* Janus -- "Eyesore"
* Ja Rule -- "Always on Time"
* Music/JayRock -- "[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Hood Gone Love It]]" or "[[Film/BlackPanther2018 King's Dead]]"
* Music/JayZ -- "99 Problems" overall. By album:
** ''Reasonable Doubt'' -- "Dead Presidents"
** ''In My Lifetime, Vol. 1'' -- "The City Is Mine"
** ''Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life'' -- "[[Film/RushHour Can I Get A…]]" or the title track
** ''Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter'' -- "Big Pimpin'"
** ''The Dynasty: Roc La Familia'' -- "I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)"
** ''The Blueprint'' -- "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)"
** ''The Best of Both Worlds'' -- "Take You Home with Me (A.K.A. Body)" (shared with Music/RKelly)
** ''The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse'' -- "03 Bonnie & Clyde" (shared with Music/{{Beyonce}})
** ''The Black Album'' -- "99 Problems"
** ''Unfinished Business'' -- "Big Chips" (shared with Music/RKelly)
** ''Collision Course'' -- "Numb/Encore" (shared with Music/LinkinPark)
** ''Kingdom Come'' -- "Show Me What You Got"
** ''American Gangster'' -- "Blue Magic"
** ''The Blueprint 3'' -- "Empire State of Mind" (shared with Music/AliciaKeys)
** ''Watch the Throne'' -- "Niggas In Paris" (shared with Music/KanyeWest)
** ''Magna Carta Holy Grail'' -- "Holy Grail" (shared with Music/JustinTimberlake)
** ''4:44'' -- The title track
* J Dash -- "Wop"
* Jedward -- "[[Music/{{Queen}} Under]] [[Music/DavidBowie Pressure]] ([[Music/VanillaIce Ice Ice Baby]])" or "Lipstick"
* Music/JeffersonAirplane -- "Somebody To Love" or "White Rabbit" (from ''Music/SurrealisticPillow'')
* Jem -- "They"
* Sean Jenness -- "[[Wrestling/{{Sheamus}} Written In My Face]]"
* Music/CarlyRaeJepsen -- by album:
** ''Tug of War'' -- "Bucket" or the title track
** ''Kiss'' (and overall) -- "Call Me Maybe"
** ''Emotion'' -- "I Really Like You" or "Run Away With Me"
** ''Dedicated'' -- "Party For One"
* Jeremih -- "Birthday Sex", "Down On Me" or "Don't Tell 'Em"
* Music/JessieJ -- "Price Tag", "Domino" or "Bang Bang" (though it's probably more associated with Music/ArianaGrande and Music/NickiMinaj in the US)
* Music/TheJesusandMaryChain -- "Just Like Honey" or "Head On"
* Jesus Jones -- "Right Here, Right Now"
* Jet -- "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"
* Music/JethroTull -- "Aqualung" (from ''[[Music/AqualungJethroTullAlbum Aqualung]]'')
* Music/JoanJett -- [[CoveredUp "I Love Rock 'n' Roll"]] or "[[Creator/RondaRousey Bad Reputation]]"
* Jewel -- "Who Will Save Your Soul" and "You Were Meant for Me"
* Music/TheJGeilsBand -- "Centerfold" or "Freeze Frame"
* Jibbs -- "Chain Hang Low"
* Jidenna -- "Classic Man" or "[[Series/LukeCage2016 Long Live the Chief]]"
* Jimmie's Chicken Shack -- "Do Right"
* Music/JimmyEatWorld -- "[[Film/TheSorcerersApprentice The]] [[BlackSheepHit Middle]]"
* J-Kwon -- "Tipsy"
* JLS -- "Beat Again"
* Jo Boxers -- "Just Got Lucky"
* Joe -- "Stutter" and "I Wanna Know"
* Music/BillyJoel -- by album:
** ''Cold Spring Harbor'' -- "She's Got a Way", especially since it was made more famous when released as a single in the live version from ''Songs in the Attic".
** ''Piano Man'' -- "Piano Man".
** ''Streetlife Serenade'' -- "The Entertainer", probably the only quite well-remembered song on the album.
** ''Turnstiles'' -- "New York State of Mind".
** ''The Stranger'' -- "Only the Good Die Young", "She's Always a Woman", "Just the Way You Are", "Vienna", "Movin' Out" and "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant".
** ''52nd Street'' -- "My Life"; "Honesty" and "Big Shot" are also well-remembered.
** ''Glass Houses'' -- "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" or "You May Be Right"
** ''The Nylon Curtain'' -- "Allentown" or "Goodnight Saigon".
** ''An Innocent Man'' -- "Uptown Girl", although also "The Longest Time" and "Tell Her About It" are well-remembered.
** ''The Bridge'' -- "A Matter of Trust".
** ''Storm Front'' -- "We Didn't Start The Fire"; "Alexa" is probably the second best-known song on it.
** ''River of Dreams'' -- The title track.
* Music/EltonJohn -- "Your Song", "Rocket Man", "Tiny Dancer," or "Candle in the Wind 1997"
* Robert John -- "Sad Eyes"
* Johnny Hates Jazz -- "Shattered Dreams"
* Joji:
** "you suck charlie", "i don't wanna waste my time" and especially his remix of "medicine" in terms of his older content.
** ''BALLADS 1'' and overall -- "SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK"
* [[Music/JoJo [=JoJo=]]] -- "Leave (Get Out)" or "Too Little Too Late"
* Creator/DonJohnson -- "Heartbeat"
* Music/EricJohnson -- "Cliffs of Dover"
* Music/JackJohnson -- "Banana Pancakes"
* Creator/LiaMarieJohnson -- "DNA"
* Freedy Johnston -- "Bad Reputation"
* [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} Jim Johnston]] -- "[[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin I Won't Do What You Tell Me]]", [[Wrestling/TheUndertaker Graveyard Symphony]]", or (briefly) "[[Wrestling/{{Fandango}} ChaChaLaLa]]"
** [=CFO$=] -- "[[Wrestling/AJStyles Phenomenal]]", "[[Wrestling/BobbyRoode Glorious Domination]]", or "[[Wrestling/ShinsukeNakamura The Rising Sun]]"
** Kromestatik -- "[[Wrestling/WWERaw The Night]]"
* Music/NickJonas -- "Jealous"
** Nick Jonas & The Administration -- "Who I Am"
* Music/JonasBrothers -- "Burnin' Up" for their original output, "Sucker" for their 2019 reunion.
** Music/JoeJonas -- "See No More"
* George Jones -- "He Stopped Loving Her Today"
* Glenn Jones -- "Here I Go Again"
* Creator/GraceJones -- "Pull Up to the Bumper"
* Isham Jones -- "I'll See You in My Dreams" or "It Had to Be You" (probably the UrExample)
* Jim Jones -- "We Fly High"
* Kent Jones -- "Don't Mind"
* Music/NorahJones -- "Don't Know Why" (from ''Music/ComeAwayWithMe'')
* Music/TomJones -- "It's Not Unusual" or "Delilah"
* Music/JanisJoplin -- "Me & Bobby [=McGee=]"
** Big Brother & the Holding Company -- "Piece of My Heart" (from ''Music/CheapThrills'')
* Music/ScottJoplin -- A 3-way tie between "Maple Leaf Rag", "Solace", and "The Entertainer"
* Alexis Jordan -- "Happiness"
* Montell Jordan -- "This Is How We Do It"
* Music/{{Journey}} -- "Don't Stop Believin'" overall. By album:
** ''Infinity'' -- "Wheel in the Sky"
** ''Evolution'' -- Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'"
** ''Departure'' -- "Any Way You Want It"
** ''Escape'' -- "Don't Stop Believin'", with "Open Arms" and "Who's Crying Now" as other contenders
** ''Frontiers'' -- "Faithfully", or "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)"
* Music/VanceJoy -- "Riptide"
* Music/JoyDivision -- "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
* Joye Manor -- "Constant Headache"
* Music/{{Joywave}} -- "Destruction" or "Tongues"
* JRDN -- "U Can Have It All"
* Juanes -- "A Dios le Pido"
* Music/JudasPriest --"Living After Midnight," "Breaking the Law" (Both from ''Music/BritishSteel''), or "You Got Another Thing Comin'"
* Juice WRLD -- "Lucid Dreams"
* Music/JulienK -- [[VideoGame/SonicHeroes "This Machine"]], "Kick the Bass" or [[Film/{{Transformers}} "Technical Difficulties"]]
* Jungle -- "Busy Earnin'"
* Music/{{Juniel}} -- "Illa Illa"
* Junior -- "Mama Used to Say"
* Junior Senior -- "Move Your Feet"
* Music/{{Justice}} -- "D.A.N.C.E."
* Juvenile -- Previously either "Back That Azz Up" or "Slow Motion", but now indisputably the former.
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* K'naan -- "Wavin' Flag"
* Kaiser Cartel -- "[[Film/LiberalArts Favorite Song]]"
* Kajagoogoo -- "Too Shy"
* Music/KaiserChiefs -- "I Predict A Riot" or "Ruby"
* Music/KaizersOrchestra -- "Kontroll på kontinentet"
* Kaleo -- "Way Down We Go" for alternative radio listeners and to the mainstream, "No Good" for active rock radio listeners.
* Music/{{Kamelot}} -- "The Haunting"
* Music/{{Kamikazee}} -- "Narda"
* Music/{{Kansas}} -- Initially "Dust in the Wind", but over time has become "Carry On Wayward Son"
* Music/{{Kara}} -- "Mister"
* Kardinal Offishall -- "Dangerous"
* Karmin -- "Brokenhearted"
* Karnivool -- "Themata"
* Music/{{Kasabian}} -- By album:
** SelfTitledAlbum -- "[[Film/{{Serenity}} Club Foot]]"
** ''Empire'' -- "Shoot the Runner"
** ''West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum'' -- "[[Film/{{Takers}} Underdog]]" or "Fire"
** ''Velociraptor!'' -- "Days Are Forgotten" or "Goodbye Kiss"
** ''48:13'' -- "eez-eh", "stevie" or "bumblebeee"
** ''For Crying Out Loud'' -- "You're In Love With A Psycho" or "Comeback Kid"
** Overall -- "Club Foot", "Underdog" and the ''Velociraptor!'' signatures are the frontrunners in the mainstream crowd, "Fire" for most UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball fans.
* Katy B -- "Katy on a mission" or "Crying for No Reason"
* Music/{{Kaya}} -- "Chocolat"
* K Camp -- "Cut Her Off"
* KC and the Sunshine Band -- "That's the Way (I Like It)"
* K-Ci and [=JoJo=] -- "All My Life"
* KDA -- "Turn the Music Louder (Rumble)" (though it's probably more associated with Music/TinieTempah and/or Katy B)
* Music/{{Keane}} -- "Somewhere Only We Know"
* Keemstar -- "Dollar In The Woods!"
* Kehlani -- "[[Film/SuicideSquad2016 Gangsta]]"
* Music/TobyKeith -- Originally "Should've Been a Cowboy", but now the signature songs are either "Red Solo Cup" or "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue"
* Kelis -- "Milkshake"
* Paul Kelly -- "To Her Door", "Before Too Long", or "Darling It Hurts"
* Music/RKelly -- For the 90s, "I Believe I Can Fly," for the 2000s, "Ignition (Remix)"
* Tori Kelly -- "Nobody Love" or "Should've Been Us"
* Creator/AnnaKendrick -- "[[Film/PitchPerfect Cups (''Pitch Perfect's'' When I'm Gone)]]"
* Music/KennyG -- "Songbird"
* Music/KeroKeroBonito -- "Flamingo"
* Music/NikKershaw -- "Wouldn't It Be Good?" and "The Riddle"
* Music/{{Kesha}} -- By Album
** ''Animal'': "Tik Tok", with "Your Love is My Drug" as a runner up
** ''Cannibal'': "We Are Who We Are"
** ''Warrior'': "Die Young"
** ''Rainbow'': "Praying"
* Music/AliciaKeys -- By album:
** ''Songs in A Minor'': "Fallin'"
** ''The Diary of Alicia Keys'': “If I Ain’t Got You”
** ''As I Am'': “No One”
** ''The Element of Freedom'': “Un-Thinkable (I’m Ready)”
** ''Girl on Fire'': The title track
** ''HERE'': “In Common”
* K.Flay -- "Blood in the Cut"
* Aram Khachaturian -- "Sabre Dance"
* Khaled -- "Didi" and/or "Aïcha"
* Khalid -- "Love Lies"
* Music/WizKhalifa -- "Black & Yellow" to the hip-hop/urban community; "[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious See You Again]]" (from the ''Music/Furious7Soundtrack'') to mainstream audiences
* Chaka Khan -- "I'm Every Woman"
** Rufus & Chaka Khan -- "Tell Me Something Good"
* Eduard Khil -- "I am Glad Because I'm Finally Returning Home" ([[MemeticMutation the "Trololo" song]])
* Kid Cudi -- "Day 'n' Nite" or "Pursuit of Happiness"
* Music/KidRock:
** "Cowboy" or "Bawitdaba" (NuMetal era)
** "All Summer Long" (country rock era)
* Music/{{Kiesza}} -- "Hideaway"
* Music/{{Kiiara}} -- "Gold"
* Killer Be Killed -- "Wings of Feather and Wax"
* Music/TheKillers -- "Mr. Brightside", "Somebody Told Me", or "Human"
* Music/KillingJoke -- "Love Like Blood"
* Kill It Kid -- "Blood Stop and Run"
* Natalia Kills -- "Mirrors"
* Music/KillswitchEngage -- By album:
** ''Alive or Just Breathing'' -- "My Last Serenade"
** ''The End of Heartache'' -- [[Film/ResidentEvilApocalypse The title track]]
** ''As Daylight Dies'' -- "My Curse"
** ''Killswitch Engage (2009)'' -- "Starting Over"
** ''Disarm the Descent'' -- "In Due Time"
** ''Incarnate'' -- "Hate by Design"
** Overall: "My Curse" (Howard Jones era), "In Due Time" (Jesse Leach era).
* Andy Kim -- "Rock Me Gently"
* Cheyenne Kimball -- "Hanging On"
* Kari Kimmel -- "[[Wrestling/AJLee Let's Light it Up]]"
* Ben E. King -- "Film/StandByMe"
* Music/CaroleKing -- "It's Too Late" (from ''Music/{{Tapestry}}'')
* Elle King -- "Ex's and Oh's" to mainstream audiences; "Different For Girls" (with Dierks Bentley) to country audiences
* Evelyn Champagne King -- "Shame"
* Music/KingCrimson -- [[Music/InTheCourtOfTheCrimsonKing "21st Century Schizoid Man"]] and [[Music/RedKingCrimsonAlbum "Red"]] for casual listeners; "Epitaph", "Starless", and "Elephant Talk" for diehard fans
* Music/KingDiamond -- "The Family Ghost" or "Welcome Home"
* Music/KingGizzardAndTheLizardWizard: By Album:
** ''12 Bar Bruise'' -- "Elbow"
** ''Eyes Like the Sky'' -- "Fort Whipple" or the title track
** ''Float Along -- Fill Your Lungs'' -- "Head On/Pill"
** ''Oddments'' -- "Vegemite"
** ''I'm in Your Mind Fuzz'' -- "Cellophane" or "Am I in Heaven?"
** ''Quarters!" -- "The River"
** ''Paper Mache Dream Balloon'' -- "Trapdoor" or "Sense"
** ''Nonagon Infinity'' -- "Gamma Knife" or "Evil Death Roll"
** ''Flying Microtonal Banana'' -- "Rattlesnake"
** ''Murder of the Universe'' -- "Han-Tyumi and the Murder of the Universe" (actually six songs in one)
** ''Sketches of Brunswick East'' -- "Countdown" or "Tezeta"
** ''Polygondwanaland'' -- "Crumbling Castle"
** ''Gumboot Soup'' -- "All Is Known"
** ''Fishing for Fishies'' -- "Cyboogie"
** ''Infest the Rats' Nest'' -- "Planet B"
** Overall: Either "Gamma Knife" or "Rattlesnake"
* Music/KingMissile -- "Detachable Penis"
* Gershon Kingsley -- "Popcorn"
* Kings of Leon -- "Sex on Fire" and "Use Somebody"
* The Kingsmen -- "Louie, Louie"
* Sean Kingston -- "Beautiful Girls"
* Music/TheKinks -- "You Really Got Me"
* Creator/EmilyKinney -- "Be Good"
* Music/{{KISS}} -- "Rock and Roll All Nite"
* Kittie -- "Brackish"
* Music/{{Kitty Pryde}} -- "okcupid"
* Michael Kiwanuka -- "Home Again"
* Music/TheKLF -- "3 AM Eternal"
* Music/{{KMFDM}} -- "Juke Joint Jezebel", "Megalomaniac", or [[Anime/StreetFighterIITheAnimatedMovie "Ultra"]]
* The Knack -- "My Sharona"
* Music/KnifeParty -- "Internet Friends" or "Bonfire"
* Gladys Knight and the Pips -- "Midnight Train To Georgia"
* Knocked Loose -- "Deadringer"
* Koan Sound -- "Funk Blaster"
* Kodak Black -- “Tunnel Vision” or "Zeze"
* Koji Kondo -- The "''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''" overworld theme
* Kome Kome Club -- "Kimi ga Iru Dake de"
* KONGOS -- "[[Film/HolyMotors Come With]] [[Film/TheExpendables Me Now]]"
* John Kongos -- "[[Music/HappyMondays He's Gonna Step On You Again]]"
* The Kooks -- "Naive"
* Kool & the Gang -- "Celebration"
* Music/{{Korn}} -- "Freak on a Leash" overall. By album:
** ''Music/KornAlbum'' -- "Blind"
** ''Life is Peachy'' -- "A.D.I.D.A.S."
** ''Follow the Leader'' -- "Freak on a Leash"
** ''Issues'' -- "Falling Away from Me"
** ''Untouchables'' -- "Here to Stay"
** ''Take a Look in the Mirror'' -- "Did My Time"
** ''Greatest Hits'' -- "[[CoverVersion Word Up!]]"
** ''See You on the Other Side'' -- "Twisted Transistor" or "Coming Undone"
** Untitled album -- "Evolution"
** ''Korn III'' -- "Oildale (Leave Me Alone)"
** ''The Path of Totality'' -- "[[Music/{{Skrillex}} Narcissistic Cannibal]]"
** ''The Paradigm Shift'' -- "Never Never"
** ''The Serenity of Suffering'' -- "Rotting in Vain"
** ''The Nothing'' -- "You'll Never Find Me'' or "Cold"
*** Jonathan Davis -- "What It Is"
* Music/{{Korpiklaani}} -- "Wooden Pints"
* [[Music/{{BEMANI}} kors k]] -- "smooooch・∀・"
* Music/{{Kraftwerk}} -- "Das Modell"[/]"The Model" from ''Music/TheManMachine'' or "Autobahn" from ''Music/{{Autobahn}}''.
* Music/LennyKravitz -- "Fly Away" or "Are You Gonna Go My Way?"
* Music/{{Kreator}} -- "Ripping Corpse"
* Kreayshawn -- "Gucci Gucci"
* Music/{{Krewella}} -- "Alive"
* Kris Kross -- "Jump"
* Kris Kristofferson -- "Why Me?"
* Krokus -- "Eat the Rich"
* Music/YevgenyKrylatov -- "[[Series/GuestFromTheFuture Beautiful Tomorrow]]"
* Kula Shaker -- "Tattva"
* Music/KyaryPamyuPamyu -- "PONPONPON"
* Kygo -- "It Ain't Me", although that is more known as Music/SelenaGomez' song. For songs that are actually associated with him, "Firestone" and "Stole the Show".
* Kyle -- "[=iSpy=]"
* Music/{{Kyuss}} -- "One Inch Man"
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* +44 -- "When Your Heart Stops Beating"
* 10 Years -- "Wasteland"
* Music/TenCc - "I'm Not In Love" and "Dreadlock Holiday"
* Music/HundredGecs -- "Money Machine"
* Music/The13thFloorElevators -- "You're Gonna Miss Me"
* Music/SixteenHorsepower -- "Black Soul Choir"
* 21 Savage -- "X" or "Bank Account"
* 2Cellos -- "[[Music/MichaelJackson Smooth]] [[Series/{{Glee}} Criminal]]"
* Music/TwoChainz -- "Birthday Song" or "I'm Different"
* Music/TwoLiveCrew -- "Me So Horny"
* 2 Unlimited -- "No Limit" in Europe, "Get Ready For This" in North America
* 20 Fingers -- “Short Dick Man”
* Music/TwoNEOne -- "I Am The Best"
* Music/ThreeEleven -- "Down" or "Amber"
* Music/ThreeDaysGrace -- "I Hate Everything About You" or "Just Like You"
* Music/ThreeDoorsDown -- "Kryptonite", with "Here Without You" as a close second.
* Music/ThreeInchesOfBlood -- "Deadly Sinners" or "Destroy the Orcs"
* 3OH!3 -- "Don't Trust Me"
* 38 Special -- "Hold On Loosely" or "Caught Up In You"
* The 411 -- "On My Knees"
* 4 Non Blondes -- "What's Up?"
* 5ive -- "Keep On Movin'".
* [[Music/RobZombie John]] [[Music/MarilynManson 5]] -- "[[SerialKiller Black Widow of]] [[Creator/{{cs188}} La Porte]]"
* Music/FiveSecondsOfSummer -- "She Looks So Perfect" for their pop-punk days, "Youngblood" for their most recent material (and probably overall).
* [[Music/FiftyCent 50 Cent]] -- "In Da Club" or "Candy Shop"
* The 5th Dimension -- "[[Theatre/{{Hair}} Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In]]"
* 65daysofstatic -- "Radio Protector"
* 69 Boyz -- "Tootsie Roll"
* 6ix9ine -- "Fefe"
* 808 State -- "Pacific 202"
* The 88 -- "[[Series/{{Community}} At Least It Was Here]]"
* 8ball & MJG -- "Space Age Pimpin"
* [[Music/TheNineteenSeventyFive The 1975]] -- "Chocolate", "Love Me" and "The Sound" are becoming contenders.
* 911 -- "Love Sensation"
* 98 Degrees -- "Give Me Just One Night (Una Noche)"
** Nick Lachey -- "What's Left of Me"
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[[folder:A]]
* Music/{{A1}} -- "Same Old Brand New You"
* Music/{{Aaliyah}} -- [[Film/DrDolittle "Are You That Somebody"]], [[Film/RomeoMustDie "Try Again"]], or "One in a Million"
* Music/{{ABBA}} -- "Mamma Mia" (from ''Music/ABBAAlbum'') or "Dancing Queen" (from ''Music/{{Arrival|Album}}'')
* Music/{{ABC}} -- "The Look of Love"
* Music/PaulaAbdul -- "Forever your Girl", "Straight Up" or "Opposites Attract"
* Music/{{Abnormality}} -- "[[VideoGame/RockBand Visions]]"
* Music/{{ACDC}} -- By album:
** ''TNT'' -- "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" was Bon Scott's signature song, and so identified with him that Brian Johnson won't perform it. It's also regarded as the band's signature song in their native Australia. The title track is another contender.
** ''Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap'' -- The title track.
** ''Highway to Hell'' -- "Highway to Hell" is regarded as Bon Scott's signature song in America.
** ''Music/BackInBlack'' -- "Back in Black", which is Brian Johnson's signature song in America, or "You Shook Me All Night Long"
** ''The Razors Edge'' -- "Thunderstruck", considered Brian Johnson's signature song in Australia
* Music/{{Accept}} -- "Balls to the Wall"
* Ace Hood -- "Bugatti"
* Music/AceOfBase -- "[[Film/PitchPerfect The Sign]]"
* Action Bronson — “Baby Blue”
* Music/AdamAndTheAnts -- "Prince Charming"
* Music/BryanAdams -- "Summer of '69", "Heaven" or [[Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You"]]
* Music/{{Adele}} -- "Rolling in the Deep", "Someone Like You", "Set Fire to the Rain" or "Hello"
* Adelitas Way -- "Sick"
* Music/{{Adema}} -- "Giving In"
* Music/ADayToRemember -- "All I Want"
* Aero Chord -- "Surface"
* Music/{{Aerosmith}} -- "Dream On", "Walk This Way" (shared with Music/RunDMC), and "Sweet Emotion" for their earlier work, "[[Film/{{Armageddon}} I Don't Want To Miss A Thing]]" for their later years
* Music/AesopRock -- "Daylight" or "None Shall Pass"
* Afghan Whigs -- "Debonair"
* Music/{{AFI}} -- "Prelude 12-21/Miss Murder" (or "God Called In Sick Today" for older fans)
* Afroman -- "Because I Got High" or "Colt 45"
* After 7 -- "Ready or Not" and "Can't Stop"
* The Afters -- "Light Up the Sky" or “Broken Hallelujah overall; “Beautiful Love” for MTV fans.
* Age Against the Machine -- "[[Wrestling/JackSwagger Get on Your Knees]]"
* Agent Orange -- "Bloodstains"
* Music/ChristinaAguilera -- "Beautiful" or "Genie In A Bottle"
* Music/{{aha}} -- "Take On Me"
* Aiden -- "Die Romantic"
* Music/{{Air}} -- "All I Need"
* Airbourne -- "Runnin' Wild" or "Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast"
* The Airborne Toxic Event -- “Sometime Around Midnight”
* Air Supply -- "All Out of Love"
* Music/{{AJR}} -- "[[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants I'm Ready]]", "Weak", "Sober Up", "Burn The House Down", or "Bang!"
* Akon -- "I Wanna Love You"
* Alabama 3 -- "[[Series/TheSopranos Woke Up this Morning]]"
* Music/TheAlanParsonsProject -- "Eye in the Sky". Or, to fans of various sports teams and figures, especially the [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation Chicago Bulls]] and Wrestling/RickySteamboat, its instrumental lead-in "Sirius".
* Hans Albers -- "La Paloma" and "Auf der Reeperbahn Nachts um halb Eins"
* Music/JasonAldean -- "Dirt Road Anthem"
* Alesso -- "Heroes (We Could Be)" (although associated more with Music/ToveLo)
* Music/{{Alestorm}} -- [[Series/LazyTown You Are a Pirate]]
* Music/{{Alexisonfire}} -- "This Could Be Anywhere in the World"
* Music/AliceInChains -- "Man in the Box", "Would", or "Rooster"
** Post-Layne Staley: "Check my Brain" or "Hollow"
** Creator/JerryCantrell: "Cut You In" or "Anger Rising"
* Music/AlienAntFarm -- Their {{cover|edUp}} of "[[Music/MichaelJackson Smooth Criminal]]"
* Alkaline Trio -- "Calling All Skeletons" (or "Time to Waste" for older fans)
* Music/LilyAllen -- "Smile", "[[Film/PitchPerfect Fuck You]]".
* All Levels at Once -- "Flutershy's Lament" or "Pony Should Pony Pony"
* Music/AllSaints -- "Never Ever" and "[[Film/TheBeach Pure Shores]]".
* Music/AllThatRemains -- By album:
** ''This Darkened Heart'' -- The title track.
** ''The Fall of Ideals'' -- "This Calling"
** ''Overcome'' -- "Two Weeks"
** ''For We Are Many'' -- "The Last Time"
** ''A War You Cannot Win'' -- "What If I Was Nothing"
** ''The Order of Things'' -- "This Probably Won't End Well"
** ''Madness'' -- "[[Music/GarthBrooks The Thunder Rolls]]"
** Overall: "Two Weeks"
* Music/AllTimeLow -- "Dear Maria, Count Me In"
* Music/TheAllAmericanRejects -- "Gives You Hell", "Swing Swing" and "Dirty Little Secret". Among ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' fans, it's "Move Along".
** Tyson Ritter -- "Air"
* Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand -- "Whipping Post", "Midnight Rider, "Ramblin' Man", or "Jessica"
* Jarrod Alonge -- excluding his various covers and medleys, overall, "First World Tragedy" for his comedy music and "Shinebox" for his serious band, CrazyEightyEight. By individual "bands":
** [[Main/{{PopPunk}} Sunrise Skater Kids]] -- used to be "Pop Punk Pizza Party" but was replaced by "First World Tragedy" when ''Beating a Dead Horse'' was released
** [[Main/{{EmoMusic}} Canadian Softball]] -- "The Distance Between You and Me Is Longer Than the Title of This Song" or "Your Validation"
** [[Main/{{Metalcore}} Amidst The Grave's Demons]] -- used to be "I'm So Scene" but was replaced with "The Swimmer" when ''Beating a Dead Horse'' was released
** [[Main/{{HardcorePunk}} Chewed Up]] -- "Unbreakable"
** [[Main/{{Deathcore}} Vermicide Violence]] -- used to be "Pray For Progress" (ironic considering it's a song parodying [[Music/{{BringMeTheHorizon}} Bring Me The Horizon]]'s shift from deathcore to more melodic, alternative rock), but it's been replaced with "Coronaviscerated" with the release of ''The Praxis of Prophylaxis''
** [[Main/{{Djent}} Rectangles]] -- "Cosmic Metaphysical Verisimilitude"
** [[Main/{{Crunkcore}} $wagCh0de]] -- "2 Freaky 4 Da Club"
** CrazyEightyEight -- "Shinebox"
* Alphabeat -- "Fascination"
* Alpinestars -- "Carbon Kid"
* Music/AltJ -- "Breezeblocks" and "Left Hand Free"
* Music/AlterBridge -- "Open Your Eyes" or "Rise Today" to rock fans; "[[Wrestling/{{Edge}} Metalingus]]" to wrestling fans.
* [=AlunaGeorge=] -- "Attracting Flies" in the UK, "You Know You Like It"[[note]]specifically the official remix by DJ Snake[[/note]] internationally
* Music/{{Amaranthe}} -- "Drop Dead Cynical"
* Amber Pacific -- "Always You (Good Times)" or "Fall Back Into My Life"
* Marsha Ambrosius -- "Far Away" or "Butterflies"
* Music/{{America}} -- "A Horse with No Name"
* American Authors -- "Best Day of My Life"
* Music/{{Amerie}} - "[[Film/{{Hitch}} 1 Thing]]"
* Amiina -- "Seoul"
* Music/AmonAmarth -- "The Pursuit of Vikings", "Death in Fire", or "Twilight of the Thunder God"
* Music/ToriAmos -- "Cornflake Girl"
* Music/{{Anastacia}} -- "I'm Outta Love", "Left Outside Alone"
* Music/{{Anberlin}} -- "Feel Good Drag"
* And One -- "Military Fashion Show"
* Peter Andre -- "Mysterious Girl"
* Andee -- "Never Gone"
* Music/LaurieAnderson -- "O Superman"
* The Angels (Australian band) -- "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again"
* The Angels (American girl group) -- "My Boyfriend's Back"
* Angels & Airwaves -- "The Adventure"
* Music/{{Angelspit}} -- "100%" or "Vena Cava"
* Aneka -- "Japanese Boy"
* Anggun -- "Snow on the Sahara"
* Music/AnimalCollective -- "My Girls"
* Music/TheAnimals -- "[[CoveredUp The House of the Rising Sun]]"
* Anjulie -- "Brand New Bitch" or "Stand Behind the Music"
* Anne-Marie -- "Friends" (shared with Marshmello) or "Rockabye" (shared with Clean Bandit). For songs exclusively associated with her, "2002" is probably the strongest contender.
* Music/{{Annihilator}} -- "Alison Hell"
* Another Animal -- "Broken Again"
* Another Level -- "Freak Me"
* Marc Anthony -- "Vivir Mi Vida" (Spanish); "You Sang to Me" or "I Need to Know" (English)
* Music/{{Anthrax}} -- "[[Music/PublicEnemy Bring the Noise]]" or "Caught in a Mosh" for the Joey Belladonna years, "Only" for John Bush's tenure.
* Antony and the Johnsons -- "Hope There's Someone"
** Hercules and Love Affair -- "Blind" (Features vocals from Antony Hagerty)
* Music/{{AOA}} -- "Miniskirt" for the dance unit and the group's most well-known song overall
* A Perfect Circle -- "Judith"
* Music/AphexTwin -- "Windowlicker", "Come to Daddy" and "Avril 14th"
* Music/AphroditesChild -- Now "The Four Horsemen", was "Rain And Tears"
* Music/APink -- "No No No"
* Music/FionaApple -- "Criminal"
* Music/{{Apocalyptica}} -- "I Don't Care" (Often {{misattributed|Song}} to Music/ThreeDaysGrace since Adam Gontier sings it)
* Music/Apollo440 -- "Stop The Rock"
* Music/{{Aqua}} -- "Barbie Girl"
* Aranda -- "[=WhyYaWannaBringMeDown=]"
* Music/ArcadeFire -- "Wake Up" or "My Body Is A Cage"
* Music/ArcticMonkeys -- "I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor" (from ''Music/WhateverPeopleSayIAmThatsWhatIAmNot'') or "Do I Wanna Know?" in the UK; unquestionably the latter in the U.S.
* Arch Enemy -- "Nemesis"
* The Archies -- "Sugar, Sugar"
* Music/DavidArchuleta -- "Crush"
* Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti -- "Round and Round"
* Arkona -- "Rus'" for older listeners,"[[Series/TheOfficeUS Yarilo]]" for newer ones
* Music/LouisArmstrong -- "West End Blues", "Potato Head Blues" (collected on ''Music/TheCompleteHotFiveAndHotSevenRecordings''), "Theatre/HelloDolly" and "What a Wonderful World"
* Music/ArtOfDying -- "Die Trying"
* Army of Anyone -- "Goodbye"
* [=AronChupa=] -- "I'm An Albatraoz"
* Music/ArrestedDevelopment -- "Tennessee"
* Music/EduardArtemyev -- "Film/{{Siberiade}}" theme
* James Arthur -- "Say You Won't Let Go"
* Shlomo Artzi -- "At Va'ani"
* A$AP Ferg -- "Work", "Shabba", or "New Level"
* [[Music/ASAPRocky A$AP Rocky]] -- "Fuckin' Problems"
* Cory Asbury -- “Reckless Love”
* Ash -- "Girl from Mars"
* Ashanti -- "Foolish"
* Ashes Divide -- "The Stone"
* Music/{{Asia}} -- "Heat of the Moment"
* Music/AsianKungFuGeneration -- "[[Manga/{{Naruto}} Haruka Kanata]] to western audiences, in Japan it's debatable.
* As It Is -- "Dial Tones"
* Music/AskingAlexandria -- "The Final Episode"
* Music/RickAstley -- Initially either "Never Gonna Give You Up" or "Together Forever", but now indisputably [[JustForFun/{{Rickroll}} the former]].
* Music/AtTheDriveIn -- "One-Armed Scissor"
* Music/AtTheGates -- "Blinded by Fear"
* The Ataris -- Their cover of Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer"
* Athlete -- "Wires"
* Atlantic Starr -- "Always"
* Atlas Genius -- "Trojans"
* Music/{{Atmosphere}} -- "Trying to Find a Balance"
* Music/AtomicKitten -- "[[CoverVersion Eternal Flame", "The Tide is High]]" or "Whole Again"
* Atom Smash -- "Do Her Wrong"
* Atreyu -- "Bleeding Mascara" or "Becoming The Bull"
* Attack -- "Ooa Hela Natten"
* Attack Attack! -- "Stick Stickly"
* Attila -- "About that Life"
* Music/{{Audioslave}} -- "Like a Stone"
* Augustana -- "Boston"
* Music/{{Autechre}} -- "Bike" or "Gantz Graf"
* The Automatic -- "Monster" (from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' among others)
* Autopilot Off -- "Clockwork" or "Make a Sound"
* Music/TheAvalanches -- "Frontier Psychiatrist"
* Mickey Avalon -- "My Dick"
* Music/{{Avantasia}} -- "Dying for an Angel"
* Music/AvengedSevenfold -- By album:
** ''Waking the Fallen'': "[[VideoGame/MaddenNFL Chapter Four]]"
** ''City of Evil'' (and overall) -- "Bat Country" or "Beast and the Harlot"
** ''Avenged Sevenfold'' -- "Almost Easy"
** ''Nightmare'' -- "Nightmare" or "So Far Away"
** ''Hail to the King'' -- "Hail to the King" or "Shepherd of Fire"
** ''The Stage'' -- The title track.
* Music/{{Avicii}} -- "Levels" or "Wake Me Up!" to EDM audiences, unquestionably the latter to mainstream ones.
* Music/{{AWOLNATION}} -- "Sail"
* Axwell /\ Ingrosso -- "Sun Is Shining"
* Music/IggyAzalea -- "Fancy"
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* Music/BBKing -- "[[CoveredUp The Thrill Is Gone]]"
* [[{{Music/Bob}} B.o.B]] -- "Airplanes" or "Nothin' On You" (although the former is just as much associated with [[Music/{{Paramore}} Hayley Williams]] and and the latter almost universally with Music/BrunoMars, who sing their choruses).
* Music/TheB52s -- "Love Shack" or "Rock Lobster"
* Baauer -- [[MemeticMutation "Harlem Shake"]]
* Baby Bash -- "Suga Suga" or "Cyclone"
* Babybird -- "You're Gorgeous"
* Music/{{Babyface}} -- "When Can I See You"
* Music/BabyMetal -- "Gimme Chocolate!!"
* Music/JohannSebastianBach -- "Music/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor" or the "Mass in B minor"
* Tal Bachman -- "She's So High"
* Bachman–Turner Overdrive -- Initially "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"; more recently "Takin' Care Of Business"
* Music/BackstreetBoys -- "I Want It That Way", "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)", and "As Long As You Love Me" are the contenders overall. By album:
** ''Backstreet Boys'' -- "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)"
** ''Backstreet's Back'' -- "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" and "As Long As You Love Me"
** ''Millennium'' -- "I Want It That Way", followed closely by "Larger Than Life"
** ''Black & Blue'' -- "Shape of My Heart"
** ''Never Gone'' -- "Incomplete"
** ''Unbreakable'' -- "Inconsolable"
** ''This Is Us'' -- "Straight Through My Heart"
** ''In a World Like This'' -- The title track
** ''DNA'' -- "Don’t Go Breaking My Heart"
* Music/BadBrains -- "Pay to Cum"
* Music/BadCompany -- "Bad Company" . . . from the album [[SelfTitledAlbum Bad Company]] (and later a hit for Five Finger Death Punch).
* Music/BadLipReading -- "[[Music/RebeccaBlack Gang Fight]]", "[[Music/MichaelBuble Russian Unicorn]]" or “[[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Seagulls! (Stop It Now)]]”
* Music/BadReligion -- "American Jesus", "21st Century Digital Boy", or "Infected"
* Badfinger -- "No Matter What" and "Day After Day" in their heyday; "[[Series/BreakingBad Baby Blue]]" more recently
* Bad Wolves -- "[[Music/TheCranberries Zombie]]", with "Learn to Live" being a close second.
* Music/ErykahBadu -- "Tyrone"
* Music/JoanBaez -- "Diamonds & Rust"
* Bag Raiders -- [[MemeticMutation Shooting Stars]]
* Baha Men -- "Who Let the Dogs Out?"
* Anita Baker -- "Sweet Love"
* Creator/JosephineBaker -- "J'ai deux amours"
* Balance and Composure -- "Quake"
* Balkan Beat Box -- "[[SampledUp Hermetico]]"
* Kelsea Ballerini -- "Love Me Like You Mean It", "Dibs", or "Peter Pan"
* Baltimora -- "[[OneHitWonder Tarzan Boy]]"
* Music/AfrikaBambaataa -- "Planet Rock"
* Music/TheBand -- "The Weight" (from ''Music from Big Pink'')
* BAND-MAID -- "Thrill" or "Real Existence"
* Band of Skulls -- "Death by Diamonds and Pearls", "Light of the Morning" or "Himalayan"
* Music/TheBandPerry -- "If I Die Young"
* Moe Bandy: "Bandy the Rodeo Clown"
* Bang Camaro -- "Push Push (Lady Lightning)"
* Chiddy Bang --"Opposite of Adults"
* Music/TheBangles -- "Walk Like an Egyptian"
* Kirko Bangz -- "Drank In My Cup"
* Music/AzealiaBanks -- "212"
* Music/{{BANKS}} -- "Beggin For Thread"
* David Banner -- "Play"
* The Bar-Kays -- (Original lineup) "Soul Finger", (New Lineup) "Freakshow On The Dance Floor"
* Music/SaraBareilles -- "Love Song"; with "King of Anything" or "Brave" as runners-up.
* Music/BarenakedLadies -- "One Week", "[[WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle One Little Slip]]", or "[[Series/TheBigBangTheory The History of Everything]]"
* Barnes & Barnes -- "Fish Heads"
* Jimmy Barnes -- "Working Class Man"
* Courtney Barnett -- "Pedestrian At Best"
* Music/SydBarrett -- "See Emily Play" or "Astronomy Domine"(from ''Music/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn'') with Music/PinkFloyd, "Dark Globe" as a solo artist
* Toni Basil -- "[[OneHitWonder Mickey]]"
* Music/BasementJaxx -- "Where's Your Head At?"
* Bass Drum of Death -- "Crawling After You"
* Shirley Bassey -- "[[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Goldfinger]]"
* Basshunter -- "[=DotA=]"
* Bastille -- "Pompeii" in the U.S., although "Of the Night" is also a candidate in the UK. "Happier" can also count, although that’s primarily seen as Marshmello’s song.
* Jeff Bates -- "Long Slow Kisses" (particularly the 2004 re-recording)
* Music/BatForLashes -- "Daniel"
* Music/{{Bathory}} -- "A Fine Day to Die" or "One Rode to Asa Bay"
* Music/{{Battles}} -- "[[VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet Atlas]]"
* Music/{{Bauhaus}} -- "Bela Lugosi's Dead"
* James Bay - "Hold Back the River" or "Let It Go"
* Bayside -- "Devotion and Desire" or "Killing Time"
* Bazzi -- "Mine" or "[[Music/CamilaCabello Beautiful]]"
* Music/BeastieBoys -- "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)" (despite the CreatorBacklash) or "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" for their '80s material, "[[Film/StarTrekBeyond Sabotage]]" or "Intergalactic" for their '90s output.
* Music/BeachHouse -- "Norway" or "Zebra"
* Music/TheBeachBoys -- From their psychedelic era: "Good Vibrations" (from ''Music/SmileySmile'') and "God Only Knows" or "Wouldn't It Be Nice" (from ''Music/PetSounds''). From their "surf rock" era: "I Get Around" (from ''All Summer Long''), "California Girls" (from ''Music/SummerDaysAndSummerNights'') and "Surfin' USA" (from the eponymous album). From their post-psychedelic era: "Sail On Sailor" (from ''Music/{{Holland}}'')
* Beartooth -- Initially it was "In Between", but "Hated" later overtook it. However, this seems to have reversed over time and "In Between" is once again considered their signature.
* Music/BeatHappening -- "Indian Summer"
* Music/TheBeatles -- Contenders by album include:
** ''Music/PleasePleaseMe'' -- "Love Me Do"
** ''Music/WithTheBeatles'' -- "All My Love"
** ''Music/AHardDaysNight'' -- "A Hard Day's Night"
** ''Music/BeatlesForSale'' -- "Eight Days a Week"
** ''Music/{{Help}}'' -- "Help!", "Ticket to Ride", or "Yesterday"
** ''Music/RubberSoul'' -- "In My Life"
** ''Music/{{Revolver}}'' -- "Elanor Rigby" or "Yellow Submarine"
** ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' -- "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"
** ''Music/MagicalMysteryTour'' -- "Strawberry Fields Forever"
** ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'' -- "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
** ''Music/YellowSubmarine'' -- "Hey Bulldog"
** ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' -- "Come Together", "Something", or "Here Comes the Sun"
** ''Music/LetItBe'' -- "Let It Be"
** ''Music/PastMasters'' -- "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", or "Hey Jude"
* Music/TheBeautifulSouth -- "Rotterdam"
* Music/{{Beck}} -- "Loser" (from ''Music/MellowGold'')
* Becky G -- "Shower"
* Music/DanielBedingfield -- "Gotta Get Through This" or "[[Film/MaidInManhattan If You're Not The One]]"
* Natasha Bedingfield -- "Unwritten" or "[[Film/EasyA Pocketful of Sunshine]]"
* Music/TheBeeGees -- "Stayin' Alive" overall. By album:
** ''Main Course'' -- "Jive Talkin'"
** ''Children of the World'' -- "You Should Be Dancing"
** ''Film/SaturdayNightFever Soundtrack'' -- "Stayin' Alive", with "Night Fever" and "How Deep is Your Love?" being other contenders.
** ''Spirits Having Flown'' -- "Tragedy"
** ''Still Waters'' -- "Alone"
* Music/LudwigVanBeethoven -- "Ode to Joy" or "Symphony No. 5 in C Minor - 1st Movement"
* Lou Bega -- "[[OneHitWonder Mambo No. 5]]"
* Harry Belafonte -- "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)"
* Bell Biv Devoe -- "Poison"
* Drake Bell -- "[[Series/DrakeAndJosh I Found a Way]]"
* The Bellamy Brothers -- "Let Your Love Flow"
* Music/BelleAndSebastian -- "The Boy with the Arab Strap"
* Jon Bellion -- "All Time Low"
* Belly (rock band) -- "Feed the Tree"
* Belly (rapper) -- "Might Not", although it's more associated with Music/TheWeeknd
* Music/BenFoldsFive -- "Brick"
* BENEE -- "Supalonely"
* Benny Benassi -- "Satisfaction" in Europe; "Cinema" in America
* Music/PatBenatar -- "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" or "Love is a Battlefield"
* Alec Benjamin -- “Let Me Down Slowly”
* Music/MitchBenn -- was "Everything Sounds Like Coldplay Now", is now "Proud of the BBC".
* Music/GeorgeBenson -- "Give Me the Night"
* Music/DierksBentley -- "What Was I Thinkin'" overall. By album:
** ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Dierks Bentley]]'' -- "What Was I Thinkin'"
** ''Modern Day Drifter'' -- "Lot of Leavin' Left to Do", "Come a Little Closer" and "Settle for a Slowdown"
** ''Long Trip Alone'' -- "Every Mile a Memory", "[[TitleTrack Long Trip Alone]]", "Tryin' to Stop Your Leavin'", and "Free and Easy (Down The Road I Go)"
** ''Feel That Fire'' -- "Sideways", "[[TitleTrack Feel That Fire]]" and "I Wanna Make You Close Your Eyes"
** ''Up on the Ridge'' -- "Up on the Ridge"
** ''Home'' -- "Am I the Only One", "Tip It On Back" or "[[TitleTrack Home]]"
** ''Riser'' -- "I Hold On", "Drunk on a Plane" or "Say You Do"
** ''Black'' -- "Somewhere on a Beach" or "Different for Girls"
** ''The Mountain'' -- "Woman, Amen" and "Living"
* Berlin -- [[Film/TopGun "Take My Breath Away"]] (ironically, the one hit single they had that they didn't actually write themselves)
* Music/LeonardBernstein -- "Somewhere", "Tonight", "I Feel Pretty"... Pretty much the entirety of Theatre/WestSideStory
* Music/ChuckBerry -- "[[Film/BackToTheFuture Johnny B. Goode]]"[[note]]even though "My Ding-A-Ling" was his sole #1 hit[[/note]]
* Music/BestCoast -- "Boyfriend"
* Better Than Ezra -- "Good"
* Music/BetweenTheBuriedAndMe -- "White Walls"
* Beware of Darkness -- "Howl"
* Music/{{Beyonce}} -- "Crazy in Love", "Irreplaceable", "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)", "Halo" or "If I Were a Boy"
* Music/JustinBieber -- "Baby" for his TeenIdol era; "Sorry" and "Love Yourself" for his CareerResurrection
* Music/BiffyClyro -- "[[Series/TheXFactor Many of Horror]]", and maybe "[[VideoGame/GuitarHeroLive Victory Over the Sun]]"
* Music/BigAndRich -- Initially "Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)", then "Lost In This Moment," but has since gone back to being "Save A Horse"
* Music/BigBang -- "Fantastic Baby"
* Music/BigBlack -- "Kerosene"
* Music/TheBigBopper - "Chantilly Lace".
* Big Data -- "Dangerous"
* Big L -- "Ebonics"
* Music/BigPun -- "Still Not a Player"
* Music/BigSean -- "Dance (A$$)", "I Don't Fuck With You" or "Bounce Back"
* Music/BigStar -- "September Gurls"
* Music/BigTimeRush -- "Big Time Rush"
* Big Tymers -- "Still Fly"
* Music/BikiniKill -- "Rebel Girl"
* Music/BillHaleyAndHisComets -- "Rock Around the Clock"
* The Bird & The Bee -- "Fucking Boyfriend"
* Birdman -- "Stuntin' Like My Daddy" (shared with Music/LilWayne) or "Money to Blow"
* Birdy -- "Skinny Love"
* Birds of Tokyo -- "Plans" or "Lanterns"
* Music/TheBirthdayMassacre -- "Happy Birthday" or "Blue"
* The Birthday Party -- "Relese the Bats"
* Bishop Bullwinkle -- "Hell to Da Naw Naw Naw"
* Georges Bizet -- "Les Toreadors"
* Music/{{Bjork}} -- "It's Oh So Quiet" (from ''Music/{{Post}}'')
* Aloe Blacc -- Overall, his uncredited appearance on Avicii's "Wake Me Up!"; for his solo work, "I Need a Dollar" in Europe and "The Man" in North America
* Black -- "Wonderful Life"
* blackbear -- “do re mi”
* Music/RebeccaBlack -- "Music/{{Friday}}"
** Mike Bauer -- "Friday, as performed by Bob Dylan"
** Funnyz -- "Friday (Music Video Parody)" (AKA the "Fried Eggs" parody)
* Music/TheBlackCrowes -- Their cover of Otis Redding's "Hard to Handle"; "She Talks to Angels" for their original work.
* Music/BlackEyedPeas -- used to be "Where is the Love?", then "Let's Get It Started" or "My Humps", now "I Gotta Feeling"
** will.i.am -- "Scream & Shout"
** Fergie -- "Big Girls Don't Cry" or "Fergalicious"
* Music/BlackFlag -- "Rise Above"
** The Rollins Band -- "Liar"
* Music/TheBlackKeys -- "Tighten Up", "Howlin' For You", "Lonely Boy", or, for newer fans, "Gold On The Ceiling". Prior to ''Music/{{Brothers}}'', it was "Strange Times".
** The Arcs -- "Outta My Mind"
* Blackfoot -- "Highway Song" or "Train, Train" (both from ''Strikes'')
* Black Lab -- "Wash it Away"
* Music/BlackLabelSociety -- "Stillborn"
* Black Stone Cherry -- "White Trash Millionaire"
* BLΛNK BΛNSHΣΣ - "Teen Pregnancy"
* Algebra Blessett -- "Nobody But You"
* Blessid Union of Souls -- Initially "I Believe", but has been gradually displaced by "Hey Leonardo (She Likes Me For Me)"; [[Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie Brother My Brother]]" for ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' fans.
* Music/BlackSabbath -- "[[Film/ThreeHundredRiseOfAnEmpire War Pigs]]", "Paranoid", or "Iron Man", depending on where you live
** Music/RonnieJamesDio era -- "Heaven & Hell"
* [[Creator/AndyBiersack Andy Black]] -- "We Don't Have To Dance"
* Music/BlackVeilBrides -- "In the End"
* Benny Blanco -- "Eastside" (shared with Halsey and Khalid)
* Bleachers -- "I Wanna Get Better"
* Music/MaryJBlige -- "Be Without You" or "Family Affair","Not Gonna Cry", or even "Real Love"
* Music/BlindGuardian -- "The Bard's Song, "In the Forest" or "Mirror Mirror"
* Music/BlindMelon -- "[[OneHitWonder No Rain]]"
* Music/{{Blink 182}} -- "All the Small Things" overall. By album:
** ''Dude Ranch'' -- "Dammit"
** ''Enema of the State'' -- "All the Small Things" (though "What's My Age Again?" and "Adam's Song" could count to alt radio listeners)
** ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket'' -- "The Rock Show" and “First Date”
** ''Blink-182'' -- "I Miss You"
** ''Neighborhoods'' -- "Up All Night"
** ''California'' -- "Bored to Death" or "She's Out Of My Mind"
* Music/BlocParty -- "Helicopter" or "Banquet"
* Music/{{Blondie}} -- "One Way or Another" [[note]]previously "Heart of Glass"[[/note]]
* Music/BloodhoundGang -- "The Bad Touch", and to a lesser extent "Fire Water Burn"
* Blue -- "All Rise"
* Jonas Blue -- "[[Music/TracyChapman Fast]] [[CoverVersion Car]]", "Perfect Strangers", "Mama" and "Rise"
* Blue Cheer -- "Summertime Blues"
* Music/BlueOysterCult -- "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (from ''Music/AgentsOfFortune'') "Godzilla", "or Burnin For You"
* Blue October -- "Hate Me"
* Music/BlueStahli -- "Ultranumb"
* Blues Traveler -- "Run-Around"
* Blue Swede -- "[[CoveredUp Hooked on a Feeling]]"
* Music/JamesBlunt -- "You're Beautiful"
* Music/{{Blur}} -- "Song 2" in the US, "Parklife" in the UK
* Blut Aus Nord -- "Epitome I"
* Music/BoardsOfCanada -- "Roygbiv"
* Bon Iver -- "Skinny Love" or "Blood Bank"
* Music/BonJovi -- "Livin' on a Prayer" is this, although "You Give Love a Bad Name", "Wanted Dead or Alive", "Always" and "It's My Life" aren't far behind in popularity.
** Creator/JonBonJovi -- "Blaze of Glory"
* Bone Crusher -- "(I Ain't) Never Scared"
* Music/BoneThugsNHarmony -- "Tha Crossroads"
* Boney M. -- "Rasputin"
* Music/TheBooRadleys -- "Wake Up Boo!"
* A Boogie wit da Hoodie — “Drowning”
* Booker T. & the M.G.'s -- "Green Onions"
* The Boomtown Rats -- "I Don't Like Mondays"
* Booty Luv -- "Boogie 2Nite"
* Bossfight -- "[[VideoGame/JustShapesAndBeats Milky Ways]]"
* Music/{{Boston}} -- "More Than a Feeling"
* Music/DavidBowie -- "Space Oddity", and ""Heroes"" overall. By album:
** ''Music/DavidBowie1967'' -- While the album's obscurity and generally poor reception makes it hard to pin down a signature song, "Rubber Band" might come closest on the virtue of it being the lead single.
** ''Music/SpaceOddity'' -- "Space Oddity"
** ''Music/TheManWhoSoldTheWorld'' -- "The Man Who Sold the World"
** ''Music/HunkyDory'' -- "Changes" or "Life on Mars?"
** ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' -- "Ziggy Stardust" or "Starman"
** ''Music/AladdinSane'' -- "The Jean Genie"
** ''Music/DiamondDogs'' -- "Rebel Rebel"
** ''Music/YoungAmericans'' -- "Fame"
** ''Music/StationToStation'' -- "Golden Years"
** ''Music/LowDavidBowieAlbum'' -- "Sound and Vision"
** ''Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum'' -- ""Heroes""
** ''Music/{{Lodger}}'' -- "Boys Keep Swinging"
** ''Music/ScaryMonstersAndSuperCreeps'' -- "Ashes to Ashes"
** ''Music/LetsDance'' -- "Let's Dance"
** ''Music/{{Tonight}}'' -- "Loving the Alien" or "Blue Jean"
** ''Music/NeverLetMeDown'' -- "Time Will Crawl"
** ''Music/BlackTieWhiteNoise'' -- "Jump They Say"
** ''[[Music/{{Outside}} 1. Outside]]'' -- "The Hearts Filthy Lesson" or "Hallo Spaceboy" (specifically the Music/PetShopBoys remix)
** ''Music/{{Earthling}}'' -- "I'm Afraid of Americans"
** ''Music/{{Hours}}'' -- "Thurdsay's Child"
** ''Music/{{Heathen}}'' -- "Slow Burn"
** ''Music/{{Reality}}'' -- "New Killer Star" or "Bring Me the Disco King"
** ''Music/TheNextDay'' -- "Where Are We Now"
** ''[[Music/BlackstarAlbum ★]]'' -- "Lazarus"
* Music/BowlingForSoup -- "1985"
* Bow Wow -- "Fresh Azimiz"
* Boys Like Girls -- "The Great Escape"
* Music/BoyzIIMen -- "End of the Road" or "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday"
* Music/{{Boyzone}} -- "No Matter What" or/and "I Love The Way You Love Me"
** Music/RonanKeating -- "[[Film/NottingHill When You Say Nothing At All]]"
** Music/StephenGately -- "New Beginning"
* Creator/WayneBrady -- "Ordinary"
* Music/BillyBragg -- "A New England"
* Music/GeorgesBrassens -- "Les Copains D' Abord"
* Creator/JohannesBrahms — Lullaby (Wiegenlied) in E Flat (often referred to as "Brahms' Lullaby")
* Brainpower -- "Dansplaat" in Europe; "[[Podcast/WelcometoNightVale Mijn Manier]]" to a certain desert community.
* Music/MichelleBranch -- "Everywhere"
* Music/BrandNew -- "Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades"
* Brand New Heavies -- [[CoverVersion "Midnight at the Oasis"]]
* Brand New Sin -- "[[Wrestling/BigShow Crank it Up]]"
* Music/{{Brandy}} -- "I Wanna Be Down", "Have You Ever?" or even "Sittin' Up in My Room"
* Toni Braxton -- "Un-Break My Heart"
* Breakbot -- "Baby I'm Yours"
* Music/BreakingBenjamin -- "The Diary of Jane" overall. By album:
** ''Saturate'' -- "Polyamorous"
** ''We Are Not Alone'' -- "So Cold"
*** ''So Cold EP'' -- "[[VideoGame/Halo2 Blow Me Away]]"
** ''Phobia'' -- "The Diary of Jane"
** ''Dear Agony'' -- "I Will Not Bow"
** ''Dark Before Dawn'' -- "Failure"
** ''Ember'' -- "Torn in Two"
** ''Aurora'' -- "Far Away"
* Breathe Carolina -- "Blackout"
* Music/JacquesBrel -- "Ne Me Quitte Pas" and "Le Plat Pays"
* Edie Brickell & New Bohemians -- "What I Am"
* Brick + Mortar -- "Locked in a Cage", or their cover of "Voodoo Child"
* Bright Eyes -- "Lua" or "First Day of My Life"
* Music/BringMeTheHorizon -- By album:
** ''Count Your Blessings'' -- "Pray For Plagues"
** ''Suicide Season'' -- "Chelsea Smile''
** ''There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret'' -- "Crucify Me" or "It Never Ends"
** ''Sempiternal'' -- "Can You Feel My Heart", "Sleepwalking" or "Shadow Moses"
** ''That's the Spirit'' -- "Throne"
** ''amo'' -- "Medicine"
** Overall -- "Throne" and "Sleepwalking" are the most common candidates. "Pray For Plagues" and "Chelsea Smile" are this instead for their {{deathcore}}[=/=]{{metalcore}} era.
* Music/GarthBrooks -- "The Dance" or "Friends in Low Places"
* Meredith Brooks -- "Bitch"
* Brooks & Dunn -- "Boot Scootin' Boogie"
* The Brothers Johnson -- "[[Film/PulpFiction Strawberry Letter 23]]"
* Blanco Brown -- “The Git Up”
* Music/ChrisBrown -- By album:
** ''Chris Brown'': "Run It!"
** ''Exclusive'': "Forever"
** ''Graffiti'': “I Can Transform Ya”
** ''F.A.M.E.'': “Look At Me Now”
** ''Fortune'': “Don’t Wake Me Up”
** ''X'': “Loyal”
** ''Fan of a Fan: The Album'': “Ayo” (shared with Tyga)
** ''Royalty'': “Back to Sleep”
** ''Heartbreak on a Full Moon'': “Party”
** ''Indigo'': “No Guidance”
* Music/HavanaBrown -- "We Run The Night"
* Music/JamesBrown -- "I Got You (I Feel Good)"
* Sawyer Brown -- "Drive Me Wild"
* Music/ZacBrownBand -- "Chicken Fried" (and, to a lesser degree, "Toes") plus "[[Music/ChrisCornell Heavy is the Head]]" for rock audiences
* Music/JacksonBrowne -- "Doctor My Eyes"
* Brownsville Station -- "Smokin' in the Boys Room"
* Brothers Osborne -- "Stay a Little Longer"
* The Dave Brubeck Quartet -- "Take Five"
* Luke Bryan -- "That's My Kind Of Night"
* Chase Bryant -- "Take It On Back"
* Peabo Bryson -- "If Ever You're in My Arms Again" or "Can You Stop the Rain"
* Music/{{BT}} -- "Flaming June"
* Music/{{BTS}} -- "Dynamite", at least in America.
* Music/MichaelBuble -- "Haven't Met You Yet"
* Joe Budden -- "Pump It Up"
* Music/{{Buckethead}} -- "[[VideoGame/GuitarHero Jordan]]"
* Music/{{Buckcherry}} -- "Crazy Bitch" to rock audiences; "Sorry" to mainstream audiences
* Music/JeffBuckley -- His [[CoveredUp cover]] of Music/LeonardCohen's "Hallelujah"
* Music/TimBuckley -- "Song to the Siren"
* Buckner & Garcia -- "Pac-Man Fever"
* Buckwheat Boyz -- "Peanut Butter Jelly Time"
* Music/BuffaloSpringfield -- "For What It's Worth"
* Music/JimmyBuffett -- "Margaritaville"
* Music/TheBuggles -- [[{{Creator/MTV}} "Video Killed the Radio Star"]]
* Building 147 -- "Where I Belong"
* Music/BuiltToSpill -- "Car"
* Music/BulletForMyValentine -- "Tears Don't Fall", with "You Want a Battle? (Here's a War)" becoming a strong contender.
* Music/EmmaBunton -- "What Took You So Long?"
* Music/{{Burial}} -- "Archangel"
* Solomon Burke -- "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" or "Got to Get You Off My Mind"
* Burn Halo -- "Dirty Little Girl"
* Peter Bursuker -- "[[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon No Chance in Hell]]"
* Music/{{Burzum}} -- "Dunkelheit" or "My Journey to the Stars"
* Bush -- "Everything Zen", "Comedown", "Swallowed", and "Glycerine" are the frontrunners
* Music/KateBush -- "Wuthering Heights" or "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)"
* Stan Bush -- "[[WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie The Touch]]"
* Music/BustaRhymes -- "Woo-Hah!! Got You All In Check"
* Music/{{Busted}} -- "Year 3000"
** "What I Go to School For."
* Music/ButtholeSurfers -- "Pepper"
* Armin van Buuren -- "This Is What It Feels Like"
* Music/{{Buzzcocks}} -- "Ever Fallen In Love" or "Everybody's Happy Nowadays"
* Music/TheByrds -- [[CoveredUp "Mr. Tambourine Man]] (from ''Music/MrTambourineMan'') or [[CoveredUp "Turn, Turn, Turn"]] (from ''Turn! Turn! Turn!'')
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* Music/TheCab -- “Angel with a Shotgun”
* Cabaret Voltaire -- "Yashar"
* Caesars -- "Jerk It Out"
* Music/JohnCage -- "4'33"" [[note]][[SilenceIsGolden So his most famous song is literally nothing...]][[/note]]
* Music/CageTheElephant -- "[[VideoGame/{{Borderlands}} Ain't No Rest For the Wicked]]"
* [=Cage9=] -- "[[Wrestling/DolphZiggler I am Perfection]]"
* Bobby Caldwell -- "What You Won't Do For Love"
* Cali Swag District -- "Teach Me How to Dougie"
* Music/ColbieCaillat -- "Bubbly"
* Music/{{CAKE}} -- "The Distance"
* Music/TheCalling -- "Wherever You Will Go"
* Cab Calloway -- "Minnie the Moocher"
* Cam -- "Burning House"
* Music/{{Camel}} -- "Echoes" or "Lady Fantasy"
* Cameo -- "Word Up!"
* Blu Cantrell -- "Hit 'Em Up Style!"
* Craig Campbell -- "Keep Them Kisses Comin'"
* Music/CamperVanBeethoven -- "Take the Skinheads Bowling"
* Music/{{Can}} -- For their EpicRocking style, "Yoo Doo Right" or "Halleluwah". For their more [[RadioFriendliness radio friendly]] side, "Spoon".
* Cancer Killing Gemini -- "[[Wrestling/CoreyGraves Christcontrol]]"
* Candlebox -- "Far Behind"
* Music/{{Candlemass}} -- "Demon's Gate" or "The Black Dwarf"
* Music/CannedHeat -- "Going Up the Country"
* Music/CannibalCorpse -- "Hammer Smashed Face"
* Lewis Capaldi -- "Someone You Loved" worldwide, although in the UK this is debatable
* Capital Cities -- "Safe & Sound"
* Tim Cappello -- "I Still Believe"
* Music/CaptainAndTennille -- Probably "Love Will Keep Us Together", though "The Way I Want to Touch You", "Muskrat Love", and "Do That to Me One More Time" are contenders.
* Music/AlessiaCara -- "Here"
* Caramell -- "[[MemeticMutation Caramelldansen]]"
* Music/{{Caravan}} -- For their serious side "Nine Feet Underground", for their poppy, whimsical side "Golf Girl".
* Music/CaravanPalace -- "Lone Digger"
* Music/{{Carcass}} -- "Heartwork" or "Corporal Jigsore Quandary"
* Music/TheCardigans -- "Lovefool"
* Ian Carey -- "Amnesia"
* Music/MariahCarey -- "Vision of Love", "Hero", or "Fantasy" for her earlier era; "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and "We Belong Together" for more recent endeavors
* Caribou -- "Odessa"
* Music/CardiB -- "Bodak Yellow" or “I Like It”, "WAP"
* Belinda Carlisle -- "Heaven Is a Place on Earth"
* Music/{{Carpenters}} — By album:
** ''Close to You'': "(They Long to Be) Close to You", "We've Only Just Begun"
** ''Carpenters'': "For All We Know", "Rainy Days and Mondays", "Superstar"
** ''A Song for You'': "Top of the World", "Hurting Each Other"
** ''Now & Then'': "Sing", "Yesterday Once More"
* Kim Carnes -- [[CoveredUp "Bette Davis Eyes"]]
* Music/VanessaCarlton -- "A Thousand Miles"
* Eric Carmen -- "All By Myself" or "[[Film/DirtyDancing Hungry Eyes]]"
* Music/TheCars -- "Just What I Needed"
* Music/SofiaCarson -- "Back to Beautiful" [[note]]with Alan Walker[[/note]]
* Music/AaronCarter -- "Aaron's Party (Come Get It)" for his teen idol era; "Fool's Gold" for his later work
* Clarence Carter -- "Strokin'"
* Music/{{Cascada}} -- "Everytime We Touch"
* Music/{{The Cascades}} -- "Rhythmn of the Falling Rain"
* Music/JohnnyCash -- "A Boy Named Sue", "Ring of Fire" and "I Walk the Line"; for his later-day material, his cover of Music/NineInchNails' "Hurt"
* Music/CashCash -- "Take Me Home"
* Ca$h Out -- "Cashing Out"
* Eva Cassidy -- "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" or "Fields of Gold"
* Cassie -- "Me & U"
* Catatonia -- "Road Rage" or "Mulder & Scully"
* Music/{{Cathedral}} -- "Hopkins (The Witchfinder General)"
* Music/NickCave -- "Red Right Hand" (from ''Music/LetLoveIn'') (or "[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows O Children]]" for Franchise/HarryPotter fans)
* Cavo -- "Champagne"
* Cazwell -- "Ice Cream Truck"
* Music/CeeLoGreen -- "Fuck/Forget You!"
** Music/GnarlsBarkley -- "Crazy"
** Goodie Mob -- "Cell Therapy"
* Music/{{Celldweller}} -- "Switchback" or, for their orchestral works, "[[Film/RealSteel Wings of Icarus]]"
** Circle of Dust -- "Nothing Sacred", "Contagion" post-return
** Scandroid -- "Salvation Code"
* Wrestling/JohnCena -- "My Time Is Now"
* Music/CelticFrost -- "Circle of The Tyrants" or "Into Crypt of Rays"
* Peter Cetera -- "Glory of Love"
* Chad & Jeremy -- "A Summer Song"
* Music/TheChainsmokers -- "Closer", with "Don't Let Me Down" a clear second; "#[=SELFIE=]" prior to 2016.
* Chairmen of the Board -- "Give Me Just a Little More Time"
* The Chambers Brothers -- "Time Has Come Today"
* Chamillionare -- "Ridin'"
* The Champs -- "Tequila"
* Chance the Rapper -- "No Problem"
* Gene Chandler -- "Duke of Earl"
* Music/HarryChapin -- "Cats in the Cradle"
* Music/TracyChapman -- "Fast Car" was her biggest hit, though "Talkin' 'Bout A Revolution" is probably about equal in the Signature Song stakes.
* The Charlatans -- "The Only One I Know"
* Music/RayCharles -- "Georgia On My Mind" or "Hit The Road Jack"
* Tina Charles -- "I Love to Love (But My Baby Just Loves to Dance)"
* Music/CharliXCX -- "[[Film/TheFaultInOurStars Boom Clap]]"
* Music/CheapTrick -- "I Want You to Want Me" or "Surrender" (or "The Flame" for their later material)
* Oliver Cheatham -- "Get Down Saturday Night"
* Chubby Checker -- "The Twist"
* Music/TheChemicalBrothers:
** ''Exit Planet Dust'': "Chemical Beats" or "Leave Home"
** ''Dig Your Own Hole'': "Block Rockin' Beats" or "Elektrobank"
** ''Surrender'': "Hey Boy, Hey Girl" or "Under The Influence"
** ''Come with Us'': "Star Guitar"
** ''Push the Button'': "Galvanize"
** ''We Are the Night'': "Do It Again" or "The Salmon Dance"
** ''Further'': "Swoon"
** ''Born in the Echoes'': "Go", "Under Neon Lights" or "Wide Open"
** ''No Geography'': "We've Got To Try"
** Overall: "Hey Boy, Hey Girl", "Galvanize", "Do It Again" and "Go" are their most well-known songs in the mainstream crowd; their fanbase would more than likely instead point at "Block Rockin' Beats" or "Elektrobank" as their signature songs.
* Music/{{Cher}} -- "Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves" for her older work, "If I Could Turn Back Time" or "Believe" for her newer material.
* Cherish -- "Do It To It"
* Music/{{Chevelle}} -- "The Red", "Send The Pain Below" or, for newer fans, "Face to the Floor"
* Eagle-Eye Cherry -- "Save Tonight"
* Neneh Cherry -- "Buffalo Stance"
* Cherry Poppin' Daddies -- "Zoot Suit Riot"
* Music/CherylCole -- "Fight For This Love"
* Music/KennyChesney -- "The Good Stuff"
* Creator/MauriceChevalier -- "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" (at least in America). In France "Valentine" is considered to be his SignatureSong.
* Music/{{Chic}} -- "Le Freak", with "Good Times" in second place
* Music/{{Chicago}} -- "25 or 6 to 4"; "Hard To Say I'm Sorry" for their adult-contemporary period
* Chicane -- "Don't Give Up (with Music/BryanAdams)" or "Saltwater"
* Music/ChiefKeef -- "I Don't Like"
* The Chiffons -- "He's So Fine"
* Music/ChildrenOfBodom -- "Needled 24/7" or "Are You Dead Yet?"
* The Chi-Lites -- "Have You Seen Her" or "Oh Girl"
* Music/{{Chimaira}} -- "Pure Hatred"
* Chingy -- "Right Thurr"
* [[WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks The Chipmunks]] -- "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)"
* Music/{{Chiodos}} -- "Baby, You Wouldn't Last A Minuite on The Creek"
* Music/FryderykChopin -- "Funeral March"
* The Chords -- "Sh-Boom"
* The Chordettes -- "Mr. Sandman" or "Lollipop"
* Lou Christie -- "Lightning Strikes"
* Chromeo -- "Jealous (I Ain't With It)"
* Music/{{Chumbawamba}} -- "Tubthumping"
* Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! -- "In Friends We Trust"
* Eric Church -- "Springsteen" or "Drink in my Hand"
* The Church -- "Under the Milky Way"
* Music/{{CHVRCHES}} -- "The Mother We Share"
* Music/{{Ciara}} -- "Goodies" or "1, 2 Step"
* Creator/NeilCicierega -- "Bustin"
** Music/LemonDemon -- "Music/TheUltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny"
* Music/{{Cimorelli}} -- "Made in America" or "Hearts on Fire"
* Circa Survive -- "The Difference Between Medicine and Drugs is in the Dose"
* Creator/CirqueDuSoleil -- "Theatre/{{Alegria}}" (the only song that appears in some way on each of their first three [[GreatestHitsAlbum greatest hits albums]]) or "[[Theatre/{{Mystere}} Kunya Sobe]]".
* Citizen King -- "Better Days (And the Bottom Drops Out)"
* City Girls -- "Act Up"
* City High -- "What Would You Do?"
* Civil Twilight -- "Letters From the Sky"
* The Civil Wars -- "Barton Hollow"
* Music/EricClapton -- "Tears in Heaven" and "Wonderful Tonight"
* Dave Clark Five -- "Glad All Over"
* Petula Clark -- "Downtown"
* Jeremiah Clarke — "Prince of Denmark's March", often incorrectly known as "Trumpet Voluntary"
* Gary Clark Jr. -- "Bright Lights"
* Music/KellyClarkson -- Overall : “Since U Been Gone“ or "Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)“. By album:
** ''Thankful'': “Miss Independent”
** ''Breakaway'': “Since U Been Gone”
** ''My December'': “Never Again”
** ''All I Ever Wanted'': “My Life Would Suck Without You”
** ''Stronger'': The title track
** ''Piece by Piece'': “Heartbeat Song”
** ''Meaning of Life'': “Love So Soft”
* Alex Clare -- "Too Close"
* Music/TheClash -- "London Calling" (from ''Music/LondonCalling'') or "Should I Stay Or Should I Go", with "Rock the Casbah" very close behind
* Classified -- "Inner Ninja"
* Classixx -- "All You're Waiting For"
* Music/CleanBandit -- "Rather Be" and "Rockabye"
* The Click Five -- "Just the Girl"
* Clipse -- "Grinding"
* Music/{{Clutch}} -- "Electric Worry"
* Music/CNBlue -- "I'm A Loner"
* Music/CoalChamber -- "Loco"
* The Coasters -- "Yakety Yak", "Charlie Brown", or "[[Film/DeathProof Down in Mexico]]"
* Music/CobraStarship -- "Good Girls Go Bad" or "You Make Me Feel…"
* Tom Cochrane -- "Life Is a Highway"
* Joe Cocker -- His [[CoveredUp cover]] of "[[Music/TheBeatles With a Little Help from My Friends]]"
* Code Orange -- "Forever" or "Bleeding in the Blur"
* Music/CoheedAndCambria -- "[[WesternAnimation/{{Nine}} Welcome]] [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} Home]]" or "A Favor House Atlantic"
* Music/LeonardCohen -- "Hallelujah"
** "Suzanne" (from ''Music/SongsOfLeonardCohen'') or "Bird on the Wire" (from ''Songs from a Room'') in his earlier period
* Marc Cohn -- "Walking In Memphis"
* Cold -- "Stupid Girl"
* Music/ColdChisel -- "Khe Sahn"
* Music/{{Coldplay}} -- "Clocks", "The Scientist", "Yellow" and "Viva La Vida" overall. By album:
** ''Parachutes'' -- "Yellow"
** ''A Rush of Blood to the Head'' -- "Clocks" or/and "The Scientist"
** ''X&Y'' -- Originally "Speed of Sound", but overtime became "Fix You"
** ''Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends'' -- "Viva la Vida"
** ''Mylo Xyloto'' -- "Paradise"
** ''Ghost Stories'' -- "A Sky Full of Stars"
** ''A Head Full of Dreams'' -- "Adventure of a Lifetime" or "Hymn for the Weekend"
* Cold War Kids -- "First"
* Alias Conrad Coldwood -- "[[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Pepper Steak]]"
* Music/JCole -- "Work Out" or "No Role Modelz"
* Keyshia Cole -- "I Should've Cheated" or "Let It Go"
* Music/NatKingCole -- "Unforgettable" or "Mona Lisa"; "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" becomes this during the holidays
* Natalie Cole -- "Inseparable" or "This Will Be"
* Music/PaulaCole -- Initially either "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" or [[Series/DawsonsCreek "I Don't Want To Wait"]], but now indisputably the latter
* Creator/{{Zendaya}} -- "Replay"
* Coleman Hell -- "2 Heads"
* Music/CollectiveSoul -- "Shine"
* Edwyn Collins -- [[Film/EmpireRecords "A Girl Like You"]]
* Judy Collins -- "Both Sides Now"
* Music/PhilCollins -- "In the Air Tonight" (from ''Music/FaceValue'')
* Colonel Loud -- "California"
* Color Me Badd -- "[[Film/NewJackCity I Wanna Sex You Up]]"
* Shawn Colvin -- "Sunny Came Home"
* Combichrist -- "Get Your Body Beat"
* The Commodores -- "Brick House". "Machine Gun" runs it close, though, especially in Africa
* Common -- "Glory" or “I Used to Love H.E.R.”
* Music/ConquerDivide -- "Nightmares"
* Music/{{Coolio}} -- "[[Film/DangerousMinds Gangsta's Paradise]]"
* Music/AliceCooper -- "School's Out"; second place is between "Poison" or "No More Mr. Nice Guy"
* Music/{{Copeland}} -- "No One Really Wins"
* The Coral -- "Dreaming of You"
* Core -- "Angle"
* Music/{{Cormorant}} -- "Junta"
* Music/{{Cornershop}} -- "Brimful of Asha"
* Corinne Bailey Rae -- "Put Your Records On"
* Corona -- "The Rhythm of the Night"
* Music/TheCorrs -- "Runaway" or/and "Breathless" (in the U.S it's the latter, internationally it's undisputedly the former)
* Corrosion of Conformity -- "Albatross" or "Clean My Wounds" (both from ''Deliverance'')
* Cosmic Gate -- "Exploration Of Space"
* Music/{{cosMo}} -- Depending on whether you ask the Music/{{VOCALOID}} fanbase or the ''VideoGame/SoundVoltex'' fanbase: "The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku" or "For [=UltraPlayers=]", respectively.
* Music/ElvisCostello -- "Pump It Up" (from ''Music/ThisYearsModel'') and "I Want You" (from ''Music/BloodAndChocolate'')
* Music/JonathanCoulton -- "[[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Still Alive]]"
* Course of Nature -- "Caught in the Sun"
* Music/NadineCoyle -- "Insatiable"
* Music/CountingCrows -- "Mr. Jones"
* Music/{{Covenant}} -- "Dead Stars"
* Bucky Covington -- "A Different World"
* Deborah Cox -- "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here"
* Cracker -- Previously either "Low" or "Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)"; now unarguably the former.
* Music/CradleOfFilth -- "Her Ghost in the Fog"
* Music/TheCramps -- "Human Fly"
* Music/TheCranberries -- "Zombie" or "Linger"
* Music/CrashTestDummies -- "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm"
* Crash Kings -- "Mountain Man"
* Music/CreatureFeature -- "The Greatest Show Unearthed", or "A Gorey Demise".
* Music/{{Cream}} -- "Sunshine of Your Love"
* Music/{{Creed}} -- "Higher" or "With Arms Wide Open"
* Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival -- "Fortunate Son" (from ''Music/WillyAndThePoorBoys'') and "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" and "Bad Moon Rising" are likely their three best-known hits. "Down on the Corner" (also from the aforementioned album), "Proud Mary", "Up Around the Bend" and "Lookin' Out My Back Door" are all very close behind.
** John Fogerty -- "Centerfield", with "The Old Man Down The Road" very close behind.
* Crobot -- "Nowhere to Hide"
* Music/JimCroce -- "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", "You Don't Mess Around With Jim" or "Time in a Bottle".
* Music/CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung -- "Woodstock"
* Christopher Cross -- "Ride Like the Wind" or "Sailing"
** Honorable mention for [[Film/{{Arthur}} "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)"]], but that's ''really'' the signature song from its source movie (see Film on the main page) to the point that when Cross performs it in concert it doubles as a tribute to lead actor Creator/DudleyMoore.
* Crossfade -- "Cold"
* Music/SherylCrow -- "All I Wanna Do" or “Soak Up the Sun”
* Music/{{Crowbar}} -- "All I Had (I Gave)"
* Music/CrowdedHouse -- "Don't Dream It's Over"
* Mark Crozer and the Rels -- "[[Wrestling/TheWyattFamily Live in Fear]] [[Wrestling/BrayWyatt (Broken Out in Love)]]"
* Music/{{Crush 40}} -- "[[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 Live and Learn]]" and "[[VideoGame/SonicAdventure Open Your Heart]]"
* Music/TheCruxshadows -- "Birthday"
* Taio Cruz -- "Dynamite" or "Break Your Heart"
* Music/CrystalCastles -- "Vanished"
* Music/CrystalLake -- "Apollo"
* The Crystal Method -- "Name of the Game"
* Music/{{Cryoshell}} -- "[[Toys/{{BIONICLE}} Creeping in my Soul]]"
* Culture Beat -- "Mr Vain"
* Culture Club -- "Karma Chameleon" or "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?"
* Cupcakke -- "Deepthroat"
* Cupid -- "Cupid Shuffle"
* Music/TheCure -- "Love Song", "Just Like Heaven", or "Friday I'm In Love"
* Music/BillyCurrington -- "Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right" or "People Are Crazy"
* Music/CutCopy -- "Lights and Music" or "Hearts on Fire"
* Cutting Crew -- "(I Just) Died in Your Arms"
* Cybotron -- "Clear"
* Music/{{Cynic}} -- "Veil of Maya"
* Music/CypressHill -- "Insane in the Brain" overall. By album:
** ''Cypress Hill'' -- "How I Could Just Kill a Man"
** ''Black Sunday'' -- "Insane in the Brain"
** ''III: Temples of Booms'' -- "Throw You Set in the Air"
** ''IV'' -- "Dr. Greenthumb"
** ''Skull & Bones" -- "(Rock) Superstar"
** ''Stoned Raiders" -- "Lowrider"
** ''Till Death Do Us Apart'' -- "What's Your Number"
** ''Rise Up'' -- The title track.
* Music/BillyRayCyrus -- "Achy Breaky Heart"
* Music/MileyCyrus -- "Party in the USA" for her Disney-era material; "Wrecking Ball" for her mature era
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* Music/{{D}} -- "Night-ship "D""
* Music/DaYoopers — "Second Week of Deer Camp", "Rusty Chevrolet", or "Grandpa Got Run Over by a Beer Truck"
* Daddy Yankee -- "Rompe", "Gasolina" or "Despacito"
* Dae Dae -- "Wat U Mean (Aye, Aye, Aye)"
* Music/DaftPunk -- Overall: "One More Time" and "Around the World" for their earlier work, "Get Lucky" for their newer work. By album:
** ''Music/{{Homework}}'' -- "Around the World"
** ''Music/{{Discovery}}'' -- "One More Time" or "Harder Better Faster Stronger"
** ''Human After All'' -- "[[SampledUp Robot Rock]]" or "Technologic"
** ''Music/RandomAccessMemories'' -- "Get Lucky"
*** Stardust -- "[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Music Sounds Better With You]]", which couldn't be helped as it was the ''[[OneBookAuthor only song]]'' they ever recorded.
*** Thomas Bangalter -- "Club Soda" or "[[Film/{{Irreversible}} Rectum]]"
* Gigi D'Agostino -- In his native Italy and continental Europe during the 2000s, it's either "L'Amour Toujours", "La Passion" or the cover version of "[[Music/NikKershaw The Riddle]]", while in the UK, it's "In My Mind".
* Lauren Daigle -- "You Say" to secular audiences, rivaled by "Trust in You" to her core Christian fanbase.
* The Damned -- "New Rose"
* Music/DickDale -- "[[Film/PulpFiction Misirlou]]"
* Music/DanAndShay -- “Tequila”, while one of several candidates for country audiences, is indisputably this outside that demographic.
* Music/TheDandyWarhols -- "Bohemian Like You" or "[[Series/VeronicaMars We Used to Be Friends]]"
* The Charlie Daniels Band -- "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"
* Danity Kane -- "Damaged"
* Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip -- "Thou Shalt Always Kill"
* Music/{{Danzig}} -- "Mother"
* Terence Trent D'Arby -- "Wishing Well" or "Sign Your Name"
* Music/BobbyDarin -- "Splish Splash" or "Mack the Knife"
* The Darkness -- "I Believe in a Thing Called Love"
* Dark New Day -- "Brother"
* Music/{{Darkthrone}} -- "Transilvanian Hunger"
* Music/DarkTranquillity -- "Lethe" or "Punish My Heaven"
* Darude -- "Sandstorm"
* Roscoe Dash -- "Show Out"
* Dash Rip Rock -- "(Let's Go) Smoke Some Pot"
* Music/{{Daughtry}} -- "It's Not Over" and "There and Back Again"
* Craig David -- "Fill Me In" or "7 Days"
* Creator/BetteDavis -- "They're Either Too Young Or Too Old"
* Music/MilesDavis -- "So What" (from ''Music/KindOfBlue'') or "Bitches Brew" (from ''Music/BitchesBrew'')
* Paul Davis -- "I Go Crazy"
* Creator/SammyDavisJr -- "[[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory The]] [[CoveredUp Candy Man]]"
* Skeeter Davis -- "The End of the World"
* Andra Day -- "Rise Up"
* Howie Day -- "Collide"
* Music/{{Daya}} -- "Hide Away" or maybe "Sit Still, Look Pretty" as a solo artist, but overall she is best known as the vocalist on The Chainsmokers' "Don't Let Me Down".
* Days of the New -- "Touch, Peel and Stand"
* DC Talk -- "Jesus Freak" to their fans. However their biggest mainstream hit was "Just Between You and Me" and is the song they're best known for to the average listener.
* Music/DeaconBlue -- "Dignity". They've had many bigger hits, but their BreakthroughHit remains their signature song.
* Dead By April -- "Promise Me" or "Losing You"
* Music/DeadKennedys -- "California Über Alles" or "Holiday in Cambodia" (from ''Music/FreshFruitForRottingVegetables''). You can also say "[[VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater Police Truck]]" for your 2000's kids.
* Music/TheDeadMilkmen -- "Punk Rock Girl" or "Bitchin' Camaro"
* Music/{{deadmau5}} -- "Ghosts n' Stuff"
* Music/DeadOrAlive -- "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)"
* Music/DeadSara -- "Weatherman" or "[[VideoGame/InfamousSecondSon Heart]]-[[Music/{{Nirvana}} Shaped Box]]"
* Deaf Havana -- "Cassiopeia"
* Music/{{Deafheaven}} -- "Dream House", "Brought to the Water", or "Honeycomb"
* Jimmy Dean -- "Big Bad John"
* Music/{{Death}}
** ''Scream Bloody Gore'': "Zombie Ritual"
** ''Leprosy'': "Pull the Plug"
** ''Spiritual Healing'': "Living Monstrosity"
** ''Human'': "Lack of Comprehension"
** ''Individual Thought Patterns'': "The Philosopher"
** ''Symbolic'': "Crystal Mountain"
** ''The Sound of Perseverance'': "Spirit Crusher"
** Overall: "Lack of Comprehension", "The Philosopher", and "Crystal Mountain" are the frontrunners
* Music/DeathCabForCutie -- "Soul Meets Body," "I Will Follow You Into The Dark" or "I Will Possess Your Heart"
* Music/DeathFromAbove1979 -- "Romantic Rights" or "Trainwreck 1979"
* Music/DeathGrips -- By album:
** ''Death Grips EP'': "Full Moon (Death Classic)"
** ''Exmilitary'': "Guillotine"
** ''The Money Store'': "Get Got", "I've Seen Footage", or "Hacker"
** ''No Love Deep Web'': "No Love"
** ''Government Plates'': "You Might Think He Loves You For Your Money But I Know What He Really Loves You For It's Your Brand New Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat"
** ''The Powers That B'': "Inanimate Sensation"
** ''Bottomless Pit'': "Giving Bad People Good Ideas" or "Eh"
** Overall: "Full Moon", "Guillotine", the ''Money Store'' signatures, "No Love" and "Eh" are the most popular candidates.
* Music/DeathInJune -- "Little Black Angel" or "All Pigs Must Die"
* Death In Vegas -- "Dirge"
* [=DeBarge=] -- "Rhythm of the Night"
* Music/ChrisDeBurgh -- "The Lady in Red", or "Don't Pay the Ferryman" in some countries.
* Music/ClaudeDebussy -- "Clair de Lune"
* Music/TheDecemberists -- "This Is Why We Fight", or "The Perfect Crime"
* Deee-lite -- "Groove is in the Heart"
* Deep Blue Something -- "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
* Deep Forest -- "Sweet Lullaby"
* Music/DeepPurple -- "Smoke on the Water" (from ''Music/{{Machine Head|Album}}'')
* Deerhunter -- "Nothing Ever Happened"
* Default -- "Wasting My Time"
** Dallas Smith -- "Tippin' Point", or "Jumped Right In" in Canada
* Music/DefLeppard -- "Pour Some Sugar On Me"
* Music/{{Deftones}} -- "Change (In the House of Flies)" overall. By album:
** ''Adrenaline'' -- "Bored"
** ''Around the Fur'' -- "Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)"
** ''White Pony'' -- "Change (In the House of Flies)"
** ''Deftones'' -- "Minerva"
** ''Saturday Night Wrist'' -- "Hole in the Earth"
** ''Diamond Eyes'' -- The title track
** ''Koi No Yokan'' -- "Tempest"
** ''Gore'' -- "Prayers/Triangles"
** ''Ohms'' -- The title track
* Gavin [=DeGraw=] -- "[[Series/OneTreeHill I Don't Want To Be]]", and to a lesser extent, "In Love With a Girl" and "Not Over You"
* Music/{{Deicide}} -- "Trifixion"
* Alice [=DeeJay=] -- "Better Off Alone"
* Dej Loaf -- "Try Me"
* Creator/AdoreDelano -- "I Adore You"
* Del Amitri -- "Roll To Me"
* Music/LanaDelRey -- "Born to Die" or the remix of "Summertime Sadness". [[Film/{{The Great Gatsby|2013}} Young & Beautiful]] is also remembered fondly.
* De La Soul -- "Me Myself & I"
* Music/{{Deltron 3030}} -- "Positive Contact"
* Kat [=DeLuna=] -- "Run the Show"
* Dem Franchize Boys -- "Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It"
* Cathy Dennis -- "Touch Me (All Night Long)"
* Music/JohnDenver — Depends on location...
** "Take Me Home, Country Roads" in most places, especially in West Virginia.
** In the Rockies, especially Colorado, it's "Rocky Mountain High".
** In Baltimore, "Thank God I'm a Country Boy".[[note]]The [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Baltimore Orioles]] have played the song during the seventh-inning stretch [[LongRunners since 1975]].[[/note]]
** In the UK, it's "Annie's Song".
* Denzel Curry -- By album/mixtape:
** ''Nostalgic 64'' -- "Threatz"
** ''32 Zel/Planet Shrooms'' -- "Ultimate"
** ''Imperial'' -- "ULT"
** ''[=TA13OO=]'':
*** ''Act 1: Light'' -- "Black Balloons"
*** ''Act 2: Gray'' -- "Clout Cobain"
*** ''Act 3: Dark'' -- "Vengeance"
** ''ZUU'' -- "Ricky", "Speedboat" or "Birdz"
** ''Unlocked'' -- "DIET_"
** Overall -- "Ultimate" or "Clout Cobain"
* Deon Custom -- "Roses"
* Music/DepecheMode -- By album:
** ''Speak & Spell'' -- "Just Can't Get Enough"
** ''A Broken Frame'' -- "See You"
** ''Construction Time Again'' -- "Everything Counts"
** ''Some Great Reward'' -- "Master and Servant"
** ''Black Celebration'' -- "Stripped"
** ''Music for the Masses'' -- "Strangelove" or "Never Let Me Down Again"
** ''Violator'' -- "Personal Jesus" or "Enjoy the Silence"
** ''Songs of Faith and Devotion'' -- "Walking In My Shoes"
** ''Ultra'' -- "It's No Good"
** ''Exciter'' -- "Dream On"
** ''Playing the Angel'' -- "Precious" or "A Pain That I'm Used To"
** ''Sounds of the Universe'' -- "Wrong"
** ''Delta Machine'' -- "Soothe My Soul" or "Heaven"
** ''Spirit'' -- "Where's the Revolution"
** Overall -- "Just Can't Get Enough", "Never Let Me Down Again", or the ''Violator'' signatures.
* Rick Derringer -- "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" or "[[Wrestling/HulkHogan Real American]]"
* Jason Derulo -- "Whatcha Say" for his earlier material, "Talk Dirty" or "Want to Want Me" for his later work.
* Jackie [=DeShannon=] -- "Put A Little Love In Your Heart" or "What The World Needs Now Is Love"
* Des'ree -- "You Gotta Be" in the U.S., "Life" in Europe
* Desiigner -- "Panda"
* Shawn Desman -- "Let's Go" or "Night Like This"
* Music/DestinysChild -- "Survivor", "Say My Name" and "Bootylicious"
* [[WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}} Dethklok]] -- "Thunderhorse"
* Music/{{dEUS}}: "Suds & Soda" (from ''Music/WorstCaseScenario'')
* Dev -- "Bass Down Low" or "In The Dark"
* Device ('80s synth-pop group) -- "Hanging on a Heart Attack"
* Music/{{Device}} (metal band fronted by [[Music/{{Disturbed}} David Draiman]]) -- "Vilify"
* Music/DevinTownsend -- "Kingdom"
* Music/{{Devo}} -- "Whip It" (from ''Music/FreedomOfChoice'')
* Devour the Day -- "Good Man"
* Lee [=DeWyze=] -- "Sweet Serendipity"
* Music/DexysMidnightRunners -- "Come On Eileen" or "Geno" in the UK, "Come On Eileen" indisputably in the US
* [=D4L=] -- "Laffy Taffy"
* Diamond Head -- "Am I Evil?"
* Music/NeilDiamond -- "Sweet Caroline" or "America"
* Music/BoDiddley -- "Bo Diddley"
* Dido -- "Thank You" or "White Flag"
* Music/DieAntwoord -- "Enter The Ninja"
* Creator/MarleneDietrich -- "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt" ("Falling in Love Again"), "Lili Marleen"
* Digital Underground -- "The Humpty Dance"
* Digitalism -- "Pogo"
* Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan -- "43% Burnt"
* Music/DimmuBorgir -- "Progenies of the Great Apocalypse"
* Klaus Dinger -- "Cha Cha 2000", which he first recorded with Music/LaDusseldorf, then revisited in [[RearrangeTheSong new arrangements]] with every one of his subsequent groups.
* Music/DinosaurJr -- " Start Choppin'" or "Feel the Pain"
* [[Music/RonnieJamesDio Dio]] -- "Holy Diver" and "Rainbow In The Dark"
* Dion -- "Runaround Sue"
* Music/CelineDion -- "[[Film/{{Titanic 1997}} My Heart Will Go On]]"
* Music/DireStraits -- "Sultans of Swing", "Money For Nothing" and "Walk of Life" (from ''Music/BrothersInArms''), although "Romeo and Juliet" and "Brothers in Arms" are close behind.
** Mark Knopfler -- "What It Is"
* Dirty Heads -- "Lay Me Down"
* Dirty Honey -- "When I'm Gone"
* Dirty Radio -- "Ground Shake" or "Found You"
* Dirty Vegas -- "Days Go By"
* Music/TheDirtyYouth -- "Fight"
* Discharge -- "Free Speech for the Dumb"
* Disclosure -- "White Noise" in the UK, "Latch" in the U.S.[[note]]Though, it's more associated with Sam Smith over there than with them.[[/note]], and maybe "Magnets" for alt-rock audiences [[note]]Albeit it's more associated with Music/{{Lorde}} than them[[/note]]
* Dishwalla -- "Counting Blue Cars"
* Dissection -- "Where Dead Angels Lie"
* Music/{{Disturbed}} -- "Down with the Sickness" overall. By album:
** ''The Sickness'' -- "Down with the Sickness"
** ''Believe'' -- "Prayer"
** ''Ten Thousand Fists'' -- "Stricken"
** ''Indestructible'' -- The title track or "Inside the Fire"
** ''Asylum'' -- "Another Way to Die"
** ''Immortalized'' -- "[[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel The Sound of Silence]]"
* Disparition -- [[Podcast/WelcometoNightVale The Ballad of Fiedler and Mundt]]"
* Divide the Day -- "[[Wrestling/WWESmackDown Let it Roll]]"
* Divine Heresy - "Failed Creation"
* Divinyls -- "I Touch Myself"
* Music/DixieChicks -- "Goodbye Earl" or "[[Music/FleetwoodMac Landslide]]"
* Alesha Dixon -- "The Boy Does Nothing"
* Music/ColtonDixon-- "Never Gone"
* Dizzee Rascal -- "Bonkers"
* DJ Drama - "Wishing"
* DJ Earworm - "United State of Pop 2009 (Blame It on the Pop)"
* DJ Felli Fel -- "Get Buck In Here"
* DJ Jazzy Jeff and [[Creator/WillSmith The Fresh Prince]] -- "Parents Just Don't Understand" or "Summertime"
* Music/DJKhaled -- By album:
** ''Listennn… the Album'' -- "Holla at Me"
** ''We the Best'' -- "We Takin' Over" or "I'm So Hood"
** ''We Global'' -- "Out Here Grindin'"
** ''Victory'' -- "All I Do Is Win"
** ''We the Best Forever'' -- "I'm on One"
** ''Kiss the Ring'' -- "Take It to the Head"
** ''Suffering from Success'' -- "No New Friends"
** ''I Changed a Lot'' -- "Hold You Down"
** ''Major Key'' -- "For Free"
** ''Grateful'' -- "I'm the One" or "Wild Thoughts"
** ''Father of Asahd'' -- “No Brainer”
* DJ Jean -- "The Launch"
* [[Music/{{BEMANI}} DJ Mass MAD Izm*]] -- "[[VideoGame/{{beatmania}} Shakunetsu Beach Side Bunny]]"
* DJ Sammy -- [[Music/BryanAdams "Heaven"]]
* DJ Sasha -- [[VideoGame/{{Wipeout}} "Xpander"]]
* Music/DJShadow -- "Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt" or "[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious Six Days]]"
* DJ Snake -- "Turn Down For What" (shared with Lil Jon), with "You Know You Like It" (shared with [=AlunaGeorge=]), “Let Me Love You” (shared with [=Justin Bieber=]) and "Taki Taki" (shared with Selena Gomez, Cardi B and Ozuna) in second place. The most well-known song he is credited on, however, is Music/MajorLazer's "Lean On", where he is the co-lead, but the song is much more associated with Major Lazer
* DJ Splash -- "Bass is Kicking" or "[[EclipsedByTheRemix Flying High]]"
* DJ Unk -- "Walk It Out"
* [[Music/{{BEMANI}} DJ YOSHITAKA]] -- [[VideoGame/{{jubeat}} "FLO]][[VideoGame/ReflecBeat WER"]]
* Ramin Djawadi -- The ''Series/GameOfThrones'' Theme
* Music/{{DMX}} -- "Party Up (Up In Here)" and "Ruff Ryder's Anthem" were the original contender. "X Gon' Give It To Ya" has gained traction for its usage in both ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' and later ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}''.
* DNCE -- "Cake By The Ocean"
* Fefe Dobson -- "Ghost" or "Stuttering"
* Doctor P -- "Sweet Shop"
* Music/DoesItOffendYouYeah -- "We Are Rockstars"
* Dog's Eye View -- "Everything Falls Apart"
* Doja Cat -- "Say So"
* Thomas Dolby -- "She Blinded Me With Science"
* Dolla -- "Who The Fuck Is That"
* Doman & Gooding -- "Runnin'"
* Fats Domino -- "Blueberry Hill"
* Lonnie Donegan -- "Rock Island Line" or "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor"
* Donora -- "Boom Boom" or "Champion"
* Music/{{Donovan}} -- "Sunshine Superman" or "Mellow Yellow"
* The Doobie Brothers -- "Black Water" (pre-Michael [=McDonald=]) or "What a Fool Believes" (post-[=McDonald=])
* Dobie Gray -- "Drift Away"
* Don Broco -- "You Wanna Know" or "Nerve"
* The Donnas -- "Take It Off"
* Music/TheDoors -- "Light My Fire" overall. By album:
** ''Music/{{The Doors|Album}}'': "Light My Fire", "Break On Through" and "The End"
** ''Music/StrangeDays'': "People Are Strange" and "When the Music's Over"
** ''Waiting for the Sun'': "Hello, I Love You" and "Five to One"
** ''The Soft Parade'': "Touch Me"
** ''Morrison Hotel'': "Roadhouse Blues"
** ''Music/LAWoman'': "L.A. Woman" or "Riders on the Storm"
* Dorrough -- "Ice Cream Paint Job"
* Jimmy Dorsey -- "Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)"
* Tommy Dorsey -- "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You"
* Music/RobDougan -- "[[Film/TheMatrix Clubbed to Death]]"
* Carl Douglas -- "Kung Fu Fighting"
* Down With Webster -- "Big Wheels" or "Your Man"
* Downstait -- "[[Wrestling/TheMiz I Came To Play]]"
* The Downtown Fiction -- "I Just Wanna Run"
* Music/DrDre -- "Nuthin' But A G Thang" or "Still D.R.E."
* Dr. Hook -- "The Cover of Rolling Stone"
* Dr. John -- "Right Place, Wrong Time"
* Music/{{Dragonforce}} -- "[[VideoGame/GuitarHero Through The Fire And Flames]]" or "[[Website/{{YTMND}} Fury of the Storm]]" Undeniably the former to Guitar Hero fans, unless they started with "Warriors of Rock".
* Music/{{Drake}} -- By album:
** ''So Far Gone'' -- "Best I Ever Had"
** ''Thank Me Later'' -- "Find Your Love" or "Over"
** ''Take Care'' -- The title track (shared with Music/{{Rihanna}}) or "The Motto"
** ''Nothing Was the Same'' -- "Started from the Bottom" or "Hold On, We're Going Home"
** ''If You're Reading This, It's Too Late'' -- "Energy"
** ''What a Time to Be Alive'' -- "Jumpman" (shared with Future)
** ''Views'' -- "Hotline Bling" or "One Dance"
** ''More Life'' -- "Fake Love" or "Passionfruit"
** ''Scorpion'' -- “God’s Plan”, “Nice for What” or “In My Feelings”
** ''Dark Lane Demo Tapes'' -- "Toosie Slide"
** Overall -- "Best I Ever Had", "Hold On, We're Going Home", the ''Views'' signatures and the ''Scorpion'' signatures.
* Music/NickDrake -- "Pink Moon"
* D.R.A.M. -- "Broccoli"
* Dramarama -- "Anything, Anything (I'll Give You)"
* Drax Project -- “Woke Up Late”
* Dream -- "He Loves U Not"
* The-Dream -- "Shawty Is A Ten"
* The Dream Academy -- "Life in a Northern Town"
* Music/DreamTheater -- "Pull Me Under"[[note]]The band released a GreatestHitsAlbum in 2008 called ''Greatest Hit (...And 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs)''; this song was the "Greatest Hit", due to it having by far their most prominent chart success.[[/note]] or "Metropolis Pt. 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper"
* Music/DropkickMurphys -- "[[Film/TheDeparted I'm Shipping Up To Boston]]"
* Music/DrowningPool -- "[[Wrestling/{{ECW}} Bodies]]"
* Dru -- "Getting It In" or "She Can Ride"
* Dru Hill -- "In My Bed" or [[Film/RushHour "How Deep is Your Love"]]
** Sisqo -- "Thong Song" [[note]]despite the fact that "Incomplete" was actually his only #1 hit[[/note]]
* The Drums -- "Let's Go Surfing"
* Dry Cell -- "Slip Away"[[note]]Due mostly to its presence in the soundtrack to the [=PS2=] "SSX-on-motorbikes" racing game ''Freekstyle''.[[/note]]
* Music/DschinghisKhan -- "Moskau"
* Duck Sauce -- "Barbra Streisand"
** Armand van Helden -- "Bonkers"[[note]]Despite it being primarily a Dizzee Rascal song, it's his most popular song within the mainstream audience[[/note]]
** A-Trak -- "Tuna Melt"[[note]]shared with Tommy Trash[[/note]], [[BlackSheepHit "Ray-Ban Vision"]], or "Push". His remix of [[Music/YeahYeahYeahs "Heads Will Roll"]] is much better known though, due to its appearance in ''Film/ProjectX''.
* Music/HilaryDuff -- "Come Clean"
* Duffy -- "Mercy"
* Paul Dukas -- "[[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]"
* Duke Dumont -- "I Got U"
* Holly Dunn -- "Daddy's Hands"
* Music/DuranDuran -- "Hungry Like The Wolf" overall. By album:
** ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Duran Duran]]'' (1981) -- "Girls on Film"
** ''Rio'' -- "Hungry Like The Wolf" or "Save a Prayer"
** ''Seven and the Ragged Tiger'' -- "The Reflex"
** ''Notorious'' -- The title track.
** ''Big Thing'' -- "I Don't Want Your Love"
** ''Liberty'' -- "Serious"
** ''Duran Duran'' (1993) (aka ''Music/TheWeddingAlbum'') -- "Ordinary World" or "Come Undone"
** ''Medazzaland'' -- "Electric Barbarella"
** ''Pop Trash'' -- "Someone Else Not Me"
** ''Astronaut'' -- "(Reach Up For The) Sunrise"
** ''Red Carpet Massacre'' -- "Falling Down"
** ''All You Need is Now'' -- The title track.
** ''Paper Gods'' -- "Pressure Off"
* Music/IanDuryAndTheBlockheads -- "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" or "[[Series/DoctorWho Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick]]"
* Music/AntoninDvorak -- "Symphony of the New World (4th movement)"
* Music/DyingFetus -- "Praise the Lord (Opium of the Masses)"
* Music/BobDylan -- "The Times, They Are a-Changin'" (from ''Music/TheTimesTheyAreAChangin'') or "Like a Rolling Stone" (from ''Music/Highway61Revisited'')
* Dynamite Hack -- "[[Music/EazyE Boyz N the Hood]]"
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* E-40 -- "Tell Me When to Go"
* Music/{{Eagles}} -- "Hotel California" (from ''Music/HotelCalifornia'')
** Glenn Frey -- [[Film/BeverlyHillsCop "The Heat is On"]]
** Don Henley -- "The Boys of Summer"
** Joe Walsh -- "Life's Been Good"
* Music/EaglesOfDeathMetal -- "Don't Speak" or "Wannabe in L.A."; their cover of "[[Music/DuranDuran Save a Prayer]]" to people who first heard of them after the Paris attacks.
* Eamon -- "Fuck It! (I Don't Want You Back)"
* Music/SteveEarle -- "Guitar Town" to the country fan base and "Copperhead Road"to more general audiences.
* Earshot -- "Get Away" or "Wait"
* Music/EarthWindAndFire -- "September"
* Music/{{Earthists}} -- "Resonating Light" (both versions)
* East 17 -- "Stay Another Day"
* Sheena Easton -- "Morning Train (9 to 5)" or "Film/ForYourEyesOnly"
* Music/EazyE -- "Real Muthaphuckkin G's"
* Echo and the Bunnymen -- "The Killing Moon"
* Music/{{Echosmith}} -- "Cool Kids"
* Edgar Winter Group -- "Frankenstein" or "Free Ride"
* Music/{{Edguy}} -- "Ministry of Saints" and "Superheroes"
* Editors -- "Bones" or "[[Series/{{Primeval}} All Sparks]]"
* Music/{{Eels}} -- "Souljacker, Part I" (from ''Music/{{Souljacker}}'') or "Novocaine for the Soul" (from ''Music/BeautifulFreak'').
* Egypt Central -- "White Rabbit"
* Music/Eiffel65 -- "Blue (Da Ba Dee)"
* Music/BillieEilish -- "Bad Guy"
* David Glen Eisley -- "[[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Sweet Victory]]"
** Giuffria -- "Call to Your Heart"
* El Chombo -- "Chacarron Macarron" or "Dame Tu Cosita"
* El Ten Eleven -- "My Only Swerving"
* Music/{{Elbow}} -- "One Day Like This"
* Music/BrettEldredge -- "Don't Ya"
* Music/ElectricLightOrchestra -- "Don't Bring Me Down" or "Mr. Blue Sky"
* Electric Six -- "Gay Bar" (To the chagrin of many fans)
* Music/ElectricWizard -- "Funeralpolis"
* Music/DannyElfman -- Theme for ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/Batman1989'' or ''Film/EdwardScissorhands''.
* Elevation Worship -- “O Come to the Altar”
* Music/EdwardElgar -- "Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 1 in D Major"
* Music/DukeEllington -- "Take the 'A' Train".
* Music/MissyElliott -- "Get Ur Freak On", "Work It"
* Music/{{Eluveitie}} -- "Inis Mona", "Thousandfold"
* Music/{{Emarosa}} -- "The Game Played Right"
* [=emblem3=] -- "Chloe (You're The One I Want)"
* Emerson Drive -- "Moments"
* Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer -- "Karn Evil 9 First Impression Part 2"
* Gareth Emery -- "Concrete Angel"
* EMF -- "Unbelievable"
* Music/{{Eminem}} -- "Lose Yourself" overall. By album:
** ''Infinite'' -- The title track
** ''Music/TheSlimShadyLP'' -- "My Name Is"
** ''Music/TheMarshallMathersLP'' -- "Stan" or "The Real Slim Shady"
** ''Music/TheEminemShow'' -- "Without Me" originally, but has since been tied with "'Till I Collapse"
** ''Film/EightMile'' -- "Lose Yourself"
** ''Encore'' -- "Just Lose It", "Like Toy Soldiers", "Ass Like That", or "Mockingbird"
** ''Curtain Call: The Hits'' -- "When I'm Gone" or "Shake That"
** ''Relapse'' -- "Crack a Bottle" or "Beautiful"
** ''Recovery'' -- "Not Afraid" or "Love The Way You Lie" (the latter shared with Music/{{Rihanna}})
** ''The Marshall Mathers LP 2'' -- "Rap God" or "The Monster" (the latter shared with Rihanna)
** ''Revival'' -- “River”
** ''Kamikaze'' -- “Lucky You” or “Film/{{Venom|2018}}”
** ''Music To Be Murdered By'' -- "Godzilla"
*** D12 -- "My Band" or "Purple Pills"
*** Bad Meets Evil -- "Lighters"
* Music/{{Emperor}} -- "I am the Black Wizards"
* Emphatic -- "Bounce"
* Music/EmpireOfTheSunBand -- "Walking on a Dream"
* En Vogue -- "Hold On", "My Lovin (You're Never Gonna Get It)" or "Don't Let Go (Love)"
* [=EndeverafteR=] -- "[[Wrestling/JeffHardy No More Words]]"
* Paul Engemann -- "[[Film/{{Scarface 1983}} Push It to the Limit]]"
* The English Beat -- "Mirror in the Bathroom"
* Music/{{Ensiferum}} -- "Lai Lai Hei"
* Music/{{Enigma}} -- "Sadeness (Part I)", "Return to Innocence", or "[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Modern Crusaders]]"
* Enslaved -- "Havenless"
* Enter Shikari -- "Sorry, You're Not A Winner", "Juggernauts", or "Destabilise"
* Music/{{Enya}} -- "Only Time" or "Orinoco Flow". Also known for "[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing May It Be]]".
* Music/TheEraserheads -- "Pare Ko" and ''Ang Huling El Bimbo''
* Music/{{Erasure}} -- "[[VideoGame/RobotUnicornAttack Always]]" or "[[Series/{{Scrubs}} A Little Respect]]"
* Music/{{Erra}} -- "Hybrid Earth," "Skyline," and "Drift"
* Eric Prydz -- "Call On Me" for his early material; "Liberate", "Generate", and "Breathe" for his more recent works
* The Escape Club -- "Wild, Wild West"
* Music/{{Escape the Fate}}
** With Ronnie Radke: "Situations"
** With Craig Mabbit: "Issues" or "One for the Money"
* Joe "Bean" Esposito: "[[Film/TheKarateKid1984 You're The Best]]"
* Music/GloriaEstefan -- "Conga"
* Music/{{Estelle}} -- "American Boy" or [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse "Stronger Than You"]]
* Melissa Etheridge -- "Come To My Window"
* Ethnix -- "Jessica", "Tutim", and "BMW Shachora"
* Music/{{Europe}} -- Initially "Carrie", but now unquestionably "The Final Countdown" (which was always their signature outside of the USA)
* Music/{{Eurythmics}} -- "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
** [[Music/{{Eurythmics}} Annie Lennox]] -- "Walking on Broken Glass". Also known for "[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing Into the West]]".
* Evan & Jaron -- "[[Series/DawsonsCreek Crazy for This Girl]]".
* Music/{{Evanescence}} -- By album:
** ''Origin'' -- "Whisper"
** ''Music/{{Fallen}}'' -- "Bring Me To Life" or "My Immortal"
** ''The Open Door'' -- "Call Me When You're Sober"
** ''Evanescence'' -- "What You Want"
** ''Lost Whispers'' -- "Lost Whispers"
** ''Synthesis'' -- "Imperfection" or "Hi-Lo"
** ''The Bitter Truth'' -- "Use My Voice"
** Overall -- [[Film/{{Daredevil}} "Bring Me To Life", with "My Immortal" being a clear second.]]
* Evans Blue -- "Cold (But I'm Still Here)"
* Nathan Evans -- "Wellerman"
* Music/SaraEvans -- "Suds in the Bucket" or "A Little Bit Stronger"
* Eve -- "Let Me Blow Ya Mind"
* Music/Eve6 -- "Inside Out"
* Eve to Adam -- "Immortal"
* Music/{{Everclear}} -- "Santa Monica" or "Father of Mine" to rock audiences; "Wonderful" to pop audiences
* The Everlove -- "[[Series/GameOfThrones Cities In]] [[CoveredUp Dust]]"
* Jace Everett -- "[[Series/TrueBlood Bad Things]]"
* Every Avenue -- "Tell Me I'm a Wreck"
* Music/EverythingButTheGirl -- "Missing" (specifically the Todd Terry remix)
* Everything Everything -- "Kemosabe", "Cough Cough", or "Distant Past"
* Music/TheEverlyBrothers -- "'Wake Up Little Susie"
* Evil Nine -- "Crooked", "All The Cash", "The Black Brad Pitt" or "No Manners"
* Example -- "Changed the Way You Kissed Me".
* The Exies -- "Ugly" or "My Goddess"
* Exposé -- "Point of No Return"
* Music/{{Extreme}} -- "[[BlackSheepHit More Than Words]]"
* George Ezra -- "Budapest" or "Shotgun" in Europe and Australia, indisputably the former in North America
* Ella Eyre -- "Good Times"
* F-777 -- "[[VideoGame/GeometryDash Deadlocked]]"
* Fabolous -- "Breathe"
* Face to Face -- "Disconnected"
* Music/FairportConvention -- "Meet on the Ledge"
* Music/PalomaFaith -- "Only Love Can Hurt Like This"
* Music/{{Faithless}} -- "Insomnia"
* Music/FaithNoMore -- "Epic"
* Chet Faker -- "Talk is Cheap" in Australia, "Gold" in the U.S.
* Music/{{Falco}} -- "Rock Me Amadeus"
* Music/{{Falling in Reverse}} -- "The Drug In Me Is You"
* Music/TheFallOfTroy -- Initially "Sledgehammer" or "FCPREMIX", now unquestionably the latter
* Music/FallOutBoy -- By album:
** ''From Under the Cork Tree'' (and overall) -- "Dance Dance" or "Sugar, We're Goin' Down"
** ''Infinity on High'' -- Originally "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race", but now "Thnks Fr th Mmrs" (tied for overall)
** ''Save Rock and Roll'' -- "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark"
** ''American Beauty/American Psycho'' -- "Centuries" or "Uma Thurman"
** ''M A N I A'' -- “Young and Menace” or “Hold Me Tight or Don’t”
** Patrick Stump -- "This City"
** The Damned Things -- "We've Got a Situation Here"
* Far East Movement -- "Like A [=G6=]"
* Tyler Farr -- "Redneck Crazy"
* Farewell, My Love -- "Portraits"
* John Farnham -- "You're the Voice"
* Fastball -- "The Way"
* Music/FatboySlim -- "The Rockafeller Skank"
* Fat Joe -- "What's Luv?" or "Get It Poppin". Later on, "All The Way Up" (shared with Remy Ma, Music/JayZ, French Montana and Infrared)
** Terror Squad -- "Lean Back"
* [=TheFatRat=] -- "Unity" or "Monody"
* Newton Faulkner -- "Dream Catch Me"
* Music/FearFactory -- "Replica"
* José Feliciano -- "Feliz Navidad"
* Music/{{Feeder}} -- "Buck Rogers" in the UK; "High" in the United States
* The Feeling -- "Sewn"
* Feint -- "Snake Eyes" or "We Won't Be Alone"
* Music/{{Feist}} -- "1234"
* Felt -- "Primitive Painters"
* Jay Ferguson -- "Thunder Island"
* Danny Fernandes -- "Private Dancer" or "Take Me Away"
* Music/SkyFerreira -- "Everything Is Embarrassing"
* Rachelle Ferrell -- "I Can Explain"
* Fetty Wap -- "Trap Queen"
* [[Music/TheKnife Fever Ray]] -- "If I Had a Heart"
* Music/LupeFiasco -- "The Show Goes On"
* FIDLAR -- "No Waves" or "Cheap Beer"
* Field Mob -- “So What”
* Music/FifthHarmony -- "Worth It" or "Work From Home"
** Music/CamilaCabello -- "Havana"
** Normani Hamilton -- "Dancing With a Stranger" (shared with Music/SamSmith) or “Love Lies” (shared with Khalid)
** Ally Brooke -- "Low Key"
* Music/{{Filter}} -- "[[Film/IronMan Hey Man Nice Shot]]" or "Take A Picture"
* Finatticz - "Don't Drop That Thun Thun"
* Fine Young Cannibals -- "She Drives Me Crazy"
* Finger Eleven -- Initially "One Thing", but now "Paralyzer" (maybe [[Wrestling/{{Kane}} "Slow Chemical"]] if you're a wrestling fan)
* Music/{{Finntroll}} -- "Trollhammaren"
* Melanie Fiona -- "Give It To Me Right"
* Firefall -- "You Are the Woman"
* Firehouse -- "Love of a Lifetime"
* First Aid Kit -- Was "Emmylou", but "My Silver Lining" seems to have supplanted it.
* Lisa Fischer -- "How Can I Ease The Pain"
* Fishbone -- "Party at Ground Zero"
* Fit For Rivals -- "[[Wrestling/{{WWE}} Crash]]"
* Fitz & the Tantrums -- "The Walker" or "[=HandClap=]"
* Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch -- By album:
** ''The Way of the Fist'' -- "The Bleeding"
** ''War is the Answer'' -- "Hard to See" or their cover of "Music/BadCompany"
** ''American Capitalist'' -- "Coming Down"
** ''The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 1'' -- "Wrong Side of Heaven"
** ''The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 2'' -- "House of the Rising Sun"
** ''Got Your Six'' -- "Jekyll and Hyde"
** ''A Decade of Destruction'' -- "Trouble"
* Five for Fighting -- "Superman (It's Not Easy)" or "100 Years"
* Music/FiveIronFrenzy -- "Handbook for the Sellout" or "Every New Day"
* The Fixx -- "One Thing Leads To Another"
* Roberta Flack -- "Killing Me Softly With His Song"
* Music/FlamingLips -- "Do you Realize" (State rock song of Oklahoma)
* Flaw -- "Payback"
* Music/FleetFoxes -- "Mykonos"
* Music/FleetwoodMac -- Quite a few, but especially "Dreams" or "Go Your Own Way" (from ''Music/{{Rumours}}'')
** "Albatross" for the original incarnation with Peter Green
* Fletcher -- “Undrunk”
* Flight Facilities -- "Crave You"
* Music/FlightOfTheConchords -- "Business Time"
* Flipp Dinero -- “Leave Me Alone”
* Flipper -- "Sex Bomb"
* The Flirts -- "Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime)"
* Music/FloRida -- "Low" overall. By album:
** ''Mail on Sunday'': "Low"
** ''R.O.O.T.S.'': "Right Round"
** ''Only One Flo (Part 1)'': "Club Can't Handle Me"
** ''Wild Ones'': "Good Feeling", "Wild Ones" or "Whistle"
** ''My House'': "GDFR" or the title track
* Flobots -- "Handlebars"
* Music/AFlockOfSeagulls -- "I Ran (So Far Away)"
* Floetry -- "Say Yes"
* Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine -- "Dog Days Are Over" or "[[Series/GameOfThrones Seven Devils]]".
* Music/FloridaGeorgiaLine -- "Cruise" (both the original and the remix with Nelly)
* Flow -- "[[Manga/{{Naruto}} GO!]]"
* Eddie Floyd -- "Knock On Wood"
* Flume -- "Never Be Like You", though he's far better known in the UK for his remix of Disclosure's "You & Me"
* Flux Pavilion -- "I Can't Stop" or "Cracks"
* ''Flying Lotus'' -- "Never Catch Me"
* Music/{{Flyleaf}} -- "I'm So Sick" or "All Around Me"
* The Flys -- "Got You (Where I Want You)"
* Foals -- In the U.K, "My Number"; in the U.S., previously "Inhaler" but now "Mountain at My Gates"
* Focus -- "Hocus Pocus"
* Foghat -- "Slow Ride"
* Fonogenio -- "Reason"
* Music/BenFolds -- "Rockin' the Suburbs"
* Music/LuisFonsi -- To English-speaking audiences, unquestionably "Despacito" (particularly the remix with Music/JustinBieber); to Spanish-speakers the non-Bieber version of "Despacito" is the best known, and it's just one of many candidates for his signature.
* Music/FooFighters -- By album:
** ''Foo Fighters'' -- "Big Me"
** ''The Colour and the Shape'' -- "Everlong" or "My Hero"
** ''There Is Nothing Left to Lose'' -- "Learn to Fly"
** ''One by One'' -- "All My Life" or "Times Like These"
** ''In Your Honor'' -- "Best of You"
** ''Echoes, Silence, Patience, & Grace'' -- "The Pretender"
** ''Greatest Hits'' -- "Wheels"
** ''Wasting Light'' -- "Walk"
** ''Sonic Highways'' -- "Something from Nothing"
** ''Concrete and Gold'' -- "Run"
** ''Medicine At Midnight'' -- "Waiting On A War"
** Miscellaneous -- "[[Film/Godzilla1998 A320]]"
** Overall -- ''The Colour and the Shape'' signatures, "Learn to Fly", "Best of You", and "The Pretender" are the frontrunners
* For King & Country -- “God Only Knows”
* Lita Ford -- "Kiss Me Deadly"
* Music/{{Foreigner}} -- "Cold as Ice", "Waiting for a Girl Like You", and "I Want To Know What Love Is"
* Emmelie de Forest -- "Only Teardrops"
* Music/FosterThePeople -- "Pumped Up Kicks"
* The Foundations -- "Build Me Up Buttercup"
* Music/FountainsOfWayne -- "Stacy's Mom"
* The Four Seasons -- "December 1963 (Oh What a Night)"
* The Four Tops -- "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)"
* Eleni Foureira -- "Fuego"
* Music/{{Foxes}} -- "Body Talk" or "Youth"
* Creator/JamieFoxx -- "Blame It", although as a featured artist, "Gold Digger".
* Foxy -- "Get Off"
* Foxy Shazam -- "I Like It"
* Music/{{Fozzy}} -- "Enemy" originally, but has since been surpassed by "Judas"
* Framing Hanley -- "[[Music/LilWayne Lollipop]]"
* Music/PeterFrampton -- "Show Me the Way". "Baby, I Love Your Way" and "Do You Feel Like We Do" are also in the mix.
* Frankie Beverly & Maze -- "Back In Stride"
* Music/FrankieGoesToHollywood -- "Relax"
* Frankie J -- "Obsession (No Es Amor)"
* Music/ArethaFranklin -- "[[CoveredUp Respect]]", "Say A Little Prayer"
* Music/KirkFranklin -- "Stomp"
* Music/FranzFerdinand -- "Take Me Out"
* Music/TheFratellis -- "Chelsea Dagger"
* Music/TheFray -- "How to Save a Life"
* Fred V & Grafix -- "Forest Fires"[[note]]shared with Etherwood[[/note]] or "Major Happy"
* Free -- "All Right Now"
* French Montana -- "Unforgettable"
* Aaron Fresh -- "Spending All My Time"
* Music/FromAshesToNew -- "Through It All"
* From First to Last -- "Note to Self" or "Emily"
* Music/Front242 -- "Headhunter"
* Music/TheFrontBottoms -- "Twin Size Mattress"
* Music/FrontLineAssembly -- "Mindphaser"
* Music/FrouFrou -- "Let Go" or "Breathe In"
* Music/FTIsland - "Lovesick" or "I Hope"
* Julius Fucik -- "Entry of the Gladiators"
* Fuel -- "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)"
* Music/{{Fugazi}} -- "Waiting Room"
* Music/TheFugees -- [[CoveredUp "Killing Me Softly"]] or "Ready or Not" (from ''Music/TheScore'')
** Pras -- "Ghetto Supastar"
* Music/{{Fun}} -- "We Are Young" or "Some Nights"
** Nate Ruess -- "Nothing Without Love"
* Fun Factory -- "I Wanna B With U"
* Music/FunLovinCriminals -- "[[Creator/QuentinTarantino Scooby Snacks]]"
* Music/FuneralForAFriend -- "Roses For the Dead" or "Red is the New Black"
* [[Music/GeorgeClinton Funkadelic]] -- [[Music/OneNationUnderAGroove "One Nation Under a Groove"]]
* Music/NellyFurtado -- "I'm Like a Bird" or "Maneater"
* Future -- "Turn On The Lights", "Fuck Up Some Commas", "Jumpman"[[note]]shared with Drake[[/note]], or "Mask Off"
* Future Leaders of the World -- "Let Me Out"
* The Future Sound of London -- "Papua New Guinea" or [[VideoGame/{{Wipeout}} "We Have Explosive"]]
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* Music/PeterGabriel -- "Sledgehammer", "Solsbury Hill", or "[[Film/SayAnything In Your Eyes]]"
* Music/{{Gabrielle}} -- "Dreams" or "[[Film/BridgetJonesDiary Out of Reach]]"
* Gackt -- "Vanilla"
* The GAG Quartet -- "Le Internet Medley"
* Polina Gagarina -- "A Million Voices" or "Kolibelnaya"
* Galantis -- "Runaway (U & I)" or "No Money"
* Music/TheGame -- "How We Do" or "Hate It or Love It" (although the latter is more commonly thought of as 50 Cent's song)
* Music/TheGazette -- "Reila", "Cassis"
* Music/SergeGainsbourg -- "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Je t'aime... moi non plus"
* Gallery -- "Nice To Be With You"
* Music/ChildishGambino -- "Freaks & Geeks", "3005", "[[Film/GetOut2017 Redbone]]", or "This Is America"
* Music/GangStarr -- "Mass Appeal"
* The Gap Band -- "You Dropped a Bomb on Me"
* Music/{{Garbage}} -- "Only Happy When It Rains" or "Stupid Girl"
* Art Garfunkel -- "[[WesternAnimation/WatershipDown Bright Eyes]]"
* Creator/JudyGarland -- "[[Film/TheWizardOfOz (Somewhere) Over the Rainbow]]"
* Martin Garrix -- "Animals" or "In the Name of Love"
* Music/TheGaslightAnthem -- "The '59 Sound" or "45"
** Brian Fallon solo -- "Smoke"
* Kevin Gates -- "2 Phones" or "Really Really"
* Alex Gaudino -- "Destination Calabria"
* Music/MarvinGaye -- "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", "What's Going On" (the title track of his [[Music/WhatsGoingOn most famous album]]), "Let's Get It On", or "[[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier Trouble Man]]". You could also make a case for "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Sexual Healing".
** For [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] fans of a certain age, his performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the 1983 All-Star Game could also qualify.
* Gloria Gaynor -- "I Will Survive"
* Music/GEazy -- "Me, Myself, & I" to mainstream audiences, “No Limit” to rap audience.
* General Public -- "Tenderness"
* O.T. Genasis -- "[=CoCo=]" or "Cut It"
* Music/{{Genesis}} (pop era) -- "Music/LandOfConfusion", "Invisible Touch", or "That's All"
** (prog era) -- "Music/SuppersReady"
* Genki Rockets -- "Heavenly Star"
* Music/BobbieGentry-- "Ode to Billy-Joe"
* George Baker Selection -- "[[Film/ReservoirDogs Little Green Bag]]" or "Paloma Blanca"
* The Georgia Satellites -- "Keep Your Hands to Yourself"
* Gerardo -- "Rico Suave"
* The Germs -- "Lexicon Devil"
* Music/GeorgeGershwin -- "Rhapsody in Blue", "[[Theatre/PorgyAndBess Summertime]]"
* Gerry and the Pacemakers -- "You'll Never Walk Alone"
* Gesaffelstein -- “Lost in the Fire”
* Music/GetScared-- "Sarcasm"
* Music/GetoBoys -- "[[Film/OfficeSpace Damn it Feels Good to Be a Gangsta]]"
* Stan Getz -- "The Girl From Ipanema" (shared with João and Astrud Gilberto)
* Music/{{Ghost}} -- "Cirice"
* Debbie Gibson -- "Foolish Beat"
* Brantley Gilbert -- "Bottoms Up"
* Music/GinBlossoms -- "Hey Jealousy"
* Ginuwine -- "Pony"
* Gipsy Kings – "Bamboléo"
* girl in red -- "we fell in love in october"
* Girlicious -- "2 in the Morning"
* Music/{{Girlschool}} -- "Emergency" or "Race with the Devil"
* Music/GirlsAloud -- "Sound of the Underground", "Love Machine" and "The Promise"
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* Music/GirlsGeneration -- "Gee" or "Tell Me Your Wish (Genie)"
* Music/{{Giulietta}} -- "Vertigo"
* Glass Animals -- "Heat Waves"
* Music/{{Glassjaw}} -- "Ape Dos Mil"
* Glaze -- "Nightmare Night" or "Beyond Her Garden"
* Jess Glynne -- "Hold My Hand" for her solo material, but she's best-known overall for her appearance on Music/CleanBandit's "Rather Be".
* gnash -- "i hate u I love u" (shared with olivia o'brien)
* Goapele -- "Closer"
* God Lives Underwater -- "From Your Mouth"
* Music/{{Godsmack}} -- "I Stand Alone" overall. By album:
** ''Godsmack'' -- "Voodoo"
** ''Awake'' -- The title track.
** ''Faceless'' -- "[[Film/TheScorpionKing I Stand Alone]]"
** ''The Other Side -- "Running Blind"
** ''IV'' -- "Speak"
** ''The Oracle'' -- "Cryin' Like a Bitch"
** ''1000hp'' -- The title track.
* Music/GogolBordello -- "Start Wearing Purple"
* Music/TheGoGos -- "Our Lips Are Sealed" or "We Got the Beat"
* Music/{{Gojira}} -- "Silvera", "Flying Whales" was this for their earlier material
* Andrew Gold -- "Spooky Scary Skeletons", "Lonely Boy", or "Thank You for Being a Friend". Though he [[CoveredUp didn't perform]] [[Series/TheGoldenGirls the best-known version]] of the last of these.
* Music/GoldenEarring -- "Radar Love" or "Twilight Zone"
* Goldfinger -- "[[VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater Superman]]"
* Music/{{Goldfrapp}} -- "Ooh la La" or "Strict Machine"
* Music/SelenaGomez & [[FaceOfTheBand The Scene]] -- "Love You Like a Love Song"
** Selena Gomez (solo) -- "Good for You"
* Jose Gonzalez -- "Heartbeats"
* Music/GoodCharlotte -- "Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous" and/or "The Anthem"
** The Madden Brothers -- "We Are Done"
* Music/BennyGoodman -- "Sing, Sing, Sing"
* Music/GooGooDolls -- "[[Film/CityOfAngels Iris]]"
* Lesley Gore -- "It's My Party" or "You Don't Own Me"
* Music/{{Gorillaz}} -- "Feel Good, Inc." overall. By album:
** [[Music/GorillazAlbum Self-Titled Album]] -- "Clint Eastwood"
** ''Music/DemonDays'' -- "Dirty Harry" or "Demon Days"
** ''Plastic Beach'' -- "Stylo" or "On Melancholy Hill"
** ''The Fall'' -- "Revolving Doors"
** ''Humanz'' -- "Saturnz Barz", "Ascension" or "Andromeda"
** ''Song Machine'' -- "Désolé", "PAC-MAN", or "The Pink Phantom"
* Music/{{Gorgoroth}} -- "Profeten Apenbaring," "Incipit Satan," or "Carving a Giant"
* Mark Gormley -- "[[Series/WorldsDumbest Without You]]"
* Music/{{Gotye}} -- "Somebody That I Used To Know"
* Gossip -- "Standing in the Way of Control"
* Music/EllieGoulding -- "[[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey Love Me Like You Do]]" is indisputably this in most countries. "Starry Eyed" and "Lights" are contenders from her earlier work.
* Go West -- "[[Film/PrettyWoman King of Wishful Thinking]]"
* Grace -- "[[Film/SuicideSquad2016 You Don't Own Me]]"
* Andy Grammer -- Formerly "Keep Your Head Up", but now "Honey I'm Good"
* Music/GrandFunkRailroad -- "We're an American Band" or "Some Kind of Wonderful"
* Music/ArianaGrande: By album:
** ''Yours Truly'' -- "The Way"
** ''My Everything'' -- "Problem" or "Bang Bang"
** ''Dangerous Woman'' -- "Side to Side"
** ''Sweetener'' -- "No Tears Left to Cry"
** ''Thank U Next'' -- The title track or "7 Rings"
** Overall -- "Problem", "No Tears Left to Cry" and "Thank U Next" are probably the strongest contenders
* Music/GrandmasterFlashAndTheFuriousFive -- [[Music/TheMessage "The Message"]]
* Amy Grant -- "El Shaddai" with "Thy Word", "My Father's Eyes" and "Sing Your Praise To The Lord" as contenders for the Christian era, "Baby Baby" for general audiences.
* Eddy Grant -- "Electric Avenue"
* The Grass Roots -- "Let's Live for Today" or "Sooner or Later"
* Music/TheGratefulDead -- "Casey Jones", though younger fans would cite "Touch of Gray"
* Graveland -- "Thurisaz"
* David Gray -- "Babylon"
* Macy Gray -- "I Try"
* Michael Gray -- "The Weekend"
* Music/GreatBigSea -- "Ordinary Day"
* A Great Big World -- "Say Something" (specifically the re-recording with Christina Aguilera)
* Great White -- "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"
* Music/AlGreen -- "Music/LetsStayTogether"
* Vivian Green -- "Emotional Rollercoaster"
* Music/GreenCarnation -- [[EpicRocking "Light of Day, Day of Darkness"]]
* Music/GreenDay:
** To rock audiences: "Basket Case", "Welcome to Paradise", "Longview", "When I Come Around" (from ''Music/{{Dookie}}''), and [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"]] (from ''Music/{{Nimrod}}'') for their '90s material; "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", "Wake Me Up When September Ends", "Holiday", "American Idiot" (from ''Music/AmericanIdiot''), "Know Your Enemy", and "21 Guns" for their '00s work.
** To general audiences: Almost certainly "Good Riddance" for the '90s and "Idiot" and "Boulevard" for the '00s.
* Norman Greenbaum -- "Spirit in the Sky"
* Lee Greenwood -- "God Bless the USA"
* The Greg Kihn Band -- Initially "Jeopardy", but now "The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em)", as the former is better known via a parody by Music/WeirdAlYankovic
* Edvard Grieg -- "Hall of the Mountain King" (which isn't a song, by the way)
* Music/{{Grimes}} -- "Oblivion"
* Tee Grizzley –- "First Day Out"
* Grizzly Bear -- "Two Weeks"
* Music/{{Grouplove}} -- "Tongue Tied"
* Groove Armada -- "[[StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks I See You Baby]]"
* Groove Theory -- "Tell Me"
* GS Boyz -- "Stanky Legg"
* Music/GuanoApes -- "Open Your Eyes"
* Music/VinceGuaraldi -- Originally "Cast Your Fate To The Wind" (from ''Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus'') but has now become more identified by "[[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Linus and Lucy]]"
* Gucci Mane -- Initially “Spotlight”, but now "Both" or "I Get The Bag"
* The Guess Who -- "American Woman"
* Music/DavidGuetta -- "Love Is Gone", "Titanium", or for his later work, "Hey Mama"
* Music/GuidedByVoices -- "I Am A Scientist" and "Teenage FBI"
* Music/GunsNRoses -- "Sweet Child O' Mine", "Welcome to the Jungle", or "Paradise City"
* Musi/ArloGuthrie -- "[[Music/AlicesRestaurant Alice's Restaurant Massacree]]"
* Music/WoodyGuthrie -- "This Land Is Your Land"
* Guttermouth -- "She's Got the Look" or "[[VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater I'm Destroying the World]]"
* Music/GymClassHeroes -- "Cupid's Chokehold" or "Stereo Hearts"
** Travie [=McCoy=] -- "Billionaire"
* GZA -- "Liquid Swords"
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* Haddaway -- "What is Love?"
* Hadouken! -- "M.A.D."
* Sammy Hagar -- "I Can't Drive 55" as a solo artist, "Why Can't This Be Love?" with Music/VanHalen
* Hail The Villain -- "Runaway"
* Haim -- "The Wire"
* Music/{{Halestorm}} -- "I Get Off", "Love Bites (So Do I)", or "I Miss the Misery"
* Music/DarylHallAndJohnOates -- "You Make My Dreams", "Maneater", "She's Gone", "[[Manga/LuckyStar Out of Touch]]", or "Rich Girl"
* Music/GeriHalliwell -- "[[Film/BridgetJonesDiary It's Raining]] [[CoveredUp Men]]".
* Music/{{Halsey}} -- "Closer" (shared with the Chainsmokers); for her own songs, "Without Me".
* Music/{{Hammerfall}} -- "Hearts On Fire"
* Hampton the Hampster -- "Hampster Dance"
* Lionel Hampton -- "Flying Home"
* Music/{{Hatebreed}} -- "I Will Be Heard"
* Music/HerbieHancock -- "Chameleon" (from ''Music/HeadHunters'') or "Rockit" (from ''Music/FutureShock'')
* Music/GeorgeFredericHandel -- "Messiah," (more specifically the "Hallelujah Chorus" at the end of Part II)
* Music/{{Hanson}} -- "[=MMMbop=]"
* Music/HappyMondays -- "Step On"
* Music/{{Hardline}} -- "Hot Cherie"
* Steve Harley -- "Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)" (UK and Ireland) or "Sebastian" (in continental Europe).
* Music/CalvinHarris -- "Acceptable in the 80s" for his earlier work, "Summer" for his later material. By album:
** ''I Created Disco'' -- "Acceptable in the 80s"
** ''Ready for the Weekend'' -- "I'm Not Alone" or the title track
** ''18 Months'' -- "Feel So Close", "We Found Love"[[note]]shared with Music/{{Rihanna}}[[/note]] or "I Need Your Love"[[note]]shared with Music/EllieGoulding[[/note]]
** ''Motion'' -- "Summer"
** ''Funk Wav Bounces, Vol. 1'' -- "Slide"[[note]]shared with [[Music/{{OFWGKTA}} Frank Ocean]][[/note]], "Rollin"[[note]]shared with Khalid[[/note]] or "Feels". Overall, the best known song from around that time is "[[Music/{{Rihanna}} This Is What You Came For]]", but it never appeared on any album.
* Creator/RichardHarris -- "[=MacArthur=] Park"
* Music/GeorgeHarrison -- "My Sweet Lord" (from ''Music/AllThingsMustPass'') or "[[CoveredUp Got My Mind Set on You]]" (from ''Cloud Nine'')
* Corey Hart -- "Sunglasses at Night"
* Jonn Hart -- "Who Booty"
* Dan Hartman -- "I Can Dream About You"
* Music/PJHarvey -- "Down By The Water" (from ''Music/ToBringYouMyLove'')
* Music/HarveyDanger -- "Flagpole Sitta"
* Donnie Hathaway -- "[[CoveredUp A Song For You]]"
** Hathaway and Roberta Flack -- "The Closer I Get To You"
* Screamin' Jay Hawkins -- "I Put a Spell on You"
* Sophie B. Hawkins -- "As I Lay Me Down" or "Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover"
* Music/{{Hawkwind}} -- "Silver Machine"
* Music/HawthorneHeights -- "Saying Sorry" or "Ohio Is For Lovers"
* Music/JosephHaydn -- "[[UsefulNotes/{{Germany}} Emperor Quartet - 2nd Movement/Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser]]"
* Music/HunterHayes -- "Wanted"
* Music/IsaacHayes -- "Theme from Film/{{Shaft}}"
* He Is We -- "All About Us" [[note]] Specifically, the one with Music/OwlCity [[/note]]
* Murray Head -- "[[Theatre/{{Chess}} One Night in Bangkok]]"
* Head East -- "Never Been Any Reason"
* Headstones -- "When Something Stands for Nothing" or "Smile and Wave"
* The Head and the Heart -- "Down in the Valley"
* Heather Headley -- "[[CoveredUp In My Mind]]"
* Music/{{Heart}} -- "Barracuda" and "Alone".
* Heatwave -- "Boogie Nights" or "Always and Forever"
* Music/TheHeavy -- "How You Like Me Now?" or "Short Change Hero". "What Makes a Good Man" is also a contender in the UK.
* Heavy D and the Boyz -- "Now That We Found Love"
* Hedley -- "Perfect"
* Oliver Heldens -- "Gecko (Overdrive)".
* Hella -- "Biblical Violance"
* Hellhammer -- "The Triumph of Death"
* Music/{{Helloween}} -- "I Want Out"
* Hellyeah -- "You Wouldn't Know"
* Bobby Helms -- "Jingle Bell Rock"
* Zack Hemsey -- "Vengeance"
* Ella Henderson -- "Ghost"
* Music/JimiHendrix -- "Purple Haze" (from ''Music/AreYouExperienced''), or [[CoveredUp "All Along the Watchtower"]] (from ''Music/ElectricLadyland'').
* Music/HermansHermits -- "I'm Into Something Good"
* Hey Monday -- "How You Love Me Now"
** Cassadee Pope -- "Wasting All These Tears"
* Hey Violet -- "Guys My Age"
* Hi-Five -- "I Like The Way (The Kissing Game)"
* Highly Suspect -- "My Name Is Human", formerly "Lydia"
* Dan Hill – "Sometimes When We Touch" or "Can't We Try"[[note]]with Vonda Shepard[[/note]]
* Music/FaithHill -- "Breathe" and "There You'll Be"
* Music/LaurynHill -- "Doo Wop (That Thing)"
* Hillsong UNITED -- “Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)”
* Hillsong Worship -- “Who You Say I Am”
* Hilltop Hoods -- "The Nosebleed Section", "Chase That Feeling", "1955" or [[VideoGame/{{Forza}} "Higher"]]
* Keri Hilson -- "Knock You Down"
* Zay Hilfigerrr and Zayion [=McCall=] -- "Juju on Dat Beat"
* Music/{{HIM}} -- "Wings of a Butterfly" or "Join Me in Death"
* Hinder -- "Lips of an Angel"
* Music/TheHives -- "Hate To Say I Told You So"
* Music/TheHoldSteady -- "The Swish"
* Hoku -- "Another Dumb Blonde" or "Perfect Day"
* Music/{{Hole}} -- "Celebrity Skin"
* J. Holiday -- "Bed"
* Music/TheHollies -- "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother", [[InTheStyleOf "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress"]], or "The Air That I Breathe"
* Music/BuddyHolly -- "Peggy Sue" or "That'll Be The Day"
* Music/HollywoodUndead -- "Undead"
* Rupert Holmes -- "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)"
* Music/GustavHolst -- "The Planets Suite, Op. 32"
* Steve Holy -- "Good Morning Beautiful"
* The Honeyrods -- "Love Bee"
* Honeyz -- "Finally Found" or "Won't Take It Lying Down"
* Hoobastank -- "The Reason"
* Music/TheHoosiers -- "Goodbye Mr A"
* The Hooters -- "And We Danced"
* Music/HootieAndTheBlowfish -- "Hold My Hand", "Let Her Cry" or "Only Wanna Be With You"
** Music/DariusRucker -- "Wagon Wheel"
* Creator/BobHope -- "Thanks for the Memory"
* Bruce Hornsby and the Range -- "The Way It Is"
* Hot Chelle Rae -- "Tonight Tonight"
* Hot Chip -- "Over and Over"
* Hot Chocolate -- "You Sexy Thing"
* Tomoyasu Hotei -- "[[Film/KillBill Battle Without Honor or Humanity]]"
* Thelma Houston -- "Don't Leave Me This Way"
* Music/WhitneyHouston -- "[[CoveredUp I Will Always Love You]]" with "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" as another contender.
* House of Pain -- "Jump Around"
** Everlast -- "What It's Like"
* Randy Houser -- "Runnin' Outta Moonlight"
* Ben Howard -- "Only Love"
* Music/JamesNewtonHoward -- "[[Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1 The Hanging Tree]]" (shared with Creator/JenniferLawrence) was his first charting hit, but that song is generally considered Lawrence's song rather than his; he's best known for the score to ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' with Hans Zimmer.
* Music/HowlinWolf -- "Smokestack Lightnin'"
* Music/{{Hozier}} -- "Take Me To Church"
* The Hu -- "Yuve Yuve Yu"
* Music/JenniferHudson -- "Spotlight"
* Huey -- "Pop, Lock, & Drop It"
* Music/TheHumanLeague -- "Don't You Want Me"
* Music/SamHunt -- "Body Like a Back Road"
* Hunters & Collectors -- "Throw Your Arms Around Me"
* Hurricane Chris -- "A Bay Bay"
* Lord Huron -- "[[Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy The Night We Met]]"
* Hurt -- "Rapture" (although "Ten Ton Brick" was their highest-charting hit)
* Hurts -- "Wonderful Life"
* Music/HuskerDu -- "Makes No Sense At All"
* Hybrid (Welsh electronic music trio) -- "Finished Symphony", "Disappear Here", [[VideoGame/{{Driveclub}} "Be Here Now"]]
* Brian Hyland -- "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini"
* Music/{{Hyuna}} -- "Ice Cream"
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* I Am Empire -- "Gravity Bomb"
* I Prevail -- "[[Music/TaylorSwift Blank Space]]"
* Music/JanisIan -- "At Seventeen"
* Music/IceCube -- "It Was a Good Day" or "Check Yo Self"
* Music/IcedEarth -- "Travel in Stygian"
* Icehouse -- "Great Southern Land" or "Electric Blue"
* Music/IceT -- "6 in the Mornin' "
** Music/BodyCount -- "Cop Killer", from ''[[Music/BodyCountAlbum Body Count]]''
* Music/IconaPop -- "I Love It"
* Music/IconForHire -- "Make A Move"
* Music/BillyIdol -- "Dancing With Myself," "Rebel Yell" or "White Wedding"
* Music/EnriqueIglesias -- "[[Film/WildWildWest Bailamos]]" and "Hero" for his earlier material, “I Like It” and “Tonight (I’m Lovin’ You)” for his later material.
* [=IHeartMemphis=]/[=ILoveMemphis=] -- "Hit The Quan"
* [=ILoveMakonnen=] -- "Tuesday" (though it's more associated with Music/{{Drake}})
* Music/IllNino -- "What Comes Around"
* Music/ImagineDragons -- Previously "It's Time," but now far and away "Radioactive" overall. By album:
** ''Night Visions'': “Radioactive”
** ''Smoke + Mirrors'': “I Bet My Life”
** ''Evolve'': “Believer” or “Thunder”
** ''Origins'': “Natural”
* Music/NatalieImbruglia -- "[[CoveredUp Torn]]"
* Music/{{Immolation}} -- "Father, You're Not a Father"
* Music/{{Immortal}} -- "Call of the Wintermoon"
* Music/ImogenHeap -- "Hide and Seek"
* Inner Circle -- "[[Series/{{Cops}} Bad Boys]]"
* Music/{{Insomnium}} -- “While We Sleep”
* Music/InThisMoment -- "Blood"
* Music/{{Incubus}} -- "Drive"
* Music/{{India Arie}} -- "Video"
* The Indigy -- "Apache (Warrior Bow)"
* Music/InFlames -- By album:
** ''Lunar Strain'' -- "Behind Space"
** ''The Jester Race'' -- "Moonshield"
** ''Whoracle'' -- "Episode 666"
** ''Colony'' -- The title track or "Behind Space '99"
** ''Clayman'' -- "Only for the Weak" or "Pinball Map"
** ''Reroute to Remain'' -- "Cloud Connected"
** ''Soundtrack to Your Escape'' -- "The Quiet Place"
** ''Come Clarity'' -- "Take This Life"
** ''A Sense of Purpose'' -- "The Mirror's Truth"
** ''Sounds of a Playground Fading'' -- "Deliver Us"
** ''Siren Charms'' -- "Paralyzed"
** ''Battles'' -- "The Truth"
** ''I, The Mask'' -- "I Am Above"
** Overall: "Behind Space", "Moonshield", or "Only For The Weak" for their earlier work; "Take This Life", "Cloud Connected" or "Deliver Us" for their later work
* Music/InformationSociety -- "What's On Your Mind? {Pure Energy)" for general audiences; "[[VideoGame/LegacyOfKain Ozar Midrashim]]" for video-gaming audiences
* Chuck Inglish -- "[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Came Thru/Easily]]"
* James Ingram -- "Just Once", "Yah Mo B There"[[note]]with Michael [=McDonald=][[/note]] or "I Don't Have The Heart"
* Injected -- "Faithless"
* Injury Reserve -- "ttktv" or "Oh Shit!!!"
* Inna -- "Cola Song" or "Hot"
* Music/{{Interpol}} -- "Obstacle 1" or "Evil"
** Julian Plenti - "Girl on the Sporting News"
* The Interrupters -- "She's Kerosene"
* Music/{{INXS}} -- "Need You Tonight"
* Donnie Iris -- "Ah, Leah!"
* Iron & Wine -- "Flightless Bird, American Mouth"
* Music/IronButterfly -- "Music/InAGaddaDaVida"
* Music/IronMaiden -- "Run to the Hills" or "The Number of the Beast"
* Music/ChrisIsaak -- "Wicked Game"
* Ish -- "Rollin'"
* Islander -- "Coconut Dracula"
* The Isley Brothers -- "Shout" (for the original lineup), "Who's That Lady" (for the "3x3" lineup)
* Music/{{Issues}} -- "King of Amarillo", "[[Music/JustinBieber Boyfriend]]", "Hooligans", or "Stingray Affliction"
* Music/{{IU}} -- "Good Day"
* IYAZ -- "Replay"
* J Balvin -- "Ay Vamos" or "Mi Gente"
* Jack & Jack -- "Rise" (shared with Jonas Blue)
* Terry Jacks -- "Seasons in the Sun"
* Freddie Jackson -- "You Are My Lady" or "Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake)"
* Music/JanetJackson -- "That's The Way Love Goes" or "Rhythm Nation"
* Music/JoeJackson -- "Steppin' Out" or "Is She Really Going Out with Him?"
* Music/MichaelJackson -- "Billie Jean", "Beat It", "Thriller", "Black or White" and "Smooth Criminal" overall. By album:
** ''Got to Be There'' -- "Got to Be There" or "Rockin' Robin"
** ''Ben'' -- "Ben"
** ''Music and Me'' -- "Music and Me"
** ''Music/OffTheWall'' -- "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough", "Rock With You", or "Off the Wall"
** ''Music/{{Thriller}}'' -- "Thriller", "Beat It" or "Billie Jean"
** ''Music/{{Bad}}'' -- "Bad", "Speed Demon", "Man in the Mirror", "Dirty Diana", or "Smooth Criminal"
** ''Dangerous'' -- "Black or White" or "Remember the Time"
** ''[=HIStory=]'' -- "You are Not Alone", "Earth Song" or "They Don't Really Care About Us"
** ''Blood on the Dance Floor'' -- "Blood on the Dance Floor"
** ''Invincible'' -- "You Rock My World"
** ''Xscape'' -- "Love Never Felt So Good"
* Rebbie Jackson -- "Centipede"
* Music/TheJacksonFive -- By album:
** ''Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5'' -- "I Want You Back"
** ''ABC'' -- "[=ABC=]" or "The Love You Save"
** ''Third Album'' -- "I'll Be There".
** ''Maybe Tomorrow'' -- "Never Can Say Goodbye"
** ''Dancing Machine'' --"Dancing Machine"
** Following their name change to the Jacksons:
** ''The Jacksons'' -- "Enjoy Yourself"
** ''Destiny'' -- "Blame It on the Boogie" or "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)"
** ''Triumph'' -- "Can You Feel It"
** ''Victory'' -- "State of Shock"
** ''2300 Jackson Street'' --"2300 Jackson Street"
** Overall: "I Want You Back", "ABC", and "I'll Be There" as the Jackson 5; "Blame It On The Boogie" or "Can You Feel It" as the Jacksons.
* Jack Ü -- "Where Are Ü Now" [[note]]Although it's probably more associated with Justin Bieber[[/note]]
* Felix Jaehn -- "Ain't Nobody (Loves Me Better)" (shared with Jasmine Thompson) as a lead artist, overall he's best known for his remix of OMI's "Cheerleader".
* Jagged Edge-- "Where the Party At"
* Music/JAMProject -- Formerly "[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWars SKILL]] or [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha GONG]]", now unquestionably "[[Webcomic/OnePunchMan THE HERO! ~Ikareru Kobushi ni Honō wo Tsukero~]]
* Music/TheJam -- "Going Underground"
* Jamelia -- "Superstar"
* James -- "Sit Down" in the UK, "Laid" in the U.S.
* Music/EttaJames -- "At Last" and "I Just Wanna Make Love To You".
* Harry James -- "You Made Me Love You"
* Rick James -- "[[Music/MCHammer Super]] [[SampledUp Freak]]"
* Tommy James -- "Hanky Panky"
* Trinidad James -- "All Gold Everything"
* Jamie T -- "Sheila", "Emily's Heart" or "Sticks & Stones"
* Music/{{Jamiroquai}} -- "Virtual Insanity", "[[Film/NapoleonDynamite Canned Heat]]"
* Music/JanesAddiction -- "Jane Says" or "Been Caught Stealing." "Hypersonic" to those who are fans of the [[VideoGame/{{SSX}} SSX]] series.
* Chris Janson -- "Buy Me a Boat"
* Janus -- "Eyesore"
* Ja Rule -- "Always on Time"
* Music/JayRock -- "[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Hood Gone Love It]]" or "[[Film/BlackPanther2018 King's Dead]]"
* Music/JayZ -- "99 Problems" overall. By album:
** ''Reasonable Doubt'' -- "Dead Presidents"
** ''In My Lifetime, Vol. 1'' -- "The City Is Mine"
** ''Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life'' -- "[[Film/RushHour Can I Get A…]]" or the title track
** ''Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter'' -- "Big Pimpin'"
** ''The Dynasty: Roc La Familia'' -- "I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)"
** ''The Blueprint'' -- "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)"
** ''The Best of Both Worlds'' -- "Take You Home with Me (A.K.A. Body)" (shared with Music/RKelly)
** ''The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse'' -- "03 Bonnie & Clyde" (shared with Music/{{Beyonce}})
** ''The Black Album'' -- "99 Problems"
** ''Unfinished Business'' -- "Big Chips" (shared with Music/RKelly)
** ''Collision Course'' -- "Numb/Encore" (shared with Music/LinkinPark)
** ''Kingdom Come'' -- "Show Me What You Got"
** ''American Gangster'' -- "Blue Magic"
** ''The Blueprint 3'' -- "Empire State of Mind" (shared with Music/AliciaKeys)
** ''Watch the Throne'' -- "Niggas In Paris" (shared with Music/KanyeWest)
** ''Magna Carta Holy Grail'' -- "Holy Grail" (shared with Music/JustinTimberlake)
** ''4:44'' -- The title track
* J Dash -- "Wop"
* Jedward -- "[[Music/{{Queen}} Under]] [[Music/DavidBowie Pressure]] ([[Music/VanillaIce Ice Ice Baby]])" or "Lipstick"
* Music/JeffersonAirplane -- "Somebody To Love" or "White Rabbit" (from ''Music/SurrealisticPillow'')
* Jem -- "They"
* Sean Jenness -- "[[Wrestling/{{Sheamus}} Written In My Face]]"
* Music/CarlyRaeJepsen -- by album:
** ''Tug of War'' -- "Bucket" or the title track
** ''Kiss'' (and overall) -- "Call Me Maybe"
** ''Emotion'' -- "I Really Like You" or "Run Away With Me"
** ''Dedicated'' -- "Party For One"
* Jeremih -- "Birthday Sex", "Down On Me" or "Don't Tell 'Em"
* Music/JessieJ -- "Price Tag", "Domino" or "Bang Bang" (though it's probably more associated with Music/ArianaGrande and Music/NickiMinaj in the US)
* Music/TheJesusandMaryChain -- "Just Like Honey" or "Head On"
* Jesus Jones -- "Right Here, Right Now"
* Jet -- "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"
* Music/JethroTull -- "Aqualung" (from ''[[Music/AqualungJethroTullAlbum Aqualung]]'')
* Music/JoanJett -- [[CoveredUp "I Love Rock 'n' Roll"]] or "[[Creator/RondaRousey Bad Reputation]]"
* Jewel -- "Who Will Save Your Soul" and "You Were Meant for Me"
* Music/TheJGeilsBand -- "Centerfold" or "Freeze Frame"
* Jibbs -- "Chain Hang Low"
* Jidenna -- "Classic Man" or "[[Series/LukeCage2016 Long Live the Chief]]"
* Jimmie's Chicken Shack -- "Do Right"
* Music/JimmyEatWorld -- "[[Film/TheSorcerersApprentice The]] [[BlackSheepHit Middle]]"
* J-Kwon -- "Tipsy"
* JLS -- "Beat Again"
* Jo Boxers -- "Just Got Lucky"
* Joe -- "Stutter" and "I Wanna Know"
* Music/BillyJoel -- by album:
** ''Cold Spring Harbor'' -- "She's Got a Way", especially since it was made more famous when released as a single in the live version from ''Songs in the Attic".
** ''Piano Man'' -- "Piano Man".
** ''Streetlife Serenade'' -- "The Entertainer", probably the only quite well-remembered song on the album.
** ''Turnstiles'' -- "New York State of Mind".
** ''The Stranger'' -- "Only the Good Die Young", "She's Always a Woman", "Just the Way You Are", "Vienna", "Movin' Out" and "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant".
** ''52nd Street'' -- "My Life"; "Honesty" and "Big Shot" are also well-remembered.
** ''Glass Houses'' -- "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" or "You May Be Right"
** ''The Nylon Curtain'' -- "Allentown" or "Goodnight Saigon".
** ''An Innocent Man'' -- "Uptown Girl", although also "The Longest Time" and "Tell Her About It" are well-remembered.
** ''The Bridge'' -- "A Matter of Trust".
** ''Storm Front'' -- "We Didn't Start The Fire"; "Alexa" is probably the second best-known song on it.
** ''River of Dreams'' -- The title track.
* Music/EltonJohn -- "Your Song", "Rocket Man", "Tiny Dancer," or "Candle in the Wind 1997"
* Robert John -- "Sad Eyes"
* Johnny Hates Jazz -- "Shattered Dreams"
* Joji:
** "you suck charlie", "i don't wanna waste my time" and especially his remix of "medicine" in terms of his older content.
** ''BALLADS 1'' and overall -- "SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK"
* [[Music/JoJo [=JoJo=]]] -- "Leave (Get Out)" or "Too Little Too Late"
* Creator/DonJohnson -- "Heartbeat"
* Music/EricJohnson -- "Cliffs of Dover"
* Music/JackJohnson -- "Banana Pancakes"
* Creator/LiaMarieJohnson -- "DNA"
* Freedy Johnston -- "Bad Reputation"
* [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} Jim Johnston]] -- "[[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin I Won't Do What You Tell Me]]", [[Wrestling/TheUndertaker Graveyard Symphony]]", or (briefly) "[[Wrestling/{{Fandango}} ChaChaLaLa]]"
** [=CFO$=] -- "[[Wrestling/AJStyles Phenomenal]]", "[[Wrestling/BobbyRoode Glorious Domination]]", or "[[Wrestling/ShinsukeNakamura The Rising Sun]]"
** Kromestatik -- "[[Wrestling/WWERaw The Night]]"
* Music/NickJonas -- "Jealous"
** Nick Jonas & The Administration -- "Who I Am"
* Music/JonasBrothers -- "Burnin' Up" for their original output, "Sucker" for their 2019 reunion.
** Music/JoeJonas -- "See No More"
* George Jones -- "He Stopped Loving Her Today"
* Glenn Jones -- "Here I Go Again"
* Creator/GraceJones -- "Pull Up to the Bumper"
* Isham Jones -- "I'll See You in My Dreams" or "It Had to Be You" (probably the UrExample)
* Jim Jones -- "We Fly High"
* Kent Jones -- "Don't Mind"
* Music/NorahJones -- "Don't Know Why" (from ''Music/ComeAwayWithMe'')
* Music/TomJones -- "It's Not Unusual" or "Delilah"
* Music/JanisJoplin -- "Me & Bobby [=McGee=]"
** Big Brother & the Holding Company -- "Piece of My Heart" (from ''Music/CheapThrills'')
* Music/ScottJoplin -- A 3-way tie between "Maple Leaf Rag", "Solace", and "The Entertainer"
* Alexis Jordan -- "Happiness"
* Montell Jordan -- "This Is How We Do It"
* Music/{{Journey}} -- "Don't Stop Believin'" overall. By album:
** ''Infinity'' -- "Wheel in the Sky"
** ''Evolution'' -- Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'"
** ''Departure'' -- "Any Way You Want It"
** ''Escape'' -- "Don't Stop Believin'", with "Open Arms" and "Who's Crying Now" as other contenders
** ''Frontiers'' -- "Faithfully", or "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)"
* Music/VanceJoy -- "Riptide"
* Music/JoyDivision -- "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
* Joye Manor -- "Constant Headache"
* Music/{{Joywave}} -- "Destruction" or "Tongues"
* JRDN -- "U Can Have It All"
* Juanes -- "A Dios le Pido"
* Music/JudasPriest --"Living After Midnight," "Breaking the Law" (Both from ''Music/BritishSteel''), or "You Got Another Thing Comin'"
* Juice WRLD -- "Lucid Dreams"
* Music/JulienK -- [[VideoGame/SonicHeroes "This Machine"]], "Kick the Bass" or [[Film/{{Transformers}} "Technical Difficulties"]]
* Jungle -- "Busy Earnin'"
* Music/{{Juniel}} -- "Illa Illa"
* Junior -- "Mama Used to Say"
* Junior Senior -- "Move Your Feet"
* Music/{{Justice}} -- "D.A.N.C.E."
* Juvenile -- Previously either "Back That Azz Up" or "Slow Motion", but now indisputably the former.
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* K'naan -- "Wavin' Flag"
* Kaiser Cartel -- "[[Film/LiberalArts Favorite Song]]"
* Kajagoogoo -- "Too Shy"
* Music/KaiserChiefs -- "I Predict A Riot" or "Ruby"
* Music/KaizersOrchestra -- "Kontroll på kontinentet"
* Kaleo -- "Way Down We Go" for alternative radio listeners and to the mainstream, "No Good" for active rock radio listeners.
* Music/{{Kamelot}} -- "The Haunting"
* Music/{{Kamikazee}} -- "Narda"
* Music/{{Kansas}} -- Initially "Dust in the Wind", but over time has become "Carry On Wayward Son"
* Music/{{Kara}} -- "Mister"
* Kardinal Offishall -- "Dangerous"
* Karmin -- "Brokenhearted"
* Karnivool -- "Themata"
* Music/{{Kasabian}} -- By album:
** SelfTitledAlbum -- "[[Film/{{Serenity}} Club Foot]]"
** ''Empire'' -- "Shoot the Runner"
** ''West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum'' -- "[[Film/{{Takers}} Underdog]]" or "Fire"
** ''Velociraptor!'' -- "Days Are Forgotten" or "Goodbye Kiss"
** ''48:13'' -- "eez-eh", "stevie" or "bumblebeee"
** ''For Crying Out Loud'' -- "You're In Love With A Psycho" or "Comeback Kid"
** Overall -- "Club Foot", "Underdog" and the ''Velociraptor!'' signatures are the frontrunners in the mainstream crowd, "Fire" for most UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball fans.
* Katy B -- "Katy on a mission" or "Crying for No Reason"
* Music/{{Kaya}} -- "Chocolat"
* K Camp -- "Cut Her Off"
* KC and the Sunshine Band -- "That's the Way (I Like It)"
* K-Ci and [=JoJo=] -- "All My Life"
* KDA -- "Turn the Music Louder (Rumble)" (though it's probably more associated with Music/TinieTempah and/or Katy B)
* Music/{{Keane}} -- "Somewhere Only We Know"
* Keemstar -- "Dollar In The Woods!"
* Kehlani -- "[[Film/SuicideSquad2016 Gangsta]]"
* Music/TobyKeith -- Originally "Should've Been a Cowboy", but now the signature songs are either "Red Solo Cup" or "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue"
* Kelis -- "Milkshake"
* Paul Kelly -- "To Her Door", "Before Too Long", or "Darling It Hurts"
* Music/RKelly -- For the 90s, "I Believe I Can Fly," for the 2000s, "Ignition (Remix)"
* Tori Kelly -- "Nobody Love" or "Should've Been Us"
* Creator/AnnaKendrick -- "[[Film/PitchPerfect Cups (''Pitch Perfect's'' When I'm Gone)]]"
* Music/KennyG -- "Songbird"
* Music/KeroKeroBonito -- "Flamingo"
* Music/NikKershaw -- "Wouldn't It Be Good?" and "The Riddle"
* Music/{{Kesha}} -- By Album
** ''Animal'': "Tik Tok", with "Your Love is My Drug" as a runner up
** ''Cannibal'': "We Are Who We Are"
** ''Warrior'': "Die Young"
** ''Rainbow'': "Praying"
* Music/AliciaKeys -- By album:
** ''Songs in A Minor'': "Fallin'"
** ''The Diary of Alicia Keys'': “If I Ain’t Got You”
** ''As I Am'': “No One”
** ''The Element of Freedom'': “Un-Thinkable (I’m Ready)”
** ''Girl on Fire'': The title track
** ''HERE'': “In Common”
* K.Flay -- "Blood in the Cut"
* Aram Khachaturian -- "Sabre Dance"
* Khaled -- "Didi" and/or "Aïcha"
* Khalid -- "Love Lies"
* Music/WizKhalifa -- "Black & Yellow" to the hip-hop/urban community; "[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious See You Again]]" (from the ''Music/Furious7Soundtrack'') to mainstream audiences
* Chaka Khan -- "I'm Every Woman"
** Rufus & Chaka Khan -- "Tell Me Something Good"
* Eduard Khil -- "I am Glad Because I'm Finally Returning Home" ([[MemeticMutation the "Trololo" song]])
* Kid Cudi -- "Day 'n' Nite" or "Pursuit of Happiness"
* Music/KidRock:
** "Cowboy" or "Bawitdaba" (NuMetal era)
** "All Summer Long" (country rock era)
* Music/{{Kiesza}} -- "Hideaway"
* Music/{{Kiiara}} -- "Gold"
* Killer Be Killed -- "Wings of Feather and Wax"
* Music/TheKillers -- "Mr. Brightside", "Somebody Told Me", or "Human"
* Music/KillingJoke -- "Love Like Blood"
* Kill It Kid -- "Blood Stop and Run"
* Natalia Kills -- "Mirrors"
* Music/KillswitchEngage -- By album:
** ''Alive or Just Breathing'' -- "My Last Serenade"
** ''The End of Heartache'' -- [[Film/ResidentEvilApocalypse The title track]]
** ''As Daylight Dies'' -- "My Curse"
** ''Killswitch Engage (2009)'' -- "Starting Over"
** ''Disarm the Descent'' -- "In Due Time"
** ''Incarnate'' -- "Hate by Design"
** Overall: "My Curse" (Howard Jones era), "In Due Time" (Jesse Leach era).
* Andy Kim -- "Rock Me Gently"
* Cheyenne Kimball -- "Hanging On"
* Kari Kimmel -- "[[Wrestling/AJLee Let's Light it Up]]"
* Ben E. King -- "Film/StandByMe"
* Music/CaroleKing -- "It's Too Late" (from ''Music/{{Tapestry}}'')
* Elle King -- "Ex's and Oh's" to mainstream audiences; "Different For Girls" (with Dierks Bentley) to country audiences
* Evelyn Champagne King -- "Shame"
* Music/KingCrimson -- [[Music/InTheCourtOfTheCrimsonKing "21st Century Schizoid Man"]] and [[Music/RedKingCrimsonAlbum "Red"]] for casual listeners; "Epitaph", "Starless", and "Elephant Talk" for diehard fans
* Music/KingDiamond -- "The Family Ghost" or "Welcome Home"
* Music/KingGizzardAndTheLizardWizard: By Album:
** ''12 Bar Bruise'' -- "Elbow"
** ''Eyes Like the Sky'' -- "Fort Whipple" or the title track
** ''Float Along -- Fill Your Lungs'' -- "Head On/Pill"
** ''Oddments'' -- "Vegemite"
** ''I'm in Your Mind Fuzz'' -- "Cellophane" or "Am I in Heaven?"
** ''Quarters!" -- "The River"
** ''Paper Mache Dream Balloon'' -- "Trapdoor" or "Sense"
** ''Nonagon Infinity'' -- "Gamma Knife" or "Evil Death Roll"
** ''Flying Microtonal Banana'' -- "Rattlesnake"
** ''Murder of the Universe'' -- "Han-Tyumi and the Murder of the Universe" (actually six songs in one)
** ''Sketches of Brunswick East'' -- "Countdown" or "Tezeta"
** ''Polygondwanaland'' -- "Crumbling Castle"
** ''Gumboot Soup'' -- "All Is Known"
** ''Fishing for Fishies'' -- "Cyboogie"
** ''Infest the Rats' Nest'' -- "Planet B"
** Overall: Either "Gamma Knife" or "Rattlesnake"
* Music/KingMissile -- "Detachable Penis"
* Gershon Kingsley -- "Popcorn"
* Kings of Leon -- "Sex on Fire" and "Use Somebody"
* The Kingsmen -- "Louie, Louie"
* Sean Kingston -- "Beautiful Girls"
* Music/TheKinks -- "You Really Got Me"
* Creator/EmilyKinney -- "Be Good"
* Music/{{KISS}} -- "Rock and Roll All Nite"
* Kittie -- "Brackish"
* Music/{{Kitty Pryde}} -- "okcupid"
* Michael Kiwanuka -- "Home Again"
* Music/TheKLF -- "3 AM Eternal"
* Music/{{KMFDM}} -- "Juke Joint Jezebel", "Megalomaniac", or [[Anime/StreetFighterIITheAnimatedMovie "Ultra"]]
* The Knack -- "My Sharona"
* Music/KnifeParty -- "Internet Friends" or "Bonfire"
* Gladys Knight and the Pips -- "Midnight Train To Georgia"
* Knocked Loose -- "Deadringer"
* Koan Sound -- "Funk Blaster"
* Kodak Black -- “Tunnel Vision” or "Zeze"
* Koji Kondo -- The "''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''" overworld theme
* Kome Kome Club -- "Kimi ga Iru Dake de"
* KONGOS -- "[[Film/HolyMotors Come With]] [[Film/TheExpendables Me Now]]"
* John Kongos -- "[[Music/HappyMondays He's Gonna Step On You Again]]"
* The Kooks -- "Naive"
* Kool & the Gang -- "Celebration"
* Music/{{Korn}} -- "Freak on a Leash" overall. By album:
** ''Music/KornAlbum'' -- "Blind"
** ''Life is Peachy'' -- "A.D.I.D.A.S."
** ''Follow the Leader'' -- "Freak on a Leash"
** ''Issues'' -- "Falling Away from Me"
** ''Untouchables'' -- "Here to Stay"
** ''Take a Look in the Mirror'' -- "Did My Time"
** ''Greatest Hits'' -- "[[CoverVersion Word Up!]]"
** ''See You on the Other Side'' -- "Twisted Transistor" or "Coming Undone"
** Untitled album -- "Evolution"
** ''Korn III'' -- "Oildale (Leave Me Alone)"
** ''The Path of Totality'' -- "[[Music/{{Skrillex}} Narcissistic Cannibal]]"
** ''The Paradigm Shift'' -- "Never Never"
** ''The Serenity of Suffering'' -- "Rotting in Vain"
** ''The Nothing'' -- "You'll Never Find Me'' or "Cold"
*** Jonathan Davis -- "What It Is"
* Music/{{Korpiklaani}} -- "Wooden Pints"
* [[Music/{{BEMANI}} kors k]] -- "smooooch・∀・"
* Music/{{Kraftwerk}} -- "Das Modell"[/]"The Model" from ''Music/TheManMachine'' or "Autobahn" from ''Music/{{Autobahn}}''.
* Music/LennyKravitz -- "Fly Away" or "Are You Gonna Go My Way?"
* Music/{{Kreator}} -- "Ripping Corpse"
* Kreayshawn -- "Gucci Gucci"
* Music/{{Krewella}} -- "Alive"
* Kris Kross -- "Jump"
* Kris Kristofferson -- "Why Me?"
* Krokus -- "Eat the Rich"
* Music/YevgenyKrylatov -- "[[Series/GuestFromTheFuture Beautiful Tomorrow]]"
* Kula Shaker -- "Tattva"
* Music/KyaryPamyuPamyu -- "PONPONPON"
* Kygo -- "It Ain't Me", although that is more known as Music/SelenaGomez' song. For songs that are actually associated with him, "Firestone" and "Stole the Show".
* Kyle -- "[=iSpy=]"
* Music/{{Kyuss}} -- "One Inch Man"
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* +44 -- "When Your Heart Stops Beating"
* 10 Years -- "Wasteland"
* Music/TenCc - "I'm Not In Love" and "Dreadlock Holiday"
* Music/HundredGecs -- "Money Machine"
* Music/The13thFloorElevators -- "You're Gonna Miss Me"
* Music/SixteenHorsepower -- "Black Soul Choir"
* 21 Savage -- "X" or "Bank Account"
* 2Cellos -- "[[Music/MichaelJackson Smooth]] [[Series/{{Glee}} Criminal]]"
* Music/TwoChainz -- "Birthday Song" or "I'm Different"
* Music/TwoLiveCrew -- "Me So Horny"
* 2 Unlimited -- "No Limit" in Europe, "Get Ready For This" in North America
* 20 Fingers -- “Short Dick Man”
* Music/TwoNEOne -- "I Am The Best"
* Music/ThreeEleven -- "Down" or "Amber"
* Music/ThreeDaysGrace -- "I Hate Everything About You" or "Just Like You"
* Music/ThreeDoorsDown -- "Kryptonite", with "Here Without You" as a close second.
* Music/ThreeInchesOfBlood -- "Deadly Sinners" or "Destroy the Orcs"
* 3OH!3 -- "Don't Trust Me"
* 38 Special -- "Hold On Loosely" or "Caught Up In You"
* The 411 -- "On My Knees"
* 4 Non Blondes -- "What's Up?"
* 5ive -- "Keep On Movin'".
* [[Music/RobZombie John]] [[Music/MarilynManson 5]] -- "[[SerialKiller Black Widow of]] [[Creator/{{cs188}} La Porte]]"
* Music/FiveSecondsOfSummer -- "She Looks So Perfect" for their pop-punk days, "Youngblood" for their most recent material (and probably overall).
* [[Music/FiftyCent 50 Cent]] -- "In Da Club" or "Candy Shop"
* The 5th Dimension -- "[[Theatre/{{Hair}} Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In]]"
* 65daysofstatic -- "Radio Protector"
* 69 Boyz -- "Tootsie Roll"
* 6ix9ine -- "Fefe"
* 808 State -- "Pacific 202"
* The 88 -- "[[Series/{{Community}} At Least It Was Here]]"
* 8ball & MJG -- "Space Age Pimpin"
* [[Music/TheNineteenSeventyFive The 1975]] -- "Chocolate", "Love Me" and "The Sound" are becoming contenders.
* 911 -- "Love Sensation"
* 98 Degrees -- "Give Me Just One Night (Una Noche)"
** Nick Lachey -- "What's Left of Me"
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* Music/{{A1}} -- "Same Old Brand New You"
* Music/{{Aaliyah}} -- [[Film/DrDolittle "Are You That Somebody"]], [[Film/RomeoMustDie "Try Again"]], or "One in a Million"
* Music/{{ABBA}} -- "Mamma Mia" (from ''Music/ABBAAlbum'') or "Dancing Queen" (from ''Music/{{Arrival|Album}}'')
* Music/{{ABC}} -- "The Look of Love"
* Music/PaulaAbdul -- "Forever your Girl", "Straight Up" or "Opposites Attract"
* Music/{{Abnormality}} -- "[[VideoGame/RockBand Visions]]"
* Music/{{ACDC}} -- By album:
** ''TNT'' -- "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" was Bon Scott's signature song, and so identified with him that Brian Johnson won't perform it. It's also regarded as the band's signature song in their native Australia. The title track is another contender.
** ''Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap'' -- The title track.
** ''Highway to Hell'' -- "Highway to Hell" is regarded as Bon Scott's signature song in America.
** ''Music/BackInBlack'' -- "Back in Black", which is Brian Johnson's signature song in America, or "You Shook Me All Night Long"
** ''The Razors Edge'' -- "Thunderstruck", considered Brian Johnson's signature song in Australia
* Music/{{Accept}} -- "Balls to the Wall"
* Ace Hood -- "Bugatti"
* Music/AceOfBase -- "[[Film/PitchPerfect The Sign]]"
* Action Bronson — “Baby Blue”
* Music/AdamAndTheAnts -- "Prince Charming"
* Music/BryanAdams -- "Summer of '69", "Heaven" or [[Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You"]]
* Music/{{Adele}} -- "Rolling in the Deep", "Someone Like You", "Set Fire to the Rain" or "Hello"
* Adelitas Way -- "Sick"
* Music/{{Adema}} -- "Giving In"
* Music/ADayToRemember -- "All I Want"
* Aero Chord -- "Surface"
* Music/{{Aerosmith}} -- "Dream On", "Walk This Way" (shared with Music/RunDMC), and "Sweet Emotion" for their earlier work, "[[Film/{{Armageddon}} I Don't Want To Miss A Thing]]" for their later years
* Music/AesopRock -- "Daylight" or "None Shall Pass"
* Afghan Whigs -- "Debonair"
* Music/{{AFI}} -- "Prelude 12-21/Miss Murder" (or "God Called In Sick Today" for older fans)
* Afroman -- "Because I Got High" or "Colt 45"
* After 7 -- "Ready or Not" and "Can't Stop"
* The Afters -- "Light Up the Sky" or “Broken Hallelujah overall; “Beautiful Love” for MTV fans.
* Age Against the Machine -- "[[Wrestling/JackSwagger Get on Your Knees]]"
* Agent Orange -- "Bloodstains"
* Music/ChristinaAguilera -- "Beautiful" or "Genie In A Bottle"
* Music/{{aha}} -- "Take On Me"
* Aiden -- "Die Romantic"
* Music/{{Air}} -- "All I Need"
* Airbourne -- "Runnin' Wild" or "Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast"
* The Airborne Toxic Event -- “Sometime Around Midnight”
* Air Supply -- "All Out of Love"
* Music/{{AJR}} -- "[[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants I'm Ready]]", "Weak", "Sober Up", "Burn The House Down", or "Bang!"
* Akon -- "I Wanna Love You"
* Alabama 3 -- "[[Series/TheSopranos Woke Up this Morning]]"
* Music/TheAlanParsonsProject -- "Eye in the Sky". Or, to fans of various sports teams and figures, especially the [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation Chicago Bulls]] and Wrestling/RickySteamboat, its instrumental lead-in "Sirius".
* Hans Albers -- "La Paloma" and "Auf der Reeperbahn Nachts um halb Eins"
* Music/JasonAldean -- "Dirt Road Anthem"
* Alesso -- "Heroes (We Could Be)" (although associated more with Music/ToveLo)
* Music/{{Alestorm}} -- [[Series/LazyTown You Are a Pirate]]
* Music/{{Alexisonfire}} -- "This Could Be Anywhere in the World"
* Music/AliceInChains -- "Man in the Box", "Would", or "Rooster"
** Post-Layne Staley: "Check my Brain" or "Hollow"
** Creator/JerryCantrell: "Cut You In" or "Anger Rising"
* Music/AlienAntFarm -- Their {{cover|edUp}} of "[[Music/MichaelJackson Smooth Criminal]]"
* Alkaline Trio -- "Calling All Skeletons" (or "Time to Waste" for older fans)
* Music/LilyAllen -- "Smile", "[[Film/PitchPerfect Fuck You]]".
* All Levels at Once -- "Flutershy's Lament" or "Pony Should Pony Pony"
* Music/AllSaints -- "Never Ever" and "[[Film/TheBeach Pure Shores]]".
* Music/AllThatRemains -- By album:
** ''This Darkened Heart'' -- The title track.
** ''The Fall of Ideals'' -- "This Calling"
** ''Overcome'' -- "Two Weeks"
** ''For We Are Many'' -- "The Last Time"
** ''A War You Cannot Win'' -- "What If I Was Nothing"
** ''The Order of Things'' -- "This Probably Won't End Well"
** ''Madness'' -- "[[Music/GarthBrooks The Thunder Rolls]]"
** Overall: "Two Weeks"
* Music/AllTimeLow -- "Dear Maria, Count Me In"
* Music/TheAllAmericanRejects -- "Gives You Hell", "Swing Swing" and "Dirty Little Secret". Among ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' fans, it's "Move Along".
** Tyson Ritter -- "Air"
* Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand -- "Whipping Post", "Midnight Rider, "Ramblin' Man", or "Jessica"
* Jarrod Alonge -- excluding his various covers and medleys, overall, "First World Tragedy" for his comedy music and "Shinebox" for his serious band, CrazyEightyEight. By individual "bands":
** [[Main/{{PopPunk}} Sunrise Skater Kids]] -- used to be "Pop Punk Pizza Party" but was replaced by "First World Tragedy" when ''Beating a Dead Horse'' was released
** [[Main/{{EmoMusic}} Canadian Softball]] -- "The Distance Between You and Me Is Longer Than the Title of This Song" or "Your Validation"
** [[Main/{{Metalcore}} Amidst The Grave's Demons]] -- used to be "I'm So Scene" but was replaced with "The Swimmer" when ''Beating a Dead Horse'' was released
** [[Main/{{HardcorePunk}} Chewed Up]] -- "Unbreakable"
** [[Main/{{Deathcore}} Vermicide Violence]] -- used to be "Pray For Progress" (ironic considering it's a song parodying [[Music/{{BringMeTheHorizon}} Bring Me The Horizon]]'s shift from deathcore to more melodic, alternative rock), but it's been replaced with "Coronaviscerated" with the release of ''The Praxis of Prophylaxis''
** [[Main/{{Djent}} Rectangles]] -- "Cosmic Metaphysical Verisimilitude"
** [[Main/{{Crunkcore}} $wagCh0de]] -- "2 Freaky 4 Da Club"
** CrazyEightyEight -- "Shinebox"
* Alphabeat -- "Fascination"
* Alpinestars -- "Carbon Kid"
* Music/AltJ -- "Breezeblocks" and "Left Hand Free"
* Music/AlterBridge -- "Open Your Eyes" or "Rise Today" to rock fans; "[[Wrestling/{{Edge}} Metalingus]]" to wrestling fans.
* [=AlunaGeorge=] -- "Attracting Flies" in the UK, "You Know You Like It"[[note]]specifically the official remix by DJ Snake[[/note]] internationally
* Music/{{Amaranthe}} -- "Drop Dead Cynical"
* Amber Pacific -- "Always You (Good Times)" or "Fall Back Into My Life"
* Marsha Ambrosius -- "Far Away" or "Butterflies"
* Music/{{America}} -- "A Horse with No Name"
* American Authors -- "Best Day of My Life"
* Music/{{Amerie}} - "[[Film/{{Hitch}} 1 Thing]]"
* Amiina -- "Seoul"
* Music/AmonAmarth -- "The Pursuit of Vikings", "Death in Fire", or "Twilight of the Thunder God"
* Music/ToriAmos -- "Cornflake Girl"
* Music/{{Anastacia}} -- "I'm Outta Love", "Left Outside Alone"
* Music/{{Anberlin}} -- "Feel Good Drag"
* And One -- "Military Fashion Show"
* Peter Andre -- "Mysterious Girl"
* Andee -- "Never Gone"
* Music/LaurieAnderson -- "O Superman"
* The Angels (Australian band) -- "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again"
* The Angels (American girl group) -- "My Boyfriend's Back"
* Angels & Airwaves -- "The Adventure"
* Music/{{Angelspit}} -- "100%" or "Vena Cava"
* Aneka -- "Japanese Boy"
* Anggun -- "Snow on the Sahara"
* Music/AnimalCollective -- "My Girls"
* Music/TheAnimals -- "[[CoveredUp The House of the Rising Sun]]"
* Anjulie -- "Brand New Bitch" or "Stand Behind the Music"
* Anne-Marie -- "Friends" (shared with Marshmello) or "Rockabye" (shared with Clean Bandit). For songs exclusively associated with her, "2002" is probably the strongest contender.
* Music/{{Annihilator}} -- "Alison Hell"
* Another Animal -- "Broken Again"
* Another Level -- "Freak Me"
* Marc Anthony -- "Vivir Mi Vida" (Spanish); "You Sang to Me" or "I Need to Know" (English)
* Music/{{Anthrax}} -- "[[Music/PublicEnemy Bring the Noise]]" or "Caught in a Mosh" for the Joey Belladonna years, "Only" for John Bush's tenure.
* Antony and the Johnsons -- "Hope There's Someone"
** Hercules and Love Affair -- "Blind" (Features vocals from Antony Hagerty)
* Music/{{AOA}} -- "Miniskirt" for the dance unit and the group's most well-known song overall
* A Perfect Circle -- "Judith"
* Music/AphexTwin -- "Windowlicker", "Come to Daddy" and "Avril 14th"
* Music/AphroditesChild -- Now "The Four Horsemen", was "Rain And Tears"
* Music/APink -- "No No No"
* Music/FionaApple -- "Criminal"
* Music/{{Apocalyptica}} -- "I Don't Care" (Often {{misattributed|Song}} to Music/ThreeDaysGrace since Adam Gontier sings it)
* Music/Apollo440 -- "Stop The Rock"
* Music/{{Aqua}} -- "Barbie Girl"
* Aranda -- "[=WhyYaWannaBringMeDown=]"
* Music/ArcadeFire -- "Wake Up" or "My Body Is A Cage"
* Music/ArcticMonkeys -- "I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor" (from ''Music/WhateverPeopleSayIAmThatsWhatIAmNot'') or "Do I Wanna Know?" in the UK; unquestionably the latter in the U.S.
* Arch Enemy -- "Nemesis"
* The Archies -- "Sugar, Sugar"
* Music/DavidArchuleta -- "Crush"
* Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti -- "Round and Round"
* Arkona -- "Rus'" for older listeners,"[[Series/TheOfficeUS Yarilo]]" for newer ones
* Music/LouisArmstrong -- "West End Blues", "Potato Head Blues" (collected on ''Music/TheCompleteHotFiveAndHotSevenRecordings''), "Theatre/HelloDolly" and "What a Wonderful World"
* Music/ArtOfDying -- "Die Trying"
* Army of Anyone -- "Goodbye"
* [=AronChupa=] -- "I'm An Albatraoz"
* Music/ArrestedDevelopment -- "Tennessee"
* Music/EduardArtemyev -- "Film/{{Siberiade}}" theme
* James Arthur -- "Say You Won't Let Go"
* Shlomo Artzi -- "At Va'ani"
* A$AP Ferg -- "Work", "Shabba", or "New Level"
* [[Music/ASAPRocky A$AP Rocky]] -- "Fuckin' Problems"
* Cory Asbury -- “Reckless Love”
* Ash -- "Girl from Mars"
* Ashanti -- "Foolish"
* Ashes Divide -- "The Stone"
* Music/{{Asia}} -- "Heat of the Moment"
* Music/AsianKungFuGeneration -- "[[Manga/{{Naruto}} Haruka Kanata]] to western audiences, in Japan it's debatable.
* As It Is -- "Dial Tones"
* Music/AskingAlexandria -- "The Final Episode"
* Music/RickAstley -- Initially either "Never Gonna Give You Up" or "Together Forever", but now indisputably [[JustForFun/{{Rickroll}} the former]].
* Music/AtTheDriveIn -- "One-Armed Scissor"
* Music/AtTheGates -- "Blinded by Fear"
* The Ataris -- Their cover of Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer"
* Athlete -- "Wires"
* Atlantic Starr -- "Always"
* Atlas Genius -- "Trojans"
* Music/{{Atmosphere}} -- "Trying to Find a Balance"
* Music/AtomicKitten -- "[[CoverVersion Eternal Flame", "The Tide is High]]" or "Whole Again"
* Atom Smash -- "Do Her Wrong"
* Atreyu -- "Bleeding Mascara" or "Becoming The Bull"
* Attack -- "Ooa Hela Natten"
* Attack Attack! -- "Stick Stickly"
* Attila -- "About that Life"
* Music/{{Audioslave}} -- "Like a Stone"
* Augustana -- "Boston"
* Music/{{Autechre}} -- "Bike" or "Gantz Graf"
* The Automatic -- "Monster" (from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' among others)
* Autopilot Off -- "Clockwork" or "Make a Sound"
* Music/TheAvalanches -- "Frontier Psychiatrist"
* Mickey Avalon -- "My Dick"
* Music/{{Avantasia}} -- "Dying for an Angel"
* Music/AvengedSevenfold -- By album:
** ''Waking the Fallen'': "[[VideoGame/MaddenNFL Chapter Four]]"
** ''City of Evil'' (and overall) -- "Bat Country" or "Beast and the Harlot"
** ''Avenged Sevenfold'' -- "Almost Easy"
** ''Nightmare'' -- "Nightmare" or "So Far Away"
** ''Hail to the King'' -- "Hail to the King" or "Shepherd of Fire"
** ''The Stage'' -- The title track.
* Music/{{Avicii}} -- "Levels" or "Wake Me Up!" to EDM audiences, unquestionably the latter to mainstream ones.
* Music/{{AWOLNATION}} -- "Sail"
* Axwell /\ Ingrosso -- "Sun Is Shining"
* Music/IggyAzalea -- "Fancy"
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* Music/BBKing -- "[[CoveredUp The Thrill Is Gone]]"
* [[{{Music/Bob}} B.o.B]] -- "Airplanes" or "Nothin' On You" (although the former is just as much associated with [[Music/{{Paramore}} Hayley Williams]] and and the latter almost universally with Music/BrunoMars, who sing their choruses).
* Music/TheB52s -- "Love Shack" or "Rock Lobster"
* Baauer -- [[MemeticMutation "Harlem Shake"]]
* Baby Bash -- "Suga Suga" or "Cyclone"
* Babybird -- "You're Gorgeous"
* Music/{{Babyface}} -- "When Can I See You"
* Music/BabyMetal -- "Gimme Chocolate!!"
* Music/JohannSebastianBach -- "Music/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor" or the "Mass in B minor"
* Tal Bachman -- "She's So High"
* Bachman–Turner Overdrive -- Initially "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"; more recently "Takin' Care Of Business"
* Music/BackstreetBoys -- "I Want It That Way", "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)", and "As Long As You Love Me" are the contenders overall. By album:
** ''Backstreet Boys'' -- "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)"
** ''Backstreet's Back'' -- "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" and "As Long As You Love Me"
** ''Millennium'' -- "I Want It That Way", followed closely by "Larger Than Life"
** ''Black & Blue'' -- "Shape of My Heart"
** ''Never Gone'' -- "Incomplete"
** ''Unbreakable'' -- "Inconsolable"
** ''This Is Us'' -- "Straight Through My Heart"
** ''In a World Like This'' -- The title track
** ''DNA'' -- "Don’t Go Breaking My Heart"
* Music/BadBrains -- "Pay to Cum"
* Music/BadCompany -- "Bad Company" . . . from the album [[SelfTitledAlbum Bad Company]] (and later a hit for Five Finger Death Punch).
* Music/BadLipReading -- "[[Music/RebeccaBlack Gang Fight]]", "[[Music/MichaelBuble Russian Unicorn]]" or “[[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Seagulls! (Stop It Now)]]”
* Music/BadReligion -- "American Jesus", "21st Century Digital Boy", or "Infected"
* Badfinger -- "No Matter What" and "Day After Day" in their heyday; "[[Series/BreakingBad Baby Blue]]" more recently
* Bad Wolves -- "[[Music/TheCranberries Zombie]]", with "Learn to Live" being a close second.
* Music/ErykahBadu -- "Tyrone"
* Music/JoanBaez -- "Diamonds & Rust"
* Bag Raiders -- [[MemeticMutation Shooting Stars]]
* Baha Men -- "Who Let the Dogs Out?"
* Anita Baker -- "Sweet Love"
* Creator/JosephineBaker -- "J'ai deux amours"
* Balance and Composure -- "Quake"
* Balkan Beat Box -- "[[SampledUp Hermetico]]"
* Kelsea Ballerini -- "Love Me Like You Mean It", "Dibs", or "Peter Pan"
* Baltimora -- "[[OneHitWonder Tarzan Boy]]"
* Music/AfrikaBambaataa -- "Planet Rock"
* Music/TheBand -- "The Weight" (from ''Music from Big Pink'')
* BAND-MAID -- "Thrill" or "Real Existence"
* Band of Skulls -- "Death by Diamonds and Pearls", "Light of the Morning" or "Himalayan"
* Music/TheBandPerry -- "If I Die Young"
* Moe Bandy: "Bandy the Rodeo Clown"
* Bang Camaro -- "Push Push (Lady Lightning)"
* Chiddy Bang --"Opposite of Adults"
* Music/TheBangles -- "Walk Like an Egyptian"
* Kirko Bangz -- "Drank In My Cup"
* Music/AzealiaBanks -- "212"
* Music/{{BANKS}} -- "Beggin For Thread"
* David Banner -- "Play"
* The Bar-Kays -- (Original lineup) "Soul Finger", (New Lineup) "Freakshow On The Dance Floor"
* Music/SaraBareilles -- "Love Song"; with "King of Anything" or "Brave" as runners-up.
* Music/BarenakedLadies -- "One Week", "[[WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle One Little Slip]]", or "[[Series/TheBigBangTheory The History of Everything]]"
* Barnes & Barnes -- "Fish Heads"
* Jimmy Barnes -- "Working Class Man"
* Courtney Barnett -- "Pedestrian At Best"
* Music/SydBarrett -- "See Emily Play" or "Astronomy Domine"(from ''Music/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn'') with Music/PinkFloyd, "Dark Globe" as a solo artist
* Toni Basil -- "[[OneHitWonder Mickey]]"
* Music/BasementJaxx -- "Where's Your Head At?"
* Bass Drum of Death -- "Crawling After You"
* Shirley Bassey -- "[[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Goldfinger]]"
* Basshunter -- "[=DotA=]"
* Bastille -- "Pompeii" in the U.S., although "Of the Night" is also a candidate in the UK. "Happier" can also count, although that’s primarily seen as Marshmello’s song.
* Jeff Bates -- "Long Slow Kisses" (particularly the 2004 re-recording)
* Music/BatForLashes -- "Daniel"
* Music/{{Bathory}} -- "A Fine Day to Die" or "One Rode to Asa Bay"
* Music/{{Battles}} -- "[[VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet Atlas]]"
* Music/{{Bauhaus}} -- "Bela Lugosi's Dead"
* James Bay - "Hold Back the River" or "Let It Go"
* Bayside -- "Devotion and Desire" or "Killing Time"
* Bazzi -- "Mine" or "[[Music/CamilaCabello Beautiful]]"
* Music/BeastieBoys -- "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)" (despite the CreatorBacklash) or "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" for their '80s material, "[[Film/StarTrekBeyond Sabotage]]" or "Intergalactic" for their '90s output.
* Music/BeachHouse -- "Norway" or "Zebra"
* Music/TheBeachBoys -- From their psychedelic era: "Good Vibrations" (from ''Music/SmileySmile'') and "God Only Knows" or "Wouldn't It Be Nice" (from ''Music/PetSounds''). From their "surf rock" era: "I Get Around" (from ''All Summer Long''), "California Girls" (from ''Music/SummerDaysAndSummerNights'') and "Surfin' USA" (from the eponymous album). From their post-psychedelic era: "Sail On Sailor" (from ''Music/{{Holland}}'')
* Beartooth -- Initially it was "In Between", but "Hated" later overtook it. However, this seems to have reversed over time and "In Between" is once again considered their signature.
* Music/BeatHappening -- "Indian Summer"
* Music/TheBeatles -- Contenders by album include:
** ''Music/PleasePleaseMe'' -- "Love Me Do"
** ''Music/WithTheBeatles'' -- "All My Love"
** ''Music/AHardDaysNight'' -- "A Hard Day's Night"
** ''Music/BeatlesForSale'' -- "Eight Days a Week"
** ''Music/{{Help}}'' -- "Help!", "Ticket to Ride", or "Yesterday"
** ''Music/RubberSoul'' -- "In My Life"
** ''Music/{{Revolver}}'' -- "Elanor Rigby" or "Yellow Submarine"
** ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' -- "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"
** ''Music/MagicalMysteryTour'' -- "Strawberry Fields Forever"
** ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'' -- "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
** ''Music/YellowSubmarine'' -- "Hey Bulldog"
** ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' -- "Come Together", "Something", or "Here Comes the Sun"
** ''Music/LetItBe'' -- "Let It Be"
** ''Music/PastMasters'' -- "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", or "Hey Jude"
* Music/TheBeautifulSouth -- "Rotterdam"
* Music/{{Beck}} -- "Loser" (from ''Music/MellowGold'')
* Becky G -- "Shower"
* Music/DanielBedingfield -- "Gotta Get Through This" or "[[Film/MaidInManhattan If You're Not The One]]"
* Natasha Bedingfield -- "Unwritten" or "[[Film/EasyA Pocketful of Sunshine]]"
* Music/TheBeeGees -- "Stayin' Alive" overall. By album:
** ''Main Course'' -- "Jive Talkin'"
** ''Children of the World'' -- "You Should Be Dancing"
** ''Film/SaturdayNightFever Soundtrack'' -- "Stayin' Alive", with "Night Fever" and "How Deep is Your Love?" being other contenders.
** ''Spirits Having Flown'' -- "Tragedy"
** ''Still Waters'' -- "Alone"
* Music/LudwigVanBeethoven -- "Ode to Joy" or "Symphony No. 5 in C Minor - 1st Movement"
* Lou Bega -- "[[OneHitWonder Mambo No. 5]]"
* Harry Belafonte -- "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)"
* Bell Biv Devoe -- "Poison"
* Drake Bell -- "[[Series/DrakeAndJosh I Found a Way]]"
* The Bellamy Brothers -- "Let Your Love Flow"
* Music/BelleAndSebastian -- "The Boy with the Arab Strap"
* Jon Bellion -- "All Time Low"
* Belly (rock band) -- "Feed the Tree"
* Belly (rapper) -- "Might Not", although it's more associated with Music/TheWeeknd
* Music/BenFoldsFive -- "Brick"
* BENEE -- "Supalonely"
* Benny Benassi -- "Satisfaction" in Europe; "Cinema" in America
* Music/PatBenatar -- "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" or "Love is a Battlefield"
* Alec Benjamin -- “Let Me Down Slowly”
* Music/MitchBenn -- was "Everything Sounds Like Coldplay Now", is now "Proud of the BBC".
* Music/GeorgeBenson -- "Give Me the Night"
* Music/DierksBentley -- "What Was I Thinkin'" overall. By album:
** ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Dierks Bentley]]'' -- "What Was I Thinkin'"
** ''Modern Day Drifter'' -- "Lot of Leavin' Left to Do", "Come a Little Closer" and "Settle for a Slowdown"
** ''Long Trip Alone'' -- "Every Mile a Memory", "[[TitleTrack Long Trip Alone]]", "Tryin' to Stop Your Leavin'", and "Free and Easy (Down The Road I Go)"
** ''Feel That Fire'' -- "Sideways", "[[TitleTrack Feel That Fire]]" and "I Wanna Make You Close Your Eyes"
** ''Up on the Ridge'' -- "Up on the Ridge"
** ''Home'' -- "Am I the Only One", "Tip It On Back" or "[[TitleTrack Home]]"
** ''Riser'' -- "I Hold On", "Drunk on a Plane" or "Say You Do"
** ''Black'' -- "Somewhere on a Beach" or "Different for Girls"
** ''The Mountain'' -- "Woman, Amen" and "Living"
* Berlin -- [[Film/TopGun "Take My Breath Away"]] (ironically, the one hit single they had that they didn't actually write themselves)
* Music/LeonardBernstein -- "Somewhere", "Tonight", "I Feel Pretty"... Pretty much the entirety of Theatre/WestSideStory
* Music/ChuckBerry -- "[[Film/BackToTheFuture Johnny B. Goode]]"[[note]]even though "My Ding-A-Ling" was his sole #1 hit[[/note]]
* Music/BestCoast -- "Boyfriend"
* Better Than Ezra -- "Good"
* Music/BetweenTheBuriedAndMe -- "White Walls"
* Beware of Darkness -- "Howl"
* Music/{{Beyonce}} -- "Crazy in Love", "Irreplaceable", "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)", "Halo" or "If I Were a Boy"
* Music/JustinBieber -- "Baby" for his TeenIdol era; "Sorry" and "Love Yourself" for his CareerResurrection
* Music/BiffyClyro -- "[[Series/TheXFactor Many of Horror]]", and maybe "[[VideoGame/GuitarHeroLive Victory Over the Sun]]"
* Music/BigAndRich -- Initially "Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)", then "Lost In This Moment," but has since gone back to being "Save A Horse"
* Music/BigBang -- "Fantastic Baby"
* Music/BigBlack -- "Kerosene"
* Music/TheBigBopper - "Chantilly Lace".
* Big Data -- "Dangerous"
* Big L -- "Ebonics"
* Music/BigPun -- "Still Not a Player"
* Music/BigSean -- "Dance (A$$)", "I Don't Fuck With You" or "Bounce Back"
* Music/BigStar -- "September Gurls"
* Music/BigTimeRush -- "Big Time Rush"
* Big Tymers -- "Still Fly"
* Music/BikiniKill -- "Rebel Girl"
* Music/BillHaleyAndHisComets -- "Rock Around the Clock"
* The Bird & The Bee -- "Fucking Boyfriend"
* Birdman -- "Stuntin' Like My Daddy" (shared with Music/LilWayne) or "Money to Blow"
* Birdy -- "Skinny Love"
* Birds of Tokyo -- "Plans" or "Lanterns"
* Music/TheBirthdayMassacre -- "Happy Birthday" or "Blue"
* The Birthday Party -- "Relese the Bats"
* Bishop Bullwinkle -- "Hell to Da Naw Naw Naw"
* Georges Bizet -- "Les Toreadors"
* Music/{{Bjork}} -- "It's Oh So Quiet" (from ''Music/{{Post}}'')
* Aloe Blacc -- Overall, his uncredited appearance on Avicii's "Wake Me Up!"; for his solo work, "I Need a Dollar" in Europe and "The Man" in North America
* Black -- "Wonderful Life"
* blackbear -- “do re mi”
* Music/RebeccaBlack -- "Music/{{Friday}}"
** Mike Bauer -- "Friday, as performed by Bob Dylan"
** Funnyz -- "Friday (Music Video Parody)" (AKA the "Fried Eggs" parody)
* Music/TheBlackCrowes -- Their cover of Otis Redding's "Hard to Handle"; "She Talks to Angels" for their original work.
* Music/BlackEyedPeas -- used to be "Where is the Love?", then "Let's Get It Started" or "My Humps", now "I Gotta Feeling"
** will.i.am -- "Scream & Shout"
** Fergie -- "Big Girls Don't Cry" or "Fergalicious"
* Music/BlackFlag -- "Rise Above"
** The Rollins Band -- "Liar"
* Music/TheBlackKeys -- "Tighten Up", "Howlin' For You", "Lonely Boy", or, for newer fans, "Gold On The Ceiling". Prior to ''Music/{{Brothers}}'', it was "Strange Times".
** The Arcs -- "Outta My Mind"
* Blackfoot -- "Highway Song" or "Train, Train" (both from ''Strikes'')
* Black Lab -- "Wash it Away"
* Music/BlackLabelSociety -- "Stillborn"
* Black Stone Cherry -- "White Trash Millionaire"
* BLΛNK BΛNSHΣΣ - "Teen Pregnancy"
* Algebra Blessett -- "Nobody But You"
* Blessid Union of Souls -- Initially "I Believe", but has been gradually displaced by "Hey Leonardo (She Likes Me For Me)"; [[Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie Brother My Brother]]" for ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' fans.
* Music/BlackSabbath -- "[[Film/ThreeHundredRiseOfAnEmpire War Pigs]]", "Paranoid", or "Iron Man", depending on where you live
** Music/RonnieJamesDio era -- "Heaven & Hell"
* [[Creator/AndyBiersack Andy Black]] -- "We Don't Have To Dance"
* Music/BlackVeilBrides -- "In the End"
* Benny Blanco -- "Eastside" (shared with Halsey and Khalid)
* Bleachers -- "I Wanna Get Better"
* Music/MaryJBlige -- "Be Without You" or "Family Affair","Not Gonna Cry", or even "Real Love"
* Music/BlindGuardian -- "The Bard's Song, "In the Forest" or "Mirror Mirror"
* Music/BlindMelon -- "[[OneHitWonder No Rain]]"
* Music/{{Blink 182}} -- "All the Small Things" overall. By album:
** ''Dude Ranch'' -- "Dammit"
** ''Enema of the State'' -- "All the Small Things" (though "What's My Age Again?" and "Adam's Song" could count to alt radio listeners)
** ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket'' -- "The Rock Show" and “First Date”
** ''Blink-182'' -- "I Miss You"
** ''Neighborhoods'' -- "Up All Night"
** ''California'' -- "Bored to Death" or "She's Out Of My Mind"
* Music/BlocParty -- "Helicopter" or "Banquet"
* Music/{{Blondie}} -- "One Way or Another" [[note]]previously "Heart of Glass"[[/note]]
* Music/BloodhoundGang -- "The Bad Touch", and to a lesser extent "Fire Water Burn"
* Blue -- "All Rise"
* Jonas Blue -- "[[Music/TracyChapman Fast]] [[CoverVersion Car]]", "Perfect Strangers", "Mama" and "Rise"
* Blue Cheer -- "Summertime Blues"
* Music/BlueOysterCult -- "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (from ''Music/AgentsOfFortune'') "Godzilla", "or Burnin For You"
* Blue October -- "Hate Me"
* Music/BlueStahli -- "Ultranumb"
* Blues Traveler -- "Run-Around"
* Blue Swede -- "[[CoveredUp Hooked on a Feeling]]"
* Music/JamesBlunt -- "You're Beautiful"
* Music/{{Blur}} -- "Song 2" in the US, "Parklife" in the UK
* Blut Aus Nord -- "Epitome I"
* Music/BoardsOfCanada -- "Roygbiv"
* Bon Iver -- "Skinny Love" or "Blood Bank"
* Music/BonJovi -- "Livin' on a Prayer" is this, although "You Give Love a Bad Name", "Wanted Dead or Alive", "Always" and "It's My Life" aren't far behind in popularity.
** Creator/JonBonJovi -- "Blaze of Glory"
* Bone Crusher -- "(I Ain't) Never Scared"
* Music/BoneThugsNHarmony -- "Tha Crossroads"
* Boney M. -- "Rasputin"
* Music/TheBooRadleys -- "Wake Up Boo!"
* A Boogie wit da Hoodie — “Drowning”
* Booker T. & the M.G.'s -- "Green Onions"
* The Boomtown Rats -- "I Don't Like Mondays"
* Booty Luv -- "Boogie 2Nite"
* Bossfight -- "[[VideoGame/JustShapesAndBeats Milky Ways]]"
* Music/{{Boston}} -- "More Than a Feeling"
* Music/DavidBowie -- "Space Oddity", and ""Heroes"" overall. By album:
** ''Music/DavidBowie1967'' -- While the album's obscurity and generally poor reception makes it hard to pin down a signature song, "Rubber Band" might come closest on the virtue of it being the lead single.
** ''Music/SpaceOddity'' -- "Space Oddity"
** ''Music/TheManWhoSoldTheWorld'' -- "The Man Who Sold the World"
** ''Music/HunkyDory'' -- "Changes" or "Life on Mars?"
** ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' -- "Ziggy Stardust" or "Starman"
** ''Music/AladdinSane'' -- "The Jean Genie"
** ''Music/DiamondDogs'' -- "Rebel Rebel"
** ''Music/YoungAmericans'' -- "Fame"
** ''Music/StationToStation'' -- "Golden Years"
** ''Music/LowDavidBowieAlbum'' -- "Sound and Vision"
** ''Music/HeroesDavidBowieAlbum'' -- ""Heroes""
** ''Music/{{Lodger}}'' -- "Boys Keep Swinging"
** ''Music/ScaryMonstersAndSuperCreeps'' -- "Ashes to Ashes"
** ''Music/LetsDance'' -- "Let's Dance"
** ''Music/{{Tonight}}'' -- "Loving the Alien" or "Blue Jean"
** ''Music/NeverLetMeDown'' -- "Time Will Crawl"
** ''Music/BlackTieWhiteNoise'' -- "Jump They Say"
** ''[[Music/{{Outside}} 1. Outside]]'' -- "The Hearts Filthy Lesson" or "Hallo Spaceboy" (specifically the Music/PetShopBoys remix)
** ''Music/{{Earthling}}'' -- "I'm Afraid of Americans"
** ''Music/{{Hours}}'' -- "Thurdsay's Child"
** ''Music/{{Heathen}}'' -- "Slow Burn"
** ''Music/{{Reality}}'' -- "New Killer Star" or "Bring Me the Disco King"
** ''Music/TheNextDay'' -- "Where Are We Now"
** ''[[Music/BlackstarAlbum ★]]'' -- "Lazarus"
* Music/BowlingForSoup -- "1985"
* Bow Wow -- "Fresh Azimiz"
* Boys Like Girls -- "The Great Escape"
* Music/BoyzIIMen -- "End of the Road" or "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday"
* Music/{{Boyzone}} -- "No Matter What" or/and "I Love The Way You Love Me"
** Music/RonanKeating -- "[[Film/NottingHill When You Say Nothing At All]]"
** Music/StephenGately -- "New Beginning"
* Creator/WayneBrady -- "Ordinary"
* Music/BillyBragg -- "A New England"
* Music/GeorgesBrassens -- "Les Copains D' Abord"
* Creator/JohannesBrahms — Lullaby (Wiegenlied) in E Flat (often referred to as "Brahms' Lullaby")
* Brainpower -- "Dansplaat" in Europe; "[[Podcast/WelcometoNightVale Mijn Manier]]" to a certain desert community.
* Music/MichelleBranch -- "Everywhere"
* Music/BrandNew -- "Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades"
* Brand New Heavies -- [[CoverVersion "Midnight at the Oasis"]]
* Brand New Sin -- "[[Wrestling/BigShow Crank it Up]]"
* Music/{{Brandy}} -- "I Wanna Be Down", "Have You Ever?" or even "Sittin' Up in My Room"
* Toni Braxton -- "Un-Break My Heart"
* Breakbot -- "Baby I'm Yours"
* Music/BreakingBenjamin -- "The Diary of Jane" overall. By album:
** ''Saturate'' -- "Polyamorous"
** ''We Are Not Alone'' -- "So Cold"
*** ''So Cold EP'' -- "[[VideoGame/Halo2 Blow Me Away]]"
** ''Phobia'' -- "The Diary of Jane"
** ''Dear Agony'' -- "I Will Not Bow"
** ''Dark Before Dawn'' -- "Failure"
** ''Ember'' -- "Torn in Two"
** ''Aurora'' -- "Far Away"
* Breathe Carolina -- "Blackout"
* Music/JacquesBrel -- "Ne Me Quitte Pas" and "Le Plat Pays"
* Edie Brickell & New Bohemians -- "What I Am"
* Brick + Mortar -- "Locked in a Cage", or their cover of "Voodoo Child"
* Bright Eyes -- "Lua" or "First Day of My Life"
* Music/BringMeTheHorizon -- By album:
** ''Count Your Blessings'' -- "Pray For Plagues"
** ''Suicide Season'' -- "Chelsea Smile''
** ''There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret'' -- "Crucify Me" or "It Never Ends"
** ''Sempiternal'' -- "Can You Feel My Heart", "Sleepwalking" or "Shadow Moses"
** ''That's the Spirit'' -- "Throne"
** ''amo'' -- "Medicine"
** Overall -- "Throne" and "Sleepwalking" are the most common candidates. "Pray For Plagues" and "Chelsea Smile" are this instead for their {{deathcore}}[=/=]{{metalcore}} era.
* Music/GarthBrooks -- "The Dance" or "Friends in Low Places"
* Meredith Brooks -- "Bitch"
* Brooks & Dunn -- "Boot Scootin' Boogie"
* The Brothers Johnson -- "[[Film/PulpFiction Strawberry Letter 23]]"
* Blanco Brown -- “The Git Up”
* Music/ChrisBrown -- By album:
** ''Chris Brown'': "Run It!"
** ''Exclusive'': "Forever"
** ''Graffiti'': “I Can Transform Ya”
** ''F.A.M.E.'': “Look At Me Now”
** ''Fortune'': “Don’t Wake Me Up”
** ''X'': “Loyal”
** ''Fan of a Fan: The Album'': “Ayo” (shared with Tyga)
** ''Royalty'': “Back to Sleep”
** ''Heartbreak on a Full Moon'': “Party”
** ''Indigo'': “No Guidance”
* Music/HavanaBrown -- "We Run The Night"
* Music/JamesBrown -- "I Got You (I Feel Good)"
* Sawyer Brown -- "Drive Me Wild"
* Music/ZacBrownBand -- "Chicken Fried" (and, to a lesser degree, "Toes") plus "[[Music/ChrisCornell Heavy is the Head]]" for rock audiences
* Music/JacksonBrowne -- "Doctor My Eyes"
* Brownsville Station -- "Smokin' in the Boys Room"
* Brothers Osborne -- "Stay a Little Longer"
* The Dave Brubeck Quartet -- "Take Five"
* Luke Bryan -- "That's My Kind Of Night"
* Chase Bryant -- "Take It On Back"
* Peabo Bryson -- "If Ever You're in My Arms Again" or "Can You Stop the Rain"
* Music/{{BT}} -- "Flaming June"
* Music/{{BTS}} -- "Dynamite", at least in America.
* Music/MichaelBuble -- "Haven't Met You Yet"
* Joe Budden -- "Pump It Up"
* Music/{{Buckethead}} -- "[[VideoGame/GuitarHero Jordan]]"
* Music/{{Buckcherry}} -- "Crazy Bitch" to rock audiences; "Sorry" to mainstream audiences
* Music/JeffBuckley -- His [[CoveredUp cover]] of Music/LeonardCohen's "Hallelujah"
* Music/TimBuckley -- "Song to the Siren"
* Buckner & Garcia -- "Pac-Man Fever"
* Buckwheat Boyz -- "Peanut Butter Jelly Time"
* Music/BuffaloSpringfield -- "For What It's Worth"
* Music/JimmyBuffett -- "Margaritaville"
* Music/TheBuggles -- [[{{Creator/MTV}} "Video Killed the Radio Star"]]
* Building 147 -- "Where I Belong"
* Music/BuiltToSpill -- "Car"
* Music/BulletForMyValentine -- "Tears Don't Fall", with "You Want a Battle? (Here's a War)" becoming a strong contender.
* Music/EmmaBunton -- "What Took You So Long?"
* Music/{{Burial}} -- "Archangel"
* Solomon Burke -- "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" or "Got to Get You Off My Mind"
* Burn Halo -- "Dirty Little Girl"
* Peter Bursuker -- "[[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon No Chance in Hell]]"
* Music/{{Burzum}} -- "Dunkelheit" or "My Journey to the Stars"
* Bush -- "Everything Zen", "Comedown", "Swallowed", and "Glycerine" are the frontrunners
* Music/KateBush -- "Wuthering Heights" or "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)"
* Stan Bush -- "[[WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie The Touch]]"
* Music/BustaRhymes -- "Woo-Hah!! Got You All In Check"
* Music/{{Busted}} -- "Year 3000"
** "What I Go to School For."
* Music/ButtholeSurfers -- "Pepper"
* Armin van Buuren -- "This Is What It Feels Like"
* Music/{{Buzzcocks}} -- "Ever Fallen In Love" or "Everybody's Happy Nowadays"
* Music/TheByrds -- [[CoveredUp "Mr. Tambourine Man]] (from ''Music/MrTambourineMan'') or [[CoveredUp "Turn, Turn, Turn"]] (from ''Turn! Turn! Turn!'')
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* Music/TheCab -- “Angel with a Shotgun”
* Cabaret Voltaire -- "Yashar"
* Caesars -- "Jerk It Out"
* Music/JohnCage -- "4'33"" [[note]][[SilenceIsGolden So his most famous song is literally nothing...]][[/note]]
* Music/CageTheElephant -- "[[VideoGame/{{Borderlands}} Ain't No Rest For the Wicked]]"
* [=Cage9=] -- "[[Wrestling/DolphZiggler I am Perfection]]"
* Bobby Caldwell -- "What You Won't Do For Love"
* Cali Swag District -- "Teach Me How to Dougie"
* Music/ColbieCaillat -- "Bubbly"
* Music/{{CAKE}} -- "The Distance"
* Music/TheCalling -- "Wherever You Will Go"
* Cab Calloway -- "Minnie the Moocher"
* Cam -- "Burning House"
* Music/{{Camel}} -- "Echoes" or "Lady Fantasy"
* Cameo -- "Word Up!"
* Blu Cantrell -- "Hit 'Em Up Style!"
* Craig Campbell -- "Keep Them Kisses Comin'"
* Music/CamperVanBeethoven -- "Take the Skinheads Bowling"
* Music/{{Can}} -- For their EpicRocking style, "Yoo Doo Right" or "Halleluwah". For their more [[RadioFriendliness radio friendly]] side, "Spoon".
* Cancer Killing Gemini -- "[[Wrestling/CoreyGraves Christcontrol]]"
* Candlebox -- "Far Behind"
* Music/{{Candlemass}} -- "Demon's Gate" or "The Black Dwarf"
* Music/CannedHeat -- "Going Up the Country"
* Music/CannibalCorpse -- "Hammer Smashed Face"
* Lewis Capaldi -- "Someone You Loved" worldwide, although in the UK this is debatable
* Capital Cities -- "Safe & Sound"
* Tim Cappello -- "I Still Believe"
* Music/CaptainAndTennille -- Probably "Love Will Keep Us Together", though "The Way I Want to Touch You", "Muskrat Love", and "Do That to Me One More Time" are contenders.
* Music/AlessiaCara -- "Here"
* Caramell -- "[[MemeticMutation Caramelldansen]]"
* Music/{{Caravan}} -- For their serious side "Nine Feet Underground", for their poppy, whimsical side "Golf Girl".
* Music/CaravanPalace -- "Lone Digger"
* Music/{{Carcass}} -- "Heartwork" or "Corporal Jigsore Quandary"
* Music/TheCardigans -- "Lovefool"
* Ian Carey -- "Amnesia"
* Music/MariahCarey -- "Vision of Love", "Hero", or "Fantasy" for her earlier era; "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and "We Belong Together" for more recent endeavors
* Caribou -- "Odessa"
* Music/CardiB -- "Bodak Yellow" or “I Like It”, "WAP"
* Belinda Carlisle -- "Heaven Is a Place on Earth"
* Music/{{Carpenters}} — By album:
** ''Close to You'': "(They Long to Be) Close to You", "We've Only Just Begun"
** ''Carpenters'': "For All We Know", "Rainy Days and Mondays", "Superstar"
** ''A Song for You'': "Top of the World", "Hurting Each Other"
** ''Now & Then'': "Sing", "Yesterday Once More"
* Kim Carnes -- [[CoveredUp "Bette Davis Eyes"]]
* Music/VanessaCarlton -- "A Thousand Miles"
* Eric Carmen -- "All By Myself" or "[[Film/DirtyDancing Hungry Eyes]]"
* Music/TheCars -- "Just What I Needed"
* Music/SofiaCarson -- "Back to Beautiful" [[note]]with Alan Walker[[/note]]
* Music/AaronCarter -- "Aaron's Party (Come Get It)" for his teen idol era; "Fool's Gold" for his later work
* Clarence Carter -- "Strokin'"
* Music/{{Cascada}} -- "Everytime We Touch"
* Music/{{The Cascades}} -- "Rhythmn of the Falling Rain"
* Music/JohnnyCash -- "A Boy Named Sue", "Ring of Fire" and "I Walk the Line"; for his later-day material, his cover of Music/NineInchNails' "Hurt"
* Music/CashCash -- "Take Me Home"
* Ca$h Out -- "Cashing Out"
* Eva Cassidy -- "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" or "Fields of Gold"
* Cassie -- "Me & U"
* Catatonia -- "Road Rage" or "Mulder & Scully"
* Music/{{Cathedral}} -- "Hopkins (The Witchfinder General)"
* Music/NickCave -- "Red Right Hand" (from ''Music/LetLoveIn'') (or "[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows O Children]]" for Franchise/HarryPotter fans)
* Cavo -- "Champagne"
* Cazwell -- "Ice Cream Truck"
* Music/CeeLoGreen -- "Fuck/Forget You!"
** Music/GnarlsBarkley -- "Crazy"
** Goodie Mob -- "Cell Therapy"
* Music/{{Celldweller}} -- "Switchback" or, for their orchestral works, "[[Film/RealSteel Wings of Icarus]]"
** Circle of Dust -- "Nothing Sacred", "Contagion" post-return
** Scandroid -- "Salvation Code"
* Wrestling/JohnCena -- "My Time Is Now"
* Music/CelticFrost -- "Circle of The Tyrants" or "Into Crypt of Rays"
* Peter Cetera -- "Glory of Love"
* Chad & Jeremy -- "A Summer Song"
* Music/TheChainsmokers -- "Closer", with "Don't Let Me Down" a clear second; "#[=SELFIE=]" prior to 2016.
* Chairmen of the Board -- "Give Me Just a Little More Time"
* The Chambers Brothers -- "Time Has Come Today"
* Chamillionare -- "Ridin'"
* The Champs -- "Tequila"
* Chance the Rapper -- "No Problem"
* Gene Chandler -- "Duke of Earl"
* Music/HarryChapin -- "Cats in the Cradle"
* Music/TracyChapman -- "Fast Car" was her biggest hit, though "Talkin' 'Bout A Revolution" is probably about equal in the Signature Song stakes.
* The Charlatans -- "The Only One I Know"
* Music/RayCharles -- "Georgia On My Mind" or "Hit The Road Jack"
* Tina Charles -- "I Love to Love (But My Baby Just Loves to Dance)"
* Music/CharliXCX -- "[[Film/TheFaultInOurStars Boom Clap]]"
* Music/CheapTrick -- "I Want You to Want Me" or "Surrender" (or "The Flame" for their later material)
* Oliver Cheatham -- "Get Down Saturday Night"
* Chubby Checker -- "The Twist"
* Music/TheChemicalBrothers:
** ''Exit Planet Dust'': "Chemical Beats" or "Leave Home"
** ''Dig Your Own Hole'': "Block Rockin' Beats" or "Elektrobank"
** ''Surrender'': "Hey Boy, Hey Girl" or "Under The Influence"
** ''Come with Us'': "Star Guitar"
** ''Push the Button'': "Galvanize"
** ''We Are the Night'': "Do It Again" or "The Salmon Dance"
** ''Further'': "Swoon"
** ''Born in the Echoes'': "Go", "Under Neon Lights" or "Wide Open"
** ''No Geography'': "We've Got To Try"
** Overall: "Hey Boy, Hey Girl", "Galvanize", "Do It Again" and "Go" are their most well-known songs in the mainstream crowd; their fanbase would more than likely instead point at "Block Rockin' Beats" or "Elektrobank" as their signature songs.
* Music/{{Cher}} -- "Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves" for her older work, "If I Could Turn Back Time" or "Believe" for her newer material.
* Cherish -- "Do It To It"
* Music/{{Chevelle}} -- "The Red", "Send The Pain Below" or, for newer fans, "Face to the Floor"
* Eagle-Eye Cherry -- "Save Tonight"
* Neneh Cherry -- "Buffalo Stance"
* Cherry Poppin' Daddies -- "Zoot Suit Riot"
* Music/CherylCole -- "Fight For This Love"
* Music/KennyChesney -- "The Good Stuff"
* Creator/MauriceChevalier -- "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" (at least in America). In France "Valentine" is considered to be his SignatureSong.
* Music/{{Chic}} -- "Le Freak", with "Good Times" in second place
* Music/{{Chicago}} -- "25 or 6 to 4"; "Hard To Say I'm Sorry" for their adult-contemporary period
* Chicane -- "Don't Give Up (with Music/BryanAdams)" or "Saltwater"
* Music/ChiefKeef -- "I Don't Like"
* The Chiffons -- "He's So Fine"
* Music/ChildrenOfBodom -- "Needled 24/7" or "Are You Dead Yet?"
* The Chi-Lites -- "Have You Seen Her" or "Oh Girl"
* Music/{{Chimaira}} -- "Pure Hatred"
* Chingy -- "Right Thurr"
* [[WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks The Chipmunks]] -- "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)"
* Music/{{Chiodos}} -- "Baby, You Wouldn't Last A Minuite on The Creek"
* Music/FryderykChopin -- "Funeral March"
* The Chords -- "Sh-Boom"
* The Chordettes -- "Mr. Sandman" or "Lollipop"
* Lou Christie -- "Lightning Strikes"
* Chromeo -- "Jealous (I Ain't With It)"
* Music/{{Chumbawamba}} -- "Tubthumping"
* Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! -- "In Friends We Trust"
* Eric Church -- "Springsteen" or "Drink in my Hand"
* The Church -- "Under the Milky Way"
* Music/{{CHVRCHES}} -- "The Mother We Share"
* Music/{{Ciara}} -- "Goodies" or "1, 2 Step"
* Creator/NeilCicierega -- "Bustin"
** Music/LemonDemon -- "Music/TheUltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny"
* Music/{{Cimorelli}} -- "Made in America" or "Hearts on Fire"
* Circa Survive -- "The Difference Between Medicine and Drugs is in the Dose"
* Creator/CirqueDuSoleil -- "Theatre/{{Alegria}}" (the only song that appears in some way on each of their first three [[GreatestHitsAlbum greatest hits albums]]) or "[[Theatre/{{Mystere}} Kunya Sobe]]".
* Citizen King -- "Better Days (And the Bottom Drops Out)"
* City Girls -- "Act Up"
* City High -- "What Would You Do?"
* Civil Twilight -- "Letters From the Sky"
* The Civil Wars -- "Barton Hollow"
* Music/EricClapton -- "Tears in Heaven" and "Wonderful Tonight"
* Dave Clark Five -- "Glad All Over"
* Petula Clark -- "Downtown"
* Jeremiah Clarke — "Prince of Denmark's March", often incorrectly known as "Trumpet Voluntary"
* Gary Clark Jr. -- "Bright Lights"
* Music/KellyClarkson -- Overall : “Since U Been Gone“ or "Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)“. By album:
** ''Thankful'': “Miss Independent”
** ''Breakaway'': “Since U Been Gone”
** ''My December'': “Never Again”
** ''All I Ever Wanted'': “My Life Would Suck Without You”
** ''Stronger'': The title track
** ''Piece by Piece'': “Heartbeat Song”
** ''Meaning of Life'': “Love So Soft”
* Alex Clare -- "Too Close"
* Music/TheClash -- "London Calling" (from ''Music/LondonCalling'') or "Should I Stay Or Should I Go", with "Rock the Casbah" very close behind
* Classified -- "Inner Ninja"
* Classixx -- "All You're Waiting For"
* Music/CleanBandit -- "Rather Be" and "Rockabye"
* The Click Five -- "Just the Girl"
* Clipse -- "Grinding"
* Music/{{Clutch}} -- "Electric Worry"
* Music/CNBlue -- "I'm A Loner"
* Music/CoalChamber -- "Loco"
* The Coasters -- "Yakety Yak", "Charlie Brown", or "[[Film/DeathProof Down in Mexico]]"
* Music/CobraStarship -- "Good Girls Go Bad" or "You Make Me Feel…"
* Tom Cochrane -- "Life Is a Highway"
* Joe Cocker -- His [[CoveredUp cover]] of "[[Music/TheBeatles With a Little Help from My Friends]]"
* Code Orange -- "Forever" or "Bleeding in the Blur"
* Music/CoheedAndCambria -- "[[WesternAnimation/{{Nine}} Welcome]] [[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} Home]]" or "A Favor House Atlantic"
* Music/LeonardCohen -- "Hallelujah"
** "Suzanne" (from ''Music/SongsOfLeonardCohen'') or "Bird on the Wire" (from ''Songs from a Room'') in his earlier period
* Marc Cohn -- "Walking In Memphis"
* Cold -- "Stupid Girl"
* Music/ColdChisel -- "Khe Sahn"
* Music/{{Coldplay}} -- "Clocks", "The Scientist", "Yellow" and "Viva La Vida" overall. By album:
** ''Parachutes'' -- "Yellow"
** ''A Rush of Blood to the Head'' -- "Clocks" or/and "The Scientist"
** ''X&Y'' -- Originally "Speed of Sound", but overtime became "Fix You"
** ''Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends'' -- "Viva la Vida"
** ''Mylo Xyloto'' -- "Paradise"
** ''Ghost Stories'' -- "A Sky Full of Stars"
** ''A Head Full of Dreams'' -- "Adventure of a Lifetime" or "Hymn for the Weekend"
* Cold War Kids -- "First"
* Alias Conrad Coldwood -- "[[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Pepper Steak]]"
* Music/JCole -- "Work Out" or "No Role Modelz"
* Keyshia Cole -- "I Should've Cheated" or "Let It Go"
* Music/NatKingCole -- "Unforgettable" or "Mona Lisa"; "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" becomes this during the holidays
* Natalie Cole -- "Inseparable" or "This Will Be"
* Music/PaulaCole -- Initially either "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" or [[Series/DawsonsCreek "I Don't Want To Wait"]], but now indisputably the latter
* Creator/{{Zendaya}} -- "Replay"
* Coleman Hell -- "2 Heads"
* Music/CollectiveSoul -- "Shine"
* Edwyn Collins -- [[Film/EmpireRecords "A Girl Like You"]]
* Judy Collins -- "Both Sides Now"
* Music/PhilCollins -- "In the Air Tonight" (from ''Music/FaceValue'')
* Colonel Loud -- "California"
* Color Me Badd -- "[[Film/NewJackCity I Wanna Sex You Up]]"
* Shawn Colvin -- "Sunny Came Home"
* Combichrist -- "Get Your Body Beat"
* The Commodores -- "Brick House". "Machine Gun" runs it close, though, especially in Africa
* Common -- "Glory" or “I Used to Love H.E.R.”
* Music/ConquerDivide -- "Nightmares"
* Music/{{Coolio}} -- "[[Film/DangerousMinds Gangsta's Paradise]]"
* Music/AliceCooper -- "School's Out"; second place is between "Poison" or "No More Mr. Nice Guy"
* Music/{{Copeland}} -- "No One Really Wins"
* The Coral -- "Dreaming of You"
* Core -- "Angle"
* Music/{{Cormorant}} -- "Junta"
* Music/{{Cornershop}} -- "Brimful of Asha"
* Corinne Bailey Rae -- "Put Your Records On"
* Corona -- "The Rhythm of the Night"
* Music/TheCorrs -- "Runaway" or/and "Breathless" (in the U.S it's the latter, internationally it's undisputedly the former)
* Corrosion of Conformity -- "Albatross" or "Clean My Wounds" (both from ''Deliverance'')
* Cosmic Gate -- "Exploration Of Space"
* Music/{{cosMo}} -- Depending on whether you ask the Music/{{VOCALOID}} fanbase or the ''VideoGame/SoundVoltex'' fanbase: "The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku" or "For [=UltraPlayers=]", respectively.
* Music/ElvisCostello -- "Pump It Up" (from ''Music/ThisYearsModel'') and "I Want You" (from ''Music/BloodAndChocolate'')
* Music/JonathanCoulton -- "[[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Still Alive]]"
* Course of Nature -- "Caught in the Sun"
* Music/NadineCoyle -- "Insatiable"
* Music/CountingCrows -- "Mr. Jones"
* Music/{{Covenant}} -- "Dead Stars"
* Bucky Covington -- "A Different World"
* Deborah Cox -- "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here"
* Cracker -- Previously either "Low" or "Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)"; now unarguably the former.
* Music/CradleOfFilth -- "Her Ghost in the Fog"
* Music/TheCramps -- "Human Fly"
* Music/TheCranberries -- "Zombie" or "Linger"
* Music/CrashTestDummies -- "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm"
* Crash Kings -- "Mountain Man"
* Music/CreatureFeature -- "The Greatest Show Unearthed", or "A Gorey Demise".
* Music/{{Cream}} -- "Sunshine of Your Love"
* Music/{{Creed}} -- "Higher" or "With Arms Wide Open"
* Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival -- "Fortunate Son" (from ''Music/WillyAndThePoorBoys'') and "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" and "Bad Moon Rising" are likely their three best-known hits. "Down on the Corner" (also from the aforementioned album), "Proud Mary", "Up Around the Bend" and "Lookin' Out My Back Door" are all very close behind.
** John Fogerty -- "Centerfield", with "The Old Man Down The Road" very close behind.
* Crobot -- "Nowhere to Hide"
* Music/JimCroce -- "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", "You Don't Mess Around With Jim" or "Time in a Bottle".
* Music/CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung -- "Woodstock"
* Christopher Cross -- "Ride Like the Wind" or "Sailing"
** Honorable mention for [[Film/{{Arthur}} "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)"]], but that's ''really'' the signature song from its source movie (see Film on the main page) to the point that when Cross performs it in concert it doubles as a tribute to lead actor Creator/DudleyMoore.
* Crossfade -- "Cold"
* Music/SherylCrow -- "All I Wanna Do" or “Soak Up the Sun”
* Music/{{Crowbar}} -- "All I Had (I Gave)"
* Music/CrowdedHouse -- "Don't Dream It's Over"
* Mark Crozer and the Rels -- "[[Wrestling/TheWyattFamily Live in Fear]] [[Wrestling/BrayWyatt (Broken Out in Love)]]"
* Music/{{Crush 40}} -- "[[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 Live and Learn]]" and "[[VideoGame/SonicAdventure Open Your Heart]]"
* Music/TheCruxshadows -- "Birthday"
* Taio Cruz -- "Dynamite" or "Break Your Heart"
* Music/CrystalCastles -- "Vanished"
* Music/CrystalLake -- "Apollo"
* The Crystal Method -- "Name of the Game"
* Music/{{Cryoshell}} -- "[[Toys/{{BIONICLE}} Creeping in my Soul]]"
* Culture Beat -- "Mr Vain"
* Culture Club -- "Karma Chameleon" or "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?"
* Cupcakke -- "Deepthroat"
* Cupid -- "Cupid Shuffle"
* Music/TheCure -- "Love Song", "Just Like Heaven", or "Friday I'm In Love"
* Music/BillyCurrington -- "Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right" or "People Are Crazy"
* Music/CutCopy -- "Lights and Music" or "Hearts on Fire"
* Cutting Crew -- "(I Just) Died in Your Arms"
* Cybotron -- "Clear"
* Music/{{Cynic}} -- "Veil of Maya"
* Music/CypressHill -- "Insane in the Brain" overall. By album:
** ''Cypress Hill'' -- "How I Could Just Kill a Man"
** ''Black Sunday'' -- "Insane in the Brain"
** ''III: Temples of Booms'' -- "Throw You Set in the Air"
** ''IV'' -- "Dr. Greenthumb"
** ''Skull & Bones" -- "(Rock) Superstar"
** ''Stoned Raiders" -- "Lowrider"
** ''Till Death Do Us Apart'' -- "What's Your Number"
** ''Rise Up'' -- The title track.
* Music/BillyRayCyrus -- "Achy Breaky Heart"
* Music/MileyCyrus -- "Party in the USA" for her Disney-era material; "Wrecking Ball" for her mature era
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* Music/{{D}} -- "Night-ship "D""
* Music/DaYoopers — "Second Week of Deer Camp", "Rusty Chevrolet", or "Grandpa Got Run Over by a Beer Truck"
* Daddy Yankee -- "Rompe", "Gasolina" or "Despacito"
* Dae Dae -- "Wat U Mean (Aye, Aye, Aye)"
* Music/DaftPunk -- Overall: "One More Time" and "Around the World" for their earlier work, "Get Lucky" for their newer work. By album:
** ''Music/{{Homework}}'' -- "Around the World"
** ''Music/{{Discovery}}'' -- "One More Time" or "Harder Better Faster Stronger"
** ''Human After All'' -- "[[SampledUp Robot Rock]]" or "Technologic"
** ''Music/RandomAccessMemories'' -- "Get Lucky"
*** Stardust -- "[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Music Sounds Better With You]]", which couldn't be helped as it was the ''[[OneBookAuthor only song]]'' they ever recorded.
*** Thomas Bangalter -- "Club Soda" or "[[Film/{{Irreversible}} Rectum]]"
* Gigi D'Agostino -- In his native Italy and continental Europe during the 2000s, it's either "L'Amour Toujours", "La Passion" or the cover version of "[[Music/NikKershaw The Riddle]]", while in the UK, it's "In My Mind".
* Lauren Daigle -- "You Say" to secular audiences, rivaled by "Trust in You" to her core Christian fanbase.
* The Damned -- "New Rose"
* Music/DickDale -- "[[Film/PulpFiction Misirlou]]"
* Music/DanAndShay -- “Tequila”, while one of several candidates for country audiences, is indisputably this outside that demographic.
* Music/TheDandyWarhols -- "Bohemian Like You" or "[[Series/VeronicaMars We Used to Be Friends]]"
* The Charlie Daniels Band -- "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"
* Danity Kane -- "Damaged"
* Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip -- "Thou Shalt Always Kill"
* Music/{{Danzig}} -- "Mother"
* Terence Trent D'Arby -- "Wishing Well" or "Sign Your Name"
* Music/BobbyDarin -- "Splish Splash" or "Mack the Knife"
* The Darkness -- "I Believe in a Thing Called Love"
* Dark New Day -- "Brother"
* Music/{{Darkthrone}} -- "Transilvanian Hunger"
* Music/DarkTranquillity -- "Lethe" or "Punish My Heaven"
* Darude -- "Sandstorm"
* Roscoe Dash -- "Show Out"
* Dash Rip Rock -- "(Let's Go) Smoke Some Pot"
* Music/{{Daughtry}} -- "It's Not Over" and "There and Back Again"
* Craig David -- "Fill Me In" or "7 Days"
* Creator/BetteDavis -- "They're Either Too Young Or Too Old"
* Music/MilesDavis -- "So What" (from ''Music/KindOfBlue'') or "Bitches Brew" (from ''Music/BitchesBrew'')
* Paul Davis -- "I Go Crazy"
* Creator/SammyDavisJr -- "[[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory The]] [[CoveredUp Candy Man]]"
* Skeeter Davis -- "The End of the World"
* Andra Day -- "Rise Up"
* Howie Day -- "Collide"
* Music/{{Daya}} -- "Hide Away" or maybe "Sit Still, Look Pretty" as a solo artist, but overall she is best known as the vocalist on The Chainsmokers' "Don't Let Me Down".
* Days of the New -- "Touch, Peel and Stand"
* DC Talk -- "Jesus Freak" to their fans. However their biggest mainstream hit was "Just Between You and Me" and is the song they're best known for to the average listener.
* Music/DeaconBlue -- "Dignity". They've had many bigger hits, but their BreakthroughHit remains their signature song.
* Dead By April -- "Promise Me" or "Losing You"
* Music/DeadKennedys -- "California Über Alles" or "Holiday in Cambodia" (from ''Music/FreshFruitForRottingVegetables''). You can also say "[[VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater Police Truck]]" for your 2000's kids.
* Music/TheDeadMilkmen -- "Punk Rock Girl" or "Bitchin' Camaro"
* Music/{{deadmau5}} -- "Ghosts n' Stuff"
* Music/DeadOrAlive -- "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)"
* Music/DeadSara -- "Weatherman" or "[[VideoGame/InfamousSecondSon Heart]]-[[Music/{{Nirvana}} Shaped Box]]"
* Deaf Havana -- "Cassiopeia"
* Music/{{Deafheaven}} -- "Dream House", "Brought to the Water", or "Honeycomb"
* Jimmy Dean -- "Big Bad John"
* Music/{{Death}}
** ''Scream Bloody Gore'': "Zombie Ritual"
** ''Leprosy'': "Pull the Plug"
** ''Spiritual Healing'': "Living Monstrosity"
** ''Human'': "Lack of Comprehension"
** ''Individual Thought Patterns'': "The Philosopher"
** ''Symbolic'': "Crystal Mountain"
** ''The Sound of Perseverance'': "Spirit Crusher"
** Overall: "Lack of Comprehension", "The Philosopher", and "Crystal Mountain" are the frontrunners
* Music/DeathCabForCutie -- "Soul Meets Body," "I Will Follow You Into The Dark" or "I Will Possess Your Heart"
* Music/DeathFromAbove1979 -- "Romantic Rights" or "Trainwreck 1979"
* Music/DeathGrips -- By album:
** ''Death Grips EP'': "Full Moon (Death Classic)"
** ''Exmilitary'': "Guillotine"
** ''The Money Store'': "Get Got", "I've Seen Footage", or "Hacker"
** ''No Love Deep Web'': "No Love"
** ''Government Plates'': "You Might Think He Loves You For Your Money But I Know What He Really Loves You For It's Your Brand New Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat"
** ''The Powers That B'': "Inanimate Sensation"
** ''Bottomless Pit'': "Giving Bad People Good Ideas" or "Eh"
** Overall: "Full Moon", "Guillotine", the ''Money Store'' signatures, "No Love" and "Eh" are the most popular candidates.
* Music/DeathInJune -- "Little Black Angel" or "All Pigs Must Die"
* Death In Vegas -- "Dirge"
* [=DeBarge=] -- "Rhythm of the Night"
* Music/ChrisDeBurgh -- "The Lady in Red", or "Don't Pay the Ferryman" in some countries.
* Music/ClaudeDebussy -- "Clair de Lune"
* Music/TheDecemberists -- "This Is Why We Fight", or "The Perfect Crime"
* Deee-lite -- "Groove is in the Heart"
* Deep Blue Something -- "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
* Deep Forest -- "Sweet Lullaby"
* Music/DeepPurple -- "Smoke on the Water" (from ''Music/{{Machine Head|Album}}'')
* Deerhunter -- "Nothing Ever Happened"
* Default -- "Wasting My Time"
** Dallas Smith -- "Tippin' Point", or "Jumped Right In" in Canada
* Music/DefLeppard -- "Pour Some Sugar On Me"
* Music/{{Deftones}} -- "Change (In the House of Flies)" overall. By album:
** ''Adrenaline'' -- "Bored"
** ''Around the Fur'' -- "Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)"
** ''White Pony'' -- "Change (In the House of Flies)"
** ''Deftones'' -- "Minerva"
** ''Saturday Night Wrist'' -- "Hole in the Earth"
** ''Diamond Eyes'' -- The title track
** ''Koi No Yokan'' -- "Tempest"
** ''Gore'' -- "Prayers/Triangles"
** ''Ohms'' -- The title track
* Gavin [=DeGraw=] -- "[[Series/OneTreeHill I Don't Want To Be]]", and to a lesser extent, "In Love With a Girl" and "Not Over You"
* Music/{{Deicide}} -- "Trifixion"
* Alice [=DeeJay=] -- "Better Off Alone"
* Dej Loaf -- "Try Me"
* Creator/AdoreDelano -- "I Adore You"
* Del Amitri -- "Roll To Me"
* Music/LanaDelRey -- "Born to Die" or the remix of "Summertime Sadness". [[Film/{{The Great Gatsby|2013}} Young & Beautiful]] is also remembered fondly.
* De La Soul -- "Me Myself & I"
* Music/{{Deltron 3030}} -- "Positive Contact"
* Kat [=DeLuna=] -- "Run the Show"
* Dem Franchize Boys -- "Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It"
* Cathy Dennis -- "Touch Me (All Night Long)"
* Music/JohnDenver — Depends on location...
** "Take Me Home, Country Roads" in most places, especially in West Virginia.
** In the Rockies, especially Colorado, it's "Rocky Mountain High".
** In Baltimore, "Thank God I'm a Country Boy".[[note]]The [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Baltimore Orioles]] have played the song during the seventh-inning stretch [[LongRunners since 1975]].[[/note]]
** In the UK, it's "Annie's Song".
* Denzel Curry -- By album/mixtape:
** ''Nostalgic 64'' -- "Threatz"
** ''32 Zel/Planet Shrooms'' -- "Ultimate"
** ''Imperial'' -- "ULT"
** ''[=TA13OO=]'':
*** ''Act 1: Light'' -- "Black Balloons"
*** ''Act 2: Gray'' -- "Clout Cobain"
*** ''Act 3: Dark'' -- "Vengeance"
** ''ZUU'' -- "Ricky", "Speedboat" or "Birdz"
** ''Unlocked'' -- "DIET_"
** Overall -- "Ultimate" or "Clout Cobain"
* Deon Custom -- "Roses"
* Music/DepecheMode -- By album:
** ''Speak & Spell'' -- "Just Can't Get Enough"
** ''A Broken Frame'' -- "See You"
** ''Construction Time Again'' -- "Everything Counts"
** ''Some Great Reward'' -- "Master and Servant"
** ''Black Celebration'' -- "Stripped"
** ''Music for the Masses'' -- "Strangelove" or "Never Let Me Down Again"
** ''Violator'' -- "Personal Jesus" or "Enjoy the Silence"
** ''Songs of Faith and Devotion'' -- "Walking In My Shoes"
** ''Ultra'' -- "It's No Good"
** ''Exciter'' -- "Dream On"
** ''Playing the Angel'' -- "Precious" or "A Pain That I'm Used To"
** ''Sounds of the Universe'' -- "Wrong"
** ''Delta Machine'' -- "Soothe My Soul" or "Heaven"
** ''Spirit'' -- "Where's the Revolution"
** Overall -- "Just Can't Get Enough", "Never Let Me Down Again", or the ''Violator'' signatures.
* Rick Derringer -- "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" or "[[Wrestling/HulkHogan Real American]]"
* Jason Derulo -- "Whatcha Say" for his earlier material, "Talk Dirty" or "Want to Want Me" for his later work.
* Jackie [=DeShannon=] -- "Put A Little Love In Your Heart" or "What The World Needs Now Is Love"
* Des'ree -- "You Gotta Be" in the U.S., "Life" in Europe
* Desiigner -- "Panda"
* Shawn Desman -- "Let's Go" or "Night Like This"
* Music/DestinysChild -- "Survivor", "Say My Name" and "Bootylicious"
* [[WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}} Dethklok]] -- "Thunderhorse"
* Music/{{dEUS}}: "Suds & Soda" (from ''Music/WorstCaseScenario'')
* Dev -- "Bass Down Low" or "In The Dark"
* Device ('80s synth-pop group) -- "Hanging on a Heart Attack"
* Music/{{Device}} (metal band fronted by [[Music/{{Disturbed}} David Draiman]]) -- "Vilify"
* Music/DevinTownsend -- "Kingdom"
* Music/{{Devo}} -- "Whip It" (from ''Music/FreedomOfChoice'')
* Devour the Day -- "Good Man"
* Lee [=DeWyze=] -- "Sweet Serendipity"
* Music/DexysMidnightRunners -- "Come On Eileen" or "Geno" in the UK, "Come On Eileen" indisputably in the US
* [=D4L=] -- "Laffy Taffy"
* Diamond Head -- "Am I Evil?"
* Music/NeilDiamond -- "Sweet Caroline" or "America"
* Music/BoDiddley -- "Bo Diddley"
* Dido -- "Thank You" or "White Flag"
* Music/DieAntwoord -- "Enter The Ninja"
* Creator/MarleneDietrich -- "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt" ("Falling in Love Again"), "Lili Marleen"
* Digital Underground -- "The Humpty Dance"
* Digitalism -- "Pogo"
* Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan -- "43% Burnt"
* Music/DimmuBorgir -- "Progenies of the Great Apocalypse"
* Klaus Dinger -- "Cha Cha 2000", which he first recorded with Music/LaDusseldorf, then revisited in [[RearrangeTheSong new arrangements]] with every one of his subsequent groups.
* Music/DinosaurJr -- " Start Choppin'" or "Feel the Pain"
* [[Music/RonnieJamesDio Dio]] -- "Holy Diver" and "Rainbow In The Dark"
* Dion -- "Runaround Sue"
* Music/CelineDion -- "[[Film/{{Titanic 1997}} My Heart Will Go On]]"
* Music/DireStraits -- "Sultans of Swing", "Money For Nothing" and "Walk of Life" (from ''Music/BrothersInArms''), although "Romeo and Juliet" and "Brothers in Arms" are close behind.
** Mark Knopfler -- "What It Is"
* Dirty Heads -- "Lay Me Down"
* Dirty Honey -- "When I'm Gone"
* Dirty Radio -- "Ground Shake" or "Found You"
* Dirty Vegas -- "Days Go By"
* Music/TheDirtyYouth -- "Fight"
* Discharge -- "Free Speech for the Dumb"
* Disclosure -- "White Noise" in the UK, "Latch" in the U.S.[[note]]Though, it's more associated with Sam Smith over there than with them.[[/note]], and maybe "Magnets" for alt-rock audiences [[note]]Albeit it's more associated with Music/{{Lorde}} than them[[/note]]
* Dishwalla -- "Counting Blue Cars"
* Dissection -- "Where Dead Angels Lie"
* Music/{{Disturbed}} -- "Down with the Sickness" overall. By album:
** ''The Sickness'' -- "Down with the Sickness"
** ''Believe'' -- "Prayer"
** ''Ten Thousand Fists'' -- "Stricken"
** ''Indestructible'' -- The title track or "Inside the Fire"
** ''Asylum'' -- "Another Way to Die"
** ''Immortalized'' -- "[[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel The Sound of Silence]]"
* Disparition -- [[Podcast/WelcometoNightVale The Ballad of Fiedler and Mundt]]"
* Divide the Day -- "[[Wrestling/WWESmackDown Let it Roll]]"
* Divine Heresy - "Failed Creation"
* Divinyls -- "I Touch Myself"
* Music/DixieChicks -- "Goodbye Earl" or "[[Music/FleetwoodMac Landslide]]"
* Alesha Dixon -- "The Boy Does Nothing"
* Music/ColtonDixon-- "Never Gone"
* Dizzee Rascal -- "Bonkers"
* DJ Drama - "Wishing"
* DJ Earworm - "United State of Pop 2009 (Blame It on the Pop)"
* DJ Felli Fel -- "Get Buck In Here"
* DJ Jazzy Jeff and [[Creator/WillSmith The Fresh Prince]] -- "Parents Just Don't Understand" or "Summertime"
* Music/DJKhaled -- By album:
** ''Listennn… the Album'' -- "Holla at Me"
** ''We the Best'' -- "We Takin' Over" or "I'm So Hood"
** ''We Global'' -- "Out Here Grindin'"
** ''Victory'' -- "All I Do Is Win"
** ''We the Best Forever'' -- "I'm on One"
** ''Kiss the Ring'' -- "Take It to the Head"
** ''Suffering from Success'' -- "No New Friends"
** ''I Changed a Lot'' -- "Hold You Down"
** ''Major Key'' -- "For Free"
** ''Grateful'' -- "I'm the One" or "Wild Thoughts"
** ''Father of Asahd'' -- “No Brainer”
* DJ Jean -- "The Launch"
* [[Music/{{BEMANI}} DJ Mass MAD Izm*]] -- "[[VideoGame/{{beatmania}} Shakunetsu Beach Side Bunny]]"
* DJ Sammy -- [[Music/BryanAdams "Heaven"]]
* DJ Sasha -- [[VideoGame/{{Wipeout}} "Xpander"]]
* Music/DJShadow -- "Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt" or "[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious Six Days]]"
* DJ Snake -- "Turn Down For What" (shared with Lil Jon), with "You Know You Like It" (shared with [=AlunaGeorge=]), “Let Me Love You” (shared with [=Justin Bieber=]) and "Taki Taki" (shared with Selena Gomez, Cardi B and Ozuna) in second place. The most well-known song he is credited on, however, is Music/MajorLazer's "Lean On", where he is the co-lead, but the song is much more associated with Major Lazer
* DJ Splash -- "Bass is Kicking" or "[[EclipsedByTheRemix Flying High]]"
* DJ Unk -- "Walk It Out"
* [[Music/{{BEMANI}} DJ YOSHITAKA]] -- [[VideoGame/{{jubeat}} "FLO]][[VideoGame/ReflecBeat WER"]]
* Ramin Djawadi -- The ''Series/GameOfThrones'' Theme
* Music/{{DMX}} -- "Party Up (Up In Here)" and "Ruff Ryder's Anthem" were the original contender. "X Gon' Give It To Ya" has gained traction for its usage in both ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' and later ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}''.
* DNCE -- "Cake By The Ocean"
* Fefe Dobson -- "Ghost" or "Stuttering"
* Doctor P -- "Sweet Shop"
* Music/DoesItOffendYouYeah -- "We Are Rockstars"
* Dog's Eye View -- "Everything Falls Apart"
* Doja Cat -- "Say So"
* Thomas Dolby -- "She Blinded Me With Science"
* Dolla -- "Who The Fuck Is That"
* Doman & Gooding -- "Runnin'"
* Fats Domino -- "Blueberry Hill"
* Lonnie Donegan -- "Rock Island Line" or "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor"
* Donora -- "Boom Boom" or "Champion"
* Music/{{Donovan}} -- "Sunshine Superman" or "Mellow Yellow"
* The Doobie Brothers -- "Black Water" (pre-Michael [=McDonald=]) or "What a Fool Believes" (post-[=McDonald=])
* Dobie Gray -- "Drift Away"
* Don Broco -- "You Wanna Know" or "Nerve"
* The Donnas -- "Take It Off"
* Music/TheDoors -- "Light My Fire" overall. By album:
** ''Music/{{The Doors|Album}}'': "Light My Fire", "Break On Through" and "The End"
** ''Music/StrangeDays'': "People Are Strange" and "When the Music's Over"
** ''Waiting for the Sun'': "Hello, I Love You" and "Five to One"
** ''The Soft Parade'': "Touch Me"
** ''Morrison Hotel'': "Roadhouse Blues"
** ''Music/LAWoman'': "L.A. Woman" or "Riders on the Storm"
* Dorrough -- "Ice Cream Paint Job"
* Jimmy Dorsey -- "Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)"
* Tommy Dorsey -- "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You"
* Music/RobDougan -- "[[Film/TheMatrix Clubbed to Death]]"
* Carl Douglas -- "Kung Fu Fighting"
* Down With Webster -- "Big Wheels" or "Your Man"
* Downstait -- "[[Wrestling/TheMiz I Came To Play]]"
* The Downtown Fiction -- "I Just Wanna Run"
* Music/DrDre -- "Nuthin' But A G Thang" or "Still D.R.E."
* Dr. Hook -- "The Cover of Rolling Stone"
* Dr. John -- "Right Place, Wrong Time"
* Music/{{Dragonforce}} -- "[[VideoGame/GuitarHero Through The Fire And Flames]]" or "[[Website/{{YTMND}} Fury of the Storm]]" Undeniably the former to Guitar Hero fans, unless they started with "Warriors of Rock".
* Music/{{Drake}} -- By album:
** ''So Far Gone'' -- "Best I Ever Had"
** ''Thank Me Later'' -- "Find Your Love" or "Over"
** ''Take Care'' -- The title track (shared with Music/{{Rihanna}}) or "The Motto"
** ''Nothing Was the Same'' -- "Started from the Bottom" or "Hold On, We're Going Home"
** ''If You're Reading This, It's Too Late'' -- "Energy"
** ''What a Time to Be Alive'' -- "Jumpman" (shared with Future)
** ''Views'' -- "Hotline Bling" or "One Dance"
** ''More Life'' -- "Fake Love" or "Passionfruit"
** ''Scorpion'' -- “God’s Plan”, “Nice for What” or “In My Feelings”
** ''Dark Lane Demo Tapes'' -- "Toosie Slide"
** Overall -- "Best I Ever Had", "Hold On, We're Going Home", the ''Views'' signatures and the ''Scorpion'' signatures.
* Music/NickDrake -- "Pink Moon"
* D.R.A.M. -- "Broccoli"
* Dramarama -- "Anything, Anything (I'll Give You)"
* Drax Project -- “Woke Up Late”
* Dream -- "He Loves U Not"
* The-Dream -- "Shawty Is A Ten"
* The Dream Academy -- "Life in a Northern Town"
* Music/DreamTheater -- "Pull Me Under"[[note]]The band released a GreatestHitsAlbum in 2008 called ''Greatest Hit (...And 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs)''; this song was the "Greatest Hit", due to it having by far their most prominent chart success.[[/note]] or "Metropolis Pt. 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper"
* Music/DropkickMurphys -- "[[Film/TheDeparted I'm Shipping Up To Boston]]"
* Music/DrowningPool -- "[[Wrestling/{{ECW}} Bodies]]"
* Dru -- "Getting It In" or "She Can Ride"
* Dru Hill -- "In My Bed" or [[Film/RushHour "How Deep is Your Love"]]
** Sisqo -- "Thong Song" [[note]]despite the fact that "Incomplete" was actually his only #1 hit[[/note]]
* The Drums -- "Let's Go Surfing"
* Dry Cell -- "Slip Away"[[note]]Due mostly to its presence in the soundtrack to the [=PS2=] "SSX-on-motorbikes" racing game ''Freekstyle''.[[/note]]
* Music/DschinghisKhan -- "Moskau"
* Duck Sauce -- "Barbra Streisand"
** Armand van Helden -- "Bonkers"[[note]]Despite it being primarily a Dizzee Rascal song, it's his most popular song within the mainstream audience[[/note]]
** A-Trak -- "Tuna Melt"[[note]]shared with Tommy Trash[[/note]], [[BlackSheepHit "Ray-Ban Vision"]], or "Push". His remix of [[Music/YeahYeahYeahs "Heads Will Roll"]] is much better known though, due to its appearance in ''Film/ProjectX''.
* Music/HilaryDuff -- "Come Clean"
* Duffy -- "Mercy"
* Paul Dukas -- "[[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]"
* Duke Dumont -- "I Got U"
* Holly Dunn -- "Daddy's Hands"
* Music/DuranDuran -- "Hungry Like The Wolf" overall. By album:
** ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Duran Duran]]'' (1981) -- "Girls on Film"
** ''Rio'' -- "Hungry Like The Wolf" or "Save a Prayer"
** ''Seven and the Ragged Tiger'' -- "The Reflex"
** ''Notorious'' -- The title track.
** ''Big Thing'' -- "I Don't Want Your Love"
** ''Liberty'' -- "Serious"
** ''Duran Duran'' (1993) (aka ''Music/TheWeddingAlbum'') -- "Ordinary World" or "Come Undone"
** ''Medazzaland'' -- "Electric Barbarella"
** ''Pop Trash'' -- "Someone Else Not Me"
** ''Astronaut'' -- "(Reach Up For The) Sunrise"
** ''Red Carpet Massacre'' -- "Falling Down"
** ''All You Need is Now'' -- The title track.
** ''Paper Gods'' -- "Pressure Off"
* Music/IanDuryAndTheBlockheads -- "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" or "[[Series/DoctorWho Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick]]"
* Music/AntoninDvorak -- "Symphony of the New World (4th movement)"
* Music/DyingFetus -- "Praise the Lord (Opium of the Masses)"
* Music/BobDylan -- "The Times, They Are a-Changin'" (from ''Music/TheTimesTheyAreAChangin'') or "Like a Rolling Stone" (from ''Music/Highway61Revisited'')
* Dynamite Hack -- "[[Music/EazyE Boyz N the Hood]]"
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* E-40 -- "Tell Me When to Go"
* Music/{{Eagles}} -- "Hotel California" (from ''Music/HotelCalifornia'')
** Glenn Frey -- [[Film/BeverlyHillsCop "The Heat is On"]]
** Don Henley -- "The Boys of Summer"
** Joe Walsh -- "Life's Been Good"
* Music/EaglesOfDeathMetal -- "Don't Speak" or "Wannabe in L.A."; their cover of "[[Music/DuranDuran Save a Prayer]]" to people who first heard of them after the Paris attacks.
* Eamon -- "Fuck It! (I Don't Want You Back)"
* Music/SteveEarle -- "Guitar Town" to the country fan base and "Copperhead Road"to more general audiences.
* Earshot -- "Get Away" or "Wait"
* Music/EarthWindAndFire -- "September"
* Music/{{Earthists}} -- "Resonating Light" (both versions)
* East 17 -- "Stay Another Day"
* Sheena Easton -- "Morning Train (9 to 5)" or "Film/ForYourEyesOnly"
* Music/EazyE -- "Real Muthaphuckkin G's"
* Echo and the Bunnymen -- "The Killing Moon"
* Music/{{Echosmith}} -- "Cool Kids"
* Edgar Winter Group -- "Frankenstein" or "Free Ride"
* Music/{{Edguy}} -- "Ministry of Saints" and "Superheroes"
* Editors -- "Bones" or "[[Series/{{Primeval}} All Sparks]]"
* Music/{{Eels}} -- "Souljacker, Part I" (from ''Music/{{Souljacker}}'') or "Novocaine for the Soul" (from ''Music/BeautifulFreak'').
* Egypt Central -- "White Rabbit"
* Music/Eiffel65 -- "Blue (Da Ba Dee)"
* Music/BillieEilish -- "Bad Guy"
* David Glen Eisley -- "[[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Sweet Victory]]"
** Giuffria -- "Call to Your Heart"
* El Chombo -- "Chacarron Macarron" or "Dame Tu Cosita"
* El Ten Eleven -- "My Only Swerving"
* Music/{{Elbow}} -- "One Day Like This"
* Music/BrettEldredge -- "Don't Ya"
* Music/ElectricLightOrchestra -- "Don't Bring Me Down" or "Mr. Blue Sky"
* Electric Six -- "Gay Bar" (To the chagrin of many fans)
* Music/ElectricWizard -- "Funeralpolis"
* Music/DannyElfman -- Theme for ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/Batman1989'' or ''Film/EdwardScissorhands''.
* Elevation Worship -- “O Come to the Altar”
* Music/EdwardElgar -- "Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 1 in D Major"
* Music/DukeEllington -- "Take the 'A' Train".
* Music/MissyElliott -- "Get Ur Freak On", "Work It"
* Music/{{Eluveitie}} -- "Inis Mona", "Thousandfold"
* Music/{{Emarosa}} -- "The Game Played Right"
* [=emblem3=] -- "Chloe (You're The One I Want)"
* Emerson Drive -- "Moments"
* Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer -- "Karn Evil 9 First Impression Part 2"
* Gareth Emery -- "Concrete Angel"
* EMF -- "Unbelievable"
* Music/{{Eminem}} -- "Lose Yourself" overall. By album:
** ''Infinite'' -- The title track
** ''Music/TheSlimShadyLP'' -- "My Name Is"
** ''Music/TheMarshallMathersLP'' -- "Stan" or "The Real Slim Shady"
** ''Music/TheEminemShow'' -- "Without Me" originally, but has since been tied with "'Till I Collapse"
** ''Film/EightMile'' -- "Lose Yourself"
** ''Encore'' -- "Just Lose It", "Like Toy Soldiers", "Ass Like That", or "Mockingbird"
** ''Curtain Call: The Hits'' -- "When I'm Gone" or "Shake That"
** ''Relapse'' -- "Crack a Bottle" or "Beautiful"
** ''Recovery'' -- "Not Afraid" or "Love The Way You Lie" (the latter shared with Music/{{Rihanna}})
** ''The Marshall Mathers LP 2'' -- "Rap God" or "The Monster" (the latter shared with Rihanna)
** ''Revival'' -- “River”
** ''Kamikaze'' -- “Lucky You” or “Film/{{Venom|2018}}”
** ''Music To Be Murdered By'' -- "Godzilla"
*** D12 -- "My Band" or "Purple Pills"
*** Bad Meets Evil -- "Lighters"
* Music/{{Emperor}} -- "I am the Black Wizards"
* Emphatic -- "Bounce"
* Music/EmpireOfTheSunBand -- "Walking on a Dream"
* En Vogue -- "Hold On", "My Lovin (You're Never Gonna Get It)" or "Don't Let Go (Love)"
* [=EndeverafteR=] -- "[[Wrestling/JeffHardy No More Words]]"
* Paul Engemann -- "[[Film/{{Scarface 1983}} Push It to the Limit]]"
* The English Beat -- "Mirror in the Bathroom"
* Music/{{Ensiferum}} -- "Lai Lai Hei"
* Music/{{Enigma}} -- "Sadeness (Part I)", "Return to Innocence", or "[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Modern Crusaders]]"
* Enslaved -- "Havenless"
* Enter Shikari -- "Sorry, You're Not A Winner", "Juggernauts", or "Destabilise"
* Music/{{Enya}} -- "Only Time" or "Orinoco Flow". Also known for "[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing May It Be]]".
* Music/TheEraserheads -- "Pare Ko" and ''Ang Huling El Bimbo''
* Music/{{Erasure}} -- "[[VideoGame/RobotUnicornAttack Always]]" or "[[Series/{{Scrubs}} A Little Respect]]"
* Music/{{Erra}} -- "Hybrid Earth," "Skyline," and "Drift"
* Eric Prydz -- "Call On Me" for his early material; "Liberate", "Generate", and "Breathe" for his more recent works
* The Escape Club -- "Wild, Wild West"
* Music/{{Escape the Fate}}
** With Ronnie Radke: "Situations"
** With Craig Mabbit: "Issues" or "One for the Money"
* Joe "Bean" Esposito: "[[Film/TheKarateKid1984 You're The Best]]"
* Music/GloriaEstefan -- "Conga"
* Music/{{Estelle}} -- "American Boy" or [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse "Stronger Than You"]]
* Melissa Etheridge -- "Come To My Window"
* Ethnix -- "Jessica", "Tutim", and "BMW Shachora"
* Music/{{Europe}} -- Initially "Carrie", but now unquestionably "The Final Countdown" (which was always their signature outside of the USA)
* Music/{{Eurythmics}} -- "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
** [[Music/{{Eurythmics}} Annie Lennox]] -- "Walking on Broken Glass". Also known for "[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing Into the West]]".
* Evan & Jaron -- "[[Series/DawsonsCreek Crazy for This Girl]]".
* Music/{{Evanescence}} -- By album:
** ''Origin'' -- "Whisper"
** ''Music/{{Fallen}}'' -- "Bring Me To Life" or "My Immortal"
** ''The Open Door'' -- "Call Me When You're Sober"
** ''Evanescence'' -- "What You Want"
** ''Lost Whispers'' -- "Lost Whispers"
** ''Synthesis'' -- "Imperfection" or "Hi-Lo"
** ''The Bitter Truth'' -- "Use My Voice"
** Overall -- [[Film/{{Daredevil}} "Bring Me To Life", with "My Immortal" being a clear second.]]
* Evans Blue -- "Cold (But I'm Still Here)"
* Nathan Evans -- "Wellerman"
* Music/SaraEvans -- "Suds in the Bucket" or "A Little Bit Stronger"
* Eve -- "Let Me Blow Ya Mind"
* Music/Eve6 -- "Inside Out"
* Eve to Adam -- "Immortal"
* Music/{{Everclear}} -- "Santa Monica" or "Father of Mine" to rock audiences; "Wonderful" to pop audiences
* The Everlove -- "[[Series/GameOfThrones Cities In]] [[CoveredUp Dust]]"
* Jace Everett -- "[[Series/TrueBlood Bad Things]]"
* Every Avenue -- "Tell Me I'm a Wreck"
* Music/EverythingButTheGirl -- "Missing" (specifically the Todd Terry remix)
* Everything Everything -- "Kemosabe", "Cough Cough", or "Distant Past"
* Music/TheEverlyBrothers -- "'Wake Up Little Susie"
* Evil Nine -- "Crooked", "All The Cash", "The Black Brad Pitt" or "No Manners"
* Example -- "Changed the Way You Kissed Me".
* The Exies -- "Ugly" or "My Goddess"
* Exposé -- "Point of No Return"
* Music/{{Extreme}} -- "[[BlackSheepHit More Than Words]]"
* George Ezra -- "Budapest" or "Shotgun" in Europe and Australia, indisputably the former in North America
* Ella Eyre -- "Good Times"
* F-777 -- "[[VideoGame/GeometryDash Deadlocked]]"
* Fabolous -- "Breathe"
* Face to Face -- "Disconnected"
* Music/FairportConvention -- "Meet on the Ledge"
* Music/PalomaFaith -- "Only Love Can Hurt Like This"
* Music/{{Faithless}} -- "Insomnia"
* Music/FaithNoMore -- "Epic"
* Chet Faker -- "Talk is Cheap" in Australia, "Gold" in the U.S.
* Music/{{Falco}} -- "Rock Me Amadeus"
* Music/{{Falling in Reverse}} -- "The Drug In Me Is You"
* Music/TheFallOfTroy -- Initially "Sledgehammer" or "FCPREMIX", now unquestionably the latter
* Music/FallOutBoy -- By album:
** ''From Under the Cork Tree'' (and overall) -- "Dance Dance" or "Sugar, We're Goin' Down"
** ''Infinity on High'' -- Originally "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race", but now "Thnks Fr th Mmrs" (tied for overall)
** ''Save Rock and Roll'' -- "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark"
** ''American Beauty/American Psycho'' -- "Centuries" or "Uma Thurman"
** ''M A N I A'' -- “Young and Menace” or “Hold Me Tight or Don’t”
** Patrick Stump -- "This City"
** The Damned Things -- "We've Got a Situation Here"
* Far East Movement -- "Like A [=G6=]"
* Tyler Farr -- "Redneck Crazy"
* Farewell, My Love -- "Portraits"
* John Farnham -- "You're the Voice"
* Fastball -- "The Way"
* Music/FatboySlim -- "The Rockafeller Skank"
* Fat Joe -- "What's Luv?" or "Get It Poppin". Later on, "All The Way Up" (shared with Remy Ma, Music/JayZ, French Montana and Infrared)
** Terror Squad -- "Lean Back"
* [=TheFatRat=] -- "Unity" or "Monody"
* Newton Faulkner -- "Dream Catch Me"
* Music/FearFactory -- "Replica"
* José Feliciano -- "Feliz Navidad"
* Music/{{Feeder}} -- "Buck Rogers" in the UK; "High" in the United States
* The Feeling -- "Sewn"
* Feint -- "Snake Eyes" or "We Won't Be Alone"
* Music/{{Feist}} -- "1234"
* Felt -- "Primitive Painters"
* Jay Ferguson -- "Thunder Island"
* Danny Fernandes -- "Private Dancer" or "Take Me Away"
* Music/SkyFerreira -- "Everything Is Embarrassing"
* Rachelle Ferrell -- "I Can Explain"
* Fetty Wap -- "Trap Queen"
* [[Music/TheKnife Fever Ray]] -- "If I Had a Heart"
* Music/LupeFiasco -- "The Show Goes On"
* FIDLAR -- "No Waves" or "Cheap Beer"
* Field Mob -- “So What”
* Music/FifthHarmony -- "Worth It" or "Work From Home"
** Music/CamilaCabello -- "Havana"
** Normani Hamilton -- "Dancing With a Stranger" (shared with Music/SamSmith) or “Love Lies” (shared with Khalid)
** Ally Brooke -- "Low Key"
* Music/{{Filter}} -- "[[Film/IronMan Hey Man Nice Shot]]" or "Take A Picture"
* Finatticz - "Don't Drop That Thun Thun"
* Fine Young Cannibals -- "She Drives Me Crazy"
* Finger Eleven -- Initially "One Thing", but now "Paralyzer" (maybe [[Wrestling/{{Kane}} "Slow Chemical"]] if you're a wrestling fan)
* Music/{{Finntroll}} -- "Trollhammaren"
* Melanie Fiona -- "Give It To Me Right"
* Firefall -- "You Are the Woman"
* Firehouse -- "Love of a Lifetime"
* First Aid Kit -- Was "Emmylou", but "My Silver Lining" seems to have supplanted it.
* Lisa Fischer -- "How Can I Ease The Pain"
* Fishbone -- "Party at Ground Zero"
* Fit For Rivals -- "[[Wrestling/{{WWE}} Crash]]"
* Fitz & the Tantrums -- "The Walker" or "[=HandClap=]"
* Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch -- By album:
** ''The Way of the Fist'' -- "The Bleeding"
** ''War is the Answer'' -- "Hard to See" or their cover of "Music/BadCompany"
** ''American Capitalist'' -- "Coming Down"
** ''The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 1'' -- "Wrong Side of Heaven"
** ''The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 2'' -- "House of the Rising Sun"
** ''Got Your Six'' -- "Jekyll and Hyde"
** ''A Decade of Destruction'' -- "Trouble"
* Five for Fighting -- "Superman (It's Not Easy)" or "100 Years"
* Music/FiveIronFrenzy -- "Handbook for the Sellout" or "Every New Day"
* The Fixx -- "One Thing Leads To Another"
* Roberta Flack -- "Killing Me Softly With His Song"
* Music/FlamingLips -- "Do you Realize" (State rock song of Oklahoma)
* Flaw -- "Payback"
* Music/FleetFoxes -- "Mykonos"
* Music/FleetwoodMac -- Quite a few, but especially "Dreams" or "Go Your Own Way" (from ''Music/{{Rumours}}'')
** "Albatross" for the original incarnation with Peter Green
* Fletcher -- “Undrunk”
* Flight Facilities -- "Crave You"
* Music/FlightOfTheConchords -- "Business Time"
* Flipp Dinero -- “Leave Me Alone”
* Flipper -- "Sex Bomb"
* The Flirts -- "Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime)"
* Music/FloRida -- "Low" overall. By album:
** ''Mail on Sunday'': "Low"
** ''R.O.O.T.S.'': "Right Round"
** ''Only One Flo (Part 1)'': "Club Can't Handle Me"
** ''Wild Ones'': "Good Feeling", "Wild Ones" or "Whistle"
** ''My House'': "GDFR" or the title track
* Flobots -- "Handlebars"
* Music/AFlockOfSeagulls -- "I Ran (So Far Away)"
* Floetry -- "Say Yes"
* Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine -- "Dog Days Are Over" or "[[Series/GameOfThrones Seven Devils]]".
* Music/FloridaGeorgiaLine -- "Cruise" (both the original and the remix with Nelly)
* Flow -- "[[Manga/{{Naruto}} GO!]]"
* Eddie Floyd -- "Knock On Wood"
* Flume -- "Never Be Like You", though he's far better known in the UK for his remix of Disclosure's "You & Me"
* Flux Pavilion -- "I Can't Stop" or "Cracks"
* ''Flying Lotus'' -- "Never Catch Me"
* Music/{{Flyleaf}} -- "I'm So Sick" or "All Around Me"
* The Flys -- "Got You (Where I Want You)"
* Foals -- In the U.K, "My Number"; in the U.S., previously "Inhaler" but now "Mountain at My Gates"
* Focus -- "Hocus Pocus"
* Foghat -- "Slow Ride"
* Fonogenio -- "Reason"
* Music/BenFolds -- "Rockin' the Suburbs"
* Music/LuisFonsi -- To English-speaking audiences, unquestionably "Despacito" (particularly the remix with Music/JustinBieber); to Spanish-speakers the non-Bieber version of "Despacito" is the best known, and it's just one of many candidates for his signature.
* Music/FooFighters -- By album:
** ''Foo Fighters'' -- "Big Me"
** ''The Colour and the Shape'' -- "Everlong" or "My Hero"
** ''There Is Nothing Left to Lose'' -- "Learn to Fly"
** ''One by One'' -- "All My Life" or "Times Like These"
** ''In Your Honor'' -- "Best of You"
** ''Echoes, Silence, Patience, & Grace'' -- "The Pretender"
** ''Greatest Hits'' -- "Wheels"
** ''Wasting Light'' -- "Walk"
** ''Sonic Highways'' -- "Something from Nothing"
** ''Concrete and Gold'' -- "Run"
** ''Medicine At Midnight'' -- "Waiting On A War"
** Miscellaneous -- "[[Film/Godzilla1998 A320]]"
** Overall -- ''The Colour and the Shape'' signatures, "Learn to Fly", "Best of You", and "The Pretender" are the frontrunners
* For King & Country -- “God Only Knows”
* Lita Ford -- "Kiss Me Deadly"
* Music/{{Foreigner}} -- "Cold as Ice", "Waiting for a Girl Like You", and "I Want To Know What Love Is"
* Emmelie de Forest -- "Only Teardrops"
* Music/FosterThePeople -- "Pumped Up Kicks"
* The Foundations -- "Build Me Up Buttercup"
* Music/FountainsOfWayne -- "Stacy's Mom"
* The Four Seasons -- "December 1963 (Oh What a Night)"
* The Four Tops -- "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)"
* Eleni Foureira -- "Fuego"
* Music/{{Foxes}} -- "Body Talk" or "Youth"
* Creator/JamieFoxx -- "Blame It", although as a featured artist, "Gold Digger".
* Foxy -- "Get Off"
* Foxy Shazam -- "I Like It"
* Music/{{Fozzy}} -- "Enemy" originally, but has since been surpassed by "Judas"
* Framing Hanley -- "[[Music/LilWayne Lollipop]]"
* Music/PeterFrampton -- "Show Me the Way". "Baby, I Love Your Way" and "Do You Feel Like We Do" are also in the mix.
* Frankie Beverly & Maze -- "Back In Stride"
* Music/FrankieGoesToHollywood -- "Relax"
* Frankie J -- "Obsession (No Es Amor)"
* Music/ArethaFranklin -- "[[CoveredUp Respect]]", "Say A Little Prayer"
* Music/KirkFranklin -- "Stomp"
* Music/FranzFerdinand -- "Take Me Out"
* Music/TheFratellis -- "Chelsea Dagger"
* Music/TheFray -- "How to Save a Life"
* Fred V & Grafix -- "Forest Fires"[[note]]shared with Etherwood[[/note]] or "Major Happy"
* Free -- "All Right Now"
* French Montana -- "Unforgettable"
* Aaron Fresh -- "Spending All My Time"
* Music/FromAshesToNew -- "Through It All"
* From First to Last -- "Note to Self" or "Emily"
* Music/Front242 -- "Headhunter"
* Music/TheFrontBottoms -- "Twin Size Mattress"
* Music/FrontLineAssembly -- "Mindphaser"
* Music/FrouFrou -- "Let Go" or "Breathe In"
* Music/FTIsland - "Lovesick" or "I Hope"
* Julius Fucik -- "Entry of the Gladiators"
* Fuel -- "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)"
* Music/{{Fugazi}} -- "Waiting Room"
* Music/TheFugees -- [[CoveredUp "Killing Me Softly"]] or "Ready or Not" (from ''Music/TheScore'')
** Pras -- "Ghetto Supastar"
* Music/{{Fun}} -- "We Are Young" or "Some Nights"
** Nate Ruess -- "Nothing Without Love"
* Fun Factory -- "I Wanna B With U"
* Music/FunLovinCriminals -- "[[Creator/QuentinTarantino Scooby Snacks]]"
* Music/FuneralForAFriend -- "Roses For the Dead" or "Red is the New Black"
* [[Music/GeorgeClinton Funkadelic]] -- [[Music/OneNationUnderAGroove "One Nation Under a Groove"]]
* Music/NellyFurtado -- "I'm Like a Bird" or "Maneater"
* Future -- "Turn On The Lights", "Fuck Up Some Commas", "Jumpman"[[note]]shared with Drake[[/note]], or "Mask Off"
* Future Leaders of the World -- "Let Me Out"
* The Future Sound of London -- "Papua New Guinea" or [[VideoGame/{{Wipeout}} "We Have Explosive"]]
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* Music/PeterGabriel -- "Sledgehammer", "Solsbury Hill", or "[[Film/SayAnything In Your Eyes]]"
* Music/{{Gabrielle}} -- "Dreams" or "[[Film/BridgetJonesDiary Out of Reach]]"
* Gackt -- "Vanilla"
* The GAG Quartet -- "Le Internet Medley"
* Polina Gagarina -- "A Million Voices" or "Kolibelnaya"
* Galantis -- "Runaway (U & I)" or "No Money"
* Music/TheGame -- "How We Do" or "Hate It or Love It" (although the latter is more commonly thought of as 50 Cent's song)
* Music/TheGazette -- "Reila", "Cassis"
* Music/SergeGainsbourg -- "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Je t'aime... moi non plus"
* Gallery -- "Nice To Be With You"
* Music/ChildishGambino -- "Freaks & Geeks", "3005", "[[Film/GetOut2017 Redbone]]", or "This Is America"
* Music/GangStarr -- "Mass Appeal"
* The Gap Band -- "You Dropped a Bomb on Me"
* Music/{{Garbage}} -- "Only Happy When It Rains" or "Stupid Girl"
* Art Garfunkel -- "[[WesternAnimation/WatershipDown Bright Eyes]]"
* Creator/JudyGarland -- "[[Film/TheWizardOfOz (Somewhere) Over the Rainbow]]"
* Martin Garrix -- "Animals" or "In the Name of Love"
* Music/TheGaslightAnthem -- "The '59 Sound" or "45"
** Brian Fallon solo -- "Smoke"
* Kevin Gates -- "2 Phones" or "Really Really"
* Alex Gaudino -- "Destination Calabria"
* Music/MarvinGaye -- "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", "What's Going On" (the title track of his [[Music/WhatsGoingOn most famous album]]), "Let's Get It On", or "[[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier Trouble Man]]". You could also make a case for "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Sexual Healing".
** For [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] fans of a certain age, his performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the 1983 All-Star Game could also qualify.
* Gloria Gaynor -- "I Will Survive"
* Music/GEazy -- "Me, Myself, & I" to mainstream audiences, “No Limit” to rap audience.
* General Public -- "Tenderness"
* O.T. Genasis -- "[=CoCo=]" or "Cut It"
* Music/{{Genesis}} (pop era) -- "Music/LandOfConfusion", "Invisible Touch", or "That's All"
** (prog era) -- "Music/SuppersReady"
* Genki Rockets -- "Heavenly Star"
* Music/BobbieGentry-- "Ode to Billy-Joe"
* George Baker Selection -- "[[Film/ReservoirDogs Little Green Bag]]" or "Paloma Blanca"
* The Georgia Satellites -- "Keep Your Hands to Yourself"
* Gerardo -- "Rico Suave"
* The Germs -- "Lexicon Devil"
* Music/GeorgeGershwin -- "Rhapsody in Blue", "[[Theatre/PorgyAndBess Summertime]]"
* Gerry and the Pacemakers -- "You'll Never Walk Alone"
* Gesaffelstein -- “Lost in the Fire”
* Music/GetScared-- "Sarcasm"
* Music/GetoBoys -- "[[Film/OfficeSpace Damn it Feels Good to Be a Gangsta]]"
* Stan Getz -- "The Girl From Ipanema" (shared with João and Astrud Gilberto)
* Music/{{Ghost}} -- "Cirice"
* Debbie Gibson -- "Foolish Beat"
* Brantley Gilbert -- "Bottoms Up"
* Music/GinBlossoms -- "Hey Jealousy"
* Ginuwine -- "Pony"
* Gipsy Kings – "Bamboléo"
* girl in red -- "we fell in love in october"
* Girlicious -- "2 in the Morning"
* Music/{{Girlschool}} -- "Emergency" or "Race with the Devil"
* Music/GirlsAloud -- "Sound of the Underground", "Love Machine" and "The Promise"
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* Music/GirlsGeneration -- "Gee" or "Tell Me Your Wish (Genie)"
* Music/{{Giulietta}} -- "Vertigo"
* Glass Animals -- "Heat Waves"
* Music/{{Glassjaw}} -- "Ape Dos Mil"
* Glaze -- "Nightmare Night" or "Beyond Her Garden"
* Jess Glynne -- "Hold My Hand" for her solo material, but she's best-known overall for her appearance on Music/CleanBandit's "Rather Be".
* gnash -- "i hate u I love u" (shared with olivia o'brien)
* Goapele -- "Closer"
* God Lives Underwater -- "From Your Mouth"
* Music/{{Godsmack}} -- "I Stand Alone" overall. By album:
** ''Godsmack'' -- "Voodoo"
** ''Awake'' -- The title track.
** ''Faceless'' -- "[[Film/TheScorpionKing I Stand Alone]]"
** ''The Other Side -- "Running Blind"
** ''IV'' -- "Speak"
** ''The Oracle'' -- "Cryin' Like a Bitch"
** ''1000hp'' -- The title track.
* Music/GogolBordello -- "Start Wearing Purple"
* Music/TheGoGos -- "Our Lips Are Sealed" or "We Got the Beat"
* Music/{{Gojira}} -- "Silvera", "Flying Whales" was this for their earlier material
* Andrew Gold -- "Spooky Scary Skeletons", "Lonely Boy", or "Thank You for Being a Friend". Though he [[CoveredUp didn't perform]] [[Series/TheGoldenGirls the best-known version]] of the last of these.
* Music/GoldenEarring -- "Radar Love" or "Twilight Zone"
* Goldfinger -- "[[VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater Superman]]"
* Music/{{Goldfrapp}} -- "Ooh la La" or "Strict Machine"
* Music/SelenaGomez & [[FaceOfTheBand The Scene]] -- "Love You Like a Love Song"
** Selena Gomez (solo) -- "Good for You"
* Jose Gonzalez -- "Heartbeats"
* Music/GoodCharlotte -- "Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous" and/or "The Anthem"
** The Madden Brothers -- "We Are Done"
* Music/BennyGoodman -- "Sing, Sing, Sing"
* Music/GooGooDolls -- "[[Film/CityOfAngels Iris]]"
* Lesley Gore -- "It's My Party" or "You Don't Own Me"
* Music/{{Gorillaz}} -- "Feel Good, Inc." overall. By album:
** [[Music/GorillazAlbum Self-Titled Album]] -- "Clint Eastwood"
** ''Music/DemonDays'' -- "Dirty Harry" or "Demon Days"
** ''Plastic Beach'' -- "Stylo" or "On Melancholy Hill"
** ''The Fall'' -- "Revolving Doors"
** ''Humanz'' -- "Saturnz Barz", "Ascension" or "Andromeda"
** ''Song Machine'' -- "Désolé", "PAC-MAN", or "The Pink Phantom"
* Music/{{Gorgoroth}} -- "Profeten Apenbaring," "Incipit Satan," or "Carving a Giant"
* Mark Gormley -- "[[Series/WorldsDumbest Without You]]"
* Music/{{Gotye}} -- "Somebody That I Used To Know"
* Gossip -- "Standing in the Way of Control"
* Music/EllieGoulding -- "[[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey Love Me Like You Do]]" is indisputably this in most countries. "Starry Eyed" and "Lights" are contenders from her earlier work.
* Go West -- "[[Film/PrettyWoman King of Wishful Thinking]]"
* Grace -- "[[Film/SuicideSquad2016 You Don't Own Me]]"
* Andy Grammer -- Formerly "Keep Your Head Up", but now "Honey I'm Good"
* Music/GrandFunkRailroad -- "We're an American Band" or "Some Kind of Wonderful"
* Music/ArianaGrande: By album:
** ''Yours Truly'' -- "The Way"
** ''My Everything'' -- "Problem" or "Bang Bang"
** ''Dangerous Woman'' -- "Side to Side"
** ''Sweetener'' -- "No Tears Left to Cry"
** ''Thank U Next'' -- The title track or "7 Rings"
** Overall -- "Problem", "No Tears Left to Cry" and "Thank U Next" are probably the strongest contenders
* Music/GrandmasterFlashAndTheFuriousFive -- [[Music/TheMessage "The Message"]]
* Amy Grant -- "El Shaddai" with "Thy Word", "My Father's Eyes" and "Sing Your Praise To The Lord" as contenders for the Christian era, "Baby Baby" for general audiences.
* Eddy Grant -- "Electric Avenue"
* The Grass Roots -- "Let's Live for Today" or "Sooner or Later"
* Music/TheGratefulDead -- "Casey Jones", though younger fans would cite "Touch of Gray"
* Graveland -- "Thurisaz"
* David Gray -- "Babylon"
* Macy Gray -- "I Try"
* Michael Gray -- "The Weekend"
* Music/GreatBigSea -- "Ordinary Day"
* A Great Big World -- "Say Something" (specifically the re-recording with Christina Aguilera)
* Great White -- "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"
* Music/AlGreen -- "Music/LetsStayTogether"
* Vivian Green -- "Emotional Rollercoaster"
* Music/GreenCarnation -- [[EpicRocking "Light of Day, Day of Darkness"]]
* Music/GreenDay:
** To rock audiences: "Basket Case", "Welcome to Paradise", "Longview", "When I Come Around" (from ''Music/{{Dookie}}''), and [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"]] (from ''Music/{{Nimrod}}'') for their '90s material; "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", "Wake Me Up When September Ends", "Holiday", "American Idiot" (from ''Music/AmericanIdiot''), "Know Your Enemy", and "21 Guns" for their '00s work.
** To general audiences: Almost certainly "Good Riddance" for the '90s and "Idiot" and "Boulevard" for the '00s.
* Norman Greenbaum -- "Spirit in the Sky"
* Lee Greenwood -- "God Bless the USA"
* The Greg Kihn Band -- Initially "Jeopardy", but now "The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em)", as the former is better known via a parody by Music/WeirdAlYankovic
* Edvard Grieg -- "Hall of the Mountain King" (which isn't a song, by the way)
* Music/{{Grimes}} -- "Oblivion"
* Tee Grizzley –- "First Day Out"
* Grizzly Bear -- "Two Weeks"
* Music/{{Grouplove}} -- "Tongue Tied"
* Groove Armada -- "[[StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks I See You Baby]]"
* Groove Theory -- "Tell Me"
* GS Boyz -- "Stanky Legg"
* Music/GuanoApes -- "Open Your Eyes"
* Music/VinceGuaraldi -- Originally "Cast Your Fate To The Wind" (from ''Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus'') but has now become more identified by "[[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Linus and Lucy]]"
* Gucci Mane -- Initially “Spotlight”, but now "Both" or "I Get The Bag"
* The Guess Who -- "American Woman"
* Music/DavidGuetta -- "Love Is Gone", "Titanium", or for his later work, "Hey Mama"
* Music/GuidedByVoices -- "I Am A Scientist" and "Teenage FBI"
* Music/GunsNRoses -- "Sweet Child O' Mine", "Welcome to the Jungle", or "Paradise City"
* Musi/ArloGuthrie -- "[[Music/AlicesRestaurant Alice's Restaurant Massacree]]"
* Music/WoodyGuthrie -- "This Land Is Your Land"
* Guttermouth -- "She's Got the Look" or "[[VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater I'm Destroying the World]]"
* Music/GymClassHeroes -- "Cupid's Chokehold" or "Stereo Hearts"
** Travie [=McCoy=] -- "Billionaire"
* GZA -- "Liquid Swords"
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* Haddaway -- "What is Love?"
* Hadouken! -- "M.A.D."
* Sammy Hagar -- "I Can't Drive 55" as a solo artist, "Why Can't This Be Love?" with Music/VanHalen
* Hail The Villain -- "Runaway"
* Haim -- "The Wire"
* Music/{{Halestorm}} -- "I Get Off", "Love Bites (So Do I)", or "I Miss the Misery"
* Music/DarylHallAndJohnOates -- "You Make My Dreams", "Maneater", "She's Gone", "[[Manga/LuckyStar Out of Touch]]", or "Rich Girl"
* Music/GeriHalliwell -- "[[Film/BridgetJonesDiary It's Raining]] [[CoveredUp Men]]".
* Music/{{Halsey}} -- "Closer" (shared with the Chainsmokers); for her own songs, "Without Me".
* Music/{{Hammerfall}} -- "Hearts On Fire"
* Hampton the Hampster -- "Hampster Dance"
* Lionel Hampton -- "Flying Home"
* Music/{{Hatebreed}} -- "I Will Be Heard"
* Music/HerbieHancock -- "Chameleon" (from ''Music/HeadHunters'') or "Rockit" (from ''Music/FutureShock'')
* Music/GeorgeFredericHandel -- "Messiah," (more specifically the "Hallelujah Chorus" at the end of Part II)
* Music/{{Hanson}} -- "[=MMMbop=]"
* Music/HappyMondays -- "Step On"
* Music/{{Hardline}} -- "Hot Cherie"
* Steve Harley -- "Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)" (UK and Ireland) or "Sebastian" (in continental Europe).
* Music/CalvinHarris -- "Acceptable in the 80s" for his earlier work, "Summer" for his later material. By album:
** ''I Created Disco'' -- "Acceptable in the 80s"
** ''Ready for the Weekend'' -- "I'm Not Alone" or the title track
** ''18 Months'' -- "Feel So Close", "We Found Love"[[note]]shared with Music/{{Rihanna}}[[/note]] or "I Need Your Love"[[note]]shared with Music/EllieGoulding[[/note]]
** ''Motion'' -- "Summer"
** ''Funk Wav Bounces, Vol. 1'' -- "Slide"[[note]]shared with [[Music/{{OFWGKTA}} Frank Ocean]][[/note]], "Rollin"[[note]]shared with Khalid[[/note]] or "Feels". Overall, the best known song from around that time is "[[Music/{{Rihanna}} This Is What You Came For]]", but it never appeared on any album.
* Creator/RichardHarris -- "[=MacArthur=] Park"
* Music/GeorgeHarrison -- "My Sweet Lord" (from ''Music/AllThingsMustPass'') or "[[CoveredUp Got My Mind Set on You]]" (from ''Cloud Nine'')
* Corey Hart -- "Sunglasses at Night"
* Jonn Hart -- "Who Booty"
* Dan Hartman -- "I Can Dream About You"
* Music/PJHarvey -- "Down By The Water" (from ''Music/ToBringYouMyLove'')
* Music/HarveyDanger -- "Flagpole Sitta"
* Donnie Hathaway -- "[[CoveredUp A Song For You]]"
** Hathaway and Roberta Flack -- "The Closer I Get To You"
* Screamin' Jay Hawkins -- "I Put a Spell on You"
* Sophie B. Hawkins -- "As I Lay Me Down" or "Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover"
* Music/{{Hawkwind}} -- "Silver Machine"
* Music/HawthorneHeights -- "Saying Sorry" or "Ohio Is For Lovers"
* Music/JosephHaydn -- "[[UsefulNotes/{{Germany}} Emperor Quartet - 2nd Movement/Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser]]"
* Music/HunterHayes -- "Wanted"
* Music/IsaacHayes -- "Theme from Film/{{Shaft}}"
* He Is We -- "All About Us" [[note]] Specifically, the one with Music/OwlCity [[/note]]
* Murray Head -- "[[Theatre/{{Chess}} One Night in Bangkok]]"
* Head East -- "Never Been Any Reason"
* Headstones -- "When Something Stands for Nothing" or "Smile and Wave"
* The Head and the Heart -- "Down in the Valley"
* Heather Headley -- "[[CoveredUp In My Mind]]"
* Music/{{Heart}} -- "Barracuda" and "Alone".
* Heatwave -- "Boogie Nights" or "Always and Forever"
* Music/TheHeavy -- "How You Like Me Now?" or "Short Change Hero". "What Makes a Good Man" is also a contender in the UK.
* Heavy D and the Boyz -- "Now That We Found Love"
* Hedley -- "Perfect"
* Oliver Heldens -- "Gecko (Overdrive)".
* Hella -- "Biblical Violance"
* Hellhammer -- "The Triumph of Death"
* Music/{{Helloween}} -- "I Want Out"
* Hellyeah -- "You Wouldn't Know"
* Bobby Helms -- "Jingle Bell Rock"
* Zack Hemsey -- "Vengeance"
* Ella Henderson -- "Ghost"
* Music/JimiHendrix -- "Purple Haze" (from ''Music/AreYouExperienced''), or [[CoveredUp "All Along the Watchtower"]] (from ''Music/ElectricLadyland'').
* Music/HermansHermits -- "I'm Into Something Good"
* Hey Monday -- "How You Love Me Now"
** Cassadee Pope -- "Wasting All These Tears"
* Hey Violet -- "Guys My Age"
* Hi-Five -- "I Like The Way (The Kissing Game)"
* Highly Suspect -- "My Name Is Human", formerly "Lydia"
* Dan Hill – "Sometimes When We Touch" or "Can't We Try"[[note]]with Vonda Shepard[[/note]]
* Music/FaithHill -- "Breathe" and "There You'll Be"
* Music/LaurynHill -- "Doo Wop (That Thing)"
* Hillsong UNITED -- “Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)”
* Hillsong Worship -- “Who You Say I Am”
* Hilltop Hoods -- "The Nosebleed Section", "Chase That Feeling", "1955" or [[VideoGame/{{Forza}} "Higher"]]
* Keri Hilson -- "Knock You Down"
* Zay Hilfigerrr and Zayion [=McCall=] -- "Juju on Dat Beat"
* Music/{{HIM}} -- "Wings of a Butterfly" or "Join Me in Death"
* Hinder -- "Lips of an Angel"
* Music/TheHives -- "Hate To Say I Told You So"
* Music/TheHoldSteady -- "The Swish"
* Hoku -- "Another Dumb Blonde" or "Perfect Day"
* Music/{{Hole}} -- "Celebrity Skin"
* J. Holiday -- "Bed"
* Music/TheHollies -- "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother", [[InTheStyleOf "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress"]], or "The Air That I Breathe"
* Music/BuddyHolly -- "Peggy Sue" or "That'll Be The Day"
* Music/HollywoodUndead -- "Undead"
* Rupert Holmes -- "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)"
* Music/GustavHolst -- "The Planets Suite, Op. 32"
* Steve Holy -- "Good Morning Beautiful"
* The Honeyrods -- "Love Bee"
* Honeyz -- "Finally Found" or "Won't Take It Lying Down"
* Hoobastank -- "The Reason"
* Music/TheHoosiers -- "Goodbye Mr A"
* The Hooters -- "And We Danced"
* Music/HootieAndTheBlowfish -- "Hold My Hand", "Let Her Cry" or "Only Wanna Be With You"
** Music/DariusRucker -- "Wagon Wheel"
* Creator/BobHope -- "Thanks for the Memory"
* Bruce Hornsby and the Range -- "The Way It Is"
* Hot Chelle Rae -- "Tonight Tonight"
* Hot Chip -- "Over and Over"
* Hot Chocolate -- "You Sexy Thing"
* Tomoyasu Hotei -- "[[Film/KillBill Battle Without Honor or Humanity]]"
* Thelma Houston -- "Don't Leave Me This Way"
* Music/WhitneyHouston -- "[[CoveredUp I Will Always Love You]]" with "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" as another contender.
* House of Pain -- "Jump Around"
** Everlast -- "What It's Like"
* Randy Houser -- "Runnin' Outta Moonlight"
* Ben Howard -- "Only Love"
* Music/JamesNewtonHoward -- "[[Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1 The Hanging Tree]]" (shared with Creator/JenniferLawrence) was his first charting hit, but that song is generally considered Lawrence's song rather than his; he's best known for the score to ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' with Hans Zimmer.
* Music/HowlinWolf -- "Smokestack Lightnin'"
* Music/{{Hozier}} -- "Take Me To Church"
* The Hu -- "Yuve Yuve Yu"
* Music/JenniferHudson -- "Spotlight"
* Huey -- "Pop, Lock, & Drop It"
* Music/TheHumanLeague -- "Don't You Want Me"
* Music/SamHunt -- "Body Like a Back Road"
* Hunters & Collectors -- "Throw Your Arms Around Me"
* Hurricane Chris -- "A Bay Bay"
* Lord Huron -- "[[Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy The Night We Met]]"
* Hurt -- "Rapture" (although "Ten Ton Brick" was their highest-charting hit)
* Hurts -- "Wonderful Life"
* Music/HuskerDu -- "Makes No Sense At All"
* Hybrid (Welsh electronic music trio) -- "Finished Symphony", "Disappear Here", [[VideoGame/{{Driveclub}} "Be Here Now"]]
* Brian Hyland -- "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini"
* Music/{{Hyuna}} -- "Ice Cream"
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* I Am Empire -- "Gravity Bomb"
* I Prevail -- "[[Music/TaylorSwift Blank Space]]"
* Music/JanisIan -- "At Seventeen"
* Music/IceCube -- "It Was a Good Day" or "Check Yo Self"
* Music/IcedEarth -- "Travel in Stygian"
* Icehouse -- "Great Southern Land" or "Electric Blue"
* Music/IceT -- "6 in the Mornin' "
** Music/BodyCount -- "Cop Killer", from ''[[Music/BodyCountAlbum Body Count]]''
* Music/IconaPop -- "I Love It"
* Music/IconForHire -- "Make A Move"
* Music/BillyIdol -- "Dancing With Myself," "Rebel Yell" or "White Wedding"
* Music/EnriqueIglesias -- "[[Film/WildWildWest Bailamos]]" and "Hero" for his earlier material, “I Like It” and “Tonight (I’m Lovin’ You)” for his later material.
* [=IHeartMemphis=]/[=ILoveMemphis=] -- "Hit The Quan"
* [=ILoveMakonnen=] -- "Tuesday" (though it's more associated with Music/{{Drake}})
* Music/IllNino -- "What Comes Around"
* Music/ImagineDragons -- Previously "It's Time," but now far and away "Radioactive" overall. By album:
** ''Night Visions'': “Radioactive”
** ''Smoke + Mirrors'': “I Bet My Life”
** ''Evolve'': “Believer” or “Thunder”
** ''Origins'': “Natural”
* Music/NatalieImbruglia -- "[[CoveredUp Torn]]"
* Music/{{Immolation}} -- "Father, You're Not a Father"
* Music/{{Immortal}} -- "Call of the Wintermoon"
* Music/ImogenHeap -- "Hide and Seek"
* Inner Circle -- "[[Series/{{Cops}} Bad Boys]]"
* Music/{{Insomnium}} -- “While We Sleep”
* Music/InThisMoment -- "Blood"
* Music/{{Incubus}} -- "Drive"
* Music/{{India Arie}} -- "Video"
* The Indigy -- "Apache (Warrior Bow)"
* Music/InFlames -- By album:
** ''Lunar Strain'' -- "Behind Space"
** ''The Jester Race'' -- "Moonshield"
** ''Whoracle'' -- "Episode 666"
** ''Colony'' -- The title track or "Behind Space '99"
** ''Clayman'' -- "Only for the Weak" or "Pinball Map"
** ''Reroute to Remain'' -- "Cloud Connected"
** ''Soundtrack to Your Escape'' -- "The Quiet Place"
** ''Come Clarity'' -- "Take This Life"
** ''A Sense of Purpose'' -- "The Mirror's Truth"
** ''Sounds of a Playground Fading'' -- "Deliver Us"
** ''Siren Charms'' -- "Paralyzed"
** ''Battles'' -- "The Truth"
** ''I, The Mask'' -- "I Am Above"
** Overall: "Behind Space", "Moonshield", or "Only For The Weak" for their earlier work; "Take This Life", "Cloud Connected" or "Deliver Us" for their later work
* Music/InformationSociety -- "What's On Your Mind? {Pure Energy)" for general audiences; "[[VideoGame/LegacyOfKain Ozar Midrashim]]" for video-gaming audiences
* Chuck Inglish -- "[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Came Thru/Easily]]"
* James Ingram -- "Just Once", "Yah Mo B There"[[note]]with Michael [=McDonald=][[/note]] or "I Don't Have The Heart"
* Injected -- "Faithless"
* Injury Reserve -- "ttktv" or "Oh Shit!!!"
* Inna -- "Cola Song" or "Hot"
* Music/{{Interpol}} -- "Obstacle 1" or "Evil"
** Julian Plenti - "Girl on the Sporting News"
* The Interrupters -- "She's Kerosene"
* Music/{{INXS}} -- "Need You Tonight"
* Donnie Iris -- "Ah, Leah!"
* Iron & Wine -- "Flightless Bird, American Mouth"
* Music/IronButterfly -- "Music/InAGaddaDaVida"
* Music/IronMaiden -- "Run to the Hills" or "The Number of the Beast"
* Music/ChrisIsaak -- "Wicked Game"
* Ish -- "Rollin'"
* Islander -- "Coconut Dracula"
* The Isley Brothers -- "Shout" (for the original lineup), "Who's That Lady" (for the "3x3" lineup)
* Music/{{Issues}} -- "King of Amarillo", "[[Music/JustinBieber Boyfriend]]", "Hooligans", or "Stingray Affliction"
* Music/{{IU}} -- "Good Day"
* IYAZ -- "Replay"
* J Balvin -- "Ay Vamos" or "Mi Gente"
* Jack & Jack -- "Rise" (shared with Jonas Blue)
* Terry Jacks -- "Seasons in the Sun"
* Freddie Jackson -- "You Are My Lady" or "Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake)"
* Music/JanetJackson -- "That's The Way Love Goes" or "Rhythm Nation"
* Music/JoeJackson -- "Steppin' Out" or "Is She Really Going Out with Him?"
* Music/MichaelJackson -- "Billie Jean", "Beat It", "Thriller", "Black or White" and "Smooth Criminal" overall. By album:
** ''Got to Be There'' -- "Got to Be There" or "Rockin' Robin"
** ''Ben'' -- "Ben"
** ''Music and Me'' -- "Music and Me"
** ''Music/OffTheWall'' -- "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough", "Rock With You", or "Off the Wall"
** ''Music/{{Thriller}}'' -- "Thriller", "Beat It" or "Billie Jean"
** ''Music/{{Bad}}'' -- "Bad", "Speed Demon", "Man in the Mirror", "Dirty Diana", or "Smooth Criminal"
** ''Dangerous'' -- "Black or White" or "Remember the Time"
** ''[=HIStory=]'' -- "You are Not Alone", "Earth Song" or "They Don't Really Care About Us"
** ''Blood on the Dance Floor'' -- "Blood on the Dance Floor"
** ''Invincible'' -- "You Rock My World"
** ''Xscape'' -- "Love Never Felt So Good"
* Rebbie Jackson -- "Centipede"
* Music/TheJacksonFive -- By album:
** ''Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5'' -- "I Want You Back"
** ''ABC'' -- "[=ABC=]" or "The Love You Save"
** ''Third Album'' -- "I'll Be There".
** ''Maybe Tomorrow'' -- "Never Can Say Goodbye"
** ''Dancing Machine'' --"Dancing Machine"
** Following their name change to the Jacksons:
** ''The Jacksons'' -- "Enjoy Yourself"
** ''Destiny'' -- "Blame It on the Boogie" or "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)"
** ''Triumph'' -- "Can You Feel It"
** ''Victory'' -- "State of Shock"
** ''2300 Jackson Street'' --"2300 Jackson Street"
** Overall: "I Want You Back", "ABC", and "I'll Be There" as the Jackson 5; "Blame It On The Boogie" or "Can You Feel It" as the Jacksons.
* Jack Ü -- "Where Are Ü Now" [[note]]Although it's probably more associated with Justin Bieber[[/note]]
* Felix Jaehn -- "Ain't Nobody (Loves Me Better)" (shared with Jasmine Thompson) as a lead artist, overall he's best known for his remix of OMI's "Cheerleader".
* Jagged Edge-- "Where the Party At"
* Music/JAMProject -- Formerly "[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWars SKILL]] or [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha GONG]]", now unquestionably "[[Webcomic/OnePunchMan THE HERO! ~Ikareru Kobushi ni Honō wo Tsukero~]]
* Music/TheJam -- "Going Underground"
* Jamelia -- "Superstar"
* James -- "Sit Down" in the UK, "Laid" in the U.S.
* Music/EttaJames -- "At Last" and "I Just Wanna Make Love To You".
* Harry James -- "You Made Me Love You"
* Rick James -- "[[Music/MCHammer Super]] [[SampledUp Freak]]"
* Tommy James -- "Hanky Panky"
* Trinidad James -- "All Gold Everything"
* Jamie T -- "Sheila", "Emily's Heart" or "Sticks & Stones"
* Music/{{Jamiroquai}} -- "Virtual Insanity", "[[Film/NapoleonDynamite Canned Heat]]"
* Music/JanesAddiction -- "Jane Says" or "Been Caught Stealing." "Hypersonic" to those who are fans of the [[VideoGame/{{SSX}} SSX]] series.
* Chris Janson -- "Buy Me a Boat"
* Janus -- "Eyesore"
* Ja Rule -- "Always on Time"
* Music/JayRock -- "[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Hood Gone Love It]]" or "[[Film/BlackPanther2018 King's Dead]]"
* Music/JayZ -- "99 Problems" overall. By album:
** ''Reasonable Doubt'' -- "Dead Presidents"
** ''In My Lifetime, Vol. 1'' -- "The City Is Mine"
** ''Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life'' -- "[[Film/RushHour Can I Get A…]]" or the title track
** ''Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter'' -- "Big Pimpin'"
** ''The Dynasty: Roc La Familia'' -- "I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)"
** ''The Blueprint'' -- "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)"
** ''The Best of Both Worlds'' -- "Take You Home with Me (A.K.A. Body)" (shared with Music/RKelly)
** ''The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse'' -- "03 Bonnie & Clyde" (shared with Music/{{Beyonce}})
** ''The Black Album'' -- "99 Problems"
** ''Unfinished Business'' -- "Big Chips" (shared with Music/RKelly)
** ''Collision Course'' -- "Numb/Encore" (shared with Music/LinkinPark)
** ''Kingdom Come'' -- "Show Me What You Got"
** ''American Gangster'' -- "Blue Magic"
** ''The Blueprint 3'' -- "Empire State of Mind" (shared with Music/AliciaKeys)
** ''Watch the Throne'' -- "Niggas In Paris" (shared with Music/KanyeWest)
** ''Magna Carta Holy Grail'' -- "Holy Grail" (shared with Music/JustinTimberlake)
** ''4:44'' -- The title track
* J Dash -- "Wop"
* Jedward -- "[[Music/{{Queen}} Under]] [[Music/DavidBowie Pressure]] ([[Music/VanillaIce Ice Ice Baby]])" or "Lipstick"
* Music/JeffersonAirplane -- "Somebody To Love" or "White Rabbit" (from ''Music/SurrealisticPillow'')
* Jem -- "They"
* Sean Jenness -- "[[Wrestling/{{Sheamus}} Written In My Face]]"
* Music/CarlyRaeJepsen -- by album:
** ''Tug of War'' -- "Bucket" or the title track
** ''Kiss'' (and overall) -- "Call Me Maybe"
** ''Emotion'' -- "I Really Like You" or "Run Away With Me"
** ''Dedicated'' -- "Party For One"
* Jeremih -- "Birthday Sex", "Down On Me" or "Don't Tell 'Em"
* Music/JessieJ -- "Price Tag", "Domino" or "Bang Bang" (though it's probably more associated with Music/ArianaGrande and Music/NickiMinaj in the US)
* Music/TheJesusandMaryChain -- "Just Like Honey" or "Head On"
* Jesus Jones -- "Right Here, Right Now"
* Jet -- "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"
* Music/JethroTull -- "Aqualung" (from ''[[Music/AqualungJethroTullAlbum Aqualung]]'')
* Music/JoanJett -- [[CoveredUp "I Love Rock 'n' Roll"]] or "[[Creator/RondaRousey Bad Reputation]]"
* Jewel -- "Who Will Save Your Soul" and "You Were Meant for Me"
* Music/TheJGeilsBand -- "Centerfold" or "Freeze Frame"
* Jibbs -- "Chain Hang Low"
* Jidenna -- "Classic Man" or "[[Series/LukeCage2016 Long Live the Chief]]"
* Jimmie's Chicken Shack -- "Do Right"
* Music/JimmyEatWorld -- "[[Film/TheSorcerersApprentice The]] [[BlackSheepHit Middle]]"
* J-Kwon -- "Tipsy"
* JLS -- "Beat Again"
* Jo Boxers -- "Just Got Lucky"
* Joe -- "Stutter" and "I Wanna Know"
* Music/BillyJoel -- by album:
** ''Cold Spring Harbor'' -- "She's Got a Way", especially since it was made more famous when released as a single in the live version from ''Songs in the Attic".
** ''Piano Man'' -- "Piano Man".
** ''Streetlife Serenade'' -- "The Entertainer", probably the only quite well-remembered song on the album.
** ''Turnstiles'' -- "New York State of Mind".
** ''The Stranger'' -- "Only the Good Die Young", "She's Always a Woman", "Just the Way You Are", "Vienna", "Movin' Out" and "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant".
** ''52nd Street'' -- "My Life"; "Honesty" and "Big Shot" are also well-remembered.
** ''Glass Houses'' -- "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" or "You May Be Right"
** ''The Nylon Curtain'' -- "Allentown" or "Goodnight Saigon".
** ''An Innocent Man'' -- "Uptown Girl", although also "The Longest Time" and "Tell Her About It" are well-remembered.
** ''The Bridge'' -- "A Matter of Trust".
** ''Storm Front'' -- "We Didn't Start The Fire"; "Alexa" is probably the second best-known song on it.
** ''River of Dreams'' -- The title track.
* Music/EltonJohn -- "Your Song", "Rocket Man", "Tiny Dancer," or "Candle in the Wind 1997"
* Robert John -- "Sad Eyes"
* Johnny Hates Jazz -- "Shattered Dreams"
* Joji:
** "you suck charlie", "i don't wanna waste my time" and especially his remix of "medicine" in terms of his older content.
** ''BALLADS 1'' and overall -- "SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK"
* [[Music/JoJo [=JoJo=]]] -- "Leave (Get Out)" or "Too Little Too Late"
* Creator/DonJohnson -- "Heartbeat"
* Music/EricJohnson -- "Cliffs of Dover"
* Music/JackJohnson -- "Banana Pancakes"
* Creator/LiaMarieJohnson -- "DNA"
* Freedy Johnston -- "Bad Reputation"
* [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} Jim Johnston]] -- "[[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin I Won't Do What You Tell Me]]", [[Wrestling/TheUndertaker Graveyard Symphony]]", or (briefly) "[[Wrestling/{{Fandango}} ChaChaLaLa]]"
** [=CFO$=] -- "[[Wrestling/AJStyles Phenomenal]]", "[[Wrestling/BobbyRoode Glorious Domination]]", or "[[Wrestling/ShinsukeNakamura The Rising Sun]]"
** Kromestatik -- "[[Wrestling/WWERaw The Night]]"
* Music/NickJonas -- "Jealous"
** Nick Jonas & The Administration -- "Who I Am"
* Music/JonasBrothers -- "Burnin' Up" for their original output, "Sucker" for their 2019 reunion.
** Music/JoeJonas -- "See No More"
* George Jones -- "He Stopped Loving Her Today"
* Glenn Jones -- "Here I Go Again"
* Creator/GraceJones -- "Pull Up to the Bumper"
* Isham Jones -- "I'll See You in My Dreams" or "It Had to Be You" (probably the UrExample)
* Jim Jones -- "We Fly High"
* Kent Jones -- "Don't Mind"
* Music/NorahJones -- "Don't Know Why" (from ''Music/ComeAwayWithMe'')
* Music/TomJones -- "It's Not Unusual" or "Delilah"
* Music/JanisJoplin -- "Me & Bobby [=McGee=]"
** Big Brother & the Holding Company -- "Piece of My Heart" (from ''Music/CheapThrills'')
* Music/ScottJoplin -- A 3-way tie between "Maple Leaf Rag", "Solace", and "The Entertainer"
* Alexis Jordan -- "Happiness"
* Montell Jordan -- "This Is How We Do It"
* Music/{{Journey}} -- "Don't Stop Believin'" overall. By album:
** ''Infinity'' -- "Wheel in the Sky"
** ''Evolution'' -- Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'"
** ''Departure'' -- "Any Way You Want It"
** ''Escape'' -- "Don't Stop Believin'", with "Open Arms" and "Who's Crying Now" as other contenders
** ''Frontiers'' -- "Faithfully", or "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)"
* Music/VanceJoy -- "Riptide"
* Music/JoyDivision -- "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
* Joye Manor -- "Constant Headache"
* Music/{{Joywave}} -- "Destruction" or "Tongues"
* JRDN -- "U Can Have It All"
* Juanes -- "A Dios le Pido"
* Music/JudasPriest --"Living After Midnight," "Breaking the Law" (Both from ''Music/BritishSteel''), or "You Got Another Thing Comin'"
* Juice WRLD -- "Lucid Dreams"
* Music/JulienK -- [[VideoGame/SonicHeroes "This Machine"]], "Kick the Bass" or [[Film/{{Transformers}} "Technical Difficulties"]]
* Jungle -- "Busy Earnin'"
* Music/{{Juniel}} -- "Illa Illa"
* Junior -- "Mama Used to Say"
* Junior Senior -- "Move Your Feet"
* Music/{{Justice}} -- "D.A.N.C.E."
* Juvenile -- Previously either "Back That Azz Up" or "Slow Motion", but now indisputably the former.
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* K'naan -- "Wavin' Flag"
* Kaiser Cartel -- "[[Film/LiberalArts Favorite Song]]"
* Kajagoogoo -- "Too Shy"
* Music/KaiserChiefs -- "I Predict A Riot" or "Ruby"
* Music/KaizersOrchestra -- "Kontroll på kontinentet"
* Kaleo -- "Way Down We Go" for alternative radio listeners and to the mainstream, "No Good" for active rock radio listeners.
* Music/{{Kamelot}} -- "The Haunting"
* Music/{{Kamikazee}} -- "Narda"
* Music/{{Kansas}} -- Initially "Dust in the Wind", but over time has become "Carry On Wayward Son"
* Music/{{Kara}} -- "Mister"
* Kardinal Offishall -- "Dangerous"
* Karmin -- "Brokenhearted"
* Karnivool -- "Themata"
* Music/{{Kasabian}} -- By album:
** SelfTitledAlbum -- "[[Film/{{Serenity}} Club Foot]]"
** ''Empire'' -- "Shoot the Runner"
** ''West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum'' -- "[[Film/{{Takers}} Underdog]]" or "Fire"
** ''Velociraptor!'' -- "Days Are Forgotten" or "Goodbye Kiss"
** ''48:13'' -- "eez-eh", "stevie" or "bumblebeee"
** ''For Crying Out Loud'' -- "You're In Love With A Psycho" or "Comeback Kid"
** Overall -- "Club Foot", "Underdog" and the ''Velociraptor!'' signatures are the frontrunners in the mainstream crowd, "Fire" for most UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball fans.
* Katy B -- "Katy on a mission" or "Crying for No Reason"
* Music/{{Kaya}} -- "Chocolat"
* K Camp -- "Cut Her Off"
* KC and the Sunshine Band -- "That's the Way (I Like It)"
* K-Ci and [=JoJo=] -- "All My Life"
* KDA -- "Turn the Music Louder (Rumble)" (though it's probably more associated with Music/TinieTempah and/or Katy B)
* Music/{{Keane}} -- "Somewhere Only We Know"
* Keemstar -- "Dollar In The Woods!"
* Kehlani -- "[[Film/SuicideSquad2016 Gangsta]]"
* Music/TobyKeith -- Originally "Should've Been a Cowboy", but now the signature songs are either "Red Solo Cup" or "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue"
* Kelis -- "Milkshake"
* Paul Kelly -- "To Her Door", "Before Too Long", or "Darling It Hurts"
* Music/RKelly -- For the 90s, "I Believe I Can Fly," for the 2000s, "Ignition (Remix)"
* Tori Kelly -- "Nobody Love" or "Should've Been Us"
* Creator/AnnaKendrick -- "[[Film/PitchPerfect Cups (''Pitch Perfect's'' When I'm Gone)]]"
* Music/KennyG -- "Songbird"
* Music/KeroKeroBonito -- "Flamingo"
* Music/NikKershaw -- "Wouldn't It Be Good?" and "The Riddle"
* Music/{{Kesha}} -- By Album
** ''Animal'': "Tik Tok", with "Your Love is My Drug" as a runner up
** ''Cannibal'': "We Are Who We Are"
** ''Warrior'': "Die Young"
** ''Rainbow'': "Praying"
* Music/AliciaKeys -- By album:
** ''Songs in A Minor'': "Fallin'"
** ''The Diary of Alicia Keys'': “If I Ain’t Got You”
** ''As I Am'': “No One”
** ''The Element of Freedom'': “Un-Thinkable (I’m Ready)”
** ''Girl on Fire'': The title track
** ''HERE'': “In Common”
* K.Flay -- "Blood in the Cut"
* Aram Khachaturian -- "Sabre Dance"
* Khaled -- "Didi" and/or "Aïcha"
* Khalid -- "Love Lies"
* Music/WizKhalifa -- "Black & Yellow" to the hip-hop/urban community; "[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious See You Again]]" (from the ''Music/Furious7Soundtrack'') to mainstream audiences
* Chaka Khan -- "I'm Every Woman"
** Rufus & Chaka Khan -- "Tell Me Something Good"
* Eduard Khil -- "I am Glad Because I'm Finally Returning Home" ([[MemeticMutation the "Trololo" song]])
* Kid Cudi -- "Day 'n' Nite" or "Pursuit of Happiness"
* Music/KidRock:
** "Cowboy" or "Bawitdaba" (NuMetal era)
** "All Summer Long" (country rock era)
* Music/{{Kiesza}} -- "Hideaway"
* Music/{{Kiiara}} -- "Gold"
* Killer Be Killed -- "Wings of Feather and Wax"
* Music/TheKillers -- "Mr. Brightside", "Somebody Told Me", or "Human"
* Music/KillingJoke -- "Love Like Blood"
* Kill It Kid -- "Blood Stop and Run"
* Natalia Kills -- "Mirrors"
* Music/KillswitchEngage -- By album:
** ''Alive or Just Breathing'' -- "My Last Serenade"
** ''The End of Heartache'' -- [[Film/ResidentEvilApocalypse The title track]]
** ''As Daylight Dies'' -- "My Curse"
** ''Killswitch Engage (2009)'' -- "Starting Over"
** ''Disarm the Descent'' -- "In Due Time"
** ''Incarnate'' -- "Hate by Design"
** Overall: "My Curse" (Howard Jones era), "In Due Time" (Jesse Leach era).
* Andy Kim -- "Rock Me Gently"
* Cheyenne Kimball -- "Hanging On"
* Kari Kimmel -- "[[Wrestling/AJLee Let's Light it Up]]"
* Ben E. King -- "Film/StandByMe"
* Music/CaroleKing -- "It's Too Late" (from ''Music/{{Tapestry}}'')
* Elle King -- "Ex's and Oh's" to mainstream audiences; "Different For Girls" (with Dierks Bentley) to country audiences
* Evelyn Champagne King -- "Shame"
* Music/KingCrimson -- [[Music/InTheCourtOfTheCrimsonKing "21st Century Schizoid Man"]] and [[Music/RedKingCrimsonAlbum "Red"]] for casual listeners; "Epitaph", "Starless", and "Elephant Talk" for diehard fans
* Music/KingDiamond -- "The Family Ghost" or "Welcome Home"
* Music/KingGizzardAndTheLizardWizard: By Album:
** ''12 Bar Bruise'' -- "Elbow"
** ''Eyes Like the Sky'' -- "Fort Whipple" or the title track
** ''Float Along -- Fill Your Lungs'' -- "Head On/Pill"
** ''Oddments'' -- "Vegemite"
** ''I'm in Your Mind Fuzz'' -- "Cellophane" or "Am I in Heaven?"
** ''Quarters!" -- "The River"
** ''Paper Mache Dream Balloon'' -- "Trapdoor" or "Sense"
** ''Nonagon Infinity'' -- "Gamma Knife" or "Evil Death Roll"
** ''Flying Microtonal Banana'' -- "Rattlesnake"
** ''Murder of the Universe'' -- "Han-Tyumi and the Murder of the Universe" (actually six songs in one)
** ''Sketches of Brunswick East'' -- "Countdown" or "Tezeta"
** ''Polygondwanaland'' -- "Crumbling Castle"
** ''Gumboot Soup'' -- "All Is Known"
** ''Fishing for Fishies'' -- "Cyboogie"
** ''Infest the Rats' Nest'' -- "Planet B"
** Overall: Either "Gamma Knife" or "Rattlesnake"
* Music/KingMissile -- "Detachable Penis"
* Gershon Kingsley -- "Popcorn"
* Kings of Leon -- "Sex on Fire" and "Use Somebody"
* The Kingsmen -- "Louie, Louie"
* Sean Kingston -- "Beautiful Girls"
* Music/TheKinks -- "You Really Got Me"
* Creator/EmilyKinney -- "Be Good"
* Music/{{KISS}} -- "Rock and Roll All Nite"
* Kittie -- "Brackish"
* Music/{{Kitty Pryde}} -- "okcupid"
* Michael Kiwanuka -- "Home Again"
* Music/TheKLF -- "3 AM Eternal"
* Music/{{KMFDM}} -- "Juke Joint Jezebel", "Megalomaniac", or [[Anime/StreetFighterIITheAnimatedMovie "Ultra"]]
* The Knack -- "My Sharona"
* Music/KnifeParty -- "Internet Friends" or "Bonfire"
* Gladys Knight and the Pips -- "Midnight Train To Georgia"
* Knocked Loose -- "Deadringer"
* Koan Sound -- "Funk Blaster"
* Kodak Black -- “Tunnel Vision” or "Zeze"
* Koji Kondo -- The "''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''" overworld theme
* Kome Kome Club -- "Kimi ga Iru Dake de"
* KONGOS -- "[[Film/HolyMotors Come With]] [[Film/TheExpendables Me Now]]"
* John Kongos -- "[[Music/HappyMondays He's Gonna Step On You Again]]"
* The Kooks -- "Naive"
* Kool & the Gang -- "Celebration"
* Music/{{Korn}} -- "Freak on a Leash" overall. By album:
** ''Music/KornAlbum'' -- "Blind"
** ''Life is Peachy'' -- "A.D.I.D.A.S."
** ''Follow the Leader'' -- "Freak on a Leash"
** ''Issues'' -- "Falling Away from Me"
** ''Untouchables'' -- "Here to Stay"
** ''Take a Look in the Mirror'' -- "Did My Time"
** ''Greatest Hits'' -- "[[CoverVersion Word Up!]]"
** ''See You on the Other Side'' -- "Twisted Transistor" or "Coming Undone"
** Untitled album -- "Evolution"
** ''Korn III'' -- "Oildale (Leave Me Alone)"
** ''The Path of Totality'' -- "[[Music/{{Skrillex}} Narcissistic Cannibal]]"
** ''The Paradigm Shift'' -- "Never Never"
** ''The Serenity of Suffering'' -- "Rotting in Vain"
** ''The Nothing'' -- "You'll Never Find Me'' or "Cold"
*** Jonathan Davis -- "What It Is"
* Music/{{Korpiklaani}} -- "Wooden Pints"
* [[Music/{{BEMANI}} kors k]] -- "smooooch・∀・"
* Music/{{Kraftwerk}} -- "Das Modell"[/]"The Model" from ''Music/TheManMachine'' or "Autobahn" from ''Music/{{Autobahn}}''.
* Music/LennyKravitz -- "Fly Away" or "Are You Gonna Go My Way?"
* Music/{{Kreator}} -- "Ripping Corpse"
* Kreayshawn -- "Gucci Gucci"
* Music/{{Krewella}} -- "Alive"
* Kris Kross -- "Jump"
* Kris Kristofferson -- "Why Me?"
* Krokus -- "Eat the Rich"
* Music/YevgenyKrylatov -- "[[Series/GuestFromTheFuture Beautiful Tomorrow]]"
* Kula Shaker -- "Tattva"
* Music/KyaryPamyuPamyu -- "PONPONPON"
* Kygo -- "It Ain't Me", although that is more known as Music/SelenaGomez' song. For songs that are actually associated with him, "Firestone" and "Stole the Show".
* Kyle -- "[=iSpy=]"
* Music/{{Kyuss}} -- "One Inch Man"
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* 12 Stones -- "[[Wrestling/TheNexus We Are One]]" or "Broken"; however, the most famous song that the band was ever involved in by far is lead singer Paul [=McCoy=] in "[[Music/{{Evanescence}} Bring Me to Life]]"
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* Afrojack -- "Take Over Control" was his highest-charting hit as a lead artist, but "Can't Stop Me" is also remembered due to its success in dance clubs.
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* Alphaville -- "Big in Japan" or "Forever Young," although the latter has gained the advantage ever since Jay-Z sampled it.
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* Bananarama -- "Venus" or "Cruel Summer"; while the former was a bigger hit in its heyday, its status as a CoverVersion could give the latter, which was their original song, the advantage.
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* Creator/JohnBarrowman -- "You're So Vain"; the orchestral arrangement makes it immediately recognizable from Carly Simon's version
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* Music/BingCrosby -- [[Music/MerryChristmas "White Christmas"]]
** Although he used "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" as his 'official' signature tune. In one Creator/BobHope movie, Crosby's surprise cameo appearance at the very end was accompanied by an orchestra version of the opening bars of this song.
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** 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.
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* HEALTH
** SelfTitledAlbum -- "Crimewave"
** ''Get Color'' -- "Die Slow"
** ''Death Magic'' -- "Stonefist" or [[VideoGame/NeedForSpeed "New Coke"]]
** Overall -- "Crimewave" is their most well-known song in part due to the Music/CrystalCastles remix. However, their cover of the Units' "High Pressure Days", known as "High Pressure Dave", has easily become a contender thanks to its appearance in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''.
** SelfTitledAlbum -- "Crimewave"
** ''Get Color'' -- "Die Slow"
** ''Death Magic'' -- "Stonefist" or [[VideoGame/NeedForSpeed "New Coke"]]
** Overall -- "Crimewave" is their most well-known song in part due to the Music/CrystalCastles remix. However, their cover of the Units' "High Pressure Days", known as "High Pressure Dave", has easily become a contender thanks to its appearance in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''.
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** SelfTitledAlbum -- "Crimewave"
** ''Get Color'' -- "Die Slow"
** ''Death Magic'' -- "Stonefist" or [[VideoGame/NeedForSpeed "New Coke"]]
** Overall -- "Crimewave" is their most well-known song in part due to the Music/CrystalCastles remix. However, their cover of the Units' "High Pressure Days", known as "High Pressure Dave", has easily become a contender thanks to its appearance in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''.
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* Music/HundredGecs -- "Money Machine"
* Breakbot -- "Baby I'm Yours"
* Alias Conrad Coldwood -- "[[VideoGame/{{OFF}} Pepper Steak]]"
* Cosmic Gate -- "Exploration Of Space"
* Cybotron -- "Clear"
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* Music/DaftPunk
** Earlier work -- "One More Time" or "Around the World"
** 2013 comeback -- "Get Lucky"
** Earlier work -- "One More Time" or "Around the World"
** 2013 comeback -- "Get Lucky"
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* Music/DaftPunk
Music/DaftPunk -- Overall: "One More Time" and "Around the World" for their earlier work, "Get Lucky" for their newer work. By album:
**Earlier work ''Music/{{Homework}}'' -- "Around the World"
** ''Music/{{Discovery}}'' -- "One More Time" or"Around the World"
"Harder Better Faster Stronger"
**2013 comeback ''Human After All'' -- "[[SampledUp Robot Rock]]" or "Technologic"
** ''Music/RandomAccessMemories'' -- "Get Lucky"
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** ''Music/{{Discovery}}'' -- "One More Time" or
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** ''Music/RandomAccessMemories'' -- "Get Lucky"
*** Thomas Bangalter -- "Club Soda" or "[[Film/{{Irreversible}} Rectum]]"
* Deep Forest -- "Sweet Lullaby"
* Music/DeepPurple -- "Smoke on the Water" (from ''Music/{{Machine Head|Album}}'')
* Music/DeepPurple -- "Smoke on the Water" (from ''Music/{{Machine Head|Album}}'')
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* Music/DeepPurple -- "Smoke on the Water" (from ''Music/{{Machine Head|Album}}'')
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* D4L -- "Laffy Taffy"
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* D4L [=D4L=] -- "Laffy Taffy"
* DJ Jean -- "The Launch"
* girl in red -- "we fell in love in october"
* Glass Animals -- "Heat Waves"
* Glaze -- "Nightmare Night" or "Beyond Her Garden"
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* Glaze -- "Nightmare Night" or "Beyond Her Garden"
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* Burial -- "Archangel"
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* Burial Music/{{Burial}} -- "Archangel"
* Oliver Cheatham -- "Get Down Saturday Night"
* F-777 -- "[[VideoGame/GeometryDash Deadlocked]]"
* Michael Gray -- "The Weekend"
* Music/InformationSociety -- "What's On Your Mind? {Pure Energy)" for general audiences; "[[VideoGame/LegacyOfKain Ozar Midrashim]]" for video-gaming audiences
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* Justice -- "D.A.N.C.E."
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* Justice Music/{{Justice}} -- "D.A.N.C.E."
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* Music/{{Autechre}} -- "Bike" or "Gantz Graf"
* Bossfight -- "[[VideoGame/JustShapesAndBeats Milky Ways]]"
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* Music/TheChemicalBrothers:
** ''Exit Planet Dust'': "Chemical Beats" or "Leave Home"
** ''Dig Your Own Hole'': "Block Rockin' Beats" or "Elektrobank"
** ''Surrender'': "Hey Boy, Hey Girl" or "Under The Influence"
** ''Come with Us'': "Star Guitar"
** ''Push the Button'': "Galvanize"
** ''We Are the Night'': "Do It Again" or "The Salmon Dance"
** ''Further'': "Swoon"
** ''Born in the Echoes'': "Go", "Under Neon Lights" or "Wide Open"
** ''No Geography'': "We've Got To Try"
** Overall: "Hey Boy, Hey Girl", "Galvanize", "Do It Again" and "Go" are their most well-known songs in the mainstream crowd; their fanbase would more than likely instead point at "Block Rockin' Beats" or "Elektrobank" as their signature songs.
** ''Exit Planet Dust'': "Chemical Beats" or "Leave Home"
** ''Dig Your Own Hole'': "Block Rockin' Beats" or "Elektrobank"
** ''Surrender'': "Hey Boy, Hey Girl" or "Under The Influence"
** ''Come with Us'': "Star Guitar"
** ''Push the Button'': "Galvanize"
** ''We Are the Night'': "Do It Again" or "The Salmon Dance"
** ''Further'': "Swoon"
** ''Born in the Echoes'': "Go", "Under Neon Lights" or "Wide Open"
** ''No Geography'': "We've Got To Try"
** Overall: "Hey Boy, Hey Girl", "Galvanize", "Do It Again" and "Go" are their most well-known songs in the mainstream crowd; their fanbase would more than likely instead point at "Block Rockin' Beats" or "Elektrobank" as their signature songs.
* Music/TheChemicalBrothers:
** ''Exit Planet Dust'': "Chemical Beats" or "Leave Home"
** ''Dig Your Own Hole'': "Block Rockin' Beats" or "Elektrobank"
** ''Surrender'': "Hey Boy, Hey Girl" or "Under The Influence"
** ''Come with Us'': "Star Guitar"
** ''Push the Button'': "Galvanize"
** ''We Are the Night'': "Do It Again" or "The Salmon Dance"
** ''Further'': "Swoon"
** ''Born in the Echoes'': "Go", "Under Neon Lights" or "Wide Open"
** ''No Geography'': "We've Got To Try"
** Overall: "Hey Boy, Hey Girl", "Galvanize", "Do It Again" and "Go" are their most well-known songs in the mainstream crowd; their fanbase would more than likely instead point at "Block Rockin' Beats" or "Elektrobank" as their signature songs.
** ''Exit Planet Dust'': "Chemical Beats" or "Leave Home"
** ''Dig Your Own Hole'': "Block Rockin' Beats" or "Elektrobank"
** ''Surrender'': "Hey Boy, Hey Girl" or "Under The Influence"
** ''Come with Us'': "Star Guitar"
** ''Push the Button'': "Galvanize"
** ''We Are the Night'': "Do It Again" or "The Salmon Dance"
** ''Further'': "Swoon"
** ''Born in the Echoes'': "Go", "Under Neon Lights" or "Wide Open"
** ''No Geography'': "We've Got To Try"
** Overall: "Hey Boy, Hey Girl", "Galvanize", "Do It Again" and "Go" are their most well-known songs in the mainstream crowd; their fanbase would more than likely instead point at "Block Rockin' Beats" or "Elektrobank" as their signature songs.
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* Chicane -- "Don't Give Up (with Music/BryanAdams)
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* Chicane -- "Don't Give Up (with Music/BryanAdams)Music/BryanAdams)" or "Saltwater"
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* DJ Splash -- "Bass is Kicking" or "[[EclipsedByTheRemix Flying High]]"
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* Music/KeroKeroBonito -- "Flamingo"
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* Music/MichaelJackson -- "Billie Jean", "Beat It", "Thriller" and "Smooth Criminal" overall. By album:
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* Music/MichaelJackson -- "Billie Jean", "Beat It", "Thriller" "Thriller", "Black or White" and "Smooth Criminal" overall. By album:
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* Music/MichaelJackson -- "Billie Jean" or “Thriller” overall.
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* Music/MichaelJackson -- "Billie Jean" or “Thriller” overall.
**Jean", "Beat It", "Thriller" and "Smooth Criminal" overall. By album:
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* Art Garfunkel -- "Bright Eyes"
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* Art Garfunkel -- "Bright Eyes""[[WesternAnimation/WatershipDown Bright Eyes]]"
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** ''Medicine At Midnight'' -- "Waiting On A War"
** Miscellaneous -- "[[Film/Godzilla1998 A320]]"
** Miscellaneous -- "[[Film/Godzilla1998 A320]]"
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* Music/PhilCollins -- "In the Air Tonight" (from ''Music/FaceValue'') or [[Literature/AmericanPsycho "Sussudio"]]
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* Music/PhilCollins -- "In the Air Tonight" (from ''Music/FaceValue'') or [[Literature/AmericanPsycho "Sussudio"]]''Music/FaceValue'')
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* Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival -- "Fortunate Son" (from ''Music/WillyAndThePoorBoys'') and "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" are likely their two best-known hits. "Down on the Corner" (also from the aforementioned album), "Bad Moon Rising", "Proud Mary" and "Lookin' Out My Back Door" are all very close behind.
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* Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival -- "Fortunate Son" (from ''Music/WillyAndThePoorBoys'') and "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" and "Bad Moon Rising" are likely their two three best-known hits. "Down on the Corner" (also from the aforementioned album), "Bad Moon Rising", "Proud Mary" Mary", "Up Around the Bend" and "Lookin' Out My Back Door" are all very close behind.
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* Music/{{Coldplay}} -- "Clocks", "The Scientist", and "Viva La Vida" overall. By album:
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* Music/{{Coldplay}} -- "Clocks", "The Scientist", "Yellow" and "Viva La Vida" overall. By album:
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* Music/DarylHallAndJohnOates -- "You Make My Dreams", "Maneater", "She's Gone", "Out of Touch", or "Rich Girl"
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* Music/DarylHallAndJohnOates -- "You Make My Dreams", "Maneater", "She's Gone", "Out "[[Manga/LuckyStar Out of Touch", Touch]]", or "Rich Girl"
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* Music/{{Evanescence}} -- [[Film/{{Daredevil}} "Bring Me To Life", with "My Immortal" being a clear second.]]
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* Music/{{Evanescence}} -- By album:
** ''Origin'' -- "Whisper"
** ''Music/{{Fallen}}'' -- "Bring Me To Life" or "My Immortal"
** ''The Open Door'' -- "Call Me When You're Sober"
** ''Evanescence'' -- "What You Want"
** ''Lost Whispers'' -- "Lost Whispers"
** ''Synthesis'' -- "Imperfection" or "Hi-Lo"
** ''The Bitter Truth'' -- "Use My Voice"
** Overall -- [[Film/{{Daredevil}} "Bring Me To Life", with "My Immortal" being a clear second.]]
** ''Origin'' -- "Whisper"
** ''Music/{{Fallen}}'' -- "Bring Me To Life" or "My Immortal"
** ''The Open Door'' -- "Call Me When You're Sober"
** ''Evanescence'' -- "What You Want"
** ''Lost Whispers'' -- "Lost Whispers"
** ''Synthesis'' -- "Imperfection" or "Hi-Lo"
** ''The Bitter Truth'' -- "Use My Voice"
** Overall -- [[Film/{{Daredevil}} "Bring Me To Life", with "My Immortal" being a clear second.]]
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* Music/{{Interpol}} -- "Obstacle 1"
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* Music/{{Interpol}} -- "Obstacle 1"1" or "Evil"
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** ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' -- "Here Comes the Sun" or "Come Together"
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** ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' -- "Come Together", "Something", or "Here Comes the Sun" or "Come Together"Sun"
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** ''Music/RubberSoul'': "In My Life"
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** ''Music/RubberSoul'': ''Music/RubberSoul'' -- "In My Life"
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** ''Music/PleasePleaseMe'': "Love Me Do"
** ''Music/WithTheBeatles'': "All My Love"
** ''Music/AHardDaysNight'': "A Hard Day's Night"
** ''Music/BeatlesForSale'': "Eight Days a Week"
** ''Music/{{Help}}'': "Help!", "Ticket to Ride", or "Yesterday"
** ''Music/WithTheBeatles'': "All My Love"
** ''Music/AHardDaysNight'': "A Hard Day's Night"
** ''Music/BeatlesForSale'': "Eight Days a Week"
** ''Music/{{Help}}'': "Help!", "Ticket to Ride", or "Yesterday"
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** ''Music/PleasePleaseMe'': ''Music/PleasePleaseMe'' -- "Love Me Do"
**''Music/WithTheBeatles'': ''Music/WithTheBeatles'' -- "All My Love"
**''Music/AHardDaysNight'': ''Music/AHardDaysNight'' -- "A Hard Day's Night"
**''Music/BeatlesForSale'': ''Music/BeatlesForSale'' -- "Eight Days a Week"
**''Music/{{Help}}'': ''Music/{{Help}}'' -- "Help!", "Ticket to Ride", or "Yesterday"
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** ''Music/{{Revolver}}'': "Elanor Rigby" or "Yellow Submarine"
** ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'': "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"
** ''Music/MagicalMysteryTour'': "Strawberry Fields Forever"
** ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'': "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
** ''Music/YellowSubmarine'': "Hey Bulldog"
** ''Music/AbbeyRoad'': "Here Comes the Sun" or "Come Together"
** ''Music/LetItBe'': "Let It Be"
** ''Music/PastMasters'': "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", or "Hey Jude"
** ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'': "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"
** ''Music/MagicalMysteryTour'': "Strawberry Fields Forever"
** ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'': "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
** ''Music/YellowSubmarine'': "Hey Bulldog"
** ''Music/AbbeyRoad'': "Here Comes the Sun" or "Come Together"
** ''Music/LetItBe'': "Let It Be"
** ''Music/PastMasters'': "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", or "Hey Jude"
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** ''Music/{{Revolver}}'': ''Music/{{Revolver}}'' -- "Elanor Rigby" or "Yellow Submarine"
**''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'': ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' -- "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"
**''Music/MagicalMysteryTour'': ''Music/MagicalMysteryTour'' -- "Strawberry Fields Forever"
**''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'': ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'' -- "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
**''Music/YellowSubmarine'': ''Music/YellowSubmarine'' -- "Hey Bulldog"
**''Music/AbbeyRoad'': ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' -- "Here Comes the Sun" or "Come Together"
**''Music/LetItBe'': ''Music/LetItBe'' -- "Let It Be"
**''Music/PastMasters'': ''Music/PastMasters'' -- "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", or "Hey Jude"
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** ''Music/AHardDaysNight''): "A Hard Day's Night"
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** ''Music/AHardDaysNight''): ''Music/AHardDaysNight'': "A Hard Day's Night"
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** ''Music/{{Revolver}}'' "Elanor Rigby" or "Yellow Submarine"
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** ''Music/{{Revolver}}'' ''Music/{{Revolver}}'': "Elanor Rigby" or "Yellow Submarine"
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* Music/TheBeatles -- Contenders include "Love Me Do" (from ''Music/PleasePleaseMe''), "All My Love" (from ''Music/WithTheBeatles''), "A Hard Day's Night (from ''Music/AHardDaysNight''), "Eight Days a Week" (from ''Music/BeatlesForSale''), "Help!", "Ticket to Ride", "Yesterday" (from ''Music/{{Help}}''), "In My Life" (from ''Music/RubberSoul''), "Elanor Rigby", "Yellow Submarine" (from ''Music/{{Revolver}}''), "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" (from ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand''), "Strawberry Fields Forever" (from ''Music/MagicalMysteryTour''), "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (from ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum''), "Hey Bulldog" (from ''Music/YellowSubmarine''), "Here Comes the Sun", "Come Together" (from Abbey Road), "Let It Be" (from ''Music/LetItBe''), "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", or "Hey Jude" (available on ''Music/PastMasters'').
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* Music/TheBeatles -- Contenders include by album include:
** ''Music/PleasePleaseMe'': "Love MeDo" (from ''Music/PleasePleaseMe''), Do"
** ''Music/WithTheBeatles'': "All MyLove" (from ''Music/WithTheBeatles''), Love"
** ''Music/AHardDaysNight''): "A Hard Day'sNight (from ''Music/AHardDaysNight''), Night"
** ''Music/BeatlesForSale'': "Eight Days aWeek" (from ''Music/BeatlesForSale''), Week"
** ''Music/{{Help}}'': "Help!", "Ticket to Ride","Yesterday" (from ''Music/{{Help}}''), or "Yesterday"
** ''Music/RubberSoul'': "In MyLife" (from ''Music/RubberSoul''), Life"
** ''Music/{{Revolver}}'' "ElanorRigby", Rigby" or "Yellow Submarine" (from ''Music/{{Revolver}}''), Submarine"
** ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'': "Lucy In The Sky WithDiamonds" (from ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand''), Diamonds"
** ''Music/MagicalMysteryTour'': "Strawberry FieldsForever" (from ''Music/MagicalMysteryTour''), Forever"
** ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'': "While My Guitar GentlyWeeps" (from ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum''), Weeps"
** ''Music/YellowSubmarine'': "HeyBulldog" (from ''Music/YellowSubmarine''), Bulldog"
** ''Music/AbbeyRoad'': "Here Comes theSun", Sun" or "Come Together" (from Abbey Road), Together"
** ''Music/LetItBe'': "Let ItBe" (from ''Music/LetItBe''), Be"
** ''Music/PastMasters'': "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", or "HeyJude" (available on ''Music/PastMasters'').Jude"
** ''Music/PleasePleaseMe'': "Love Me
** ''Music/WithTheBeatles'': "All My
** ''Music/AHardDaysNight''): "A Hard Day's
** ''Music/BeatlesForSale'': "Eight Days a
** ''Music/{{Help}}'': "Help!", "Ticket to Ride",
** ''Music/RubberSoul'': "In My
** ''Music/{{Revolver}}'' "Elanor
** ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'': "Lucy In The Sky With
** ''Music/MagicalMysteryTour'': "Strawberry Fields
** ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum'': "While My Guitar Gently
** ''Music/YellowSubmarine'': "Hey
** ''Music/AbbeyRoad'': "Here Comes the
** ''Music/LetItBe'': "Let It
** ''Music/PastMasters'': "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", or "Hey
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* Music/TheBeatles -- Contenders include "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", ''Music/AHardDaysNight'', "Yesterday" (from ''Music/{{Help}}''), "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" (from ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand''), "Strawberry Fields Forever" (from ''Music/MagicalMysteryTour''), "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (from ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum''), "Hey Jude" (available on ''Music/PastMasters''), "Yellow Submarine" (from ''Music/YellowSubmarine''), "Here Comes the Sun", "Come Together" (from Abbey Road), "Let It Be" (from ''Music/LetItBe'')
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* Music/TheBeatles -- Contenders include "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", ''Music/AHardDaysNight'', "Love Me Do" (from ''Music/PleasePleaseMe''), "All My Love" (from ''Music/WithTheBeatles''), "A Hard Day's Night (from ''Music/AHardDaysNight''), "Eight Days a Week" (from ''Music/BeatlesForSale''), "Help!", "Ticket to Ride", "Yesterday" (from ''Music/{{Help}}''), "In My Life" (from ''Music/RubberSoul''), "Elanor Rigby", "Yellow Submarine" (from ''Music/{{Revolver}}''), "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" (from ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand''), "Strawberry Fields Forever" (from ''Music/MagicalMysteryTour''), "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (from ''Music/TheWhiteAlbum''), "Hey Jude" (available on ''Music/PastMasters''), "Yellow Submarine" Bulldog" (from ''Music/YellowSubmarine''), "Here Comes the Sun", "Come Together" (from Abbey Road), "Let It Be" (from ''Music/LetItBe'')''Music/LetItBe''), "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", or "Hey Jude" (available on ''Music/PastMasters'').
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* Music/KingCrimson -- [[Music/InTheCourtOfTheCrimsonKing "21st Century Schizoid Man"]] and [[Music/{{Red}} "Red"]] for casual listeners; "Epitaph", "Starless", and "Elephant Talk" for diehard fans
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* Music/KingCrimson -- [[Music/InTheCourtOfTheCrimsonKing "21st Century Schizoid Man"]] and [[Music/{{Red}} [[Music/RedKingCrimsonAlbum "Red"]] for casual listeners; "Epitaph", "Starless", and "Elephant Talk" for diehard fans
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** ''Piano Man'' -- "Piano Man"
** ''Turnstiles'' -- "New York State of Mind"
** ''The Stranger'' -- "Only the Good Die Young", "She's Always a Woman" or "Just the Way You Are", with "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" as a non-single contender.
** ''52nd Street'' -- "My Life" or "Big Shot"
** ''Turnstiles'' -- "New York State of Mind"
** ''The Stranger'' -- "Only the Good Die Young", "She's Always a Woman" or "Just the Way You Are", with "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" as a non-single contender.
** ''52nd Street'' -- "My Life" or "Big Shot"
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** ''Cold Spring Harbor'' -- "She's Got a Way", especially since it was made more famous when released as a single in the live version from ''Songs in the Attic".
** ''Piano Man'' -- "PianoMan"
Man".
** ''Streetlife Serenade'' -- "The Entertainer", probably the only quite well-remembered song on the album.
** ''Turnstiles'' -- "New York State ofMind"
Mind".
** ''The Stranger'' -- "Only the Good Die Young", "She's Always aWoman" or Woman", "Just the Way You Are", with "Vienna", "Movin' Out" and "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" as a non-single contender.Restaurant".
** ''52nd Street'' -- "MyLife" or Life"; "Honesty" and "Big Shot"Shot" are also well-remembered.
** ''Piano Man'' -- "Piano
** ''Streetlife Serenade'' -- "The Entertainer", probably the only quite well-remembered song on the album.
** ''Turnstiles'' -- "New York State of
** ''The Stranger'' -- "Only the Good Die Young", "She's Always a
** ''52nd Street'' -- "My
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** ''An Innocent Man'' -- "Uptown Girl" or "Tell Her About It"
** ''Storm Front'' -- "We Didn't Start The Fire", with "I Go to Extremes" as another contender.
** ''River of Dreams'' -- The title track
** ''Storm Front'' -- "We Didn't Start The Fire", with "I Go to Extremes" as another contender.
** ''River of Dreams'' -- The title track
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** ''The Nylon Curtain'' -- "Allentown" or "Goodnight Saigon".
** ''An Innocent Man'' -- "UptownGirl" or Girl", although also "The Longest Time" and "Tell Her About It"
It" are well-remembered.
** ''The Bridge'' -- "A Matter of Trust".
** ''Storm Front'' -- "We Didn't Start TheFire", with "I Go to Extremes" as another contender.
Fire"; "Alexa" is probably the second best-known song on it.
** ''River of Dreams'' -- The titletracktrack.
** ''An Innocent Man'' -- "Uptown
** ''The Bridge'' -- "A Matter of Trust".
** ''Storm Front'' -- "We Didn't Start The
** ''River of Dreams'' -- The title
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** "All Summer Long" (country era)
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** "All Summer Long" (country rock era)
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* Music/MariahCarey -- "Vision of Love", "Hero", or "Fantasy" for her earlier era, and "We Belong Together" more recently
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* Music/MariahCarey -- "Vision of Love", "Hero", or "Fantasy" for her earlier era, era; "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and "We Belong Together" for more recentlyrecent endeavors
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* Music/KellyClarkson -- Overall : “Since U Been Gone“ or "Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You). By album:
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* Music/KellyClarkson -- Overall : “Since U Been Gone“ or "Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You).You)“. By album:
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* Music/KellyClarkson -- By album:
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* Music/KellyClarkson -- Overall : “Since U Been Gone“ or "Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You). By album:
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* The Commodores -- "Brick House"
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* The Commodores -- "Brick House"House". "Machine Gun" runs it close, though, especially in Africa
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* Music/{{Caravan}} -- For their serious side "Nine Feet Underground", for their poppy, whimsical side "Golf Girl".
