100 plus years of my number one songs
Last updated: Tuesday November 4th, 2025
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My Favorite Songs for Every Year for Over 100 Years
2025
2024 Symptom of Life by Willow
2023 In My Head by The Lemon Twigs
2022 Francesca by Weezer
2021 If You Got a Problem by Joy Oladokun
2020 Leave a Little Light On by Phantom Planet
2019 You Are Not Alone by Emeli Sande'
2018 The Joke by Brandi Carlile
2017 High Ticket Attractions by New Pornographers
2016 Be Your Man by Aaron Neville
2015 All Across This Land by Blitzen Trapper
2014 Good Day Bad by Meshell N'degeocello
2013 The Real Thing by Phoenix
2012 Real Love by Ryan Shaw
2011 Anna Lee by The Bangles
2010 Well OK Honey by Jenny O.
2009 Mono to Stereo by Fastball
2008 You Are Free by Mates of State
2007 Energy by Apples in Stereo
2006 A Friend Like You by Ruthie Foster
2005 It's All in My Mind by Teenage Fanclub
2004 Somewhere Only We Know by Keane
2003 Hurt by Johnny Cash
2002 Don't Give Up On Me by Solomon Burke
2001 Zak and Sara by Ben Folds
2000 By Your Side by Sade
1999 Save Me by Aimee Mann
1998 How Many Times by Jules Shear & Carole King
1997 Steven's Last Night in Town by Ben Folds Five
1996 Real Love by The Beatles
1995 Blue by The Jayhawks
1994 The Dimming of the Day by Bonnie Raitt
1993 Nightswimming by R.E.M.
1992 Galileo by Indigo Girls
1991 Louisiana, 1927 by Aaron Neville
1990 And So It Goes by Billy Joel
1989 Don't Know Much by Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville
1988 Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
1987 Have a Little Faith in Me by John Hiatt
1986 Under African Skies by Paul Simon and Linda Ronstadt
1985 Overjoyed by Stevie Wonder
1984 Will the Wolf Survive by Los Lobos
1983 Every Day I Write the Book by Elvis Costello
1982 Steppin' Out by Joe Jackson
1981 Just the Two of Us by Bill Withers and Grover Washington Jr.
1980 Out Here on My Own by Irene Cara
1979 (tie) In the Stone by Earth, Wind & Fire and Until the Night by Billy Joel
1978 (tie) Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits, Mr. Blue Sky by E.L.O., Dust in the Wind by Kansas and Children of Sanchez (Overture) by Chuck Mangione.
1977 (tie) Another Star by Stevie Wonder, Peg by Steely Dan, Strawberry Letter 23 by the Brothers Johnson, As by Stevie Wonder
1976 (tie) Summer Highland Falls by Billy Joel, Somebody to Love by Queen and I Wish by Stevie Wonder
1975 (tie) Tangled Up in Blue by Bob Dylan, Love of My Life by Queen
1974 Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing by Stevie Wonder
1973 (tie) Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder, Piano Man by Billy Joel and Dancing in the Moonlight by King Harvest
1972 Superstition by Stevie Wonder
1971What's Going On by Marvin Gaye
1970 (tie) Into the Mystic by Van Morrison and Long, Long Time by Linda Ronstadt
1969 I Can't Get Next to You by The Temptations
1968 All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix
1967 (tie) A Day in the Life by The Beatles, A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum and (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher by Jackie Wilson
1966 Paperback Writer by The Beatles
1965 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) by The Beatles
1964 Don't Worry Baby by The Beach Boys
1963 Be My Baby by The Ronettes
1962 Cast Your Fate to the Wind by Vince Guaraldi
1961 Unchain My Heart by Ray Charles
1960 At Last by Etta James
1959 Take Five by the Dave Brubeck Quartet
1958 Johnny B. Goode by Chuck Berry
1957 (tie) Everyday by Buddy Holly and Bye Bye Love by The Everly Brothers
1956 Down in Mexico by The Coasters
1955 In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning by Frank Sinatra
1954 Skokiaan by Louis Armstrong
1953 Hound Dog by Big Mama Thornton
1952 Jambalaya (On the Bayou) by Hank Williams Sr.
1951 Hey, Good Lookin' by Hank Williams Sr.
1950 Mona Lisa by Nat King Cole
1949 Rock Awhile by Goree Carter
1948 (tie) Nature Boy by Nat King Cole and Blue Shadows on the Trail by Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers
1947 (tie) La Vie en rose by Edith Piaf and This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie
1946 (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 by Nat King Cole Trio
1945 It's Only a Paper Moon by Ella Fitzgerald
1944 Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby by Louis Jordan
1943 Don't Cry Baby by Erskine Hawkins
1942 God Bless the Child by Billie Holiday
1941 All of Me by Billie Holiday
1940 Falling in Love Again by Billie Holiday
1939 Over the Rainbow by Judy Garland
1938 Bei Mir Bist Du Schon by the Andrews Sisters
1937 Sing Sing Sing by Benny Goodman
1936 A Fine Romance by Billie Holiday
1935 In a Sentimental Mood by Duke Ellington
1934 Tumbling Tumbleweeds by Sons of the Pioneers
1933 It's Only a Paper Moon by Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards
1932 All of Me by Louis Armstrong
1931 (tie) Mood Indigo by Duke Ellington and Minnie the Moocher by Cab Calloway
1930 (Up a) Lazy River by Hoagy Carmichael
1929 Ain't Misbehavin' by Louis Armstrong
1928 In the Jailhouse Now by Jimmie Rodgers
1927 Stardust by Hoagy Carmichael
1926 East St. Louis Toodle-Oo by Duke Ellington
1925 Shake That Thing by Ethel Waters
1924 King Porter Stomp by Jelly Roll Morton
1923 T'aint Nobody's Bizness If I Do by Bessie Smith
1922 Wabash Blues by Mamie Smith
1921 Keep Off the Grass by James P. Johnson
1920 Crazy Blues by Mamie Smith
Is this the same song by different artists or completely different songs?