Top 100 Best Singles Of All Time! (The Best Of Music)

source: rateyourmusic.com

[@amoviekid]

5:25 That transition from What's Going On to Pagan Poetry was extremely smooth

[@jackstrawful]

ha, i noticed that too. And just a couple songs later at 5:42 from Joga to Enjoy the Silence, even though the very end of the word is cut off, since it blends into the guitar note. One going into Bjork, the other coming out of Bjork.

[@Mandioquita1]

Having Wouldn't it be nice and God Only Knows together in a single is insane

[@REINARALATEMPEST4D]

muy buena tu foto con la portada de clics modernos

[@jamlemon]

Something/Come Together, The Chain/Go Your Own Way, Starman/Suffregette City too!

[@gclip9883]

@@jamlemon And you can't forget Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever when talking about the Beatles, that might be their best single they ever made.

[@i_mcoolright]

sunday/femme fatale 😭

[@Stonefacemoai]

Peak on peak

[@Messihaz]

My fav part was when he said "It's Bowie-ing time" and Bowie-ed over everyone

[@ijudgemusicisometimes]

Truly one of the Bowie moments of all time.

[@xraygamer9895]

When you feel the bowie coming inside of you😫

[@getrektmemes1883]

0:55 Bob Dylan to Ween is absolutely insane yet amazing

[@MrBaumGeo]

This really gives me hope, this is what we need to promote, a democratic process in good music. Not just some radio station or media deciding whats good

[@RossBaby91]

Billboard is more democratic now than it’s ever been. Old songs being revived and songs that aren’t backed by big labels can chart high and become popular. Underground music is more popular than it’s ever been.

[@bluekirbyrocks]

​@@RossBaby91but the radio

[@RossBaby91]

@@bluekirbyrocks What about it? Is it even still relevant?

[@bluekirbyrocks]

@@RossBaby91 Yes.

[@RossBaby91]

@@bluekirbyrocks Billboard gets most of its points from streaming and digital sales now. Radio spins don’t make a big profit anymore.

[@MrSchokohase]

Bowie's the greatest and I'll say it again Bowie's the greatest and I'll say it again Bowie's the greatest and I'll say it once again Bowie's the greatest

[@laubedunfou2848]

Brian Wilson has entered the chat, and not only entered, has demolished it.

[@ezrac704]

@@laubedunfou2848 Brain Wilson didn't' have the insane run of albums that Bowie or Stevie Wonder did. Still, just Pet Sounds and Smile make him absolutely legendary.

[@davidcopson5800]

Say it again, please.

[@requiem808]

Stevie wonder 😎

[@jeffmcginn2038]

Have you ever heard of the Beatles

[@kemarcusdepay1853]

Top 10 for me from this list 1. The Moon 2 Joga 3. Karma Police / Let down 4. Heroes 5. When You Sleep 6. Luv Sic pt 3 7. Alison 8. Be quiet and drive far away 9. Heaven or Las Vegas 10. 1979

[@willoverdoseonmusic]

The Moon 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲

[@col7004]

paranoid android or court of the crimson king?😭

[@justaguywithhisgrasseson5522]

No The Fever ?

[@brenetssss]

L

[@vgs2369]

What a shit ranking!!!

[@spriterefreshed935]

This is singles, but the album track with the highest rating is Long Season - Live by Fishmans.

[@ijudgemusicisometimes]

That's deserved. That song is 42 minutes of pure magic.

[@FoxMaster]

Where are you seeing album track ratings?

[@spriterefreshed935]

@@FoxMaster I believe the page has to be sponsored by a paid subscriber to RYM. But if you’re a paid subscriber you can see the track ratings at all times.

[@manonmrx2741]

spriterefreshed935 whut

[@lightlysalted8874]

Overrated ass song

[@geonheekim7465]

This is one of greatest single review on KZbin.

[@luxu7725]

Agreed that David Bowie was and is the King of Music? Agreed. Cool.

[@bloodromance4776]

No. Those ratings mean nothing

[@luxu7725]

@@bloodromance4776 Correct, but my statement stands.

[@brenetssss]

Bowie, Stevie and Prince are the most versatile musicians of all time

[@xbenci]

still is

[@geonheekim7465]

I totally agreed with you!!!

[@doofs]

oh man this one is just banger after banger after banger

[@casey_kitt]

i wonder how it is that so many great songs made it onto this list.

[@doofs]

@@casey_kitt yeah its crazy

[@MaddelynKayKay]

Everybody has their opinion, but I was very happy to see "How to Disappear Completely" so highly ranked.

[@landonhudson9726]

I think thats their best song. Even better than paranoid android. I think it invokes more feels.

[@dfkdb6249]

Really respect Space Song on here. Popularity of 120M views on KZbin, nearly a billion streams, and still a RYM score of 4.28. They’re doing something right

[@xbenci]

most of the songs here are extremely popular if we're being honest. but there are indeed few modern songs

[@pennydreadfuls_]

thats beach house for ya

[@JeffTheKiller000]

It’s boring

[@dfkdb6249]

@@JeffTheKiller000 cool that’s your opinion

[@OnlyGoodMusic_]

most of these songs are extremely popular

[@EduardoVilchez-yf8pc]

the beach boys are the only ones with the luxury of being in the lists of the best songs of all time, and also in the worst

[@Vectormantudeoz]

Mike Love

[@ijudgemusicisometimes]

Sinnerman at 2nd is incredibly based, Nina Simone is one of the GOATs of R&B, and Sinnerman is fucking amazing

[@itmightbe]

Fr I was not expecting it to be on the list, let alone number 2

[@willoverdoseonmusic]

It keeps switching with #1 every now and then

[@robo_t]

The Beach Boys, they're fantastic of course. Sinnerman though, 10 minutes and 20 seconds of perfection.

[@smithones4633]

i’m so happy to see care of cell 44 by the zombies on here. such a good song

[@KiIIern]

i’m so happy to see care of cell 44 by the zombies on here. such a good song

[@jairfernandez1656]

It would be great if you made a playlist of every video you make. as always, great job

[@alisonjane7068]

the transition from new order to joy division, then back to new order is just...nice.

[@geonheekim7465]

This is also the chart which contains the largest number of the songs that i love!!! I surprised to myself that i knew almost 80~90% of the tracks! Thanks for this perfect video.

[@user-weyggdt]

Un saludo al rym charts

[@05carMagu1re]

Artists who appear more than once David Bowie (7) Radiohead (6) The Cure (4) Kendrick Lamar (4) The Beach Boys (4) Talking Heads (4) Bjork (3) The Smiths (3) New Order (3) Kate Bush (3) Death Grips (2) Jimi Hendrix (2) The Beatles (2) King Crimson (2) Joy Divison (2) Portishead (2) My Bloody Valentine (2) Let me know if I’ve made any mistakes

[@letoizkotlety]

Smiths 3

[@05carMagu1re]

@@letoizkotlety thanks for letting me know

[@snakesinalaska]

Seeing Deftones in the top 25 is so surprising but it's a great one nonetheless.

[@Cwazy9]

considering how low most nu metal stuff is rated on rym this was a nice surprise (its not mostly nu but cmon)

[@bigdingus9333]

@@Cwazy9oh no you’re right. Nu and core get trashed constantly

[@Pgpxd]

Oh my god The Fever (Aye Aye) is SOOOOO GOOD 2:20 I listened to it entirely and it's such a blast.

[@helensArt7263]

Hello, I'm young but I love classical music, thank you for sharing your video, great greetings from this channel.

[@heldermartins3105]

Suggestion : mainstream singles (say, above 100M views on youtube or spotify streams) that are well liked in rym (in the top 2000 or 1000 of all time)

[@Franco_L99]

5:46 No one can beat

[@marcosruiz1709]

Artists / Bands with most songs in the top: 1. David Bowie (7) 2. Radiohead (6) 3. The Beach Boys, Talking Heads, The Cure, Kendrick Lamar (4) 4. Kate Bush, The Smiths, New Order, Björk (3) 5. MBV, The Beatles, King Crimson, Jimi Hendrix, Joy Division, Portishead, Death Grips (2) 6. Nina Simone, Television, Cocteau Twins, The Velvet Underground & Nico, Deftones, Mobb Deep, Slowdive, Depeche Mode, The Ronettes, Marvin Gaye, Sonic Youth, Kanye West, OutKast, The Microphones, The Smashing Pumpkins, Nas, Wu-Tang Clan, DJ Shadow, Sufjan Stevens, JPEGMAFIA, LCD Soundsystem, Alex G, Curtis Mayfield, Beach House, Interpol, Pink Floyd, Danny Brown, The Avalanches, Spiritualized, Arcade Fire, Big Thief, UGK, Nujabes, The Rolling Stones, Otis Redding, The Zombies, Sun Kill Moon, M.I.A, Elliott Smith, Ween, Bob Dylan, Tears for Fears, Fleetwood Mac, Massive Attack, Lou Reed (1)

[@konstkaras]

Bob Dylan has one song by himself, one covered by Hendrix and the same cover appears as B-side of another single

[@ianmatthew138]

New Order has 5 by extension of Joy Division

[@copbabycombo1311]

*most

[@sentortv7816]

new order on the level of the smiths, kate bush and bjork. So underrated

[@marcosruiz1709]

@@ianmatthew138 yes

[@kxxm6194]

1:40 deserves even higher spot

[@MrBaumGeo]

Truth

[@sincontrol5460]

No it doesn't

[@mikelpelaez]

Some of the greatest songs ever

[@crawfordbergl6437]

wow didn’t expect the nina simone jumpscare

[@phdfloppa9397]

Surprised radiohead wasnt #1 😂 Also please do a top 50 albums list for each decade!

[@A_Lit_puppet]

I called it being creep at # 1 and somehow i still ended up dissapointed lol

[@criss8572]

@@A_Lit_puppet 😭

[@jakeisrandom3343]

Wasn't there no singles for kid a bc im confused why 2 are here

[@snowfallkin]

@@jakeisrandom3343Kid A didn’t have any publicly distributed singles, but it had promotional singles released to radio before the album released, such as Everything in its Right Place, How to Disappear Completely, Optimistic (which had heavy airtime on the radio at the time), and Idioteque

[@gclip9883]

I mean, "Wouldn't it be nice"/"God only knows" is an insane single, those two are arguably some of the best songs that the Beach Boys ever made. Imo only "Good Vibrations", "Heroes and Villains" and "Surf's Up" come close.

[@vermilliondosentexistanymorx]

wow. my third favorite band, The Beach Boys won the best singles at first place.

[@astra3694]

David Bowie is best of the best ❤

[@davidcopson5800]

So true.

[@Puck-you_vs]

And the lie? Bowie es un Dios!

[@Cwazy9]

who else is here after meet the grahams is now rated the highest

[@wadejg_blaze0n213]

kendrick got highest album and highest single on the site 🥶

[@ElApagaLuces]

So glad i found this, thanks for everyone involved with this channel and the rym page

[@Zebasidk1]

Conociendo a los usuarios de rym, aquí va a haber mucho Radiohead 🗿

[@ottodix685]

Te veo en todos lados XD

[@camiloantonio7627]

Kendrick Lamar, Radiohead, David Bowie, MBV... RYM-core

[@maxveraquispe3474]

Y así dicen saber de música jajaja

[@mardex47gd31]

Es que si le saben :v

[@mardex47gd31]

​@@camiloantonio7627los gustos del konekay xD

[@mardex47gd31]

I'm happy knowing that Alison from slowdive is top 30 (personally it should be higher, I don't know, maybe because I love that song xd)

[@дурачок]

Transdermal Celebration being on here really surprised me when i watched this for the first time. Such a great song

[@i_mcoolright]

hearing enjoy the silence was such a blessing. i used to hear this all the time at least 5 years ago, but yet i had never knew the songs actual name

[@blackstar044]

9:05 I love that song

[@optikalk5960]

It would be crazy if you did a top 100 EPs of all time list

[@dddw.]

I love space song. I dont think its underrated in this list, i just wanted to say that and to everyone who also loves it should listen to the ending of dramamine, it is a really good song, and at the peak of the song there is something that imo sounds close to space song

[@dddw.]

honestly this comment sounds disgusting to me since im pretty much doing advertisements for a song on this video that has so many masterpieces, i cannot overstate how good the songs on this list are

[@aramkimodo]

A fellow Car-Seat Headrest fan, noice

[@incahroads]

It's a good day to be a Beach Boys follower

[@davidcopson5800]

It sure is. Let's do it again.

[@average_peanut_fan3059]

​@@davidcopson5800wouldn't it be nice if more people recognised the beach boys music beyond the surfing image

[@s3vexraleyes]

Oh, space song was made in my state, i love that song!

[@robynstone3460]

Great list! Love my Beach Boys at 1!

[@SteveMulberry]

Any one else notice how at 1:10 for the song in Paper Planes, it's displayed as Waltz #2 (XO)?

[@3164_vp]

You should make a video of the Top 100 Live Albums

[@新井春樹-g9c]

Top 100 Electronic Albums please

[@carloslopez6072]

I knew it would be a good top when 100 is by Bowie and 99 is a Bowie (and Mick Ronson) produced song 😎

[@wally4532]

È proprio vero che la musica è molto soggettiva. Ascolto musica da 60 anni e devo ammettere che di queste cento ne salvo 7 o 8.

[@MattiaNastasio]

Sacrilegio

[@maxleiva1089]

a great list, I almost agree with all (I don t speak english)

[@Agrippa91]

Love to see all the post-punk, new wave and synthpop

[@toasted9651]

Ok now i need a playlist

[@ukiyjfke]

can we get a top 50 no wave albums list?

[@molly-ps2nc]

big thief on this list is CRAZY (in the best way possible)

[@roysinatti6704]

top shit man, greatest work ever in my opinion, awesome

[@preposteroussvideos]

The variety in taste is insane

[@MrBaumGeo]

That's cause we as a people are all different

[@sharky7954]

@@MrBaumGeo That site is full of troons. No one takes it serious

[@user-wx2ek3uv1i]

Not really

[@preposteroussvideos]

@@user-wx2ek3uv1i always that one fking guy🙄

[@deeaaaadd1159]

Muy buen trabajo gracias

[@anonymous01201]

Please do top 100 live albums and mixtapes

[@cereal_snake]

4:38 lol i love where this cuts off

[@jdwallace8590]

this came out faster then i thought it would

[@davidcopson5800]

That's what I said to my wife the other night.

[@Max-Bumbeck]

This list is so valid

[@ollieoxen426]

Seeing The Rip here makes me so happy🥲

[@MrBaumGeo]

That song is so ahead of it's time. Reminds me of Kid A by Radiohead sonically or Court of the Crimson King in terms of production being top notch!!

[@stefanocozzi2577]

Honestly the #10th position is mainly for Let Down than Karma Police...

[@stewiegriffinfortnight2160]

true

[@MrBaumGeo]

False, Karma Police is amazing

[@kewveg2390]

Transdermal Celebration by Ween is fantastic!

[@ScottsShots]

Someone should make this into a playlist

[@stefanopanarisi2506]

Hey jude , strawberry fields , tomorrow never knows , let it be. The end ( doors) , my génération. War pigs , kashmire , sympathy for the devil . Nirvana heart shaped box

[@Powerneck]

Great list 🕺

[@hdufort]

Oh boy, even Ween is there!!!

[@davidcopson5800]

They were very kind to that dog with no legs.

[@firstlyte7009]

I have been looking for song 74 for months letsss goooo

[@theletterbleeds]

top 100 dream pop albums next please

[@dannnnn_]

Strawberry and Penny lane n1

[@jackisboom]

new video was fast damn

[@TaddyDoMau]

2:40 deserves to be even more high in the list

[@vicfort4923]

real

[@funnymonkey7275]

3:10 Best

[@KommentarSpaltenKrieger]

what is it with neo-psychedelia. i always assumed there were some years between 1968 and 1980 were some folks made some psychedelic music only to find out that neo-psychedelia is the biggest underrecognized genre of all times with millions of immensely successful pop hits attributed to it.

[@bazarkarr]

какое же вкусное первое место

[@aidendhs]

deftones mentioned RAHHHH 🗣🗣

[@TheTornadoMan]

I don’t know if this idea is to far fetched but is it possible for you to do the best soundtrack albums by each year or in a top 100 or something.

[@willoverdoseonmusic]

Definitely can

[@marcosruiz1709]

EN EL 38 ERA ATMOSPHERE BRO ES MI CANCION FAV, SHE LOST CONTROL ESTA BIEN, PERO ATMOSPHERE ES ATMOSPHERE

[@itmightbe]

Kind of surprising to see 3 new order songs in the top 50 considering they’re nowhere near the top 100 albums list

[@johnshanley83]

Anyone made a Spotify playlist of this?

[@splintercast8092]

It's a good list but Waterloo Sunset is a glaring omission.

[@davidcopson5800]

As long as you gaze at this video you won't see it.

[@brandonharris9160]

I wonder how Brian Wilson would feel knowing that he has the highest rated song ever. He supposedly tried to compete with The Beatles in terms of pushing musical boundaries and had a mental breakdown when Sgt Pepper came out. Pretty interesting

[@aeinnajva9175]

You should do a top 30 love albums of all time list

[@davidcopson5800]

There are better things to do with your time!

[@danny7906]

so many incredible fucking songs man

[@veronicahahrr]

Seeing MBV so high up is 👌

[@2prize]

I only knew 15 of these songs 😳

[@medicfan663]

YESSSSSSS MBV ON TOP LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@emilioaramalvarado3402]

Strawberry fields/ Penny Lane should be N1

[@davidcopson5800]

It can't be N1, that's London. The Beatles are from Liverpool.

[@goodolarchie]

There was... more bjork than expected! But that top fifty was really money.

[@muriloluizroiek6599]

Hey Jude and Revolution She loves you Rain and Paperback Writter Get Back and Dont let me down

[@johanpm5785]

1. pagan poetry 2.bachelorette

[@elian_8458]

what is this based on? The complicity of a song? Lyrics? Innovation? Popularity?

[@TheTornadoMan]

It’s taken from Rate Your Music top rated singles results. So it weighs the popularity (number of reviews/ratings) and rating of the song.

[@ontheturningaway]

RYM: a rainbow soup website full of pretentious boring hipsters who vote for anything left leaning.

[@Jequetepeq]

​@@ontheturningaway Joe many liberals dos it take to change a log by bulb ? None, their to busy???? Their gender 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@ontheturningaway]

@@Jequetepeq They endorsed Black Lies Matters on their banner. They banned me for saying Fentanyl Floyd in a thread.

[@Jequetepeq]

@@ontheturningaway if you werent so delusional you would probably see how funny that sentence is

[@aacPOTING]

+90% from UK and USA We (music listeners and RYM users especifically) should diversificate the procedence of the songs we enjoy Loved most of the tunes anyway

[@kemarcusdepay1853]

Its getting better slowly, artists like Fishmans, Milton Nascimiento, Sheena Ringo, Gustavo Cerati, Boris, Invisible, Novos Baisanos, Fela Kuti, etc. are climbing the charts every month. Rym is slowly getting away from the anglocentricness of old Mu-Core that heavily influenced it back in the early 2000’s

[@xbenci]

to be fair the reason why that's the music that gets recognition is because that's where the music industry revolves around; even music from other countries that gets recognized today is mostly "englishized" music, just from another country

[@brenetssss]

Just remove all the Radiohead bs and that would create space for better songs

[@davidcopson5800]

What about the other 25%?

[@happycrimson]

i mean, yeah - these are all unreal songs, lol. some could argue that more diversity in the list would be nice, but for what it is i think it's a great list.

[@antiarezzo7630]

The pfp speaks for itself

[@robo_t]

Well if the userbase is largely Western, then expect the rankings to reflect that.

[@happycrimson]

@@robo_t no disagreements here.

[@toasted9651]

Peggy!!!

[@charlie172011]

No Zeppelin, no GNR, no AC/DC, no Who, no Doors, no Springsteen, no Neil Young, no Metallica, no RHCP, no Nirvana, no R.E.M., no U2, no Sabbath, no Pearl Jam, NO QUEEN, NO MICHAEL JACKSON. Damn. Edit: NO STEVIE WONDER AND NO PRINCE!!!

[@AveryTare]

What are you, 50? Listen to something from this century for fucks sake

[@AveryTare]

What are you, 50? Listen to something from this century for fucks sake

[@yoavsnake]

This is only stuff that released as singles. A lot of the artists you mentioned have top 100 albums on rateyourmusic tho.

[@MattiaNastasio]

Death Grips clears

[@gerryplayz69]

im just happy an irish song is 4th

[@AngelVasquez-v7f]

UGK on this list? And at #78? Wow, awesome!