The BMI Top 100 Songs Century |
8 Million Performances | Songwriter(s) |
1) You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' | Barry Mann Phil Spector Cynthia Weil |
7 Million Performances | Songwriter(s) |
2) Never My Love | Donald Addrisi Richard Addrisi |
3) Yesterday | John Lennon
(PRS) Paul McCartney (PRS) |
4) Stand By Me | Ben E. King Jerry Leiber* Mike Stoller* |
6 Million Performances | Songwriter(s) |
5) Can't Take My Eyes Off of You | Bob
Crewe Bob Gaudio |
6) Sitting on the Dock of the Bay | Steve
Cropper Otis Redding |
7) Mrs. Robinson | Paul Simon |
8) Baby, I Need Your Loving | Lamont
Dozier Brian Holland Eddie Holland |
9) Rhythm Of The Rain | John Gummoe |
10) Georgia On My Mind | Hoagy
Carmichael Stuart Gorrell |
5 Million Performances | Songwriter(s) |
11) Killing Me Softly With His Song | Charles
Fox Norman Gimbel |
12) More | Marcello
Ciorciolini (SIAE) Norman Newell (PRS) Nino Oliviero (SIAE) Riz Ortolani (SIAE) |
13) Will Always Love You | Dolly Parton |
14) When A Man Loves A Woman | Calvin
Lewis Andrew J. Wright |
15) Every Breath You Take | Sting (PRS) |
16) Gentle On My Mind | John Hartford |
17) Something | George Harrison (PRS) |
18) Sounds Of Silence | Paul Simon |
19) Bridge Over Troubled Water | Paul Simon |
20) By The Time I Get To Phoenix | Jim Webb |
21) Angel Of The Morning | Chip Taylor |
22) Cherish | Terry Kirkman |
23) You Can't Hurry Love | Lamont
Dozier Brian Holland Eddie Holland |
24) Proud Mary | John
Fogerty |
25) Sunny | Bobby Hebb |
26) Oh Pretty Woman | William
Dees Roy Orbison |
27) Everybody's Talkin' | Fred Neil |
28) I Heard It Through The Grapevine | Barrett
Strong Norman Whitfield |
29) Goin' Out Of My Head | Teddy
Randazzo Bobby Weinstein |
30) Suspicious Minds | Mark James |
31) Scarborough Fair | Art
Garfunkel Paul Simon |
32) Traces | Buddy
Buie J.R. Cobb Emory Gordy, Jr. |
33) All I Have To Do Is Dream | Boudleaux Bryant |
34) Only You | Ande
Rand Buck Ram* |
35) Canadian Sunset | Norman
Gimbel Eddie Heywood |
36) Oh Girl | Eugene Record |
37) Your Song | Elton
John (PRS) Bernie Taupin |
38) How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) | Lamont
Dozier Brian Holland Eddie Holland |
39) (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher & Higher | Gary
Jackson Raynard Miner Carl William Smith |
40) I Can't Stop Loving You | Don Gibson |
41) Wind Beneath My Wings | Larry Henley & Jeff Silbar* |
42) Michelle | John Lennon (PRS) & Paul McCartney (PRS) |
43) Up, Up and Away | Jimmy Webb |
44) Happy Together | Garry Bonner & Alan Gordon |
45) On Broadway | Jerry Leiber, Barry Mann, Mike Stoller & Cynthia Weil |
46) Twilight Time | Al Nevins, Morty Nevins & Buck Ram |
47) Strangers in the Night | Bert Kaempfert (GEMA), Charles Singleton & Eddie Snyder |
48) Breaking Up Is Hard to Do | Howard Greenfield & Neil Sedaka |
49) Save the Last Dance for Me | Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman |
4 Million Performances | Songwriter(s) |
50) For the Good Times - | Kris Kristofferson |
51) We've Only Just Begun | Roger Nichols & Paul Williams |
52) What a Wonderful World | Lou Adler, Herb Alpert & Sam Cooke |
53) Snowbird | Gene MacLellan (SOCAN) |
54) Everlasting Love | Buzz Cason & Mac Gayden |
55) My Special Angel | Jimmy Duncan |
56) The Most Beautiful Girl | Rory Bourke, Billy Sherrill & Norro Wilson |
57) Brown Eyed Girl | Van Morrison |
58) Girl From Ipanema | Vinicius DeMoraes (SACEM), Norman Gimbel, & Antonio Carlos Jobim |
59) My Cherie Amour | Sylvia Moy, Henry Cosby*, & Stevie Wonder* |
60) Always on My Mind | Wayne Carson, Johnny Christopher & Mark James |
61) Windy | Ruthann Friedman |
62) If You Don't Know Me By Now | Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff |
63) Margaritaville | Jimmy Buffett |
64) Spanish Eyes | Bert Kaempfert (GEMA), Charles Singleton, & Eddie Snyder |
65) Daydream Believer | John Stewart |
66) Daniel | Elton John (PRS) and Bernie Taupin |
67) Take It Easy | Glenn Frey & Jackson Browne* |
68) Let Your Love Flow | Larry Williams |
69) The Rose | Amanda McBroom |
70) The Heart of the Matter | Don Henley, J.D. Souther, & Mike Campbell* |
71) Don't Be Cruel | Otis Blackwell & Elvis Presley |
72) Listen to the Music | Tom Johnston |
73) A Groovy Kind of Love | Carole Bayer Sager & Toni Wine |
74) Crying | Joe Melson & Roy Orbison |
75) Put A Little Love In Your Heart | Jackie DeShannon, Jimmy Holiday & Randy Myers |
76) Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me | Elton John (PRS) & Bernie Taupin* |
77) Help Me Make It Through the Night | Kris Kristofferson |
78) Best of My Love | Glenn Frey, Don Henley & J.D. Souther |
79) The Letter | Wayne Carson |
80) Dreams | Stevie Nicks |
81) Mr. Bojangles | Jerry Jeff Walker |
82) Fire and Rain | James Taylor* |
83) Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye | John D. Loudermilk |
84) Hooked on a Feeling | Mark James |
85) Blue Bayou | Joe Melson & Roy Orbison |
86) Born Free | John Barry & Don Black (PRS) |
87) Release Me | Eddie Miller, Dub Williams & Robert Yount |
88) It's Just a Matter of Time | Brook Benton, Belford Hendricks & Clyde Otis |
89) Let It Be | John Lennon (PRS) & Paul McCartney (PRS) |
90) I'd Really Love to See You Tonight | Parker McGee |
91) (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction | Mick Jagger (PRS) & Keith Richards (PRS) |
92) Up on the Roof | Gerry Goffin & Carole King |
93) Layla | Eric Clapton & Jim Gordon |
94) I Honestly Love You | Peter Allen & Jeff Barry |
95) California Girls | Mike Love & Brian Wilson |
96) Imagine | John Lennon |
97) You Send Me | Sam Cooke |
98) How Deep Is Your Love | Barry, Maurice & Robin Gibb |
99) I Never Promised You A Rose Garden | Joe South |
100) Sometimes When We Touch | Dan Hill (SOCAN)* & Barry Mann |
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Letters in parantheses connote original membership
in another performing rights organization.