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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 |
* Share not licensed by BMI
Letters in parantheses connote original membership
in another performing rights organization.