RockOnTheNet
presents The Top Pop Songs
Of All Time !
We have ranked the top pop songs that have charted over the past
50+ years on The ARC Weekly Top 40 and Billboard Hot 100, and
come up with
a definitive list that will continue to expand as we add to it,
and continue to modify as new songs chart on The ARC Weekly Top
40.
October 31: Soundgarden released Ultramega
OK. Tracks: "Flower" -
"All Your Lies" - "665" -
"Beyond The Wheel" - "667" -
"Mood For Trouble" - "Circle Of
Power" - "He Didn't" -
"Smokestack Lightning" - "Nazi
Driver" - "Head Injury" -
"Incessant Mace" - "One Minute Of
Silence"
available for download at Amazon.mp3
September 5: Soundgarden released Louder
Than Love. Billboard
Top 200 LPs
peak:
# 108 Tracks: "Ugly Truth" -
"Hands All Over" - "Gun" -
"Power Trip" - "Get On The
Snake" - "Full Of Kevin's Mom" -
"Loud Love" - "I Awake" -
"No Wrong No Right" -
"Uncovered" - "Big Dumb Sex"
- "Full On" (Reprise)
available for download at Amazon.mp3
May 11: The compilation of the
band's first 2 EPs Screaming
Life / Fopp was released. Tracks: "Hunted Down" -
"Entering" - "Tears To
Forget" - "Nothing To Say" -
"Little Joe" - "Hand Of God"
- "Kingdom Of Come" - "Swallow My
Pride" - "Fopp" - "Fopp"
(F***** Up Heavy Dub Mix)
available for download at Amazon.mp3
October 8: Soundgarden released Badmotorfinger. US: 2x Platinum Billboard Top 200 LPs
peak:
# 39 Tracks: "Rusty Cage" -
"Outshined" - "Slaves &
Bulldozers" - "Jesus Christ Pose"
- "Face Pollution" -
"Somewhere" - "Searching With My
Good Eye Closed" - "Room A Thousand
Years Wide" - "Mind Riot" -
"Drawing Files" - "Holy
Water" - "New Damage"
available for download at Amazon.mp3
May 21: Soundgarden released Down
On The Upside. US: Platinum Billboard Top 200 LPs
peak:
# 2 Tracks: "Pretty Noose"
- "Rhinosaur" - "Zero Chance"
- "Dusty" - "Ty Cobb" -
"Blow Up The Outside World" -
"Burden In My Hand" - "Never
Named" - "Applebite" - "Never
The Machine Forever" - "Tighter &
Tighter" - "No Attention" -
"Switch Opens" -
"Overfloater" - "An Unkind" -
"Boot Camp"
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
August 31: Soundgarden topped the
Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for 5
weeks with "Burden In My Hand."
December 28: Soundgarden topped the
Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for 4
weeks with "Blow Up The Outside World."
February 26: Soundgarden were
nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock
Performance ("Pretty Noose").
November 4: The compilation A-Sides was released. Billboard
Top 200 LPs
peak:
# 63 Tracks: "Nothing To
Say" - "Flower" - "Loud
Love" - "Hands All Over" -
"Get On The Snake" - "Jesus Christ
Pose" - "Outshined" - "Rusty
Cage" - "Spoonman" - "The Day
I Tried To Live" - "Black Hole Sun" - Fell On Black
Days" - "Pretty Noose" -
"Burden In My Hand" - "Blow Up The
Outside World" - "Ty Cobb" -
"Bleed Together"
available for download at Amazon.mp3
September 28: The compilation Telephantasm was released. US: Platinum Billboard Top 200 LPs
peak:
# 24 Tracks: "Hunted Down" -
"Hands All Over" -
"Outshined" - "Rusty Cage" -
"Birth Ritual" - "My Wave" -
Spoonman" - "Black Hole Sun" - "Fell On
Black Days" - "Burden In My Hand"
- "Blow Up The Outside World" -
"Black Rain"
available for download at Amazon.mp3
March 22: Soundgarden released the
live LP Live
On I-5.
Billboard
Top 200 LPs
peak:
# 47 Live Tracks: "Spoonman" -
"Searching With My Good Eye Closed" -
"Let Me Drown" - "Head Down"
- "Outshined" - "Rusty Cage"
- "Burden In My Hand" - "Helter
Skelter" - "Boot Camp" -
"Nothing To Say" - "Slaves And
Bulldozers" - "Dusty" - "Fell
On Black Days" - "Search And
Destroy" - "Ty Cobb" - "Black Hole Sun" - "Jesus Christ
Pose"
available for download at Amazon.mp3
November 13: Soundgarden released King
Animal.
Tracks: "Been Away Too
Long" - "Non-State Actor" -
"By Crooked Steps" - "A Thousand
Days Before" - "Blood On The Valley
Floor" - "Bones Of Birds" -
"Taree" - "Attrition" -
"Black Saturday" - "Halfway
There" - "Worse Dreams" -
"Evelid's Mouth" - Rowing" Billboard Top 200 LPs
peak:
# 5 Rolling Stone:
available for download at Amazon.mp3
December 1: Soundgarden topped the
Billboard Hard Rock Albums chart with King
Animal.
March 10: Soundgarden released Ultramega
Ok. Tracks: "Flower" -
"All Your Lies" - "665" -
"Beyond The Wheel" - "667" -
"Mood For Trouble" - "Circle Of
Power" - "He Didn't" -
"Smokestack Lightning" - "Nazi
Driver" - Head Injury" -
"Incessant Mace" - "One Minute Of
Silence"
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
available on vinyl
May 17: Chris Cornell died at the
age of 52. His death was ruled a suicide.
Note: Song title and position
links lead you to the song's ARC Weekly Top 40 chart run, LP links take
you to Amazon.com for that LP's info (often
including track listings and track samples), and
single cover art takes you to Amazon.com for that CD single (if
available). Songs charting prior to 1980 have
information from Billboard magazine.