Subscriber Account active since. Every year, the Billboard chooses the best performing pop song from the previous year, based on units sold and chart performance. Some of these songs never even hit No. Scroll on to see what the top pop songs have been for the past 52 years. Watch the music video here. Listen to the song here. Flack covered the folk song 15 years after it was written, and her rendition soon became the definitive version of the song. Miley Cyrus covered Flack's version in Legend says that "Yellow Ribbon" is about a criminal returning home, but it's actually about a soldier coming home from a POW camp , according to one of the song's writers, L. Russell Brown.

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But the closer PJ Vogt looked at the case Could a person remember a song that never existed? Vogt, 34, and Goldman, 40, have made a specialty of exploring the strange and ineffable experience of life in the internet age. But in more recent years, as increasingly ambitious episodes have taken listeners inside telephone scam rings in India and to a maximum-security prison in Illinois , the show has become much harder to pin down. This story started with an email from a listener named Tyler. Either this song should exist or the guy made it up.
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The Rolling Stone Top is a song chart that ranks popular songs from today's most popular artists. Songs are ranked by Song Units, a number that combines audio streams and song sales using a custom weighting system. The song chart does not include any passive listening, such as terrestrial or digital radio. The Rolling Stone Top Song chart is updated daily, and each week Rolling Stone finalizes and publishes an official version of the chart, covering the seven-day period ending with the previous Thursday. Beta Back to All Charts. Monthly Trend NEW! Song Units 0 NEW! Weeks at 1 1. Weeks on Chart 1. Record Label.
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