Fun fact: Fogerty is the only musician ever honored at the Baseball Hall of Fame; he gave his bat-shaped guitar to Cooperstown.
Fun fact: Tiesto has been one of the world's top DJs for over 25 years.
Fun fact: It was a big hit for a movie song - certified Gold - and it returns in the 2024 film Descendants: The Rise of Red.
Fun fact: Bowie recorded it in 1977 in West Berlin about 500 yards from the Berlin Wall - which was still standing and didn't fall until 1989.
Fun fact: Written in 2019 but didn't hit #1 until four years later.
Fun fact: In Geometry Dash the 'Cycles' level is named for its circular 'cycle' patterns.
Fun fact: Em and her producers went through about 14 versions of the song before getting it right.
Fun fact: Rachel Platten spent over a decade playing tiny shows and nearly quit before this hit.
Fun fact: First YouTube video to pass 3 billion views.
Fun fact: The first Bond song to hit UK No. 1 - and it won an Oscar: the Bond theme 'Writing's on the Wall'.
Fun fact: It started as a campaign jingle John Lennon was asked to write for Timothy Leary's run for California governor; he reworked it - and Paul McCartney's idea to slow it down gave it the famous 'swampy' groove.
Fun fact: Myles Smith taught himself guitar and piano and played open-mic nights from age 12.
Fun fact: Hard-hitting bass EDM - Boom Kitty was a metal drummer before he switched to electronic music.
Fun fact: Taylor wrote it as a joke - playing up the media's 'boy-crazy' cartoon of her.
Fun fact: The song has no chorus - it travels through the singer's life from age 7 all the way to 60.
Fun fact: Every line is a dad's advice to his kid - a pep talk set to dance music.
Fun fact: Rihanna was discovered at 15 because a producer happened to be vacationing in Barbados.
Fun fact: Withers holds one note for ~18 seconds near the end.
Fun fact: Skibidi Toilet got so big on YouTube that 'skibidi' became real kid slang - even added to Merriam-Webster.
Fun fact: Lady Gaga's real name is Stefani Germanotta; she taught herself piano at 4 and got her name from Queen's 'Radio Ga Ga'.
Fun fact: Composer Xu Jingqing boldly mixed electric guitar and synth with traditional Chinese instruments back in 1986.
Fun fact: Deltarune's early chapters are free to download and Toby Fox makes all the music himself.
Fun fact: Ava Max entered singing contests as a kid; at 14 her family moved to LA so she could chase music.
Fun fact: KATSEYE's six members were chosen from over 120000 hopefuls around the world.
Fun fact: His debut solo single nearly six minutes long.
Fun fact: Miranda Cosgrove is also the voice of Margo in the Despicable Me movies.
Fun fact: George Harrison wrote it in Eric Clapton's garden while skipping a Beatles business meeting.
Fun fact: It broke a 30-year record - 16 weeks atop Billboard's Pop Airplay chart (beating Ace of Base's 'The Sign').
Fun fact: The high-pitched 'stay!' came from a dream.
Fun fact: Riot Games puts out a new League of Legends anthem every year with famous artists - Imagine Dragons and NewJeans did others - and this was the 2017 one.
Fun fact: Its YouTube video has 400+ million views - the most-watched Five Nights at Freddy's video there.
Fun fact: Undertale's Kickstarter asked for $5000 and raised over $50000.
Fun fact: The title names its genre - 'hardtekk' is a super-fast German dance style whose name mixes 'hardcore' and 'techno'.
Fun fact: Billy Joel once wanted to be a history teacher and wrote it after a student insisted nothing ever happened in the '50s; he fired back with 119 real headlines spanning 1949 (his birth year) to 1989, in order. He later joked the song itself sounds "like a dentist drill."
Fun fact: It comes with its own arm-letter dance — fans spell out H-O-T-T-O-G-O like a Gen-Z "Y.M.C.A." — that went viral with whole festival crowds doing it. Roan says it was inspired by her childhood dream of being a cheerleader.