THE GRATEST POP SONGS OF ALL TIME

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Originally Posted by Mad_Cactuar

No.. It's a sole genre. That's why there's a Billboard Pop Chart. R&B/Hip-hop and Rock tracks can't get into it.

You're both (that's you and immel, who you quoted) halfway right. Pop is a very broad genre, though it's often only considered as the kind of music that is, indeed, on the Billboard Pop Chart. However, like I said, pop is a very broad genre, and includes pretty much everything leave for a couple of genres (e.g. jazz, avant-garde, classical music). Hence, I will include things that could technically fall into genres as rock or folk, but quite untechnically, they're just the darndest greatest pop songs ever recorded:

Chihiro Onitsuka - Tiger in My Love (YouTube)
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Just Like Honey (YouTube)
Utada Hikaru - Final Distance (YouTube)
Joanna Newsom - Peach, Plum, Pear (YouTube)
Pretenders - Brass in Pocket (YouTube)
Fiona Apple - Paper Bag (YouTube)
Animal Collective - Who Could Win a Rabbit (YouTube)
Palace Music - New Partner
Shiina Ringo - Gibs (YouTube)
David Bowie - Life on Mars (YouTube)
Jamie Lidell - Multiply (YouTube
Beirut - Postcards from Italy (YouTube)
Joni Mitchell - A Case of You (YouTube)
Wire - Fragile
Iron & Wine - Each Coming Night
Jon Brion - Strings That Tie to You
Novastar - When the Lights Go Down on the Broken-Hearted (YouTube)
Alamo Race Track - Life Like Fire
U2 - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (YouTube)
Aimee Mann - Deathly
Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress (YouTube)
Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (YouTube)
Sigur Rós - Starálfur (YouTube)