Poptime

Herein, I collect and count down my favorite pop, rock, r&b and hip hop singles released between the time I was born (1/74) and right this minute. Ordering is pretty loose and arbitrary until I reach the top 10 or so, when rankings will really mean something.

I'm limiting myself to things that have actually charted in the Billboard Hot 100 (or Billboard subcharts or foreign equivalents when applicable). Otherwise, trying to narrow a list down to 101 songs would be border on impossible.

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  1. Artist: Sarah McLachlan
    Song: Possession
    Year: 1993
    Highest Chart Position: #4 (Billboard Modern Rock)

    I’ll likely never forgive Sarah McLachlan for what her fame hath wrought. After Fumbling Towards Ecstasy built a head of steam, the rest of the ’90s became a mine field for women in pop. Unless your music was dead serious and stiflingly feminine, you got branded as irrelevant and a throwback to a segregated time in pop history. Um, whatever. Lilith Fair did more to segregate the sexes in music than anything else that ever happened.

    Rant out the way, I abso-frickin-lutely love this song. It’s creepy, yes, but terrifically romantic at its core. I’ll never be able to identify with the need to stalk someone, even as an abstract, but the fact McLachlan could turn real-life events around, own them, and then write her best song ever out shows admirable resilience.

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