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Another way to look, would to be consider the number of views on Youtube for the must popular version of these songs, this would provide another dimension for lasting popularity as it relates to this point in time with Youtube only starting in 2005 in the US and 2007 in most other locations around the world .... Take care
For example
BoRap - 58,400,975
Stairway to Heaven - 55,834,073
Wish You Were Here - 53,381,770
Don`t Stop Till You Get Enough - 47,185,763
We Are The Champions - 36,883,226
Your Song - 33,388,053
No Woman, No Cry - 32,888,780
Layla - 27,868,145
Time - 25,702,398
Smoke on the Water - 22,612,742
Riders of the Storm - 21,768,834
Dancing Queen - 20,918,689
I Will Survive - 20,802,057
Superstition - 19,120,662
Dream On - 19,102,617
Let it Be - 17,232,366
Paranoid - 16,605,517
Sweet Home Alabama - 16,015,372
Stayin Alive - 14,504,688
Sultans of Swing - 14,145,728
Comfortably Numb - 13,558,419
Child in Time - 13,263,454
Let`s Get it On - 13,141,407
American Pie - 12,791,922
Heroes - 12,093,678
Carry On My Wayward Son - 11,769,735
Let`s Stay Together - 11,450,974
What`s Going On - 10,572,284
Kashmir - 10,476,565
Freebird - 10,133,024
More Than a Feeling - 9,500,452
Imagine - 9,339,254
Baba O`Riley - 9,312,219
You Are the Sunshine of My Life - 9,053,805
My Sweet Lord - 8,422,106
Who`ll Stop the Rain - 8,109,994
Go Your Own Way - 7,428,211
Hot Stuff - 7,318,335
Bridge Over Troubled Water - 6,980,293
Born to Run - 6,817,208
Rapper`s Delight - 6,512,265
Piano Man - 6,100,225
Maybe I`m Amazed - 5,279,863
Walk This Way - 5,610,960
Brown Sugar - 5,552,529
Black Magic Woman - 5,474,780
Black Dog - 5,391,977
Blitzkreig Bop - 5,258,155
Heart of Gold - 5,249,240
Won`t Get Fooled Again - 5,208,072
Roxanne - 5,154,270
Tangled Up In Blue - 5,131,144
Lean On Me - 5,081,771
Message in a Bottle - 5,035,711
Mercy Mercy Me - 4,759,933
School`s Out = 4,601,393
Band on the Run - 4,468,060
Me and Bobby McGee - 4,423,917
Maggie May - 4,391,881
God Save the Queen - 4,157,516
Fire and Rain - 4,140,078
Hotel California - 4,076,691
Anarchy in the UK - 3,872,852
War - 3,485,187
You`re So Vain - 3,456,244
London Calling - 3,339,029
Night Moves - 3,280,425
Don`t Fear the Reaper - 3,182,681
Who Are You - 3,107,384
Just my Imagination - 3,081,053
Old Time Rock n Roll - 2,727,761
Heart of Glass - 2,650,617
Midnight Train to Georgia - 2,413,937
Rock and Roll - 2,290,697
You Ain`t Seen Nothin Yet - 2,251,285
Tired of Being Alone - 2,223,542
Thunder Road - 2,201,738
Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine - 2,070,174
All Right Now - 1,973,991
Lola - 1,872,390
Theme from "Shaft" - 1,772,792
I Wanna Be Sedated - 1,749,822
Brass in Pocket - 1,743,650
Le Freak - 1,713,286
Bang a Gong - 1,543,525
We`re an American Band - 1,514,610
Locomotive Breath - 1,500,377
Good Bye Yellow Brick Road - 1,473,737
We Are Family - 1,366,712
It`s Too Late - 1,348,616
You Make Me Feel Brand New - 1,330,724
Walk on the Wild Side - 1,108,842
Living For The City - 1,046,624
Miss You - 1,032,341
One of These Nights - 870,820
Best of My Love - 770,499
Band of Gold - 738,457
Papa Was a Rolling Stone - 693,563
Tumblin Dice - 655,443
One Nation Under a Groove - 547,621
If You Don`t Know Me By Now - 295,954
Family Affair - 209,975
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