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Can't Get You Out of My Head
Can't Get You Out of My Head is a 2001 dance-pop song by Kylie Minogue, written and produced by Cathy Dennis and Rob Davis. Lead single of Fever, it topped the UK chart for four weeks, hit No. 1 in 40-plus countries, and sold over 6 million copies.
Can't Help Falling in Love
Can't Help Falling in Love: 1961 pop ballad by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George David Weiss, based on Plaisir d'amour; recorded by Elvis Presley for Blue Hawaii, US #2, UK #1.
Can't Hold Us
Can't Hold Us is a 2011 single by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dalton, from The Heist. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks in 2013, peaked at number 3 in the UK, and became a Seattle sports anthem.
Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Can't Take My Eyes Off You is a 1967 song by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio, first recorded by Frankie Valli, a US number 2 hit covered by about 200 artists.
Cancelled!
Cancelled! is a 2025 Taylor Swift song, track 10 on The Life of a Showgirl, written and produced with Max Martin and Shellback; it peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 7 on the ARIA chart.
Candle in the Wind
Candle in the Wind: Elton John and Bernie Taupin ballad from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) written for Marilyn Monroe, rewritten in 1997 as Goodbye England's Rose for Princess Diana's funeral; 33 million copies sold.
Candle in the Wind 1997
"Candle in the Wind 1997", also known as "Goodbye England's Rose", is Elton John's charity rewrite of his 1973 song honoring Diana, Princess of Wales, after her death in 1997.
Candy Shop
Candy Shop is a 2005 hip hop single by 50 Cent featuring Olivia, from The Massacre. Produced by Scott Storch, originally meant for Fat Joe, it hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped charts internationally.
Cannibalism!
CANNIBALISM! is a 2025 single by American pop singer Slayyyter (Catherine Grace Garner), released September 12 on RECORDS/Columbia, produced by Austin Corona and Wyatt Bernard, second single from WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA, with a self-directed burlesque-club music video.
Cantata
Cantata: a vocal composition of arias, recitatives, and often choruses with instruments, unstaged. Born in Italy around 1620 (first printed use: Grandi, 1620), standardized by Scarlatti, perfected in the German church cantata of Bach, who wrote over 200; since the 19th century also a concert genre for solo, chorus, and orchestra.
Cantigas de Santa Maria
The Cantigas de Santa Maria are over 400 songs in honor of the Virgin Mary, compiled at the 13th-century court of King Alfonso X of Castile.
Caramel (Sleep Token song)
Caramel (Sleep Token song): April 2025 single by the masked English band Sleep Token, second single from Even In Arcadia after Emergence. First UK Top 10 hit (No. 10), Billboard Hot 100 No. 34, Grammy-nominated, about fame and toxic fandom.
Caramelldansen
Caramelldansen, Swedish for "The Caramel dance," is a 2001 song by Swedish pop group Caramell that became a durable internet meme when a sped-up remix was paired with a Popotan animation loop.
Cardigan (song)
"Cardigan" (stylized lowercase) is Taylor Swift's 2020 Folklore lead single, written and produced with Aaron Dessner; it debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100 and anchors the Teenage Love Triangle trilogy with "august" and "betty".
Careless Whisper
Careless Whisper: 1984 pop ballad co-written by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, released as Michael's debut UK solo single and Wham! feat. George Michael in the US; 25-country No. 1 with Steve Gregory's famous sax riff.
Carmen
Carmen is Georges Bizet's four-act French opera, premiered at the Opéra-Comique, Paris, on March 3, 1875, based on Mérimée's 1845 novella, with libretto by Meilhac and Halévy; initially scandalous, it became the world's most performed opera.
Carmina Burana (Orff)
Carmina Burana is Carl Orff's 1937 scenic cantata on 24 medieval poems from the Benediktbeuern manuscript, premiered in Frankfurt, first part of the Trionfi trilogy, famous for "O Fortuna".
Carnival (¥$ song)
"Carnival" is a 2024 song by ¥$ (Ye and Ty Dolla $ign) featuring Rich the Kid and Playboi Carti, from Vultures 1; it hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, Ye's fifth topper, and interpolates "Hell of a Life."
Caro mio ben
Caro mio ben is an 18th-century Italian art song (cavatina), first published ca. 1785, attributed disputedly to Tommaso or Giuseppe Giordani, famous through Parisotti's Arie antiche and the 24 Italian Songs and Arias teaching anthology.
Carol of the Bells
Carol of the Bells, also called the Ukrainian Bell Carol, is a Christmas carol adapted by Peter Wilhousky (1936) from Mykola Leontovych's 1916 Ukrainian New Year choral work Shchedryk, premiered at Carnegie Hall in 1922.
Carrie (musical)
Carrie is a 1988 musical by Michael Gore, Dean Pitchford, and Lawrence D. Cohen based on Stephen King's novel; a legendary Broadway flop (5 performances) successfully revised Off-Broadway in 2012.
Carry On (Kenny Chesney song)
"Carry On" is a 2026 country song by Kenny Chesney, written by Chase McGill, Matt Jenkins, and Jessi Alexander, released May 8, 2026 on HEY NOW Records as lead single from Silver Sands Marina; it hit all 158 country radio adds and became his 37th Billboard Country Airplay No. 1.
Carry On Wayward Son
Carry On Wayward Son, also styled Carry On My Wayward Son, is Kansas's 1976 Kerry Livgren song from Leftoverture: a cappella opening, Hot 100 No. 11, four-times platinum, Supernatural's unofficial theme.
Carry You Home (Alex Warren song)
"Carry You Home" is a 2024 song by Alex Warren that he wrote for his wedding to Kouvr Annon; released by Atlantic Records, it became his first UK Top 40 hit.
Cars (song)
Cars is a 1979 Gary Numan synth-pop single from The Pleasure Principle, written in 10 minutes on bass guitar. UK number 1 (Beggars Banquet), Top 20 in three decades, and Numan's only US Top 40 hit.
Caruso (song)
Caruso is a 1986 Italian song by Lucio Dalla, written at Sorrento's Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria where tenor Enrico Caruso stayed before dying; released on DallAmeriCaruso and covered by Pavarotti, Bocelli, and Céline Dion.
Casual (song)
"Casual" is a 2022 single by Chappell Roan (Kayleigh Rose Amstutz), written with Daniel Nigro and Morgan St. Jean, about an undefined situationship; fifth track on The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, later charting at US No. 76.
Cat's in the Cradle
"Cat's in the Cradle" is a 1974 folk rock song by American singer-songwriter Harry Chapin, written with lyrics by his wife Sandy, and his only Billboard Hot 100 number one.
Catch Catch (캐치 캐치)
Catch Catch (캐치 캐치) is a 2026 K-pop song by YENA (최예나), title track of her fifth mini album LOVE CATCHER released March 11, 2026; a second-generation-style retro hit that passed 100 million Spotify streams and peaked at No. 4 on Melon.
Catch Me If You Can (musical)
Catch Me If You Can is a 2011 Broadway musical with book by Terrence McNally and score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, based on Spielberg's 2002 film about con artist Frank Abagnale Jr., framed as a 1960s TV variety show; Norbert Leo Butz won a Tony for the Neil Simon Theatre run.