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China Girl (song)
China Girl: song co-written by David Bowie and Iggy Pop in Berlin, 1976–77, first on Pop's The Idiot (1977); Bowie's 1983 Let's Dance version, produced with Nile Rodgers, hit UK No. 2 and US No. 10.
Chiquitita
Chiquitita is a 1979 ABBA single by Andersson and Ulvaeus, lead vocal Agnetha Fältskog, premiered at the Music for UNICEF Concert, a number-one hit in at least 10 countries with royalties donated to UNICEF.
Chk Chk Boom
"Chk Chk Boom" (칙칙붐) is a 2024 single by Stray Kids, lead track of the EP ATE, written by 3Racha with DallasK, Ronnie Icon, and BB Elliot; a Latin-flavored hip-hop and reggaeton track in Korean, English, and Spanish, distinct from the band !!! and unrelated songs of the same name.
Chocolate Rain
Chocolate Rain is a 2007 song and YouTube video by Tay Zonday (Adam Nyerere Bahner), a University of Minnesota grad student. Known for its baritone vocals, the 'I move away from the mic to breathe in' caption, and lyrics about institutional racism, it won the 2007 YouTube best music video award.
Choke Me
Choke Me is a 2026 nu-metal and rock song with operatic vocals by Romania's Alexandra Căpitănescu; it won Selecția Națională 2026, placed third with 296 points at Eurovision in Vienna, and sparked a strangulation-lyrics controversy.
Choosin' Texas
Choosin' Texas is a 2025 country song by Ella Langley, co-written with Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick, and Joybeth Taylor. It spent 23 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the longest run in the chart's history, and was the first song to top Country Airplay, Hot Country Songs, and the Hot 100 simultaneously.
Chop Suey!
"Chop Suey!" is a 2001 song by the American metal band System of a Down, written by Daron Malakian and Serj Tankian as the lead single from Toxicity.
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) is a 1963 Christmas song by Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, and Phil Spector, sung by Darlene Love as the only original on A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector, later famous via Letterman and Mariah Carey's 1994 cover.
Christmas carol
Christmas carol: a religious or traditional song sung at Christmas, from medieval burden-and-stanza dance songs through the 19th-century Neale, Helmore, and Sandys revival to modern favorites like Silent Night.
Christmas music
Christmas music, also called holiday or yuletide music, spans carols, hymns, and pop seasonal songs. Key facts: the carol emerged in the second millennium, "Silent Night" is the most recorded song, and the modern US canon dates to the 1940s.
Chug Jug With You
Chug Jug With You is Leviathan's 2018 Fortnite parody of Estelle and Kanye West's "American Boy," built on CM SKITS' 17-second chorus; it went viral on TikTok in early 2021, spawning the Tomato Town Massacre meme.
Chun-Li (song)
Chun-Li is a 2018 Nicki Minaj hip hop single named after the Street Fighter character, released April 12, 2018 ahead of Queen; it peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and won the 2018 MTV VMA for Best Hip Hop Video.
Cielito Lindo
Cielito Lindo, also called Canta y no llores, is a Mexican song published in 1882 and attributed to Quirino Mendoza y Cortés (1858-1957). A mariachi staple and unofficial Mexican anthem, its refrain "Ay, ay, ay, ay, canta y no llores" is sung at football matches and after the 2018 Mexico City earthquake.
Cigarette Smoke
Cigarette Smoke is Olivia Rodrigo’s 2026 breakup ballad, closing you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love and co-written and produced by Daniel Nigro.
Cinnamon Girl (Lana Del Rey song)
Cinnamon Girl is a 2019 Lana Del Rey song, track 7 on Norman Fucking Rockwell!, co-written and co-produced with Jack Antonoff; a five-minute ballad about a conflicted relationship with a drug-using lover, not a cover of Neil Young's 1969 song of the same name.
Circle of Life
"Circle of Life" is the 1994 opening song of Disney's The Lion King, music by Elton John, lyrics by Tim Rice, performed by Carmen Twillie with Lebo M.'s Zulu chant; Oscar-nominated and the opening number of the Broadway musical.
Circles (Post Malone song)
Circles (Post Malone song), 2019 soft-rock-leaning single from Hollywood's Bleeding, produced with Louis Bell and Frank Dukes; three weeks at Hot 100 number one, 39 top-10 weeks, 2021 Grammy Record and Song of the Year nominations, Tyler Armes credit lawsuit.
City of New Orleans (song)
"City of New Orleans" is a Steve Goodman folk song about the Illinois Central train between Chicago and New Orleans; Arlo Guthrie's 1972 recording was a Top 20 hit.
City of Stars
City of Stars: Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning song from La La Land (2016), music by Justin Hurwitz, lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, performed by Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in AABA form.
City Walls (song)
City Walls (song): 2025 opener of twenty one pilots' album Breach, closing the Dema/Clancy lore, plus a 2026 trip-hop single by Archive from Glass Minds; chart peaks and credits differ.
Clair de Lune
Clair de lune, Debussy's third movement of Suite bergamasque (L 75), begun 1890, published 1905, originally titled Promenade sentimentale, renamed after Verlaine's poem; D-flat major solo piano piece, about 5 minutes.
Clarinet Concerto (Mozart)
Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622, his last completed concerto (October 1791), written for Anton Stadler's extended-range basset clarinet; the autograph is lost and the common version is an anonymous adaptation.
Clarity (Zedd song)
Clarity (Zedd song): 2012 title track from Zedd's debut album Clarity, featuring Foxes; co-written with Skylar Grey, Matthew Koma, and Porter Robinson; won the 56th Grammy Best Dance Recording; BUNT. remix with VALORANT Music released 2026.
Classical Gas
Classical Gas is a 1968 instrumental for classical guitar and orchestra by Mason Williams, released on Warner Bros., peaking at number 2 in the US and number 9 in the UK, winning three Grammys and covered by over 100 artists.
Cleanin' Out My Closet
"Cleanin' Out My Closet" is a 2002 Eminem song from The Eminem Show, second single after "Without Me"; produced with Jeff Bass, it peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and UK chart, attacking his mother Debbie before his 2013 apology song "Headlights".
Cliché (Machine Gun Kelly song)
"cliché" is a 2025 pop rock single by mgk (Machine Gun Kelly, Colson Baker), released 23 May 2025 on Interscope as lead single of lost americana; a deliberately retro TRL-era track with a Sean Bankhead-choreographed TikTok dance, peaking at UK No. 31 and US Hot 100 No. 62.
Click Clack Symphony
Click Clack Symphony. is a 2026 song by English singer RAYE featuring composer Hans Zimmer, released 20 March 2026 as third single from THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE. Orchestral pop about high-heel sounds, friends, and getting out of the house.
Clint Eastwood (song)
"Clint Eastwood" is the 2001 debut single by virtual band Gorillaz, written by Damon Albarn and Del the Funky Homosapien, built on an Omnichord preset, peaking at UK number 4 and US Hot 100 number 57.
Clocks (song)
Clocks is a 2002 Coldplay song from A Rush of Blood to the Head, released as a single 2 April 2003, built on a repeating piano riff at 131 BPM, peaking at number 9 in the UK and 29 on the Billboard Hot 100, and winning the 2004 Grammy for Record of the Year.
Closer (Nine Inch Nails song)
Closer, by Nine Inch Nails (Halo 9, 'Closer To God'), a 1994 single from The Downward Spiral built on a sampled 'Nightclubbing' kick, peaking at US 41 and UK 25 with a censored Mark Romanek video.