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Good Luck, Babe!
"Good Luck, Babe!" is a 2024 synth-pop single by Chappell Roan, written with Dan Nigro and Justin Tranter, released April 5, 2024 on Amusement/Island; it peaked at UK No. 2 and earned three 2025 Grammy nominations.
Good News (Shaboozey song)
"Good News" is a 2024 country single by Shaboozey, released November 15, 2024 on American Dogwood/EMPIRE as the follow-up to "A Bar Song (Tipsy)"; produced by Sean Cook and Nevin Sastry, it reached No. 10 on Country Airplay and earned two 2026 Grammy nominations.
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life), also released as Time of Your Life (Good Riddance), is a 1997 acoustic Green Day ballad written by Billie Joe Armstrong in 1993, from Nimrod; a chart hit that soundtracked the Seinfeld finale and became a farewell staple.
Good Vibrations
"Good Vibrations" (1966) is the Beach Boys' modular-recorded number-one single by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, the most expensive single of its time, famed for its electro-theremin and studio-as-instrument production.
Good Vibrations (Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch song)
"Good Vibrations" (1991) is the hip-house lead single from Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch's Music for the People; it samples Loleatta Holloway's Love Sensation and spent a week at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Goodbye Horses
"Goodbye Horses" is a 1980s song written by William Garvey and performed by Q Lazzarus, the stage name of singer Diane Luckey, used in Jonathan Demme films including The Silence of the Lambs.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (song)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (song): 1973 Elton John ballad, title track of his double album, music by John with Bernie Taupin lyrics; second single, US and Canadian No. 1, later named his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour.
Goodnight, Irene
Goodnight, Irene (Irene, Goodnight) is an American folk waltz first recorded by Lead Belly in 1933 and turned into a 1950 number-one hit by the Weavers with Gordon Jenkins, selling two million copies; it likely descends from Gussie L. Davis's 1892 waltz Irene, Good Night.
Gorgeous (Doja Cat song)
"Gorgeous" is a 2025 song by Doja Cat from her fifth album Vie, its second single after "Jealous Type". Produced by Jack Antonoff, George Daniel, and Sounwave, its chorus repeats "It's a crime to be gorgeous"; it peaked at No. 34 in the UK and No. 56 on the Hot 100.
Got Me Singing
Got Me Singing is Jaafar Jackson's 2019 debut single on Jusic Group, co-written and co-produced with Hardy Indiigo, with a music video shot in Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro, later famous through the Michael biopic.
Got My Mind Set on You
Got My Mind Set on You: Rudy Clark song recorded by James Ray in 1962, covered by George Harrison, produced with Jeff Lynne for Cloud Nine (1987); his third and final US Billboard number one, number two in the UK, later parodied by Weird Al.
Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser
Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser (Kaiserhymne, Volkshymne) is Joseph Haydn's 1797 imperial anthem, text by Lorenz Leopold Haschka for Franz II; Habsburg anthem to 1918, Austrian anthem 1929–1938, and melody of Germany's Deutschlandlied since 1922.
Götterdämmerung
Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), WWV 86D, is Wagner's fourth and final Ring opera, premiered 17 August 1876 at Bayreuth; score completed 21 November 1874, originally conceived as Siegfrieds Tod.
Grace (Jim McCann song)
"Grace" is an Irish ballad written in 1985 by brothers Frank and Seán O'Meara, honoring Grace Gifford, who married Joseph Mary Plunkett in Kilmainham Gaol hours before his 1916 execution.
Grace Kelly (song)
"Grace Kelly" is a January 2007 single by Mika from Life in Cartoon Motion; it topped the UK Singles Chart for five weeks, largely on downloads alone.
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
Novelty Christmas song written by Randy Brooks, recorded by Elmo & Patsy (Elmo Shropshire and Patsy Trigg Shropshire); self-released 1979, Epic hit 1984, over 10 million sold, subject of a 2000 animated TV special.
Grease (musical)
Grease is a 1971 rock 'n' roll musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey about 1959 teenagers at Rydell High, also known by its film version with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. It ran 3,388 Broadway performances and was the longest-running Broadway musical until A Chorus Line.
Grease (song)
"Grease" (1978) is the disco title track of the film Grease, written by Barry Gibb, sung by Frankie Valli, produced by Gibb, Galuten, and Richardson; two weeks at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 3 in the UK, not in the original stage musical.
Great American Songbook
The Great American Songbook is a loosely defined canon of American popular songs and jazz standards from roughly the 1920s to the 1960s, also called American standards. Not a physical book; rooted in Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood, with composers like Gershwin, Porter, Berlin, and Rodgers.
Great Balls of Fire
Great Balls of Fire: 1957 Jerry Lee Lewis rock and roll single on Sun Records, written by Otis Blackwell and Jack Hammer, recorded October 8, 1957 in Memphis; No. 2 pop, No. 1 country and UK hit.
Great Expectation (song)
Great Expectation is a 2026 song by British singer Sienna Spiro from her debut album Visitor; written with Omer Fedi and Michael Pollack, it spent three weeks at UK number one from 11 September 2026.
Greatest Love of All (Whitney Houston recording)
"Greatest Love of All" is a song by Whitney Houston, released as a single in 1986. Written by Michael Masser and Linda Creed, it reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Green Grow the Rushes, O
Green Grow the Rushes, O, also known as The Dilly Song or The Twelve Apostles, is a traditional cumulative counting folk song first printed in 1823.
Green Light (Lorde song)
Green Light is a 2017 song by New Zealand singer Lorde, released March 2 as the lead single of her album Melodrama. Written with Jack Antonoff and Joel Little, it is a breakup song with an unconventional key change, praised by critics and later used in the Broadway play John Proctor Is the Villain.
Green, Green Grass of Home
Green, Green Grass of Home is a country ballad by Curly Putman (1965) about a condemned prisoner dreaming of home. First recorded by Johnny Darrell, a #4 hit for Porter Wagoner, and a seven-week UK Christmas Number 1 for Tom Jones in 1966.
Greensleeves
Greensleeves, also known as the tune of What Child Is This?, is a 16th-century English ballad tune first registered in 1580, long attributed without evidence to Henry VIII, and later used by Vaughan Williams, Holst, and Busoni.
Grenade (song)
Grenade: 2010 pop ballad by Bruno Mars from Doo-Wops & Hooligans; written with the Smeezingtons, Brody Brown, Andrew Wyatt, Claude Kelly; US and UK number one, diamond certified.
Groove Is in the Heart
Groove Is in the Heart (Deee-Lite, 1990): funk-house hit from World Clique sampling Herbie Hancock's Bring Down the Birds, featuring Bootsy Collins and Q-Tip; US Dance Club Play number one, UK number two.
Groundhog Day (musical)
Groundhog Day is a 2016 stage musical based on the 1993 film, with book by Danny Rubin, music and lyrics by Tim Minchin, directed by Matthew Warchus. Premiered at London's Old Vic, it won the Olivier Award for Best New Musical, ran on Broadway in 2017 with Tony nominations, and its 2023 Old Vic revival became the theatre's highest-grossing production.
Guantanamera
Guantanamera is Cuba's most famous song, a guajira-son built on the refrain "guajira guantanamera" (woman from Guantánamo). Joseíto Fernández popularized it on 1930s radio; the best-known Martí-verse version is credited to Julián Orbón, internationalized by Pete Seeger in 1963.