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Hell at Night

Hell at Night is a country-rap song by BigXthaPlug and Ella Langley, released in 2025. It became a top-ten hit on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart.

Hell Is a Dance Floor

"Hell Is a Dance Floor" is a 2024 country single by Vincent Mason, written with Chase McDaniel, released via MCA Nashville/Music Soup/Interscope, viral on TikTok, RIAA Gold, 191 million streams.

Hello (Adele song)

Adele ballad "Hello", lead single of the 2015 album 25, written with Greg Kurstin, released 23 October 2015 on XL Recordings; first song to sell over 1 million US downloads in a week, 10 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100, three 2017 Grammy Awards.

Hello (Lionel Richie song)

"Hello" is a 1984 Motown ballad by Lionel Richie from Can't Slow Down, produced with James Anthony Carmichael; it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks and the UK chart for six, his only solo UK number one.

Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)

"Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)" is a 1963 comic novelty song by Allan Sherman and Lou Busch, set to Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours, about a boy at fictional Camp Granada; No. 2 Billboard hit, 1964 Grammy, 2020 National Recording Registry.

Hello, Dolly! (musical)

Hello, Dolly! is a 1964 Broadway musical comedy by Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart, adapted from Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker, originated by Carol Channing, running 2,844 performances, winning 10 Tonys, and filmed in 1969 with Barbra Streisand.

Hello, Goodbye

Hello, Goodbye is a 1967 Beatles single written mainly by Paul McCartney, credited Lennon–McCartney, with I Am the Walrus as B-side. Released 24 November 1967 on Parlophone, it topped UK and US charts for seven and three weeks.

Hello! Ma Baby

Hello! Ma Baby is an 1899 ragtime song by Joseph E. Howard and Ida Emerson, published by T.B. Harms & Co., New York, about courting a woman over the telephone; the first well-known telephone song, recorded by Len Spencer in 1899.

Help Me Make It Through the Night

"Help Me Make It Through the Night" (Kris Kristofferson, 1970, album Kristofferson) is a country standard made famous by Sammi Smith's 1971 #1 country, #8 pop single, which won two Grammys and entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998.

Helter Skelter (song)

Helter Skelter, Beatles song by Paul McCartney (Lennon–McCartney), White Album, 22 November 1968; loud, dirty proto-metal track named for a British fairground slide, later linked to the Charles Manson case.

Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau

Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, the Welsh national anthem (Land of My Fathers), written January 1856 in Pontypridd by Evan James (words) and James James (melody), originally titled Glan Rhondda; unofficial anthem famous for the 1905 rugby anthem tradition.

Henry, Come On

Henry, Come On (stylized Henry, come on) is a 2025 country-tinged ballad by Lana Del Rey, co-written with Luke Laird, produced with Drew Erickson, released April 11, 2025 as lead single for The Right Person Will Stay and later placed on Stove (2026).

Here (Alessia Cara song)

Here (Alessia Cara song): 2015 debut single by Canadian singer Alessia Cara on Def Jam, an anti-party anthem built on Isaac Hayes' Ike's Rap II, written the day after an uncomfortable party, peaking at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Here Comes the Flood (song)

Here Comes the Flood is a 1977 Peter Gabriel song closing his debut album Car, also recorded as Jetzt kommt die Flut. Written after he left Genesis, it exists in an orchestral Bob Ezrin production, a sparse Robert Fripp Exposure version, and a 1990 piano re-recording.

Here Comes the Hotstepper

Here Comes the Hotstepper: 1994 dancehall single by Jamaican artist Ini Kamoze (Cecil Campbell), remixed by Salaam Remi. First dancehall song by a Jamaican artist to top the Billboard Hot 100, built on Taana Gardner's Heartbeat and Land of 1000 Dances samples.

Here I Go Again

Here I Go Again: Whitesnake hard rock song by David Coverdale and Bernie Marsden, first on Saints & Sinners (1982), re-recorded 1987, hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on October 10, 1987.

Here we go Loop de Loop

Here we go Loop de Loop, best known as "Looby Loo" or "Dancing Looby", is a traditional English circle singing game first printed by Halliwell in 1849; each verse has players shake a named body part, and it predates and parallels the Hokey Pokey.

Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, also called "Mulberry Bush" or "This Is the Way", is an English nursery rhyme and circle singing game first printed in 1842, sung to the old "Nancy Dawson" tune later reused for "The Wheels on the Bus".

Here, There and Everywhere

Here, There and Everywhere is a 1966 Beatles ballad from Revolver, written mainly by Paul McCartney and credited Lennon–McCartney, recorded 14–17 June 1966, in G major with Beach Boys influence, never a single but covered over 200 times.

Here's to You (song)

"Here's to You" is a 1971 song by Ennio Morricone (music) and Joan Baez (lyrics, vocals) from the film Sacco e Vanzetti, honoring executed anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti; a French number-one protest anthem, not the Hamilton Camp or Peggy Lee songs.

Hero (Enrique Iglesias song)

"Hero" (Spanish "Héroe") is a 2001 ballad by Enrique Iglesias, Paul Barry, and Mark Taylor from the album Escape; it peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, topped the UK chart for four weeks, and became tied to post-9/11 America.

Hero (Mariah Carey song)

"Hero" (1993) is a Mariah Carey ballad co-written with Walter Afanasieff, originally intended for Gloria Estefan for the 1992 film Hero; released from Music Box, it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks.

Hey Brother

Hey Brother is a 2013 Avicii song from True, sung by bluegrass singer Dan Tyminski, fusing EDM with country and folk; it peaked at number 2 in the UK and passed one billion Spotify streams in 2024.

Hey Diddle Diddle

Hey Diddle Diddle, also called The Cat and the Fiddle or The Cow Jumped Over the Moon, is an English nonsense nursery rhyme first printed in Mother Goose's Melody around 1765, with the phrase traced to a 1569 play, and the source of the idiom 'over the moon'.

Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)

Neil Young and Crazy Horse electric song closing Rust Never Sleeps (1979), twin of acoustic "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)"; Devo jam origin, No. 79 Hot 100 single, Cobain note line.

Hey Joe

Hey Joe: American 1960s murder-ballad rock standard, copyrighted 1962 by Billy Roberts amid disputed authorship (Niela Miller, Dino Valenti, Tim Rose claims). First recorded by The Leaves 1965; The Jimi Hendrix Experience's 1966 debut single, UK #6, is the best-known version.

Hey Jude

Hey Jude is a 1968 Beatles ballad by Paul McCartney, written for Julian Lennon, first Apple single, 7:11 long, nine weeks at US number one, about eight million copies sold.

Hey Mama (David Guetta song)

Hey Mama is a 2015 David Guetta dance single from Listen, featuring Nicki Minaj, Bebe Rexha, and Afrojack. Released 16 March 2015, it samples "Rosie", reached number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 9 in the UK, and launched Guetta's collaboration with Rexha.

Hey Man Nice Shot

"Hey Man, Nice Shot" is Filter's 1995 debut single from Short Bus, written by Richard Patrick about R. Budd Dwyer's 1987 televised suicide, not Kurt Cobain. It peaked at No. 10 Alternative Airplay and made Short Bus Platinum.

Hey There Delilah

Hey There Delilah: 2005 Plain White T's acoustic ballad written by Tom Higgenson about runner Delilah DiCrescenzo; D major, 104 BPM; number-one Billboard Hot 100 hit in 2007 with two Grammy nominations and RIAA 7x Platinum certification.