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Take It Easy

"Take It Easy" is the 1972 debut single by the Eagles, also known as the Jackson Browne–Glenn Frey country-rock song about Winslow, Arizona. Released May 1, 1972, produced by Glyn Johns, it peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and later reunited the Eagles via Travis Tritt's 1993 cover video.

Take It to the Limit (Eagles song)

Take It to the Limit: 1975 Eagles ballad by Randy Meisner, Don Henley, and Glenn Frey from One of These Nights; Meisner's high-tenor lead vocal, a No. 4 Billboard Hot 100 hit in 1976, later tied to his 1977 exit from the band.

Take Me Home Tonight (song)

Take Me Home Tonight is a 1986 Eddie Money rock single from Can't Hold Back, featuring Ronnie Spector reprising "Be my little baby" from the Ronettes' "Be My Baby"; it peaked at No. 4 on Billboard Hot 100.

Take Me Home, Country Roads

Take Me Home, Country Roads, also called Country Roads, is a 1971 John Denver song written with Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert; Hot 100 No. 2, West Virginia state song, National Recording Registry 2023.

Take Me Out (song)

Take Me Out is a 2004 single by Scottish band Franz Ferdinand, written by Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy, produced by Tore Johansson; UK and Modern Rock No. 3 hit known for its slow intro and tempo switch.

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

"Take Me Out to the Ball Game," the 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer, is baseball's unofficial anthem, sung during the seventh-inning stretch; neither writer had seen a game, and Harry Caray popularized crowd singalongs from 1976.

Take Me to Church

Take Me to Church is the 2013 debut single and EP title track by Irish singer-songwriter Hozier, comparing a lover to religion and criticizing the institutional church. It hit No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, spent 23 weeks at No. 1 on Hot Rock Songs, and earned a Grammy Song of the Year nomination.

Take My Breath Away

Take My Breath Away: synth-pop ballad by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock, sung by Berlin for the 1986 film Top Gun; No. 1 in the US and UK and winner of the 1987 Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Original Song.

Take On Me

Take On Me is a 1985 synth-pop song by Norwegian band a-ha, written by Furuholmen, Harket, and Waaktaar-Savoy. Flopped twice in 1984 and April 1985 before its Steve Barron rotoscoped video drove it to US #1, UK #2, and six MTV awards.

Takedown (song)

Takedown is an original song from Netflix's 2025 animated film KPop Demon Hunters, written by Lindgren, produced by Lindgren and Ian Eisendrath, sung in-film by EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and REI AMI as HUNTR/X, with a TWICE end-credits version.

Takin' Care of Business (song)

"Takin' Care of Business," written by Randy Bachman, is Bachman-Turner Overdrive's 1973 boogie-rock signature hit from Bachman-Turner Overdrive II, peaking at No. 12 US, No. 3 Canada in 1974.

Talk Talk (Charli XCX song)

"Talk talk" is a Charli XCX song, track 5 on her 2024 album Brat, about her hesitation toward George Daniel of The 1975; a Troye Sivan remix with uncredited Dua Lipa vocals peaked at UK number 24.

Talk to Me (Robyn song)

Talk to Me is a 2026 Robyn song, a Max Martin co-write and ode to phone sex and healthy communication, released with "Sexistential" as an announcement single for the album Sexistential, later remixed with Zara Larsson.

Talk to You (Anotr song)

Talk To You is a 2026 disco house single by Dutch duo ANOTR (Jesse van der Heijden, Oguzhan Guney) with New Jersey vocalist 54 Ultra, released March 6, 2026 on No Art, from the album Withness; UK Singles Chart peak 3, UK dance chart number 1, over 244 million streams.

Talking / Once Again

Talking / Once Again (originally "North's Song") is a 2024 single by ¥$ (Ye and Ty Dolla $ign) featuring North West, from Vultures 1; released February 8, 2024, sampling Public Enemy's "Bring the Noise", it peaked at number 49 on the UK Singles Chart.

Tamil lullabies

Tamil lullabies, known as thalattu, are Tamil folk songs sung by mothers to soothe children and put them to sleep, a literary form centuries old.

Tarzan Boy

Tarzan Boy is a 1985 italo disco and synth-pop hit by the Italian project Baltimora, written by Maurizio Bassi and Naimy Hackett, peaking at UK number 3 and US number 13, later revived by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III.

Taste (Sabrina Carpenter song)

Taste is a 2024 song by American singer Sabrina Carpenter, the third single from her album Short n' Sweet, which topped the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks.

Tastes Like Summer

Tastes Like Summer is a 2026 pop single by James Blunt, released 14 August 2026 on Atlantic Records UK, produced by Red Triangle, with a horror-twist music video, and the lead single from the album Airplane Mode.

Tattoo (Loreen song)

Tattoo, by Loreen (Lorine Talhaoui), is the Swedish pop song that won Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool with 583 points, making Loreen the first woman to win the Contest twice after her 2012 win with Euphoria.

Tavisupleba (თავისუფლება)

Tavisupleba (თავისუფლება, "Freedom") is Georgia's national anthem, adopted in 2004 after the Rose Revolution, replacing Dideba; music from Paliashvili's operas, lyrics by Davit Magradze.

Taxes (song)

Taxes is a 2025 song by Brooklyn band Geese, the lead single (July 8, 2025) from their album Getting Killed, track 10 at 3:17, produced with Kenny Beats; distinct from Cordae's 2021 Netflix We The People song of the same title.

Taxman

Taxman is a 1966 George Harrison song opening the Beatles' album Revolver, attacking Harold Wilson's 95 percent supertax, naming Wilson and Heath, with Paul McCartney playing the lead guitar solo.

Taylor Made Freestyle

Taylor Made Freestyle is a Drake diss track released on Instagram April 19, 2024, targeting Kendrick Lamar with AI-generated Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg vocals; removed April 26, 2024 after a cease-and-desist from Tupac's estate.

Teardrops on My Guitar

Teardrops on My Guitar: 2006 country pop single by Taylor Swift, co-written with Liz Rose from her debut album; peaked at No. 2 Hot Country Songs and No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100, her first top-20 pop hit.

Tears (Sabrina Carpenter song)

"Tears" is a 2025 disco-pop single by Sabrina Carpenter, the second single from Man's Best Friend, written with Amy Allen, Jack Antonoff, and John Ryan; it reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and UK Official Singles Chart and has a Rocky Horror-inspired video starring Colman Domingo.

Tears in Heaven

"Tears in Heaven" is an acoustic soft-rock ballad by Eric Clapton, co-written with Will Jennings after his four-year-old son Conor died in New York in 1991.

Teenage Dirtbag

Teenage Dirtbag is a 2000 single by Long Island band Wheatus, written by Brendan B. Brown. It hit No. 1 in Australia and No. 2 in the UK, missed the US Hot 100, and revived via TikTok in 2022.

Teenage Dream (Katy Perry song)

"Teenage Dream" is a 2010 pop single by Katy Perry from her album of the same name, written with Dr. Luke, Max Martin, Benny Blanco, and Bonnie McKee. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks and is known for containing no tonic chord.

Tek It

Tek It is a 2019 indie pop song by New York duo Cafuné (Sedona Schat and Noah Yoo) from the album Running; it went viral on TikTok in 2022 via sped-up anime edits, charted at UK No. 72, and led to their Elektra signing.