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The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)
The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) is a Rudy Clark pop-soul song, a 1964 US No. 6 Billboard hit for Betty Everett on Vee-Jay and a 1991 UK No. 1 for Cher from the film Mermaids.
The Show Must Go On (Queen song)
"The Show Must Go On" is a 1991 Queen song, mainly written by Brian May and sung by Freddie Mercury, closing the album Innuendo. Released 14 October 1991, weeks before Mercury's AIDS-related death, with Elton John performing it at the 1992 tribute concert.
The Sign (song)
"The Sign" is a 1993 Eurodance-reggae pop single by Sweden's Ace of Base, written by Jonas Berggren and produced with Denniz Pop and Douglas Carr. Released late 1993, it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for six non-consecutive weeks in 1994 and was Billboard's bestseller of that year.
The Skye Boat Song
The Skye Boat Song is a Scottish song published in 1884, with lyrics by Sir Harold Boulton to an air collected by Anne Campbell MacLeod, commemorating Bonnie Prince Charlie's 1746 escape to Skye and known as the Outlander theme.
The Sound of Silence
The Sound of Silence, originally The Sounds of Silence, is a 1964 Paul Simon song by Simon & Garfunkel that became a 1966 number-one hit after Tom Wilson's unauthorized electric overdub; Disturbed's 2015 cover earned a Grammy nomination.
The Spark (Kabin Crew and Lisdoonvarna Crew song)
The Spark: 2024 children's rap song by Irish groups Kabin Crew and Lisdoonvarna Crew, written for Cruinniú na nÓg 2024, produced by Garry McCarthy (GMCBeats); viral drum-and-bass hit, released 13 June 2024 via Rubyworks/95.
The Star-Spangled Banner
The Star-Spangled Banner, the U.S. national anthem: lyrics by Francis Scott Key, September 14, 1814, after the Fort McHenry bombardment, set to John Stafford Smith's "To Anacreon in Heaven"; official anthem since March 3, 1931, under 36 U.S.C. §301.
The Stars and Stripes Forever
The Stars and Stripes Forever, John Philip Sousa's 1896-97 patriotic march (also the Stars and Stripes Forever March), designated the US national march in 1987; conceived aboard the Teutonic after manager David Blakely's death.
The Story of Adidon
The Story of Adidon is Pusha T's May 29, 2018 diss track against Drake, over JAY-Z's "Story of O.J." beat, alleging Drake hid a son, Adonis, with Sophie Brussaux, with blackface cover art; Drake never responded on record.
The Subway (song)
The Subway (song): 2025 dream-pop ballad single by Chappell Roan, produced with Dan Nigro, released July 31, 2025 on Amusement/Island; debuted at Governors Ball 2024, hit UK number 1 and Billboard Hot 100 number 3, and earned a 2026 Record of the Year Grammy nomination.
The Sun Will Never Settle
"The Sun Will Never Settle" is a May 2026 single by Irish indie folk trio Kingfishr (Edmond Keogh, Eoghan McGrath, Eoin Fitzgibbon), produced by David Curley at Grouse Lodge; a breakup song that became their second Irish number one.
The Tide Is High
The Tide Is High: John Holt's 1967 rocksteady song with the Paragons, produced by Duke Reid at Treasure Isle; covered by Blondie (1980, US/UK No. 1) and Atomic Kitten (2002, UK No. 1).
The Time Is Now (John Cena song)
"The Time Is Now" (aka "My Time Is Now") is John Cena and Tha Trademarc's 2005 rap entrance theme, produced by Jake One, sampling Schofield horns and M.O.P.'s "Ante Up," lead single of You Can't See Me.
The Time of My Life (Benson Boone song)
"The Time of My Life" (Benson Boone song): a 3:35 pop single released June 25, 2026 on Warner Records, Boone's first 2026 release, written with Jason Evigan and Jack LaFrantz, with a theatrical Alix Earle music video and modest UK chart peaks.
The Times They Are a-Changin' (song)
The Times They Are a-Changin' is a 1963 Bob Dylan protest song, recorded October 23–24, 1963 at Columbia Studio A and released January 13, 1964 as the title track of his third album; a deliberately anthemic change song widely covered.
The Trooper
The Trooper is a 1983 Iron Maiden song by Steve Harris from Piece of Mind, based on Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade and the 1854 Battle of Balaclava, known for its galloping rhythm, twin-guitar harmonies, UK No. 12 single peak, and Trooper beer namesake.
The Twelve Days of Christmas (song)
The Twelve Days of Christmas: English cumulative Christmas song and nursery rhyme, Roud 68, first printed in Mirth Without Mischief (c. 1780); tune arranged by Frederic Austin; gifts run from a partridge in a pear tree to twelve drummers drumming across Christmastide.
The Twist (song)
"The Twist" is a twelve-bar blues song by Hank Ballard, recorded in 1959 and made famous by Chubby Checker's 1960 cover, which sparked a national dance craze.
The Unforgiven (song)
The Unforgiven is a 1991 Metallica song by Hetfield, Ulrich, and Hammett, track 4 on the Black Album, its second single, reaching number 10 on Billboard Mainstream Rock and starting a three-song trilogy.
The Vicar of Bray (song)
The Vicar of Bray is an 18th-century English satirical song of unknown authorship about a clergyman who changes faith with each monarch; earliest text 1712/1714, first sung to Bessy Bell and Mary Gray, later to Country Gardens.
The Visitor (song)
"The Visitor" is a 13 March 2026 Capitol Records single by British singer Sienna Spiro, title track of her debut album Visitor; a string-led ballad about impermanence, UK #11, Hot 100 debut #43, distinct from Of Monsters and Men's 2020 "Visitor."
The Wanderer (Dion song)
The Wanderer: 1961 rock and roll song by Dion, written by Ernie Maresca, released on Laurie 3115 with The Majestic; peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 10 in the UK, Grammy Hall of Fame 2017.
The Washington Post (march)
The Washington Post (march) is an 1889 John Philip Sousa march in 6/8 time, written for the Washington Post Amateur Authors Association, famous as two-step dance music, in F major modulating to B-flat major.
The Water Is Wide (song)
The Water Is Wide, also called O Waly, Waly, is a Scottish folk song (Roud 87, related to Child 204 Jamie Douglas) compiled by Cecil Sharp from Somerset singers in 1906 and popularized by Pete Seeger's 1958 recording.
The Way (Ariana Grande song)
"The Way" is Ariana Grande's 2013 debut solo single featuring Mac Miller, produced by Harmony Samuels, sampling Big Pun's "Still Not a Player"; it peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and launched her album Yours Truly.
The Way (Fastball song)
"The Way" is a 1998 song by American rock band Fastball, written by Tony Scalzo, which spent seven weeks at number one on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart.
The Way You Look Tonight
The Way You Look Tonight: 1936 Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields song from Swing Time, introduced by Fred Astaire, 1936 Oscar winner for Best Song, number one for six weeks, and a jazz standard.
The Wayfaring Stranger (song)
Wayfaring Stranger (Roud 3339), also "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" or "Going Over Jordan", is an early-19th-century American folk and gospel hymn first printed in Bever's 1858 Christian Songster, recorded commercially from 1929, and associated with Burl Ives and the film 1917.
The Weight
The Weight is a 1968 song by The Band, written by Robbie Robertson for Music From Big Pink, recorded at A&R Studios with producer John Simon; a No. 63 US single that became a roots-rock standard through covers by Aretha Franklin and its use in Easy Rider.
The Wheels on the Bus
The Wheels on the Bus is an American children's song attributed to Verna Hills, published in American Childhood in 1939 (an earlier 1937 poem version exists), sung to the tune of Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, with verses for wheels, wipers, doors, horn, driver, and passengers.