Curated playlist
Irish Singles Chart number-one singles
- Roar (song)Katy Perry wrote "Roar" right after therapy sessions. She was tired of keeping feelings inside and not speaking up.
- Help! (song)John Lennon later called the Beatles' 1965 song Help an unconscious cry for help.
- Ticket to Ride (song)John Lennon later claimed "Ticket to Ride" was the first heavy metal record ever made.
- Bohemian RhapsodyKenny Everett promised not to play Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" and then played it fourteen times in two days.
- All You Need Is LoveThe Beatles sang "All You Need Is Love" live to over 400 million people in 1967. It linked 25 countries.
- Paperback WriterPaul McCartney wrote "Paperback Writer" after his Aunt Lil asked why he never wrote about anything but love.
- Get BackPolice arrived mid-song as the Beatles played "Get Back" on a London rooftop. Harrison turned the amps back on.
- Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-DaA recording engineer quit the Beatles after fights over "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da."
- Hey JudeJohn Lennon told Paul McCartney that "Hey Jude" line he wanted to cut was the best in the song. McCartney kept it.
- From Me to YouFrom Me to You is a 1963 song by the Beatles, and Paul McCartney once said a milkman proved it had caught on. He was lying in bed one morning when he heard a man whistling the tune outside. That was the first time he thought the band had…
- I Will SurviveSession musicians had only thirty-five minutes to record "I Will Survive" without knowing its title.
- Mull of Kintyre (song)Insects nearly ruined the open-air recording of "Mull of Kintyre." The song still became a UK record seller.
- The Fate of OpheliaThe Fate of Ophelia, a single by Taylor Swift, became the first song to collect 30 million streams on Spotify in a single day. It borrows its title from a doomed woman in Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet, then gives her a rescue where the play…