Most Overplayed Songs of All Time

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Though I love Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix and a lot of radio friendly artists I know that some people hate these artists because of their overexposure. But I don't listen to the radio often enough that overplaying of music I like ruins it for me. It is however an issue when its something I hate.

If its a modern rock/pop station or adult contemporary, chances are its overplayed.

All I ever listen to on the radio nowadays aside from the local jazz and classical stations are the classic rock stations and this one hard rock station.

Some "classic" rock songs I hate that are unfortunately radio staples.

American Band - Grand Funk Railroad... Not a good one unfortunately.
Journey - Seperate Ways... I can tollerate Journeys other songs, just not this one.
Eddie Money - Two Tickets to Paradise... Barf.
Styx - Blue Collar Man... I actually like some Styx, but this song is horrible on many levels.
The Guess Who - American Woman... Not as bad as the Lenny Kravitz cover though.
Asia - The Heat of the Moment... Some of the greatest prog musicians of the 70s unite to create... THIS?
Foreigner - ANYTHING BY THEM
 
What are they?

Mine:
-Don't Stop Believing - Journey - Its not THAT great, and Journey had quite a few better songs

-Wonderwall - Oasis - same

-Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen - Wayne's World made this song into a joke and completely ruined it. It was such a complex and beautiful song, and now people hear it and laugh and think that its a funny song. I want to kill Wayne's World
 
ohh god. so many.
nickelback, ALL THE TIME.
just about every queen song known to man.
where i live they play ghostland observatory (sad sad city) like 25 times a day.
any 'classic rock' song from back in the day.
:/
 
Anything that's on the radio today qualifies. If all you listened to was the radio, you'd think that the Stones never did anything besides Satisfaction and Get Off Of My Cloud, you'd think that Midnight Train To Georgia was the only song Gladys Knight & The Pips ever recorded, etc.
 
I Will Always Love you by whitney Houston is right up there. It also happens to be most hated song of all time. I have to leave the room, or at the very least cover my ears when that pile of excrement is playing. It is the absolute nadir in all that's bad about commercial middle of the road banal crap.
 
Wonderwall is definately one!


id also say..

Sweet Child O' Mine
Urabrella by Rihanna
Dont Stop Me Now


and maybe Livin on a prayer by Bon Jovi


Cougar90
 
"You've lost that loving feeling" is the most played song ever at over 8 million times.

"Sitting on the Dock of the Bay", "Yesterday", "Never my Love" and "Stand by Me" have all been played over 7 million times.

Here's Last years top 5 requests in the USA

1 You Shook Me All Night Long-AC/DC
2 Sexyback-Tiraberlake, Justin
3 Love Shack-B-52’s
4 Brown Eyed Girl-Morrison, Van
5 Pour Some Sugar On Me-Def Leppard

Here's the UK's top ten all-time

1. Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
2. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
3. Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around
4. Everly Brothers - All I Have To Do Is Dream
5. Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
6. Abba - Dancing Queen
7. Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
8. Rod Stewart - Maggie May
9. The Beatles - Hello Goodbye
10. The Beatles - Get Back
 
Umm...people have neglected to mention every Linkin Park song...I'm so sick of fucking hearing Shadow of Today...it's a horrible song that doesn't need to be played every 15 minutes..it's just ridiculous.
 
Smooth by Santana and Rob Thomas.

I loved that song when it first came out but holy crap did it ever get the crap played out of it. Still gets played a ton.

Achy Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus. One of those songs that you think is decent enough the first few times you hear it, on the fourth time you're singing along, the fifth time you're changing stations and every other time after that you're jabbing the button and swearing at the radio for playing something that ****ty.

And every Abba song was overplayed the first time it was put on the radio.
 
anything by Jack Johnson

my friend constantly plays his music, I never liked it much to begin with but now have an inferno of absolute hatred burning within me anytime I hear Jack Johnson. I don't really listen to the radio or watch music stations, so it's mainly stuff my frienRAB overplay that bother me if at all.
 
it's still overplayed on my hit radio station.

WHY MUST THE SCHOOL PLAY HIT RADIO OVER THE PA SYSTEM?
it's not the music I hate (It's not my thing), but it's the amount of times they play the same song.

our city neeRAB a freeform radio station or at least a college radio station. We're all sheep here. we're not even open to new non-musical ideas like Solar power or hydroelectricity.
 
Anything by U2, you would think they would put more songs from the Joshua tree album, instead they put their crappy songs likes Vertigo 25 times a day.

Back in the 90's I had habit of listen to some music on the radio, these days all I hear are the same people on the radio (Bon Jovi, U2, Madonna, Justin Tiraberlake, Shania Twain, Mariah Carey etc...) uhhhh, how sad, they give airtime to billionaires while the good and lesser knowns have to fight just to have one song from them aired
 
"Wind Beneath my Wings" Bette Midler
"From this Moment" Shania Twain

It could be because I just don't care for those songs, but they seem to be played at every wedding and every love song radio request around.
 
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