Most downloaded songs on iTunes and songs that marked other milestones Quiz by music418

Rank	Song	Artist
1		Black Eyed Peas
2		Lady Gaga
3		Black Eyed Peas
4		Jason Mraz
5		Coldplay
6		Lady Gaga & Colby O'Donis
7		Flo Rida (featuring T-Pain)
8		Taylor Swift
9		Leona Lewis
10		Ke$ha
11		Rihanna
12		P!nk
13		Katy Perry
14		Beyoncé

Rank	Song	Artist
15		Katy Perry
16		Kanye West
17		T.I. (featuring Rihanna)
18		Plain White T's
19		Flo Rida
20		Miley Cyrus
21		Journey
22		Lady Gaga
23		Kings of Leon
24		Owl City
25		The Fray
Milestone: 500 millionth song sold		Faith Hill
Milestone: Billionth song sold		Coldplay
Milestone: 10 billionth song sold		Johnny Cash

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Top 25 iTunes Songs of All Time Quiz

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	LlamaDuckKing:	Jul 22nd, 2010 at 01:29 GMT		1 point
	What a sad list. I might consider one or two of these respectable if I was feeling generous.

	bella16:	Jul 22nd, 2010 at 04:11 GMT		3 points
	i was just thinking that. things like this kind of make me worry about our generation...

	Chris968:	Jul 22nd, 2010 at 05:09 GMT		-3 points
	After looking at this list I feel ashamed that I got 15 of the songs.

	Doctor_Tom:	Jul 22nd, 2010 at 05:43 GMT		7 points
	You should accept some more alternatives like "Ive got a feeling" and "Hot and cold". Otherwise good quiz

	rockgolf:	Jul 22nd, 2010 at 11:02 GMT		4 points
	Widen the Artist field to at least 25% on your Style page. And I agree with Dr Tom, Sporclers should never be forced to misspell. If a title contains an intention misspelling ("I Gotta Feeling") include the correct spelling as an alternative.

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	Kballs:	Jul 22nd, 2010 at 14:18 GMT		8 points
	Interesting mix of songs. Some are mindless, assembly line dance pop. Others are, umm, not? Lots of guilty pleasures on here.

	music418:	Jul 22nd, 2010 at 15:46 GMT		11 points
	Thanks for the advice, everyone! I hope this is better now. Sorry about how some of these songs don't quite fit some of your tastes. Truthfully, many of these songs are not quite my liking either.

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	XCBoss:	Jul 22nd, 2010 at 19:41 GMT		9 points
	Love the quiz but it made me sad to see Tik Tok at #10...

	rockgolf:	Jul 22nd, 2010 at 19:48 GMT		29 points
	Oh for heaven's sake, lighten up people! It's a list of best sellers, not a critical list. Of course pop is going to dominate. That's why they call it "pop" - it's short for popular. To further narrow it down, it's pop tracks bought off iTunes, so anyone who's shocked and awed that modern big hit singles have a stranglehold on the list, better get a clue. And frankly, if I'm a party, I'm betting a lot more of these songs are going to get people up and dancing than the stuff you listen to. You're not going to convince us you're cooler than the room because your taste is better than 15-year-olds. Frankly, you sound a little desperate.

	weird_people:	Jul 22nd, 2010 at 20:04 GMT		-2 points
	Don't Stop Believin' is way better than any of the other songs on this list.

	stpgnrvr:	Jul 22nd, 2010 at 20:26 GMT		-2 points
	johnny cash made the list. way better than everyone on this godforsaken list

	bmo1616:	Jul 22nd, 2010 at 20:59 GMT		7 points
	Thank you rockgolf, I'll say it again, you people obviously can't adapt to the times. Guess what, people that grew up listening to jazz and swing in the twenties, thirties, and forties probably thought Bohemian Rhapsody, Stairway to Heaven, and Satisfaction were "suckiness". Forty years from now, guess what, whether you like it or not, the above songs will be "classic" too.

	millandas:	Jul 22nd, 2010 at 21:52 GMT		0 points
	I really hope music makes a comeback in the twenties and thirties.

	themegarooster:	Jul 22nd, 2010 at 22:50 GMT		13 points
	Sure, these songs aren't the greatest, but that says nothing about the state of music this generation. The Billboard charts in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 50s, and even the 60s are usually filled with cheesy pop songs. A lot of great music was also produced in those decades, but the best sellers are always catchy, fun, mindless songs. The 00s are not any different. There still great bands and artists. For what it's worth, some great bands make really cheesy pop music too. The Beatles made a lot of dumb but fun songs. Queen is incredibly cheesy but they're still good. And also fwiw, of the songs on this list, I'm most tired of "Don't Stop Believing." It's become way overplayed and it's getting obnoxious. Sorry for being annoying and adding to the backlash lol

	stjaernstoft:	Jul 22nd, 2010 at 22:55 GMT		-3 points
	I weep for humanity.

	music418:	Jul 22nd, 2010 at 23:04 GMT		8 points
	Here's what I have to say: the iTunes store came about in 2003 (I think?). The 2000s is an era full of new and interesting genres such as pop, rap, and hip-hop. However, before the iTunes store, there was not many places to download music. So, many people have CDs with their favorite classics like Queen, the Rolling Stones. etc. and do not need to purchase some those songs and albums. Don't Stop Believin' was most likely shot up here because of Glee, because I'm sure many people already had the CD already, and duplicate purchase was not necessary. All it is is just a statistic about what songs have been purchased the most on iTunes due to radio play, friends, and new artists. I'm sure that if the iTunes store was opened a few decades ago, this list would change drastically. (I hope that made sense...)

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	BambiKiller:	Jul 23rd, 2010 at 10:54 GMT		8 points
	OK I got the top 25 pretty simple, the other 3 no idea.

	dylz:	Jul 23rd, 2010 at 23:10 GMT		0 points
	i always trust sporcle users to have the best taste in music... after all, look what happened on that "best songs of the decade" sporcle quiz

	elasticpretzel:	Jul 24th, 2010 at 07:00 GMT		-2 points
	It's really funny to me that half of these comments are people complaining about this "music" and the other half is people (who sound like they mostly don't like this stuff either but thought they'd be more popular if they withheld their own opinions in favor of criticizing other people's comments under the guise of making peace) complaining about people complaining about this "music". Popular music is popular because it's written (or manufactured is perhaps the better term) for the masses. And music written for the masses is generally stupid because, let's face it, the masses are generally stupid. That's the way it is and always has been since at least as far back as when classical music ceased to be the most popular form of music. After all, the era that brought us some of the greatest rock music of all time also brought us disco (and what a mistake that was).

	alleyt1989:	Jul 24th, 2010 at 08:46 GMT		2 points
	i'm glad to see single ladies!!! that song is brilliant!

	wildebeest:	Jul 24th, 2010 at 15:57 GMT		-2 points
	@bmo: Classic? You're seriously comparing Ke$ha and Flo Rida to Queen and the Rolling Stones? Actually, they're more comparable to Captain and Tennille, Debbie Boone, Andy Gibb, and all those other disposable pop artists from the past. In 40 years, Ke$ha's autotuned "sing talk" will sound incredibly dated. Artists like The White Stripes, Arcade Fire, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Gorillaz, Outkast, Alicia Keys, Destiny's Child and The Killers, on the other hand, will probably hold up quite nicely in the coming years.

	bmo1616:	Jul 26th, 2010 at 14:50 GMT		6 points
	@wildebeest, no, I am not comparing them to Queen and the Rolling Stones. All I'm saying is that 40 years down the road, these MAY be considered classics, how do we know? And my point was Queen and the Rolling Stones may have sounded annoying and like garbage to the generation before them. Btw, Kesha is terrible but people are talking like the whole group above is terrible, when there are many extremely talented artists up there.

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	MRL:	Jul 27th, 2010 at 13:36 GMT		3 points
	I haven't heard of most of the songs on this list. Does that mean it's a terrible list? No, it means that it was a list created by the purchases of a generation with newer and different tastes than me. That's all. Plus, there's the factor that older songs have already been released -- most of the people who want an older track probably had it before iTunes even came out. By contrast, a new song -- most of this stuff -- gets a simultaneous release on iTunes as it does in brick-and-mortar stores. To be surprised that new songs dominate the list is like being surprised that new movies dominate the annual theatre box office takes.

	pcvrs410:	Jul 27th, 2010 at 18:01 GMT		0 points
	i laughed when people implied that people who don't like these songs are living in the past... because this is the only music that exists right now amirite

	wildebeest:	Jul 27th, 2010 at 18:22 GMT		3 points
	@bmo: I agree, there are some talented artists listed above; Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Jason Mraz, Kings of Leon and Kanye West to name a few.

	antlyon:	Jul 28th, 2010 at 19:41 GMT		-1 points
	who are these people?

	bmo1616:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 01:55 GMT		2 points
	Somehow I have a -12 and a +6 on two comments saying the exact same thing, oh Sporcle you never cease to amaze me.

	Johnny:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 11:24 GMT		1 point
	@bmo1616 The thing is... It's not only what you said, but also how you said.

	globetrotter106:	Jul 29th, 2010 at 13:44 GMT		4 points
	Thank goodness that Justin Bieber isn't on here... yet.

	jaymc:	Jul 31st, 2010 at 15:44 GMT		4 points
	"Don't Stop Believin'" is on the list not only because of "Glee." In fact, I'd wager that "Glee" used the song because it was already experiencing a resurgence in the past decade, having been used in the movie "Monster," as the theme song for the 2005 champion Chicago White Sox, in the final episode of "The Sopranos," and elsewhere. Kind of amazing that a song more than 20 years old has that kind of staying power.

	snoreway:	Aug 1st, 2010 at 13:29 GMT		5 points
	You should accept "Horse$hit" for song #10.

	Bulletchewer6:	Aug 2nd, 2010 at 10:15 GMT		0 points
	iTunes sells a hell of a lot of absolutely terrible music

	Sanky:	Aug 5th, 2010 at 16:31 GMT		2 points
	Didn't the person who bought the 10 billionth song get a $10,000 itunes gift card?

	cmn8:	Aug 14th, 2010 at 03:55 GMT		3 points
	Ugh, I didn't get any of the three milestones. See, with the others, I could just guess the most popular song that the artist had, but those were just random. The milestone buys could have been the only time that those songs were bought and it wouldn't matter.

	plubby:	Dec 18th, 2010 at 22:00 GMT		2 points
	Isn't the Don't Stop Believin' that's one of the most downloaded The Glee Cast Version and not the original? I'm pretty sure it is.