Top 20 songs of all time?

[Phil Starr]

 

Here you go, this is a list of the most popular chords/tabs on Ultimate Guitar all with over 11,000,000 hits worldwide. Obviously it's a skewed list as it is mainly guitarists, lots of US users but lot's of British songwriter success. Very little rock music but I guess representative of what young musicians are learning over the last 10 years. Very few would make the set list of a covers band but there are a couple of old favourites. I'm feeling old, I had to look some of these songs up

Jeff Buckley  Hallelujah 

John Legend  All Of Me

Passenger Let Her Go

Ed Sheeran Perfect

Led Zeppelin Stairway To Heaven

Jason Mraz Im Yours  

Ed Sheeran Thinking Out Loud

Plain White T's Airplane

Elvis Presley Cant Help Falling In Love

Coldplay The Scientist 

Adele Someone Like You

Metallica Nothing Else Matters

Bruno Mars When I Was Your Man

Justin Bieber Love Yourself

Ed Sheeran Photograph

Oasis Wonderwall 

Vance Joy Riptide 

Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here

Radiohead Creep 

Oasis Dont Look Back In Anger

 

 

[Phil Starr]

And the top bass tab....

Muse Hysteria

[Maude]

So that'll be the top 20 songs that people like to play wrong then. 😉

 

[hooky_lowdown]

Surprised Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes isn't on the list, I hear it everywhere.

[Phil Starr]

10 hours ago, hooky_lowdown said:

Surprised Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes isn't on the list, I hear it everywhere.

I guess since this is a site where there are more guitarists than bassists and the famous riff is usually played on bass it wasn't going to get to the top. I thought it would be the highest scoring bass riff but the first one I could find was Muse. I trawled through over 500 songs before I found any bass tabs at all.  The next few bass tabs I found were nearly all  for ZZ Top.

[Bilbo]

Says more about the mindset of those that use tab than anything else. 

[MartinB]

Comparing the lists of most-viewed tabs vs chords is interesting:

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/top/tabs?order=hitstotal_desc&type=chords

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/top/tabs?order=hitstotal_desc&type=tab

I think the data for the bass list might be broken... there's a suspicious amount of ZZ Top, Frank Zappa, and other artists towards the end of the alphabet: 😆
https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/top/tabs?type=bass&order=hitstotal_desc

[jacko]

There's only 2 songs on that list I'd ever listen to.

[BigRedX]

Anyone who can't work out the chords for most of those songs in the OP should probably give up learning to play 😉

[Barking Spiders]

so that'll be 20 songs you'll be hearing strummed and warbled on every street corner  across the land this year

[Phil Starr]

9 hours ago, Barking Spiders said:

so that'll be 20 songs you'll be hearing strummed and warbled on every street corner  across the land this year

Not just this land it's pretty much worldwide.

[Happy Jack]

Delighted to see that 14 of those songs I have never heard. Seriously.

 

[BrunoBass]

The fact that it’s chords / tabs implies that’s it’s strummers searching for these songs. It’s pretty common to hear any of these played at open mics, busked in the street etc.

[EliasMooseblaster]

On 04/02/2020 at 21:36, Happy Jack said:

Delighted to see that 14 of those songs I have never heard. Seriously.

 

I do envy you - there are probably close to 14 songs on there that I wish I'd never heard of...