{"id":22734,"date":"2025-07-14T05:35:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=22734"},"modified":"2025-04-26T15:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T21:45:11","slug":"itunes-top-200-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/itunes-top-200-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes Top 200: #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Music.\u00a0 It is a powerful thing that brings people together, creates memories, and evokes emotions.\u00a0 It is the universal language that speaks to the soul.\u00a0 It forms the soundtrack of our lives.<\/p>\n

It has now been five years since we last counted down the Top 200 songs in my iTunes library, featuring he songs I have listened to the most since 2007.\u00a0 It is time to do so again, seeing which older songs still resonate and if any newer ones have joined the fray.\u00a0 So, without further ado, here are my most listened to songs, based on number of plays as of January 1, 2025.<\/p>\n

We continue this week with the third most popular song in my collection, which became a sports staple in 1977 thanks to an organist on the south side of Chicago.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

#3: Steam \u2013\u00a0Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye<\/em>
\niTunes stats: 215 plays, most recently on 10\/16\/2019
\nPrevious ranking:\u00a0#3<\/a><\/p>\n

Originally written as a blues shuffle in the early 1960s, the song was recorded and released in 1969 by the then-fictitious band called Steam.\u00a0 It reached #1 for two weeks in December, finishing as Billboard\u2019s<\/em> final multi-week number 1 hit of the 1960s.\u00a0 The song got a second life in 1977, thanks to the South Side Hitmen and their organist, Nancy Faust.\u00a0 With the White Sox hitting the cover off the ball and finding themselves in a surprising first place, Faust started playing the song after home runs.\u00a0 Eventually, she also started playing it when the opposing pitcher was chased from the game.<\/p>\n

The song became a hit once again, and Faust was awarded a RIAA gold record from Mercury Records to acknowledge her contributions.\u00a0 It was a mainstay at Comiskey Park and its successors until Faust\u2019s retirement in 2010.\u00a0 Post-COVID, a recording of the song still makes the occasional appearance, though not as often as in Faust’s heyday.\u00a0 The high play total is a result of the songs inclusion on every iteration of my White Sox victory playlists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Music.\u00a0 It is a powerful thing that brings people together, creates memories, and evokes emotions.\u00a0 It is the universal language that speaks to the soul.\u00a0 It forms the soundtrack of our lives. It has now been five years since we last counted down the Top 200 songs in my iTunes library, featuring he songs I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[746,597,8844,328,8680,85,8681,302,49],"class_list":["post-22734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-billboard","tag-comiskey-park","tag-corona-virus","tag-itunes","tag-mercury-records","tag-nancy-faust","tag-riaa","tag-steam","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22735,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22734\/revisions\/22735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}