{"id":22704,"date":"2025-05-12T05:22:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T11:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=22704"},"modified":"2025-05-04T12:52:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T18:52:31","slug":"itunes-top-200-41-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/itunes-top-200-41-50\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes Top 200: #41 \u2013 50"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>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 start the final quarter of this chart with the one remaining song tied for 50th place with 49 plays through the four tracks with 51 plays apiece, good enough for 41st place since my stats began in late 2007.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>#50: The Beatles \u2013 Helter Skelter<\/em>
\niTunes stats: 49 plays, most recently on 8\/15\/2024
\nPrevious ranking:\u00a0#51<\/a><\/p>\n

Considered by music historians as a key influence in the development of heavy metal, the song has added nine new plays over the past five years.<\/p>\n

#45: The Lonely Island \u2013 Lazy Sunday (ft. Chris Parnell)<\/em>
\niTunes stats: 50 plays, most recently on 10\/18\/2024
\nPrevious ranking:\u00a0#29<\/a><\/p>\n

A bit of a drop down the charts for the original\u00a0SNL<\/em>\u00a0digital short that put the Lonely Island on the pop culture map and defined the phrase \u201cviral video\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>#45: Foo Fighters \u2013 Everlong<\/em>
\niTunes stats: 50 plays, most recently on 3\/29\/2024
\nPrevious ranking:\u00a0#33<\/a><\/p>\n

Recorded live in London’s Hyde Park, the song added five additional listens over these past five years.<\/p>\n

#45: Elvis Presley \u2013 An American Trilogy<\/em>
\niTunes stats: 50 plays, most recently on 10\/21\/2024
\nPrevious ranking:\u00a0#60<\/a><\/p>\n

A medley of three 19th century songs:\u00a0Dixie<\/em>, a blackface minstrel song that became the unofficial anthem of the Confederacy since the Civil War;\u00a0All My Trials<\/em>, originally a Bahamian lullaby, but closely related to African American spirituals; and\u00a0The Battle Hymn of the Republic<\/em>, the marching song of the Union Army during the Civil War.<\/p>\n

#45: Dr. Dre Feat. Snoop Dogg \u2013 Nuthin’ But A “G” Thang<\/em>
\niTunes stats: 50 plays, most recently on 3\/20\/2024
\nPrevious ranking:\u00a0#43<\/a><\/p>\n

The first single from Dr. Dre\u2019s solo debut, which reached #2 on the Billboard<\/em> Hot 100 and was named the hip-hop song of the decade by XXL<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n

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#45: Chance the Rapper \u2013 Step Up Part 1<\/em>
\niTunes stats: 50 plays, most recently on 7\/5\/2022
\nPrevious ranking:\u00a0#29<\/a><\/p>\n

The audio portion of the hype video the rapper created for the White Sox used during the 2016 season.<\/p>\n

#41: 2Pac & Dr. Dre \u2013 California Love<\/em>
\niTunes stats: 51 plays, most recently on 3\/29\/2024
\nPrevious ranking:\u00a0#47<\/a><\/p>\n

A small jump in the rankings for this team-up to celebrate 2Pac joining Death Row Records after getting released from jail in 1995.<\/p>\n

#41: Weird Al Yankovic \u2013 Dare To Be Stupid<\/em>
\niTunes stats: 51 plays, most recently on 8\/27\/2024
\nPrevious ranking:\u00a0#36<\/a><\/p>\n

Weird Al\u2019s tribute to the style of Devo, as featured in\u00a0TransFormers: The Movie<\/em>.<\/p>\n

#41: Cee-Lo Green \u2013 Fuck You<\/em>
\niTunes stats: 51 plays, most recently on 8\/18\/2024
\nPrevious ranking:\u00a0#43<\/a><\/p>\n

Released in 2010 as the lead single from Green’s third solo album, it peaked at #2 on the Billboard<\/em> Hot 100.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>#41: AC\/DC \u2013 Back In Black<\/em>
\niTunes stats: 51 plays, most recently on 12\/3\/2024
\nPrevious ranking:\u00a0#56<\/a><\/p>\n

A tribute to former lead singer Bon Scott, who had died during the songwriting for the album.<\/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":[284,565,96,746,3560,971,7147,2962,3223,3590,93,399,89,3573,328,88,688,431,687,107,49,6571],"class_list":["post-22704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-2pac","tag-acdc","tag-beatles","tag-billboard","tag-bon-scott","tag-cee-lo-green","tag-chance-the-rapper","tag-chris-parnell","tag-death-row-records","tag-devo","tag-dr-dre","tag-elvis","tag-foo-fighters","tag-hyde-park","tag-itunes","tag-lonely-island","tag-snl","tag-snoop-dogg","tag-transformers","tag-weird-al","tag-white-sox","tag-xxl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22704"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22761,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22704\/revisions\/22761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}