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WhoSampled is a website and app database of information about sampled music or sample-based music, interpolations, cover songs and remixes. As of November 2024, the website features 1,114,000 songs and 342,000 artists in its catalog.
Spotify's most streamed song for the longest period of time was "Shape of You" (2017) by the English singer and songwriter Ed Sheeran. Currently, 902 songs have surpassed one billion streams on Spotify, [ 1 ] 151 have surpassed two billion, 18 have surpassed three billion, and two have surpassed four billion Spotify streams.
The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".
In 2011, The Independent named Loleatta Holloway, whose vocals were sampled in house and dance tracks such as "Ride on Time" (1989) by Black Box, as the most sampled female singer. [46] The orchestra hit originated as a sound on the Fairlight, sampled from Stravinsky's 1910 orchestral work Firebird Suite, [47]: 1 and became a hip-hop cliché. [48]
"Think (About It)" is one of the most frequently sampled songs in the history of recorded music, having been used well over three thousand times by countless hip hop and dance music artists. [3] The song appeared on the 16th volume of the Ultimate Breaks and Beats compilation series in 1986, shortly before the release of the E-mu SP-1200 ...
It has also been called the worst song of all time by GQ [96] and The A.V. Club, and named one of the worst songs of all time in a readers' poll in the New York Post. The group's co-lead singer Grace Slick has called it "the worst song ever" and "awful". [94] [96] "Don't Worry, Be Happy", Bobby McFerrin (1988)
More recently, they have reached into the top ten, and in 2019, for only the second time ever on the Hot 100 (the first since 1958), made it to number one. This has led to all-time records for dropping off the Hot 100, including from number one, as the songs depart regardless of their final chart positions during the season.
The list differs from the 2004 version, with 26 songs added, all of which are songs from the 2000s except "Juicy" by The Notorious B.I.G., released in 1994. The top 25 remained unchanged, but many songs down the list were given different rankings as a result of the inclusion of new songs, causing consecutive shifts among the songs listed in 2004.