What artist has the most songs that the most people know?

[listen2me 23 1,529]

Maybe add in variety of people the artist and their songs are known by

 

 

Tom Petty?

 

Breakdown

Free Fallin

Refugee

Learning to fly

MJ last dance

Dont do me like that

I wont back down

Runnin down a dream

Dont come around here no more

American girl

You got lucky

Here comes my girl

Into the great wide open

 

Probably a few more. Even black folks know most of these songs.

 

[tanatastic 2,061]

Easily the Beatles. Too many to list. Not sure who would be second as it gets very personalized.

[fandandy 3,311]

Michael Jackson and the Beatles were the first two I thought of.

[BunnysBastatrds 1,902]

Rolling Stones has to be up there.

 

Hate to say. But Journey also.

[Bier Meister 1,512]

beatles

madona

michael jackson

prince

beach boys

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Internationally, id say Michael Jackson. Elvis and the Beatles were too long ago.

 

My first year in china, my assistant said, "I heard a great English song yesterday. Do you know it?"

 

She plays it. It was something someone sung on the china idol or some such show.

 

It was Hey Jude.

 

I was like, "um yeah. Everyone knows hey Jude. But all the little teacher girls were running around like they discovered it.

[Gepetto 977]

Billy Joel

[DankNuggs 305]

Beatles and it's not close

[posty 2,295]

Internationally, id say Michael Jackson. Elvis and the Beatles were too long ago.

 

My first year in china, my assistant said, "I heard a great English song yesterday. Do you know it?"

 

She plays it. It was something someone sung on the china idol or some such show.

 

It was Hey Jude.

 

I was like, "um yeah. Everyone knows hey Jude. But all the little teacher girls were running around like they discovered it.

One of the worst songs ever...

[NorthernVike 2,079]

Maybe add in variety of people the artist and their songs are known by

 

 

Tom Petty?

 

Breakdown

Free Fallin

Refugee

Learning to fly

MJ last dance

Dont do me like that

I wont back down

Runnin down a dream

Dont come around here no more

American girl

You got lucky

Here comes my girl

Into the great wide open

 

Probably a few more. Even black folks know most of these songs.

 

Best choice so far.

[listen2me 23 1,529]

I don't care who you say Tom Petty is close. All those songs play on classic rock radio stations. Old and new like him.

 

List the songs. I can't think of 13 MJ songs off the top of my head.

[listen2me 23 1,529]

Internationally, id say Michael Jackson. Elvis and the Beatles were too long ago.

 

My first year in china, my assistant said, "I heard a great English song yesterday. Do you know it?"

 

She plays it. It was something someone sung on the china idol or some such show.

 

It was Hey Jude.

 

I was like, "um yeah. Everyone knows hey Jude. But all the little teacher girls were running around like they discovered it.

 

Yea internationally. Maybe I didn't think out my own question. I was thinking more USA....black white messican younger older....

[posty 2,295]

I don't care who you say Tom Petty is close. All those songs play on classic rock radio stations. Old and new like him.

 

List the songs. I can't think of 13 MJ songs off the top of my head.

Really? Let's see in alphabetical order, I remember...

 

Bad

Beat It

Ben

Billy Jean

Black or White

Dirty Diana

Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

Human Nature

Man in the Mirror

Off the Wall

P.Y.T.

Rock With You

Say Say Say

Scream

Smooth Criminal

The Girl is Mine

The Way You Make Me Feel

Thriller

Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'

We Are the World

 

Doesn't even count Jackson 5 tunes...

[frank 2,143]

Michael Jackson

 

Little kids and old people of all races know his songs. Do you think 10 year old black kids know Tom Petty? 10 year old white kids know Michael Jackson.

[Bier Meister 1,512]

10 year old white kids know Michael Jackson.

they certainly did

[listen2me 23 1,529]

Really? Let's see in alphabetical order, I remember...

 

Bad

Beat It

Ben

Billy Jean

Black or White

Dirty Diana

Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

Human Nature

Man in the Mirror

Off the Wall

P.Y.T.

Rock With You

Say Say Say

Scream

Smooth Criminal

The Girl is Mine

The Way You Make Me Feel

Thriller

Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'

We Are the World

 

Doesn't even count Jackson 5 tunes...

 

Yeah you may be right. But I still do not know 6 of the songs you posted.

 

By name anyways. Maybe if I heard them. I will see.

[listen2me 23 1,529]

Michael Jackson

 

Little kids and old people of all races know his songs. Do you think 10 year old black kids know Tom Petty? 10 year old white kids know Michael Jackson.

 

I was thinking he was more thriller album oriented. I forgot a few songs.

 

I don;'t know I just feel a ton of white folks 10 to 75 know Tom Petty and even some black folk. Tom Petty is certainly an underdog here.

[frank 2,143]

they certainly did

After typing that, I almost made the joke myself.

[vuduchile 1,940]

Reason #47 why I'm doing this dad thing right.

 

Out of the blue, my 9 yr old son asked me to play Hey Jude on guitar tonight.

 

I used to play and sing it to him to help him go to sleep when he was a baby.

[Gepetto 977]

Here Comes the Sun is my favorite Beatles song.

[cbfalcon 824]

Trick answer.....

 

Mike Post

[vuduchile 1,940]

Here Comes the Sun is my favorite Beatles song.

Another great one. There are so many.

[Vince44 202]

Madonna, Whitney, or Michael Jackson.

[tubby_mcgee 685]

Mike Posner

[wiffleball 4,629]

You guys are ridiculously ethnocentric.

 

For example, Google despacito.

 

That is a one-off.

 

More to the question, Tom Petty even the Beatles Don't even crack the top 10 when you start thinking outside of our pathetic little borders.

 

Beyond Staples like any one of the great Tenors, look to any artist who has hit big in say, India.

 

There are so many huge mega stars out there that Americans have never even heard of. Just in England alone Robbie Williams has officially surpassed Elvis and The Beatles. And everyone else.

 

I mention India not just because of their huge population, but because they have expats all over the world and their music and culture follows them.

 

Related, you'd be amazed at what a Bollywood hit pulls in versus a Hollywood Blockbuster.

 

Despacito is huge in multiple continents - and Americans are largely clueless. Again, just an example.

[cbfalcon 824]

No, your'e despacito

[wiffleball 4,629]

Also Petty sucks.

 

He is Janis Joplin if she was a Top 40 sellout.

[tanatastic 2,061]

I like Tom Petty and we get it, you love him. But he isn't in the stratosphere of the Beatles and Michael Jackson as far as worldwide fame. Not even in the adjacent universe.

[SUXBNME 1,318]

Define the era first.

Cause I could go all over the board with this topic.

 

Also, Tom Petty, Beatles and The Stones are obviously good calls.

[Cruzer 1,992]

Rolling Stones has to be up there.

Hate to say. But Journey also.

I think those into the Stones are really into the Stones.. I'm not sure they have a casual base.. Me for instance, I'm damn near 48 - can maybe name 4 Stones songs by title.

[Cruzer 1,992]

Not to be ghey, but Madonna might be in the mix.

[tanatastic 2,061]

I think those into the Stones are really into the Stones.. I'm not sure they have a casual base.. Me for instance, I'm damn near 48 - can maybe name 4 Stones songs by title.

Me neither, I can name maybe 3 and I'm sure I would recognize a few more but that's it.

[Gepetto 977]

I dislike the Rolling Stones music. I almost made a thread about most popular artist or band you don't like and was going to put Rolling Stones in the first post.

[BunnysBastatrds 1,902]

I think those into the Stones are really into the Stones.. I'm not sure they have a casual base.. Me for instance, I'm damn near 48 - can maybe name 4 Stones songs by title.

Really?

Hot Rocks is the best selling best of any band.

The Eagles ate a clean second.

[Bier Meister 1,512]

I think those into the Stones are really into the Stones.. I'm not sure they have a casual base.. Me for instance, I'm damn near 48 - can maybe name 4 Stones songs by title.

 

yes. they are my favorite band. i do not get tired of listening to their music.

[Drizzay 643]

Beatles

Zeppelin

Stones

Eagles

[naomi 343]

Internationally, id say Michael Jackson. Elvis and the Beatles were too long ago.

 

My first year in china, my assistant said, "I heard a great English song yesterday. Do you know it?"

 

She plays it. It was something someone sung on the china idol or some such show.

 

It was Hey Jude.

 

I was like, "um yeah. Everyone knows hey Jude. But all the little teacher girls were running around like they discovered it.

I've definitely heard of it but am not sure I've ever heard it. Let's see..

[naomi 343]

If it was most people alive today, due to media and tech, I'd say maybe Adele. Not as many songs as others listed, but widespread reach.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

If it was most people alive today, due to media and tech, I'd say maybe Adele.

Nah. It would be some boy band. Probably an Asian one you've never heard of.

 

In terms of contemporary American acts, Bruno mars, Coldplay, Katy perry, would probably be your winners. Adele would be up there though.

 

I'm just going off what I hear people singing in ktv mostly.

[naomi 343]

Nah. It would be some boy band. Probably an Asian one you've never heard of.

 

In terms of contemporary American acts, Bruno mars, Coldplay, Katy perry, would probably be your winners. Adele would be up there though.

 

I'm just going off what I hear people singing in ktv mostly.

If those huge populations have heard her, and almost all the medium and smaller pops have, yet the medium and smaller pops don't necessarily hear the artists big in China or India...then...

 

This might be Algebra.