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TODAY'S ADDITION TO THE LIST:

#1 -- "Amarillo By Morning" by George Strait ... Click Here (YouTube version)

THE FINAL LIST:

#50T -- "Solsbury Hill" by Peter Gabriel
#50T -- "Fly Over States" by Jason Aldean
#49 -- "Sara" by Fleetwood Mac
#48 -- Bagpipe Medley by the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band (2009 World Pipe Band Championships)
#47 -- "How I'll Always Be" by Tim McGraw
#46 -- "Midnight On The Interstate" by Trampled By Turtles
#45 -- "Your Love" by The Outfield
#44 -- "Ventura Highway" by America
#43 -- "Like A Rock" by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
#42 -- "The World I Know" by Collective Soul
#41 -- "Dance the Night Away" by Van Halen
#40 -- "The Gael" from The Last of the Mohicans
#39 -- "Stand Or Fall" by The Fixx
#38 -- "Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits
#37 -- "Midnight Rider" by The Allman Brothers Band
#36 -- "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" by Procul Harum
#35 -- "Gathering Crowds" from This Week in Baseball
#34 -- "Copperhead Road" by Steve Earle
#33 -- "Suddenly Last Summer" by The Motels
#32 -- "Time Stand Still" by Rush
#31 -- "Nothing Left To Lose" by Mat Kearney
#30 -- "In a Big Country" by Big Country
#29 -- "New York City Serenade" by Bruce Springsteen
#28 -- "Who'll Stop the Rain?" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
#27 -- "Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)" by John Mellencamp
#26 -- "It's All I Can Do" by The Cars
#25 -- "Talk Of The Town" by The Pretenders
#24 -- "Going To California" by Led Zeppelin
#23 -- "Into The Mystic" by Van Morrison
#22 -- "The Fire Inside" by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
#21 -- "Heard It In A Love Song" by The Marshall Tucker Band
#20 -- "Find Your Way Back" by Jefferson Starship
#19 -- "I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)" by Grand Funk Railroad
#18 -- "Take It Back" by Pink Floyd
#17 -- "Mandolin Rain" by Bruce Hornsby & The Range
#16 -- "More Than A Feeling" by Boston
#15 -- "Tuesday's Gone" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
#14 -- "Sullivan Street" by the Counting Crows
#13 -- "Take It To The Limit" by The Eagles
#12 -- "Waiting On A Friend" by the Rolling Stones
#11 -- "A Pirate Looks At Forty" by Jimmy Buffett
#10 -- "Never Surrender" by Corey Hart
#9 -- "Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses" by Kathy Mattea
#8 -- "Hysteria" by Def Leppard
#7 -- "The Boys of Summer" by Don Henley
#6 -- "Blue Sky" by The Allman Brothers Band
#5 -- "Fifty Years Ago" by Ian Tyson
#4 -- "Night Moves" by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
#3 -- "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" by Crosby, Stills & Nash
#2 -- "Layla" by Derek & The Dominos
#1 -- "Amarillo By Morning" by George Strait

Pinging to those from the previous threads. We finally reached the top of the list. This one was kind of predictable for anyone who knows me well. LOL. It's a great, short song with a catchy tune -- the greatest country song ever written and performed, in my humble opinion. What's not to like in a country song about a rodeo rider in Texas? It's on a number of my playlists, and I could listen to it forever.

And I have yet to hear a country song with "Amarillo" in the lyrics that isn't a great one!

"I ain't got a dime, but what I've got is mine ... I ain't rich -- but Lord, I'm free."

Thank you all for following this thread along the way, and a special THANK YOU to SunkenCiv for posting the prior list of threads so I could repost the hyperlinks all in one place!

good list, we listen to the same music.

This was a very interesting series of threads. Thank you for taking the initiative to countdown your most played iTunes songs.

Before I reveal my #1, let me state in advance that my Top 50 most played tunes are not my actual most played tunes. This is because I am a sucker for downloading the latest remastered or expanded versions of my favorite albums.

Whenever I do this, the play counts of my most favorite songs get reset to zero.

For example, "Tusk" is my favorite Fleetwood Mac album and thus songs like "Sisters Of The Moon", "Sara", and "Storms" would easily get into my most played songs. But recently, I downloaded the massive 62-track "Expanded Edition" which reset all those songs back to zero (because I always delete earlier versions).

Anyway, time for my number one most played iTunes song which was downloaded many years ago on a compilation Christmas album and currently sits at 262 plays.

The Pogues - Fairytale of New York (1988)

This is a song I never get tired of listening to. Especially after I moved to the New York City area just over a decade ago.

The Pogues had many other great songs including "A Rainy Night In Soho" and "A Pair Of Brown Eyes".

Lead singer Shane McGowan died just about a year ago at this time. He had quite a rough life but wrote some great songs.

Anyway, thanks for letting my piggyback on your threads with my own top songs. Here are my 50 top played songs on iTunes that I froze in time about when you started this project. There are a lot of new songs moving up so in a year or so, this list will look a lot different in my music library.

#50 - Jack's Mannequin - The Lights And Buzz (2005)
#49 - The Cars - It's All I Can Do (1979)
#48 - Lobo - Me And You And A Dog Named Boo (1971)
#47 - Zach Bryan - Oklahoma Smokeshow (2022)
#46 - Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky (1970)
#45 - Chris Isaak - Wicked Game (1989)
#44 - Night - Hot Summer Nights (1979)
#43 - Rocky Burnette - Tired Of Toein' The Line (1980)
#42 - Emmylou Harris - Pancho And Lefty (1976)
#41 - Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me (1985)
#40 - Tom Petty - Refugee (1979)
#39 - Coldplay - Clocks (2002)
#38 - The Magnetic Fields - 100,000 Fireflies (1991)
#37 - Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down (1970)
#36 - Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street (1978)
#35 - Chris de Burgh - A Spaceman Came Travelling (1975)
#34 - The Doors - Riders On A Storm (1971)
#33 - Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You (1981)
#32 - Renaissance - Ashes Are Burning (1973)
#31 - Opus - Live Is Life (1985)
#30 - Elton John - Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding (1973)
#29 - Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat (1976)
#28 - America - Sister Golden Hair (1975)
#27 - The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (1981)
#26 - Gary Numan & The Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric (1979)
#25 - David Bowie - Width Of A Circle (1970)
#24 - Haircut 100 - Love Plus One (1982)
#23 - Outlaws - Ghost Riders In The Sky (1980)
#22 - Renaissance - Carpet Of The Sun (1973)
#21 - Tom Petty - Here Comes My Girl (1979)
#20 - Thelma Houston - Don't Leave Me This Way (1977)
#19 - Nillson - Everybody's Talkin' (1969)
#18 - Jason Aldean - Fly Over States (2010)
#17 - The Fifth Dimension - Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (1969)
#16 - Weezer - Buddy Holly (1994)
#15 - Juice Newton - Angel Of The Morning (1981)
#14 - Sting - Soul Cake (2009)
#13 - Sniff 'n' The Tears - Driver's Seat (1979)
#12 - U2 & Pavarotti - Miss Sarajevo (1995)
#11 - Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying (2004)
#10 - Asia - Heat Of The Moment (1982)
#9 - Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing (1978)
#8 - Robert Plant - Big Log (1983)
#7 - Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen (1983)
#6 - Blind Melon - No Rain (1993)
#5 - The Waterboys - The Whole Of The Moon (1998)
#4 - A-Ha - Take On Me (1985)
#3 - Prince - One Of Us (1996)
#2 - Donald Fagen - I.G.Y. (1982)
#1 - Pogues - Fairytale Of New York (1988)

Here is one of my favorite songs. I used to play it before leaving for a day of hunting, but it’s motivational for any time!

Of Wolf and Man - by Metallica (with lyrics)

https://youtu.be/st9UHmXpJHs?si=Kk8Tz3tf8StD9sZD