Billboard 500 best pop songs. Dreams is #17

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by Villavic

It's not the best song. It's the most popular Fleetwood Mac song, worldwide. If you play FM songs to any non fan, millenials & centennials included, the highest probability of recognize a song, or heard before at least once, is definitely Dreams. Again, I'm thinking worldwide. Everywhere, Dont Stop and Gypsy probably recognized but some too, but not as much as Dreams.

In terms of popularity (including outside the fans, beyond Generation X), Dreams is kind of the "Hotel California" or the "Stayin’ Alive" of Fleetwood Mac.

I would say that GYOW is their Hotel California.

[jmn3]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

I would say that GYOW is their Hotel California.

100% this right here

[bwboy]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

I would say that GYOW is their Hotel California.

And here I thought Don’t Stop was their Hotel California, especially after Clinton made it his presidential theme song.

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

I would say that GYOW is their Hotel California.

My point is current worlwide popularity. GYOW nowadays is not as popular as Dreams, Dont Stop or Everywhere in Peru, Argentina, Spain, etc.

Hotel California and Dreams are still usually played in 70s-80s music radios (southamerica and some eruopean countries i have visited). Go Your Own Way unfortunately is not.

Dreams is recognized by millenials, centenials. Not a lot, but some of them know that song. As they know HC. GYOW is not known.

Again, I'm talking about today popularity, presence on radios, not talking about quality or artistic work.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by Jondalar

I just looked this and this chart is stupid.
I Wanna Dance with Somebody is #1
Call Me Maybe and Since You Been Gone are in the top 10.

It is a dumb, ridiculous list.

I don't pay too much attention to these either. They're usually awful.