A Hitster song list you can actually use
160 songs, eight decades, every year checked against two music catalogues. Copy a decade into your playlist and let Hitify turn it into printable cards with QR codes.
Make Cards From This List160 songs, 1950s to now
These are the most scanned songs on real Hitify cards. The years come from two independent catalogues that agree, so your timeline holds up when someone challenges it.
1950s
20 songs- 1950 Mona Lisa Nat King Cole
- 1951 Padam padam Édith Piaf
- 1952 Singin' In The Rain Gene Kelly
- 1953 That's Amore Dean Martin
- 1954 (We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock Bill Haley & His Comets
- 1954 Earth Angel The Penguins
- 1954 I've Got a Woman Ray Charles
- 1955 Ain't That A Shame Fats Domino
- 1955 Love And Marriage Frank Sinatra
- 1955 Soy minero Antonio Molina
- 1955 Tutti Frutti Little Richard
- 1956 Hound Dog Elvis Presley
- 1956 Roll Over Beethoven Chuck Berry
- 1957 Fumando Espero Sara Montiel
- 1957 I'm Walkin' Fats Domino
- 1957 Jailhouse Rock Elvis Presley
- 1958 All I Have to Do Is Dream The Everly Brothers
- 1958 Johnny B. Goode Chuck Berry
- 1958 Tequila The Champs
- 1959 Chega de saudade João Gilberto
1960s
20 songs- 1961 Can't Help Falling in Love Elvis Presley
- 1961 Stand By Me Ben E. King
- 1964 House of the Rising Sun The Animals
- 1964 My Girl The Temptations
- 1964 Oh, Pretty Woman Roy Orbison
- 1965 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction The Rolling Stones
- 1965 California Dreamin' The Mamas & The Papas
- 1965 Drive My Car The Beatles
- 1965 It's Not Unusual Tom Jones
- 1966 Paint It, Black The Rolling Stones
- 1967 Ain't No Mountain High Enough Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell
- 1967 Light My Fire The Doors
- 1967 Respect Aretha Franklin
- 1967 The Bare Necessities Phil Harris, Bruce Reitherman
- 1967 What A Wonderful World Louis Armstrong
- 1969 Fortunate Son Creedence Clearwater Revival
- 1969 Here Comes The Sun The Beatles
- 1969 I Want You Back The Jackson 5
- 1969 My Way Frank Sinatra
- 1969 Sweet Caroline Neil Diamond
1970s
20 songs- 1970 Have You Ever Seen The Rain Creedence Clearwater Revival
- 1970 Let It Be The Beatles
- 1971 Imagine John Lennon
- 1972 Starman David Bowie
- 1973 Piano Man Billy Joel
- 1974 No Woman No Cry Bob Marley & The Wailers
- 1975 Bohemian Rhapsody Queen
- 1976 Daddy Cool Boney M.
- 1976 Dancing Queen ABBA
- 1976 Hotel California Eagles
- 1976 More Than a Feeling Boston
- 1977 The Chain Fleetwood Mac
- 1977 Vienna Billy Joel
- 1978 I Will Survive Gloria Gaynor
- 1978 Met De Vlam In De Pijp Henk Wijngaard
- 1979 Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough Michael Jackson
- 1979 Don't Stop Me Now Queen
- 1979 Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) ABBA
- 1979 Highway to Hell AC/DC
- 1979 I Was Made For Lovin' You KISS
1980s
20 songs- 1981 Under Pressure Queen, David Bowie
- 1982 Africa TOTO
- 1982 Beat It Michael Jackson
- 1983 99 Luftballons Nena
- 1983 Billie Jean Michael Jackson
- 1983 Every Breath You Take The Police
- 1983 Girls Just Want to Have Fun Cyndi Lauper
- 1983 Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart
- 1983 Uptown Girl Billy Joel
- 1984 Dancing In the Dark Bruce Springsteen
- 1984 Forever Young Alphaville
- 1984 Irgendwie, irgendwo, irgendwann Nena
- 1984 Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go Wham!
- 1985 Summer Of '69 Bryan Adams
- 1985 Take on Me a-ha
- 1986 Livin' On A Prayer Bon Jovi
- 1986 The Final Countdown Europe
- 1987 I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) Whitney Houston
- 1987 Never Gonna Give You Up Rick Astley
- 1988 Sweet Child O' Mine Guns N' Roses
1990s
20 songs- 1990 Thunderstruck AC/DC
- 1991 Losing My Religion R.E.M.
- 1991 Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana
- 1992 All That She Wants Ace of Base
- 1992 Creep Radiohead
- 1992 I Will Always Love You Whitney Houston
- 1992 What's Up? 4 Non Blondes
- 1993 Macarena Los Del Rio
- 1995 Lemon Tree Fools Garden
- 1996 Wannabe Spice Girls
- 1997 Angels Robbie Williams
- 1997 Barbie Girl Aqua
- 1998 ...Baby One More Time Britney Spears
- 1998 Believe Cher
- 1998 Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!! Vengaboys
- 1998 Iris The Goo Goo Dolls
- 1999 Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers
- 1999 I Want It That Way Backstreet Boys
- 1999 Livin' la Vida Loca Ricky Martin
- 1999 Mambo No. 5 (a Little Bit of...) Lou Bega
2000s
20 songs- 2000 In the End Linkin Park
- 2000 Teenage Dirtbag Wheatus
- 2000 The Real Slim Shady Eminem
- 2001 How You Remind Me Nickelback
- 2002 Sk8er Boi Avril Lavigne
- 2003 Hey Ya! Outkast
- 2003 Mr. Brightside The Killers
- 2003 Numb Linkin Park
- 2003 Seven Nation Army The White Stripes
- 2003 Toxic Britney Spears
- 2004 Unwritten Natasha Bedingfield
- 2004 Yeah! (feat. Lil Jon & Ludacris) USHER, Lil Jon, Ludacris
- 2005 Feel Good Inc. Gorillaz, De La Soul
- 2006 Life is a Highway Rascal Flatts
- 2007 Umbrella Rihanna, JAY-Z
- 2008 Poker Face Lady Gaga
- 2008 Sex on Fire Kings of Leon
- 2008 Viva La Vida Coldplay
- 2009 I Gotta Feeling Black Eyed Peas
- 2009 TiK ToK Kesha
2010s
20 songs- 2010 Baby Justin Bieber, Ludacris
- 2010 Pumped Up Kicks Foster The People
- 2010 Rolling in the Deep Adele
- 2011 Call Me Maybe Carly Rae Jepsen
- 2011 On The Floor Jennifer Lopez, Pitbull
- 2011 What Makes You Beautiful One Direction
- 2013 All of Me John Legend
- 2013 Atemlos durch die Nacht Helene Fischer
- 2013 Counting Stars OneRepublic
- 2013 Timber Pitbull, Kesha
- 2014 A Sky Full of Stars Coldplay
- 2014 Blank Space Taylor Swift
- 2014 Thinking out Loud Ed Sheeran
- 2014 Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars) Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars
- 2015 Lush Life Zara Larsson
- 2017 Despacito Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee
- 2017 Shape of You Ed Sheeran
- 2017 Sign of the Times Harry Styles
- 2019 bad guy Billie Eilish
- 2019 Blinding Lights The Weeknd
2020s
20 songs- 2020 Dynamite BTS
- 2020 Heat Waves Glass Animals
- 2021 drivers license Olivia Rodrigo
- 2021 good 4 u Olivia Rodrigo
- 2021 STAY (with Justin Bieber) The Kid LAROI, Justin Bieber
- 2022 As It Was Harry Styles
- 2023 Flowers Miley Cyrus
- 2023 Komet Udo Lindenberg, Apache 207
- 2024 APT. ROSÉ, Bruno Mars
- 2024 Beautiful Things Benson Boone
- 2024 Die With A Smile Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars
- 2024 Espresso Sabrina Carpenter
- 2024 Wackelkontakt Oimara
- 2025 DtMF Bad Bunny
- 2025 Golden HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI, KPop Demon Hunters Cast
- 2025 Man I Need Olivia Dean
- 2025 Opalite Taylor Swift
- 2025 Ordinary Alex Warren
- 2025 The Fate of Ophelia Taylor Swift
- 2025 Zoo Disney, Shakira
160 songs
From this list to a deck of cards
Copy the songs into a playlist, paste the link, print.
Copy a decade
Hit copy on any decade above and paste the songs into a new Spotify, YouTube Music, Tidal, Deezer or Apple Music playlist.
Paste the playlist
Hitify reads every track and looks up the release year for you, so you never check 160 dates by hand.
Print and play
Download the PDF, print double sided and cut. QR code on the front, year on the back.
One wrong year ruins the game
Two catalogues have to agree
Every year on this list is confirmed by MusicBrainz and Discogs independently, or corrected by hand.
Remasters do not count
Spotify sells "Hey Jude - Remastered 2015". Same performance, wrong year. We date the original release, not the reissue.
Built from real play
The order is how often each song has actually been scanned on a Hitify card, so the famous ones come first.
What players say
based on 34 reviews
This was an awesome idea. We love having game nights with our friends. We 10/10 recommend especially if you love music games as much as we do.
It works! Nice game for music lovers.
This site is awesome. So much fun to create your own cards and play them with friends. If I could give 6 stars I would.
I really useful for upgrade this game the official song card is a bit less
Amazing project. With just a few clicks your own Spotify playlist is turned into a Hitster game. Keep it up. The pricing is also really very fair
Easy to use, and the result is exactly what I expected!
Easy to use. Happy with my own cards.
Super simple process, works like a charm!
Great for creating your own cards and QR codes. Plus you play with the same app
Beautiful idea and a beautiful app, fast and easy to use
Worked perfectly! Thank you so much!
Best app for creating cards for a music game!
It was really great. I made a birthday playlist for a friend, and with Hitify she could play her own personal Hitster. 🥰
Works great and nicely priced.
Really nice and easy!
So incredibly easy to do, and so much fun for adding a personal touch to a party, a special event or any other occasion. Really recommended. You can let your creativity run wild, or just go for convenience and let it do the work for you.
Nice to be able to turn your own playlist into a Hitster-like game. The only downside is that you hear the songs without the intro.
Being able to create new card packs for Hitster is a real treat. A great app.
Quick and smooth. Easy to create your own playing cards. There are no limits. I recommend it
Very easy-to-use app. I especially like that you can submit a correction for the year, and if it's right it gets applied straight away. The different ways to vary the printout are great too. Highly recommended!
Great service. It was super fast, it works without any problems and looks really great.
Frequently asked questions
How many songs do I need for a game?
20 is enough for a first game and around 60 fills an evening. Start small: you learn which songs your friends actually know before printing a hundred cards.
Can I mix these with the original Hitster deck?
Yes. Hitify cards are the same size and use the same guess-the-year rules, so they shuffle straight into a Hitster timeline.
Where do the years come from?
From MusicBrainz and Discogs, cross checked. Where they disagree we look at the original release rather than the remaster or the compilation.
Do I have to use this list?
No, it is a starting point. Most people paste a playlist they already have and only borrow a few songs from here.
Is it free?
Your first 100 cards are free, no account needed.
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