30 Songs Guaranteed To Get Stuck In Your Head From Only One Line

#1 The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)

"and I would walk 500 more..."

This is just the beginning... these earworms are going to be with you for awhile.

#2 Mary J. Blige - What Love Is

That's a question you can't get out of your head. From the opening to the end, it never gets answered and never leaves you.

#3 The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight

OK, you're probably humming or singing under your breath, "A-wimoweh, a-wimoweh, a-wimoweh, a-wimoweh, de de dee de, oh wum wum away.."

#5 Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)

Not to be confused with the newer version, this classic hit keeps you spinning round and round, like a record baby, right round..."

*"What's a record?"

#6 Twisted Sister - Come On Feel The Noise

"Girls rock the boys" However, if you're like most, that's the only part you remember, and that's enough!

#7 A-ha - Take On Me

Despite having one of the hardest-to-sing choruses in pop history a fact easily confirmed by a trip to any karaoke bar a-ha's "Take on Me" is one of the catchiest tunes ever... sadly, only for the title.

#8 Europe - The Final Countdown

This 80's song has been featured in numerous video games and films, but just like the other "earworms" it's just the title that sticks in your head and makes you crazy.

"It's the final countdown

The final countdown

The final countdown"

Anyone can sing it, really.

#9 Spice Girls - If You Wanna be My Lover

This one will really get into your head...

"Tell you what I want, what I really really want, So tell me what you want, what you really really want, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna really really really wanna zigazig ha. If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends.."

#10 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

Or is it fantasy?

Mama, I just killed a man...

Even if you don't know ALL the lyrics, you can be sure you know some, or can fudge it just enough to make it to the

"Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?

Thunderbolts and lightning, very, very frightening me

Galileo, Galileo

Galileo, Figaro.."

#11 Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy

Are ya really? Singing this song all day long in your head?

"Do the catwalk, do my little turn on the catwalk..."

#12 Queen - We Will Rock You

Another Queen diddy. Try keeping this one out of your head today.

"Singin'

We will, we will rock you

We will, we will rock you.."

#13 Baha Men - Who Let The Dogs Out

It's very catchy, but alas, I know you only remember that bombastic chorus:

Who let the dogs out? (Who, who, who, who?)

It sticks with you though, doesn't it?

#14 Journey - Don't Stop Believin'

Everybody knows this one!

"Just a small town girl

Livin' in a lonely world

She took the midnight train

Goin' anywhere

Just a city boy

Born and raised in South Detroit

He took the midnight train

Goin' anywhere"

#15 Avril Lavigne - Spongebob Squarepants Theme

You may not know this one if you were born after 1990, but if you have kids, I'm sure this will stick with you as much as that Barney song did..

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

"SpongeBob SquarePants!"

Absorbent and yellow and porous is he

"SpongeBob SquarePants!"

#16 Aqua - Barbie Girl

Hiya Ken! Hiya Barbie! Yuck! Bet you only know the chorus on this one too.. it IS catchy!

"I'm a Barbie girl in a Barbie world

Life in plastic, it's fantastic

You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere

Imagination, life is your creation"

#17 Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Piña Colada Song)

OK, this one for real is a winner in the earworm hall of fame. A classic to say the least. However, it's only the chorus we can recall.

"If you like piÃ±a coladas and getting caught in the rain

If you're not into yoga, if you have half a brain

If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape

Then I'm the love that you've looked for, write to me and escape"

#18 Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting

Remember the funky Chinamen from funky Chinatown? You do NOW!

Ohohoho

Everybody was kung fu fighting

Those cats were fast as lightning

In fact it was a little bit frightening

But they fought with expert timing...

#19 Don McLean - American Pie

Did you cry the day the music died? If so, you probably will get Don McLean's mega hit stuck in your head all day long. A lot of us know this one ALMOST all the way though, but it's a long song, so we just hum the last 3 verses.

So bye-bye, Miss American Pie

Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry

And them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye

Singin' "This'll be the day that I die

This'll be the day that I die"

#20 Tommy Tutone - 867-5309/Jenny

Jenny, I got your number

I need to make you mine

Jenny, don't change your number

867-5309

There! Take that! The most famous telephone number ever!

#21 Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back

An anthem for big booty! You'll be singing this one for a few days, guaranteed!

Oh my gawd, Becky, look at that butt... (now they wish they had THAT butt!)

"I like big butts and I cannot lie

You other brothers can't deny

That when a girl walks in with an itty-bitty waist

And a round thing in your face

You get sprung"

#22 Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe

A huge summer hit a few year ago, the chorus was stuck in everyone's head for months. You know you can sing it..

"Hey I just met you

And this is crazy

But here's my number

So call me maybe

It's hard to look right at you baby

But here's my number

So call me maybe"

An anthem for desperate girls everywhere!

#23 Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound Of Silence

Going way way back.. this is a classic earworm. It's been parodied, remade, rerecorded, and rehashed over and over, but face it, once you hear that one line, you wanna sing it..

"Hello darkness my old friend. I've come to talk to you again.."

#24 The Village People - YMCA

It's FUN to stay at the YMCA! The song is one of the catchiest, most annoying party song from the 1970's era. Not many people haven't heard it, or sung it in their deep sanctums of their minds. Aside from the popular dance that accompany's the song, it's a mind boggling, repetitive mess.

It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.

They have everything for you men to enjoy,

You can hang out with all the boys ...

#25 Billy Joel - Uptown Girl

This 1983 tune has stuck with us for a long time.. try and get it out of your head now.

Uptown girl

She's been living in her uptown world

I bet she's never had a backstreet guy

I bet her momma never told her why

Uptown Giiiirrrrl...

#26 Witch Doctor - Uhh Eeh Uh Ah Ah Ting Tank Walla Walla Bing Bang

The repetitiveness of this song is very irritating but oh, so catchy! If you know the title you know the song.. Except for this one verse below, it's all the same lyrics.

"You can keep your love from me just like you were a miser

And I'll admit it wasn't very smart

So I went out and found myself a guy that's so much wiser

And he taught me the way to win your heart

Duh Duh Duh DoDoDoDo.."

You know the rest. Have fun!

#27 Aretha Franklin - RESPECT

What you want? baby I got it! A classic song that really sticks in your head and eats away at your sanity. Also, it's a great teaching tool for learning to spell.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Find out what it means to me

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Take care, TCB

#28 Rembrants - I'll Be There For You

OK, you definitely know the theme to FRIENDS! It only take this first line to get you singing along.. C'mon..

"You life's a joke, your love life's DOA!"

#29 Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

Gotcha! You're stuck on this one now I'm sure!

Pissing the night away...

"I get knocked down

But I get up again

You're never gonna keep me down

I get knocked down

But I get up again

You're never gonna keep me down"

#30 Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs Robinson

Another S&G tune on our list, this theme to "The Graduate" is a classic earworm. Both older and younger people know most of the song, and one you hear the line you're hooked!

"And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson,

Jesus loves you more than you will know.

God bless you, please Mrs. Robinson.

Heaven holds a place for those who pray,

Hey, hey, hey

Hey, hey, hey"

#31 Good luck getting those out of your head!

Here are a few HONORABLE MENTIONS that I know most of you will surely get stuck on.. Damn you!

"Oh Mickey you're so fine, Oh Mickey you blow my mind, Hey Mickey!" - Toni Basil

"You and me baby we're stuck like glue

Whutooo whutooo

Stuck like glue

You and me baby we're stuck like glue" - Sugarland

"One Two Three O'Clock, Four O'Clock Rock..." Bill Haley & The Comets

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