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I've been itching to do this for a long time, but hosting the Rank the Tracks threads has inspired me to finally start. I'm not sure how quickly I will go through this; I don't want to force myself to do too much but also don't want to drag this out. I still feel inadequate when it comes to actually writing about music - but I can't get better without just jumping in and trying.

Here's the breakdown by decade; each year from the mid-60s on is about equally represented:
1930s: 1
1940s: 2
1950s: 7
1960s: 27
1970s: 43
1980s: 41
1990s: 45
2000s: 39
2010s: 42
2020s: 3

There is one artist with five songs, five artists with four, eleven artists with three, and 37 with two.

I was going to include a genre breakdown but that is a messy subject; this is fairly spread out, though I'm not exactly big on harder rock genres. I don't think any metal songs crack my top 250, so I am sorry to disappoint there. To set expectations, this is a list made by someone who really started to pay attention to popular music in the late 2000s. My gateways were the soundtracks from Grand Theft Auto IV and Rock Band 2. I'm obviously obsessed with lists (this actually goes to a top 3000, but I don't have the time to write about that many songs), and I've been slowly building this list over the last decade or so. I figured it was time to commit and actually think about why these specific songs have resonated with me.

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My top 100 games (with write-ups): https://foolfantastic.com/top-100-video-games-project/