100 timeless songs that are never gonna give you up

There's a good chance you know the words to nearly every song on this list.

In the ever-growing catalog of critically acclaimed music, these classics still stand out for long-time lovers of mainstream music. They're the songs you heard in your dad's car as a kid; the ones you danced to at your senior prom; the ones played at nearly every wedding you've ever attended.

Spotify and the Echno Nest, a company that collects and studies data on listener data, analyzed thousands of websites to determine the most talked-about songs of the mid to late twentieth century. Here are 100 tracks that seem to have stuck with listeners decades later.