Billboard 500 best pop songs. Dreams is #17

[Wdm6789]

https://www.billboard.com/lists/best...all-time-hits/

Everywhere and You Make Loving Fun should have been on this list.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by Wdm6789

https://www.billboard.com/lists/best...all-time-hits/

Everywhere and You Make Loving Fun should have been on this list.

And Don't Stop

[aleuzzi]

What # is Don’t Stop?

[bwboy]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

What # is Don’t Stop?

It’s not on the list- jbrownsjr was saying it SHOULD have made it on the list, along with Everywhere and You Make Loving Fun.

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by bwboy

It’s not on the list- jbrownsjr was saying it SHOULD have made it on the list, along with Everywhere and You Make Loving Fun.

Ah. One of her songs should have, certainly. You don't get songs like YMLF and SYLM everyday. Everywhere is almost as ubiquitous as Dreams. As is Little Lies. So, there would have been a lot to choose from.

[WalkAThinLine.]

Billboard missed a prime opportunity to include "Thoughts on a Grey Day".

[BrownEyedGirl26]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

Ah. One of her songs should have, certainly. You don't get songs like YMLF and SYLM everyday. Everywhere is almost as ubiquitous as Dreams. As is Little Lies. So, there would have been a lot to choose from.

'Dreams' is a Fleetwood Mac song, created by the five 'Fireflies' as are the other, equally, great songs.

Let's not favour one song or group member over another.

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

And Don't Stop

Wha wha what? No Silver Girl?

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

Wha wha what? No Silver Girl?

More like Slimey Girl.

[bwboy]

I’m thrilled Fleetwood Mac got a song on the list. Pretty impressive, and it’s a high number, too! Should it have been You Make Loving Fun instead? Maybe. Should it have been Go Your Own Way? Probably. Does it matter? Not to me. As far as I’m concerned, Christine and Lindsey are on the list because they are Fleetwood Mac.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by bwboy

I’m thrilled Fleetwood Mac got a song on the list. Pretty impressive, and it’s a high number, too! Should it have been You Make Loving Fun instead? Maybe. Should it have been Go Your Own Way? Probably. Does it matter? Not to me. As far as I’m concerned, Christine and Lindsey are on the list because they are Fleetwood Mac.

Good point, and Christine and Lindsey actually made Dreams into something listenable and pristine.

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

Wha wha what? No Silver Girl?

It was overshadowed by Whatta matta baby

[Jondalar]

Originally Posted by Wdm6789

https://www.billboard.com/lists/best...all-time-hits/

Everywhere and You Make Loving Fun should have been on this list.

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.

[jmn3]

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.

Agreed, this is a stupid list. I hate these things.

And I know I’m alone in this, but I don’t even find Dreams to be Stevie’s best song on Rumours.

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by jmn3

Agreed, this is a stupid list. I hate these things.

And I know I’m alone in this, but I don’t even find Dreams to be Stevie’s best song on Rumours.

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.