Top 10 Most Overplayed Songs

1. Shape of You - Ed Sheeran

   

   I had expectations for 2017, and they gave me this. 12 weeks at #1, and it sounded dated from the very second it was unleashed. Its empty, lifeless sound makes me feel as if it should've been dumped into the toxic waste pool that was 2016's pop scene. Songs can overstay their welcome if they please, but for the love of quality content, at least make it good! It has been half a year since this crap was released, and pop stations are still abusing it.

   This song is not bad at all. Everyone hates it because it's overplayed. There's a reason people are getting services like Apple Music - so they don't have to listen to this song on the radio. While I don't personally dislike it, I don't like how many artists are succumbing to that "radio-friendly" stereotype of songs.

2. Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson

   

   One of the best songs on the radio. It's needless to say I would listen to this song over Adele's "Hello" any time.

   Overplayed but cool song until now! Even I kept on mimicking his dance when this song plays.

3. Hello - Adele

   

   Probably the most overplayed artist of all time. There are a couple of songs Adele does that are decent, but the radio is a professional at milking it. Madea's version was much better!

   This song is getting old now. I'm getting sick of listening to it so much. It was supposed to be the number one song of 2015 instead of Hotline Bling. They both are getting worse every time I hear them. It was at least good for a while though.

   Those who think this song is the best should clearly get their ears checked. Hello from the hater side, I've heard this song 1000 times. Literally 5 times today at least.

4. Girls Like You - Maroon 5

   

   First of all, Maroon 5 sucks. This song is so basic. Please come up with something original. Next, Adam Levine once called girls that wanted an autograph from him ugly chicks. Maroon 5 is both annoying and aggravating. Every time one of their songs comes on, I want to cover my ears! It's like all they want to do is make money. They don't care about music at all. They should just quit. Please give people who want to make music a spot on the radio.

   It, along with High Hopes by Panic! At The Disco, got old really fast. I never liked it in the first place. I was never a fan of guitar-stuffed pop songs involving a guy with a half-grown beard screeching about a girl who will magically make his life better. But now? It's on so much.

5. I Like It - Cardi B

   

   This is the most overplayed song on the radio right now (up there with In My Feelings). Basically, every time I go out, I hear this playing on two stations at once at least one time. Top 5 material.

   It's Cardi B... Not much else to say. This song is literally everywhere and somehow getting worse than it already was.

   I have heard this song many times on the radio. Cardi B doesn't have that many awful songs, and this is one of them. This is actually a great song that has a good tune, a good beat, and it makes you want to get up and swag dance, which basically means dancing like a rapper would. And for all you haters out there, she can probably rap 1,000 times better than you. I honestly really like this song. BUT (yes, there is a BUT) those guys who do a solo and just say gibberish or Spanish or whatever ruin the song. That's just wrong.

6. Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen

   

   Shape of You - Very overplayed but it's only been popular for three years. It could die when we least expect it.

   Smooth Criminal - Hell no, it's not nearly played enough for number two.

   Hello - Also not very relevant now. In fact, it died out quickly.

   Call Me Maybe is eight years old, and I still hear it all the time on pretty much any pop radio station. It just plays when you least expect it and gets annoying quickly. The song is just around like the speed of light. Should be number one easily.

   I wish that some of her other songs like Run Away With Me, Your Type, or Boy Problems would get recognition. This song gave her a bad name that she doesn't deserve. She's an example of an artist that only gets recognition for her bad songs, and her better songs are underrated (her entire album, Emotion, is good).

7. Happy - Pharrell Williams

   

   My dad and I would listen to this song every day on the radio. I liked it for a while, but then it started playing every 30 minutes on every single radio station. So annoying!

   This song sucked, and my friends forced me to listen to it because they knew how much I hated it.

   I feel like people only know Pharrell because of his hat.

8. Hotline Bling - Drake

   

   This song is very annoying and overplayed. I don't really care for Drake, but this is him at his worst.

   Only simps listen to this song. I can't believe I used to be one of them.

   Overrated. I would never recommend this ever.

9. Trap Queen - Fetty Wap

   

   I've actually never heard this song on the radio, but I've heard it once on YouTube, and it was complete garbage.

10. Love Yourself - Justin Bieber

    
The Newcomers
11. ?

    Apt. - Rosé & Bruno Mars

    

    I absolutely cannot fathom why this song is popular to begin with. It's chorus is extremely grating and it's lyrics are generic drivel. It also has a toxic fanbase. If you dare criticize this song you will get assaulted by stans defending it. For some reason, there's this weird tendency among this songs' fans to accuse anyone who doesn't like it of "not being fun." Absolute garbage song with an equally garbage fanbase.

    The amount of airplay this song gets is insane. I hear it everywhere.

    Die With A Smile may be overplayed as well, but at least it's a good song. This is overplayed garbage with one of the most annoying choruses to ever exist.

12. ?

    Flowers - Miley Cyrus

    

    This song was everywhere back in 2023 and it was an annoying song. There were a few people on reddit who made posts about not liking this song and stupid Miley Cyrus fanatics started defending it by claiming that "ShE iS aLlOwEd To ExPrEsS hEr FeElInGs!" And I was thinking "and? So what?" That means nothing. You realize that critics of the song are allowed to have opinions too, you know.

The Contenders

13. Someone You Loved - Lewis Capaldi

    

    The worst song of 2019. How did this get played on the radio?

14. Don't Stop Believin' - Journey

    

    I swear, if I hear this song one more time.

    I feel like this is why the song is number one on the "Top Ten Journey Songs" list. It gets played nonstop.

    And if it's not this song, then it's either Separate Ways, Open Arms, Lights, or even Any Way You Want It that gets played so much it becomes annoying and enraging.

    Steve Perry is also very overrated in my eyes, no offense.

    This song is trashy and so annoying. I hear it too often. Why isn't it higher on the list? It should be #1.

    "Don't Stop Believin'" is a great song, but when I was talking to one of my friends who said they really liked the song, I asked her what her favorite Journey song was (mine is "Lights"). She said, "What is Journey?" If you love a song that much, you should find out who it is! Also, it bothers me when people think it's a recent song even though it's from the 80s.

15. Boom Boom Pow - The Black Eyed Peas

    

    No doubt, this song is overplayed. It always tops the radio chart almost every day.

16. Drivers License - Olivia Rodrigo

    

    Good song, though it's been played so much for a good reason, in fact. Still better than all the garbage released lately.

17. All About That Bass - Meghan Trainor

    

    So overplayed, but at least it wasn't played as much when 2015 came along, kind of.

    This is played so many times and is getting really annoying!

    I'd rather listen to Shake It Off than this trashy song.

18. Closer - The Chainsmokers

    

    "Closer" by a mile. It will one day be the #1 most overplayed song in the history of music, rivaling even "Happy Birthday" in its omnipresence and endless loops of plays.

    One time recently (in April 2018), we were in the car, and Closer came on three times. Even though I like this song, it's fading away much slower than even last year's fall hits.

    Once, I heard this song five times on the radio within a single hour. That's why I vote it up.

19. Hotel California - The Eagles

    

    This song has to be the most overplayed song of all time. I've heard it no less than four times within the past week playing at random places, and it isn't even new. Make it stop.

    Amazing song, but the classic rock stations love it a bit too much.

20. Come As You Are - Nirvana

    

21. Despacito - Luis Fonsi

    

    Reggaeton is the killer of good mainstream music (at least in Spanish-speaking countries). It's sad to know that it is the most viewed video ever on YouTube. The song is directed to teens that listen to Justin Bieber and Little Mix - only radio-friendly music. And the song is so unoriginal...

    At first, I was like yeah, whatever about this song, but now the times have changed. It gets played almost every ten minutes. When I hear that stupid guitar start up, I slam the power off button on the stereo.

    This is getting so old. I didn't mind it the first few times, but now it's super annoying! It makes me super mad that people like this garbage and don't even give Japanese music a chance.

22. I'm Yours - Jason Mraz

    

    What radio stations are you guys listening to? I never heard this song on the radio, even back then.

    This song makes my ears bleed. It was continuously overplayed on the radio.

    Worst song ever! Makes Baby by Justin Bieber look like pure awesomeness!

23. What About Us - P!NK

    

    I would have said I was OK with this song back in August, September, and October of last year. But on November 16, this song came on four different stations in under 20 minutes. By the time December rolled around, it had started to wear out its welcome for me. After I still kept hearing it three times every outing, I then went through a whole phase of really hating this song, but now I don't really care anymore.

    I didn't mind this song at first. But then, for ten months, it was absolutely everywhere. I couldn't go anywhere without hearing this song at least twice, sometimes even four times! What's so great about it? The chorus is one of the whiniest I've heard in a long time! And I always get the earworm from this song. Not to mention it has played in many public places too. All this in one word: WHY?

24. In My Feelings - Drake

    

    I can't go anywhere without hearing this awful garbage. Today I heard this song twice in like 10 minutes (luckily Bad At Love was playing on another station the second time). I also heard this three times the other day. How is this #1 on the Hot 100 when I can think of songs that didn't hit #1 this year that are much more deserving of that spot?

25. All I Want for Christmas is You - Mariah Carey

    

    It's far from being bad, but no matter where in the world you live, you just can't escape this song being played everywhere around Christmas. There are plenty of other great Christmas songs, but it seems like radios, social events, and others just can't get enough of this one. This is a big reason why I have quit listening to the radio.

    This should be in the top 5. It's extremely overplayed when it's Christmas.

    I love Christmas music and this song, but it is definitely overplayed.

26. Crank That (Soulja Boy) - Soulja Boy Tell Em

    

    This song is way overplayed. I once heard this song on the radio, and at the end of the song, I changed the station, and it was on again.

    Guys, this song's dead since no one listens to it.

    Who the hell still listens to this crap?

27. Fight for Your Right - The Beastie Boys

    

    I'm a huge Beastie Boys fan, but this is a bad song, and it is making fun of the people that like it. It is meant to be bad, not a classic hit of the '80s.

    All the old-school rock stations and rap stations. Beasties are the best though.