The Most Played Song Of All Time (Best of 1966)

The Most Played Song of ALL TIME! Somewhere right now, the most played song in radio history is on. And you probably don't know which one it is. This is the countdown of the songs radio has reached for more than any others — built from BMI's documented airplay records, tracking every spin since 1939. Ten songs. Fifteen million plays at the top. And the stories of who made them, what it cost, and why nobody can ever quite turn them off. Otis Redding wrote number eight on napkins on a houseboat. He died three days after he recorded it. The whistling at the end was because he forgot the words. Paul McCartney thought number four was someone else's song. He spent weeks asking people if they recognized it before he trusted that it was actually his. Van Morrison has never received a royalty check for number two. Ten million documented plays. Not one cent. And number one — the single most played song in the history of documented radio — was written in half an hour, in the middle of the night, at Ian Fleming's writing desk in Jamaica. Its own writer has called it nasty. Evil. A mistake. People use it as their first dance at weddings. It's a rock song. That part still gets me. If this is your kind of conversation — subscribe and stay a while. #RockWithClyde #ClassicRock #MostPlayedSong most played song of all time, most played songs in radio history, every breath you take the police, brown eyed girl van morrison, you've lost that lovin feelin righteous brothers, yesterday the beatles, never my love the association, stand by me ben e king, mrs robinson simon and garfunkel, sittin on the dock of the bay otis redding, layla eric clapton, everybody wants to rule the world tears for fears, BMI most played songs, rock music history, classic rock countdown, rock with clyde, rock documentary channel, radio history music, classic rock radio, songs you didn't know were the most played ever