Auto-Tune started as a behind-the-scenes pitch-fixing tool, but the moment artists got bold with it, pop music changed forever. From hip-hop bangers to indie weepies, from dance floors to dive bars, Auto-Tune became an instrument all its own. Here are the tracks that didn’t just use Auto-Tune, but made us hear it in ways we never imagined.

Sometimes you don’t want upbeat. You don’t want “good vibes only”. You want the musical equivalent of sobbing into your pillow with mascara running down your face while imagining yourself as the tragic lead in an Oscar-winning drama. Luckily, music has been breaking hearts for decades, and some songs are so perfectly melancholy they practically come with their own box of tissues.

Sometimes a song does more than top the charts—it changes the game entirely. From political protest to pop powerhouses, these 30 songs didn’t just entertain; they reshaped the way we think about music, influenced generations of artists, and left permanent marks on culture, technology, and the industry itself.

We’ve all had that moment where a song starts playing and you instinctively groan—not because it’s inherently terrible, but because the world has collectively decided to play it everywhere. Radio stations put it on repeat, commercials squeeze it into ads, and suddenly, it’s ringing in your ears whether you want it or not. These tracks didn’t just hit the big time, they were overplayed into oblivion.

Ronnie Van Zant enraged Mick Jagger when Lynyrd Skynyrd opened for the Rolling Stones. He did the ONE thing Jagger told them not to do—right in the middle of the show.

1995 was one of those years where the music gods just said, “Let’s go all out”. It was a year where nearly every genre got its moment in the sun, and some of the biggest hits from that time are still echoing through our playlists today. Whether you were dancing in your bedroom, sobbing into your diary, or cruising with the windows down, chances are at least one of these tracks was your personal soundtrack.