You've read all about the 500 best pop songs that reached Billboard's flagship songs chart -- now check out the 100 best that never got there. Last week at Billboard, we spent three days counting ...

A list of the 100 greatest pop songs since 1963 ... "Hotel California," The Eagles (1977). 12. "Where Did Our Love Go?" The Supremes (1964). 13. "Sweet Child O' Mine," Guns N' Roses (1988).

Now hear a dozen irresistibly upbeat tunes by smaller bands made between 1977 and 1983 ... long-distance telephone hang-ups. Few songs encapsulate power pop’s giddy, naïve optimism like ...

The result: a pop-rock gem. 7. Air Supply ... Meat Loaf, "Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad" (1977) The breakthrough song from Bat Out of Hell was the last written for the album, a challenge to ...