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 ...

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 ...