Why It’s Great: A sly, slow-burning slice of dance-pop seduction, “Padam Padam” found Aussie legend Kylie Minogue delivering an onomatopoeic chorus that became TikTok shorthand for damn near anything (sort of like a Zoomer version of “yadda yadda yadda”) in the summer of 2023.
, in honor of the chart’s 65th anniversary. And really, that’s just the tip of the iceberg: With well over 30,000 songs reaching the Hot 100 across its six and a half decades of existence, we could have easily gone another 500 deep — maybe even 5,000 deep — and still kept coming up with more beloved pop classics. That’s just how rich pop history since 1958 has been, and how thoroughly the Hot 100 has tracked its best and brightest songs over that timespan.
Why did they miss? Well, we’ll get into the specific reasons for each entry below. But generally, some of them were too ahead of their time. Some of them were a little too late. Some of them made their impact just below the surface of the mainstream. Some of them wouldn’t make their biggest impact until decades after their release. Some of them were just a little too challenging — or a little too bawdy — for a true pop embrace.
: The rare ’80s floor-filler with real blood pumping through its veins — not to mention a hypnotic enough bassline to get sampled for decades to come, including on Ini Kamoze’s Hot 100-topping “Here Comes the Hotstepper.
: The turn of the ’60s was something of a fallow commercial period for the Rat Packer, and “Kick” wouldn’t really be felt by the mainstream until Martin performed it in the hit movieThis gem in 1979. It was released as a single, but it was crowded by the songs released as singles from the group’s previous studio album, Why It Never Hit the Hot 100
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