How this guide was made

Position. Each song is placed by editorial judgment: up is louder and faster, right is lighter and more hopeful. Colour is the feeling the song keeps returning to. These are interpretations, not audio-analysis data.

Popularity. Circle size is the song’s run on whichever Billboard chart held it longest. Four runs are verified — Run-Around (49 weeks, Hot 100; Songfacts, Music Charts Archive), Name (36; Music Charts Archive), All I Wanna Do (33; Yahoo Entertainment), Only Wanna Be with You (32; Music Charts Archive). The rest are estimates, marked ~ and labelled “Estimate”.

Chart notes. Weeks at No. 1 are taken from Billboard number-one lists for Album Rock / Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock Tracks, via Wikipedia.

Years are original album release. Album art is fetched live from the iTunes Search API and may occasionally show a reissue. Collage imagery comes from the source poster.

Built with AI assistance (Anthropic Claude) · Version 0.2 · Reference review 09/27/2026