Top Five Guilty Pleasure Songs

What's your guilty pleasure song? The one you crank in private but deny in public?

The streaming music service Spotify recently analyzed over 120,000 playlists from users labeled "Guilty Pleasure" and highlighted the top five guilty pleasure songs. The results may surprise you.

From the top, the five most popular guilty pleasure songs are:

1
"Mambo #5" Lou Bega

A song that snuck into the American Top 40 by way of Germany, this song was co-written by famous song writer Diane Warren, whose credits include "Don't Want To Miss A Thing" and "Because You Loved Me", proving that even she can make a mistake.
2
"Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" Wham!

Breezy and fun, this song was overplayed to death for one full year in 1984, causing it to have an alarming backlash. It's never recovered.
3
"My Sharona" The Knack

Perhaps this song got a bad reputation from the fact that Doug Fieger wrote it about a 16 year old he was dating when he was 26.
4
"Don't Stop Believing" Journey

The Journey backlas of 1987 forced this song to the sidelines, until it regained its street cred when it was used in "The Sopranos" series finale. Also "Glee" gave it new life when it featured it in the pilot episode. the theme song for many a sports team's miraculous season.
5
"Cotton Eye Joe" Rednex

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