Hot 100

The 100 songs by 100 artists are mainly by those who—as we like to say—have called New Jersey home at one point or another in their lives. But, over the course of 2025, we’ve added songs about New Jersey, thus you might see, from time to time, “Jersey Girl,” by Tom Waits of California, that Bruce popularized, or “Woke Up This Morning” by British band Alabama 3, which just happens to be the theme song for The Sopranos (a most Jersey-centric show if there ever was one). This month we add “Palisades Park,” written by the host of The Gong Show, Chuck Barris [1929–2017], about an amusement park in Bergen County that my mom used to take me to when I was a kid. It contains one of the greatest lines in all of rock’n’roll—“you’ll never know how great a kiss can feel until you’re stopped at the top of a ferris wheel.”
Freddy Cannon took it to #3 in 1962. (It debuts on our Hot 100 at #51.) Now 88 and living in California, he’s just released a new song, “Everybody’s Rockin’ Tonight,” which is just as good and rockin’ as “Palisades Park” and “Tallahassee Lassie,” his 1959 hit that the Rolling Stones covered. Cannon appeared on American Bandstand 110 times. Thanks go out to Joey Dee—whose “Peppermint Twist” goes from #27 to #24—for calling to alert us to Freddy’s new song.
# | Song / Artist | Previous |
---|---|---|
11 |
Big Girls Don't Cry
The Four Seasons
|
▼ 8 |
12 |
Jungle Boogie
Kool & The Gang
|
▼ 10 |
13 |
I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore
The Young Rascals
|
NEW |
14 |
Poetry Man
Phoebe Snow
|
▼ 12 |
15 |
At 17
Janis Ian
|
▼ 13 |
16 |
The Sound Of Silence
Simon & Garfunkel
|
NEW |
17 |
Wanted Dead Or Alive
Bon Jovi
|
▼ 15 |
18 |
Bitter Fruit
Stevie Van Zandt
|
▼ 16 |
19 |
Isn't It A Pity
Bettye LaVette
|
SAME |
20 |
It Might As Well Be Spring
Sarah Vaughan
|
SAME |
21 |
You Don't Own Me
Leslie Gore
|
SAME |
22 |
Ladies First
Queen Latifah
|
SAME |
23 |
Pretty Little Baby
Connie Francis
|
▲ 24 |
24 |
Peppermint Twist
Joey Dee & The Starliters
|
▲ 27 |
25 |
Give It To Me Good
Trixter
|
SAME |
26 |
One O'Clock Jump
Count Basie
|
NEW |
27 |
Mony Mony
Tommy James & The Shondells
|
▲ 30 |
28 |
One Way Or Another
Blondie
|
▲ 31 |
29 |
The Gang's All Here
Skid Row
|
▲ 32 |
30 |
Blues In The 21st
Jimmy Vivino
|
▲ 34 |
31 |
Bebop Of Course
Christian McBride
|
▲ 35 |
32 |
Rocky Mountain Way
Joe Walsh
|
▲ 37 |
33 |
Rose Covered Glasses
Mike Daly
|
▲ 39 |
34 |
Alfie
Dionne Warwick
|
▲ 41 |
35 |
Twist And Shout
The Isley Brothers
|
▲ 42 |
36 |
Mustang Sally
Wilson Pickett
|
▲ 43 |
37 |
Deep In The Heart Of Jersey
Uncle Floyd
|
▲ 45 |
38 |
La Vida Es Un Carnaval
Celia Cruz
|
▲ 47 |
39 |
Better Than You
Phoneboy
|
▲ 49 |
40 |
Always She Calls To Me
Bruce Gladstone
|
▲ 51 |
41 |
I Wanna Be Around
Tony Bennett
|
NEW |
42 |
Interstate Love Song
Stone Temple Pilots
|
SAME |
43 |
When You Walk In The Room
Steve Forbert
|
▲ 66 |
44 |
Rhapsody In Blues (One For Jeff)
Ricky Byrd
|
▲ 73 |
45 |
Anything Anything I'll Give You
Dramarama
|
NEW |
46 |
Fu Gee La
The Fugees
|
▼ 23 |
47 |
Funk #49
The James Gang
|
▼ 38 |
48 |
Lost Ones
Lauryn Hill
|
NEW |
49 |
The Skin I'm In
Blues People
|
NEW |
50 |
Bent
Rhonette Smith
|
NEW |
# | Song / Artist | Previous |
---|---|---|
51 |
Palisades Park
Freddy Cannon
|
NEW |
52 |
Jersey Girl
Tom Waits
|
NEW |
53 |
Rapper's Delight
Sugar Hill Gang
|
SAME |
54 |
100 K In L.A. (Adderall Mimosas)
Unicorn 151
|
NEW |
55 |
Buffen It
Mark Mulch
|
NEW |
56 |
Salt Peanuts
Dizzy Gillespie
|
SAME |
57 |
Bass Key Boogie
Johnny Iguana
|
NEW |
58 |
Colors
Ice-T
|
SAME |
59 |
Chocolate Jesus
Eddie Skuller
|
NEW |
60 |
The Married Men
The Roche Sisters
|
SAME |
61 |
Back Door Betty
Billy Ray & The Bad Boys
|
NEW |
62 |
Up Here
Brendan Brophy
|
NEW |
63 |
Celestial Yard
Patriarchs In Black
|
NEW |
64 |
Oceans Of Kansas
Lily Vakili
|
NEW |
65 |
Cover Band Town
Todd Bailey
|
NEW |
66 |
Rockabye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody
Jerry Lewis
|
NEW |
67 |
The Night Fly
Donald Fagen
|
NEW |
68 |
In A Lonely Place
The Smithereens
|
SAME |
69 |
Real
Rory D'Lasnow
|
SAME |
70 |
Numbers With Wings
The Bongos
|
SAME |
71 |
Rotten To The Core
Overkill
|
▲ 100 |
72 |
Send It To Me
Williams Honor
|
▲ 99 |
73 |
All Fall Down
Richard Barone
|
▲ 97 |
74 |
Hip Hip Hooray
Naughty By Nature
|
▲ 83 |
75 |
I Wanna Get Better
Bleachers
|
SAME |
76 |
Hey Now Baby (What's Wrong With You)
J. Howard Duff
|
▲ 90 |
77 |
Runaround
Blues Traveler
|
▲ 86 |
78 |
Brooklyn Can Wait
Jake Thistle
|
▲ 85 |
79 |
I'm Not OK (I Promise)
My Chemical Romance
|
▲ 84 |
80 |
Short Shorts
The Royal Teens
|
▲ 82 |
81 |
I'm Hip
John Pizzarelli
|
▼ 74 |
82 |
C'mon Caroline
Bobby Bandiera
|
▼ 72 |
83 |
You Enjoy Yourself
Phish
|
▼ 71 |
84 |
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
Les Paul
|
▼ 26 |
85 |
Old Shoes
The Cucumbers
|
▼ 67 |
86 |
I Feel Lucky
Mary-Chapin Carpenter
|
▼ 65 |
87 |
Do Don't
Fear Of Falling
|
▼ 64 |
88 |
My Old School
Steely Dan
|
▼ 62 |
89 |
The Romantic Warrior
Return To Forever
|
NEW |
90 |
Spazmo Strikes Again
Lenny White
|
▼ 59 |
91 |
Freedom
Richie Havens
|
▼ 55 |
92 |
Pegasus
Wayne Shorter
|
▼ 54 |
93 |
Mexicali Waltz
Southside Johnny & The Poor Fools
|
▼ 52 |
94 |
Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Old Oak Tree
Tony Orlando & Dawn
|
▼ 50 |
95 |
Crow Haired Boys
The Cynz
|
▼ 48 |
96 |
Old Man River
Paul Robeson
|
▼ 46 |
97 |
Brand New Key
Melanie
|
▼ 36 |
98 |
Don't Stop Believin'
Steve Smith's Vital Information
|
▼ 40 |
99 |
Atomic Dog
George Clinton
|
▼ 33 |
100 |
This Diamond Ring
Gary Lewis & The Playboys
|
▼ 28 |
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