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Welcome back to Hip-Hit Parade, a podcast of pop chart history from Slate magazine.

About the hits from Coast to Coast.

I'm Chris Mulanpey, chart analyst, pop critic, and writer of Slate's Why is the Song No. 1 series.

On our last episode, I talked about billboards year-end ranking of hot 100 hits,

and their 65-year tradition of naming a top song of the year.

The results are not always predictable, and the songs range from unmemorable to immortal.

I'm now going to try ranking these 65-year-end number ones,

to determine which feels most deserving of the honor.

Before I start running down these 65 hits, a few provisos.

This will be a largely subjective ranking.

I say largely because I am factoring in chart performance,

relative improbability, degree of upset against the competition,

as well as how well these old hits capture their year.

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