
Some songs seem lodged into the public consciousness at large. It's as if those hooks have become part of our genetic code, and are recognisable from birth.
You might be surprised to hear some of these songs almost never became hits, let alone the kind of stuff you hear at wedding receptions and on infinite shuffle repeat as part of a retro radio station's playlist.
From Aerosmith's Dream On to Louis Armstrong's We Have All the Time in the World and Whitesnake's rock classic Here I Go Again, towering epics actually spent an extended period in pop music limbo.
We should all be thankful these tracks didn't end up as forgotten album tracks only fans of the band would appreciate, because all 10 of these delayed hits are certified earworms.
- Next up, the best rock albums of all time, ranked
10 songs that took ages to become hits







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