10 Biggest Earworms Of All Time

Not every earworm in pop history has to necessarily be a bad song. After all, when something's that catchy, there has to be someone out there who actually likes it so it can hit your eardrums in the first place. While it's one thing to have a good hookline that you can milk for ages, Michael Jackson managed to capture pure pop bliss across every single second of Billie Jean.

Yeah, apparently Jacko was taking the advice that he heard on Queen's Another One Bites the Dust pretty seriously, considering that every single part of this song is memorable in its own way. Written after Quincy Jones said Mike needed more material, each instrument of this song has its own separate hook line that you can sing along to. Before any of the lyrics even come in, the bass is already laying down one of the funkiest lines of all time, until the synthesizer takes over with those trademark stabs.

By the time Michael finally makes his entrance, you've already had enough hooks to fill up an entire song on its own, before going the extra mile with his trademark adlibs and the funkified lead guitar breaks. Even though something like this might seem way too busy for most pop listeners to latch onto, Billie Jean is the song that could be separated into four or five different songs and still have been a smash hit.