What song has changed popular music the most?

arthur "big boy" cudrup- thats all right mama

to me this is the song that started the post WWII era of pop music in america and directly led the the innovation that was rock and roll.

I will probably get thumbs down for this but most musicologists feel that the Beach Boys Good Vibrations was probably the most genre changing song in rock/pop.

I love Autobahn but it is not as groundbreaking.

I would say there were two songs: "Peggy Sue" by Buddy Holly and "Johnny Be Good" by Chuck Berry. To me, those two songs ushered in the era of Rock 'n' Roll and changed how popular music was presented. Following them came a whole slew of RnR artists, long before The Beatles, Led Zepplin, Metallica and the rest.

In the last few decades it would have to be Walk This Way (Aerosmith/Run DMC) as this single-handedly brought hip hop to the MTV generation.

Before then it was probably a track of Sgt' Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band (The Beatles). Maybe "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"?

I can think of a few that have ruined popular music! Specifically any that Simon Cowell had anything to do with!

Rock around The Clock heralded a new music aimed primarily at teenagers. The first real music they had to call there own.

Like the song or not,it was there at the forefront of changing popular music

Metallica's Hit The Lights

Satisfaction- Rolling Stones

others:

Paranoid- Black Sabbath (maybe the first real heavy metal song ever)

Smells Like Teen Spirit- Nirvana

Purple Haze - Hendrix

Mandy by Barry Manilow (just kidding)

Elvis changed popular music

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Never heard of your one!

Everybody is always banging on about "Smells like teen spirit" by Nirvana, saying it changed the whole music scene. Personally, i don't think it did.

The Beatles- I want to hold your hand!

Once that song was big, it was bye bye to Doo wop, and all the old standards!! Popular music has never been the same since