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Most-Recorded Songs
The Top Ten Songs of the Century

This list ranks the top ten most-recorded songs out of the 974 distinct songs on the indexed recordings. The tunes are ranked in descending order of number of recordings. When tunes have the same number of recordings, tunes having the oldest recordings appear first. Note that reuses of a particular cut in later anthologies are counted, which is fair, since the popularity of a recording is a good indicator both of the popularity of the tune and of the likelihood that musicians will learn the tune from that recording.

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RankNumber of
Recordings
Tune (and link to tune details)
120
Cailín Deas Crúite na mBó
219
An Páistín Fionn
318
Raibh Tú ag an gCarraig?
416
Sliabh Geal gCua na Féile
515
Bean Dubh an Ghleanna
615
A Stór Mo Chroí
714
Seán Ó Duibhir an Ghleanna
814
Táimse im' Chodladh
913
May Morning Dew
1012
Old Man Rocking the Cradle