Its sustainability on the chart helped it land at No. 5 on the recap of the Hot 100’s top 600 songs of all time, marking one of only two non-No. 1s in the top 50. Related Hot 100 Turns 60!

A New York music writer created a new way to find out how songs keep their staying power. He's taking classic hits from the Billboard Hot 100 chart and comparing them to the number of times they ...