Top 10 Best Songs With The Number 4 In The Title

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Another entry in our ongoing look at songs and numbers – it's getting harder now...!

10. "Four Seasons In One Day" by Crowded House

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Taken from the Woodface album, this 1992 hit from everyone's favourite Kiwis was written about the changeable weather in Melbourne where singer Neil Finn was living at the time.

9 "4 Minutes" by Madonna

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Lead single from Madge's eleventh album, 2008's Hard Candy. The track features guest vocals from uber producer Timbaland, as well as a certain Justin Timberlake. Was Madonna's 37th top ten hit, breaking the record formerly held by Elvis.

8 "4th Dimensional Transition" by MGMT

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Track six from Brooklyn indie-electro duo's Oracular Spectacular album which came out in 2007. The album also featured the smash hit Time to Pretend.

7 "Positively 4th Street" by Bob Dylan

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Recorded by Dylan in New York in 1965, this classic was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic. About the street where he once lived, the song was the follow-up to Like A Rolling Stone and has been widely covered since.

6 "I Would Die 4 U" by Prince

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Fourth single from Prince and the Revolution's 1984 classic album, Purple Rain. This up-tempo dance track went top ten in the USA.

5 "4th Of July" by U2

Ethereal album track From 1984's Unforgettable Fire. One of many signs that Bono and the boys' fascination with America was starting to escalate, a fascination that would ultimately result in their earth-shattering follow-up, the Joshua Tree.

4 "Neighbourhood #4 (7 Kettles)" by The Arcade Fire

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The Canadians' 2004 debut album, Funeral, featured a series of songs that were numbered and this is one of them. Funeral was a critical and commercial success and was followed by Neon Bible in 2007.

3 "Four Days" by The Counting Crows

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Album track from the band's third album, 1999's This Desert Life. Counting Crows shot to fame in 1993 following the release of single Mr Jones which has gone on to be a staple on rock radio.

2 "House of Four Doors" by The Moody Blues

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Taken from the British prog rock band's 19698album In Search of the Lost Chord. Whether they found it or not is anybody's guess.

1 "4 Sticks" by Led Zeppelin

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From 1971's Led Zeppelin 4 and referring to the fact that drummer John Bonham used two sets of drum sticks rather than one – therefore four sticks in total, hence the name.