Billboard (USA) - 40 Artists Pick Their Favorite Elton John Songs (2022)

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Billboard (USA) - 40 Artists Pick Their Favorite Elton John Songs (2022)

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https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/dua ... 235048363/

I simplified the title. I've been digging these "artists pick favorite songs/albums" lists so I decided to search and see if there's more that haven't been posted yet. This is the first I found, but I don't plan to look too hard. I have plenty from before still to go through...

Individual picks:
Olly Alexander, Years & Years: “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”
Jimmie Allen: “Your Song”
Ingrid Andress: “Bennie and The Jets”
Anna Sofia, “Honky Cat”
Glen Ballard: “Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word”
Sara Bareilles: “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”
Rebecca Black, “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” with RuPaul
Garth Brooks: “Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me”
Kix Brooks, Brooks & Dunn: “Rocket Man” ("It's a classic and it sounds great." That's the whole blurb. Can't argue with that!)
Jimmy Buffett: “Country Comfort”
Brandi Carlile: “Someone Saved My Life Tonight”
Rosanne Cash, “Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters”
Sheryl Crow: “Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word”
Neil Diamond: “Rocket Man”
Michael Feinstein, “Bennie and The Jets”
GALE, “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”
Jeff Hanna, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, “Border Song”
HAUSER, 2CELLOS, “Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding”
Sebastian Ingrosso, Swedish House Mafia: “Your Song”
Billy Joel, “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”
Charles Kelley, Lady A: “Sacrifice”
Dermot Kennedy: “Your Song”
Hayley Kiyoko: “Bennie and The Jets”
Annie Lennox: “Rocket Man”
SG Lewis: “Are You Ready For Love”
Dua Lipa: “Rocket Man,” “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart,” “Bennie and The Jets” (tie)
Maren Morris: “Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters”
Scotty McCreery: “Bennie and The Jets”
Ingrid Michaelson: “Your Song”
Anaïs Mitchell: “Candle in the Wind”
Mod Sun: “Blue Eyes”
Ryan Monroe, Band of Horses: “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”
Joy Oladokun: “Rocket Man”
Rita Ora: “I’m Still Standing”
Donny Osmond: “Your Song”
Nathaniel Rateliff: “Bennie and The Jets”
Lionel Richie: “Your Song”
Sting: “Come Down in Time”
Michael Trotter, The War and Treaty: “Border Song”
Keith Urban: “Cold Heart”
Dionne Warwick: “Daniel”
Diane Warren: “Candle in the Wind”
Rita Wilson: “Your Song”


Ranked by mentions:
1 | Your Song (7 mentions)
2 | Bennie and the Jets (6 mentions)
3 | Rocket Man (5 mentions)
4 | Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (4 mentions)
5 | Border Song (2 mentions)
5 | Candle in the Wind (2 mentions)
5 | Don't Go Breaking My Heart (with Kiki Dee) (2 mentions)
5 | Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters (2 mentions)
5 | Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word (2 mentions)
10 | Are You Ready for Love (1 mention)
10 | Blue Eyes (1 mention)
10 | Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) (with Dua Lipa) (1 mention)
10 | Come Down in Time (1 mention)
10 | Country Comfort (1 mention)
10 | Daniel (1 mention)
10 | Don't Go Breaking My Heart (with RuPaul) (1 mention - Rebecca Black is the only one to specify the RuPaul version)
10 | Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me (1 mention)
10 | Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding (1 mention)
10 | Honky Cat (1 mention)
10 | I'm Still Standing (1 mention)
10 | Sacrifice (1 mention)
10 | Someone Saved My Life Tonight (1 mention)

The two big surprises here were not just how much of a consensus there was for the top four (a lot of these lists, as we've seen, can go in all different directions), but also the fact that, even with only 40 artists in the pool, nobody picked "Tiny Dancer"!
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