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* Music/{{Caramell}} - "Explodera (Upp Som Dynamit)", "Kom Och Ta Mig", "Spelar Ingen Roll", "Kom Håll Om Mig", and "Vild Och Galen"

* Caramell - "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anEVeN4K-SY Caramelldansen]]"[[note]]Link goes to the slow original, not the [[MemeticMutation more well known Speedycake remix.]][[/note]]

* Trans-X - "Through The Eyes of The '90s"

* Smile.dk - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keAy8uVjTv8 "Moshi Moshi"]] (verse)

* Groove Coverage - "The End", "Little June", and "God is a Girl"

* Sarina Paris - "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4om_eQ42mT4&feature=related Look At Us Baby]]" (the chorus)

* Alan Walker — "Faded", "Force", "Alone", "The Spectre"

* Sonique - "[[https://youtu.be/HwRQ4Jd_SHk Sky]]"(chorus)

** K-391, Alan Walker, Martin Tungevaag & DJ Mangoo - "Play"

'''I''', '''V''', '''vi''', & '''IV.''' There's just something about these four chords that makes for a catchy tune in western pop music, transcending the boundaries of genre, and work in a song with any mood or tempo. [[InThatOrder This particular ordering of them]], the "pop punk progression" as Website/{{Wikipedia}} calls it, was spawned as a variant of the DooWopProgression, and has been particularly popular from the 1990s to the present day. Actually OlderThanTheyThink - this progression is already known in the Baroque music. Music/PachelbelsCanon is a variant of this progression, known as PachelbelsCanonProgression. Jazz players often make the IV chord a Dominant 7 chord and use a minor chord built on the second note of the scale giving this variant: I-VI7-ii7-V7.

'''I''', '''V''', '''vi''', & '''IV.''' There's just something about these four chords that makes for a catchy tune in western pop music, transcending the boundaries of genre, and work in a song with any mood or tempo. [[InThatOrder This particular ordering of them]], the "pop punk progression" as Website/{{Wikipedia}} calls it, was spawned as a variant of the DooWopProgression, and has been particularly popular from the 1990s to the present day. Actually OlderThanTheyThink - this progression is already known in the Baroque music. Music/PachelbelsCanon is a variant of this progression, known as PachelbelsCanonProgression.

* Descending progression: '''I-bVII-bVI-V''' (common in rock and metal, which typically uses power chords)

'''I''', '''V''', '''vi''', & '''IV.''' There's just something about these four chords that makes for a catchy tune in western pop music, transcending the boundaries of genre, and work in a song with any mood or tempo. [[InThatOrder This particular ordering of them]], the "pop punk progression" as Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} calls it, was spawned as a variant of the DooWopProgression, and has been particularly popular from the 1990s to the present day. Actually OlderThanTheyThink - this progression is already known in the Baroque music. Music/PachelbelsCanon is a variant of this progression, known as PachelbelsCanonProgression.

* Free Deejays - "Danza Loca"

* Music/SkidRow - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIt6KCwlFPw "I Remember You"]] (Chorus)

* Music/SkidRow - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIt6KCwlFPw "I Remember You"]]

** Capital Cities - "Safe And Sound" ([[RefrainFromAssuming "I Can Lift You Up"]])

* Music/{{Journey}} - "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k8craCGpgs Don't Stop Believing]]" (most people tend to make this the definitive example of this progression when talking about it, although for most of the song it actually alternates between I V vi IV and I V ii IV) and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atxUuldUcfI Any Way You Want It]]"

** Music/{{Journey}} - "Faithfully"

* Music/{{Pendulum}} - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGow4nmYkkA "The Island"]] (chorus)

** The Immortals - "Techno Syndrome" (''Film/MortalKombat'' theme)

* Music/{{Nightwish}} - "Amaranth" (chorus)