Update 1/30/2010: Check out “CatrianiPlay: The Most Used Melody In Pop Music”
https://www.thatsongsoundslike.com/2012/01/30/the-most-used-melody-in-pop-music/
This is an update to this post
Submitted by Jim
Any more of these out there??
Jim points out the hook in Survivor‘s 1984 hit “I Can’t Hold Back”. I included the beginning of the guitar solo at the end of the sample because it also incorporates the melody. Here’s all of them again!
lets add weezers the good life too please and i believe that came before both
You can also add Alizée’s “I’m fed up / j’en ai marre” to the list
Great find Sanglyon!
I posted about this recently elsewhere, but the Coldplay song seems to me like a pretty direct rip of The Tear Garden’s “Romulus and Venus”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ8IUl8lVms
Great find J!
And add “Frances Limon” by Los Enanitos Verdes, they actually came out before Satriania’s song…
Great find! Ill be sure to add ANOTHER update!
I cant believe Joe Satriani lost the law suit ! its exactly the same melody !