A Curated Playlist of Songs Beginning With the Letter O
One time, a friend challenged me to come up with a playlist using only song titles that started with a single letter. Not the artist names—just the titles. We landed on O without much thought, and it didn’t take long before it felt like we’d opened some oddly specific floodgate. Tracks I hadn’t thought about in years started coming back, but so did newer ones I’d never paid much attention to. There’s something about limiting yourself like that—it changes how you look at songs entirely.
Sorting through those titles, there was no clear pattern in genre or style. Some were mellow and restrained, others leaned loud and restless. Some were released decades ago, while others dropped more recently than expected. A few felt like obvious staples, but others were strange outliers that still held up. The one thing they had in common was just that first letter. No theme, no shared mood. Just O. It’s an arbitrary constraint, but sometimes that’s all it takes to reframe what you're listening to.
This isn't about building a cohesive mood or decoding any hidden meanings. It’s just a list of songs that begin with the letter O—some familiar, some maybe not. Here’s what surfaced.
Top 10 O Songs
1. 'One'—U2
2. 'Oops!... I Did It Again'—Britney Spears
3. 'Old Town Road'—Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus
4. 'October'—U2
5. 'Only Girl (In the World)'—Rihanna
6. 'Over My Head (Cable Car)'—The Fray
7. 'Open Arms'—Journey
8. 'Ordinary World'—Duran Duran
9. 'O Holy Night'—Traditional
10. 'One Love'—Bob Marley & The Wailers
Finding Hit Songs Starting With O #11—30
11. 'Over the Rainbow'—Judy Garland
12. 'Oh, Pretty Woman'—Roy Orbison
13. 'One Kiss'—Calvin Harris ft. Dua Lipa
14. 'Original Prankster'—The Offspring
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15. 'Our Song'—Taylor Swift
16. 'Ocean Eyes'—Billie Eilish
17. 'Only Exception'—Paramore
18. 'On Melancholy Hill'—Gorillaz
19. 'Optimistic'—Radiohead
20. 'One Way or Another'—Blondie
21. 'O-o-h Child'—The Five Stairsteps
22. 'Ohio'—Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
23. 'Owner of a Lonely Heart'—Yes
24. 'Oblivion'—Grimes
25. 'October Passed Me By'—Girl in Red
26. 'Old Time Rock and Roll'—Bob Seger
27. 'One of These Nights'—Eagles
28. 'Out of My Head'—Charli XCX
29. 'Ode to My Family'—The Cranberries
30. 'Out of the Woods'—Taylor Swift
Discovering More O Letter Songs #31—50
31. 'Only the Good Die Young'—Billy Joel
32. 'Only Wanna Be with You'—Hootie & the Blowfish
33. 'Ordinary People'—John Legend
34. 'Otherside'—Red Hot Chili Peppers
35. 'Our House'—Madness
36. 'Oxford Comma'—Vampire Weekend
37. 'Oh Sherrie'—Steve Perry
38. 'Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)'—Enya
39. 'Over and Over'—Fleetwood Mac
40. 'On Top of the World'—Imagine Dragons
41. 'Open Your Heart'—Madonna
42. 'Oblaa Di, Oblaa Da'—The Beatles
43. 'Ophelia'—The Lumineers
44. 'One Day More'—Les Misérables Cast
45. 'One of Us'—Joan Osborne
46. 'Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)'—Jim Croce
47. 'Out of Touch'—Hall & Oates
48. 'Oye Como Va'—Santana
49. 'Oh Yeah'—Roxy Music
50. 'One Night'—Elvis Presley
Finding O Songs for Your Playlist #51—75
51. 'Oops (Oh My)'—Tweet ft. Missy Elliott
52. 'Outstanding'—The Gap Band
53. 'Oh Boy!'—Buddy Holly
54. 'On the Dark Side'—John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band
55. 'One of Those Cold Days'—Anne Murray
56. 'Only the Lonely'—Roy Orbison
57. 'One Way Out'—The Allman Brothers Band
58. 'Opus 1'—Dusty Springfield
59. 'Our Lips Are Sealed'—The Go-Go's
60. 'Oh Well'—Fleetwood Mac
61. 'One Headlight'—The Wallflowers
62. 'On a Night Like This'—Kylie Minogue
63. 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart'—Neil Young
64. 'Over You'—Chris Daughtry
65. 'Oh Darling'—The Beatles
66. 'Outta My Head'—Ashlee Simpson
67. 'Only When I Sleep'—The Corrs
68. 'Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are'—Meat Loaf
69. 'Older'—George Michael
70. 'On the Road Again'—Willie Nelson
71. 'One Week'—Barenaked Ladies
72. 'Out of Time'—The Rolling Stones
73. 'Outside'—George Michael
74. 'Only Time'—Enya
75. 'Oh! Carolina'—Shaggy
Popular Music Beginning With O #76—100
76. 'On the Waterfront'—Frank Sinatra
77. 'Only Sixteen'—Sam Cooke
78. 'Our Kind of Love'—Lady A
79. 'One Great Love'—Sean Kingston
80. 'Open My Eyes'—Todd Rundgren
81. 'Our Love'—Natalia Cole
82. 'Over You'—Cascada
83. 'One More Night'—Maroon 5
84. 'Only Love'—Ben Howard
85. 'Open'—Stereophonics
86. 'On GP'—Death Grips
87. 'Once in a Lifetime'—Talking Heads
88. 'Original Sin'—INXS
89. 'One Day'—Matisyahu
90. 'Oh Comely'—Neutral Milk Hotel
91. 'Our Day Will Come'—Ruby & the Romantics
92. 'Only Love Remains'—Paul McCartney
93. 'On My Own'—Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald
94. 'Oh Mother'—Christina Aguilera
95. 'Ocean Avenue'—Yellowcard
96. 'Operator'—Amanda Palmer
97. 'One Thing'—One Direction
98. 'On Wisconsin'—University of Wisconsin Marching Band
99. 'Our Lawyer Made Us Change the Name of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued'—Fall Out Boy
100. 'Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart)'—The Vamps ft. Shawn Mendes
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