Appendix 2 – Axis-F Progressions in the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 Corpus, 1990–2016

Year Rank Song Artist Chords Sections Looped 1990 63 I'll Be Your Shelter Taylor Dayne IV-I-V-vi chorus 1993 89 Faithful Go West IV-I-V-vi chorus x 2000 33 Back Here BBMak IV-I-V-vi chorus x A New Day Has 2002 91 Celine Dion IV-I-V-vi chorus x Come 2004 54 My Happy Ending Avril Lavigne IV-I-V-vi chorus Boulevard of Broken 2005 7 Green Day IV-I-V-vi chorus x Dreams 2005 58 I Don't Want to Be Gavin DeGraw IV-I-V-vi chorus x 2006 91 Hung Up Madonna IV-I-V/vi-vi bridge x feat. Jay- 2007 2 Umbrella IV-I-V-vi chorus x Z Rihanna feat. Jay- 2007 2 Umbrella IV-I64-iii-vi verse x Z 2007 4 Big Girls Don't Cry Fergie IV-I-V-vi chorus x 2007 50 If Everyone Cared Nickelback IV-I-V-vi chorus x intro, verse, 2008 37 Live Your Life T.I. feat. Rihanna IV-I-V-vi x chorus 2008 78 Big Girls Don't Cry Fergie IV-I-V-vi chorus x intro, verse, 2009 18 Live Your Life T.I. feat. Rihanna IV-I-V-vi x chorus feat. Lil intro, chorus, 2009 20 Down IV-I-V-vi x Wayne bridge 2009 57 Battlefield Jordin Sparks IV-I-V-vi chorus x 2010 27 Breakeven The Script IV-I-V-vi intro, chorus x 2010 33 Alejandro Lady Gaga IV-I-V-vi chorus x Jay Sean feat. Lil intro, chorus, 2010 41 Down IV-I-V-vi x Wayne bridge 2010 46 Mine IV-I-V-vi verse, chorus x 2010 92 If I Die Young The Band Perry IV-I-V-vi verse, chorus x 2010 96 Life After You Daughtry IV-I-V-vi chorus x Bad Meets Evil 2011 34 Lighters IV-I-V-vi bridge x feat. Bruno Mars 2011 35 If I Die Young The Band Perry IV-I-V-vi verse, chorus x verse, pre- 2012 2 Call Me Maybe Carly Rae Jepsen IV-I-V-vi x chorus, chorus 2012 19 Drive By Train IV-I-V-vi chorus We Are Never Ever intro, verse, 2012 33 Getting Back Taylor Swift IV-I-V-vi x chorus, bridge Together intro, verse, and 2012 38 Good Time IV-I-V-vi pre-chorus, x Carly Rae Jepsen chorus 2012 53 Drunk on You Luke Bryan IV-I-V-vi intro, chorus 2012 66 Good Girl Carrie Underwood IV-I-V-vi chorus 50 Ways to Say 2012 81 Train IV-I-V-vi chorus Goodbye Love You Like a Selena Gomez and 2012 83 IV-I-V-vi bridge Love Song The Scene verse, pre- 2013 50 Heart Attack Demi Lovato IV-I-V-vi x chorus, chorus 2013 53 Try P!nk IV-I-V-vi chorus x That's My Kind of 2013 78 Luke Bryan IV-I-V-vi chorus x Night Florida Georgia intro, verse, 2013 94 Get Your Shine On IV-I-V-vi x Line chorus 2013 97 Let Her Go Passenger IV-I-V-vi chorus x 2014 19 Let Her Go Passenger IV-I-V-vi chorus x Florida Georgia verse 2, 2014 49 This Is How We Roll Line feat. Luke IV-I-V-vi x chorus, bridge Bryan pre-chorus, 2014 64 Play It Again Luke Bryan IV-I-V-vi x chorus, bridge 2014 76 Leave the Night On Sam Hunt IV-I-V-vi chorus x 2014 81 Bartender Lady Antebellum IV-I-V-vi chorus x verse, pre- Taylor Swift feat. 2015 15 Bad Blood IV-I-V-vi chorus, x Kendrick Lamar chorus, bridge 2015 26 I'm Not the Only One Sam Smith IV-I-V/vi-vi bridge x verse, pre- 2015 52 Elastic Heart Sia IV-I-V-vi x chorus, chorus 2015 87 Kick the Dust Up Luke Bryan IV-I-V-vi chorus The Chainsmokers 2016 8 Don't Let Me Down IV-I-V-vi intro, chorus x feat. Daya