The Songs That Need the Most Beers

These are the songs BeerTuner's raters found hardest to love sober, ranked by average beer score, where eleven means no amount of drinking will save it. They are not necessarily bad songs, just songs that ask a lot of you. Plenty of them were enormous hits, which says something about the gap between what gets played and what people actually enjoy.

Top 25 of 312 songs with at least 10 ratings. Ranked by average beer score on a 0 to 11 scale.

1. 1
   

   Honey Bee

   Blake Shelton

   Country as comfort food. No notes.

   8.8beers15 ratings
2. 2
   

   Unholy

   Sam Smith

   Kim Petras steals the entire thing in eight bars.

   8.8beers21 ratings
3. 3
   

   So Fine

   Sean Paul

   Summer in a bottle. Roughly beer three.

   8.6beers13 ratings
4. 4
   

   Thinking Out Loud

   Ed Sheeran

   The first-dance industrial complex, single-handedly.

   8.3beers47 ratings
5. 5
   

   Just the Way You Are

   Bruno Mars

   Suspiciously sincere. Works regardless.

   8.2beers10 ratings
6. 6
   

   I'm Still in Love with You

   Sean Paul

   Sasha's hook makes this the sweetest thing he has done.

   8.0beers14 ratings
7. 7
   

   Break It Off

   Sean Paul

   The Rihanna duet, from back when she was still the newcomer.

   7.8beers18 ratings
8. 8
   

   Like Glue

   Sean Paul

   Dutty Rock at its most relentless. You are not sitting down for this.

   7.8beers18 ratings
9. 9
   

   Radioactive

   Imagine Dragons

   Every film trailer from 2013, compressed into one song.

   7.6beers30 ratings
10. 10
    

    Stronger

    Kanye West

    Daft Punk, sampled into something even louder.

    7.6beers12 ratings
11. 11
    

    We Be Burnin'

    Sean Paul

    Legalise it, set to a riddim you cannot sit still through.

    7.6beers18 ratings
12. 12
    

    We Belong Together

    Mariah Carey

    The comeback that reminded everyone exactly who she was.

    7.5beers13 ratings
13. 13
    

    Get Busy

    Sean Paul

    Shake that thing. The most 2003 instruction ever issued.

    7.5beers20 ratings
14. 14
    

    Phat Planet

    Leftfield

    You know it from the Guinness horses advert. Fitting, that.

    7.4beers12 ratings
15. 15
    

    Hold My Hand

    Sean Paul

    Sean Paul doing sincere. It is a look.

    7.4beers15 ratings
16. 16
    

    Closer

    The Chainsmokers ft. Halsey

    The most 2016 song that has ever existed.

    7.3beers27 ratings
17. 17
    

    Better Off Alone

    Alice Deejay

    Do you think you're better off alone? At beer six, yes.

    7.1beers13 ratings
18. 18
    

    Live Like You Were Dying

    Tim McGraw

    Engineered to make grown men cry into beer three.

    7.1beers13 ratings
19. 19
    

    Country Girl (Shake It for Me)

    Luke Bryan

    Exactly what it says on the tin. No further layers.

    7.0beers18 ratings
20. 20
    

    Counting Stars

    OneRepublic

    Suspiciously catchy. Beer five stops fighting it.

    7.0beers31 ratings
21. 21
    

    Girl Crush

    Little Big Town

    Radio misread the lyrics and tried to ban it. Read them again.

    6.9beers10 ratings
22. 22
    

    Last Night

    Morgan Wallen

    Streamed relentlessly. You already know the chorus.

    6.9beers32 ratings
23. 23
    

    Blank Space

    Taylor Swift

    She heard the jokes about her exes and monetised them.

    6.9beers27 ratings
24. 24
    

    SICKO MODE

    Travis Scott

    Three songs in a trench coat. All three are good.

    6.9beers14 ratings
25. 25
    

    Ready Steady Go

    Paul Oakenfold

    You've heard it in a car chase. Probably several.

    6.8beers15 ratings