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 336 songs with at least 10 ratings. Ranked by average beer score on a 0 to 11 scale.

1. 1
   

   Heaven Scent

   John Digweed

   Progressive house for people who take it very seriously.

   8.7beers12 ratings
2. 2
   

   Honey Bee

   Blake Shelton

   Country as comfort food. No notes.

   8.6beers18 ratings
3. 3
   

   Thinking Out Loud

   Ed Sheeran

   The first-dance industrial complex, single-handedly.

   8.6beers55 ratings
4. 4
   

   Flaming June

   BT

   Trance from back when it was still allowed to be beautiful.

   8.4beers11 ratings
5. 5
   

   Just the Way You Are

   Bruno Mars

   Suspiciously sincere. Works regardless.

   8.3beers10 ratings
6. 6
   

   Unholy

   Sam Smith

   Kim Petras steals the entire thing in eight bars.

   8.2beers25 ratings
7. 7
   

   Mud on the Tires

   Brad Paisley

   A love song about a pickup truck. Fully committed to the bit.

   8.0beers10 ratings
8. 8
   

   We Be Burnin'

   Sean Paul

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

   7.9beers20 ratings
9. 9
   

   God's Plan

   Drake

   He gave the video budget away. The song still bought a house.

   7.8beers11 ratings
10. 10
    

    So Fine

    Sean Paul

    Summer in a bottle. Roughly beer three.

    7.8beers15 ratings
11. 11
    

    Break It Off

    Sean Paul

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

    7.8beers20 ratings
12. 12
    

    Country Girl (Shake It for Me)

    Luke Bryan

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

    7.7beers27 ratings
13. 13
    

    Like Glue

    Sean Paul

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

    7.7beers21 ratings
14. 14
    

    Dirt Road Anthem

    Jason Aldean

    Country rapping. It was 2011 and we allowed it.

    7.7beers10 ratings
15. 15
    

    Phat Planet

    Leftfield

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

    7.5beers13 ratings
16. 16
    

    Try Again

    Aaliyah

    Still the most futuristic-sounding record of 2000.

    7.5beers10 ratings
17. 17
    

    Girl Crush

    Little Big Town

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

    7.5beers12 ratings
18. 18
    

    Radioactive

    Imagine Dragons

    Every film trailer from 2013, compressed into one song.

    7.4beers35 ratings
19. 19
    

    Better Off Alone

    Alice Deejay

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

    7.4beers14 ratings
20. 20
    

    Stronger

    Kanye West

    Daft Punk, sampled into something even louder.

    7.4beers14 ratings
21. 21
    

    Get Busy

    Sean Paul

    Shake that thing. The most 2003 instruction ever issued.

    7.3beers24 ratings
22. 22
    

    Paint The Town Red

    Doja Cat

    Built on a Dionne Warwick sample and pure nerve.

    7.3beers33 ratings
23. 23
    

    I'm Still in Love with You

    Sean Paul

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

    7.2beers18 ratings
24. 24
    

    Hold My Hand

    Sean Paul

    Sean Paul doing sincere. It is a look.

    7.2beers17 ratings
25. 25
    

    Live Like You Were Dying

    Tim McGraw

    Engineered to make grown men cry into beer three.

    7.1beers13 ratings