Whether or not you consider yourself a music aficionado or not, there are some songs that are so far embedded into the human brain that they become impossible to shake even after listening to them in passing.

Most of the following have been used in various forms of films or television that they’ve become so engrained into different pieces of work, that they start to become separate entities to their original work.

We sat down and came up with a list of songs that you would have definitely heard before… even if you can’t quite pinpoint the name.

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