We’ve all been sitting down in front of the tele watching our favourite TV show, when all of a sudden we hear a song we know. Our hearts jump and we just have to tell someone that our favourite show is playing our favourite song!

But what happens when just about an entire generation knows some fairly popular songs purely because they saw it on TV?

We’ve compiled a list of songs that millennials only know because they were either the TV show’s theme song or because they were very prominent throughout a series – despite already having achieved success outside of TV land.

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