Well? What is the true secret behind this? It can’t always be just a good song since not all good tracks are considered to be timeless. 

1) being popular and a hit (most people would say this is not true but there are few expection at this, even a Mozart piece of music need tv ads, movies and a massive use on mainstream media to stay popular on cultural perception).

Then of course there are niche - genre classics but it's a different thing. 

 

 

2) for some reason upon all the hits and most popular songs it's the song that survives in the memory as a song that encapsulates the sound of an era. This of course change for every song, it's hard to find an universal rule. 

rihanna's voice

Having immaculate production that stands the test of time 

 

 

1. Lyrics: Having lyrics with universal themes that speak to things all humans experience, ideally across different countries. If you write a song about taking selfies in the bathroom at a club, or use current slang terms such as "crank that", your song will probably not age well 
2. Instrumentation. Some instruments such as the piano, violin and drums have endured for hundreds of years. If you use other instruments, your chances of a classic decrease. If you are Christina Perri or Adele and write a ballad using only your vocals and a piano, you might just have a classic
3. Production. There are production trends that come and go, and using them decreases your chances at a classic. There are exceptions, since Promiscuous is Nelly Furtado's most streamed song, and Beyonce made RTW a classic despite hopping on the Major Lazer trend at the time. But generally classics will still sound fresh 20 or 30 years later, which works best if you're not hopping on a current trend. Toxic and Gimme More were fresh and remain fresh classics. TTWE and I Wanna Go were hits but no one cares about them now. 

If it has 1B streams on Spotify according to most fanbases on ATRL.

6 minutes ago, Erreur2 La Nature said:

If it has 1B streams on Spotify according to most fanbases on ATRL.

hard disagree.  

Vocals 

i apprecciate @KatyPrismSpiritalways try to open interestin discussions. Sadly then most people there are always the same users unable of every kind of discussion or to analyze anything with any interesting argument about anything.

 

@Dephira your post is very interesting. 

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Melodies

Lyrics, Production and Catchiness. 

9 minutes ago, vale9001 said:

i apprecciate @KatyPrismSpiritalways try to open interestin discussions. Sadly then most people there are always the same users unable on every kind of discussion to talk or analyze anything putting some interesting analysis or argument about anything.

 

@Dephira your post is very interesting. 

Aww tysm 

A Kat DeLuna vocal 

 

 

 

 

Not being pushed/spammed by aggressive stans.

Being of an exceptional quality to where it's just an undeniable song, whether or not it was something released in the 1940s, 80s, or 2020s. It has absolutely nothing to do with a song being a "hit."

 

 

6 hours ago, vale9001 said:

i apprecciate @KatyPrismSpiritalways try to open interestin discussions. Sadly then most people there are always the same users unable of every kind of discussion or to analyze anything with any interesting argument about anything.

 

@Dephira your post is very interesting.