AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs

AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs is a list of the top 100 songs in American cinema of the 20th century. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 22, 2004, in a CBS television special hosted by John Travolta, who appeared in two films honored by the list, Saturday Night Fever and Grease. The list was created by a panel of jurors selected by AFI, who voted from a list of 400 nominated songs.^[1]

Singin' in the Rain, The Sound of Music, and West Side Story each have three songs on the list,^[4] while The Wizard of Oz, Funny Girl and Meet Me in St. Louis each have two entries.

• Richard Rodgers – 6 songs
• Harold Arlen – 5 songs
• Leonard Bernstein – 4 songs
• Jule Styne – 3 songs
• Irving Berlin – 3 songs
• George Gershwin – 3 songs
• Nacio Herb Brown – 3 songs
• John Kander – 3 songs
• Jerome Kern – 3 songs

• Oscar Hammerstein II – 6
• Ira Gershwin – 4
• Irving Berlin – 3
• Stephen Sondheim – 3
• Arthur Freed – 3
• Fred Ebb – 3

Judy Garland (also listed in first place for "Over the Rainbow") and Gene Kelly are tied with five songs each; all of Garland's songs and two of Kelly's are solos. Julie Andrews, Fred Astaire, Marni Nixon, and Barbra Streisand follow Garland and Kelly with four songs each. Astaire and Nixon were co-credited for three out of their four respective songs listed, while Andrews sang two solos; Streisand performed all four of her songs by herself.