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Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we'll be counting down our picks for songs that repeat the same phrases over again, and over again, and over again.

We won't be considering novelty songs though.

Mr. Brightside – The Killers If you're wondering why you were able to learn the words to this song so quickly when it conquered the airwaves back in 2004, it probably has something to do with the fact that verse 1 and 2 are exactly the same.

We're not bashing Mr. Brightside, au contraire.

It's a fantastic song that rightly deserves its spot on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 best songs of the 2000s.

However, there's no denying that it's a little repetitive, with the same verse and chorus churned out several times over.

Work – Rihanna ft. Drake Easily one of the most pervasive radio songs in the past few years, Rihanna's Work dominated the charts for weeks back in 2016.

Part of the reason for its success was its catchy, easy to remember chorus, which is basically just another way of saying it was super repetitive.

The word work is said 79 times in the song, with a whopping 72 of them occurring during the hook.

This is hardly Rihanna's first offense, having been behind a slew of other highly repetitive tracks over the years.

We aren't really surprised though, seeing as her nickname is RiRi.

Versace – Migos There are three certainties in love.

Death, taxes, and Migos' unwavering love of all things Versace.

The Georgia-based hip-hop trio made their feelings for the iconic Italian fashion line perfectly clear on this 2013 track, which saw the word Versace repeated literally more times than we can count.

Ironically enough, this is not the only highly repetitive hip-hop song named after a fashion designer to have been released in the last few years, with Lil Pump following in Migos' footsteps with the release of Gucci Gang in 2017.

Tubthumping – Chumbawamba Every year, one-hit wonders come and go, and while they often fade into obscurity, their song lives on forever, or at the very least it pops up on one of our lists.

Such is the case for the British band Chumbawamba, known primarily for their 1997 hit, Tubthumping.

The track was an international success, topping music charts across the globe.

The song rode the wave of its own incredibly catchy chorus, which repeated,

You are never gonna keep me down, over and over.

Despite its repetitive nature, the song still holds up two decades later.

Barbra Streisand – Duck Sauce When the lyrics of your song consist mainly of Barbra Streisand and woo, there's a high probability that said song will be a teensy bit repetitive.

Despite its recurring themes of Barbra Streisand and the sound a woman makes at a bachelorette party, the track is actually pretty good.

Nominated for Best Dance Recording at the 2012 Grammys, Barbra Streisand was called deliriously catchy, endlessly danceable, and ultimately, so uplifting that it could even cheer you up after watching the denouement of the way we were.

And if you've seen the film, you know that's some pretty high praise.

Can't Get You Outta My Head – Kylie Minogue

As the title not so subtly implies, this song is very likely to wrap itself around your brain and never let go thanks to its highly repetitive first verse.

Okay, the whole thing is pretty repetitive.

But if history has taught us anything, it's that songs with ubiquitous chorus are more likely to hit home in a variety of places.

Which is exactly what this 2001 Kylie Minogue hit did.

The song topped music charts in countries as diverse as Australia, Belgium, Italy, and

Romania, and wound up being one of the best-selling singles of its year.

Is being repetitive a prerequisite for songs with the word whip in the title?

Willow Smith kicked off the trend with her 2010 song, Whip My Hair, and five years later,

Cilento brought it back with his viral hit, Watch Me Whip Nay Nay.

The song has way more than a billion views on YouTube, a startlingly impressive feat seeing as how it's basically just the song's title repeated over and over again.

Cilento says Watch Me 73 times, Whip 18 times, and Nay Nay 12 times.

He also says Do the Stanky Leg 8 times, and Duff 17 times.

Knowing that the singer later killed a man puts a damper on our enjoyment of the song, but doesn't keep it from being an earworm.

If you lived through 1999, then you know exactly where you were when you heard this song for the first time.

Blue Daba Dee was less of a song and more of a phenomenon, invading radio stations across the globe and subjecting people to its wacky, often unintelligible lyrics.

The chorus is straight repetitive gibberish with the words Daba Dee said over and over.

Tack on the fact that the second and third verses are exactly the same, and you have a song that is highly likely to blow up on radio, and highly unlikely to win any major awards.

If you still don't know what the word is after listening to this track, then you might want to have your ears checked.

After all, American rockers The Trash Men made it abundantly clear in 1963 that bird is the word.

It was kind of hard to miss seeing as how they said it roughly a billion times in their song Surf and Bird.

The song was actually quite successful in its day, peaking at number 4 on the Billboard

Since then, it's been riffed on numerous times, perhaps most notably in the 2008 Family

Before we unveil our top pick, here are a few honorable mentions.

Got My Mind Set on You – George Harrison Harrison's cover of the 1962 original is a catchy classic.

These looping lyrics have us headbanging like the Roxbury guys.

Macarena – Los Del Rio Its prose is as straightforward as its accompanying dance.

Watermelon Sugar – Harry Styles A sexy summer bop that's mega easy to memorize.

Tequila – The Champs Arguably the greatest karaoke song of all time.

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Around the World – Daft Punk When this song was released in 1997, it took listeners on a spellbinding tour of the English language, using words and phrases the average

Kidding, it just repeated the title of the song 144 times and in case you're having a hard time picturing what that would look like, here's a screenshot of the lyrics.

You can't exactly fault Daft Punk for their aversion to verbiage, as their goal has never been to make people see how linguistically gifted they are, but simply to make them want to get up and dance.