Collider entertainment writer Jeremy Urquhart presents a subjective ranking of 25 all-time great songs, restricting the list to one track per artist due to the sheer volume of recorded music. He frames the undertaking as an inherently flawed exercise, noting that major recording artists often have hundreds of songs across multiple decades, making any finite list necessarily incomplete regardless of its length.

The partial list showcases Dylan's 'Tangled Up in Blue' from his acclaimed 1975 album Blood on the Tracks, highlighting his narrative songwriting and emotional range, alongside The Pogues' irreverent Christmas anthem 'Fairytale of New York'. The article emphasises the impracticality of comprehensively ranking recorded music whilst attempting to identify genuine artistic achievements across genres and eras.