Hot on Album-Oriented Rock (AOR)
- Sweet Child O’ Mine by Guns N' Roses
- Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
- I'm Still Standing by Elton John
- Believer by Imagine Dragons
- Born in the U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen
- Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
- Free Fallin' by Tom Petty
- Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now by Starship
- With Or Without You by U2
- Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas
- What a Fool Believes by The Doobie Brothers
- Jack & Diane by John Mellencamp
- Purple Rain by Prince and the Revolution
- Don't Stop Believin' by Journey
- The Final Countdown by Europe
- Landslide by Fleetwood Mac
- Roxanne by The Police
- Should I Stay or Should I Go by The Clash
- Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin
- Eye in the Sky by The Alan Parsons Project
About Album-Oriented Rock (AOR)
Album-Oriented Rock (also known as arena rock, anthem rock, corporate rock, and adult-oriented rock) is a term used to describe rock music from the 70s and early 80s that played a highly-polished mix of progressive rock and hard rock with widespread commercial appeal.
“Album-oriented rock” does not refer to rock music that places emphasis on whole albums/concept albums (e.g. Pink Floyd). Instead, the name of the genre comes from alternative radio in the 1970s (AKA “album-oriented radio”), which would play album cuts rather than singles. With the rise of punk and disco in the late 70s, album-oriented radio took over as the main way to hear more conventional rock music, and the increasingly commercialized hard rock sound that was popular at the time became associated with the term “album-oriented.” Album-oriented radio has since been supplanted by classic rock radio.
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