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Philly 500

Every Memorial Day Weekend, 102.9 MGK hosts the annual Philly 500, which is the top 500 classic rock songs of all time, as voted by the MGK At Work Network. Every year, the countdown begins on the Friday of Memorial Day Weekend at 3:00 PM with DJ Andre Gardner playing song number 500. The countdown continues throughout the weekend, and the number one song is played every year by DJ Bubba John usually around 2:30 PM on Memorial Day. Below are previous number one songs.

Year Artist #1 Song Runner Up Artist/Song
2008 Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven Aerosmith/Sweet Emotion
2009 Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb Kansas/Carry On Wayward Son
2010 Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven Kansas/Carry On Wayward Son
2011 Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven The Beatles/A Day in the Life
2012 Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven AC/DC/You Shook Me All Night Long

The following songs are consistently in the top ten:

Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin
Carry on Wayward Son by Kansas
Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith
Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Hotel California by Eagles
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
You Shook Me All Night Long by AC/DC


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