1. The Ronettes, "Be My Baby" (1963)

Forget girl groups for a second. If you were to condense all of pop history to one five-second sound byte -- one snippet for the aliens, the previously deaf, or the avowedly Scrooge-like to turn them into instant converts -- it'd have to be the opening bars of "Be My Baby," a drum intro iconic enough to provide the ultimate through-line in the decades of popular recordings since, so regularly quoted that it's gone past the point of cliché to just being an essential part of the cultural language. It's nothing less than the heartbeat of American pop music, pumping blood and vitality into future generations: Everything from punk to techno to shoegaze to chamber pop to arena rock to Diane Warren owes a percentage of its fundamental DNA to that BOOM. BA-BOOM. CHK!

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한국그룹

21위 소녀시대 - I Got A Boy
43위 원더걸스 - Nobody
59위 F(x) - 첫사랑니
70위 레드벨벳 - 덤덤
88위 핑클 - Now