Chord Progressions in Popular Music

I, IV, and V

Beatles - Here Comes the Sun
Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
Bob Marley - Stir it Up
Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song
CCR - Bad Moon Rising
Don McClean - American Pie
James Blunt - You're Beautiful
Joan Jett - I Love Rock n Roll
Mr. Big - To Be With You
The Who - Baba O'Riley

 

I, IV, V, and vi

5 Satins - In the Still of the Night
Ace of Base - I Saw the Sign
Adam Lambert - Whataya Want From Me
Adele - Hello
Adele - Someone Like You
Avril Lavigne - Complicated
Barry Mann - Who Put the Bomp
Ben E King - Stand By Me
Billy Currington - We Are Tonight
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart
Boston - More than a Feeling
Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the Dark
Bruno Mars - Grenade
Bryan Adams -Summer of 69
Calvin Harris - Sweet Nothing
Capsule - Starry Sky
Cyndi Lauper - Time after Time
Demi Lovato - Skyscraper
Dido - Thank You
Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy
Go West - King of Wishful Thinking
Idina Menzel - Let it Go
Imagine Dragons - Demons
Jason Mraz - I'm Yours
Jay Sean - Down
Joan Osborne - One of Us
Justin Bieber - Beauty and a Beat
Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved
Men at Work - Down Under
Pink - Who Knew
Ricky Nelson - Poor Little Fool
Sam Cooke - Wonderful World
Steve Winwood - Higher Love
Toto - Africa
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
Train - Hey Soul Sister 
U2 - With or Without You
Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
3LAU - How You Love Me

 

I, ii, V, and vi

Four Seasons - Sherry
Maroon 5 - This Love
Weezer - Island in the Sun
Wham - Last Christmas

 

Minor progressions

Adele - Hello
Adele - Rolling in the Deep
Bryan Adams - Run to You
Imagine Dragons - Monster
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Lady Gaga - Just Dance