According to the talking heads on the show, the other way to make a killing is to write a song that ladies like. As a woman who owns CDs that aren’t all by Adele and Michael Bublé, I take slight offence to the insinuation that people with ovaries only like soppy songs, but the presence of Unchained Melody, Every Breath You Take and Yesterday (“a Beatles song for people who didn’t like The Beatles”) on the list did appear to confirm this theory. The film factor helps too – that’s why Ben E King, at number six, is possibly the world’s happiest man. His song, Stand By Me, was a US hit when it was originally released in 1961, but became hugely lucrative when it was used on the film of the same name in 1987. “If it wasn’t for Stand By Me I’d probably be driving a cab,” he mused, grinning.