Here is a list of songs that can all be played in the key of E with the following chords: E, B, C#m, A.

Most of these songs follow the I-V-vi-IV chord progression. Some of them follow the vi-IV-I-V progression, which is the same chords but in a different order.

A quick primer on chord progressions

Here is a chart showing the chords in E major. The roman numerals correspond to the chords of the song. So a song with a vi-IV-I-V progression will be C#m, A, E, and B. A song with the I-V-vi-IV progression will be E, B, C#m, and A.

Key I ii iii IV V vi vii E Major E F#m G#m A B C#m D# dim

Once you learn the sound of these progressions, you will start hearing them everywhere. I always hear Glycerine by Bush when I hear I-V-vi-IV. As a teenager, I worked in a guitar store and every Tuesday a kid would come in for his lesson a few minutes early. He’d grab a guitar off the wall and play Glycerine. It is now forever etched into my brain.

Hopefully this sparks you to think of songs in terms of chord progressions. As a player, it will benefit you to know how to play the same songs in different keys.

Songs that use I-V-vi-IV

I've Been Waiting For This Night - Donny Montell

Ride - Twenty One Pilots

20 Good Reasons - Thirsty Merc

A Letter to Elise - The Cure

Afterlife - Avenged Sevenfold

All Too Well - Taylor Swift

Almost - Bowling for Soup

Always on My Mind - Brenda Lee

Am I Not Too Sweet - Natural Born Hippies

Androgynous - The Replacements

Another Girl, Another Planet - The Only Ones

Beast of Burden - The Rolling Stones

Brighter - Against the Current

Bullet - Hollywood Undead

California King Bed - Rihanna

Caramelldansen - Caramell

Con te partirò (Time To Say Goodbye) - Andrea Bocelli

Cruise - Florida Georgia Line

Cryin' - Aerosmith

Dammit - Blink-182

Demons - Imagine Dragons

Dirty Little Secret - The All-American Rejects

Don't Stop the Dancing - DJ Manian

Down Under - Men at Work

Dragostea Din Tei - O-Zone

Dream Catch Me - Newton Faulkner

Feeling This - Blink-182

Flashlight - Jessie J

Forever Young - Alphaville

Fuckin' Perfect - P!nk

Glycerine - Bush

Going to Pasalacqua - Green Day

Hair - Lady Gaga

Happy Ending - Mika

Heaven - Troye Sivan

Heist aan zee - Bart Peeters

Here (In Your Arms) - Hellogoodbye

Here Without You - 3 Doors Down

Hey, Soul Sister - Train

Hide and Seek - Imogen Heap

High - Lighthouse Family

I Knew You Were Trouble[52] - Taylor Swift

I Need Your Love - Calvin Harris

I See You - Mika

I Try - Macy Gray

I Wanna Talk About Me - Toby Keith

I'm Goin' Down[53] - Bruce Springsteen

I'm Yours - Jason Mraz

If We Ever Meet Again - Timbaland feat. Katy Perry

Innocent - Taylor Swift

Just Ace - Grinspoon

Let It Be - The Beatles

Love - Lana Del Rey

My Name Is Jonas - Weezer

Nights With You - MØ

No One Else - Weezer

No One - Alicia Keys

No Scrubs - TLC

No Woman, No Cry - Bob Marley

On Melancholy Hill - Gorillaz

One Day - Matisyahu

Out of the Woods - Taylor Swift

Party in the U.S.A. - Miley Cyrus

Pork and Beans - Weezer

Push - Matchbox Twenty

Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx

Rods and Cones - Blue Man Group

Save as Draft - Katy Perry

Say You Won't Let Go - James Arthur

Scar - Missy Higgins

Shooting Star - Amy Diamond

Since You Been Gone - Russ Ballard

So Lonely - The Police

Someone Like You - Adele

Summer Paradise - Simple Plan

Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver

Television Romance - Pale Waves

The Cheat Is Not Dead - Strong Bad

The Edge of Glory - Lady Gaga

The Office theme - The Scrantones

The Story - Brandi Carlile

To Know Him Is to Love Him - The Teddy Bears

Torn - Natalie Imbruglia

Tuesday's Gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Wagon Wheel - Old Crow Medicine Show

Walking Disaster - Sum 41

Walks Like Rihanna - The Wanted

What About Now - Lonestar

What Would I Change It To - Avicii & AlunaGeorge

When I Come Around - Green Day

Wherever You Will Go - The Calling

With or Without You - U2

Would You Be So Kind - dodie

X-Kid - Green Day

Youth - Troye Sivan

Songs that use vi-IV-I-V