I-V-vi-VI Progression ("Optimistic"): 1 of 24 different orders these chords can be played in.

I-V-vi-VI Progression ("Optimistic")
1 of 24 different orders these chords can be played in.

A-E-F#m-D:
• A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera - Fall on Me (most of song)
• A-Ha – Take On Me (chorus)
• Adele – Someone Like You (chorus)
• Aerosmith - Cryin’ (chorus - played as A-E-F#m-D-A-E-D)
• Akon - Don’t Matter (whole song)
• Backstreet Boys – Drowning (verses – played as A-E-F#m-D-E-A for the first line in each verse)
• Beth Ditto – We Could Run (whole song)
• Billie Myers - Kiss the Rain (first half of verses) (A and D might be Asus2/Dsus2)
• Blondie – Maria (verses and chorus, except F#m is taken out the second and fourth time)
• Bon Jovi - Real Life (intro/first half of chorus)
• Bruce Springsteen - I’m Goin’ Down (intro/verses/second half of chorus riff)
• Caamp - By and By (most of song)
• Celine Dion - To Love You More (intro/first part of verses - played as A-E-F#m-D-E/D)
• Cheap Trick - I Want You to Want Me (chorus, first half of verses - except no A second time)
• Darius Rucker – Wagon Wheel (first half of main riff – second half is A-E-D)
• Dierks Bentley - Different for Girls (most of chorus)
• Guster – Window (whole song)
• Incubus – I Wish You Were Here (second half of intro/chorus riff – played as Asus2-E-F#m-A-D)
• Jesse McCartney – Beautiful Soul (almost all of chorus and verses)
• John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads (first half of chorus)
• John Mellencamp - Hurts So Good (first half of verses)
• Keith Urban - You’ll Think of Me (intro/chorus)
• Kelly Clarkson - Already Gone (most of verses)
• Lady Gaga - The Edge of Glory (chorus)
• Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday’s Gone (first half of verse riff)
• Meredith Brooks – Bitch (second half of chorus riff)
• Metric - Gimme Sympathy (verses)
• Nada Surf - Inside of Love (most of choruses - played as A-E-F#m-Bm-D)
• Nahko and Medicine For the People - Risk It (most of song)
• Old Crow Medicine Show- Wagon Wheel (most of song)
• Parmalee & Blanco Brown – Just the Way (most of song except verses)
• Seal - Love’s Divine (first part of chorus, then A-E-D)
• Sugar Ray – Answer the Phone (main riff - no minor?)
• The All-American Rejects - Dirty Little Secret (verses)
• The Beatles - Oh! Darling! (first part of verses - played as E-A-#-F#m-D)
• The Click Five - Just the Girl (first and third parts of chorus, end on E-Bm-D)
• The Growlers - Dream World (whole song except verses)
• The Script - For the First Time (verses)
• Third Eye Blind - Everything is Easy (most of song)
• U2 - Mothers of the Disappeared (verses - played as A-E-F#m-D-A)
• Weezer - Simple Pages (verses - played as A5-E5-F#5-D/A5)
A#-F-Gm-D#:
• Backstreet Boys - The One (most of chorus - played as A#-Fsus-F-Gm7-D#9)
• BBMak - Out of My Heart (Into Your Head) (chorus - played as A#-F-Gm-D#add9)
• Elton John - Can You Feel the Love Tonight (first part of chorus)
• Elton John – I’m Still Standing (verses – played as A#-F-Gm-D#-A#)
• James Arthur - Say You Won’t Let Go (most of song)
• Jesse Labelle – Moment That We Stop (most of song)
• Lana Del Rey – Love (intro/verses/chorus)
• Nine Days - If I Am (chorus - Gm is Gm7 and D# as D#add9- play Gm7 again after riff)
• Stars – Take Me to the Riot (chorus)
• Taylor Swift – Teardrops on My Guitar (chorus)
• The Killers - I Can’t Stay (first half of chorus riff)
• The Killers - Quiet Town (most of song)
• The Mighty Mighty Bosstones  – So Sad to Say (most of song)
• Tom Cochrane & Red Rider - The Untouchable One (intro/chorus/outro)
B-F#-G#m-E:
• Backstreet Boys – Drowning (first two choruses – played as B-F#-G#m-B-E-F#)
• Howie Day – Collide (verses/most of chorus – played as B-F#sus2-G#m7-Eadd4)
• Lauv & Troye Sivan – i'm so tired... (most of song)
• Lighthouse Family – High (chorus)
• Linkin Park - Shadow of the Day (chorus)
• Liz Phair - Why Can’t I (verses)
• Lonestar - Amazed (pre-chorus)
• Louise Burns - Just Walk Away (chorus)
• Nickelback – Far Away (most of song)
• Pixies - Indie Cindy (“Indie… Cindy…” refrain/most of outro)
• Plain White T’s - Boomerang (chorus)
• The Replacements – Androgynous (verses)
• Ryan Star – Stay Awhile (chorus)
• Sum 41 - Confusion and Frustration in Modern Times (chorus)
• Sum 41 – Walking Disaster (most of song)
• Taking Back Sunday – Great Romances of the 20th Century (verses)

• The Killers – In the Car Outside (most of chorus/outro)
• The Replacements - Androgynous (verses)
• Virginia to Vegas; Alyssa Reid – We Are Stars (second half of verses)
C-G-Am-F:

• Alanis Morissette – Head Over Feet (verses)
• Alphaville - Forever Young (first half of verse/chorus riff)
• Avril Lavigne – 4 Real (intro/verses)
• Augustana  – Boston (verses – played as C-G-Am-F-C-F-G)
• Blink 182 – Dammit (most of song)
• Blink 182 - First Date (chorus - played as C-G-Am-F-G)
• Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry (verses/first half of chorus)
• Brian Eno – The Big Ship (first part of main riff)
• Colbie Caillat - Never Gonna Let You Down (first half of chorus)
• D-Cru – I Will Be Waiting (first two choruses)
• David Bowie - Seven (??? half of the song, with Am/G thrown in between Am and F)
• Ernie – I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon (most of song – played as C-G-Am-F-G-C)
• Five For Fighting - Superman (It’s Not Easy) (most of song)
• Franz Ferdinand – Walk Away (“I love the sound…” parts of verses – other parts similar)
• Fuel – Falls on Me (chorus)
• Jason Mraz – I’m Yours (whole song)
• Jesse Labelle – Magic Words (most of song)
• Jet - Look What You’ve Done (verses - put C/G before F  - replace G with D at end)
• Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway (chorus - put another G in before F every second time)
• Luke Bryan – Been There, Done That (most of verses/outro)
• Maroon 5 – Girls Like You (whole song)
• Matchbox Twenty – How Far We’ve Come (intro/verses/parts of chorus)
• Molly Nilsson - Never o’Clock (main riff, add C-Dm at end each time)
• Phil Collins - Can’t Stop Loving You (intro, parts of verses)
• Richard Marx – Right Here Waiting (chorus – end on Am)
• Rob Thomas - Mockingbird (chorus/outro)
• Robyn – Show Me Love (third line of chorus)
• Sarina Paris - Look at Us (whole song - just C in first verse)
• Sister Hazel - Happy (chorus)
• Sister Hazel – Change your Mind (first half of verse riff)
• Snow Patrol - Run (chorus - maybe Am7 after Am?)
• Taylor Swift – All Too Well (most of song – intro and first verse played as C5-Gsus4-Am-Fsus2)
• Taylor Swift – Out of the Woods (most of song)
• The All-American Rejects - Move Along (intro/second half of chorus)
• The Beatles - Let It Be (first half of verse riff - might be Fmaj7)
• The Fray - Changing Tides (most of song)
• The Killers - Joy Ride (first half of middle 8)
• The Police - So Lonely (whole song)
• Twenty One Pilots – Screen (main riff – played as C-G-Am-G-F)
• Weezer - My Name is Jonas (most of verses - straight up bar chords with some variation, including Am)
C#-G#-A#m-F#:
• 3 Doors Down - Here Without You (chorus - add G# at end)
• Backstreet Boys – Drowning (most of final chorus – played as C#-G#-A#m-C#-F#-G#)
• Colbie Caillat - Realize (chorus)
• Dido - Some Kind of Love (chorus/outro)
• Eddie Money – Take Me Home Tonight (most of chorus – end on A#m-G#-F#)
• Kenny Chesney – Come Over (whole song)
• Forest Blakk - If You Love Her (whole song - end on C# in some parts, G#add11 chord?)
• Kodaline - Sometimes (most of song)
• Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved (whole song except middle 8)
• Lonestar - Amazed (most of chorus)
• Mika - Happy Endings (half of song - end on G#-C# most of time with this riff)
• Nickelback – Far Away (most of final song)
• Pink - Please Don’t Leave Me (third part of chorus -  the first two times in chorus and the verses are just C#-G#-A#m, then in reverse  for the fourth time - A#m-G#-C#)
• 20 Good Reasons - Thirsty Merc (whole song)
• The Score – Comeback (chorus)
D-A-Bm-G:
• ‘N Sync – This I Promise You (first half of chorus)
• Banners – Someone to You (first part of verses/most of pre-chorus/chorus)
• Ben Platt – Rain (most of song)
• Blake Lewis - 1000 Miles (chorus)
• Buckcherry – Don’t Go Away (most of chorus)
• Citizen Way - When I’m With You (most of song - end on D in some parts)
• D-Cru – I Will Be Waiting (outro)
• Electric Light Orchestra - Calling America (first half of verse riff)
• Fall Out Boy - Young Volcanoes (pre-chorus)
• Gabby Barrett - The Good Ones (whole song - occasional parts with just D-A)
• Gigi D'Agostino - I’ll Fly With You (Lamour Toujours) (whole song)
• Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill (whole song - each time end with A-G-A)
• Hinder - Lips of an Angel (first half of chorus - A played as Asus4)
• Imagine Dragons - It’s Time (verses)
• India.Arie; Gramps Morgan - Therapy (whole song)
• James Blunt - Stay the Night (intro/chorus - add C at end)
• Jason Mraz; Meghan Trainor – More Than Friends (most of song)
• Jon Bon Jovi – Queen of New Orleans (first two choruses)
• Jordin Sparks – Tattoo (intro/most of chorus)
• Lifehouse – Take Me Away (most of chorus and outro – Em before G?)
• LeAnn Rimes - Life Goes On (chorus - add A at end each time)
• Marianas Trench – One Love (second half of verses – end second time on D)
• Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved (chorus)
• Men at Work - Down Under (choruses - add A at end each time)
• Mimi Webb – Good Without (whole song)
• Plain White T’s – 1, 2, 3, 4 (second half of verses/chorus – second half of verses played as D-A-Bm-A-G-a , chorus played as D-A-Bm-A-G-D)
• Plumb – Beautifully Broken (most of song)
• Taylor Swift - Love Story (whole song except key change at end to E-B-C#m-A)
• Saving Jane – Girl Next Door (first half of chorus)
• Scars on 45 - Take You Home (chorus)
• Shakira - Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) (most of song)
• Simple Plan Feat. Sean Paul - Summer Paradise (verses)
• The Calling - Wherever You Will Go (most of song - play D after each time)
• The Cars - Too Late (most of chorus – add an A-Bm at end)
• The Last Goodnight – Pictures of You (most of song)
• The Script – Nothing (chorus)
• The Strumbellas – I’ll Wait (verses)
• The Teddy Bears - To Know Him Is To Love Him (first half of chorus)
• Tyrone Wells – More (chorus)
• U2 - Miracle Drug (main riff)
• U2 – With or Without You (intro/verses)
• Zwan – Honestly (first line of verse and chorus – intro and verses alternate with this and D-A-G-Em)
D#-A#-Cm-G#:
• Andy Grammer - Don't Give Up On Me (most of song)
• Antony And the Johnsons - Fistful of Love (whole song)
• Bon Jovi – Roller Coaster (chorus)
• Christophe Maé - On s'attache (first half of verses)
• Crowded House - Fall at Your Feet (chorus)
• Dashboard Confessional - Again I Go Unnoticed (chorus - end on D# after first time)
• Dashboard Confessional - Stolen (most of song)
• Eamon – F**k It (I Don’t Want You Back) (whole song)
• Everclear – The New York Times (first half of chorus)
• Hedley – Parade Rain (chorus)
• Imagine Dragons - Demons (whole song)
• James Blunt - You’re Beautiful (intro/verses)
• Jann Arden - Good Mother (most of song except chorus/outro)
• Kygo; Imagine Dragons - Born to Be Yours (most of song)
• Lewis Cipaldi - Before You Go (chorus)
• Live - Heaven (chorus)
• Miranda Cosgrove - Kissin U (most of song)
• Nate Haller - Lightning in a Bottle (most of song)
• Neon Dreams – Beverly Hills (chorus/outro)
• Neon Dreams – House Party (chorus)
• Nickelback - What Are You Waiting For? (whole song)
• Olivia Rodrigo – traitor (most of song – played as D#-Gm-Cm-G# in parts?)
• Chris Stapleton; Pink - Love Me Anyway (most of song)
• Pitbull - Give Me Everything (almost whole song)
• Smith & Myers – Bad at Love (chorus/outro)
• SR-71 - Right Now (most of chorus)
• The Vamps; Demi Lovato – Somebody to You (chorus)
• The Wallflowers - God Says Nothing Back (first half of chorus, then Cm-G#-A#-D#-D#/D)
• ZZ Ward – Last Love Song (chorus)
E-B-C#m-A: (“Axis of Awesome” live version)
• Against Me! – Borne on the FM Waves of the Heart (most of chorus, end on A-B-A, A and E are very brief here for whole thing)
• Alejandro Fernández - Se Me Va La Voz (whole song)
• Alessia Cara - How Far I’ll Go (chorus - last A played as Am)
• Alicia Keys - No One (whole song except last verse)
• Avril Lavigne – Wish You Were Here (most of song)
• Axis of Awesome - 4 Chords (first half - live version)
• Backstreet Boys – Straight Through My Heart (chorus)
• Blink 182 - Feeling This (chorus)
• Blink 182 – M&Ms (most of song)
• Bush - Machinehead (second and third choruses)
• Carly Rae Jepsen - Your Type (chorus)
• Ed Sheeran - Photograph (chorus - end on E)
• Elton John - Can You Feel the Love Tonight (first part of chorus)
• Enrique Iglesias - Don’t Turn Off the Lights (middle 8 - E-C#m-D at very end of middle 8)
• First Ladies of Disco – Show Some Love (most of song)
• Fort Minor – Where’d You Go (whole song except pre-chorus)
• Fountains of Wayne – All Kinds of Time (verses)
• Green Day - X-Kid (chorus - end on E) (bar chords)
• Hedley – Hello (chorus)
• Hedley - Never Too Late (verses) (B added at end)
• Hollywood Undead - Bullet (verses/parts of chorus)
• Jason Mraz – Have It All (chorus)
• Joe Nichols – Home Run (whole song)
• Jon Bon Jovi – Queen of New Orleans (last chorus)
• Jordan Davis ft. Luke Bryan - Buy Dirt (chorus)
• Journey – Don’t Stop Believin’ (first half of intro/verse riff - E played as E/B?)
• Kip Moore - Last Shot (chorus - quick B after C#m?)
• Lonestar – What About Now (chorus)
• Manian feat. Carlprit - Don't Stop The Dancing (intro?/chorus)
• Marianas Trench – Beside You (chorus)
• Marianas Trench – Glimmer (third part of verse and chorus riffs)
• Meet Me @ The Altar feat. Dan Campbell - Feel a Thing [Acoustic] (most of song except chorus)
• Missy Higgins – Scar (verses chorus – played as B-E-B-C#m-A in chorus, chorus ends on B-E)
• MØ - Nights With You (whole song)
• New Politics – One of Us (verses)
• OneRepublic – Stop and Stare (chorus – end on B first time, end on E second time)
• Paulina Rubio - Yo No Soy Esa Mujer (most of song)
• Phosphorescent - Song for Zula (whole song)
• Pink – All I Know So Far (chorus – end on B)
• Pirates of the Mississippi - Feed Jake (first half of chorus)
• Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under the Bridge (first and third parts of verses - played as E/B-B-C#m-A#m-A)
• Rita Ora - I Will Never Let You Down (chorus)
• Rob Thomas - Ever the Same (first part of verse/chorus)
• Robbie Williams – Into the Silence (verses)
• Rosie Darling & OKO - LA (intro/verses)
• Roxette - Dangerous (chorus - end on E to go into verses - add B when the chorus lines extend a bit)
• Roxette – Spending My Time (first part of chorus)
• Savage Garden – Crash and Burn (nearly all of verses and choruses – B at end)
• Selena - I Could Fall In Love (intro, then E-G#-E)
• Semisonic - Singing in My Sleep (verses)
• Sum 41 – With You (intro/verses)
• Taylor Swift – Innocent (first half of chorus)
• Taylor Swift - Love Story (last chorus)
• The Dandy Warhols - Rest Your Head (intro/verses)
• The Go Go’s - Vacation (second half of chorus - add B at end each time)
• The Killers - Tranquilize (first part of chorus)
• The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet (over half of song)
• The Psychedelic Furs - In My Head (most of song except chorus)
• The Rolling Stones - Beast of Burden (verses)
• The Sunset Kids - I Wanna Be (whole song)
• Train – Hey, Soul Sister (nearly all of verses – B at end)
• U2 - Ultraviolet (Light My Way) (“oh, oh, Ultraviolet light” part after last choruses)
• Weezer – No One Else (most of chorus)
• Willow; Avril Lavigne; Travis Barker - G R O W (whole song)
F-C-Dm-A#:
• Ace of Base - Lucky Love (intro/most of chorus, end on F-C-Dm-A)
• Baltimora – Tarzan Boy (guitar riff, with C-F added at the end)
• Black Eyed Peas - Where is the Love (whole song)
• Bush – Glycerine (except last part of chorus)
• Carlos Vive; Sebastian Yatra - Robarte un Beso (most of song)
• Chairlift - I Belong in Your Arms (part right before chorus)
• Darius Rucker – Beers and Sunshine (most of song)
• Erasure - Always (part of pre-chorus right before chorus)
• Etham – 12:45 (most of song)
• Jakob Dylan - Down On Our Own Shield (first half of chorus - played as F-C-Dm-Dmaj7-A#maj7)
• Kabah - La Calle De Las Sirenas (most of song)
• Kyle Andrews - Call and Fade (most of song)
• Lady Gaga – Hair (most of song)
• Maxine Nightingale - Right Back Where We Started From (verses – second and fourth time is just F-C-A#)
• Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball (chorus - end on Dm-A# twice)
• Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (chorus)
• Orianthi - According to You (most of verses - end on F-Dm)
• Paulina Rubio - Yo No Soy Esa Mujer (final chorus)
• Pixies - Long Rider (first part of chorus riff)
• Red Hot Chili Peppers – Soul to Squeeze (chorus)
• Sam Hunt – Body Like a Back Road (most of song – always play F-C-F afterward)
• Sister Hazel - Champagne High (chorus - end on F)
• Tegan and Sara – I Couldn’t Be Your Friend (intro/verses – played as F-C-Dm-A#)
• The Cars - Tonight She Comes (every third time in verses)
• The Struts – One Night Only (first part of verses)
• The Wanted - Walks Like Rihanna (most of song)
• Toby Keith – I Wanna Talk About Me (most of song)

F#-C#-D#m-B:

• Black Lab - Mine Again (chorus – without the C#?)
• Blink-182 – What’s My Age Again (chorus)
• Daughtry - Feels Like Tonight (most of song)
• Dixie Chicks - Not Ready to Make Nice (chorus)
• Fountains of Wayne - Mexican Wine (first verse)
• Matchbox Twenty - Push (intro/verses - played as F#-C#/F-D#m-B)
• Miku Hatsune, Caramella Girls – Caramelldansen (intro/chorus)
• Roxette - Sleeping in My Car (first half of chorus)
• Staind - So Far Away (chorus - end on B)
• Sting – I’m So Happy That I Can’t Stop Crying (first few choruses)
• Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble (verses)
• The Killers – Just Another Girl (most of song – played as F-C#-D#m-B-C# - end on D#m)
• The Strokes - Automatic Stop (chorus - add G# before B)
• Weezer - Ruling Me (verses - add C# to end of second and fourth times through)
G-D-Em-C:
• 3 Doors Down – Be Like That (whole song except bridges after chorus and outro)
• Aerosmith - What It Takes (most of verses - a D before C though to make G-D-Em-D-C, then D and G-Em-D-C at the end of the verses)
• Andrea Bocelli - Time To Say Goodbye (Con tu Partiro) (half of song)
• Avril Lavigne - Keep Holding On (whole song except middle 8)
• Better Than Ezra – Good (whole song?) (E is Em though)
• Book of Love – Boy (most of song except chorus)
• Charlie Puth - One Call Away (chorus, add G-D at end of first time, then D-G at end of second time)
• Coldplay - Up and Up (whole song) (Em might be Em7) F sometimes in place of Em(7)
• Darren Hayes – I Miss You (chorus – end on C instead of A# in first and second chorus)
• Demi Lovato - Skyscraper (most of song)
• Faber Drive - When I’m With You (chorus)
• Green Day - When I Come Around (intro/verses)
• Hedley – One Life (most of song)
• Idina Menzel - Let It Go (chorus - Dsus 4.F# and Em7 maybe though?)
• Jessica Simpson – I Wanna Love You Forever (chorus – end on Em)
• Jimmy Eat World – All the Way (Stay) (chorus)
• Kimberly Locke - 8th World Wonder (chorus)
• La Roux – Sexotheque (chorus/outro)
• Mana - Rayando El Sol (first half of intro/chorus riff - second time is G-Bm-C-D - end on Em before verse 2)
• Mt. Joy - Strangers (most of song)
• Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind (main riff - last chord is shifted from what original Willie Nelson version used)
• Pink - Fuckin’ Perfect (whole song except small breaks)
• Rihanna - California King Bed (chorus - end on G)
• Sesame Street’s Gina and Maria – The Word is No (most of song)
• The All-American Rejects - Swing, Swing (chorus)
• The Offspring – Cruisin’ California (chorus – verses too?)
• Third Eye Blind - Deep Inside of You (intro/verses - played as G-Dsus4-Em-Cadd9)
• Tim McGraw - It’s Your Love (first half of verses/first half of chorus)
• Troye Sivan – Youth (parts of chorus)
• U2 - Winter (intro, verses, outro - played as G-D-Em-C-D-C)
• Weezer – Pork and Beans (chorus – E is also Em)
• Yeasayer – I Am Chemistry (whole song)
G#-D#-Fm-C#:
• Amy Diamond – Shooting Star (chorus)
• David Cook – The Time of My Life (first 4-bar part of verses/chorus)
• David Gray - Be Mine (first half of chorus)
• Enrique Iglesias - Do You Know? (The Ping Pong Song) (whole song - played as G#-D#-Fm-C#-D#)
• Jrandall (Ft. Akon) - Oo La La (whole song)
• Lady Gaga – Paparazzi (chorus)
• Lonestar - Amazed (intro/verses)
• Matt Nathanson - Modern Love (most of song - play Fm as Fm7)
• Michelle Branch – Goodbye to You (chorus – play an A#m7 before C# the final time)