Notable Hidden Tracks
Sometimes hidden tracks have become quite popular and received heavy radio airplay, and occasionally climbed the charts.
- The Beatles' track "Her Majesty" off their 1969 album Abbey Road is considered the first hidden track in recording history. The original pressings of Abbey Road did not list "Her Majesty" on the back cover song title listing, nor the record label; subsequent LP pressings and then CD issues were issued revealing the track. However, two years prior, in 1967, on the UK version of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, there was the now-famous "inner groove" that appeared after "A Day in the Life" at the end of side 2. It was an unexpected, untitled, and uncredited Beatles recording - so this might be deemed a pre-cursor to the hidden track.
- Janet Jackson's track "Whoops Now", a hidden track off her album janet., was released as a single and reached No. 9 in UK Singles Charts and No. 1 in New Zealand Singles Chart.
- Nirvana's track "Endless, Nameless", a hidden track off their album "Nevermind"
- The Rembrandts had a sudden radio hit in 1995 with "I'll Be There For You", the theme song to Friends, so it was added at the last minute to their third album LP. As a result the song was a hidden track on the early printing since the CD packaging had already been completed by the time the song was added. A sticker was however added to the outer shrink wrap advertising the song's inclusion.
- The Eels album Daisies of the Galaxy contains a hidden track, "Mr. E's Beautiful Blues", which was released as a single and not featured on the sleeve notes though it was "radio-popular". The song was, in fact, released as the first single from the album and peaked at No. 11 on the UK Singles Chart.
- Counting Crows' hidden cover of "Big Yellow Taxi" on Hard Candy.
- Cracker's "Euro-Trash Girl", an original, was one of their biggest radio hits despite being a hidden track on Kerosene Hat.
- "Skin (Sarabeth)" by Rascal Flatts, a hidden track from their 2004 album Feels Like Today, received enough airplay to chart in the Top 40 on the country charts. By mid-2005, the album was re-issued with the song officially listed as a track, coinciding with the song's release as a single.
- Of the two hidden tracks on Lauryn Hill's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, one of them, the cover of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" was nominated for a Grammy in 1999 in the category of "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance". It was the first time a hidden track was nominated for a Grammy.
- "Draw the Line (song)" by American hard rock band Aerosmith appears as a hidden track on their live compilation, Live! Bootleg, and appears right after their cover of James Brown's "Mother Popcorn".
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