‘Mutt,’ ‘Who Let the Dogs Out’ and More Hit Songs That Went to the Dogs

Leon Thomas’ soulful ballad “Mutt” joins a long line of songs with dog themes or variations of dog words in their titles to make the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100.

While our focus here is on top 40 singles, we want to at least mention some dog-themed songs that were drawn from studio albums that reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 – Elvis Presley’s “Old Shep” from Elvis (1956), The Monkees’ “Gonna Buy Me a Dog” from The Monkees (1966), The Beatles’ “Martha My Dear” from The Beatles (1968), Led Zeppelin’s “Bron-Y-Aur Stomp” from Led Zeppelin III (1970), Snoop Doggy Dogg’s “Doggy Dogg World” from Doggy Style (1993), Carrie Underwood’s “The More Boys I Meet” from Carnival Ride (2007), and Luke Bryan’s “Little Boys Grow Up and Dogs Get Old” from Kill the Lights (2015).

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