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Each of these well-known bands wrote more than their greatest hits. Any artist will make scores if not hundreds of songs, and they'll be lucky to have as much as 3 make it high on the charts. The other songs are rarely outclassed, they're just not picked. When you say "I've loved Lady Gaga for 16 years", I presume you aren't just talking about her 5 biggest hits.
What we have going on is a familiarity/conformity process shaping what gets played. It translates the subjectivity of what is good music into a positive feedback loop of popularity. Most people end up not listening to all that much besides what is selected for by these stations.
In my experience, if you hear a song frequently enough, you get bored of it and it diminishes how much you like it (the exception is if you're practicing singing/playing it as a musician).