skopiaBarry, Greenwich and Spector wrote it for Darlene Love in 1963; this 2004 cover stayed off streaming for seventeen years.
Built on SWV's Right Here and Michael Jackson's Human Nature, Brown sighing over an ex from inside a new relationship.
Mutt Lange co-wrote the twist, twelve weeks atop adult contemporary, and Bolton insisting the word love undersells it.
Recorded at Brooklyn's Rumpus Room with Nick Stumpf producing, and Julia Stiles stars in the video.
Romero improvised the chorus for a flamenco dancer in Venezuela; the Bayside Boys remix ran fourteen weeks at number one.
Bassi and Hackett wrote it, McShane mimed it in the video, and the Tarzan yell became the hook.
A gym joke about mirror preening, built on a riff lifted from Hendrix's Third Stone from the Sun.
Three Nashville writers and producer Derek George handed Houser his first Country Airplay number one, and a platinum single.
William Orbit co-wrote and produced it, a Madonna collaborator turning Brown's fourth Fortune single into gleaming EDM.
A Shreveport club chant for DJ Hollywood Bay Bay, which Phunk Dawg's beat carried all the way to number seven.
Cut at the Record Plant with The Underdogs, 130 BPM of house that gave Brown his first UK number one.
Two singers who never planned a duet took Bobby Caldwell's song to number one, David Foster producing.
May and Taylor wrote it, Mercury sang it, and Queen waited until 2019 to give it a video.
Two uncleared vocal samples and a thirty-second meme put Baauer at number one the week Billboard started counting YouTube.
Produced by The Messengers with Nasri co-writing, the fifth single from Fortune asks a lover to ignore rumor.
Troy Taylor cut it at D2 in Atlanta, and Songz's birthday toast climbed to number nine, then double platinum.
Rasted got the idea at a Danish kitsch exhibition, and Mattel's trademark suit lost to the parody defense.
Vassar and Craig Wiseman built it from household mishaps and money worries, and it became his first country number one.
Coogi paid the entire million-dollar bill for the Miami video, and Detail's beat still outshines it.
Brett James co-wrote it with Gilbert and Weaver, his first million-selling single and a Hot Country Songs number one.
Mike Will's synths under a Juicy J hook about Air Jordans, with Cyrus rapping on record for the first time.
Written in 2007 about a girl who moved away for college, and every synth in it aches accordingly.
Berlin wrote it in 1927; Taco's synth version made him, at ninety-five, the oldest living songwriter in the top ten.
Eugene Record's Chi-Lites ballad, harmonica and all, remade by Young in 1990 for a number eight American hit.
RedOne produced it with Bilal Hajji, a dance-floor emergency that peaked at number five and opened Miss Universe.
Seventy-eight seconds of Da Internz production, cut in a Copenhagen hotel room, that leaked and made the album by demand.
Powter sketched it on the ferry from Victoria to Vancouver; American Idol adopted it and Billboard called it 2006's biggest.
Number one in Australia, top ten in Britain, and Neon Hitch trading verses with McCoy over Benny Blanco's beat.
Wayne Kirkpatrick co-wrote it, Dann Huff played the guitar, and Christian radio's searching ballad reached number six pop.
Detail and Choppa Boi built a beat out of space and chant; Nas and Rick Ross joined the remix.
A Juventino Rosas waltz from 1888, fitted with English words for The Great Caruso and sung to number three.
Chesney wrote it alone in Cabo San Lucas at Sammy Hagar's birthday party, and it topped the country chart.
Burns said he took the song down from an old man; Stanley's 1910 disc is probably the first commercial recording.
Maurice Starr wrote and produced it, Jordan Knight and Donnie Wahlberg took the leads, and Britain crowned it a year later.
Glenn borrowed 2,500 dollars from his parents to press 800 copies; it sat at number two for seven weeks.
A Slim Thug track turned inside out over Rick tha Rular's beat, with a skeptical Seth Rogen questioning Samberg.
Samberg and Taccone deadpanning in Pet Shop Boys accents, a Justin Timberlake janitor cameo, and total commitment to the bit.
