She Ain't You
2011
Built on SWV's Right Here and Michael Jackson's Human Nature, Brown sighing over an ex from inside a new relationship.
★ 0.8
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Don't Wake Me Up
2012
William Orbit co-wrote and produced it, a Madonna collaborator turning Brown's fourth Fortune single into gleaming EDM.
★ 0.9
Crazy (K-Ci & JoJo)
2001
Vocoder all over an R&B ballad in 2001, years before the effect took over pop radio; the Haileys wrote it.
★ 1.8
Have You Seen HerMC Hammer
Have You Seen Her
1990
Eugene Record and Barbara Acklin wrote it for the Chi-Lites in 1971; Hammer's hushed remake reached number four.
★ 1.9
You're Beautiful
2005
A glimpse of an ex on the London Underground, her new man beside her, and a transatlantic number one.
★ 2.6
Let Her Go
2012
Rosenberg cut it in a Sydney studio with Australian session players, and a Dutch fan's email set it loose.
★ 2.8
Again
2000
Kravitz wrote, arranged and produced it alone, cut it from an album, then won a third straight Grammy.
★ 2.9
I'm Still In Love With You
1996
All six members, Bobby Brown included, on one album, with Tresvant and Bell trading a Jam and Lewis ballad.
★ 3.0
What Hurts the Most
2006
Mark Wills cut it first in 2003; Dann Huff's production turned Steele and Robson's ballad into a country number one.
★ 3.1
On Top of Old Smoky
1951
Cecil Sharp collected it in Appalachia in 1916; Seeger's arrangement and Terry Gilkyson's voice sold a million.
★ 3.5
I Wish it Would Rain Down
1990
Clapton plays the lead over Padgham's production, the closest Collins had then come to writing a blues song.
★ 3.5
Always (Bon Jovi)
1994 · From Cross Road
Jon Bon Jovi wrote it for a film he then disowned; Kalodner found the track and pushed a re-recording.
★ 3.6
Just a Dream
2010
Jim Jonsin and Rico Love built the beat, and Nelly took the heartbreak to number three.
★ 3.9
White Flag
2003
Her brother Rollo co-produced it, and the chorus flatly refuses to concede a relationship everyone knows is over.
★ 3.9
Jamaica Say You Will
1972
Clarence White on acoustic guitar, and the demo that led David Geffen to found Asylum Records and sign Browne.
★ 4.0
When I Call Your Name
1989
Gill wrote it with Tim DuBois, Patty Loveless sang the harmony, and the CMA named it Single of the Year.
★ 4.0
Desert Rose
1999
An Arabic descant improvised by Cheb Mami without hearing Sting's lyric, and both halves came out about longing.
★ 4.1
If It Isn't Love
1988
Jam and Lewis rebuilt the group as grown men, Johnny Gill's first single with them, Tresvant on lead.
★ 4.1
Ocean Avenue
2004
Sean Mackin's violin cutting through the guitars, and an avenue that is really a boulevard in Atlantic Beach, Florida.
★ 4.1
Always Something There to Remind MeNaked Eyes
Always Something There to Remind Me
1983
Bacharach and David's 1964 ballad rebuilt in synthesizers at Abbey Road, and by Byrne's account the vocal took one take.
★ 4.2
Valerie
1982
Every instrument on it is Winwood alone; the 1982 single stalled, and Tom Lord-Alge's 1987 remix reached the top ten.
★ 4.3
All By Myself
1996
Eric Carmen's verse borrowed from Rachmaninoff's Second Concerto, and Dion nailing the high F Foster dared her to try.
★ 4.4
U Remind Me
2001
Cut at Tree Sound in Georgia with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis producing, it won Usher his first Grammy.
★ 4.4
Other PeopleBeach House
Other People
2012 · From Bloom
Cut to 24-track analog tape at Sonic Ranch in Texas, gauzy organ, Legrand singing a relationship dissolving.
★ 4.5
Red Red Wine
1983
UB40 knew only Tony Tribe's reggae cover, saw "N Diamond" on the label, and guessed a Jamaican singer.
★ 4.5
It's All Coming Back to Me NowCeline Dion
It's All Coming Back to Me Now
1996
Steinman wrote it out of Wuthering Heights for Pandora's Box in 1989, and Dion made it enormous.
★ 4.8
It Must Have Been Love
1987
Written to order as a Christmas single, then reworded for Pretty Woman and two weeks atop the Hot 100.
★ 4.8
Goodnight Irene
1950
Lead Belly died months before Gordon Jenkins's orchestra carried his waltz to thirteen weeks atop the American charts.
★ 4.9
Carry Me Ohio
2003 · From Ghosts of the Great Highway
Kozelek grew up in Massillon, Ohio, and this is what he sends back: an apology set to ringing acoustic guitars.
★ 4.9
No More "I Love You's"
1995
Roland Barthes' A Lover's Discourse fed the 1986 original; Lennox and Lipson rebuilt it into a Grammy winner.
★ 4.9
You Wear It Well
1972 · From Never a Dull Moment
A letter to an ex, sung over acoustic guitar, fiddle and McLagan's Hammond, and another UK number one.
★ 4.9
Time is On My SideIrma Thomas
Time is On My Side
1964
A B-side cut in April 1964, with Jimmy Norman adding lyrics at the session; Jagger later copied her ad-libs.
★ 5.1
Need You Now
2009
Four writers, one late-night phone call, and a chorus that took Record and Song of the Year at the Grammys.
★ 5.2
When I Was Your Man
2012
Voice and piano, nothing else, Mars playing it himself at Levcon and singing a regret he cannot take back.
★ 5.3
Tuesday's GoneLynyrd Skynyrd
Tuesday's Gone
1973 · From Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd
A Mellotron faking the strings, producer Al Kooper credited as Roosevelt Gook, and Van Zant's rambling farewell.
★ 5.4
Maybe
1957
A Manhattan church studio, Richard Barrett's piano figure, and a sixteen-year-old lead vocal that opened the girl-group era.
★ 5.5
Blue Christmas
1968 · From Elvis' Christmas Album
Millie Kirkham's soprano wailing over the Jordanaires at Radio Recorders, 1957, with Scotty Moore answering every line.
★ 5.6
Whiskey River
1973 · From Shotgun Willie
A Johnny Bush song Nelson borrowed for Shotgun Willie, then used to open nearly every concert since 1974.
★ 5.6
Rosanna
1982
Jeff Porcaro's half-time shuffle carried it to Record of the Year, and drummers have been chasing that groove since.
★ 5.6
Tennessee WaltzPatti Page
Tennessee Waltz
1950
Stewart reportedly wrote the lyrics on a matchbox cover, and Page's double-tracked vocal held number one for nine weeks.
★ 5.7