A Bay Bay
2007
A Shreveport club chant for DJ Hollywood Bay Bay, which Phunk Dawg's beat carried all the way to number seven.
★ 1.0
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Turn Up The Music
2012
Cut at the Record Plant with The Underdogs, 130 BPM of house that gave Brown his first UK number one.
★ 1.0
This Is Your NightAmber
This Is Your Night
1996
Dutch singer, German producers, and a Gilbert Montagne sample underneath; the Roxbury soundtrack later handed it a second life.
★ 1.5
Down On Me
2010
Twenty-three weeks of climbing before it peaked at number four, riding a Mick Schultz beat built for last call.
★ 1.9
Make It Rain
2006
Fat Joe found no club record built around throwing money, so Scott Storch cut one at the Hit Factory.
★ 2.6
DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love
2010
Rihanna's team turned it down for Loud, and Usher took it to number four with Pitbull along for the ride.
★ 2.7
Thong Song
1999
Bruce Dukov's violin line, modelled on Wes Montgomery's Eleanor Rigby, over a track first built for Michael Jackson.
★ 3.2
Down in Mexico
1956
Leiber and Stoller's first single for the group, Stoller himself at the piano, climbed to number eight R&B.
★ 3.4
Smack That
2006
Akon met Eminem at an Obie Trice session, flew to Detroit's 54 Sound, and left with five weeks at number two.
★ 3.5
Outta Control
2005 · From The Massacre
Dre and Mike Elizondo built it spare, clipped piano and low thump; the Mobb Deep remix reached number six.
★ 3.6
Love in This Club
2008
Three weeks at number one, built on synth loops Polow da Don pulled from a GarageBand pack.
★ 4.1
Forever (Chris Brown)
2007
Written first as a Doublemint gum jingle, then extended by Polow da Don into a wedding-aisle staple.
★ 4.2
Blame It
Jamie Foxx and T-Pain
2009
Fourteen straight weeks atop the R&B chart, T-Pain's Auto-Tune at its peak, and a Grammy for the pair.
★ 4.3
Low
2007
DJ Montay's beat, T-Pain on the hook, and the first song to sell four million digital copies in America.
★ 4.3
Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?
1978 · From Blondes Have More Fun
Stewart heard Jorge Ben's Taj Mahal at Rio Carnival, absorbed the melody unwittingly, and signed the royalties over to UNICEF.
★ 4.5
Jumpin', Jumpin'
1999
Number three on the Hot 100, co-produced by Beyonce, the last single cut with Luckett and Roberson.
★ 4.5
Tuesday
iLoveMakonnen and Drake
2014
Sonny Digital and Metro Boomin built the beat, Drake jumped on the remix, and a weeknight became an occasion.
★ 4.7
Rhythm of the Night
1985
Warren wrote it for a Motown kung fu film, Perry swapped the drum machine for live players, DeBarge soared.
★ 5.0
Lean Back
Terror Squad and Fat Joe
2004
Scott Storch's beat, three weeks at number one, and a hook that instructs the room not to dance.
★ 5.0
We Are Young
fun. and Janelle Monae
2011
Six weeks at number one, and it began with Ruess singing the chorus, tipsy, at the Bowery Hotel.
★ 5.2
Naughty Girl
2004
Scott Storch built it on a Donna Summer interpolation, and Beyonce turns a club come-on into pure command.
★ 5.3
Self ControlLaura Branigan
Self Control
1984
Raf's Italo-disco original topped Italy's chart first; Friedkin directed Branigan's video and MTV demanded cuts before airing.
★ 5.3
Lady Marmalade (Christina Aguilera)
2001
Four singers, one Rockwilder beat, and Missy Elliott turning a Labelle cover into 2001's best-selling single worldwide.
★ 5.6
Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin')
2007
Auto-Tune used as an instrument rather than a fix, T-Pain producing himself, Yung Joc riding a snap beat.
★ 5.6
12:51
2003 · From Room on Fire
Guitars pushed to sound like synthesizers, and a Roman Coppola video that borrows its neon from Tron.
★ 5.7
Livin' La Vida Loca
1999
Five weeks at number one, reportedly the first chart-topper built entirely in Pro Tools, and Latin pop's door kicked open.
★ 6.1
Just Dance
2008
Twenty-two weeks crawling up the Hot 100 before number one, RedOne's synths announcing the pop decade ahead.
★ 6.2
Get Low
2003
Crunk's breakthrough, produced entirely by Lil Jon, stalled at number two and drove the album past two million copies.
★ 6.3
Somebody Told Me
2004 · From Hot Fuss
Flowers called it the story of trying to meet someone in a club; Keuning's hook does the flirting.
★ 6.3
Don't Stop the Music
2007
StarGate looped Michael Jackson's chant from Wanna Be Startin' Somethin', and Rihanna took it to number one in ten countries.
★ 6.4
Last Dance
1978
Jabara reportedly locked Summer in a hotel bathroom with a cassette until she agreed; it won the Academy Award.
★ 6.4
All Night Long (All Night)
1983
Those African-sounding chants are invented gibberish; Richie had no time for a translator and no reason to care.
★ 6.5
Hot in Herre
2002
The Neptunes flipped Chuck Brown's "Bustin' Loose," and Nelly rode it to number one and the first male solo rap Grammy.
★ 6.6
Family Affair (Mary J. Blige)
2001 · From No More Drama
Dre's instrumental sat titled Fragile for months before it was renamed Family Affair and took six weeks at number one.
★ 6.6
Human Nature
1982 · From Thriller
Steve Porcaro's demo reached Quincy Jones only because a cassette auto-reversed, and it took Carousel's place on Thriller.
★ 6.7
