Birthday CakeRihanna
Birthday Cake
2011
Seventy-eight seconds of Da Internz production, cut in a Copenhagen hotel room, that leaked and made the album by demand.
★ 1.2
The Songs canon
Sourced and sung.
Every song chosen by hand, with the recording to play it.
Browse all 2,393 songs or filter by genre, subject, artist, and year.
Browse all 2,393 songs or filter by genre, subject, artist, and year.
Shake It
2008
Trace Cyrus, Billy Ray's adopted son, and Mason Musso built a synth hook that went double platinum.
★ 1.5
Burnin' it Down
2014
Two Florida Georgia Line writers, a drum loop, and Aldean pulling country toward R&B; platinum in nine weeks.
★ 1.5
Turn Me On (David Guetta)
2011
Ester Dean's writing put Minaj on a hook rather than a verse, and matched Guetta's best American chart placing.
★ 1.6
Bump, Bump Bump
2002
R. Kelly wrote and produced it, Diddy guested, and B2K got their only week at number one.
★ 1.6
I Like It
2010
RedOne's beat, Pitbull's verse, and Lionel Richie back at the mic re-cutting his own 'All Night Long' hook.
★ 1.7
I Melt
2003
A number two country hit whose Miami-shot video became the first with nudity that CMT would air.
★ 1.9
I Wanna Sex You Up
1991
Dr. Freeze built it on a Betty Wright sample, and the New Jack City soundtrack carried it to number two.
★ 1.9
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
I Want to Come Over
1995
Padgham and Etheridge co-produced it, and Gwyneth Paltrow starred in the video shot at an old Los Angeles hotel.
★ 2.0
Right Thurr
2003
Trak Starz built the beat, Ludacris and Chaka Zulu signed him, and the Walnut Park kid stalled at number two.
★ 2.1
Give it All We Got Tonight
2012
A fan campaign called 60 for 60 pushed it to a Mediabase number one, Strait's sixtieth, at sixty.
★ 2.6
Dangerous
2008
Under an hour, beat to finished verse, by Kardinal's account; the Junos named it Single of the Year.
★ 2.6
(When You Gonna) Give It Up To Me
2006
Donovan Bennett's riddim, a Keyshia Cole verse added for the Step Up soundtrack, and a number three Hot 100 peak.
★ 2.8
The Way You Love Me
2000
Four weeks atop country radio in May, a Love to Infinity remix, and a pop top ten by December.
★ 2.9
I Can't Wait
1986
Every major label passed, then a copy reached the Netherlands, came back as Peter Slaghuis's Dutch Mix, and charted top three.
★ 2.9
Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)
1999
Ron Fair rebuilt an album track into a single, adding a bridge and a rap; four weeks at number one followed.
★ 2.9
Hungry Eyes
1987
Previte and DeNicola wrote it in 1984; Carmen cut it in an Ohio studio and Dirty Dancing did the rest.
★ 3.2
Blurred Lines
2013
Ninety minutes in the studio, twelve weeks at number one, and a copyright verdict for Marvin Gaye's estate.
★ 3.3