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.
Written in 2007 about a girl who moved away for college, and every synth in it aches accordingly.
Number one in Australia, top ten in Britain, and Neon Hitch trading verses with McCoy over Benny Blanco's beat.
Written for Gwen Stefani, who passed, then offered to Nicole Scherzinger before Snow Patrol reclaimed it with Jacknife Lee.
Written in 1982, handed to Branigan after Bolton refused Clive Davis's rewrite, and reclaimed for a number one.
Frank Rogers built it on mandolin, and Billboard named it 2012's top country song despite it never reaching number one.
Heavy D and Poke and Tone looped the Gap Band's "Outstanding," and the eldest brother took the lead vocal.
Decker's rap began as syncopated nonsense syllables, and she overdubbed herself into a duet nobody could play live.
Florrie Palmer wrote it, Britain sent it to number three, and America renamed it to dodge Dolly Parton's hit.
Karin Kasar sang the hook, Patsy Petersen mimed it in the video, and the Hot 100 held it 45 weeks.
Pop and Oak's glossy production, an Ester Dean co-write, and Nas cast as the love interest in Benny Boom's video.
A glimpse of an ex on the London Underground, her new man beside her, and a transatlantic number one.
Turned down for Whitney Houston and passed over by Belinda Carlisle, so the writers cut it themselves and reached number five.
Buble wrote it with Chang and Foster-Gillies while dating Luisana Lopilato, who plays his love interest in the supermarket video.
Rick Parashar cut it across three studios, and Arnold's ballad about missing someone became an unofficial anthem in Iraq.
Kravitz wrote, arranged and produced it alone, cut it from an album, then won a third straight Grammy.
A debut-album cut that Branch wrote alone, produced by John Shanks, and her first trip into the top ten.
All six members, Bobby Brown included, on one album, with Tresvant and Bell trading a Jam and Lewis ballad.
Rejected by her label for the first album, it resurfaced on Whaler and spent six weeks atop adult contemporary.