Birthday Cake
Seventy-eight seconds of Da Internz production, cut in a Copenhagen hotel room, that leaked and made the album by demand.
Seventy-eight seconds of Da Internz production, cut in a Copenhagen hotel room, that leaked and made the album by demand.

Trace Cyrus, Billy Ray's adopted son, and Mason Musso built a synth hook that went double platinum.

Two Florida Georgia Line writers, a drum loop, and Aldean pulling country toward R&B; platinum in nine weeks.

Ester Dean's writing put Minaj on a hook rather than a verse, and matched Guetta's best American chart placing.

R. Kelly wrote and produced it, Diddy guested, and B2K got their only week at number one.

RedOne's beat, Pitbull's verse, and Lionel Richie back at the mic re-cutting his own 'All Night Long' hook.

A number two country hit whose Miami-shot video became the first with nudity that CMT would air.

Dr. Freeze built it on a Betty Wright sample, and the New Jack City soundtrack carried it to number two.

Twenty-three weeks of climbing before it peaked at number four, riding a Mick Schultz beat built for last call.

Padgham and Etheridge co-produced it, and Gwyneth Paltrow starred in the video shot at an old Los Angeles hotel.

Trak Starz built the beat, Ludacris and Chaka Zulu signed him, and the Walnut Park kid stalled at number two.

A fan campaign called 60 for 60 pushed it to a Mediabase number one, Strait's sixtieth, at sixty.

Under an hour, beat to finished verse, by Kardinal's account; the Junos named it Single of the Year.

Donovan Bennett's riddim, a Keyshia Cole verse added for the Step Up soundtrack, and a number three Hot 100 peak.

Four weeks atop country radio in May, a Love to Infinity remix, and a pop top ten by December.

Every major label passed, then a copy reached the Netherlands, came back as Peter Slaghuis's Dutch Mix, and charted top three.

Ron Fair rebuilt an album track into a single, adding a bridge and a rap; four weeks at number one followed.

Previte and DeNicola wrote it in 1984; Carmen cut it in an Ohio studio and Dirty Dancing did the rest.

Ninety minutes in the studio, twelve weeks at number one, and a copyright verdict for Marvin Gaye's estate.