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