Break Your Heart
2010
Fraser T Smith produced a UK number one; Mercury then added Ludacris and it leapt to the American top spot.
★ 1.5
The Songs canon
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Every song chosen by hand, with the recording to play it.
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Achy Breaky Heart
1992
Don Von Tress wrote it; the Marcy Brothers cut it first, then Cyrus's video sent line dancing worldwide.
★ 1.5
Everything You Want
1999
Scannell wrote it about a friendship he wanted to be more, and it became Billboard's most-played single of 2000.
★ 2.7
Too Little Too Late
2006
One week of downloads lifted it from sixty-six to three, a Hot 100 record, with JoJo just fifteen.
★ 3.2
Beautiful Girls
2007
Rotem built it on Stand by Me, and Kingston, seventeen, became the first nineties-born artist to top the Hot 100.
★ 3.3
I Got A Man
1992
The woman turning him down is Positive K himself, pitched up in the studio, and that duet is the joke.
★ 3.4
Apologize
Timbaland and OneRepublic
2007
Tedder wrote it, Timbaland remixed it, and radio played the result 10,394 times in a single week.
★ 4.2
The Wire
2013
Three sisters, one kiss-off, and Ariel Rechtshaid's production splitting the difference between Laurel Canyon soft rock and nineties R&B.
★ 5.3
Roxanne, RoxanneUTFO
Roxanne, Roxanne
1984
Released as a B-side, produced by Full Force, and Roxanne rejecting all three MCs set off dozens of answer records.
★ 5.3
Mr. Big Stuff
1971
Wardell Quezergue brought five artists to Malaco in a borrowed school bus; Stax passed, then Knight's put-down sold millions.
★ 5.6
Build Me Up ButtercupThe Foundations
Build Me Up Buttercup
1968
Mike d'Abo co-wrote it and played piano, and new lead singer Colin Young sang it into the American top three.
★ 5.6
Against All Odds
1983
A Face Value outtake with new lyrics for Taylor Hackford's film, and Collins's first American number one.
★ 6.0
That Don't Impress Me Much
1998
Twain and Lange built it on three men who fall short, and that hooded leopard print did the rest.
★ 6.0
My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)
1992
Foster and McElroy looped a guitar figure from James Brown's "The Payback," and four voices turn refusal into swagger.
★ 6.1
Keep A-Knockin'
1957 · From Little Richard
Charles Connor's drum intro opens it, and Bonham borrowed the same beat for Led Zeppelin's Rock and Roll.
★ 6.2
Heartbreaker
1969 · From Led Zeppelin II
Page cut the unaccompanied solo at Atlantic while the rest of the track was taped across town at A&R.
★ 6.2
High and DryRadiohead
High and Dry
1995 · From The Bends
Rescued from a 1993 demo the band wrote off as too Rod Stewart, and adored everywhere except by Yorke.
★ 6.3
Ms. Fat Booty
1999 · From Black on Both Sides
Ayatollah looped the chorus of Aretha's 1965 Columbia single "One Step Ahead", and Mos Def narrates a romance collapsing.
★ 6.3
The Look of Love
1981
Trevor Horn's desk, Anne Dudley's strings, and Fry making his own jilting sound like the most glamorous thing available.
★ 6.3
Cathy's Clown
1960
Cut live in one take with the brothers sharing a microphone, the drums looped on tape to double them.
★ 6.3