
We are the Champions
Mercury wrote it with audience participation in mind, and a 2011 study named it the catchiest song in pop.

Mercury wrote it with audience participation in mind, and a 2011 study named it the catchiest song in pop.

Pink passed on it and Duff couldn't hit the notes, so Clarkson asked for heavier guitars and won a Grammy.
Two songwriters homesick in London started it; Keys and a Moments piano loop made Jay-Z's first lead-artist number one.

West and DJ Toomp sped up Michael Jackson's P.Y.T. into a Grammy-winning glide, T-Pain's hook floating over it.

Cool and Dre's Trammps flip earned two Grammy nominations and stalled at two, blocked by 50 Cent's own 'Candy Shop'.

Stallone had cut the fight scene to Queen, couldn't clear it, so Sullivan and Peterik timed their chords to punches.

Flux Pavilion's dubstep drop rebuilt into a rap victory lap, cut at the Mercer Hotel with Jay-Z trading verses.

Three rappers, one T-Pain hook, and a brass fanfare Obama walked out to at the 2013 correspondents' dinner.

Ray Dalton's hook, Ryan Lewis's piano gallop, and a sleeper single that took nearly two years to reach number one.

A lyric lifted from Your Song put Elton John and Bernie Taupin on the credits of a self-made anthem.