...Baby One More Time
1998
Max Martin built it at Cheiron in Stockholm after TLC and the Backstreet Boys passed, and Spears was sixteen.
★ 7.7
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Genie in a Bottle
1999
David Frank looped eight bars the night before the session; Aguilera re-sang her vocal softer and topped the Hot 100.
★ 5.5
Call Me Maybe
2012
A folk song on tour until Josh Ramsay poppified it, then nine weeks at the top of the Hot 100.
★ 5.5
Out in the Streets
1965 · From Shangri-Las-65!
Shadow Morton production, Greenwich and Barry words, and a narrator who quietly hands her boyfriend back to the streets.
★ 4.6
Tearin' Up My Heart
1998
An all-night session at Stockholm's Cheiron Studios, Chasez on the last vocal at six a.m., the hook already immovable.
★ 3.6
What a Girl Wants
1999
Re-recorded in a new key after Genie in a Bottle, it reached number one on January 15, 2000.
★ 3.4
Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)
1999
Ron Fair rebuilt an album track into a single, adding a bridge and a rap; four weeks at number one followed.
★ 2.9