
Look at Me Now
Diplo and Afrojack made the beat for a mixtape; Busta Rhymes' double-time verse pushed it to diamond.

Diplo and Afrojack made the beat for a mixtape; Busta Rhymes' double-time verse pushed it to diamond.

Written first as a Doublemint gum jingle, then extended by Polow da Don into a wedding-aisle staple.

Stargate cut it at Battery Studios with Espen Lind on acoustic guitar, and Brown took it to number two.

Three voices, one mixtape: McCall produced and guested, Tyga rapped, and Brown took a breakup to number one R&B.

Cut at Criteria in Miami by Scott Storch and Sean Garrett, with Brown topping the Hot 100 at sixteen.

Sparks became the first American Idol alum past three million US sales, and the duet earned a Grammy nomination.

T-Pain wrote and produced it at Chalice in Los Angeles, and it held number one for three weeks.

Nic Nac's beat borrows from "Money Ain't a Thang," and three regional versions carried it thirty-six weeks on the chart.

Pop and Oak's glossy production, an Ester Dean co-write, and Nas cast as the love interest in Benny Boom's video.

DJ Frank E's video-game synths cut at the Record Plant, and Brown's return to pure pop after the mixtape years.

Produced by The Messengers with Nasri co-writing, the fifth single from Fortune asks a lover to ignore rumor.

Cut at the Record Plant with The Underdogs, 130 BPM of house that gave Brown his first UK number one.

William Orbit co-wrote and produced it, a Madonna collaborator turning Brown's fourth Fortune single into gleaming EDM.

Built on SWV's Right Here and Michael Jackson's Human Nature, Brown sighing over an ex from inside a new relationship.