Stronger
2007 · From Graduation
West cleared the Daft Punk sample through their manager, had Timbaland reprogram the kick drums, and hit number one.
★ 7.7
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2007
Showing 42 songs from 2007
Can't Tell Me Nothing
2007 · From Graduation
DJ Toomp built the beat and bassline, West layered the strings, and Zach Galifianakis lip-synced it on a tractor.
★ 6.9
With Every Heartbeat
2007
No chorus, just strings and a rising ache; Kleerup's living-room track became Robyn's first British number one.
★ 6.4
Don't Stop the Music
2007
StarGate looped Michael Jackson's chant from Wanna Be Startin' Somethin', and Rihanna took it to number one in ten countries.
★ 6.4
Good Life
2007 · From Graduation
West and DJ Toomp sped up Michael Jackson's P.Y.T. into a Grammy-winning glide, T-Pain's hook floating over it.
★ 6.2
Impossible Germany
2007 · From Sky Blue Sky
Nels Cline's lead guitar turns a quiet Tweedy song into the twin-guitar epic Rolling Stone compared to Television.
★ 6.0
D.A.N.C.E.
2007
Justice built it from Michael Jackson song titles and handed the chorus to a London children's choir.
★ 6.0
The Underdog
2007 · From Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Jon Brion produced this track and no other on the album, adding mariachi-style horns and handclaps to Britt Daniel's warning.
★ 5.9
Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin')
2007
Auto-Tune used as an instrument rather than a fix, T-Pain producing himself, Yung Joc riding a snap beat.
★ 5.6
Our Song
2007 · From Taylor Swift
Swift wrote it in roughly twenty minutes for a ninth-grade talent show, then spent six weeks atop the country chart.
★ 5.4
Teardrops On My Guitar
2007 · From Taylor Swift
Nathan Chapman's production stays hushed while Swift and Liz Rose leave the real classmate's name, Drew, in the lyric.
★ 5.1
Gone Gone Gone
2007 · From Raising Sand
A 1964 Everly Brothers single, rebuilt by T Bone Burnett into swampy menace, won a Grammy.
★ 5.1
Flightless Bird, American Mouth
2007
Brian Deck built a loop for Beam to layer guitar over; Stewart reportedly chose it for Twilight's prom.
★ 5.0
Hang Me Up To Dry
2007
Cut first for the Up in Rags EP, all four members co-producing, a clothesline standing in for one-sided love.
★ 5.0
The Way I Are
Timbaland and Keri Hilson
2007
Cut in Virginia Beach with Danja co-producing, Keri Hilson co-writing, and a hook that shrugs at the whole courtship.
★ 5.0
Crank That
2007
A steelpan loop built on a demo copy of FL Studio, seven weeks at number one, three million downloads.
★ 4.7
I Will Possess Your Heart
2007 · From Narrow Stairs
Five minutes of Harmer's bass riff before a word arrives, a krautrock crawl radio edits had to hack apart.
★ 4.7
Bleeding Love
2007
Hollywood Records turned it down for McCartney; Tedder recut it in a new key and Cowell called it the one.
★ 4.7
Boy with a Coin
2007
Sub Pop led The Shepherd's Dog with this, the record where Beam's whispered four-track folk grew a full band.
★ 4.5
Sunshine
2007
A hangover, a bike ride to Ant's house, and an optimistic beat that became Atmosphere's biggest song.
★ 4.4
5 Years Time
2007
Laura Marling's ukulele and Charlie Fink's deadpan flopped in 2007; a 2008 re-release carried the sunshine to number seven.
★ 4.4
Love Song
2007
Epic wanted a radio-friendly love song; Bareilles wrote a refusal instead, and that piano riff climbed to number four.
★ 4.4
Dreaming with a Broken HeartJohn Mayer
Dreaming with a Broken Heart
2007
Pino Palladino on bass, Ricky Peterson on piano, Steve Jordan producing, and Mayer singing the moment the dream ends.
★ 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
Forever (Chris Brown)
2007
Written first as a Doublemint gum jingle, then extended by Polow da Don into a wedding-aisle staple.
★ 4.2
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
Big Things Poppin' (Do It)
2007
A guitar line lifted from the Top Gun theme, Mannie Fresh on the boards, and ESPN running it all summer.
★ 4.1
Summer Love
2007 · From FutureSex / LoveSounds
Cut at Thomas Crown Studios in Virginia Beach, with a prelude fused to the front of the summer single.
★ 4.1
With You (Chris Brown)
2007
Stargate cut it at Battery Studios with Espen Lind on acoustic guitar, and Brown took it to number two.
★ 3.6
Don't Matter
2007
Ten weeks climbing from number seventy-nine to the top, with a chorus built partly on Marley's Zimbabwe.
★ 3.5
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
Lake Michigan
2007
Roger Moutenot produced the album, Zach Rogue wrote every word, and a Zune advert gave this one legs.
★ 3.1
Kiss Kiss
Chris Brown and T-Pain
2007
T-Pain wrote and produced it at Chalice in Los Angeles, and it held number one for three weeks.
★ 3.1
Bubbly
2007
American Idol turned her down twice, once with this very song, and MySpace made her a star instead.
★ 2.6
A Bad Dream
2007
Rice-Oxley built it from Yeats's poem about an Irish airman, a pilot too high up to hear the guns below.
★ 1.7
This Is Why I'm Hot
2007
A jump from thirty-two to number one in a week, and a different sample for every region name-checked.
★ 1.5