Vanessa Carlton writes A Thousand Miles in her childhood home as a teenager. Little does she know that the track will become an international smash-hit and a film soundtrack favourite.
The producers behind The Thong Song originally meant it for Michael Jackson, but once Sisqo heard the track they were won over by his enthusiasm and fresh ideas that led to an iconic song about G-strings.
The full, little-known story behind the Papa Roach song, Last Resort, and how it made its way from darkness into light.
When Shaggy recorded his album Hot Shot, the label dismissed it as failure, but through a series of happy accidents It Wasn't Me became one of the first viral crossover hits.
When music group Eiffel 65 releases Blue (Da Ba Dee), it is a flop, but in a wild turn of events, it steamrolls its way to becoming one of the biggest hits of the late 1990s.
The artists behind the iconic tracks Sandstorm and Kernkraft 400 have become well known in sports arenas around the world.
An insight into Brendan Brown's Teenage Dirtbag and how it represents a stolen adolescence, including how the song's lyrics were lost on American listeners, but not on the rest of the world.
The story behind the Baha Men song Who Let the Dogs Out, a song which became ubiquitous in the early 2000s.