Even guesting on someone else’s track, T-Pain had a way of overwhelming the song, making it his own. The pulsing textures of European dance music were finally making inroads on the American pop charts, which would lead to a dramatic shift over the next few years. R&B was moving in a direction that was less showboaty, more clubby. Pop listeners had come to accept the way T-Pain used Auto-Tune as a stylistic affectation rather than a cover-up for out-of-tune singing. T-Pain’s imperial moment showed that things were shifting. And if a song didn’t feature T-Pain, or at least some version of T-Pain’s sleek and energized robo-voice, that song probably wasn’t getting very far. Just about anyone could score a hit as long as they had the phrase “Feat. A few months after T-Pain topped the Billboard Hot 100 with his own “ Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin’),” he’d become the hottest freelancer in all of pop music. Technically, none of those four songs were T-Pain songs. The week of Thanksgiving 2007, T-Pain had four of the top 10 singles in America. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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