49. CHRIS BROWN - BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE (featuring BENNY BENASSI)
Certainly a surprise on the F.A.M.E. album (one of my favorites of the year), this song should've been a Top 5 smash on the Hot 100, but America got it wrong & decided to make songs like Sexy & I Know It (which, by the way, this countdown is LMFAO-free) Top 5 smashes. With hypnotic production by Benassi, who is deservedly credited, this is Chris at his most vulnerable. The beat is monstrous during the chorus, but there is still emotion there. Let's ignore that terrible, lip-synched VMA 2011 performance & enjoy this song for what could've been, because it could've been a smash. Fortune better have another one of this song, or at least more Benassi work.
Certainly a surprise on the F.A.M.E. album (one of my favorites of the year), this song should've been a Top 5 smash on the Hot 100, but America got it wrong & decided to make songs like Sexy & I Know It (which, by the way, this countdown is LMFAO-free) Top 5 smashes.