“One Day” by Matisyahu

Matisyahu's "One Day" first surfaced as a single in 2008, his first since "Jerusalem", and it was squeezed onto his album Light as a last-minute addition. Good call. It's a prayer set to a stadium bounce, the American reggae singer hoping out loud for the violence to end and for a new stretch of peace and understanding to begin.

The Smeezingtons produced it, and Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence and Ari Levine share the writing credit with Matisyahu; Levine also engineered it and Manny Marroquin mixed it. The result is glossy reggae fusion with a big, head-nodding beat, which is exactly what Matisyahu said he'd been chasing since his career began: a hopeful anthem that moves the feet and the heart together. It climbed to 21 on the Modern Rock chart and, in 2010, slipped onto the Hot 100.

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