“We Found Love” by Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris

Rihanna's "We Found Love" premiered on September 22, 2011, as the lead single from Talk That Talk, the Barbadian singer's sixth album, and it's Calvin Harris' track through and through: the Scottish DJ wrote it, produced it, played on it and mixed it with Phil Tan, then gave it a second home on his own 2012 album, 18 Months. It's a rush of electro house, trance, techno and Europop, with a love story underneath that blooms somewhere hope has already left.

Critics split on it; the charts didn't. It spent ten weeks atop the Hot 100, the longest reign of any number one that year, and outlasted "Umbrella" as her longest-running chart-topper. Melina Matsoukas' video, which casts her as a thrill-seeker whose romance sinks into addiction and domestic violence, won a Grammy and MTV's Video of the Year.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.