Best Of 2007: Video
You had Maroon 5's funked-out 'Makes Me Wonder,' Avril's cheery 'Girlfriend,' and Hurricane Chris' hand-clap-happy 'A Bay Bay' on auto-play all year. That is, until Rihanna's gold-plated 'Umbrella' took over your mental soundtrack for the rest of the year. That is, until Britney assumed the pole position with 'Gimme More.' Take a look back at the biggest, most buzzed-about music videos of 2007.
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Party Anthems DJ Khaled and Hurricane Chris laid down some club bangers, but no one partied harder than Shop Boyz.
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Most-Hyped Hits From Rihanna's repeated refrain to Brit's 'bitch' track, these are the songs you couldn't stop singing -- or at least hearing about.
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Music Of The Hills Need a mix to play while you gossip with Audrina, stab Heidi's back and hate on J-Wahl? Do it all to the music of The Hills.
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Biggest Breakers From Hurricane Chris to Lil Mama, these breakout artists skyrocketed from relative obscurity into the household-name stratosphere.
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T-Pain Takes Over Just about the only part of the music world T-Pain didn't touch in 2007 was folk, and we're not even positive about that.
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All Akon, All The Time The smooth criminal worked his charms on everyone from 50 Cent to Gwen Stefani. Watch him tag team the music scene in these hot videos.
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'Discover & Download' Artists Watch videos from The-Dream, The Last Goodnight, Silversun Pickups, Kevin Michael and more 2007 'Discover & Download' artists.
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Teen Dreams Some of 2007's brightest stars were barely legal! Watch videos by Rihanna, Chris Brown, Soulja Boy, Lil Mama and more.
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Hypest Hook-ups Not that kinda hookup. We're talking lyrical collabos like Rihanna and Ne-Yo, Chris Brown and T-Pain & Timbaland and OneRepublic.
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Return Of the Dance Sequence We're sweating just watching these stars move! Watch Chris Brown, Ciara, Jennifer Lopez and more hot-steppers work it out.
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Flyin' Solo Some broke up, others branched out, but artists like Fergie, Gwen Stefani and Nicole Scherzinger all ventured out on their own.
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Don't Call It A Comeback Britney, Linkin Park, Korn & Duran Duran never really went anywhere; they were just busy doing other things 'til they resurfaced in '07.
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MTV.com's Top 15 Music Videos Man, you guys are obsessed! Of all the videos on MTV.com, here are the 15 you watched the most in 2007.
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Top Of The Pop Britney's 'Blackout' track, Avril's giddy 'Girlfriend,' and the Rihanna song whose name we probably don't even need to mention...
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All The Rock That Ruled Daughtry brought it 'Home,' Nickelback and friends lived the 'Rockstar' life, and Fall Out Boy made 'Mmrs' in these rock videos.
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Hip-Hop Hotness T-Pain kept hittin' up the bar, Shop Boyz kept partying, DJ Khaled took over the game, and Kanye emerged 'Stronger' than ever in '07.
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R&B's Rightest & Tightest While T-Pain hollared at the 'Bartender,' Mary J. Blige celebrated life, and R. Kelly celebrated his sexin' skills.
