Kanye previewed his new G.O.O.D. Music single in a breathlessly barked quasi-freestyle a capella at the BET Awards. The song itself has the same vibe of frantic triumphalism: a gospel sample, a bumrush beat and Kanye comparing himself to everyone from Lebron to Biggie to MLK to Rodney King and – in an even more audacious, "is nothing sacred"?! flourish – bragging that his new sneaker line is better than the Air Jordan. He’s more than a New God. He’s a Human Hashtag.

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“I'm Yours”

Jason Mraz re-emerged after his disappointing second album with this lead single, a Jack Johnson-esque ditty about giving yourself fully to someone else. The success of the reggae-tinged song (it earned two Grammy nods and a spot on the Billboard singles chart for well over a year) was something the folk-pop singer never predicted when he wrote it in 15 minutes at home. "I played a happy-hippie chord progression that would probably work without 50 different Bob Marley songs," he told Rolling Stone. "I thought, 'It's too novelty. This is a nursery rhyme,'" concluding that "you can never guess what's gonna be a hit."