20 Biggest Songs of the Summer: The 2000s

Black Eyed Peas hook crooner Stacy Ferguson's solo debut The Dutchess spanned two summers, with its first chart-topper, "London Bridge," hitting in the summer of 2006 and its third becoming one of the biggest hits of 2007. But even if the jangly, quiet-verse-loud-chorus tune was far from her work with BEP, will.i.am stayed close, playing bass and providing what he called "an Edie Brickell type production" for the track.