Nelly Furtado — Say It Right

Twenty years after Loose made Nelly Furtado a different kind of star, "Say It Right" is broadly charting today across 140 country and platform charts. The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2007, anchoring an album that moved more than ten million copies worldwide and remains one of the bestselling records of the 2000s. Written with Timbaland and producer Danja — Furtado has cited the Eurythmics' "Here Comes the Rain Again" as its emotional blueprint — it occupies an unusual space: mid-tempo R&B minimalism dressed in pop structure, cool where most of its era was frantic. The official music video has since crossed one billion YouTube views, a threshold that tends to keep catalog tracks in passive rotation. The 20-year anniversary of Loose lands this year, and the expanded 15th-anniversary edition Furtado released in 2021 demonstrated the album still has an audience willing to revisit it.