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Its featured artist, American rapper Jay-Z , co-wrote the song with its producers Tricky Stewart and Kuk Harrell , with additional writing contributions coming from The-Dream. In the UK, where the song's chart performance coincided with the prolonged rain and flooding , it was one of the most played songs on radio in the s decade. It managed to stay atop the UK Singles Chart for 10 consecutive weeks, the longest run at number one for any single of that decade, and is also one of the few songs to top the chart for at least 10 weeks.

As one of the highest digital debuts in the United States at the time, it remained atop of the US Billboard Hot for seven consecutive weeks. In the studio, Stewart was "messing around with a walloping hi-hat sound", which he found in GarageBand. With his attention caught by the sound, Nash asked Stewart what he was doing: "Oh, my Gosh, what is that beat?

When Stewart incorporated chords onto the hi-hat, "immediately the word popped into [Nash's] head"; he went to the vocal booth and started singing. They continued into writing, adding the hook while "[Stewart] would put the next chord".

Rihanna, born Robyn Rihanna Fenty on February 20, , in Barbados, is a Barbadian singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman.

In a matter of hours, they had recorded a demo of the track. Stewart and Nash thought that Spears, who had "her personal life However, Spears did not hear of the song because her label Jive rejected it, claiming they had enough songs for her to record. Following the management's rejection of the track, Stewart and Nash dealt it out to other record labels.

It was also given to British singer-songwriter Taio Cruz , who failed to convince his record company Mercury to release it. Reid immediately sent the demo to Rihanna, who was also positive towards it: "When the demo first started playing, I was like, This is interesting, this is weird. But the song kept getting better. I listened to it over and over.

I said, 'I need this record.