Top 10 Sampled Beats
It was sampled 5,368 x & counting. No other beat will EVER come close to this. R.I.P. to the original drummer of it all (Gregory Coleman).
The iconic drumbeat was a direct sample from Amen Brother by the Winstons & it made James Brown the most sampled solo male artist of all time. In fact the Powerpuff Girls theme was 1 of the 1,723 songs that directly sampled this beat (which in turn was 1 of the 5,368 tracks that sampled the Amen Brother, creating the biggest sample chain of all time). R.I.P. James Brown & Gregory Coleman.
It was sampled 3,005 x & counting, making her the most sampled female & any solo artist in music. R.I.P. Lyn Collins.
This got sampled into multiple hits, such as Stadium Rave by Mark Governor (used in SpongeBob SquarePants episode 15 of season 1) & I Guess I Like It Like That by Kylie Minogue along with Jump by the Movement (in which the remix was lyrically interpolated in I Fink U Freeky by Die Antwoord). 2 big hits sampling an already big hit. No wonder this song was so popular & successful (yet even used commonly in sports).
This was given a huge sample by Madonna in her 2005 song Hung Up, which happened to be her greatest dance song of all time.
Hard to believe the beat & tune of this was allegedly sampled in Love You Like That by Dagny & Never Really Over by Katy Perry.
Not really the background instruments, but the vocals, which were sampled in Swalla by Jason Derulo ft. Nicki Minaj.
The intro was sampled in that of Cut to The Feeling by Carly Rae Jepsen.
The whole song was sampled in Reach Out by Hilary Duff (who once played Lizzie McGuire).
It was sampled in Nice for a What by Drake though the chorus also sounds like it was sampled in Dance Monkey by Tones & I.
Sampled in When Love Takes Over by David Guetta (ft. Kelly Rowland).