Top 10 Sampled Beats

The Top Ten
1 Amen Brother - The Winstons (Amen Break)

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).

2 The Funky Drummer - James Brown

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.

3 Think About It - Lyn Collins (Yeah! Woo!)

It was sampled 3,005 x & counting, making her the most sampled female & any solo artist in music. R.I.P. Lyn Collins.

4 Synthetic Substitution - Melvin Bliss
5 Impeach the President - The Honeydrippers
6 Get Out of My Life Woman - Lee Dorsey
7 Take Me To The Mardi Gras - Bob James
8 It's a New Day - Skull Snaps
9 Funky President - James Brown
10 The Big Beat - Billy Squier
The Contenders
11 Whoomp! There It Is - Tag Team
12 Get Ready for This - 2 Unlimited

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).

13 Gimme Gimme Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) - ABBA

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.

14 Forbidden Love - Madonna
15 Macarena - Los Del Rio

Hard to believe the beat & tune of this was allegedly sampled in Love You Like That by Dagny & Never Really Over by Katy Perry.

16 This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) - Natalie Cole
17 Swimming Pools (Drank) - Kendrick Lamar

Not really the background instruments, but the vocals, which were sampled in Swalla by Jason Derulo ft. Nicki Minaj.

18 I Like It Like That - Pete Rodriguez
19 Lucky Star - Madonna

The intro was sampled in that of Cut to The Feeling by Carly Rae Jepsen.

20 Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode

The whole song was sampled in Reach Out by Hilary Duff (who once played Lizzie McGuire).

21 Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
22 Show Me Love - Robin S
23 Gotta Get Thru This - Daniel Bedingfield
24 Ex-Factor - Lauryn Hill

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.

25 Clocks - Coldplay

Sampled in When Love Takes Over by David Guetta (ft. Kelly Rowland).

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