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In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.

December 18th, 2007 All’s well that ends well: it’s the maxim that, you can’t help but feel, best sums up M.I.A.’s whirlwind 2007. Back in 2006 the future was looking decidedly bleak for the follow-up to the London firebrand’s acclaimed debut Arular when a failed US Visa application scuppered a planned Timbaland collaboration which would have seen the Virginia mogul produce the record. Actually, it turned out to be something of a blessing in disguise, M.I.A. opting instead to hotfo...