So, we were sitting around the VH1.com offices, discussing the various merits of Britney’s bad-good hit “Till the World Ends,” when we remembered that pop tart Ke$ha actually wrote the song (yep, the gin-soaked starlet is a total wordsmith)! Which begged the question — how many other pop stars in their own right had penned huge smashes for other artists?
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From Keri Hilson to Pink, here are our favorite fifteen artists secretly behind some of the top smashes of our time.
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Related: Pop Up Video: Britney Spears’ ’Till the World Ends”