Payphone

Wiz Khalifa was brought in to write and rap a verse on "Payphone" after producer Benny Blanco decided Maroon 5's sound needed some hip-hop flavor. Blanco, who produced or was producing Khalifa's singles "No Sleep" and "Work Hard, Play Hard", wanted to throw a wrench into the band's works, saying he loved when things did not make sense. Five minutes before Khalifa arrived at the studio, Blanco prepared the sound beds for the finger snap-driven portion of the track.

The song itself began when Ammar Malik and Robopop constructed a piano line and demo track, which Blanco compiled into a proper melody before handing it to Adam Levine, who wrote the lyrics. Released on April 16, 2012 through A&M Octone Records as the lead single from the album Overexposed, the pop ballad describes a romance that ended abruptly. It debuted at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold 493,000 copies in its first week, the best sales week for a digital song by a group. It topped the UK chart, the band's first single ever to do so.