Billboard’s Greatest Pop Stars podcast examines Nelly Furtado’s dramatic commercial comeback in 2006, when her collaboration with producer Timbaland made her one of the year’s defining pop artists. The episode considers why the partnership worked so well after both had experienced quieter periods, and why Furtado’s Top 40 success fell away soon afterwards despite an extraordinary run of hits.

Furtado had previously achieved two US top-10 singles and a Grammy with her 2000 debut, Whoa, Nelly!, but her 2003 album Folklore made little mainstream impact. In 2006, singles including “Maneater”, “Promiscuous” and “Say It Right” delivered three number ones in eight months; the podcast also discusses her artistic pivot, reported rivalry with Fergie and the lyrics of those songs.