"Don't Stop the Music" is a song recorded by Barbadian singer Rihanna for her third studio album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007).

Michael Jackson also received a songwriting credit for the sampling of the line "Mama-say, mama-sa, ma-ma-koosa" from his 1983 single "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'".

Both Rihanna and Jackson were sued by Cameroonian musician Manu Dibango, who asserted that the hook originated in his 1972 song "Soul Makossa".

English recording artist Jamie Cullum released a cover of the song as the second single from his 2009 album The Pursuit, and his version charted in several European countries.

"Don't Stop the Music" was written and produced by the Norwegian production duo StarGate, with additional songwriting by Tawanna Dabney.

Michael Jackson received a songwriting credit for the sampling of the line "Mama-say, mama-sa, ma-ma-ko-ssa" from his 1983 single "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin".

[3] In February 2009, Cameroonian musician Manu Dibango filed a lawsuit claiming that "Don't Stop the Music" and "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" used the "Mama-say, mama-sa, ma-ma-ko-ssa" hook without his permission.

Dibango's attorneys brought the case before a court in Paris, demanding €500,000 in damages and asking for Sony BMG, EMI and Warner Music to be "barred from receiving 'mama-say mama-sa'-related income until the matter is resolved".

Before its release, two promotional remixes of the song (Solitaire's More Drama and the Wideboys Club Mix) were added to digital outlets in Canada and the United States on August 7, 2007.

[14] "Don't Stop the Music" is a four-minute, 27-second dance-pop song,[1][4][14][16] written in the key of F♯ minor in common time, with a moderate tempo of 123 beats per minute.

[18] According to Fraser McAlpine of the BBC's Chart Blog, Rihanna's vocals on the song sound as if she recorded them to a different backing track, "then gave them to some nerdy beatmatcher with an extensive collection of dark electro and classic pop.

"[19] McAlpine compared the verses' vocal melody to that of Aaliyah's single "Try Again", the chorus to Madonna's "La Isla Bonita", and the base track to Eric Prydz-style trance music.

For Pitchfork Media's Tom Breihan—who characterized "Don't Stop the Music" as "an amazing bit of euroclub insanity combined with synth and bass"—the hook from Jackson's track smoothly blends into the song's powerful beat.

[23] Nick Levine of Digital Spy called "Don't Stop the Music" "brilliant and unwitting",[24] and said that it was the best single with a Jackson writing credit since his 1997 "Blood on the Dance Floor".

[24] PopMatters' Quentin B. Huff wrote that "the Michael Jackson-sampling 'Don't Stop the Music', inspires the type of tail feather shaking you can only produce when you're chanting, 'Mama-say, mama-sa, ma-ma-ko-ssa'".

[30] At the 2009 Kids' Choice Awards "Don't Stop the Music" was nominated for Favorite Song,[31] losing to Beyoncé's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)".

[34] In 2014, David Drake of the magazine Complex called the single "one of the earliest shots fired in the mainstreaming of dance music" compared with typical 2007 top-forty fare.

[39] "Don't Stop the Music" had sold 3.7 million digital copies in the US as of June 2015 and was certified six-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in May 2022.

[46] "Don't Stop the Music" was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ) in April 2008 for sales of over 15,000 digital copies.

[60] The song's music video was directed by Rihanna's regular director, Anthony Mandler, in May 2007[61] and filmed in a nightclub in Prague, the Czech Republic.

[64] In the video, Rihanna and two friends get out of a yellow taxi in Bělehradská 120, Prague to go at a nightclub and they enter a candy store where a boy is standing with his mother.

[70] On June 20, 2008, Rihanna was a guest on NBC's Today Show in Rockefeller Center in New York City, performing "Don't Stop the Music", "Umbrella" and "Take a Bow".

[71] After the 2009 United Kingdom release of her fourth album, Rated R, Rihanna gave a Nokia promotional concert at the Brixton Academy in London.

Rihanna performed her new material, mashed up with older songs including "Don't Stop the Music", "Live Your Life" and "Run This Town", against a background of stacked vintage televisions and silver mannequins.

[75] She performed at the 2010 Kids' Choice Awards on March 27, 2010, in the Pauley Pavilion of the UCLA campus, singing "Don't Stop the Music", "Hard" and her 2010 single "Rude Boy".

[78] She performed "Don't Stop the Music" at Radio 1's Hackney Weekend on May 24, 2012, as the thirteenth song on the set list,[79] with a giant onstage sphinx.