"Stronger" that's the joint the pushed him into another category. That song right there will probably cut checks for him until he dies. That is to him what "Every breath" is to Sting. Then on top of that he has all those other songs in his pocket already. His music is used all over the place.
Who knew playing around with an MPC 2000 (a sampling drum machine) and an ASR 10 (a sampling keyboard) and being a good writer could make you so much money. Former friend of mine had that equipment, he worked every night on it. He didn't do anything. It takes TALENT.