Sean Kingston - "Beautiful Girls"

[breakthrough]

real2reel said:

Regardless of his voice I still don't like the song.

Yeah his voice isnt even the issue for me. I mean nobody with a hit song out can SING so I mean...

[luisro]

LOL The way he says beautiful is funny. The song is kinda fun but his accent is annoying.

[phenom22]

Hit Single “Beautiful Girls” Is # 4 single on Billboard’s HOT 100 Airplay Chart, #2 Ring Tone Sales, #1 Artist on MySpace

(Tuesday, June 26, 2007) On the heels of the hit single, “Beautiful Girls,” Sean Kingston, a 17 year-old new artist, is set to release his highly anticipated debut album Sean Kingston on July 31st via Beluga Heights/Epic Records.

“Beautiful Girls” is currently the #4 single on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart and racking up various #1 accolades already including: the fastest climb into the Top 10 of the Radio & Records Rhythmic chart since 2001; the #1 gainer at both HOT 100 and Pop radio formats; #1 most requested song at nearly all major pop, urban and rhythmic stations across the country since being added just over a month ago. The song also sky rocketed to the #2 ring tone in the country, according to Nielsen RingScan.

Online, Sean Kingston is currently the #1 artist on MySpace with over 1 million plays per week and over 6 million plays to date. On YouTube, fans are reacting in overwhelming numbers uploading over 100 personal videos per week of them singing their rendition to the song.

[Grenade]

Lil' Mama said she'll be on the remix.

[I HATE LA REID]

lmao..that b*tch better release her own material and stop appearing on remixes

[That Skipping Rope.]

bn said:

lmao..that b*tch better not release her own material and stop appearing on remixes

[backintime]

This is coming to the UK. 1Xtra's record of the week.

[I HATE LA REID]

oh god this is bad

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

backintime said:

This is coming to the UK. 1Xtra's record of the week.

This song crossing over to the UK is about as obvious as saying Paris Hilton will be involved in a new scandal by the end of the summer.

[That Skipping Rope.]

LMFAO The radio edit is AMAZING.

You're way too beautiful girls. You had me _________

JAM chorus.

[tozion]

THE LONG RUN: There aren't a lot of songwriters who can claim a 54-year span of No. 1 hits on the Billboard charts. In fact, I can only think of one team that has accomplished this, and they sealed the deal this week. Well done, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.

Before I tell you how they did it, let me tell you a little bit about who these gentlemen are. They met when they were both 16 years old, introduced by a mutual friend who knew that Stoller played the piano and Leiber wanted to write blues songs.

At the time, Stoller was working in a Los Angeles record store and one day Lester Sill of Modern Records walked into the shop. Stoller sang some of his own songs for Sill, who was impressed enough to provide contacts with people in the music business for the two teenagers.

Two years later, in 1951, a Southern California vocal group, the Robins, recorded Leiber and Stoller's "That's What the Good Book Says." That led other artists to record Leiber and Stoller songs -- performers like Johnny Otis, Little Esther and Little Willie Littlefield.

Otis asked Leiber and Stoller to write material for one of the singers in his revue, Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton. It took the two young songwriters 15 minutes to come up with "Hound Dog." Thornton's single topped the Billboard R&B Best Sellers in Stores chart for six weeks in the spring of 1953. The song returned to No. 1 on the R&B chart in 1956 when it was recorded by Elvis Presley.


Leiber and Stoller scored more No. 1 hits on the R&B chart with Presley's "Jailhouse Rock" and four songs by the Coasters: the two-sided "Searchin'"/"Young Blood," "Yakety Yak" and "Poison Ivy." Their song "Kansas City" was No. 1 for seven weeks when Wilbert Harrison recorded it in 1959. And in 1961, Ben E. King ruled the chart for four weeks with a song that has become a 20th century classic: "Stand by Me."

That brings us to 2007 and the song "Beautiful Girls" (Beluga Heights/Epic) by Sean Kingston. Based on "Stand by Me" and with writing credit for Leiber and Stoller, the song moves 2-1 on Rhythmic Airplay, giving the legendary songwriting duo a career chart span of No. 1 hits of 54 years and three months.

On Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, "Beautiful Girls" slides 28-29, but it is not the only Leiber-Stoller song on the chart. "Block Party" (Full Circle) by Chuck Brown featuring DJ Kool dips 60-62. Included in the songwriting credits are Leiber and Stoller along with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. Since the Leiber-Stoller and Mann-Weil teams only joined forces for two songs, that narrows down the choices of which tune is sampled on "Block Party." It either has to be "On Broadway," a 1963 hit for the Drifters covered by George Benson in 1978, or "Only in America," recorded by the Drifters but not released by them until years after Jay & the Americans recorded a pop version in the summer of 1963. One listen to "Block Party" reveals the answer -- the song samples "On Broadway."

[backintime]

I heard a chav playing this in their car today at the canoe lake (how street).

It's out in the UK September 3.

[Grenade]

JoJo did a SMASH version of this. New Umbrella/Cinderella!

www.zshare.net/audio/276538183c697a/

[In_Love_N_War]

yes Jojo did that sh*t!

[breakthrough]

Jojo's version is so much better....the song is still sh*t tho.

[Lil' Bit]

hybrid said:

yes Jojo did that sh*t!

[luisro]

Jojo's version is MUCH better.