 | Candy Shop50 Cent with Olivia |
Writer(s): Curtis Jackson, Scott Storch (see lyrics here) Released: February 8, 2005 First Charted: January 29, 2005 Peak: 19 BB, 17 BA, 18 DG, 5 RR, 14 RB, 4 UK, 7 CN, 3 AU, 26 DF (Click for codes to charts.) Sales (in millions): 6.9 US, 1.2 UK, 9.41 world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): 0.3 radio, 1368.03 video, 1253.82 streaming |
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About the Song:Rapper Curtis James Jackson III (aka “50 Cent”) was bon in 1975 in Queens, New York. He recorded his first album, Power of the Dollar, in 1999 and 2000, but was dropped by his label when he was shot nine times. His 2002 mixtape Guess Who’s Back? caught the attention of Eminem, who signed 50 Cent to his label Shady Records. His 2003 album Get Rich or Die Tryin’ was a monstrous success, selling nine million copies in the U.S. and spawning the #1 hits “In Da Club” and “21 Questions.” On Get Rich, “50 depicted himself as a cold-blooded warrior-prince who still knew how to write a hook, and the album was so focused and intense that even its big hits mostly didn’t sound like pop-radio pander-moves.” SG On the follow-up, 2005’s The Massacre, “50 was happy to make the cheesiest shit in the world if he thought that it would sell.” SG It did – nine million copies worldwide – on the strength of four top-10 songs. The most successful of the singles was “Candy Shop,” the third chart-topper for 50 Cent. He made the song “as pure radio-bait, and he didn’t even bother to attempt to sell the song as anything bigger than that.” SG He said, “I attempted to be as sexual as possible, from a male perspective, without being vulgar or obscene.” SG “Thinly veiled sexual connotations” TB with lines like “melts in your mouth, not in your hand” met with “widespread parental disapproval.” SG “The song is about sex, but it’s never sexy.” SG “50 sounds utterly checked out.” SG 50 Cent wrote the song with Scott Storch, who’d just had a #1 writing credit on Mario’s “Let Me Love You” a couple of months earlier. “Candy Shop” featured “a sickly strings-and-xylophones fanfare that was sampled, uncredited, from Salsoul Orchestra’s 1983 dance jam ‘Ooh, I Love It (Love Break).’” SG The song featured Olivia Longott, a Brooklyn-born R&B singer. “She just kind of deadpans half of the hook.” SG It was her biggest moment in the spotlight. She’d originally signed to Clive Davis’ J Records as a teenager but only released one album. Resources:
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