Lil' Brianna remixed the song and featured Kingston's vocals on her second mixtape, Princess of Miami. Teddy Geiger covered the song on her 2007 tour, due to popularity a recorded version of the song will be featured as a bonus track on the iTunes version of her upcoming CD The March. Maverick Sabre did the same at BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge. It's kind of like an ode to Sean." To close out the song guitarist Mike Retondo breaks into the chorus of " Stand by Me", which is also done in the cover version by Boyce Avenue, a nod to the fact that that song's bassline is used in "Beautiful Girls". We started learning it because we were number one for a few weeks and then we got knocked out of the number one spot by Sean Kingston, by this song. Lead vocalist Tom Higgenson says that the group "started covering it as a joke almost. The Plain White T's, whose song was knocked out of the charts by this one, did a cover version for Yahoo Music. The lead singer of Sublime with Rome, Rome, sang the acoustic version of "Beautiful Girls" on RAWsession on October 20, 2008. Chris Moyles also released a parody cover, however it was about the song describing how bad it was in his opinion. Shortly afterwards, singer JoJo released a cover response version of the track which was released on Myspace, however was not featured on her upcoming album.
Top honors also went to a rock cover of the song performed by the Ailan Christopher Project. After an online vote user Mallory Robbins won with an a cappella version of the song. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.Ī few months after "Beautiful Girls" was released in 2007, a new online video service called Votigo began a cover contest in which fans could submit covers of the song for a chance to get a call from Sean Kingston. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. * Sales figures based on certification alone. "Beautiful Girls" returned the next week and remained for a month before being replaced by Timbaland's " The Way I Are".īrazil ( Crowley Broadcast Analysis)
On the official ARIA charts in Australia, it debuted at number one but fell to number two the following week when Delta Goodrem's comeback single took the top spot. The song ended 2007 as the year's 15th biggest-selling single in the UK. It remained on top of the UK Singles Chart for four weeks before being knocked off by the Sugababes' first single from their fifth studio album Change, " About You Now". It has also gone on to occupy the top spot on the US Hot 100 Airplay and the Canadian Hot 100. Kingston became the first artist born within the 1990s to top the Hot 100, beating rapper Soulja Boy Tell 'Em to it by six weeks. The week after the song's digital release it hit number one on Billboard 's Hot Digital Songs, debuting with 260,000 downloads in its first week (the second highest digital sales for a new song of 2007, only behind Rihanna's " Umbrella"). On July 24, "Beautiful Girls" was accidentally leaked onto the US iTunes Store, two days before the planned release date. The song benefited from extensive airplay before its digital release, reaching as high as number 17 on the Hot 100. Official remix featuring Lil Mama – (3:50).Official remix featuring Fabolous and Lil' Boosie – (3:28).
"Beautiful Girls" (instrumental) – 3:45."Beautiful Girls" (main version) – 3:45.The edited version also changed the line "Damn all these beautiful girls" to "Man, all these beautiful girls", and "When I went away for doing my first crime" became "When I'd rush back just to see you in time". FM104 replaced "suicidal" with "in denial", a change Sean Kingston made for the radio station. It was allegedly pulled from 2FM although a spokesperson said the song was not on its playlist at the time but did not confirm if it had been prior. Lyrics controversy ĭue to the lyrics containing references to suicide, the track was removed from various radio playlists including FM104 in Dublin, where complaints were phoned in on a late night chat show, The Adrian Kennedy Phoneshow, and Wild 102 in Roseau, Minnesota. Rapper Lil Mama and actors Kenny Vibert and Lil' JJ are featured in the music video directed by Marcus Raboy, which hit 1 billion Youtube views on September 8, 2022. The song is about a boy who feels “ suicidal” (or "in denial" in the edited version) over being unable to be with a "beautiful girl". J.R." Beautiful Girls" is the debut single by reggae-influenced musician Sean Kingston from his eponymous debut it was first released in 2007, when Kingston was 17.
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