Sean KingstonBeautiful Girls is a song by reggae-influenced musician Sean Kingston from his eponymous debut. The song heavily samples Ben E. King's classic Stand By Me.
The song is about women and how they can make a man (especially an American man, because of their unique culture) suicidal when they decide a relationship is over. Certain radio stations play the censored version of the song, which replaces the word "suicidal" with "in denial". This censor was done to prevent the unintentional promotion of teenage suicide. On MTV the word suicidal is completely removed with no replacement. Lil' Mama, Lil' JJ, Marlon Wayans and Brandon T. Jackson make cameo appearances.
The song started to gain massive airplay before its digital release, and was able to chart as high as number 17 on the Hot 100 without any assistance from digital sales. On July 24, "Beautiful Girls" was accidentally leaked onto the U.S. iTunes Store, two days before the planned release date. Within 24 hours after its official digital release on July 26, the song shot to the top spot of iTunes. 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"). The same week the song advanced from #23 to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It has has also gone on to occupy the top spot on the U.S. Hot 100 Airplay and the Canadian Hot 100.
Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls
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