Angel (Shaggy song)
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"Angel" is a 2001 number one hit
song
by reggae
artist
Shaggy
featuring Rayvon
. It was the follow-up to Shaggy's U.S.
number-one hit "It Wasn't Me
". "Angel" reached number one in the U.S. for the week of 31 March 2001 becoming his final top forty song in the US to date.
" by Steve Miller
(1973), and also borrows from "Angel of the Morning
," which was written by Chip Taylor
and originally recorded by singer Evie Sands
but is perhaps best known as sung by country-pop
artist Juice Newton
(1981).
The music video was directed by Cameron Casey.
The single also reached number one in the UK Singles Chart
, as well as number one in Australia
, making the song an international chart topper. The success following the release, saw Shaggy clock up his second U.S. and fourth UK
number one hit single. It was also a Europe
an success, at one point simultaneously topping the charts in the German-speaking
territories of Germany
, Austria
and Switzerland
.
The song was the 44th best-selling single of the 2000 decade in UK.
CD maxi
Hit single
A hit single is a recorded song or instrumental released as a single that has become very popular. Although it is sometimes used to describe any widely-played or big-selling song, the term "hit" is usually reserved for a single that has appeared in an official music chart through repeated radio...
song
Song
In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...
by reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
artist
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
Shaggy
Shaggy (musician)
Orville Richard Burrell , better known by his stage name Shaggy, is a Jamaican-American reggae singer and rapper. He is perhaps best known for his 1995 single "Boombastic" and 2000 single "It Wasn't Me"...
featuring Rayvon
Rayvon
Rayvon is a Barbadian reggae singer, known for his work with Shaggy.-Singles:*1992 "Big Up" *1994 "No Guns, No Murder" Hi.*1995 "In The Summertime" #5 UK...
. It was the follow-up to Shaggy's U.S.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
number-one hit "It Wasn't Me
It Wasn't Me
"It Wasn't Me" is the first official single from reggae artist Shaggy's multi-platinum studio album Hot Shot, released on February 26, 2001. The song has since been regarded as Shaggy's breakthrough in the pop market, and is his highest charting song to date, topping the charts in Australia,...
". "Angel" reached number one in the U.S. for the week of 31 March 2001 becoming his final top forty song in the US to date.
Song information
The song uses the bass line from "The JokerThe Joker (song)
"The Joker" is a song by the Steve Miller Band from their 1973 album The Joker. The song is one of two Steve Miller Band songs that feature the neologism "pompatus". The song topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1974. It draws heavy influence from the Allen Toussaint's song Soul Sister featured...
" by Steve Miller
Steve Miller (musician)
Steven H. "Steve" Miller is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter who began his career in blues and blues rock and evolved to a more popular-oriented sound which, from the mid 1970s through the early 1980s, resulted in a series of successful singles and albums.-Early years:Born in Milwaukee,...
(1973), and also borrows from "Angel of the Morning
Angel of the Morning
"Angel of the Morning" is a popular song that has been recorded numerous times, and has been a charting hit single for several artists including Juice Newton, Merrilee Rush, Nina Simone, P.P...
," which was written by Chip Taylor
Chip Taylor
James Wesley Voight , better known by his stage name as Chip Taylor, is an American songwriter, who is noted for writing the songs "Angel of the Morning" and "Wild Thing." He is the brother of actor Jon Voight and geologist Barry Voight...
and originally recorded by singer Evie Sands
Evie Sands
Evie Sands is a Brooklyn-born singer, songwriter and guitarist, whose career began as a young teenager in the mid-1960s...
but is perhaps best known as sung by country-pop
Country pop
Country pop, with roots in both the countrypolitan sound and in soft rock, is a subgenre of country music that first emerged in the 1970s. Although the term first referred to country music songs and artists that crossed over to Top 40 radio, country pop acts are now more likely to cross over to...
artist Juice Newton
Juice Newton
Judith Kay "Juice" Newton is an American Pop music and Country singer, songwriter and guitarist...
(1981).
The music video was directed by Cameron Casey.
The single also reached number one in the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
, as well as number one in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, making the song an international chart topper. The success following the release, saw Shaggy clock up his second U.S. and fourth UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
number one hit single. It was also a Europe
Europe
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an success, at one point simultaneously topping the charts in the German-speaking
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
territories of Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
and Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
.
The song was the 44th best-selling single of the 2000 decade in UK.
Cover versions
- GermanGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
singer/band leader Max RaabeMax RaabeMax Raabe is a German singer. He is particularly noted as the founder and leader of the Palast Orchester....
and Palast Orchester covered in cabaretCabaretCabaret is a form, or place, of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue: a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance, as introduced by a master of ceremonies or...
/big bandBig bandA big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with jazz and the Swing Era typically consisting of rhythm, brass, and woodwind instruments totaling approximately twelve to twenty-five musicians...
style for his 2001 album Super Hits 2. - In 2001, the parody song "You Ripped Off Angel (of the Morning)" was released by Adam Posegate and received airplay on the Dr. Demento ShowDr. DementoBarret Eugene Hansen , better known as Dr. Demento, is a radio broadcaster and record collector specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings dating from the early days of phonograph records to the present....
. - R&B artist Bei Maejor did a version of this song sampling the chorus and the beat. It appeared on his mixtape Upsideown2.
Track listings
CD single- "Angel" (radio edit) — (3:31)
- "Angel" (seabreeze mix) — (3:46)
- "Angel" (video) — (3:55)
CD maxi
- "Angel (radio edit) — 3:31
- "Angel (seabreeze mix) — 3:46
- "It Wasn't Me" (crash & burn remix) by Shaggy featuring Rikrok — 5:37
- "Angel" (enhanced video)
Peak positions
| Chart (2001) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Singles Chart | 1 |
| Austrian Singles Chart | 1 |
| Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart Ultratop 50 Ultratop 50 singles, often just Ultratop 50, is the weekly chart of fifty best-selling singles in Flanders, Belgium, and is produced and published by the Ultratop organization. The chart has existed since March 31, 1995... |
1 |
| Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart Ultratop Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium, and it is also the name of most of those charts... |
2 |
| Danish Singles Chart | 2 |
| Dutch Top 40 Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting... |
1 |
| Finnish Singles Chart | 10 |
| French SNEP Singles Chart | 8 |
| German Singles Chart | 1 |
| Irish Singles Chart Irish Singles Chart The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured... |
1 |
| New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart | 4 |
| Norwegian Singles Chart | 1 |
| Swedish Singles Chart | 1 |
| Swiss Singles Chart | 1 |
| UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Tracks Hot Rap Tracks Rap Songs is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States. It lists the 25 most popular hip-hop/rap songs, calculated weekly by airplay on rhythmic and urban radio stations and sales in hip hop-focused or exclusive markets. From 1989 through 2001, it was based on how much the single... |
1 |
End of year charts
| End of year chart (2001) | Position |
|---|---|
| Australian Singles Chart | 4 |
| Austrian Singles Chart | 5 |
| Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart | 5 |
| Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart | 27 |
| Dutch Top 40 | 9 |
| French Singles Chart | 44 |
| UK Singles Chart | 8 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 3 |
| Swiss Singles Chart | 4 |
Certifications
| Country | Certification | Date | Sales certified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 3 x Platinum | 2001 | 210,000 |
| Austria | Platinum | July 26, 2001 | 30,000 |
| France | Silver | November 14, 2001 | 125,000 |
| Netherlands | Gold | 2002 | 40,000 |
| Norway | Platinum | 2001 | 40,000 |
| Swiss | Platinum | 2001 | 40,000 |
| UK | Gold | June 15, 2001 | 400,000 |
Chart successions
See also
- Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 2001 (USA)
- Top selling singles and albums in Ireland 2001Top selling singles and albums in Ireland 2001This is a list of the top selling singles and top sellings albums in Ireland in 2001.- Top selling singles :# "Uptown Girl" - Westlife# "It Wasn't Me" - Shaggy# "I'm a Slave 4 U" - Britney Spears# "Hey Baby" - DJ Ötzi# "Teenage Dirtbag" - Wheatus...
- List of number-one singles from the 2000s (UK)