"Bang This" is a pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

-R&B

Contemporary R&B

Contemporary R&B is a music genre that combines elements of hip hop, soul, R&B and funk.Although the abbreviation “R&B” originates from traditional rhythm and blues music, today the term R&B is most often used to describe a style of African American music originating after the demise of disco in...

 song released by American-Australian urban

Urban contemporary

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 artist J-Wess

J-Wess

James Wesley Essex, better known by his stage name J-Wess, is an American-Australian hip hop and R&B musician. He is based in Melbourne, Australia...

 as the lead single

Lead single

A lead single is usually the first single released by a musician or a band before the release of its home album.During the era of the grammophone record, all music arrived in the marketplace as what is now termed a single, one potential hit song backed by an additional song of generally less...

 from his debut album, J-Wess Presents Tha LP (2004). "Bang This" was written by J. Essex and A. Gardner and produced by J-Wess himself. "Bang this" features vocals from Kulaia and rapper Digga. The single was released in mid-2003 and began to garner airplays shortly after its release; the music video for "Bang this" also received plays on Australian video programs such as RAGE and Video Hits Australia

Video Hits

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. "Bang this" eventually debuted at number twenty-two on the Australian ARIA

Australian Recording Industry Association

The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956...

 Singles Chart, and later reached a peak position of eighteen, becoming J-Wess' first top twenty single. Its success in Australia also led to it charting on the New Zealand RIANZ

Recording Industry Association of New Zealand

The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand...

 Singles Chart, where it reached number thirty-nine.

Charts

Chart (2003)	Peak position
Australian ARIA ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...  Singles Chart	18
New Zealand RIANZ singles chart	39