Songoftheday 10/24/23 -I like your little sexy style, love it when you getting wild...
"Bump, Bump, Bump" - B2K featuring P. Diddy
from the album Pandemonium (2002)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 19
Today's song comes the the R&B "boyband" B2K, who scored a pair of top-40 crossover hits on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 in 2002 with "Uh Huh" and "Gots Ta Be". In true "boyband" fashion, Epic Records quickly followed up with a remix album and a holiday set (Santa Hooked Me Up) that both made the Billboard 200 sales tally at #129 and #132 respectively. And by the end of the year, Omarian, J-Boog, Raz-B, and Lil Fizz were back with a sophomore studio album Pandemonium. The lead single paired the group of with two of the hottest names in the R&B world at that point, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and R. Kelly (as his own "troubles" were just starting"). Kelly co-wrote the track with Varick Smith, and co-produced it with Diddy. The lyrics have Omarion macking on a pretty woman, praising her up but especially from the rear view. I mean, it's definitely nothing new, and the words are just placeholders to ride the groove, with the distinct "bump bump bump" hook anchoring this as a club party track. P. Diddy, who had seen his pair of "I Need A Girl" singles make it to the pop top ten, and also had a feature on rapper Fabolous' "Trade It All" top 20 hit in the autumn of 2002, introduces the record, gives response adlibs on the verses, and has the third to himself where he weirdly inserts a Bonnie & Clyde reference (considering Jay-Z and Beyonce just had a hit with that seems like a cash-in). The production from Kelly is that vaguely Latin guitar-led sound that's been done (and better), but it's not horrid. The music video features a whole lot of Diddy and Omarion at the expense of the others...
"Bump, Bump, Bump" climbed all the way to #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 in February of 2003, while spending two weeks at #2 on their R&B Singles chart. On the radio, the song peaked at #3 on the Mainstream Top-40 airplay chart, spent four weeks at #1 on the Mainstream R&B Airplay list, and also topped the dance/R&B-oriented Rhythmic format for three weeks. Internationally, the single reached the top ten in Switzerland (#2) Australia (#4), France (#7), Germany (#7), Belgium (#7 Wallonia/#8 Flanders), the Netherlands (#8), and New Zealand (#10), and almost making it in the United Kingdom at #11 and Denmark at #12. The Pandemonium album, released in December of 2002, went to #10 on the Billboard 200 sales tally, and #3 on the R&B Albums list, going on to sell over a million copies.
Both B2K and the album will be back to the series.
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The group performed the song on Top Of The Pops...
Up tomorrow: the second deceased artist this week with a version of Cribz.
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