Songoftheday 1/15/24 - Woman get busy, just shake dat booty non-stop when da beat drops...

 

 

"Get Busy" - Sean Paul

from the album Dutty Rock (2002)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1 (three weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 27

 

Today's song comes from dancehall artist Sean Paul, who scored a top ten hit on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 at the close of 2002 with his breakthrough single "Gimme The Light". The second single pulled from Sean's Dutty Rock album was "Get Busy". Written by the rapper with producer Steven Marsden, the record is a party track, with Sean enticing women to dance and subsequently party with him, using a Jamaican patois that glides over the Indian-appropriated "Diwali Rhythm" that was all the rage in the dancehall scene around that time. The production with that Diwali in entracing, making me forget that he's singing in a monotone drone most of the time. The music video has Sean Paul performing in a makeshift basement party, including a snippet of his next single.

"Get Busy" climbed all the way to #1 on the Hot 100 in May of 2003, while also topping their R&B Singles chart for a week and getting to #2 on the Rap Singles list. On the radio, the song peaked at #3 on the Mainstream Top-40 chart, took a week at #1 on the Mainstream R&B airplay list, and also spending a week on top of the dance/R&B-oriented Rhythmic format. Internationally, the single topped the chart in Italy and the Netherlands, and reached the top ten in Switzerland (#2), Norway (#2), Germany (#3), Belgium (#3 Flanders/#3 Wallonia), Romania (#3), the United Kingdom (#4), Australia (#4), Austria (#4), Denmark (#4), Sweden (#4), France (#8), and Czechia (#9). At the Grammy Awards in 2004, "Get Busy" was nominated for Best Male Rap Solo Performance, which went home with Eminem for "Lose Yourself".

Both Sean and the album will be back to the series.

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Here's Sean Paul previewing the song in 2003...

Next up, live in Belgium in 2006...

and finally in the SIRIUSXM satellite radio studio in 2023...

Up tomorrow: Another dancehall singer is tenacious.