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"Dip It Low" - Christina Milian

from the album It's About Time (2004)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #5 (two weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 20

 

Today's song comes from R&B singer Christina Milian, who after guesting on rapper Ja Rule's nearly top ten hit "Between Me And You" in 2000, scored her first lead top-40 hit on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 in the autumn of the following year with "AM to PM". However in the turn of the millennium merger chaos, her label Def Soul had shifted and would eventually be put in with its "parent" imprint Def Jam. Milian was moved over to another Universal label, Island, for her sophomore effort It's About Time, which came out four years after her debut. The lead single from the set was the club track "Dip It Low". Written by the singer with producer Polli Paul along with Teedra Moses, the production casts Christina in an Southern Asian backdrop, as she coos about treating her man to some carnal talents, including most importantly to "pop that thing". The booty-shaking rides the beat and is circularly mesmerizing to the ears. The music video makes much use of her outer jacket snaps as she writhes through the club for her equally half-clothed guy...

"Dip It Low" became Christina's biggest hit, reaching the top ten on Billboard's Hot 100 in August of 2004, while peaking at #16 on their R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart. On the radio, the song rose to #2 on the Mainstream Top-40 chart, #17 on the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop list, and #5 at the dance/R&B-oriented Rhythmic format. The remixes of the song from Full Intention among others that transformed the song into a house music banger helped it spent a week at #1 on Billboard's Dance Club Play chart and getting to #4 on the Dance Airplay list. Internationally, the single topped the Canadian pop airplay chart, and reached the top ten in the United Kingdom (#2), the Netherlands (#7), New Zealand (#7), Denmark (#8), and Norway (#8). It also made the top-40 in Ireland (#11), Switzerland (#11), Finland (#16), Germany (#17), Hungary (#17), Belgium (#23 Flanders/#39 Wallonia), Greece (#27), Sweden (#30), France (#31), Australia (#31), Austria (#32), and Italy (#38). The It's About Time album, released in June of that year, came in at #14 on the Billboard 200 and #5 on the R&B Albums list. At the Grammy Awards in 2005, the remix of  "Dip It Low" with Fabolous was nominated for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, losing to Usher and Lil' Jon and Ludacris' gigantic "Yeah!", while the It's About Time record was up for Best Contemporary R&B Album, again with Usher taking it home with his Confessions. 

For the follow-up, Christina released "Whatever U Want" which featured rapper Joe Budden. The smooth but street-ready track slipped on to the Hot 100 for a week at #100, while climbing to #91 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart, despite reaching #35 on the Mainstream Top-40 radio list and #40 at the Rhythmic format. It also was a top ten success on the Dance Club Songs chart at #6 and reached #23 on the Dance Airplay tally. It also was a decent overseas hit, making the top ten in the UK (#9) and the top-40 in Ireland (#16), the Netherlands (#20), Switzerland (#27), Belgium (#30 Flanders), and Italy (#32).

Christina will be back to the series.

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Here's the Grammy-nominated American remix featuring rapper Fabolous, who was riding high after the top ten "Into You"...

Meanwhile, in most of the European countries, another version which replaced Fabolous with German rapper Samy Deluxe made it a hit...

and here's Milian on her AOL stint promoting the album...

and lastly, with Samy Deluxe on a TV gig for Star Search in Germany...

Up tomorrow: This rapper has a lot of issues.