Beautiful Girls (Sean Kingston song)

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"Beautiful Girls"
Sean Kingston Beautiful Girls.jpg
Single by Sean Kingston
from the album Sean Kingston
ReleasedMay 26, 2007 (2007-05-26)
Recorded2006-2007
Genre
Length
  • 4:02(album version)
  • 3:43 (radio edit)
Label Epic
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Sean Kingston singles chronology
"Beautiful Girls"
(2007)
"Me Love"
(2007)
Alternative cover
BeautifulGirlsAltCover.jpg

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [62] Platinum70,000^
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil) [63] Gold30,000*
Canada (Music Canada) [64] 2× Platinum80,000*
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [65] Platinum15,000^
Germany (BVMI) [66] Platinum300,000
New Zealand (RMNZ) [67] Platinum15,000*
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [68] Gold10,000*
United Kingdom (BPI) [69] 2× Platinum1,200,000
United States (RIAA) [70] 2× Platinum2,000,000^
Ringtone
Canada (Music Canada) [71] 3× Platinum120,000*
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [72]
Ringtone
Platinum20,000*
United States (RIAA) [73] 2× Platinum2,000,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Covers

A few months after "Beautiful Girls" was released in 2007, a new online video service called Votigo began a cover contest in which fans could submit covers of the song for a chance to get a call from Sean Kingston. After an online vote user Mallory Robbins won with an a cappella version of the song. Top honors also went to a rock cover of the song performed by the Ailan Christopher Project. Shortly afterwards, singer JoJo released a cover response version of the track which was released on Myspace, however was not featured on her upcoming album. Chris Moyles also released a parody cover, however it was about the song describing how bad it was in his opinion.

The lead singer of Sublime with Rome, Rome, sang the acoustic version of "Beautiful Girls" on RAWsession on October 20, 2008.

The Plain White T's, whose song was knocked out of the charts by this one, did a cover version for Yahoo Music. Lead vocalist Tom Higgenson says that the group "started covering it as a joke almost. We started learning it because we were number one for a few weeks and then we got knocked out of the number one spot by Sean Kingston, by this song. It's kind of like an ode to Sean." [74] To close out the song guitarist Mike Retondo breaks into the chorus of "Stand by Me", which is also done in the cover version by Boyce Avenue, a nod to the fact that that song's bassline is used in "Beautiful Girls". Maverick Sabre did the same at BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge. [75]

Teddy Geiger covered the song on her 2007 tour, due to popularity a recorded version of the song will be featured as a bonus track on the iTunes version of her upcoming CD The March.

Lil' Brianna remixed the song and featured Kingston's vocals on her second mixtape, Princess of Miami.

Jesse McCartney covered "Beautiful Girls" during his Right Where You Want Me tour.

David Archuleta briefly sang the chorus of the song at the end of his May 6, 2008 performance on the American TV show American Idol . He was singing Ben E. King's original "Stand by Me" song.

Deer Tick recorded a cover of "Beautiful Girls", which can be found on Myspace.

Casey Crescenzo of The Dear Hunter recorded a cover of this song and has occasionally performed it live.

Boyband JLS performed a mashup of "Beautiful Girls" and "Stand by Me" as their bottom two performance on the fifth series of the UK TV show The X Factor . A year later on series six of the show, Lloyd Daniels sang the chorus and last verse of the song in his November 30, 2008 performance, also singing King's original "Stand by Me".

Bayside covers the song on Punk Goes Pop Volume Two .

BAMF! recorded a version entitled "Bootyfull Girl".

Russell Crowe, Kevin Durand, Scott Grimes, and Alan Doyle performed a cover version during the press tour for Robin Hood and at several benefit shows afterwards.

Beautiful Girls Reply

"Beautiful Girls Reply"
Song by JoJo
ReleasedJuly 20, 2007 (2007-07-20)
Recorded2007
Genre R&B
Length3:32
Label
Songwriter(s) Joanna "JoJo" Levesque
Producer(s) J.R. Rotem

"Beautiful Girls" (also known as "Beautiful Girls Reply") is a song by American singer JoJo. It was released digitally on July 20, 2007, as a cover response to "Beautiful Girls" by Sean Kingston. [76] The song samples Ben E. King's classic "Stand by Me" and uses digital pitch correction technology on the vocals. Whereas Kingston's version is about a boy who is suicidal over the failure of his relationship with a "beautiful girl", JoJo speaks from a girl's perspective.

Chart performance

The song debuted at number 39 on the Billboard Rhythmic Top 40 chart one month after its release.

Chart (2007)Peak
position
US Rhythmic Top 40 (Billboard) [77] 39

Parodies

Use in media

This song is featured in the 2008 monster film Cloverfield , the 2019 crime drama Hustlers , and on The CW's Gossip Girl . The "suicidal" version of the song, which ends differently from the single mix is also featured in the video game SingStar Hottest Hits . It was the score screen theme for almost every game from the Peruvian flash games website Inkagames.

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