OK (Big Brovaz song)

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"OK"
Big Brovaz - OK (CD 1).jpg
Single by Big Brovaz
from the album Nu-Flow
Released3 February 2003 (2003-02-03)
Length3:08
Label Epic
Songwriter(s)
  • Tayo Aisida
  • Cherise Roberts
  • Nadia Shepherd
  • Abdul Bella
  • Michael Mugisha
  • John Paul Morsley
  • Thelma Howell
  • Michael Brown
Producer(s) Skillz & Fingaz
Big Brovaz singles chronology
"Nu Flow"
(2002)
"OK"
(2003)
"Favourite Things"
(2003)

"OK" is the second single by British R&B collective Big Brovaz. It was also the second single taken from their debut album, Nu-Flow , and was released on 3 February 2003. The album was re-released two weeks after the release of "OK" with the "OK" radio edit added and bonus tracks.

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"OK" became Big Brovaz' second UK top-10 hit, peaking at number seven and spending nine weeks inside the top 75 of the UK Singles Chart. Despite "Nu Flow" being a hit in Australia, "OK" was a commercial failure and their smallest hit there, peaking at a lowly number 64.

Track listings

UK CD1 [1]

  1. "OK" (radio edit)
  2. "OK" (rock remix)
  3. "OK" (Kardinal Beats vocal remix)
  4. "OK" (video)

UK CD2 [2]

  1. "OK" (radio edit)
  2. "OK" (Blacksmith remix)
  3. "Turn It Up"

Charts

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United Kingdom3 February 2003
  • CD
  • cassette
Epic [15]
Australia25 August 2003CD [16]

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