"Wild Wild Love" is a song by American rapper Pitbull featuring American-Canadian-English girl group G.R.L. The song was released February 25,2014,and serves as the lead single off of Pitbull's eighth studio album Globalization. It was written by Pitbull,Ammar Malik,Dr. Luke,Max Martin,Alexander Castillo Vasquez,Michael Everett (co-composer),and Henry Walter,with the production handled by the latter five. The song reached the top 10 in the United Kingdom,Australia,and Norway.
Mike Wass of Idolator was complimentary of the song describing it as a "killer single". He did label Pitbull's lyrics "questionable" but are overlooked as he "injects enough humor into the song".[2] Steve Adams of the Winnipeg Free Press gave the song a lukewarm review,giving it two and half stars. He wrote that,compared to "Timber","Wild Wild Love" was not "nearly as gratingly awful,but it's not anything amazing either".[3]Rolling Stone's Joe Gross only commented that Pitbull "doesn't sound entirely sure who [G.R.L.] are".[4]
Chart performance
"Wild Wild Love" peaked at number 30 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart,making it Pitbull's seventeenth top 40 hit. It peaked at number 6 on the UK,becoming his last top ten hit there. It became G.R.L.'s only single to impact the chart before the group disbanded in 2015. As of March 2015,the single has sold 767,000 copies in the US.[5] The song was also a commercial success in Australia,Belgium,Canada,Finland,New Zealand,Norway,Scotland,Slovakia and Sweden.
Music video
The interior scenes of the music video for "Wild Wild Love" was shot in February 2014 at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles,California.[6] The scenes in the second half of the video were done at Viscaya in Miami.[7] The video was first aired on Pitbull's official Facebook page on March 31,2014.
* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. † Streaming-only figures based on certification alone.
↑ "ČNS IFPI" (in Slovak). Hitparáda – Radio Top 100 Oficiálna. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: insert 201422 into search. Retrieved June 10, 2014.
↑ "ČNS IFPI" (in Slovak). Hitparáda – Singles Digital Top 100 Oficiálna. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: Select SINGLES DIGITAL - TOP 100 and insert 201427 into search. Retrieved July 8, 2014.
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