Boom (Snoop Dogg song)

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"Boom"
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Single by Snoop Dogg featuring T-Pain
from the album Doggumentary
ReleasedMarch 8, 2011
Recorded2010
Genre Hip hop
Length3:51
Label Priority
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Scott Storch
Snoop Dogg singles chronology
"Last Night"
(2011)
"Boom"
(2011)
"If I Was You (OMG)"
(2011)
T-Pain singles chronology
"Welcome to My Hood"
(2011)
"Boom"
(2011)
"Best Love Song"
(2011)

"Boom" is a song by American rapper Snoop Dogg featuring fellow American singer T-Pain. It serves as the second official single from the former's eleventh studio album Doggumentary . Produced by Scott Storch, it was leaked on March 4, 2011, and officially released on March 8, 2011, along with the video, which was produced by Dylan Brown.

Contents

This song with T-Pain is featured on the soundtrack for the video game Madden NFL 12 .

Background

Produced by Scott Storch, "Boom" contains an interpolation from the 1980s hit "Situation" by Yazoo. [1]

Chart performance

On March 19, 2011, "Boom" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 76 and on the Hot Digital Songs chart at number 53.

Charts

Chart (2011)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [2] 40
Belgium (Ultratip Bubbling Under Flanders) [3] 15
Belgium (Ultratip Bubbling Under Wallonia) [4] 28
Scotland (OCC) [5] 61
UK Hip Hop/R&B (OCC) [6] 14
UK Singles (OCC) [7] 56
US Billboard Hot 100 [8] 76
US Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles (Billboard) [9] 4

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