Check on It

December 13, 2005

Check on It is a song by American R & B singer Beyoncé Knowles and rapper Slim Thug. In addition to the artist Kasseem " Swizz Beatz " Dean, Sean Garrett and Angela Beyince were involved in the development of the title. The song was produced for the film The Pink Panther in 2006, in which Knowles plays the main role.

Publication

The song is not included on the soundtrack to the film, but on Destiny's Child's greatest hits album # 1 's and Beyonce's second album B'Day.

Commercial success

Check on It debuted on 19 November 2005 on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 72 and reached after twelve weeks on February 4th 2006 square one. The song was Beyoncé's third number -one hit as a solo artist and Slim Thugs first. The song could be kept at number one five weeks so that Beyonce Knowles was the first artist since Jennifer Lopez, the longer than five weeks was in the U.S. with their first three songs at No. 1. Was with Daniel Powters number -one hit Bad Day, Beyoncé's song of the longest number -one hit of 2006 in the United States. It has been awarded by the RIAA platinum for more than 800,000 downloads. According to Mediabase and Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems was played on the radio Check on It within a year more than 200 million copies in the U.S.. Knowles other single Irreplaceable was more often played on the radio, thus Knowles became the second artist in the U.S. at all, which succeeded so after the Mariah Carey managed with her two songs We Belong Together and Shake It Off in 2005. Check on It was Beyonce's fifth top twenty hit in Canada. In addition, the song reached the top five in Norway and the Netherlands, the top ten in Switzerland, Austria and Brazil, and the top twenty in Germany and Sweden. In the UK, the song reached number three in the UK charts with about 122,500 units sold.

Music Video

Knowles recorded a music video to help promote the related film The Pink Panther. It was directed by Hype Williams, the premiere was on 16 December 2005. Check on It won on 31 August 2006 MTV Video Music Award for the category " MTV Video Music Award for Best R & B Video". The video refers to a pink background on the movie title Pink Panther. Knowles also wears in the music video a pink jacket and a similar sweatpants. Beyonce dances throughout the music video and shows, among other things, their lap dances. The video is included on the DVD of the film.

Charts

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