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Best of Shaggy: The Boombastic Collection is the fourth compilation album released by Jamaican singer Shaggy. The album was released in the United Kingdom on August 25, 2008. It reached number 22 on the UK Albums Chart.
Origins for the album date back to March 1999, as some sites report that an album, titled the Ultimate Shaggy Collection, was released on March 23, 1999.The album included material from Shaggy's first four studio albums, as well as the original version of "Luv Me, Luv Me", which featured Janet Jackson, and three new songs—"The Reggae Virus", featuring Mad Lion and KRS One, "True Dat" and ...
The Best of Shaggy is the third compilation album released by Jamaican singer Shaggy. The album was released through joint agreement between EMI and Virgin Records, [1] on August 4, 2008. [2] It includes material from his first four albums, as well as his collaboration with Maxi Priest, from Priest's album Man with the Fun. As Shaggy's later ...
In 2000, Shaggy released the album Hot Shot, which was certified 6× Platinum in the United States. The album featured the singles " It Wasn't Me " and " Angel ", the latter of which was built around two song samples – Merrilee Rush 's 1968 hit " Angel of the Morning " (which was remade in 1981 by Juice Newton ), and The Steve Miller Band 's ...
Bill Lamb from About.com said Shaggy "exhibits oodles of personal charm alongside the funky grooves" of "Boombastic", naming it one of the best songs from 1990s. [21] Tom Ewing of Freaky Trigger said the musician is "the benevolent monarch of this world, giving a comical, flirtatious, crowd-tickling performance, his army of mechanical ...
On 7 December 2018 the Deluxe Softpack 8-bonus-track CD edition of the album was released including the unreleased track "Skank Up (Oh Lawd)", two new versions of "Gotta Get Back My Baby" and five unreleased acoustic live tracks recorded in July 2018 in Paris. The album won an award for Best Reggae Album at the 61st Grammy Awards in February 2019.
"Luv Me, Luv Me" is a song by Jamaican-American reggae singer Shaggy. It was first released in 1998 with Janet Jackson credited as a featured artist. The song was re-recorded in 2000 with Samantha Cole's vocals after Jackson's label withheld the song from being included on Shaggy's next album.
The self-produced album became the follow-up to Shaggy's career-making album Boombastic; however, it did not fare as well. The album features covers of Erma Franklin 's " Piece of My Heart ", and Bob Marley 's "Thank You Lord", which features guest vocals from Ky-Mani Marley . 50,000 copies of the album were sold in the UK.