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Sweet like Chocolate

"Sweet like Chocolate"
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Single by Shanks & Bigfoot
from the album Swings and Roundabouts
Released 17 May 1999
Format
Recorded 1998
Genre UK garage
Length 3:37
Writer(s)
  • Steven Meade
  • Danny Langsman
Producer(s) Shanks & Bigfoot
Shanks & Bigfoot singles chronology
"Straight from the Heart"
(1998)
"Sweet like Chocolate"
(1999)
"Sing-A-Long"
(2000)

"Sweet like Chocolate" is a song that was released on 17 May 1999 by British garage music duo Shanks & Bigfoot with vocalist Sharon Woolf. The track was later added to the duo's album Swings and Roundabouts.

Vocals on the track were sung by Sharon Woolf, who also sung on their track "Straight from the Heart" with them the year before under the name Doolally.

"Sweet like Chocolate" was originally released in 1998 in a limited brown vinyl pressing of 1,000 copies, and demand quickly exceeded supply. The shortage of copies and delayed promo mailouts saw copies changing hands for as much as GB£80 each Top of the Pops Season 36, Episode 21 (May 28, 1999) On BBC One (May 28, 1999) and Top of the Pops Season 36 Episode 22 (June 4, 1999) on BBC One (June 4, 1999).

A computer animated music video was made for the song and was made by Darren Lee of Visualisation Services Ltd. It features a little girl walking down a street where almost everything is made out of chocolate.

"Sweet like Chocolate" went to number one on the UK Singles Chart in May 1999, achieved platinum status and was a top ten in a number of countries. It became the first record ever to top the UK Singles Chart, UK Independent Chart, UK R&B Chart and UK Dance Chart simultaneously.

The single was a success before commercial release, receiving months of club play before debuting at number one and remaining there for two weeks. The single became Britain's eighth biggest-selling single of 1999.


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