"Ignition (Remix)" | ||||
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Standard artwork (U.S. CD single pictured)
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Single by R. Kelly | ||||
from the album Chocolate Factory | ||||
B-side | "Apologies of a Thug" "What Do I Do" |
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Released | November 5, 2002 | |||
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Recorded | 2002 | |||
Genre | R&B | |||
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3:16 (original version) 3:09 (remix) 6:25 (full version) |
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Label | Jive | |||
Songwriter(s) | Robert Kelly | |||
Producer(s) | R. Kelly | |||
R. Kelly singles chronology | ||||
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Chocolate Factory track listing | ||||
24 tracks
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"Ignition (Viceroy Remix)" | ||||
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Single by Viceroy & R. Kelly | ||||
Released | 2 December 2014 | |||
Format | Digital download | |||
Recorded | 2002(vocals) 2014(song) |
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Length | 3:43 | |||
Label | RCA | |||
Songwriter(s) | Robert Kelly | |||
Producer(s) | Viceroy | |||
Viceroy singles chronology | ||||
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R. Kelly singles chronology | ||||
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"Ignition (Remix)" is a song written and produced by American R&B singer R. Kelly. It was released in 2002 as the lead single from his sixth studio album Chocolate Factory (2003). It is viewed as one of his most well-known songs and has been popular in the United States, Europe and Oceania.
"Ignition (Remix)" peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. Outside the United States, the song topped the charts in Australia, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. It was later included on the updated version of Rolling Stone's 500 greatest songs of all time in 2010 at number 494. The song was listed at #19 on Pitchfork Media's top 500 songs of the 2000s.
The original song "Ignition" was first recorded in 2002 after the alleged Kelly sex tape was a hot topic in the media. The original "Ignition" was originally going to be one of the songs on his forthcoming album at that time called Loveland; the album got leaked later on, and Kelly decided to turn Loveland to Chocolate Factory, record mostly new songs and remix some of the songs on that album. "Ignition" was one of the songs he decided to remix after people in the studio liked the end part of the song, which would later become the intro to the remix.
The song is sometimes called simply "Ignition" colloquially and for marketing purposes, including as the title of one of its releases as a single and on the Billboard charts. While it shares the song title with the original version of "Ignition", the remix version is most commonly referred to in writing to avoid confusion with the original. The two songs share some instrumental elements (guitars and percussion) but are otherwise completely different.
The original "Ignition" was released first to urban contemporary radio stations although it never officially charted on Billboard in this manner at first. At the end of the song, Kelly gives the listeners "a lil' preview of the remix", which includes only the first verse then fades out. The "remix to Ignition" was released weeks later to urban and Top 40 pop stations, and it gained significantly more attention. While many stations never played the original but opted for the remix only, others played both songs, merged, at six minutes total; it was structured that way on the Chocolate Factory album.