My Body (LSG song)

"My Body"
Single by LSG
from the album Levert.Sweat.Gill
B-side "Check is in the Mail"[1]
Released October 1997
Format CD single, CD maxi single, 12"
Recorded 1996
Genre R&B
Label EastWest, Elektra
Writer(s) Antoinette Roberson, Darrell "Delite" Allamby, Lincoln Browder
Producer(s) Darrell "Delite" Allamby & Victor "Lundon" Jones
Certification Platinum (RIAA)
LSG singles chronology
"My Body"
(1997)
"Curious"
(1998)

"My Body" is a song by R&B group LSG released as the first single from their debut album Levert.Sweat.Gill.

The song spent seven weeks at number-one on the US R&B chart and reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100. It was produced by Darrell "Delite" Allamby and written by Darrell Delite Allamby Antionette Roberson and Link

There is a remix single that features Missy Elliott.

Fellow former group member Keith Sweat sings the song as a tribute to member Gerald LeVert appears on the live DVD, The Sweat Hotel, and appeared on The Mo'Nique Show, who performs a medley as the closing of the show in October 2010 as also part of the tribute to him during the closing credits.

Late R&B singer Static Major sampled the chorus on his song "Infatuated".

Charts

Peak positions

Chart (1997/1998) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 4
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B Singles 1

End of year charts

End of year chart (1998) Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[2] 34

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
United States (RIAA)[3] Platinum 1,100,000[4]

References

  1. "Levert Sweat Gill* - My Body (Vinyl) at Discogs". Discogs. Zink Media. Retrieved July 16, 2014.
  2. "Billboard Top 100 - 1998". Retrieved 2010-08-28.
  3. "American single certifications – LSG – My Body". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Single, then click SEARCH
  4. "Best-Selling Records of 1997". Billboard (BPI Communications Inc.) 110 (5): 76. January 31, 1998. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved May 29, 2015.

See also

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