Dynamite (Taio Cruz song)

"Dynamite"
Single by Taio Cruz
from the album Rokstarr
Released	12 October 2009 (2009-10-12)
Recorded	2009
Studio	A Side (Stockholm) Dr. Luke's (Los Angeles) Milano, Rokstarr (London)
Genre	Electropop R&B[1]
Length	3:22
Label	Island
Songwriter(s)	Dr. Luke Max Martin Benny Blanco Bonnie McKee
Producer(s)	Dr. Luke Benny Blanco
Taio Cruz singles chronology
"Dirty Picture" (2010) "Dynamite" (2009) "Second Chance" (2010)
Music video
"Dynamite" on YouTube

"Dynamite" is a 2009 song by British singer and songwriter Taio Cruz from the revised version of his second studio album, Rokstarr (2010). Cruz co-wrote the song, along with Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, Benny Blanco, and Dr. Luke; the latter two are also the producers. It was released as his first single of the album Rokstarr (2009). The song features additional instrumentation by Cruz himself. It was released internationally as the fourth single from Rokstarr. In the UK, the song was released as the first single from Cruz's compilation album, The Rokstarr Collection (2010). On 30 May 2010, it was released to US and Canadian radio stations as his second single and across Europe as his fourth single. An official remix was released featuring new label mate, Jennifer Lopez.

"Dynamite" became Cruz's second number-one single on the UK Singles Chart and the Canadian Hot 100 as well topping charts in Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. The song reached number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, and by January 2012 it had sold over 5.7 million copies in the U.S. and Canada, becoming the second best-selling song by a British artist in the digital era there, behind Adele's "Rolling in the Deep".^[2]