| "Shop Around" | ||||
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 Side A of the US single | ||||
| Single by the Miracles | ||||
| from the album Hi... We're the Miracles | ||||
| B-side | "Who's Lovin' You" | |||
| Released | September 27, 1960 | |||
| Recorded | 1960 | |||
| Studio | Hitsville USA (Studio A) | |||
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| Label | Tamla | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Berry Gordy | |||
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| "Shop Around" on YouTube | ||||
"Shop Around" is a song originally recorded by the Miracles on Motown Records' Tamla subsidiary label. It was written by Miracles lead singer Smokey Robinson and Motown Records founder Berry Gordy. It became a smash hit in 1960 when originally recorded by the Miracles, reaching number one on the Billboard R&B chart, number one on the Cashbox Top 100 Pop Chart, and number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It was the Miracles' first million-selling hit record, and the first-million-selling hit for the Motown Record Corporation.
The single was a multiple award winner for the Miracles, having been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2006, inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of The 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll, and honored by Rolling Stone as #500 in their list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, dropping it five spots from number 495 in the 2004 version.
- ^ Breihan, Tom (November 15, 2022). "The Supremes - "Where Did Our Love Go". The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music. New York: Hachette Book Group. p. 52.
- ^ Breihan, Tom (March 19, 2018). "The Number Ones: Lawrence Welk's "Calcutta"". Stereogum. Retrieved June 8, 2023.
...the Miracles came close to #1 with "Shop Around," an absolutely perfect pop song...