| "Sweet like Chocolate" | ||||
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| Single by Shanks & Bigfoot | ||||
| from the album Swings and Roundabouts | ||||
| Released | 17 May 1999[1] | |||
| Studio | Soul II Soul (London, England) | |||
| Genre | UK garage | |||
| Length | 3:37 | |||
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| Producer(s) | Shanks & Bigfoot | |||
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"Sweet like Chocolate" is a song by British garage music duo Shanks & Bigfoot with vocalist Sharon Woolf. It was released as a single on 17 May 1999 and was included on the duo's debut album, Swings and Roundabouts, the following year. Vocals on the track are sung by Sharon Woolf, who had also sung on their track "Straight from the Heart", which was released under their previous band name, 'Doolally'.
"Sweet like Chocolate" was originally released on vinyl in 1998 as a promotional single, which had a short-run pressing of 1,000 copies. When released as an official single in 1999, it topped the UK Singles Chart for two weeks and reached the top 10 in Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. The song was the first UK garage track to hit number one on the UK Singles Chart. In 2019, The Guardian listed the song at number 20 in their list of "The Best UK Garage Tracks".[2]
- ^ "New Releases – For Week Starting 17 May, 1999: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 15 May 1999. p. 23. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
- ^ Petridis, Alexis (16 May 2019). "The best UK garage tracks". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 September 2019.