Swagger Jagger

"Swagger Jagger"
Single by Cher Lloyd
from the album Sticks and Stones
Released29 July 2011
RecordedBeat Studio, Miami, Florida, United States
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Length3:12
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Cher Lloyd singles chronology
"Swagger Jagger"
(2011)
"With Ur Love"
(2011)
Music video
"Swagger Jagger" on YouTube

"Swagger Jagger" is the debut single by English singer and rapper Cher Lloyd, taken from her debut studio album Sticks and Stones (2011). It was released as the album's lead single on 31 July 2011. The song was written by the two production teams The Runners and The Monarch with Lloyd, Autumn Rowe, Marcus Lomax and Clarence Coffee Jr. and is composed to the tune of "Oh My Darling, Clementine". The music video was released on 26 June 2011. It was also used in the movie Identity Thief with Melissa McCarthy.

Despite receiving negative reviews from music critics, the song debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart, and at number two in Ireland, becoming her biggest hit to date in these countries. It also reached number five in Japan. The Guardian chose the song as the best number one single of 2011,[1] along with the Official Charts listing the track as the 35th biggest song of the summer of 2011 in the UK.[2]

  1. ^ "The best No 1 records: Cher Lloyd – Swagger Jagger". The Guardian. 31 May 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  2. ^ "Official Top 40 biggest songs of summer 2011". Official Charts. 16 June 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.