| "Wild Things" | ||||
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| Single by Alessia Cara | ||||
| from the album Know-It-All | ||||
| Released | February 2, 2016 | |||
| Recorded | December 2014 | |||
| Studio | Los Angeles, California | |||
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| Length | 3:08 | |||
| Label | Def Jam | |||
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| Producer(s) | Malay | |||
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| "Wild Things" on YouTube | ||||
"Wild Things" is a song recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Alessia Cara for her debut studio album, Know-It-All (2015). It was released to digital retailers on October 27, 2015, as a promotional single before being sent to contemporary hit radio on February 2, 2016, as the album's second official single.[3][4] The song was written by Alessia Caracciolo, Coleridge Tillman, Thabiso "Tab" Nkhereanye, and James Ho, and was produced by the latter.[5] Official remixes were commissioned in the spring of 2016 and were released on an extended play on May 13, 2016,[6] one of which features a guest verse from American rapper G-Eazy.[7]
Since its release, "Wild Things" has charted at number fifty on the US Billboard Hot 100 and has also attained top-forty peaks in multiple territories including Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. In Cara's native Canada, the song peaked at number 14, five positions higher than her highly successful debut, "Here". The song has been certified Gold by ARIA, 2× Platinum by the RIAA, while being certified Platinum by RMNZ.
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- ^ "Alessia Cara – Elicit Magazine". 6 January 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-01-06. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
- ^ "Wild Things - Alessia Cara - Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic. October 27, 2015. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
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