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For the original Lisa Stansfield song featuring this lyric, see All Around the World (Lisa Stansfield song).
"Been Around the World"
Song

"Been Around the World" is a 1997 single from the Puff Daddy album No Way Out, featuring The Notorious B.I.G and Mase. The song samples David Bowie's 1983 hit song "Let's Dance", and contains an interpolation of Lisa Stansfield's song "All Around the World", sung by The Notorious B.I.G. in the chorus. In the album version, the song concludes with a skit featuring an interview with "The Mad Producer".

The song was released as a single on August 12, 1997; it was the fourth single released from the album. Like the previous three singles, which all reached No. 1 or No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, "Been Around the World" hit No. 2 on the chart, in the first two weeks of 1998;[1][2] it was kept out of the No. 1 spot by Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" (the best-selling single of all time). "Been Around the World" did reach No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Rap Tracks and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts.

A music video for the song was directed by Paul Hunter. It featured Mase and Puff Daddy as spies. The video included appearances by Vivica A. Fox, Quincy Jones, Wyclef Jean and Jennifer Lopez.

Track listing

  1. Radio Edit
  2. Rock Remix l
  3. Rock Remix ll
  4. It's All About The Benjamins (Album Version)

Remix

The song's official remix features Mase & Carl Thomas, and samples Roy Ayers's "Feelin’ Good".

Charts and certifications

References

  1. ^ Billboard Top 10, January 3, 1998
  2. ^ Billboard Top 10, January 10, 1998
  3. ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 1998". Retrieved 2010-08-28.
  4. ^ "New Zealand single certifications – Puff Daddy – Been Around the World". Recorded Music NZ.
  5. ^ "Best-Selling Records of 1997". Billboard. 110 (5). BPI Communications Inc.: 76 January 31, 1998. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved May 31, 2015.
  6. ^ "Best-Selling Records of 1998". Billboard. 111 (5). BPI Communications Inc.: 75 January 30, 1999. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved May 31, 2015.
  7. ^ "American single certifications – Diddy, P. and the Family – Been Around the World". Recording Industry Association of America.
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