"Beggin" is a song composed by

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and

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and first released as a single by American band the Four Seasons in 1967. Initially charting at number 16 in the US, the song became popular in the Northern soul scene in the United Kingdom in the 1970s. It has been covered multiple times, with versions by covers by Norwegian hip-hop duo

Madcon Madcon is a Norwegian musical duo formed in 1992 by Yosef Wolde-Mariam and Tshawe Baqwa. They have released eight albums as of 2022. They are best known for the 2007 cover of " Beggin'" by The Four Seasons and the 2015 single " Don't Worry" feat ...

and Italian rock band

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topping music charts in Europe and beyond. The Four Seasons' version was also remixed in 2007 by French DJ Pilooski and re-released as a single, reaching number 32 in the UK and commercially outperforming the Four Seasons' original release there.

Original version

Keyboardist-songwriter

had not written a Four Seasons single since 1965's "

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", although he had written or co-written almost every Four Seasons hit up to then. "Beggin, the second single from the Four Seasons' ''New Gold Hits'' album in 1967, marked Gaudio's "return" as the Seasons' songwriter, with a combination of

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's impassioned

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singing and the band's more contemporary instrumentation. It was also the first Seasons single since "

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" on which Gaudio collaborated with a lyricist other than producer

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, as lyrics were contributed by Peggy Farina (better known as

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of the Angels, who sang lead on the 1963 hit " My Boyfriend's Back" and was frequently used as a background singer by Crewe). The song, backed with "Dody" as a B-side reached number 16 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100, continuing the group's string of ''Billboard'' top-20 hits. However, it was overshadowed by Valli's "solo" recording of "

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", a Gaudio-Crewe composition, which rose to number two. It was the last Gaudio composition for the Four Seasons to chart in the top 20 until 1975's "

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". The song is included in Act Two of the Broadway musical about the Four Seasons, ''

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''. It was used as the main theme of an ad campaign for

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, celebrating the company's 60th anniversary. Retrospectively, the song has been highly regarded by music critics as a strong example of the Four Seasons' vocal and arrangement abilities. Donald A. Guarisco, writing for

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, described the song as "one of their finest entries" in the genre of the soul ballad, and also commended the songs "funky groove" and "Phil Spector-styled production". Chris DeVille, writing for ''

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,'' characterized the song as featuring a "contagiously upbeat drum part", and suggested that its sound was an early predecessor to hip-hop music.

Pilooski remix

In 2007, French

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Pilooski re-edited and released his version of the Four Seasons song. This version reached number 32 in the United Kingdom and number one on the

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. It is the first single from the album ''Beggin': The Ultimate Collection''. The Pilooski re-edit does not include any new instrumentation or vocals but is purely a manipulation and remix of the original Four Seasons recording, using echo and phase-polarisation.

Certifications

Madcon version

In 2007, the same year as the Pilooski remix, Norwegian hip-hop duo

released a new version of the song with tweaked lyrics and added rap verses. Madcon's version of the song is a total re-recording, with all instruments were performed by production team 3Elementz (

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) and all vocals by Madcon. This version reached number one on Norway's

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chart for 12 nonconsecutive weeks and received the "Hit of the Year"

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award. The single also became popular throughout Europe; in France, the Netherlands, and the

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region of Belgium, it peaked at number one. It also reached number five in the United Kingdom and number seven in Germany. Overall, "Beggin'" was Europe's 11th-most-successful single of 2008. The music video features Yosef Wolde-Mariam and Tshawe Baqwa in a mix of

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-scenes and dozing off while playing ''

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'' and was directed by

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. Following the success of Måneskin's cover in 2021, Madcon's version saw a rise in popularity. As a result, the duo teamed up with Canadian DJ Frank Walker for a remix released on July 16, 2021.

Track listings

French CD single # "Beggin" (original version) – 3:38 # "Beggin" (Uscar version) – 3:38 German enhanced maxi-single # "Beggin" (original version) – 3:38 # "Beggin" (Phreak Inc. remix) – 4:11 # "Beggin" (Demolition Disco remix) – 5:41 # "Beggin" (DJ Size Rocfam remix) – 3:09 # "Beggin" (video) – 3:41 Digital download # "Beggin" – 3:38 Digital download – Frank Walker remix # "Beggin" ( Frank Walker remix) – 3:14

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Måneskin version

Italian rock band

performed a cover of the song during the eleventh season of '' X Factor Italia''. A studio version of the song later appeared on their debut

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'' Chosen'', released in 2017. Recording sessions for the ''Chosen'' EP took place at the Metropolis in Milan, and mostly occurs at night, while the band was still competing on the show, and lasted only a few days. They were held at the recording studio owned by

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, who served as the track's producer. Fabbri described the recording process for "Beggin'" as the result of a low-budget session. The song was "almost recorded live", in a spontaneous manner which, according to him, helped to preserve the "human component, which disappeared in today's music, often processed and filtered". Their cover largely follows the structure of the Madcon version, including the rap verse. Although it was not released as a single, it peaked at number 39 on the Italian Singles Chart and in 2018 received a gold certification by

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in their native country. Following the band's

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victory in late May 2021, the song alongside the band's other releases started appearing on music charts across Europe and beyond; viral success for the song on social media platform

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soon followed. "Beggin'" has reached number one on the weekly charts in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia and Switzerland, the top five in Australia, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden, and the top ten in Canada, Denmark, India, Philippines, Singapore and the United Kingdom. On its first charting week on the

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(issue date June 24, 2021), the song debuted at number 73, but in the following '' The Official Chart: First Look'' Top 20, it moved 56 places to number 17. In the second charting week it peaked at number 10, becoming the band's third UK Top 20 hit in less than a month, and as their song "

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" charted again in the Top 10 it was the first time they simultaneously had two songs in the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart, thus becoming the first Italian act and the first Eurovision-associated act to achieve this. On its third charting week in the UK it peaked at number 7. It debuted on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 at number 78, later peaking at number 13, and has also reached the top five on the ''Billboard'' Global 200 and Global Excl. US charts. Their cover received a nomination for Favorite Trending Song at the American Music Awards of 2021, where they also performed the song, eventually losing to

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's "

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". They also performed the song at ''

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'' and at ''

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'', during the January 22, 2022 episode of ''

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'', as well as during the twenty-first season of '' The Voice USA'' and on the final of the fifteenth season of '' X Factor Italia'', returning as guests four years after their first performance there as contestants. A live recording of the song was released as a digital single on September 27, 2021.

Charts and certifications

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Other cover versions

The Four Seasons' original version did not chart in the

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. Instead,

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band Timebox had a minor hit with their

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production of the song, peaking at number 38 in 1968. In 1967 Italian singer

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performed his cover, "Prega". In the same year, a Spanish version was released under the title "Ruega" by the band "Duo Inter". French singer and composer

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sung the French version "Reste" (lit. meaning "Stay") in 1968. In 1974, Dutch band

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included a cover version of the song on their album ''

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''. In June 2009, Dutch singer-songwriter Bertolf recorded a semi-acoustic live for the Dutch radio station 3FM. Since then, Bertolf's version has been released commercially on iTunes, played regularly on said radio station and during live concerts. In 2008, British-Irish girl band

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, inspired by both Pilooski and Madcon, recorded their own version as a B-side for their single " Issues", a single from their debut studio album "

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" (2008) and performed a live acoustic version on

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as well as on their

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in 2009. Turkish

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singer Ferhat Güzel also covered a parody of the song, dubbed "Begüm (Suçu Kendine At)" - literally "Begüm (Blame Yourself)", for Okan Bayülgen's TV show ''Disko Kralı''. It was sung by

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and

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at the end of the first half of the ''

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'' Tour. Turkish band Dolapdere Big Gang recorded a cover of the song on their 2010 album ''Art-ist''. French singer-guitarist Aymeric Savignat (aka "Tidusko") covered the song on the compilation album ''La Musique de Paris Dernière Vol.7'' (2009). In 2012, vocal harmony group District3 performed the song as part of a mash-up with

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's " Turn Up the Music" on ''

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''. Logic sampled the Song 2007 in the Song "Begging you". Swedish singer Magnus Carlson, usually the front man of

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, has covered the song twice. First in a version with lyrics translated into Swedish ("Jag Ber Dig") in 2003, and later a version with the original lyrics in 2018.

Uses in the media

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, among others. One of these remixes was made by

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as a theme for its summer programming. "Beggin was also on the ''

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'' trailer; as the song for the 24th Street part in the Tilt Mode Army ''

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'' video; in the film ''

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''; and in the film Macaframa. The Madcon version of "Beggin" was sung by the winning contestant from ''

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in the final three performance night.

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also used it as a sample in his Young Sinatra mixtape. Matthew Fisher has stated that he got the idea for the chord sequence for his composition "Repent Walpurgis" on Procol Harum's first album from the Four Season's "Beggin". The song saw a resurgence in 2021 on

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. The original version by the Four Seasons was used in the episode "Dangling Man" in the third season of the Netflix series ''

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References

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Pilooski remix

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Madcon version

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Måneskin version

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