''Mind on the Moon'' is an album by

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musician

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, released in 2000. Despite being his fifth album, this was the first disc since his 1993 debut ''

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'' that Snow returned to the pop charts and received mainstream airplay on both

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. The album's lead single, "

Everybody Wants to Be Like You "Everybody Wants to Be Like You" is a song by Canadian pop-reggae singer Snow from his 2000 album, '' Mind on the Moon''. The song became one of Snow's highest-peaking hits in Canada, reaching number two on both the Canadian Singles Chart and th ...

" received the most radio airplay, reaching #2 on Canada's Top Singles chart. The album's second single, "The Plumb Song", also received significant radio airplay and its music video received heavy rotation on

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. Three singles from the album ("Everybody Wants to Be Like You", "The Plumb Song" and "Joke Thing") were among the top 100 most played radio tracks in Canada in 2001. The album was nominated for " Best Pop Album" at the

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Track listing

;Notes *"Scrub Off" features guest vocals from Shantall *"Little Did They Know" features guest vocals from Greig Nori. *"Funky Martini" features guest vocals from Mark Jackson.

Personnel

Adapted from the liner notes of ''Mind on the Moon''. ;Vocals *Justin Gray – background vocals (track 8) *Mark Jackson – background vocals (track 1) *Shantall – background vocals (tracks 3, 5) *Miranda Walsh – background vocals (tracks 1, 4, 8, 12) *Karen Zilahi – background vocals (tracks 1, 5, 10) ;Musicians *Justin Abedin – guitar (tracks 1–3, 5, 7–9, 12) *Tony Baltaglia – guitar (track 4) *Adrian Eccleston – guitar (track 11) *Glenn Marais – guitar (tracks 2, 6, 7), harmonica (track 8) *

Greig Nori Greig Andrew Nori (born November 21, 1962) is a producer and musician from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and is well known as the frontman, co-lead vocalist and guitarist of the pop punk band Treble Charger. In the late 1990s, he began working as a ...

– guitar (track 7), programming (track 6) *Robbie Patterson – guitar (track 4, 10), bass (tracks 1, 4, 5–8, 10, 12) *

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– bass, keyboards (track 2) *Adrian Passarelli – drums (track 11) *Winston "Pappy" Frederick – steel drums (track 10) *Adam Alexander – keyboards (track 10), synths (track 1) *Justin Gray – acoustic guitar (track 8), keyboards (track 11), programming (track 6) *Dave Greenberg – keyboards, drum programming (tracks 4, 7, 12) *Michael Tucker – keyboards, drum programming (tracks 2, 4, 7, 12) *Darrin O'Brien – drum programming (track 10) *DJ Tab – scratches (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 11) *DJ S-Luv – scratches (track 4) *Roger Salvesen – programming (track 11) *

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– programming (track 6) ;Production *

MC Shan Shawn Moltke (born September 6, 1965) better known by his stage name MC Shan, is an American hip hop and R&B recording artist. He is best known for his song "The Bridge" produced by Marley Marl, and for collaborating with Snow on "Informer" ...

– vocal production and engineering (tracks 2, 9) *Michael Tucker – mixing *

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– mastering at Gateway Mastering (Portland, Maine) *Ed Krautner – assistant engineer *Rob Gil – assistant engineer *Joel Kazmi – assistant engineer ;Artwork *Kent Howard – Snow logo *Christopher Wahl – photography *Darko – design, photography

References

2000 albums Snow (musician) albums EMI Records albums Albums recorded at Long View Farm Albums recorded at Metalworks Studios {{Reggae-album-stub