"Sweetest Pie" is a song by American rapper

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and English-Albanian singer

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, released on March 11, 2022 through

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and

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. The song serves as the lead single from Megan Thee Stallion's second studio album ''

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Background, release and lyrics

In June 2021,

expressed her interest in doing a collaboration with

. Lipa responded on

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saying she would love to do a collaboration with Megan Thee Stallion. Megan Thee Stallion and Lipa began teasing the collaboration in February 2022 after the latter artist addressed the former as "thee sweetest pie" when sending her a pie for her birthday. That same month, Megan Thee Stallion teased that her next single would be with someone her fans might have guessed before and it was a song unexpected for her and "different". On March 6, 2022, Megan Thee Stallion and Lipa formally announced their collaboration. The former released a promotional image of the two artists' faces iced onto cakes while the latter shared a 5-second snippet of the track accompanied by a video of a text conversation between the two in which they shared images of them together. They revealed the cover art and title as "Sweetest Pie" the following day. The track was released on March 11, 2022. The remixes EP by

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was released on April 22.

Commercial performance

In the US, "Sweetest Pie" debuted at number 15 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, becoming Lipa's highest debut on the chart, her sixth top 20 single and Megan Thee Stallion's eighth. The song also charted in the top 20 in Canada and Ireland. On the

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, "Sweetest Pie" entered at number 31 with first-week sales of 12,344 units.

Music video

The

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for "Sweetest Pie" accompanied the song's release and was directed by Dave Meyers, with a concept created by Megan Thee Stallion. The music video is inspired by " Hansel and Gretel" by "welcoming a duo of unsuspecting men into their

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— ultimately luring them to their deaths."

Live performances

On March 15, 2022, Lipa brought out Megan Thee Stallion during her Future Nostalgia Tour at Ball Arena in

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to perform the collaboration. This marks the first time they performed the song live together. Megan Thee Stallion also performed "Sweetest Pie" at the

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on March 22, and at the

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on April 16.

Track listing

* Digital download and streaming # "Sweetest Pie" – 3:21 * Digital download and streaming –

remixes # "Sweetest Pie" (David Guetta dance remix) – 2:23 # "Sweetest Pie" (David Guetta festival remix) – 3:00 # "Sweetest Pie" (David Guetta dance remix extended) – 3:14 # "Sweetest Pie" (David Guetta festival remix extended) – 3:56

Personnel

Credits adapted from Qobuz. *

vocals *

vocals * Romano production *

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production * Platinum Library production * Koz additional production * Shawn "Source" Jarrett vocal recording engineer * Mark Shick vocal recording engineer * Mike Dean mixing, mastering

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

Awards and nominations

References

{{Dua Lipa 2022 singles 2022 songs 300 Entertainment singles Dua Lipa songs Megan Thee Stallion songs Music videos directed by Dave Meyers (director) Pop-rap songs Songs written by Megan Thee Stallion Songs written by Dua Lipa Songs written by Clarence Coffee Jr. Songs written by OG Parker Songs written by Nija Charles Songs written by Sarah Hudson (singer) Songs written by Koz (musician) Works based on Hansel and Gretel