"Fiesta (Remix)" is a song by singer

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featuring rappers Jay-Z & Boo & Gotti. The hit song spent five weeks at number-one on the US R&B chart and peaked at number six on the US pop chart. R. Kelly and Jay-Z have worked several times together. In 2002, they released the album " The Best of Both Worlds" which sold 285,000 copies in its first week. The single is ranked by Billboard as the best selling and most played R&B/Hip Hop song of 2001.

Background

"Fiesta (Remix)" follows the previous single and music video, "

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". In 2001, the song spent five weeks at #1 on the US R&B chart and also reached #6 on the US Pop chart. The original "Fiesta" featured rapper

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. However, his verse was replaced by Boo & Gotti. Then the track was added as one of the 19 tracks on TP-2.com.

Music video

The music video for the single was directed by

and

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in Miami.

Credits and personnel

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songwriting A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music gen ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

, primary artist * Jay-Z – songwriting,

, guest appearance *

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– songwriting,

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*Larry Gates (Precision) – songwriting, production *Boo & Gotti – vocals, guest appearance *Donnie Lyle – additional guitars *Abel Garibaldi –

recording A record, recording or records may refer to: An item or collection of data Computing * Record (computer science), a data structure ** Record, or row (database), a set of fields in a database related to one entity ** Boot sector or boot record, r ...

, additional programming *Ian Mereness – recording *Andy Gallas – programming assistant *Rich Travali – mixing *Patrick Woodward – mixing assistant *contains a guitar sample from "Fantasia" written and performed by Pavlo Simtikidis

Legacy

Later samples

*" Ignition (Remix)" by

from the album ''

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'' (2003) *"Ride Til I Die" by Shawn Do,

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. and

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from the album ''Thizz Nation Vol. 2'' (2005) *"Mafia (Remix)" by The Relativez featuring Nuttz from the album ''Legendary'' (2007) *"We F'd Up" by

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from the album ''Pay Jay'' (2008) *"After Party" by

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featuring

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from the album ''

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'' (2011) *"Songs on 12 Play" by Chris Brown featuring

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from the album '' X'' (2014)

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Release history

References

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