Beenie Man\u2019s 1997 hit song \u201cWho Am I (Sim Simma)\u201d has been certified gold in the United Kingdom, nearly three years after earning the same certification in the United States.<\/p>\n
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) issued the certification on Friday, Oct. 23, recognizing the equivalent of 400,000 units in sales and streaming.<\/p>\n
The song reached No. 10 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Beenie Man\u2019s first top 40 hit in the country. In the United States, it peaked at No. 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 15 on the Hot R&B\/Hip-Hop Songs chart. It also reached No. 6 on Billboard\u2019s Hot Rap Singles chart.<\/p>\n
The certification marks the second time Beenie Man has earned a BPI award. His song \u201cDude,\u201d featuring Miss Thing, was certified silver in the UK six years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho Am I\u201d was built on the Playground riddim, produced by Jamaican producer and artist manager Jeremy Harding. The song became a defining hit in Beenie Man\u2019s international breakthrough and helped establish him as a leading figure in dancehall during the late 1990s.<\/p>\n
Harding previously recounted how Beenie Man arrived at his studio one morning, having already written a song to the riddim. According to the producer, the artiste went straight into the recording booth and delivered what Harding described as a near-perfect version of \u201cWho Am I\u201d in what seemed like one take.<\/p>\n
The track appeared on Beenie Man\u2019s Grammy-nominated album The Many Moods of Moses and helped bring the dancehall artiste to wider international attention, including coverage in major media outlets such as Newsweek.<\/p>\n
Beenie Man later incorporated part of the song into \u201cGirls Dem Sugar,\u201d his 2000 reggae fusion collaboration with American singer M\u00fda.<\/p>\n
The UK gold certification adds to the song\u2019s enduring international reach, nearly three decades after its release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beenie Man\u2019s 1997 hit song \u201cWho Am I (Sim Simma)\u201d has been certified gold in the United Kingdom,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-814977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}