"Sweet like Chocolate" is a song by British
garage music duo
Shanks & Bigfoot with vocalist Sharon Woolf. It was released as a single on 17 May 1999 and was included on the duo's debut album, Swings and Roundabouts, the following year. Vocals on the track are sung by Sharon Woolf, who had also sung on their track "
Straight from the Heart", which was released under their previous band name, 'Doolally'.
"Sweet like Chocolate" was originally released on vinyl in 1998 as a promotional single, which had a short-run pressing of 1,000 copies. When released as an official single in 1999, it topped the
UK Singles Chart for two weeks and reached the top 10 in Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. The song was the first UK garage track to hit number one on the UK Singles Chart. In 2019, The Guardian listed the song at number 20 in their list of "The Best UK Garage Tracks".[2]
Music video
An animated music video was produced for the song by
graphic designers "Visualisation Services".[3] It is set in a
surreal world where every object, except for the protagonist, is constructed out of chocolate.
Chart performance
"Sweet like Chocolate" topped the
UK Singles Chart for two weeks in May 1999, selling 251,000 copies during its first week and 142,000 copies during its second week.[4] It achieved platinum status in the UK and was the country's eighth biggest-selling single of 1999.[5][6] It was the first song to top the UK Singles,
Dance,
R&B, and
Indie charts, though not simultaneously.[4] Internationally, the song was a top-10 hit in Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand; in the latter two countries, the song was certified platinum and gold, respectively.[7][8] It also charted in
Flanders, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland. In Canada, the song peaked at number 14 on the RPMDance 30 chart in September 1999.[9]
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^Sweet like Chocolate (UK cassette single sleeve). Shanks & Bigfoot. Jive Records, Pepper Records, Chocolate Boy Recordings. 1999. 0530354.{{
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^Sweet like Chocolate (European CD single sleeve). Shanks & Bigfoot. Jive Records, Chocolate Boy Recordings. 1999. 0583752.{{
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^Sweet like Chocolate (Australasian CD single sleeve). Shanks & Bigfoot. Jive Records, Chocolate Boy Recordings. 1999. 052375 2.{{
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