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2015 single by Fetty Wap featuring Remy Boyz From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"679" is the second single by American rapper and singer Fetty Wap from his self-titled debut album. The song features rap duo Remy Boyz, which consists of rappers Monty and P-Dice. "679" peaked at No. 4 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming his second highest-charting single after "Trap Queen". The album version of the song omits P-Dice's verse, featuring only Monty.[1] The Remy Boyz version is included on his 2014 mixtape Up Next.
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Single by Fetty Wap featuring Remy Boyz | ||||
from the album Fetty Wap and Up Next (feat. Remy Boyz) | ||||
Released | June 29, 2015 | |||
Recorded | 2014–2015 | |||
Genre | Hip hop | |||
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Lyrically, the song finds all 3 performers admiring an attractive female in a nightclub environment. Its title, "679" is not mentioned in the song, but is a reference to Fetty Wap's birth date of June 7, 1991.
"679" was released on June 29, 2015.[2] The name ''679" comes from Wap's birthday, which is June 7, 1991 (6/7/1991). Wap stated that he considers "679" to be his best song so far.[3] Wap and Monty performed the song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in September 2015.[4]
Genius pointed out the similarity between "679" and the Chainsmokers' "Closer" in September 2016, claiming that the songs' choruses are nearly identical, with the only major difference being that Fetty's is in B minor and the Chainsmokers' is in A-flat major. Genius even cut together a video of the choruses playing over each other.[5]
"679" is a hip hop song. It was written by Fetty Wap and Remy Boyz. The song was produced by Brian "Peoples" Garcia.[6]
The video for "679" was released to the WorldStarHipHop official YouTube channel in May 2015. It was later uploaded to Fetty Wap's YouTube channel in July 2015 and has over 462 million combined views as of August 2023.[7][8]
"679" was the highest-ranking debut on the Billboard Hot 100 for the chart dated July 18, 2015, entering the chart at number 34.[9] Its chart debut was fueled by first-week digital download sales of 86,000 copies as well as 3.4 million domestic streams.[10] The following week, it jumped to number 19, earning the biggest gain in streams on the chart.[11] "679" became Wap's third top 10 hit in the United States during the year of 2015, when it reached number eight on the chart dated September 5, 2015,[12] and peaked at number four.[13] As of February 2016, "679" has sold 1,830,064 copies domestically.[14]
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA)[43] | Gold | 35,000‡ |
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[44] | Platinum | 90,000‡ |
Germany (BVMI)[45] | Gold | 200,000‡ |
Italy (FIMI)[46] | Gold | 25,000‡ |
New Zealand (RMNZ)[47] | Platinum | 15,000* |
Poland (ZPAV)[48] | Gold | 25,000‡ |
Sweden (GLF)[49] | Platinum | 40,000‡ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[50] | 2× Platinum | 1,200,000‡ |
United States (RIAA)[51] | 6× Platinum | 6,000,000‡ |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
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