^ "Best Sellers of 1998 – Singles Top 100".^ "Årslista Singlar, 1998" (in Swedish).^ "Will Smith Chart History (Rhythmic)".^ "Will Smith Chart History (Pop Songs)".^ "Will Smith Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)".^ "Will Smith Chart History (Hot 100)".^ " Nederlandse Top 40 – week 4, 1999" (in Dutch).^ " Top RPM Dance/Urban: Issue 7465." RPM.^ " Top RPM Singles: Issue 7472." RPM.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) ^ Miami (Australian CD single liner notes).^ Miami (European CD single liner notes).Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. The video features samples from Gloria Estefan's hits " Conga" and " You'll Be Mine (Party Time)". The video ends with Will Smith and his band performing a concert. They hop on a plane to Miami, and are shown going around Miami in their car and various scenes morph into one another. In the music video for the song, Smith and members of his band are freezing in Philadelphia, where it is 30 degrees below zero causing a bandmate to curse Jack Frost. With Smith's record on the airwaves and at the box office, as well as his appeal with younger demographics, this really is a no-brainer, now isn't it?" Music video This time around, Smith employs the instrumental hook of the Whispers' 1979 single " And The Beat Goes On", which adds a classic, string-filled disco backdrop as festive as the city itself. On "Miami", he talks us up with an ode to the heat, style, and hip factor of that city. Larry Flick of Billboard wrote, "Smith should have no problem maintaining the momentum of his current album, " Big Willie Style", with this third single, following the ubiquitous " Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" and " Just The Two Of Us". The video, which incorporates the first two verses and refrains of the selection's "radio edit" followed by the third verse and refrain of its "Miami Mix", features an early on-screen appearance of Smith's future Hitch co-star, Eva Mendes. "Miami" won a MTV VMA Best Male Video award. Released on November 23, 1998, the song charted at number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number three on the UK Singles Chart.
It samples the Whispers's 1979 single " And the Beat Goes On". " Miami" is a song by American rapper and actor Will Smith from his debut solo album, Big Willie Style (1997).
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