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| Length = 2:58 | Label = Downtown Records (U.S.) Warner Music (Outside U.S.) | Writer = | Producer = Danger Mouse | Certification = 2x Platinum (RIAA) Platinum (BPI, SWE, CRIA) | This single = "Crazy" (2006) | Next single = "Smiley Faces" (2006) | Misc = }} "Crazy" is the debut single by Gnarls Barkley, a musical collaboration between Danger Mouse and CeeLo Green, taken from their 2006 debut album ''St. Elsewhere''. It peaked at number two on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, and topped the charts in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, New Zealand and other countries. The song was leaked in late 2005, months before its regular release, and consequently received massive airplay on BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom, most notably by radio DJ Zane Lowe, who also used the song in television commercials for his show. When it was finally released in March 2006, it became the first single to top the UK Singles Chart on download sales alone. The song remained at the top of the British charts for nine weeks (which no other song had achieved in over ten years, and was only surpassed by Rihanna's "Umbrella" in July 2007) before the band and their record company decided to remove the single from music stores in the country so people would "remember the song fondly and not get sick of it." In spite of this deletion, the song became best-selling single of 2006 in the UK.〔(Top 40 Singles of 2006 ), from BBC Radio 1 website〕 Due to continued download sales, it reached 1 million copies in January 2011. The song won a Grammy Award for Best Urban/Alternative Performance in 2007, and was also nominated for The Record of the Year in the United Kingdom, which it lost to "Patience" by Take That.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=49th Annual Grammy Awards Nominee List )〕 It was also nominated and further won a 2006 MTV Europe Music Award for Best Song. The song was also named the best song of 2006 by ''Rolling Stone'' and by the ''Village Voice'' The song was listed at #11 on Pitchfork Media's top 500 songs of the 2000s. The song is also in the #45 place in the list of the best songs ever of ''Acclaimed Music''. In 2010, it was placed at #100 in the "updated" version of ''Rolling Stone''s list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" and ranked at the top position of ''Rolling Stone''s top 100 songs of the decade (2000–2009). "Crazy" was notably performed at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards, with Danger Mouse and CeeLo dressed as various ''Star Wars'' characters.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2006 MTV Movie Awards )〕 ==Background== The song was picked up by Downtown Records. Danger Mouse's manager sent the song to Downtown's A&R Josh Deutsch because they were looking for an independent label with the same resources as a major. According an interview with Deutsch in HitQuarters, he heard the song and signed it after a single listen.〔 He said: "Once in a while you hear a record that is obviously so important on so many levels. The beauty of my position is that it's very direct. If I find something I like there's no bureaucratic process associated with signing it." By the time the record was signed to Downtown there was already a huge swell of anticipation, in part due to the established reputation of the two artists but even more as a result of the demo being played on BBC Radio One and sparking a profound online awareness. The record began to break even before the deals with Downtown Records were complete. On its release "Crazy" became the most downloaded song in the history of the UK music business, going to number one in the strength of downloads alone.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Crazy (Gnarls Barkley song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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