Taboo (Glamma Kid song)

"Taboo"
Single by Glamma Kid featuring Shola Ama
from the album Kidology
Released5 April 1999 (1999-04-05)
GenreDancehall
LabelWEA, FutureFlex
SongwritersIyael Constable, Sade Adu, Martin Ditcham
ProducerKarl Gordon
Glamma Kid singles chronology
"Fashion '98"
(1998) 		"Taboo"
(1999) 		"Much Love"
(1999)

"Taboo" is a song by British dancehall musician Glamma Kid featuring English singer Shola Ama. It was released on 5 April 1999 as the third single from the debut album Kidology. A top 10 hit, the song peaked at No. 10 on the UK Singles Chart,[1] and No. 1 on the UK Dance Singles Chart.[2] The song also charted in the Netherlands and New Zealand, peaking at numbers 26[3] and 22,[4] respectively. In France, it peaked at No. 78.[5] The song interpolates the 1985 Sade hit "The Sweetest Taboo".

The 'MJ Cole Full Vocal Mix', a garage remix by MJ Cole, proved popular in the UK garage scene in 1999. Mixmag included this remix in their list of "16 of the Best Uplifting Vocal Garage Tracks".[6]

Track listing

CD single
  1. "Taboo" (Video Mix) – 3:28
  2. "Taboo" (Stargate R'n'B Mix) – 4:07
  3. "Taboo" (Clarkey & Blakey Mix) – 4:40
  4. "Taboo" (MJ Cole Full Vocal Mix) – 5:26
12" single
A1. "Taboo" (Original Mix) – 5:00
A2. "Taboo" (Stargate R'n'B Mix) – 4:07
B1. "Taboo" (MJ Cole Vocal Dub) – 6:13
B2. "Taboo" (Dave Kelly Mix) – 3:49

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart performance for "Taboo"
Chart (1999) Peak
position
France (SNEP)[7] 78
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[8] 26
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[9] 22
UK Singles (OCC)[10] 10

Year-end charts

Chart (1999) Position
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[11] 159

References

  1. ^ "Glamma Kid Official Charts History". Official Charts.
  2. ^ "Official Dance Singles Chart Top 40 – Official Charts Company". Official Charts.
  3. ^ Hung, Steffen. "Glamma Kid feat. Shola Ama – Taboo". hitparade.ch.
  4. ^ "charts.nz – Glamma Kid feat. Shola Ama – Taboo".
  5. ^ "lescharts.com – Glamma Kid feat. Shola Ama – Taboo".
  6. ^ "16 of the best uplifting vocal garage tracks". Mixmag.
  7. ^ "Glamma Kid feat. Shola Ama – Taboo" (in French). Le classement de singles. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  8. ^ "Glamma Kid feat. Shola Ama – Taboo" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  9. ^ "Glamma Kid feat. Shola Ama – Taboo". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  10. ^ "Official Singles Chart on 11/4/1999 – Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  11. ^ "Jaarlijsten 1999" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 11 May 2022.


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