Top 2 in Top 9 songs with the most weeks at number two on the Billboard Hot 100.
Missy Elliott - Work It [Official Music Video]
"Work It" was released on September 9, 2002 and is a song by American rapper Missy Elliott. The song is from her fourth studio album, Under Construction (2002), co-written and produced by Elliott and Timbaland. "Work It" is a dirty rap with an old school hip hop style of the early 1980s. What's interesting about this song is that part of its chorus is reversed, coming from an incident. accident of a sound engineer when his hand slipped during implementation. But it seems that it was thanks to this incident that the song became more catchy than ever and received a lot of positive praise from music critics. The song has the honor of becoming the longest number of weeks at number two in history without reaching number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, also for 10 weeks, equaling "Waiting for" a Girl Like You" by Foreigner. In addition, Work it also achieved great success when consecutively entering the top 10 in many prominent markets, such as Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Not only that, the song also received many awards and nominations at major awards ceremonies, including two Grammy Award nominations for "Best Rap Song" and "Best Female Rap Solo Performance" at 46th Annual Awards Ceremony.