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Beastie Boys peaked at No. 17 on the Shazam Global Chart with "No Sleep Till Brooklyn", spending 18 days in the Top 50.
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The highest position a song reached on the Shazam Global Chart.
The total number of days a song spent in the Top 50 of the Shazam Global Chart. These days may have been non-consecutive.
The date a song first entered the Top 50 of the Shazam Global Chart.
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#1718May 7, 2023
"No Sleep Till Brooklyn" by Beastie Boys climbed to No. 17 on the Shazam Global Chart, spending 18 day(s) in the Top 50.
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Licensed to IllReleased
1986Total Shazams
3M
Days in Top 50
18The total number of days a song spent in the Top 50 of the Shazam Global Chart. These days may have been non-consecutive.
Top 50 Debut
May 7, 2023"No Sleep Till Brooklyn" by Beastie Boys climbed to No. 17 on the Shazam Global Chart, spending 18 day(s) in the Top 50.
Album
Licensed to IllReleased
1986Total Shazams
3M
Days in Top 50
18The total number of days a song spent in the Top 50 of the Shazam Global Chart. These days may have been non-consecutive.
Top 50 Debut
May 7, 2023Beastie Boys's Popular Music Videos
![Watch Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win (feat. Santigold) [Director’s Cut] music video by Santigold & Beastie Boys](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Video/af/69/46/dj.wbvaenux.jpg/575x575mv.webp "Watch Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win (feat. Santigold) [Director’s Cut] music video by Santigold & Beastie Boys")
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About Beastie Boys
In 1986, New York rappers Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz, Adam “MCA” Yauch, and Michael “Mike D” Diamond did a naked cannonball (metaphorically speaking) into the climate-controlled pool of pop music. With the guitar-laced “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)” as their calling card, the Beasties were out for shock value, and it worked: Licensed to Ill had become one of the fastest-selling albums in the history of Columbia Records. They terrified grownups because their gift for writing hilarious, over-the-top lyrics about middle-class urban antics made their music feel contagious. For their next trick, Paul’s Boutique—an album with unprecedented layers of samples that dip in and out, like a jukebox having a nervous breakdown. It capped an unregulated era when rappers could use samples without legal restriction, and it’s still studied like the Talmud of sampling.
By the late ’80s, a lot of pop culture had turned cartoonish, and the Beasties started to regret their jokes about violence and misogyny. On the eclectic Check Your Head, they transformed into a tight three-piece funk band in the mold of Ohio Players or The Meters, and rhymed over their own beats, while Ill Communication, which was highly influenced by Miles Davis, added jazz and hardcore punk to the mix and spun off “Sabotage,” an all-time great music video.
MCA, in particular, was penitent about the misogynistic jibes of his youth, and he began to study Buddhism, which influenced him to write lyrics that pondered the transcendental (“Every thought in the mind is a planted seed,” for instance). He spoke out on behalf of the Tibetan people and created a charitable foundation to promote compassion. On Hello Nasty and To the 5 Boroughs, Beastie Boys aged gracefully into parenthood and responsibility without losing any of their humor, even rapping about their gray hairs, not to mention advocating for gun control and tossing gibes at SUVs, George W. Bush, and the KKK. In the span of roughly 25 years, they built a catalog that was hyperactive, witty, unpredictable, and unmatched in rap history. It ended only with MCA’s death in 2012, at the age of 47.
Musical InfluencesBeastie Boys's musical influences include Aerosmith, James Brown, Run-DMC and more.
Influenced by Beastie BoysBeastie Boys has influenced the music of Eminem, Mac Miller, Arctic Monkeys and more.
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