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| Format = [[Compact Disc single|CD single]], [[Music download|digital download]]
| Format = [[Compact Disc single|CD single]], [[Music download|digital download]]
| Recorded = 2012
| Recorded = 2012
| Genre = [[Alternative hip hop]], [[Hipster hop]] <!--Please note that although this song contains punchlines ("it was 99 cents!"), it is not considered "comedy hip hop". Please see the talk page for further details.-->
| Genre = [[Alternative hip hop]], [[hipster hop]] <!--Please note that although this song contains punchlines ("it was 99 cents!"), it is not considered "comedy hip hop". Please see the talk page for further details.-->
| Length = 3:55
| Length = 3:55
| Label = Macklemore LLC
| Label = Macklemore LLC

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"Thrift Shop"
Song

"Thrift Shop" is a song by Seattle-based American rapper Macklemore and his producer Ryan Lewis. It was released as the fifth and final single from their collaborative debut studio album The Heist (2012) on October 8, 2012 and features vocals from Wanz. Despite being released on Macklemore's independent label, with distribution by ADA, the single was met with unexpected commercial success, also a sleeper hit, peaking on the US Billboard Hot 100 at number 1 while selling over 3 million copies in total, also reaching number 1 in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, France, Denmark, Australia and New Zealand. The song is the first independently-distributed title to top the Billboard Digital Songs since "We Are the World 25 for Haiti" in February 2010. It is also the second independent song in history to achieve the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, nearly 20 years after Lisa Loeb's "Stay (I Missed You)" in 1994.[1] A music video was released to accompany the song's release on August 29, 2012.[2]

Background

The song illustrates the speaker's interest in buying cheap clothing from thrift shops, disdaining designer labels and trends. He claims to enjoy donning "your grandad's clothes" and impulsively buying something just because "it was 99 cents". Macklemore spoke to MTV News about the meaning of the song: "Rappers talk about, oh I buy this and I buy that, and I spend this much money and I make it rain, and this type of champagne and painting the club, and this is the kind of record that's the exact opposite," he explained. "It's the polar opposite of it. It's kind of standing for like let's save some money, let's keep some money away, let's spend as little as possible and look as fresh as possible at the same time." Upon asked why he thought the track was so successful, Macklemore replied: "I think hip-hop goes in waves, and it's something that's different. It's a concept. It's obviously against the status quo of what people normally rap about. This is a song that goes against all of that. How much can you save? How fresh can you look by not looking like anybody else? And on top of that, you have an infectious beat and a hook that gets stuck in people's heads."[3]

The song has been called a critique of the product placement common in modern hip hop,[4] but New York Times critic Joe Caramanica writes "it’s not quite the robust sendup of hip-hop-extravagance clichés that it aspires to be."[5]

Music video

The accompanying music video was released on Ryan Lewis' YouTube channel on August 29, 2012.[6] Filming took place at several thrift shops in Seattle, including Goodwill Outlet, Value Village in Capitol Hill, Red Light Vintage, Fremont Vintage Mall, the Unicorn/Narwhal Arcade Bar and the Northwest African American Museum.[7][8][9][10][11] Macklemore attempted to get fellow Seattle rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot to appear in the video but Mix-a-Lot did not return his calls.[12][13] The video was co-directed by Jon Jon Augustavo, Macklemore and Lewis.[14] Some local Seattle musicians like Thomas Grey of Champagne Champagne appear in the music video.

The video opens with slow motion shot of Macklemore, Lewis and a group of people moving towards the camera in front of an abandoned Seattle brewery[15] with their second hand items. A still from this scene is used as the cover art of the single. Lewis is then seen driving down a street in a DeLorean, with Macklemore arriving on a scooter wearing a large fur coat, flanked by two girls. Macklemore and Lewis then drive away, arriving at a club that Macklemore enters, rapping the first few lines of the first verse. Wanz and Macklemore are then briefly seen dancing with a group of partygoers at the club. The video then cuts to Macklemore at a thrift store jumping on a row of couches and walking past shelves of second hand shoes. Scenes of an old man and people dancing in the aisles of the thrift store with Macklemore are shown. The video continues with Macklemore and Lewis walking down a thrift store aisle with a trolley containing a broken keyboard and a skeet blanket, with a quick shot of Macklemore knee-boarding being shown as per lyric mention. More quick shots of Macklemore dancing with shoppers are shown along with a child holding a taxidermied head of a deer. Macklemore is then seen dancing wearing some Pro Wings shoes while being admired by shoe aficionados. A lady then lipsyncs the chorus. Macklemore is then seen rapping the second verse while browsing some more thrift store aisles with Lewis and other shoppers. A quick succession of cuts follow, showing two shoppers and Macklemore in onesie pajamas, respectfully. A man wearing mostly Gucci attire is shown next, with Macklemore, Lewis and a crowd of thrift shoppers laughing and dismissing people who wear designer clothes as "getting tricked by business". Another set of brief shots are shown, featuring shoppers browsing racks and aisles of clothes. Wanz then sings the chorus and the bridge in front of a group of partygoers at the previously seen club. The scene from the beginning of the video is then shown again, this time with the camera pacing alongside the group of shoppers in real time. The video concludes with a final set of brief shots of Macklemore and Wanz in a motor boat, dancing at the club and various shoppers browsing thrift shop aisles.[16]

Track listing

Digital single [17]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Thrift Shop"Ben HaggertyRyan Lewis3:55

Credits and personnel

Commercial performance

In the United States, the song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 on October 20, 2012 and steadily climbed the chart until it entered the top ten on the issue dated December 27, 2012. It replaced Bruno Mars's "Locked Out of Heaven" at number one in its 16th week on the chart on February 2, 2013[18] and remained atop the chart for four consecutive weeks.[19] It has also topped the Hot Rap Songs chart for ten weeks. It’s the first song in the history of the Hot Digital Songs chart to experience a jump in sales in each of its first five weeks atop the chart,[20] and has sold over 4 million copies in the US as of March 2013.[21]

The song also had much success on Billboard's component charts, remaining atop the Digital Songs chart for nine weeks and topping Billboard's Radio Songs chart. It also peaked at number one on the On-Demand Songs chart and has remained there for ten weeks as of March 14, 2013. It set a record on that chart as the first song to reach two million streams in a single week since the chart's inception. The song also topped the R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for nine consecutive weeks so far.[22] It is the first song by a Seattle artist to top Billboard since Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back."[23]

The song originally entered the UK Singles Chart at number 24 on January 27, 2013, despite being available as a single via iTunes since August 1, 2012. The following week "Thrift Shop" rose twenty-two positions to number 2 and managed to peak at number 1 on February 10, 2013 - making Macklemore and Ryan Lewis only the second act in UK chart history to score a number 1 with a self-released single. [24]

The song has also topped the Canadian Hot 100 for six consecutive weeks.

Reception

Robert Copsey of Digital Spy gave the song 5 out of 5 stars, calling it "a rare beast of a song - original, musically daring and genuinely funny."[25] Entertainment Weekly named the song as the 18th best single of 2012.[26]

Some thrift stores have reported an increase in business, especially among college students, which they have attributed to the song.[27][28][29]

Charts and certifications

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