Song · No Doubt
“Hey Baby” by No Doubt
From the album Rock Steady (2001)
“Hey Baby” by No Doubt appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2001 and 2002. It was first released in 2001 on the album Rock Steady. Its best result is #67 on the Channel 104.9 Top 104.9 Songs of 2002. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #494 alternative song of 2002.
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No Doubt came off the Return of Saturn tour with dancehall in their blood, and "Hey Baby" is the proof. The lead single from Rock Steady, their fifth album, it arrived through Interscope on October 29, 2001, steeped in the Jamaican dancehall that had soundtracked the band's after-show parties and tour-bus hangs, with Gwen Stefani playing diarist to the groupie debauchery at those parties.
Stefani wrote it with Tony Kanal and Tom Dumont, who both double on keyboards, and the band produced it with Sly & Robbie before Mark "Spike" Stent mixed it. Some critics balked at the dancehall turn, but it climbed to number five on the Hot 100, and it won No Doubt a Grammy for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. The video restages the parties they went to while cutting the album in Jamaica.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 75 | WHTG Monmouth-Ocean, NJ | G106.3 Top 106 Songs of 2001 | 106 |
| 2002 | 67 | Channel 104.9 San Jose, CA | Channel 104.9 Top 104.9 Songs of 2002 | 105 |
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