Santana – «Smooth» хитінің тарихы

1999 single by Santana

Latin rock
alternative rock Matt Serletic (who produced Matchbox Twenty's debut album Yourself or Someone Like You) produced the song, and it was released from Santana's album Supernatural. Thomas originally had George Michael in mind to sing the song.

By June 1, "Smooth" was leaked and played by some radio stations before its official release. The single became a chart topping hit in 1999, spending 12 consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 beginning with the week of October 23, 1999. It was the first chart topping song in Carlos Santana's long running career, rising higher than Santana's previous biggest hit, "Black Magic Woman", which peaked at number four in 1971. "Smooth" stayed in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 for 30 weeks and the top 100 for 58 weeks. it peaked at number three, spending eight weeks in the top 40. The song also peaked at number three in Ireland in March 2000, spending ten weeks on the Irish Singles Chart. It remains Santana's highest charting single in both the UK and Ireland. The song also peaked at number one in Canada for a week, number two in Greece, number four in Australia, and number nine in Austria. It reached the top 40 in an additional seven countries: Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Switzerland.

On Billboard magazine's rankings of the top songs of the first 50 years of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, "Smooth" was ranked as the number two song overall and the number one rock song in the history of the chart. In the 21st century, particularly during the summer of 2016, the song became the subject of several internet memes. Writing for MTV. com, Sasha Geffen compared the situation to similar resurgences of "All Star" by Smash Mouth and "One Week" by the Barenaked Ladies, going on to attribute the song's popularity to "the merits of its vocal absurdity." They wrote, "There's something ridiculous about how eagerly Rob Thomas lays his earnest alt rock croon over Santana's guitar, sweating out lines about how his 'Spanish Harlem Mona Lisa' is 'just like the ocean under the moon' without a hint of self consciousness or irony".

A cover version of the song is included in the Wii version of Samba de Amigo. Post hardcore group Escape the Fate also recorded a cover version of the song for the compilation album Punk Goes Pop 2, released on March 10, 2009. Junior Lima from Brazilian pop duo Sandy & Junior sung a cover version of the song for the duo's live album/DVD As Quatro Estações O Show, released in 2000. The song was featured on two tracks, "Melt Everyone" and "Smooth Flow", from Neil Cicierega's 2014 mash up album Mouth Sounds, and on two tracks, "Smooth" and "Shit", from the 2017 follow up album Mouth Moods. An acoustic version of the song was released by indie folk artist Kimberly June on album Covers from Another, recorded at Round Hill Studios in Nashville in 2021. The song "Albi Ekhatark (قلبي اختارك)" by Egyptian singer Amr Diab is loosely based on "Smooth".

In February 2013, The Onion published a satirical video joking that "Smooth" had swept the Grammy Awards for 13 years in a row. Singer Miley Cyrus, as her television alter ego Hannah Montana, made reference to "Smooth" and Carlos Santana in her song "Gonna Get This." Funny or Die released a police drama parody trailer with Rob Thomas that recited the song's lyrics. In 2019, comedian JP Leonard released a bit inspired by the song which puts Rob Thomas in various jobs. The track, "Man, It's a Hot One", appeared on the comedy album NO Show Comedy: A Louisiana Album Recording.