[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Chart-History-Thumbnail-Ciara-1800×1200-Updated.png?w=1024″]<\/p>\n
\n\tCiara reflects on the biggest songs of her career for\u00a0Billboard Chart History and shares the stories behind hits such as \u201cGoodies,\u201d \u201c1, 2 Step,\u201d \u201cOh,\u201d \u201cLike a Boy,\u201d \u201cPromise,\u201d \u201cLove Sex Magic,\u201d \u201cRide,\u201d \u201cBody Party,\u201d \u201cLevel Up\u201d and more!\u00a0From early breakout moments to career-defining collaborations, Ciara opens up about songwriting, dance, visuals, independence and the records that helped shape her legacy. <\/p>\n
\n\tShe also talks about working with legendary collaborators including Missy Elliott, Ludacris, Justin Timberlake, Chris Brown, Chamillionaire and Lil Jon. Ciara shares how songs including \u201cGoodies\u201d and \u201cLevel Up\u201d changed her life, why \u201c1, 2 Step\u201d remains a fan favorite and what made records such as \u201cBody Party,\u201d \u201cPromise,\u201d and \u201cRide\u201d such important creative moments in her journey.<\/p>\n
\n\tCiara: Hey, guys. It\u2019s Ciara here, and this is my Billboard Chart History. <\/p>\n
\n\tThat\u2019s good. Good job. That was the beginning for me. That was a very important record, a very special record, but really important because I knew that that was the record. When I was writing \u201cGoodies,\u201d I started out in Miami, actually. It was me, Shakir Stewart, actually, who L.A. Reid had put me with. He was my A&R. He set us all up. It was me, Sean Garrett. Lil Jon was in the other, in the room as well, but he was making beats. He made several massive records. \u201cGoodies\u201d was the beat that John Garrett and I started on. And started playing around with melodies, but didn\u2019t finish it in Miami. Went to Atlanta at Hitco and started writing the record more. And what I wanted to do was I was kind of using the idea of your, your love being a cookie jar. It\u2019s your goodies, right? And your goodies are precious. <\/p>\n
\n\tSo, at that time, there was a song called \u201cCookies.\u201d I was kinda playing with that word because it was a popular word. Then I\u2019m like, \u201cThat, that word\u2019s too limiting.\u201d It\u2019s like, we need something broader to express what I was trying to say. And what I just felt like \u201cCookies\u201d was like, \u201cI bet you, I bet you want those cookies.\u201d That\u2019s not right. It\u2019s not right. Don\u2019t sing right either. So I literally, after my session with Sean and I, we had a few sessions. I literally held onto this track and our base ideas that we laid down for a month. And it took me literally almost a whole month to complete the record. I would ride in my car. I would jam out.<\/p>\n
Keep watching for more!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/video\/ciara-revisits-goodies-oh-ride-body-party-chart-history-video\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Chart-History-Thumbnail-Ciara-1800×1200-Updated.png?w=1024″] Ciara reflects on the biggest songs of her career for\u00a0Billboard Chart History and shares the stories behind hits such as \u201cGoodies,\u201d \u201c1, 2 Step,\u201d \u201cOh,\u201d \u201cLike a Boy,\u201d \u201cPromise,\u201d \u201cLove Sex Magic,\u201d \u201cRide,\u201d \u201cBody Party,\u201d \u201cLevel Up\u201d and more!\u00a0From early breakout moments to career-defining collaborations, Ciara opens up about songwriting, dance, visuals, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-2035549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2035549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2035549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2035549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2035549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}