Candy Rain ( song ) - Wikipedia Candy Rain ( song ) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( May 2015 ) `` Candy Rain '' Single by Soul for Real from the album Candy Rain Released November 15, 1994 Recorded Genre R&B, new jack swing, hip hop soul Length 4 : 36 Label Uptown Records Songwriter ( s ) Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Hamish Stuart, Dwight Myers, Malik Taylor, Owen McIntyre, Samuel Barnes, Jean - Claude Olivier, Terri Robinson Producer ( s ) Heavy D & Samuel `` Red Hot Lover Tone '' Barnes, Jean - Claude `` Poke '' Olivier Soul for Real singles chronology `` Candy Rain '' ( 1994 ) `` Every Little Thing I Do '' ( 1995 ) `` Candy Rain '' ( 1994 ) `` Every Little Thing I Do '' ( 1995 ) `` Candy Rain '' is the title of a number - one R&B hit single by Soul for Real, released in 1994 on Uptown Records. The song was written by Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Hamish Stuart, Dwight Myers, Malik Taylor, Owen McIntyre, Samuel Barnes, Jean - Claude Olivier, Terri Robinson and spent three weeks at number - one on the US R&B chart and peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks behind Madonna 's ballad `` Take a Bow ''. The song also reached # 1 on Billboard 's Top 40 / Rhythm - Crossover airplay chart and was a moderate success on mainstream Top 40 radio, peaking at # 21 in the spring of 1995 on Radio & Records CHR / Pop tracks chart. It was certified gold by the RIAA and sold 800,000 copies. It features rapper Heavy D in the video and the song is regarded as the group 's signature song. The song has a remix by Heavy D and samples the 1974 hit song `` Mr. Magic '' by Grover Washington, Jr... Bruno Mars has covered this song during his The Moonshine Jungle Tour. The bassline of this song was sampled from Minnie Riperton 's `` Baby, This Love I Have '' which is the first song from her 1975 album Adventures in Paradise. Contents 1 Charts 1.1 Year - end charts 2 See also 3 References Charts Chart ( 1995 ) Position U.S. Billboard Hot 100 U.S. Billboard Hot R&B Singles Year - end charts Chart ( 1995 ) Position U.S. Billboard Hot 100 25 See also List of number - one R&B singles of 1995 ( U.S. ) References Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2004 ). Top R&B / Hip - Hop Singles : 1942 - 2004. Record Research. p. 541. Jump up ^ `` American certifications -- Soul for Real -- Candy Rain ''. Recording Industry Association of America. Jump up ^ `` Best - Selling Records of 1995 ''. Billboard. BPI Communications. 108 ( 3 ) : 56. January 20, 1996. ISSN 0006 - 2510. Retrieved May 5, 2015. Jump up ^ `` Billboard Top 100 - 1995 ''. Archived from the original on 2009 - 08 - 15. Retrieved 2010 - 08 - 27. Jump up ^ `` Billboard Top 100 - 1995 ''. Archived from the original on 2009 - 08 - 15. Retrieved 2011 - 07 - 07. This 1990s R&B / soul music song - related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Candy_Rain_(song)&oldid=802329350 '' Categories : 1994 singles Heavy D songs Billboard Hot R&B / Hip - Hop Songs number - one singles 1994 songs Uptown Records singles Song recordings produced by Trackmasters Songs written by Jean - Claude Olivier Songs written by Samuel Barnes ( songwriter ) Songs written by Ali Shaheed Muhammad 1990s R&B song stubs Debut singles Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from May 2015 All articles needing additional references Articles with hAudio microformats All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from May 2015 All stub articles Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 25 September 2017, at 13 : 50. About Wikipedia

Question: when did the song candy rain come out
Answer: 1994