Daniel Merriweather to work with Mark Ronson, a United Kingdom DJ and guitarist, on the latter's debut album, "Here Comes the Fuzz", ("She's Got Me" and "NYC Rules") in September 2003. Merriweather signed with Ronson's label, Allido Records, and worked on his debut solo single, "City Rules", as a revised version of "NYC Rules". It was produced by Ronson and featured raps from New York MC Saigon and was issued in early 2004. Other musicians on the single are ?uestlove, The Black Eyed Peas' horn section and members of Beck's backing band. He received an ARIA Award nomination for "City Rules" in
Here Comes the Fuzz 70 in Ronson's home territory, however it did sell more than 18,000 copies in the US. Ronson later addressed the failure of the album, often by joking that "only 12 people bought it." The album has sold 92,676 copies in the UK as of January 2015. The song "International Affair" was originally released on Sean Paul's 2002 album "Dutty Rock", and featured vocals from Debi Nova instead of Tweet. Nova contributes vocals to the album track "Tomorrow". "Rolling Stone" predicted the album would stop the critical ill-will towards Ronson, saying Ronson "serves up a grab bag of pumping beats." "Entertainment