Cash in My Pocket

Did You Know?

• Glasswerk.co.uk ran a competition for people to make their own video for the song with classmates or colleagues, offering £1000 worth of XmasCa$h in Your Pocket.
• The competition called the song "the official credit crunch theme tune".
• The music video is set on a trading floor in what is to be the Swiss Re building (Gherkin Building), visible when the car pulls up and the camera pans upward.

Reviews

Clickmusic.com gave the song two stars out of five, praising its timing during the credit crunch but noting that Merriweather sounded bored and lacked soul. Yahoo Music awarded eight stars out of ten, describing Wiley's delivery as having a twinkle in his eye and the chorus as something that could be lifted from a West End musical, calling the track contemporary pop working at full speed. Femalefirst.co.uk reported an average rating of four stars out of five from user votes as of 3 January 2008, praising the song for entering ground-breaking new musical territory and for being an ode to the credit crunch.

Music video

The music video does not feature Wiley or Daniel Merriweather; instead, employees of Donovan Data Systems (DDS) at its UK headquarters in the Blue Fin Building in Southwark, London, mime the lyrics. It begins with people driving to work in the financial district of Bishopsgate, then moves to an office where pictures of the London Eye appear on glass walls. The video ends with the workers singing the final lines of the song.

Chart performance

The song debuted at number 18 on the UK Singles Chart, making it Wiley's second biggest hit since his number 2 "Wearing My Rolex" and Daniel Merriweather's second biggest since his number 2 collaboration with Mark Ronson, "Stop Me". It was the third highest new entry that week, behind Oasis's "I'm Outta Time" at 12 and Leona Lewis's "Run" at 1. The following week it dropped one place to 19, then fell nine places to 28, and the next week dropped thirteen places to 41, its first week outside the top 40.