Hips Don't Lie
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"Hips Don't Lie" is a Grammy Award-nominated Latin pop song performed by Colombian singer Shakira and Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean. The song is a remake of Jean's 2004 song "Dance Like This" and takes some of its instrumentation from Jerry Rivera's "Amores Como El Nuestro".[1][2] Shakira wrote some parts of the new version, and co-produced the song. The song was released as the second single from Shakira's second English album Oral Fixation Vol. 2 in 2006. "Hips Don't Lie" became a global success, topping the charts in many countries. It became Shakira and Wyclef's first (and to date, only) number-one single in the U.S.. The song became one of the world's best-selling singles of all time and one of the hottest songs of summer 2006. In the UK, this was Wyclef's third number-one hit (after The Fugees' "Killing Me Softly" and "Ready Or Not") and Shakira's first. In many other European countries, it became Shakira's second number one, (following the massive success of "Whenever, Wherever"). It also became Shakira and Wyclef's most successful single ever, amassing nearly 10 million Media Traffic points.[3]
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[edit] Song information
"Hips Don't Lie" was reportedly commissioned by Sony Music to revive sales of Shakira's flagging album Oral Fixation Vol. 2, which had come out in late 2005 in time for the lucrative holiday-buying season. Vol. 2 was Shakira's second album of the year, directly following the Spanish-language Fijación Oral Vol. 1 by less than six months. (As part of a small trend in 2005, Shakira joined Sony labelmates System of a Down in releasing two back-to-back albums of new material in a single calendar year.) Ironically, in the crucial U.S. market, Vol. 1 – for which Sony likely had lower expectations given the album's late-spring release and non-English content – actually sold better than Vol. 2, Shakira's first English-language album since her breakthrough Laundry Service four years earlier. Despite its release in a slower sales period of the year, Vol. 1 had bigger first-week sales than Vol. 2 (157,000 copies vs. 128,000), charted higher (#4 – a rare ranking for a Spanish album – vs. #5) and produced a genuine hit single in the #23 hit "La Tortura" with Alejandro Sanz, while Vol. 2's leadoff single "Don't Bother" stalled just outside the Top 40. Vol. 2 was too important a project for Sony Music to accept its weak sales over the holidays, and the label quickly brought in Wyclef, an artist in the Sony stable, around the start of 2006 to remake his own song with Shakira and give the album a crucial radio hit – a tactic that proved a tremendous success: When Vol. 2 was re-released in March 2006 with "Hips Don't Lie" (plus an alternate version of "La Tortura"), the album shot up 92 spots on the Billboard 200, representing a one-week sales increase of 643%; as of October 2006, the album has sold more than 1.5 million copies in the United States, more than half of them the rerelease containing "Hips Don't Lie."
"Hips Don't Lie" debuted on the L.A.-based radio station KIIS-FM (on the Ryan Seacrest Morning Show) on February 14, 2006. Shakira and Wyclef Jean performed the song on the following TV shows: American Idol, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Live With Regis and Kelly, The Today Show and Total Request Live. The song can be heard in the EA Sports video game MVP 06 NCAA Baseball, the film soundtrack to Ice Age: The Meltdown, and on MySpace records.
This is what Shakira says about the song "Hips Don't Lie" on her official website:
| “ | "Hello again! I just wanted to let you know that very soon you are going to start hearing my new song, "Hips Don't Lie" on the radio (or as we say in Spanish, "Las Caderas No Mienten").
Wyclef from the Fugees is on the track with me and very soon it will be added to my album Oral Fixation Vol. 2. In reality, it wasn't anything I had planned - but during my vacation at the start of the year Wyclef and I bumped into each other. It was a happy accident." |
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A Spanish version entitled "Será, Será (Las Caderas No Mienten)" was also released. This version is sung in Spanish, as well as the rap. Shakira also sang another version of "Hips Don't Lie" (called "The Bamboo Version") at the closing ceremony of the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Berlin, Germany.
[edit] References
- The lyrics "En Barranquilla se baila así" ("In Barranquilla we dance like this") are a reference to the city of Barranquilla, Colombia, which is Shakira's hometown. The skirts used in the video to dance this part resemble the cumbia skirts which are typical Colombian folk dress.
- The lyrics "Baila en la calle de noche, baila en la calle de día" ("Dance in the street at night , dance in the street at day") are a reference to a typical song written by Dominican musician Luis "Terror" Díaz used in the Dominican Republic Carnival but frequently used in Barranquilla too.
- In the video, the masks and costumes in the background are "marimondas" which are mythological creatures represented in Barranquilla Carnival.
[edit] Music video
The music video was directed by British director Sophie Muller and filmed in Los Angeles, California, United States. While plotless, the video presents Shakira and Wyclef Jean enjoying themselves as they dance in an arena-like environment. The majority of the costumes and outfits featured in the video belong to the Carnaval de Barranquilla, some of which include the white dress Shakira dances in, and the colorful flags.
"Hips Don't Lie" has proved successful on LAUNCHcast's top-hundred most-watched videos of the week, where it has spent an impressive four months at number one. Yahoo! had fans submit videos of themselves dancing to the song, which were edited into a "fans only" version which has also proved to be one of the most popular videos on LAUNCH. The video for "Hips Don't Lie" ran in the #1 spot on iTunes (along with the single) for several weeks. Currently, it is the most-watched video of 2006, and has drawn close to two million streamed performances.The video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography on August 31, 2006 and the MTV Latin Award for Song Of The Year on October 19, 2006. The video also placed # 2 on VH1's "Top 40 Videos of 2006". it was nominated for viewer's choice award at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2005, but lost to Fall Out Boy's Dance Dance.
In the UK, the video to "Hips Don't Lie" had the honour of being the last ever item to be shown on Top of the Pops.
[edit] Chart performance
With the disappointment of "Don't Bother", Epic wanted to make sure "Hips Don't Lie" proved as a big hit to pump up sales for Oral Fixation Vol. 2.
In February 2006, "Hips Don't Lie" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at #84. Four weeks later, it entered the U.S. Billboard Hot 100's top-forty on the chart and received the "greatest airplay gainer" title on the Hot 100 for three weeks in a row. The song achieved a peak position of #13 until it was released digitally on May 27, 2006. Shakira's record label Epic Records originally held back the release of the song's digital downloads to boost sales of Oral Fixation Vol. 2. When Epic finally released it digitally the track hit #1. The single jumped from number nine to one on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending June 17, 2006 due to the song's strong number-one status on the Hot 100 Airplay chart and nearly 267,000 downloads in its first week (the accomplishment broke D4L's record with "Laffy Taffy" of 179,000 paid downloads). On the iTunes download chart, the song bumped Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous" to #2 less than 24 hours after it was digitally released. Within 3 weeks the single managed to move over 670,000 paid digital downloads. Since it has been digitally available in June, the song has sold close to 1,500,000 downloads. It is one of only 12 songs in United States history to sell over one million digital downloads. "Hips Don't Lie" also set a record for the fastest selling record to reach the one million digital download mark, 9 weeks, in the U.S. beating out the previous record held by Daniel Powter's "Bad Day" which took 4 months. The song ended 2006 at number 46 on the iTunes top 100, jumping up twenty-six spots from #72 on New Years Eve. On January 1, 2007, AOL revealed a list of the Top 100 Songs and Top 100 Videos of 2006, "Hips Don't Lie" was the #6 song and unsurprisingly the #1 video.[4]
According to Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, "Hips Don't Lie" was the most-played pop song in a single week in American radio history. It was played 9,637 times in one week, breaking Gwen Stefani's previous record with 9,582 plays in a week for her #1 hit single "Hollaback Girl" in 2005.[5] Shakira also became the first artist ever to top the Billboard's Hot 100 chart and the Latin Singles chart simultaneously. The single held the top spot in the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in a row, being dethroned on July 1 by "Do I Make You Proud" from American Idol Season 5 winner Taylor Hicks.
Outside of the U.S., the song has been a worldwide success. On May 19, 2006 the single became Shakira's second single to hit #1 on the United World Chart, after her 2001's smash single "Whenever, Wherever". "Hips Don't Lie" stayed at number-one for a total of sixteen weeks, making it the longest-running number one single of all time on the chart. With a total of 9.845.000 points, it is the second highest ranked single of all time, only behind Cher's Believe. It is a fact that "Hips Don't Lie" is one of the best-selling singles worldwide, selling 8.9 millions of copies.
"Hips Don't Lie" was the most successful song of 2006 worldwide. It reached number one in the USA, UK, Ireland, Australia, Argentina, Belgium, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Denmark, Sweden, New Zealand, Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Dominican Republic,Spain, Philippines, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Italy, Turkey, Slovakia, Hungary, Israel, Romania, Bulgaria, Norway, Serbia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Ukraine, Switzerland, Lebanon, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Perú and numerous other countries to date; and, is one of a few songs in history to reach #1 in almost every charting country around the world.
In the UK it went spent a total of 5 weeks at number one. After it's initial reign at number one, it returned to the top in its 8th week preventing Christina Aguilera's "Ain't No Other Man", and Chamillionaire's "Ridin'" from going to #1 until it was replaced by Beyoncé's "Deja Vu".) The song remained in the top 10 for 16 weeks, and then stayed within the top 75 for 36 weeks.
The song ended 2006 as the most played song in Europe, Mexico,[6] Ireland, Argentina,[7] Colombia, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Guatemala. Was number two in Netherlands; also was number three in Germany and UK,[8] while in USA it was number five.[9]
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The Japanese release has an orange cover instead of the regular blue one. Catalog number: EICP637 [edit] Notes
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Studio Albums: Magía · Peligro · Pies Descalzos · ¿Dónde Están los Ladrones? · Laundry Service · Servicio de Lavandería · Fijación Oral Vol. 1 · Oral Fixation Vol. 2 Other DVDs/Albums: The Remixes · MTV Unplugged · Live & Off the Record · Oral Fixation Volumes 1&2 Hit singles: "Estoy Aquí" · "Ciega, Sordomuda" · "Ojos Así" · "Whenever, Wherever" · "Underneath Your Clothes" · "La Tortura" · "Hips Don't Lie" · "Beautiful Liar" |
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