Shake It (Metro Station song)

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“Shake It”
“Shake It” cover
Single by Metro Station
from the album Metro Station
Released 2008
Format CD, digital download
Recorded 2006-2007
Genre Electro/Pop
Length 2:59
Label Columbia Records
Writer(s) Trace Cyrus
Metro Station singles chronology
"Control"
(2008)
"Shake It"
(2008)

"Shake It" is the third single from pop group, Metro Station. The song has become a top twenty hit on the Billboard Hot 100, and to date it is the band's only charted single. It has so far sold 430,185 digital downloads.[citation needed]

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[edit] Chart performance

Chart (2008) Current
peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 14[1]
U.S. Billboard Pop 100 14[2]
U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Songs 8[3]
Billboard Canadian Hot 100 6[4]

[edit] Music video

The music video for the song "Shake It" was inspired by many fans who created their own versions of the video, 63 of which the band posted as a playlist on their YouTube account. The song features the four band members as they enter a theater. Once inside the theater, they perform the song while various dancers compete against each other around them. The video ends with the police entering the theater and forcing everyone out.

[edit] Trivia

  • Online celebrity Jeffree Star makes a cameo as an audience member watching the dancers perform.
  • Freelance model, online celebrity and Trace Cyrus' girlfriend Hanna Beth makes a cameo as an audience member standing infront of Trace and next to Jeffree.
  • The song was used in a TV spot for the film What Happens in Vegas...

[edit] References