| "Four to the Floor" | ||||||||||||||||
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| Single by Starsailor | ||||||||||||||||
| from the album Silence Is Easy | ||||||||||||||||
| Released | March 1, 2004 (UK) | |||||||||||||||
| Format | CD | |||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2004 | |||||||||||||||
| Genre | Rock | |||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:54 (radio edit) 4:13 (album version) |
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| Label | EMI | |||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | James Walsh, James Stelfox, Ben Byrne, Barry Westhead | |||||||||||||||
| Producer | Danton Supple, Starsailor | |||||||||||||||
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"Four to the Floor" is a hit single by the band Starsailor. The song was released as the third and final single from the band's second album Silence Is Easy. It became a major hit, peaking at number one in France (although the album failed to catch on in the same way only making number 47), number 1 in Wallonia, number 5 in Australia and number 24 in the UK [1][2].
In Australia, "Four to the Floor (Thin White Duke Remix)" was ranked #70 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2004.
The Soulsavers remix can be heard in the 2004 film Layer Cake and on the film's soundtrack.
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There are two different videos for "Four to the Floor." In the first one the band played in a scenario accompanied by the members of a symphonic orchestra appearing and disappearing according to the development of the song and the instruments.
The second one, which uses the Thin White Duke remix of the song, features a genderless little person of unknown age in a hooded winter jacket spray-painting graffiti on public walls in or near the city of London. The band members of Starsailor are depicted as animated graffiti whilst playing the title song throughout. At the end of the video the faceless, anonymous elfin creature is caught while standing on a bridge and shaken down by the police. One of the scenes in the video can be seen as the art cover for the Hard-Fi single Hard to Beat.
In Australia this video was also set to the album version/radio edit of the song.
The video also shows the images of famous Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara and Ben Byrne wears a t-shirt with the word "socialism" though there is not a clear connection between those images and the concept of the video.
| Chart (2005) | Peak position |
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| UK Singles Chart[3] | 24 |
| Aria Charts | 5 |
| French Singles Chart[4] | 1 |
| Belgium Singles Chart | 1 |
| Spain Singles Chart | 9 |
| Swiss Singles Chart | 14 |
| Italy Singles Chart | 37 |
| Germany Singles Chart | 82 |
| Preceded by "Gentleman" by Tragédie |
French SNEP number-one single November 13, 2004 - November 20, 2004 (1 week) |
Succeeded by "La Rivière de notre enfance" by Garou & Michel Sardou |
| Preceded by La Rivière de notre enfance |
Belgian (Wallonia) number-one single January 22, 2005 - February 19, 2005 (4 weeks) |
Succeeded by Solidarité Asie Tsunami 12-12 |
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