Move Your Ass!

"Move Your Ass!"
Single by Scooter
from the album ...and the Beat Goes On!
B-side "Back in Time"
Released January 27, 1995 (Germany)
Format CD single, CD maxi, 12" maxi
Recorded 1995
Genre Happy hardcore
Length 5:38
Label Club Tools, Scorpio Music
Writer(s) H. P. Baxxter, Rick J. Jordan,
Jens Thele, Ferris Bueller
Producer H. P. Baxxter, Rick J. Jordan,
Jens Thele, Ferris Bueller
Certification Gold (GER)
Scooter singles chronology
"Hyper Hyper"
(1994)		 "Move Your Ass!"
(1995)		 "Friends"
(1995)
Alternative cover
Remixes version

"Move Your Ass!" is the title of a song by the German techno band Scooter. It was released in January 1995 as the second single from their debut studio album ...and the Beat Goes On!. In October of the same year, a EP named "The Move Your Ass EP" was also marketed in UK and Ireland.

This happy hardcore song was a hit in countries such as Austria, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland where it reached the top ten. In France, the song stopped at the foot of the top 10 (#11).

Contents

Track listings

Original version

CD single - France (February 23, 1995)
  1. "Move Your Ass!" (video edit) — 3:55
  2. "Move Your Ass!" — 5:50
CD maxi - Germany and France
  1. "Move Your Ass!" (video edit) — 3:58
  2. "Move Your Ass!" — 5:50
  3. "Back in Time" — 7:04

Remixes

CD maxi - Australia
  1. "Move Your Ass!" (video edit) — 4:00
  2. "Move Your Ass!" (ultra-sonic remix) — 7:16
  3. "Move Your Ass!" (mandala remix) — 6:28
  4. "Move Your Ass!" (para-dizer remix) — 3:22
  5. "Move Your Ass!" (alien factory remix) — 5:33
  6. "Move Your Ass!" (mega 'lo mania-acid mania mix) — 5:49
  7. "Move Your Ass!" (men behind remix) — 5:54
CD maxi - Germany (March 14, 1995)
  1. "Move Your Ass!" (ultra-sonic remix) — 7:15
  2. "Move Your Ass!" (mandala remix) — 6:23
  3. "Move Your Ass!" (para-dizer remix) — 3:22
  4. "Move Your Ass!" (alien factory remix) — 5:30
  5. "Move Your Ass!" (mega 'lo mania-acid mania mix) — 5:48
  6. "Move Your Ass!" (men behind remix) — 5:56
  7. "Move Your Ass!" (matiz remix) — 5:26
2 x 12" maxi - Germany
  1. "Move Your Ass!" (mandala remix) — 6:27
  2. "Move Your Ass!" (mega 'lo mania-acid mania mix) — 8:02
  3. "Move Your Ass!" (ultra-sonic remix) — 7:15
  4. "Move Your Ass!" (mega 'lo mania-trance dub mix) — 8:23
  5. "Move Your Ass!" (para-dizer remix) — 6:59
  6. "Move Your Ass!" (men behind remix) — 5:56
  7. "Move Your Ass!" (alien factory remix) — 5:31
  8. "Move Your Ass!" (matiz remix) — 5:26

EP

CD maxi - UK
  1. "Move Your Ass!" (video edit) — 3:55
  2. "Friends" — 4:40
  3. "Endless Summer" (radio edit) — 3:55
  4. "Move Your Ass!" (platinum people remix) — 7:46
12" maxi - UK (October 6, 1995)
  1. "Move Your Ass!" — 5:50
  2. "Friends" (Ramon Zenker club mix) — 5:32
  3. "Endless Summer" (maxi version) — 5:14
  4. "Move Your Ass!" (platinum people remix) — 7:46
Cassette - UK
  1. "Move Your Ass!" (video edit) — 3:55
  2. "Endless Summer" (radio edit) — 3:55
  3. "Move Your Ass!" (video edit) — 3:55
  4. "Endless Summer" (radio edit) — 3:55

Charts and sales

Peak positions

Chart (1995) Peak
position
Austrian Singles Chart[1] 3
Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart[1] 16
Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart[1] 16
Dutch Top 40[2] 4
French SNEP Singles Chart[1] 11
German Singles Chart[3] 3
Irish IRMA Singles Chart 1 [4] 15
Norwegian Singles Chart[1] 6
Swedish Singles Chart[1] 10
Swiss Singles Chart[1] 3
UK Singles Chart1 [5] 23

1 The Move Your Ass EP

End of year charts

End of year chart (1995) Position
Austrian Singles Chart[6] 20
Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart[7] 98
Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart[8] 80
Dutch Top 40[2] 64
French Singles Chart[9] 74
Swiss Singles Chart[10] 30

Certifications

Country Certification Date Sales certified
Germany[11] Gold 1995 250,000

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Move Your Ass!", in various singles charts Lescharts.com (Retrieved February 15, 2008)
  2. ^ a b "Single top 100 over 1995" (in Dutch) (pdf). Top40. http://www.top40.nl/pdf/Top%20100/top%20100%20-%201995.pdf. Retrieved 17 April 2010. 
  3. ^ "Scooter singles, German Singles Chart" (in German). musicline. http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/Scooter/single. Retrieved 18 April 2010. 
  4. ^ Irish Singles Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved February 15, 2008)
  5. ^ "Move Your Ass", UK Singles Chart Chartstats.com (Retrieved August 29, 2008)
  6. ^ 1995 Austrian Singles Chart Austriancharts.at (Retrieved August 29, 2008)
  7. ^ 1995 Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart Ultratop.be (Retrieved August 29, 2008)
  8. ^ 1995 Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart Ultratop.be (Retrieved August 29, 2008)
  9. ^ 1995 French Singles Chart Disqueenfrance.com (Retrieved January 30, 2009)
  10. ^ 1996 Swiss Singles Chart Hitparade.ch (Retrieved August 1, 2008)
  11. ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank ('Move Your Ass')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. http://www.musikindustrie.de/gold_platin_datenbank/?action=suche&strTitel=Move+Your+Ass&strInterpret=&strTtArt=alle&strAwards=checked. Retrieved August 29, 2008. 
Scooter
H. P. Baxxter · Rick J. Jordan · Michael Simon
Ferris Bueller · Axel Coon · Jay Frog
Studio albums
Live albums
Compilations
Singles
"Vallée de Larmes"  · "Hyper Hyper"  · "Move Your Ass!"  · "Friends"  · "Endless Summer"  · "Back in the U.K."  · "Let Me Be Your Valentine"  · "Rebel Yell"  · "I'm Raving"  · "Break It Up"  · "Fire"  · "The Age of Love"  · "No Fate"  · "How Much Is the Fish?"  · "We Are The Greatest/I Was Made For Lovin' You"  · "Call Me Mañana"  · "Faster Harder Scooter"  · "Fuck the Millennium"  · "I'm Your Pusher"  · "She's the Sun"  · "Posse (I Need You on the Floor)"  · "Aiii Shot the DJ"  · "Ramp! (The Logical Song)"  · "Habanera"  · "Nessaja"  · "Weekend!"  · "The Night"  · "Maria (I Like It Loud)"  · "Jigga Jigga!"  · "Shake That!"  · "One (Always Hardcore)"  · "Suavemente"  · "Hello! (Good to Be Back)"  · "Apache Rocks the Bottom!"  · "Behind the Cow"  · "Lass Uns Tanzen"  · "Stripped"  · "The Question Is What Is the Question?"  · "And No Matches"  · "Jumping All Over the World"  · "I'm Lonely"  · "Jump That Rock (Whatever You Want)"  · "J'adore Hardcore"  · "Ti Sento"  · "The Sound Above My Hair"  · "Stuck on Replay"  · "Friends Turbo"  · "The Only One"  · "David Doesn't Eat"  · "C'est Bleu"
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