Move Your Body (Eiffel 65 song)

"Move Your Body"
Single by Eiffel 65
from the album Europop
Released4 November 1999 (1999-11-04)
Genre
Length
  • 4:28 (album version)
  • 3:30 (radio and video edit)
LabelWEA
Songwriter(s)
  • Domenico Capuano
  • Roberto Molinaro
  • Maurizio Lobina
  • Gianfranco Randone
  • Massimo Gabutti
Producer(s)
  • Massimo Gabutti
  • Luciano Zucchet
Eiffel 65 singles chronology
"Too Much of Heaven"
(1999) 		"Move Your Body"
(1999) 		"My Console"
(2000)
Music video
"Move Your Body" on YouTube

"Move Your Body" is a song by Italian musical group Eiffel 65. It was released as the third single from their debut album, Europop, on 4 November 1999.

Composition

Move Your Body
The song's chorus
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"Move Your Body" is a bubblegum techno and disco song[1] played in D minor at 130 BPM.[2] It has dance-oriented sounds and uses the same pitch shifter–based distortion as the vocals from the previous single, "Blue (Da Ba Dee)".[3] Group member Jeffrey Jey claimed that the song "had tried to recall the original spirit of the dance, understood as a vehicle to bring together and communicate with people."[4]

Critical reception

Entertainment Weekly said in a review of Europop that it was hard to call "Move Your Body" a "timeless masterpiece," but it was impossible to hate it.[1] Billboard called it a "kitschy electronic number" and commented on "the song's catchy melody, addictive lyrical redundancy, and the familiar computerized voice of the trio's Jeffrey Jey".[5]

Commercial performance

While the single was issued through WEA Records in Italy, it was licensed to several labels for international release. In the UK, it was licensed to Warner Music Group's Eternal label, in the US to Universal Music Group's Republic, in Germany to BMG Berlin, in France to Scorpio, in Spain to Blanco y Negro, in Australia to Central Station, and to Valentine and Avex in Southeast Asia.[6]

The song achieved huge success in many countries, topping the charts of Austria, Denmark, France, Italy and Spain; however it charted at only number 36 on the US Billboard Top 40 Mainstream.

Elia Habib, an expert of the French charts, noted the great efficiency of the song on the SNEP chart, since it was strong enough to dislodge the massive hit "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)" and to resist to its competitors, which prevented Eiffel 65 to remain a one-hit wonder, and enabled the band to become the first one to get its second number one single in France.[3]

Music video

Some of the characters as seen dancing in the video.

The music video is sort of a sequel to the music video for “Blue (Da Ba Dee)”, as it features the same blue aliens (their leader being named Zorotl). The band has a concert on the planet of the blue aliens, when a group of hostiles capture a female alien. The band (with the help of Zorotl) use a teleportation device to search for her. When they find her, the hostiles join the concert.

Track listings

Charts

Certifications

Certifications and sales for "Move Your Body"
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[45] Platinum 70,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[46] Gold 25,000*
Belgium (BEA)[47] Gold 25,000*
France (SNEP)[48] Platinum 500,000*
Germany (BVMI)[49] Gold 250,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[50] Gold 5,000*
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[51] Gold 25,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[52] Silver 200,000‡

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release dates and formats for "Move Your Body"
Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
Italy November 1999 CD WEA [29]
Spain 4 November 1999 12-inch vinyl Blanco y Negro [53]
Sweden 22 November 1999 CD Logic [54]
Europe 30 November 1999 [29]
France 2 December 1999
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
 Hot Tracks [48]
Canada 18 January 2000 CD Popular [55]
United Kingdom 7 February 2000
  • CD
  • cassette
 Eternal [56]
United States 4 April 2000
[57]
Japan 24 May 2000 CD Polydor [58]

See also

References

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