Shakira f/ Wyclef Jean - "Hips Don't Lie"

[Fresh as Carrots]

Hips Don't Lie debuts at #1 in Ireland and Australia and #3 in the UK.

[eclectic]

OMG will this song go away already?! I was at my cousins cottage this weekend and it seemed to be on the radio every 10 minutes. Even my cousins dad, a 47 year old white male, loves this song LOL.

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

bubblepop15 said:

Now the "World Cup/Bamboo" mix is on iTunes.

Is that the one with all those Peruvian flutes that Z100 plays sometimes now?

[mig123]

^^^ its the one that has a african chant that goes bambooooooooooo................. i dont know if z100 is playing that

[duh5]

#1 UK smash!

[duh5]

Just realized it's #1 in Australia as well.

[RedDragon]

Now we can expect a hot dance first single for her next album with Will.I.Am!

[Fresh as Carrots]

'HIPS DON'T LIE' WORLD CUP MIX!

SHAKIRA & WYCLEF JEAN TO PERFORM SPECIAL VERSION OF "HIPS DONT LIE" MIXED WITH OFFICIAL MELODY OF THE 2006 FIFA WORLD CUP "BAMBOO" - LIVE AT THE FIFA WORLD CUP FINAL, JULY 9th 2006 BERLIN.

"Hips Dont Lie Bamboo" 2006 FIFA World Cup Mix to hit radio & be made available for digital download


Monday, June 26th, 2006 (New York, NY) Shakira and Wyclef Jean will perform a special version of "Hips Dont Lie" before the final match of the FIFA World Cup at Olympic Stadium in Berlin on July 9th. The mash-up version entitled "Hips Dont Lie Bamboo" 2006 FIFA World Cup Mix is a combination of Shakiras mega hit "Hips Dont Lie" and the tournament's official melody "Bamboo", which was created by internationally renowned producer RedOne. Shakira and Wyclef will perform the song for the first and only time during the closing ceremony 15 minutes before the final kick-off on July 9th.

The performance will air in front of an estimated worldwide TV audience of more than 1.2 billion and this version of the song will hit radio stations around the world from today. There are (2) versions of "Hips Dont Lie Bamboo" 2006 FIFA World Cup Mix that will be available for purchase on July 3rd. The English-language version will be availabe for purchase internationally through all major online and mobile retailers and the Spanish-language version will be availabe for purchase exclusively through iTunes across their European and Australian stores and generally available elsewhere. In the United States, the original version of "Hips Dont Lie," from Oral Fixation Vol. 2, became the most played song in pop radio history, broke the record for the biggest selling digital single, and reached the #1 spot on the Billboard chart. Internationally, "Hips Dont Lie" has reached #1 on the pan-European Billboard Charts, as well as #1 on the airplay charts in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, and Sweden. The single has also reached #1 on the singles sales charts in pan-Europe, Australia, Belgium, Chile, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, and Switzerland. RedOnes song "Bamboo" was named the "Official Melody" for the 2006 FIFA World Cup after being selected from thousands of submissions and is featured across all of FIFA's media platforms - in master TV feeds, mobile phones ringtones, animated logos, computer games, giant screen programmes and many other applications.

From Shakira's MySpace.

[francky]

This song don't wanna die.
It's still huge in many countries, I'm sick of it.

[duh5]

This has got to be the biggest, if not one of the biggest, singles worldwide this year. It's been huge in so many countries.

[eclectic]

Apparently it has even caught on in Jamaica now, and that is a country that is very picky in terms of what "American" songs become hits

This will be the #1 song of 2006 on many year-end radio countdown shows