Critical reception
Larry Flick from Billboard described 'Boom! Shake the Room' as a "butt-shaggin' pop/hip-hop romp",remarking that the "highly danceable jam has a shouted,air-punching chorus that should work well in a live environment." [1] Troy J. Augusto from Cash Box felt it "slams harder than any single this duo has so far produced",noting that the "groovin' track boasts sing-a-long chorus that'll make Hammer blush for sure". [4] Dave Sholin from the Gavin Report said,"With the success Will Smith's had as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,he and Jazzy Jeff will probably do more than just "shake the room" at some stations. School is out for summer and the duo's latest has potential to light up those request lines." [5] Australian music channel Max included it in their list of "1000 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2018. [6] Upon the release, Music &Media wrote,"It looks like they're having a party on the border between hip hoponia and the land of swingbeat. Shake it,don't fake it!" [2]
In their review of Code Red ,the magazine added,"Like Snoop Doggy Dogg these two rappers know how to shake dancefloors and the airwaves alike. Over the last weeks nobody could resist shouting along with their rhymes. Regardless of age group,everybody knew the magic words:Boom! Shake shake shake the room,tick tick tick tick boom!" [7] James Hamilton from Music Week's RM Dance Update named it a "'Jump Around' type ultra frenetic jaunty rap jiggler". [8] Wendi Cermak from The Network Forty wrote,"Here we have a song that everyone who's anyone is talking about. Currently in heavy rotation in On the Tip,this jam has picked up over 300 plays in its first week!" [9] Simon Williams from NME deemed it "a poor man's 'Shamrocks and Shenanigans (Boom Shalock Lock Boom)' and hence is a waste of a damn good title." [10] Gavin Reeve from Smash Hits gave it a top score of five out of five,named it Best New Single and described it as "power rap". He concluded that 'Boom! Shake the Room' "will be exploding on turntables everywhere this summer." [11]
In North America,"Boom! Shake the Room" peaked at numbers 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100,number 12 on the Cash Box Top 100,number 21 on the Billboard Hot R&B Singles chart,and number six on the Billboard Maxi-Singles Sales chart. [12] [13] [14] [15] In Oceania,it topped Australia's ARIA Singles Chart for one week in January 1994 and peaked at number two in New Zealand for two weeks in November and December 1993. [16] [17]
In Europe,"Boom! Shake the Room" topped the charts of Ireland, [18] Spain, [19] [20] and the UK. In the latter country,it peaked atop the UK Singles Chart on September 19,1993,during its third week on the chart,becoming Smith's first and Townes' only chart-topping song in Britain. [21] The song spent two weeks at the top and 15 weeks within the UK top 100,including two weeks on the chart again in 1995 (number 40 and 57). It also peaked within the top 10 of the charts in Denmark, [22] Germany, [23] and Switzerland, [24] as well as on the European Hot 100,on which it peaked at number seven in October 1993. [25] It debuted on the chart at number 55 on September 18,after charting in the Netherlands and UK. [26] On the European Dance Radio Chart,it reached number four. [27] Additionally,the single was a top-20 hit in Austria,the Netherlands,and Sweden. The song earned a gold record in Germany and the United States,a silver record in the United Kingdom,and a platinum record in Australia and New Zealand.
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