Dancing (Elisa song)

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"Dancing"
Epdancingcover.jpg
Single by Elisa
from the album Dancing
Released2002 (Italy)
December 2007 (United States)
Genre Soul
Length5:36
Label Sugar
Songwriter(s) Elisa
Elisa singles chronology
"Time"
(2002)
"Dancing"
(2002)
"Almeno tu nell'universo"
(2003)
Elisa USsingles chronology
"Dancing"
(2007)
"Rainbow"
(2008)

"Dancing" [1] was the fourth single released in Italy and the United States from Elisa's third album, Then Comes the Sun , and the first single released from her American album Dancing .

Contents

Track listings

  1. "Dancing" – 5:36
  2. "Dancing" (live from London iTunes Festival) – 5:36
  3. "Rock Your Soul" – 5:03

Trivia

Chart performance

ChartPeak
position
Canadian Digital Singles [3] 54
Italy (FIMI) [4] 33
US Billboard Hot Singles Recurrents25

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References

  1. "Dancing" Video on YouTube
  2. "Dancing" Video So You Think You Can Dance
  3. "Elisa Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More".
  4. "Classifiche – Top Digital – Classifica settimanale WK 39 del 2012". Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana (in Italian). Retrieved 26 April 2015