Good Luck (Basement Jaxx song)

"Good Luck"
Original UK release artwork
Single by Basement Jaxx featuring Lisa Kekaula
from the album Kish Kash
B-side	"Mere Pass"
Released	5 January 2004 (2004-01-05)
Studio	Jaxx (Loughborough Junction, London, England)
Length	4:38 (album version) 3:36 (radio edit)
Label	XL
Songwriter(s)	Felix Buxton Simon Ratcliffe Lisa Kekaula
Producer(s)	Basement Jaxx
Basement Jaxx singles chronology
"Lucky Star" (2003) "Good Luck" (2004) "Plug It In" (2004)
Lisa Kekaula singles chronology
"Good Luck" (2003) "U Don't Know Me" (2005)

UK CD single (first release) [5] "Good Luck" "Mere Pass" UK 12-inch single (first release) [6] A1. "Good Luck" (Tim Deluxe Funked club mix) B1. "Mere Pass" B2. "Good Luck" (Tim Deluxe Funked dub) UK 12-inch single (Roni Size mixes) [7] A. "Good Luck" (Roni Size vocal mix) B. "Good Luck" (Roni Size dancefloor mix) UK CD single (re-release) [8] "Good Luck" "Cish Cash" (featuring Siouxsie Sioux)

UK 12-inch single (re-release) [9] A1. "Good Luck" A2. "Ah-Choo" B1. "Onyx" UK 12-inch single (remixes) [10] A1. "Good Luck" (summer bootleg version) B1. "Cish Cash" (Vitalic remix) B2. "Right Here's the Spot" (Switch's Drunk at the Dogstar mix) Australian and New Zealand CD single [11] "Good Luck" (album version) – 4:27 "Mere Pass" – 4:49 "Good Luck" (Tim Deluxe Funked club mix) – 7:15 "Good Luck" (Tim Deluxe Funked dub) – 6:54 "Good Luck" (Roni Size vocal mix) – 4:24 "Good Luck" (Roni Size dancefloor mix) – 6:07

Credits and personnel

Credits are adapted from the liner notes of Kish Kash . ^[12]

Recording and management

• Recorded at Jaxx (Loughborough Junction, London)
• Mastered by Mike Marsh at The Exchange (Camden Town, London)
• Published by Universal Music and Mele Kekaula Music (BMI)

Personnel

• Felix Buxton – mixing, production, songwriting
• Simon Ratcliffe – mixing, production, songwriting
• Lisa Kekaula  – vocals, songwriting
• Natasha Awuku – backing vocals
• Sharlene Hector – backing vocals
• Francine Kufonji – backing vocals
• Kele Le Roc  – backing vocals
• Nadia Cielto-Steele – backing vocals
• Nathan "Tugg" Curran – drums
• The London Session Orchestra  – strings
• Wil Malone  – string arrangements and conducting
• Gavyn Wright  – string conducting

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2004) Peak position Australia (ARIA) [13] 22 Australian Club Chart (ARIA) [14] 1 Australian Dance (ARIA) [15] 2 Belgium (Ultratip Bubbling Under Flanders) [16] 2 Belgium Dance (Ultratop Flanders) [17] 27 Hungary (Dance Top 40) [18] 20 Ireland (IRMA) [19] 28 Ireland Dance (IRMA) [20] 4 Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) [21] 29 Netherlands (Single Top 100) [22] 43 Scotland (OCC) [23] 19 UK Singles (OCC) [24] 12 UK Dance (OCC) [25] 1 UK Indie (OCC) [26] 1 US Dance Club Songs ( Billboard ) [27] 2

Year-end charts Chart (2004) Position Australian Club Chart (ARIA) [28] 5 Australian Dance (ARIA) [29] 12 US Dance Club Play (Billboard) [30] 11

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [31]	Silver	200,000‡
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Region	Date	Format(s)	Label(s)	Ref.
United Kingdom	5 January 2004	12-inch vinyl CD	XL	[32]
Australia	12 January 2004	CD	Remote Control XL	[33]
United Kingdom (re-release)	28 June 2004	12-inch vinyl CD	XL	[34]

In popular culture

"Good Luck" featured as the opening theme song to the 2004 CGI anime movie Appleseed and was also featured in the Victoria's Secret fashion show for 2003 and 2005.^{[ citation needed ]}

A version without lyrics was used during the opening sequence of the BBC's UEFA Euro 2004 television coverage. ^[35] This spawned a re-release of the original single, and it entered at number 14 on the UK Singles Chart on 4 July 2004. The same instrumental version was later used by BBC Radio Sheffield as the opening theme for their live local football coverage, where it is still in use as of December 2017.

The song appeared on American reality television series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy .

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