"Make Luv" | ||||
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Single by Room 5 featuring Oliver Cheatham | ||||
Released | 24 March 2003 | |||
Length | 3:32 | |||
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Producer(s) | Junior Jack | |||
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"Make Luv" on YouTube |
"Make Luv" is a song by Italian music producer Room 5 (also known as Junior Jack) featuring the sampled voice of American R&B singer Oliver Cheatham from his 1983 hit "Get Down Saturday Night". [1] Released in March 2003,"Make Luv" reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart,where it remained for four weeks in March and April 2003. The song also reached the top 10 in Denmark,Greece,Ireland,Italy,the Netherlands,and Romania.
The song's success was partly due to its use in a popular television advertising campaign for Lynx Pulse deodorant. [1] The duo released another collaboration,"Music and You" in 2003,which reached No. 38 on the UK Singles Chart. [2]
Italian CD single [3]
European CD single [4]
European maxi-CD single [5]
| UK and Australasian CD single,UK cassette single [6] [7]
UK 12-inch single [8]
Canadian CD single [9]
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Weekly charts
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United Kingdom (BPI) [36] | Platinum | 600,000 |
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
Region | Date | Format(s) | Label(s) | Ref. |
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United Kingdom | 24 March 2003 |
| Positiva | [37] |
Australia | 5 May 2003 | CD | [38] |
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