Move This

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"Move This"
Move This 1992.jpg
Single by Technotronic
from the album The Greatest Hits
Released1992
Genre
Length
  • 5:19 (album version - cold end)
  • 5:02 (album version - fade)
  • 3:45 (Bogaert’s 7” remix)
  • 3:40 (hit mix)
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • Manuela Kamosi
  • Jo Bogaert
Technotronic singles chronology
"Money Makes the World Go Round"
(1991)		"Move This"
(1992)		"Hey Yoh, Here We Go"
(1993)
Music video
"Move This" on YouTube

"Move This" is a song by Belgian electronic music project Technotronic featuring Ya Kid K. Recorded in 1989 and appearing on Technotronic's debut album, Pump Up the Jam: The Album (1989), the song was re-recorded and included on The Greatest Hits (1993). It peaked at No. 6 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming their 3rd and last top-10 hit. [3] "Move This" is featured in the motion picture Let's Go to Prison , starring Will Arnett and Dax Shepard, and the King of the Hill episode "Dances with Dogs".

Contents

Critical reception

In 1992, Larry Flick from Billboard magazine noted that the "pop-juiced hip-houser" was first heard on Technotronic's Pump Up the Jam album in 1989. He wrote, "Resurrection via a Revlon TV commercial has sparked heavy pop radio interest. Ya Kid K's rhymes are appropriately cute'n'clever, and the beats and melody are strong enough to withstand heavy competition." [1] BuzzFeed ranked it number 35 in their list of "The 101 Greatest Dance Songs of the '90s" in 2017. [4] Harry Sumrall from Knight Ridder felt it has "the female-group sound of the '60s with a house update". [5] Diana Valois from The Morning Call described it as "a sunny blend of subtle African world beat and house music". [2]

Charts

Chart performance for "Move This"
Chart (1992–1993)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [6] 67
Canada ( RPM )30
Quebec (ADISQ) [7] 21
US Billboard Hot 100 6
Zimbabwe (ZIMA) [8] 1

References

  1. 1 2 Flick, Larry (1992-06-13). "Single Reviews" (PDF). Billboard . Retrieved 2018-01-25.
  2. 1 2 Valois, Diana (1990-01-13). "Records". p. A66. The Morning Call .
  3. ↑ McAleer, Dave (2004). Hit singles: top 20 charts from 1954 to the present day. San Francisco: Backbeat Books. p. 459. ISBN   0879308087.
  4. ↑ Stopera, Matt; Galindo, Brian (2017-03-11). "The 101 Greatest Dance Songs of the '90s". BuzzFeed . Retrieved 2020-03-31.
  5. ↑ Sumrall, Harry (1989-12-22). "Strummer is all sound and fury". Knight Ridder . p. 10. Retrieved 2020-03-12.
  6. ↑ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 276.
  7. ↑ "Palmarès de la chanson anglophone et allophone au Québec" (PDF) (in French). BAnQ. 1992-08-22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-11-29. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  8. ↑
    • Zimbabwe. Kimberley, C. Zimbabwe: singles chart book. Harare: C. Kimberley, 2000
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