We Are The Greatest/I Was Made For Lovin' You

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"We Are The Greatest/I Was Made For Lovin' You"
We are the greatest.jpg
Single by Scooter
from the album No Time to Chill
B-side "Greatest Beats"
Released21 September 1998 (Germany)
RecordedLoop D.C. Studio 1, Hamburg, 1998
Length3:28
Label Club Tools
Songwriter(s) H. P. Baxxter
Rick J. Jordan
Axel Coon
Jens Thele
Paul Stanley
Desmond Child
Vini Poncia
Scooter singles chronology
"How Much Is the Fish?"
(1998)
"We Are The Greatest/I Was Made For Lovin' You"
(1998)
"Call Me Mañana"
(1999)

"We Are The Greatest/I Was Made For Lovin' You" is a double A-side single release from the German group Scooter. Released on 21 September 1998, [1] both original versions of the songs are taken from the group's fifth studio album No Time to Chill . However, "We Are The Greatest" is remixed and has new vocals from HP compared to the album version. "I Was Made for Lovin' You" is a cover of the 1979 Kiss song.

Contents

Track listing

CD Single [1]
  1. "We Are the Greatest" (3:27)
  2. "I Was Made for Lovin' You" (3:32)
  3. "We Are the Greatest" (Extended) (4:35)
  4. "Greatest Beats" (3:05)
12-inch Single [2]
  1. "We Are the Greatest" (Extended) (4:35)
  2. "We Are the Greatest" (3:27)
  3. "I Was Made for Lovin' You" (3:32)

Samples

"We Are The Greatest" samples the 1983 single "Street Dance" by rap act Break Machine and the lyrics of the 1985 song "Don't Stop The Rock" by Freestyle.

Chart performance

Chart (1998–1999)Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) [3] 36
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [4] 50
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [5] 98
Germany (Official German Charts) [6] 26
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) [7] 45

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