We Like to Party (Vengaboys song)

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"We Like to Party! (The Vengabus)"
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Single by Vengaboys
from the album Up & Down - The Party Album and The Party Album
Released13 November 1998
Format CD single
Recorded1998
Genre
Length3:41
Label Groovilicious/S.R.
Songwriter(s)
Vengaboys singles chronology
"Up and Down"
(1998)		"We Like to Party! (The Vengabus)"
(1998)		"Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!"
(1999)
Music video
"We Like to Party! (The Vengabus)" on YouTube

"We Like to Party! (The Vengabus)" is a song by Dutch Eurodance group Vengaboys. Released in November 1998 as the fourth single from Up & Down - The Party Album , the song became one of the band's most successful hits, topping the chart in Flemish Belgium, reaching number two in Australia and the Netherlands, and becoming a top-five hit in Germany, Ireland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. It is also the band's highest-charting song in the United States, climbing to number 26 on the Billboard Hot 100, and in Canada, where it peaked at number 10.

Eurodance is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s in Europe. It combines many elements of Techno, Hi-NRG, house music and Euro disco.

Vengaboys Dutch eurodance pop group

Vengaboys is a Dutch Eurodance music group based in Rotterdam. The group was the brainchild of Dutch producers Wessel van Diepen and Dennis van den Driesschen and consists of lead (female) vocalists Kim Sasabone and Denise Post-Van Rijswijk and male vocalists Robin Pors and Donny Latupeirissa.

<i>Up & Down - The Party Album</i> 1998 studio album by Vengaboys

Up & Down - The Party Album! is the debut studio album of Dutch dance group Vengaboys. It was released in the Netherlands in April 1998 by Breakin' Records, and has also been released in a version similar to Greatest Hits Part 1. Four singles were released off the album: "Parada de Tettas" in 1997, and "To Brazil", "Up & Down" and "We Like to Party " in 1998.

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Composition

"We Like to Party! (The Vengabus)" is a Eurodance song that runs for 3 minutes and 41 seconds. It is written in the key of A-flat major and maintains a tempo of 136 beats per minute in common time.

A-flat major tonality

A-flat major is a major scale based on A♭, with the pitches A♭, B♭, C, D♭, E♭, F, and G. Its key signature has four flats.

In musical terminology, tempo is the speed or pace of a given piece. In classical music, tempo is typically indicated with an instruction at the start of a piece and is usually measured in beats per minute. In modern classical compositions, a "metronome mark" in beats per minute may supplement or replace the normal tempo marking, while in modern genres like electronic dance music, tempo will typically simply be stated in bpm.

Critical reception

The song received positive reviews. Billboard wrote about the song: "This wildly energetic foursome (two gals, two guys) from the Netherlands is pretty much a household name throughout Europe, where this infectious pop gem has been a constant on radio and in clubs. Already, "We Like To Party!" has gone platinum and double -platinum in Belgium and the act's homeland, respectively. Here, the song could meet a similar fate, especially since it features a sugar-soaked sing-along chorus that hangs out in your head until you beg for relief. That said, people who embraced Aqua (band)'s "Barbie Girl," Cleopatra's "Romeo And Juliet," and Los Del Rio's "Macarena" will be lining up for this latest slice of energetic pop. Are you listening, radio? (It's already hit No. 1 on the playlist of dance leader WKTU New York.) Conversely, this will be a no-brainer for club jocks, who continue to make major noise with the group's sweat-soaked debut, "Up and Down"." [1]

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Commercial performance

The song became the group's biggest hit in the United States, peaking at number 26 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and selling 405,000 copies. [2] [3]

<i>Billboard</i> Hot 100 Song chart in U.S

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The single proved to be a higher seller than "Up and Down" in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number three in March 1999, [4] eventually selling 474,000 copies, making it the 29th biggest hit of the year. [5] The song additionally reached number one in Flemish Belgium, number two in Australia and the Netherlands, number three in Ireland, number four in Germany and Switzerland, number six in Austria, number nine in New Zealand and number 10 in Canada and Walloon Belgium. [6] [7] [8] It additionally reached the top 20 in France and Italy. [6] [9]

Up and Down (song) 1998 single by Vengaboys

"Up and Down" is a song by Dutch Eurodance group Vengaboys. It reached number four in the United Kingdom in November 1998. It also reached number one on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1999. The Tin Tin Out remix of the song was sampled in DMC's remix of Cher's "Believe". The "Wooo!" voice in the song is sampled from "Crash Goes Love" by Loleatta Holloway.

Music video

The music video for "We Like to Party" was directed by Wendelien van Diepen. [10] It first aired in March 1999. The video features all four Vengaboys members travelling to various destinations in Province of Barcelona, Piera and Gavà, in a 1930s style mini-bus, the "Vengabus" (a 1933 Chevrolet Bus), where they end up in a nightclub in La Barceloneta, Barcelona.

Piera Municipality in Catalonia, Spain

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Gavà Municipality in Catalonia, Spain

Gavà is a municipality in the Baix Llobregat comarca, in the province of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. It borders the coast of the Mediterranean Sea between Viladecans and Castelldefels.

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Track listing

  1. "We Like to Party" (Airplay) – 3:44
  2. "We Like to Party" (Klubbheads Mix) – 6:07
  3. "We Like to Party" (BCM RMX) – 4:04
  4. "We Like to Party" (More Airplay) – 5:50
  5. "We Like to Party" (Full Schwingg) – 4:38
  6. "We Like to Party" (DJ Disco Mix) – 4:33
  7. "We Like to Party" (Baunz Mix) – 4:45
  8. "We Like to Party" (BCM XXL) – 6:21

The song was also remixed by Jason Nevins and Tin Tin Out. Their mixes were included on the single for "We're Going to Ibiza".

Charts and sales

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