February 4, 20178 yr Yeah, 'Cha Cha Slide' isn't my favourite but it does get people up and dancing. The last dance-craze focused number 1 I think! A few have come close such as Soulja Boy...
February 4, 20178 yr Author Replaced the video link to a better quality one, although it is credited to Mr C The Slide Man, he and DJ Casper are the same person (must've been credited to Mr C The Slide Man for the American release). I remember loving this a lot from the time, it was very popular at the kids discos. I also had it on CD single. It's not one of the greatest dance records of all time but I do appreciate it as a fun novelty dance track.
February 4, 20178 yr Yeah, 'Cha Cha Slide' isn't my favourite but it does get people up and dancing. The last dance-craze focused number 1 I think! A few have come close such as Soulja Boy... Not quite the last. Party Rock Anthem and Gangnam Style say Hi.
February 4, 20178 yr Btw has anyone on here ever heard this track before that made number 22 in late February 2004, which was quite good a placing for a proper trance track by this stage. Never heard it but it is quite the trance tune, definitely up there the best of the genre :dance: qG7fGx-9TEg Edited February 5, 20178 yr by The Wise Sultan
February 4, 20178 yr Other tracks that made the top 40 during Cha Cha Slide's time at dance number 1 - #36 Kraftwerk - Aerodynamik - Trippy sounding song from the electronic dance veterans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yUej8PHMq8 - #22 Basement Jaxx - Plug It In - Very funky - unusual mix of dance and heavy metal. One of their best songs I think. :dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deYgQcAGjZU - #9 Narcotic Thrust - I Like It - This is a brilliant progressive house tune, but the video is sadly starting to go towards the standard mid 00s type. Think I remember it from the time, not sure. This kind of lively progressive house would start to become big by the early 2010s so it was ahead of its time. - #35 Martin Solveig - Rocking Music - This producer's first top 40 hit, mix of funky house and rock music, a combination which he would bring back in 2005 with the higher charting follow-up 'Everybody', which I prefer. Not too bad, but Rocking Music isn't Solveig's best imo. - #24 Lasgo - Surrender - A good tune from the vocal trance group - weirdly for me it sounds very Eurovision entry sounding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt-8eaYUQ6o - #34 Armand van Helden - Hear My Name - his first track apparently after a 2 year break, not one of his best I think , its a bit poppy. Plus one more top 10 entry for a dance song that will be dance number 1 after our next dance number 1. In all, not a lot of new dance tracks making the top 40 over the big 8 week period of Cha Cha Slide at dance number 1. Edited February 4, 20178 yr by The Wise Sultan
February 4, 20178 yr Cha Cha Slide was the first #1 not to enter the chart at that position since Bob The Builder's Can We Fix It over 3 years earlier (although DJ Otzi's Hey Baby was listed as a climber from 45-1 at the time due to the chart compilers' software being unable to separate the import and domestic releases).
February 4, 20178 yr Interesting, a climb to number 1 was very rare in the early 00s, any climbing during the chart run was uncommon itself, although a dance song in late 2004 which made the top 10 eventually and made dance number 1 would have an unusual chart run for the time in that it seemed to take a while on the chart to grow to become a top 10 hit, more like many of today's top 10 hits. The next two dance number 1s are possibly two of the cheesiest dance hits of the 00s, one funky house and one eurodance, both with very cheesy vocals in particular and then we have the weirdest dance number 1 of the 00s.
February 5, 20178 yr Not quite the last. Party Rock Anthem and Gangnam Style say Hi. Gangnam Style of course! Party Rock Anthem though, no...? At least, that's not the main thing associated with it...
February 5, 20178 yr Author Party Rock Anthem though, no...? At least, that's not the main thing associated with it... really? that song was very much associated with the 'shuffle' dance trend Io4fxdBEApc
February 5, 20178 yr We have those two to look forward to as dance number 1s on the 2010s dance number 1s thread once it starts up :( They definitely aren't the best songs from the two artists - Right Now is my favourite PSY song and Champagne Showers for LMFAO.
February 5, 20178 yr really? that song was very much associated with the 'shuffle' dance trend Io4fxdBEApc If I play Saturday Night, Macarena, Tragedy, Cotton Eye Joe, Cha Cha Slide or Gangnam Stule, guaranteed the crowd would be doing the dance moves. Party Rock Anthem definitely doesn't fall into that bracket.
February 5, 20178 yr Author If I play Saturday Night, Macarena, Tragedy, Cotton Eye Joe, Cha Cha Slide or Gangnam Stule, guaranteed the crowd would be doing the dance moves. Party Rock Anthem definitely doesn't fall into that bracket. Depends who you're playing to I guess. I have no idea what the dance moves to Saturday Night or Cotton Eye Joe are meant to be. In all honesty I'm not exactly sure how to 'shuffle' either but I'm pretty sure it was a dance craze at one point, even before 'Party Rock Anthem'.
February 5, 20178 yr Author Aside: 'Gangnam Style' I don't think qualifies as a dance number one, it's too dance-pop.
February 5, 20178 yr Sunny - Boogie Pimps Date 2nd May 2004 1 Week Official Chart Run 10-19-27-36-46-74 (6 weeks) nrDFvXRDoj4 This disco house song heavily samples the 1976 Boney M song of the same name, which was itself a cover of a 1966 Bobby Hebb song. Boney M were of course from Germany, like the Boogie Pimps. It contains a Lost Frequencies style repetitive acoustic guitar house melody and also some retro style rapping too in it. I think I remember hearing at the time of release (and would have liked it definitely if so), but I certainly heard this remix a few years ago as part of a disco compilation youtube video that a co-worker of the place I was working at the time was playing and it sounded great. I prefer this to the Boogie Pimps' remix of 'Somebody To Love' and it is a very good tune. It certainly is up there with the later 80s remixes for me in terms of being a fun dance tune. It is certainly very summery sounding to befit the title and was released at the start of summer in early May 2004 to take advantage of this. It reached number 10, just stopping another song from becoming dance number 1 at this stage, although it will appear after the next one on our list. The Boogie Pimps didn't have any more UK top 40 hits after this one. Mousse T remixed Sunny again in November 2006, but probably as funky house was sadly waning in popularity by this stage as electro had begun to dominate dance music, it wasn't a hit.
February 5, 20178 yr Author That has to be one of my least favourite Dance #1s, it doesn't have a lot going for it and is a lot less energetic than 'Somebody To Love'. Surprised it actually went top 10.
February 5, 20178 yr For some reason I had it in my head that it flopped outside the top 40! I'll have to give it another listen. Narcotic Thrust I love - was shocked it wasn't bigger.
February 5, 20178 yr Günther & the Sunshine Girls - The Ding Dong Song Date 9th May 2004 1 Week Official Chart Run 85-14-26-40-50 (5 weeks) WKUa46dEmVM This excellent Eurodance tune has to be one of the weirdest dance number 1s of the 00s. :blink: Günther is a Swedish musician and fashion model. This song is supposed to be a parody of Eurodance genres especially during the 1980s and 1990s in Germany. It contains suggestive lyrics and also a few cunningly placed censor bleeps. Günther does spoken word duties in the song. It has another female vocalist who sings in the bridge and chorus. The song is based on a 1984 Danish hit called 'Tralala' by Phil and Company. This song with the non-charting follow up 'Teeny Weeny String Bikini' (the less said about that the better tbh :lol: ) was featured on his debut album Pleasureman. By 2008 it gained popularity on YouTube with US soldiers serving in Iraq lip synching to it, YouTube users also lip synching and edited parodies of it. Sadly Günther never had another UK hit after 'The Ding Dong Song'.
February 5, 20178 yr I don't think I remember The Ding Dong Song much from the time. Well it is ~different~. I am quite sure if Buzzjack was around at the time, few would have wanted this song to do well in the charts sadly, given the common reaction to parody songs on iTunes in the iTunes thread <_< Edited February 5, 20178 yr by The Wise Sultan
February 5, 20178 yr For some reason I had it in my head that it flopped outside the top 40! I'll have to give it another listen. Narcotic Thrust I love - was shocked it wasn't bigger. Well as I said JX - Restless is my favourite track from early 2004 (that one definitely should have been close to top 10 if not top 10), but I Like It comes close too for me.
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