Rhythm Is a Dancer

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"Rhythm Is a Dancer"
Single by Snap!
from the album The Madman's Return
Released	July 31, 1992
Format	CD single CD maxi 7" vinyl
Genre	Eurodance
Length	3:41
Producer	Benito Benitez John 'Virgo' Garrett III
Certification	Gold (US) Platinum (UK) Gold (France)
Snap! singles chronology
"Colour of Love" (1991) "Rhythm Is a Dancer" (1992) "Exterminate" (1993) Alternate cover 2008 remixes

"Rhythm Is a Dancer" is a song recorded by the act Snap!, released as a single in the second quarter of 1992, from the album The Madman's Return. It was written by Benito Benitez, John 'Virgo' Garrett III (aliases for German producers Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti), Thea Austin and Durron Butler and produced by Snap! It achieved a huge success in many countries, topping the charts in France, Ireland Italy, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK.

Contents 1 Lyrics and music 2 Music video 3 Chart performances 4 Cover versions 5 Uses in the media 6 Track listings 7 Certifications 8 Charts 8.1 Peak positions 8.2 Year-end charts 9 References

[edit] Lyrics and music

The track features lead vocals by Thea Austin and a rap by Turbo B.

According to Miz hit. tubes, a book which analyses the French pop charts, "this discotheque song alternates the female singing of the chorus with the fluid rap and set back from the verses. These are tinged with a resonant sonority, with astonishment melancholic relents for a hit dance. That gives to the whole a very particular colouring; almost nostalgia."^[1]

[edit] Music video

The music video for "Rhythm Is a Dancer" was directed by Howard Greenhalgh and shows singer Thea Austin and a backup band at a rocket-type factory filled with smoke. Austin and her group perform the song on elevated platforms while a group of dancers dance on a closed ground platform below them. Interpersed throughout these scenes are animated shots of flickering astrology/aviation maps and animated figures dancing.

In the fictional backstory of Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno character, Bruno was chosen to be one of the dancers in the video, but the he had to pull out the day before filming when he developed an eye infection from contact with dog faeces^[2].

[edit] Chart performances

"Rhythm Is a Dancer" was the second single by Snap! to reach #1 in the UK, spending six weeks at the top from August 1992. It is their biggest hit single to date, with 583,000 sales during the original UK chart run. A massive hit across the world, it also topped the chart in Germany, and peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S in early 1993. In France, "Rhythm Is a Dancer" debuted at #5 on August 8, 1992, before climbing to #1 four weeks later (where it stayed for six weeks). The track thus became the first dance single to hit the number one position on the French Singles Chart. The song is currently the 97th best-selling single of all time in Germany.^[3]

In May 2003 a re-mix reached number 17 on the official UK Top 40.

On 25 May 2008, "Rhythm Is a Dancer" re-entered the official UK Top 40 at number 36, climbing as high as number 23 two weeks later. BBC Radio 1 DJs Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates theorized it was based on download performance, due to its inclusion in a television advertisement for Drench water.

On 4 April 2009, "Rhythm is a Dancer" was chosen on the Belgian Radio Station MNM as the Best Song of the Nineties in the Nineties Top 100.

[edit] Cover versions

"Rhythm Is a Dancer" has been covered by numerous artists including:

• La Bouche
• Chic Flowerz feat. Muriel Folwer
• Leone di Lernia
• Max Deejay (1997)
• System Drivers (2002)
• Superb (Brazilian rock n roll act produced by Chilean DJ Sokio) [1] (2005)
• Israeli acoustic music artist Sagi Rei for his 2005 album "Emotional Songs"
• Berk and the Virtual Band for the 2007 album Jazz Chill, Vol. 2
• Hermes House Band on the 2009 album "Rhythm of the Nineties".

Snap! themselves re-recorded their own song in 1996 and 2002/3, the latter with CJ Stone.

[edit] Uses in the media

Used in the soundtrack for 1992 Brazilian soap opera De Corpo e Alma.

The song featured on a 1995 TV advert for the Ford Escort on German television.

In 2008, an edited version of the original Rhythm is a Dancer appeared on a TV commercial in the UK for "Drench" spring water, bringing the song back into the UK singles chart on June 9, 2008, at number 23.

[edit] Track listings

7" single "Rhythm Is a Dancer" (7" edit) — 3:41 "Rhythm Is a Dancer" (purple hazed 7" mix) — 4:31 CD maxi "Rhythm Is a Dancer" (7" edit) — 3:41 "Rhythm Is a Dancer" (12" mix) — 5:12 "Rhythm Is a Dancer" (purple hazed mix) — 6:49 CD maxi - Remixes "Rhythm Is a Dancer" (rhyth kid version) — 5:38 "Rhythm Is a Dancer" (tee's choice mix) — 6:19 "Rhythm Is a Dancer" (instrumental rhythm) — 5:30

CD single - 2003 remixes "Rhythm Is a Dancer 2003" (radio edit) "Rhythm Is a Dancer 2003" (CJ stone remix) "Rhythm Is a Dancer 2003" ('92) "Rhythm Is a Dancer 2003" (video) CD maxi - 2003 remixes "Rhythm Is a Dancer 2003" (video version) — 3:20 "Rhythm Is a Dancer 2003" (CJ stone radio mix) — 3:49 "Rhythm Is a Dancer 2003" ("check this out" remix) — 7:06 "Rhythm Is a Dancer 2003" (CJ stone club mix) — 7:45 "Rhythm Is A Dancer" ('92) — 3:42

[edit] Certifications

Country	Certification	Date	Sales certified
Austria[4]	Gold	July 22, 1992	15,000
France[5]	Gold	1992	250,000
Germany[6]	Platinum	1992	300,000
Netherlands[7]	Platinum	1992	60,000
Sweden[8]	Gold	August 7, 1992	10,000
UK[9]	Gold	September 1, 1992	400,000
U.S.[10]	Gold	November 9, 1992	500,000

[edit] Charts

[edit] Peak positions

Chart (1992-1993) Peak position Australian ARIA Singles Chart[11] 3 Austrian Singles Chart[11] 1 Danish Singles Chart[11] 11 Dutch Singles Chart[11] 1 French SNEP Singles Chart[11] 1 German Singles Chart[12] 1 Irish Singles Chart[13] 1 Israeli Singles Chart 1 Italian Singles Chart 1 Norwegian Singles Chart[11] 4 Swedish Singles Chart[11] 2 Swiss Singles Chart[11] 1 UK Singles Chart[14] 1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100[15] 5 U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play[15] 1 U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 40[15] 9 U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream[15] 12

Chart (1996-1997)1 Peak position Swedish Singles Chart[16] 58 U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play[15] 27 Chart (2003)2 Peak position Australian ARIA Singles Chart[17] 32 Austrian Singles Chart[17] 10 Dutch Singles Chart[17] 46 Finnish Singles Chart[17] 13 German Singles Chart[12] 7 Swiss Singles Chart[17] 35 UK Singles Chart[18] 17 Chart (2008) Peak position UK Singles Chart[19] 23

¹ "Rhythm Is a Dancer '96"
² "Rhythm Is a Dancer 2003"

[edit] Year-end charts

End of year chart (1992)	Position
Australian Singles Chart[20]	15
Austrian Singles Chart[21]	2
Swiss Singles Chart[22]	2

Preceded by "To Be with You" by Mr. Big	German number one single May 22, 1992 - July 24, 1992 (6 weeks)	Succeeded by "It's My Life" by Dr Alban
Preceded by "To Be With You" by Mr. Big	Austrian number-one single May 31, 1992 - June 7, 1992 (2 weeks)	Succeeded by "It's My Life" by Dr. Alban
Preceded by "Jump" by Kris Kross	Swiss number-one single June 28, 1992 - September 27, 1992 (14 weeks)	Succeeded by "Sweat (A La La La La Long)" by Inner Circle
Preceded by "Ain't No Doubt" by Jimmy Nail	UK number one single August 8, 1992 - September 12, 1992 (6 weeks)	Succeeded by "Ebeneezer Goode" by The Shamen
Preceded by "Ain't No Doubt" by Jimmy Nail	Irish IRMA number-one single August 13, 1992 - October 1, 1992 (8 weeks)	Succeeded by "Ebeneezer Goode" by The Shamen
Preceded by "It's a Fine Day" by Opus III	Billboard Hot Dance Club Play number-one single September 5, 1992 (1 week)	Succeeded by "LSI (Love Sex Intelligence)" by The Shamen
Preceded by "Le Chat" by Pow woW	French SNEP number-one single September 5, 1992 - October 10, 1992 (6 weeks)	Succeeded by "Dur dur d'être bébé!" by Jordy

[edit] References

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