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"Hips Don't Lie"
Song

"Hips Don't Lie" is a Latin pop song based in a salsa and cumbia performed by Colombian singer Shakira and Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean. The song is a remake of Jean's 2004 song "Dance Like This" (which featured Claudette Ortiz and appeared on the soundtrack to Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights) and takes some of its instrumentation from Jerry Rivera's "Amores Como El Nuestro" (which was also used for Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz's hit single "Déjà Vu (Uptown Baby)"), and lyrics from Dominican composer Luis Dias' "Carnaval (Baila en la Calle)".[1][2] Shakira wrote some parts of the new version, and co-produced the song. The song was released as the second single from Shakira's second English album Oral Fixation Vol. 2 in 2006. "Hips Don't Lie" became a global success, reaching the number one spot on the charts in at least 55 countries.[3] It became Shakira and Wyclef's first (and to date, only) number-one single in the US. In the UK, the single was Wyclef's third number-one hit (after The Fugees' "Killing Me Softly" and "Ready Or Not") as well as Shakira's first hit. In many other countries, it became Shakira's second number one, (following the success of "Whenever, Wherever") and her third number-one single in other countries such as Australia and Netherlands (after "Underneath Your Clothes").

"Hips Dont Lie" is one of the fewer than thirty all-time singles to have sold 10 million (or more) copies worldwide, and is currently the best selling single of the 21st Century,[4] with over 14,000,000 copies worldwide.

The Spanish version of the song is called "Será, Será (Las Caderas No Mienten)" which translates to "Could It Be, Could It Be (Hips Don't Lie)". It was released in Latin America, although some radios preferred to play the original version. This version has different verses and a different chorus, while the rap by Wyclef Jean is kept in English. Despite the Spanish version the song received more airplay with the English version in the Spanish-speaking countries and also performed in English during the tour.

Background

"Hips Don't Lie" was reportedly commissioned by Sony Music to revive sales of Shakira's flagging album Oral Fixation Vol. 2, which had come out in late 2005 in time for the lucrative holiday-buying season. Vol. 2 was Shakira's second album of the year, directly following the Spanish-language Fijación Oral Vol. 1 by less than six months. (As part of a small trend in 2005, Shakira joined Sony label mates System of a Down in releasing two back-to-back albums of new material in a single calendar year.) Ironically, in the crucial U.S. market, Vol. 1 – for which Sony likely had lower expectations given the album's late-spring release and non-English content – actually sold better than Vol. 2, Shakira's first English-language album since her breakthrough Laundry Service four years earlier. Despite its release in a slower sales period of the year, Vol. 1 had bigger first-week sales than Vol. 2 (157,000 copies vs. 128,000), charted higher (#4 – a rare ranking for a Spanish album – vs. #5) and produced a genuine hit single in the #23 hit "La Tortura" with Alejandro Sanz, while Vol. 2's leadoff single "Don't Bother" stalled just outside the Top 40. Vol. 2 was too important a project for Epic, so around the start of 2006 they asked Wyclef Jean to remake his own song with Shakira and give the album a crucial radio hit – a tactic that proved a tremendous success: When Vol. 2 was re-released in March 2006 with "Hips Don't Lie" (plus an alternate version of "La Tortura"), the album shot up 92 spots on the Billboard 200, representing a one-week sales increase of 643%. As of November 2007, the album has sold close to 2 million copies in the United States, more than half of them the re-release containing "Hips Don't Lie."

"Hips Don't Lie" debuted on the L.A.-based radio station KIIS-FM (on the Ryan Seacrest Morning Show) on February 14, 2006. Shakira and Wyclef Jean performed the song on the following TV shows: American Idol, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Live With Regis and Kelly, The Today Show, Total Request Live, and the 2007 Grammy Awards. The song can be heard in the EA Sports video game MVP 06 NCAA Baseball, the film soundtrack to Ice Age: The Meltdown, and on MySpace records. soundtrack on 27 Dresses.

This is what Shakira says about the song "Hips Don't Lie" on her official website:

"Hello again! I just wanted to let you know that very soon you are going to start hearing my new song, "Hips Don't Lie" on the radio (or as we say in Spanish, "Las Caderas No Mienten"). Wyclef from the Fugees is on the track with me and very soon it will be added to my album Oral Fixation Vol. 2. In reality, it wasn't anything I had planned - but during my vacation at the start of the year Wyclef and I bumped into each other. It was a happy accident."

The use of the opening trumpets caused a small controversy when Jerry Rivera openly accused Shakira of plagiarizing the opening trumpets without his knowing, though saying he would not press charges on her.[5] However, rights had been obtained from the copyright owner and Jerry's name acknowledged in the album's booklet.[1]

Less than two weeks after its debut on KIIS, Z100 added the track, and less than a week after it was added to the playlist, it was the most requested song on the station as it hit #1 on the "Interactive 9@9". It stayed on top for about a month. In December 2006 it was announced that "Hips Don't Lie" was the #1 song of the year, a first for both Shakira and Wyclef Jean.

A Spanish version entitled "Será, Será (Las Caderas No Mienten)" was also released. This version is sung in Spanish, as well as the rap. Shakira also sang another version (produced by RedOne) called "Hips Don't Lie/Bamboo" at the closing ceremony of the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Berlin, Germany.

Lyrics

  • The lyrics "En Barranquilla se baila así" ("In Barranquilla we dance like this") are a reference to the city of Barranquilla, Colombia, which is Shakira's hometown. The skirts used in the video to dance this part resemble the cumbia skirts which are typical Colombian folk dress.
  • The lyrics "Baila en la calle de noche, baila en la calle de día" ("Dance in the street at night, dance in the street by day") are a reference to "Carnaval (Baila en la Calle)", a merengue song written by Dominican musician Luis "Terror" Díaz and the unofficial theme song of the Dominican Republic's Carnival, but frequently used in Barranquilla too. (Dominican merengue star Fernando Villalona's version is the song's best known version, it was a hit in the early '80s.)
  • In the video, the masks and costumes in the background are "marimondas" which are mythological creatures represented in Barranquilla Carnival.

Music video

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Shakira in the music video.

The music video was directed by British director Sophie Muller and filmed in Los Angeles, California, United States. The video begins with Shakira against a black background dancing while Wyclef and a couple other men are watching her. When Wyclef raps his first rap verse, it shows him following Shakira with pink curtains everywhere. It also shows them on the street along with different people. When the verse 2 begins, she is seen sitting in a chair while singing. It then cuts to an arena-like environment where Shakira is dancing with other people. It ends with Shakira against the black background. The majority of the costumes and outfits featured in the video belong to the Carnaval de Barranquilla, some of which include the white dress Shakira dances in, and the colorful flags. Shakira was given dancing lessons for the performance of the song at the MTV Awards by the Indian choreographer Farah Khan.[6]

"Hips Don't Lie" has proved successful on LAUNCHcast's top-hundred most-watched videos of the week, where it has spent an impressive four months at number one. Yahoo! had fans submit videos of themselves dancing to the song, which were edited into a "fans only" version which has also proved to be one of the most popular videos on LAUNCH. The video for "Hips Don't Lie" ran in the #1 spot on iTunes (along with the single) for several weeks. It was the most-watched video of 2006, and has drawn close to two million streamed performances.[citation needed] The video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography on August 31, 2006 and the MTV Latin Award for Song Of The Year on October 19, 2006. The video also placed #2 on VH1's "Top 40 Videos of 2006".

Chart performance

In February 2006, "Hips Don't Lie" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at #84. Four weeks later, it entered the U.S. Billboard Hot 100's top-forty on the chart and received the "greatest airplay gainer" title on the Hot 100 for three weeks in a row. The song achieved a peak position of #13 until it was released digitally on May 27, 2006. Shakira's record label Epic Records originally held back the release of the song's digital downloads to boost sales of Oral Fixation Vol. 2. When Epic finally released it digitally the track hit #1, the single jumped from number nine to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending June 17, 2006, helped by the song's strong number-one status on the Hot 100 Airplay chart and nearly 267,000 downloads in its first week (the accomplishment broke D4L's record with "Laffy Taffy" of 179,000 paid downloads). On the iTunes download chart, the song bumped Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous" to #2 less than 24 hours after it was digitally released. Within 3 weeks the single managed to move over 670,000 paid digital downloads. Since it has been digitally available in June 2006, the song has sold more than 2,000,000 downloads in the U.S. alone.[7] "Hips Don't Lie" also set a record for the fastest selling record to reach the one million digital download mark. It sold its millionth digital download after 9 short weeks in the U.S., beating the previous record held by Daniel Powter's "Bad Day" which took 16 weeks. The song ended 2006 at #46 on the iTunes top 100, jumping up twenty-six spots from #72 on New Year's Eve. On January 1, 2007, AOL revealed a list of the Top 100 Songs and Top 100 Videos of 2006, "Hips Don't Lie" was the #6 song and unsurprisingly the #1 video.[8]

According to Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, "Hips Don't Lie" was the most-played pop song in a single week in American radio history. It was played 9,637 times in one week, breaking Gwen Stefani's previous record with 9,582 plays in a week for her #1 hit single "Hollaback Girl" in 2005.[9] Shakira also became the second female artist, the first being Cuban singer Gloria Estefan in 1989 with "Don't Wanna Lose You", ever to top the Billboard's Hot 100 chart and the Latin Singles chart simultaneously. The single held the top spot in the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in a row, being dethroned on July 1 by "Do I Make You Proud" from American Idol Season 5 winner Taylor Hicks.

In the UK it spent a total of 5 weeks at number one. After its initial one-week reign at number one, it returned to the top in its 8th week preventing Christina Aguilera's "Ain't No Other Man", Rihanna's "Unfaithful", as well as Cascada's "Everytime We Touch" and Chamillionaire's "Ridin'" from going to #1 until it was replaced by Beyoncé Knowles' "Déjà Vu". "Hips Don't Lie" broke the record for the most weeks for a song in a second run, staying four weeks during its second reign at number-one. The song remained in the top 10 for 16 weeks, and then stayed within the top 75 for an additional 38 weeks. "Hips Don't Lie" is currently the 11th best selling single by a female artist in the 21st century in the UK, and also the 10th best selling collaboration.[10] It is also the 46th best-selling single of the 2000 decade in UK.[11]

In Ireland, the single remained at the number 1 spot for a total of nine weeks throughout the summer.

"Hips Don't Lie" was the most successful song of 2006 worldwide and it reached #1 in the majority of charting countries and territories around the world. It reached number one on the USA Hot 100, Pop 100 and Hot Latin Tracks, in Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Canada (on the Digital Chart), Czech Republic, Europe, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latin America, Lebanon, Netherlands, New Zealand, Romania, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and other countries to date. The song peaked below number one but inside the top ten in Austria, Canada,(on the Canadian Airplay Chart) China, Finland, Norway and Russia peaking at number two and in Denmark peaking at number six. In Taiwan, the song peaked at number eleven, while it reached the top position on the Japan International Singles. The only nation where the song was released and didn't reach a Top 20 position was in Sweden, where it peaked at number forty-five due to its late October release on the charts.[12]

"Hips Don't Lie" was the number-two year-end song in the Netherlands; it also finished number three in Germany and the UK,[13] while in Peru it was number four and in USA it was number five.[14]

Worldwide, It is the Biggest Selling Single of the 21st Century.[15] In Germany, it's the fourth best-selling pop duet ever.[16]

On July 9, 2006 Shakira performed "Hips Don't Lie" at the World Cup Final in Berlin, Germany, to a worldwide audience of one billion people.

Awards

Track listings

Charts and certifications

Chart processions and successions

Order of precedence
Preceded by French SNEP number-one single
April 30, 2006 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Swiss Singles Chart number-one single
April 30, 2006 – June 11, 2006 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Dutch Top 40 number-one single
April 29, 2006 – May 6, 2006 		Succeeded by
"Rood" by Marco Borsato
Preceded by Belgian Flemish Ultratop 50 number-one single
May 6, 2006 – May 13, 2006
Preceded by
"Svegliarsi La Mattina" by Zero Assoluto
 Italian FIMI Singles Chart number-one single
May 12, 2006 – May 19, 2006 		Succeeded by
Preceded by German Singles Chart number-one single
May 20, 2006
June 10, 2006 – June 17, 2006 		Succeeded by
"No No Never" by Texas Lightning
"Zeit Dass Sich Was Dreht/Celebrate the Day" by Herbert Groenemeyer
Preceded by New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart number-one single
May 22, 2006 – May 29, 2006 		Succeeded by
"Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley
Preceded by
"La Boulette" by Diam's
 Belgian Wallonie Ultratop 40 number-one single
May 27, 2006 – July 8, 2006
Preceded by U.S. Billboard Hot Latin Tracks number-one single
May 27, 2006 – July 15, 2006 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
"Falling Asleep" by Morandi
 Romanian Top 100 number-one song
5 June 2006
June 19, 2006 – July 31, 2006 		Succeeded by
"Falling Asleep" by Morandi
"World, Hold On (Children of the Sky)" by Bob Sinclar
Preceded by Irish Singles Chart number-one single
June 15, 2006 – August 10, 2006 		Succeeded by
Preceded by U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
June 17, 2006 – June 24, 2006 		Succeeded by
Preceded by U.S. Billboard Pop 100 number-one single
June 17, 2006 – June 24, 2006
Preceded by Australian ARIA Singles Chart number-one single
June 18, 2006 – August 20, 2006 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Japanese Oricon International Singles Chart number-one single
June 26, 2006 		Succeeded by
"Don't Keep Me Waiting" by Fair Warning
Preceded by UK Singles Chart number-one single
July 2, 2006 – July 9, 2006
July 30, 2006 – August 27, 2006 		Succeeded by

Notes and references

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  2. ^ "¿Nuevo plagio?". univision.com.
  3. ^ http://www.theo2.co.uk/general/international-superstar-shakira-announces-2010-european-tourhtml
  4. ^ http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/yradish/41097/biggest-selling-singles-since-the-year-2000/
  5. ^ "Jerry Rivera acusa de plagio a Shakira". El Diario de Hoy. May 2, 2006.
  6. ^ Shakira's hips Bollywood bound?
  7. ^ Shakira Recording With Pharrell, Wyclef
  8. ^ Quizzes & Trivia: Year End 2006 Music.aol.com
  9. ^ Hips Don't Lie makes US history
  10. ^ http://www.4music.com/article/playlists/20-biggest-selling-girls-of-the-21st-century.html
  11. ^ Radio 1 Official Chart of the Decade, as broadcast on BBC Radio 1 on Tuesday 29 December 2009, presented by Nihal
  12. ^ swedishcharts.com - Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean - Hips Don't Lie
  13. ^ The Official UK Singles Chart of the year: 2006
  14. ^ http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/yearend/2006/charts/index.jsp Billboard.com
  15. ^ http://www.4music.com/artist/shakira/shakira-facts.html
  16. ^ http://www.rtl.de/cms/unterhaltung/tv-programm/show/die-ultimative-chartshow/pop-duette-liste.html
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  44. ^ "2006 Austrian Singles Chart" (in German). Austriancharts. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
  45. ^ "2006 Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart" (in Dutch). Ultratop. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
  46. ^ "2006 Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart" (in French). Ultratop. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
  47. ^ "Single top 100 over 2006" (pdf) (in Dutch). Top40. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
  48. ^ 2006 French Singles Chart Disqueenfrance.com Retrieved July 29, 2009
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  54. ^ [1]
  55. ^ [2]
  56. ^ http://www.rtl.de/cms/unterhaltung/tv-programm/show/die-ultimative-chartshow/hits-neue-jahrtausend-download.html
  57. ^ Australia Certification
  58. ^ Austria Certification
  59. ^ Belgium Certification
  60. ^ Canada Certification
  61. ^ "Guld og platin i 2007" (in Danish). Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  62. ^ France Certification
  63. ^ Germany Certification
  64. ^ New Zealand Certification
  65. ^ Switzerland Certification
  66. ^ UK certification
  67. ^ Certification
  68. ^ http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/42196/week-ending-nov-8-2009-the-host-with-the-most/
  69. ^ http://www.amprofon.com.mx/ Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas, A.C.
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