So if you replace : 'dance for me, dance for me' with 'sing for me, sing for me,' it's pretty literal," she said. to command attention, people would be like: 'again! again!'. we are all so used to being entertained at the click of a button." And if they didn't like it, when they looked at their phones they could just click something else. "I wrote this song when I was busking, and about the pressure that I felt to always be entertaining people on the street. When interviewed by DJ Smallzy in July 2019 on Australian radio station Nova FM, Tones explained that Dance Monkey's lyrics are about the relationship she had with her audience when she was busking (street performing) on the streets of Australia: The following week, "Dance Monkey" entered the US Billboard Hot 100 top ten for the first time at number nine, and later peaked at number four on the chart.
On 10 December 2019, Tones appeared as a guest performer again in the US on The Voice. Tones made her debut on US television on 18 November 2019 with a performance of the song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The previous record of ten weeks was held jointly by Whitney Houston's version of " I Will Always Love You" in 1992–1993 and " Umbrella" by Rihanna and Jay-Z in 2007. In the United Kingdom, "Dance Monkey" broke the record for the most weeks spent at the top of the UK Singles Chart by a female artist when it remained at the top of the chart for an eleventh week. In May 2020, "Dance Monkey" was announced as the Grand Prize winner of the 2019 International Songwriting Competition. At the AIR Awards of 2020, the song won Independent Song of the Year. At the APRA Music Awards of 2020, "Dance Monkey" was nominated for Song of the Year, Most Performed Australian Work of the Year and Most Performed Pop Work of the Year, winning Song of the Year. Tones won ARIA Award for Best Female Artist and Breakthrough Artist while "Dance Monkey" won Best Pop Release and The Kids Are Coming EP won Best Independent Release. Īt the ARIA Music Awards of 2019, Tones and I was nominated for eight awards, winning four. "Dance Monkey" also holds the record for the longest time at number one across Australian singles charts, with 24 weeks (including 21 consecutive weeks from August to late December 2019). In November 2019, during its sixteenth week at number one, it broke the record for the most weeks at number one in Australia's ARIA chart history (1983–present), previously held by Ed Sheeran's " Shape of You" (2017). Upon reaching its tenth week at the top of the Australian Singles Chart, "Dance Monkey" broke the record for the most weeks at number one on the chart by an Australian artist. When it hit number four in the US, it became the first top-five hit solely written by a woman in over eight years. "Dance Monkey" topped the official singles charts in over 30 countries and peaked within the top ten of many others, including the United States.
The song was produced and mixed by Konstantin Kersting. performed the song during the Selena ¡VIVE! tribute concert with his band." Dance Monkey" is a song by Australian singer Tones and I, released on as the second single (first in the US) from Tones and I's debut EP The Kids Are Coming. It peaked at number 44 on the US Hot Latin Tracks and number 16 on the Latin Regional Mexican Airplay chart. Quintanilla III remixed the song as "Baila Esta Kumbia". It then became one of Selena's signature songs. It peaked in the top 20 on the US Hot Latin Tracks (1990), Latin Regional Mexican Airplay (1991) chart and the Spanish Singles Chart (1996). It peaked at number-one on the Mexican Singles Chart (1994), Italy Singles Chart (1996), Argentinian Singles Chart (1994) and France Singles Chart (1995). The song was the lead single from Ven Conmigo (1990). " Baila Esta Cumbia" (English: "Dance This Cumbia") is a song by American singer Selena.
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