Hips Don't Lie

"Hips Don't Lie"
Song

"Hips Don't Lie" is a Latin-pop song performed by Colombian singer Shakira. The song was written by Wyclef Jean (who is a featured artist on the song), although Shakira assisted in writing and producing. 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, topping the charts in most countries, and was both Shakira and Wyclef Jean's first (and to date, only) number-one single in the U.S. — Shakira had had a #6 hit with "Whenever, Wherever", but Wyclef Jean's most popular song, "Killing Me Softly" with the Fugees, had been unable to chart on the Hot 100 in 1996 because a commercial single was not released. In the UK, this was Wyclef Jean's third number one hit, after "Killing Me Softly" and "Ready Or Not", and Shakira's first. In most other European countries, it was at least Shakira's second number one, "Whenever, Wherever" having topped the charts in most European territories bar the UK.

Song information

The song, a remake of "Dance Like This" (which Wyclef Jean and Juan G Ramirez had recorded for the Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights soundtrack in 2004), appears only on the special edition of Oral Fixation Vol. 2. The song's introduction is extracted from the song Amores como el nuestro by Jerry Rivera. The distinctive trumpet flourish was also previously heard on the 1997 gangster rap song Déjà Vu (Uptown Baby) by Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz.

"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 labelmates 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 Sony Music to accept its weak sales over the holidays, and the label quickly brought in Wyclef, an artist in the Sony stable, around the start of 2006 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 July 2006, the album has sold more than 1.3 million copies in the United States, more than half of them the rerelease 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 and Total Request Live. 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.

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."

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The Cover of Hips Don't Lie designed to suit the World Cup.

A Spanish version entitled "Será, Será (Las Caderas No Mienten)" was also released. This version is sung in Spanish, except for Wyclef Jean's rap part, which remains in English. Shakira also sang another version of "Hips Don't Lie" (called "The Bamboo Version") at the closing ceremony of the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Berlin, Germany.

References

• The lyrics "En Barranquilla se baila así ... sí" ("In Barranquilla we dance like this .. yeah") it's a reference to Barranquilla which is Shakira's natal city. The skirts used in the video to dance this part resemble the cumbia skirts which are folklorical typical colombian clothes.
• The lyrics "Baila en la calle de noche, baila en la calle de día" ("Dance in the street at night , dance in the street at day"). It's a reference to another song used in the Barranquilla carnival.
• In the video, the masks and costumes in the background are "marimondas" which are mythological creatures represented in Barranquilla Carnival.

Music video

"Hips Don't Lie" video

The music video was directed by British director Sophie Muller and filmed in Los Angeles, California, United States. While relatively plotless, the video presents Shakira and Wyclef Jean enjoying themselves as they dance in an arena-like environment. 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.

"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" had concurrently run in the #1 spot on iTunes (along with the single) for several weeks, the video has climbed back to the number one spot while the song is now #10 being pushed back by new-comers like Beyoncé's "Deja Vu", Jessica Simpson's "A Public Affair", and Ashlee Simpson's "Invisible". Currently, it is the most-watched video of 2006, and has drawn close to two million streamed performances. The video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography on August 31, 2006.

Parody

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Parody of "Hips Don't Lie" music video.

In June, 2006, three teenage boys from Hood River, Oregon, created a parody of the "Hips Don't Lie" music video. The parody was for their Spanish final. The teens said they chose the song for parody because their Spanish teacher was a big fan of Shakira and frequently played the song. The video featured Ryan McAlexander, an overweight male, dressed as Shakira. Salvador Ledezma was chosen to play the Wyclef Jean role, and Matt Byrne played a backup singer. Tom Wanzek videotaped the music video, and his younger brother Paul Wanzek uploaded the video to his My Space site and Google Video. By July, 2006, the parody had received 4 million hits on Google.

Chart performance

In February 2006, "Hips Don't Lie" was released to airplay in the United States. It entered the U.S. Billboard Hot 100's top-forty in its fourth week 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 chose to release the single digitally, the track hit #1 in the United Sates.

The single jumped from number nine to one on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending June 17, 2006 due to 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 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, the song has sold over 1,000,000 downloads. It becomes one of only eleven songs in US history (as of August 09, 2006, only 11 songs have sold over 1,000,000 digital downloads) to sell over one million digital downloads. "Hips Don't Lie" also set a record for the fastest selling record to reach the one million digital download mark, 9 weeks, in the US beating out the previous record held by Daniel Powter's Bad Day with 4 months. With such potential experts predict it may become the best selling digital download of all time as it is still in the Top 20 weekly most downloaded and still selling quite well nearly three and half months after its inital release.

According to Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, "Hips Don't Lie" is the most-played pop song in American radio history, being played 9,637 times in a week, breaking Gwen Stefani's previous record with 9,582 plays in a week for her #1 hit single "Hollaback Girl" in 2005. Shakira also became the first artist 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.

Outside of the U.S., the song has been a worldwide success. On May 19, 2006 the single became Shakira's second single to hit #1 in the World Music Charts, after her 2001's smash single "Whenever, Wherever". "Hips Don't Lie" stayed at number-one for a total of sixteen weeks, making it the longest-running number one single of all time on the chart. With a total of 8,299,000 points, it is the sixth best single of all time. It is still selling strong in Europe.

"Hips Don't Lie" is probably the most successful song of the year worldwide. It has already reached number one in the USA, UK, Ireland, Australia, Argentina, Ireland, Belgium, Colombia,Ecuador, Denmark, Sweden, New Zealand, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, France, Greece, Spain, Philippines, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Italy, Turkey, Slovakia, Hungary, Israel, Bulgaria, Norway,] Serbia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Switzerland, Lebanon, India, Indonesia, Perú, and many other countries to date. It is one of the few songs in history to reach #1 in almost every charting country around the world. Although, "Hips Don't Lie" has failed to reach number one in Canada, Hungary, Japan and Russia it has performed well in these markets, reaching number two in all with the exception for Japan, where it reached #94.

Charts worldwide

Chart (2006)	Peak position
Argentina Top 40 Chart	1
Australian ARIA Singles Chart	1 (9 weeks)
Belgian Singles Chart	1
Canadian BDS Airplay Chart	2
Chilean Airplay Chart	1
Colombian Singles Chart	1
Czeck Ifpi Top 40	1
Danish Singles Chart	4
Dutch Top 40	1
Europe Official Singles Chart	1 (15 weeks)
Europe Official Airplay Chart	1
Finnish Dance Chart	1
French Singles Chart	1
German Singles Chart	1 (3 weeks)
Greece Singles Chart	4
Hungarian Singles Sales	2
Indonesian Singles Chart	1
Irish Singles Chart	1 (9 weeks)
Israel Galgalz Top 20	1
Italian Singles Chart	1
Mexican Top 100	1 (1 week)
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart	1
Norwegian Singles Chart	4
Peru Top 20 Chart	1
Polish Singles Chart	1
Slovakia Airplay Charts	1
Russian Airplay Chart	2
Latin-American Top 50	1 (16 weeks)
Romanian Airplay Chart	1
Scandinavian Dance Chart	1
Swedish Airplay Chart	1
Swedish Dance Chart	1
Swiss Airplay Chart	1 (7 weeks)
UK Singles Chart	1 (5 weeks)
UK Urban Singles Chart (RnB/Hip-Hop)	1 (9 weeks)
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	1 (2 weeks)
U.S. Billboard Hot Latin Songs	1
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream	1
U.S. Billboard Hot Latin Rhythm	5
U.S. Billboard Pop 100	1
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Airplay	10
U.S. Billboard Hot Latin Pop Tracks	1
U.S. Billboard Hot Tropical Tracks	5
U.S. Billboard Adult Top 40	18
United World Chart	1 (16 weeks)

Trajectories

U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart trajectory
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Position	84	60	41	33	29	27	19	17	13	16	9	1	1	2	2	2	4	4	6	10	15	17	22	27	25	29

Australian ARIA Top 50 Singles
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Position	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	5	3	5	6

Canadian BDS Airplay chart
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
Position	65	42	26	14	13	7	4	4	2	3	3	3	3	4	6	6	7	11	10	12	13	15	19

French Singles Top 100
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Position	1	3	2	2	3	3	4	7	6	9	7	9	9	11	13

German Top 100 Singles
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Position	1	2	2	1	1	3	3	4	4	3	3	6

Latin Top 40 Airplay
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
Position	35	20	16	19	4	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

UK Top 75 Singles
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Position	54	3	2	1	2	2	3	1	1	1	1	2	2	5

Russian Top 100 Airplay
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Position	26	15	11	6	5	3	2	2	5	5	4	6	5	4	3	2	3

Irish Top 50 Singles
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Position	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	4	6	7

Swiss Singles Top 100
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Position	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	5

United World Chart
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
Position	32	24	13	7	4	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	4

Track listing

CD single:

1. "Hips Don't Lie" (featuring Wyclef Jean) [Jean, Duplessis, Shakira, Parker, Alfanno] - 3:41
2. "Dreams for Plans" [Shakira, Buckley] - 4:02

Maxi CD single:

1. "Hips Don't Lie" (featuring Wyclef Jean) - 3:41
2. "Hips Don't Lie" (Wyclef Remix) (feat. Wyclef Jean) - 3:59
3. "Hips Don't Lie" (Wyclef Mix Show Mix) (feat. Wyclef Jean) - 4:09
4. "Hips Don't Lie" (Wyclef Remix Instrumental) (feat. Wyclef Jean) - 3:57
5. "Hips Don't Lie" (Bamboo 2006 FIFA World Cup Version) - 3:24
6. "Será Será" (Hips Don't Lie Spanish Album Version) - 3:35

Japanese release:

1. "Hips Don't Lie" (featuring Wyclef Jean) - 3:41
2. "Hips Don't Lie" (Bamboo - 2006 FIFA World Cup Mix) (feat. Wyclef Jean)
3. "Hips Don't Lie" (Spanish Version) (feat. Wyclef Jean) - 3:41
4. "Hips Don't Lie" (DJ Kazzanova Remix) (feat. Wyclef Jean)

The Japanese release has an orange cover instead of the regular blue one.

Catalog number: EICP637

Notes

References

• "Digital Explosion Drives Shakira's 'Hips' To No. 1". U.S. Billboard chart information. Retrieved June 11. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)