The song was awarded with a gold record in Australia (35,000), Austria (25,000), Sweden (25,000) and the US (500,000), and a silver record in the United Kingdom (200,000).ĪllMusic editor Andrew Hamilton noted that the song is a "remake/takeoff" of the Gap Band's nonsensical funk riff " Oops Upside Your Head". On the Billboard Dance/Club Play Songs chart, it peaked at number four. Outside Europe, "Ooops Up" reached number-one on the RPM Dance/Urban chart in Canada, number four in Australia, number five in Zimbabwe, number eight in New Zealand and number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. It stayed at that position for two weeks. In the latter, the single peaked at number five in its third week on the UK Singles Chart, on 24 June 1990. It entered the top 10 also in Belgium (4), Denmark (10), Finland (4), Italy (3), Spain (6) and the UK. And it reached the number two position in Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and West Germany. Like its predecessor, "Ooops Up" was very successful on the charts on several continents, peaking at number-one in Greece. Its music video was directed by Liam Kan. The narrator talks about it and everything that went wrong during his day. Lyrically the song is about Murphy's Law. The single was a world-wide hit and reached number-one in Greece. The song is a re-working of " I Don't Believe You Want to Get Up and Dance (Ooops!)" a 1980 hit by The Gap Band, with which band member Penny Ford was a former backing singer. Once he found his groove with deep techno, he emigrated to Ibiza, the epicenter of the house music scene." Ooops Up" is a song by German Eurodance group Snap!, released in June 1990 as the second single from their debut studio album, World Power (1990). Drawing inspiration from 90s artists like David Morales, Frankie Knuckles, and Daft Punk, Cortes developed his unique sound to play in clubs. Cortes realized that becoming a DJ would satiate this desire. He wanted to witness the ecstasy of a live crowd dancing to his music. Although Cortes enjoyed his work as a producer, he wasn't satisfied with the lack of feedback from the audience that the job entailed. For this reason, Cortes often credits his collaboration with Fox as a pivotal moment in his career. In just two days, she flew to his studio in Bern, where they recorded a remake of the '80s hit, "Touch Me." Soon after their collaboration, he was ghost-producing for some of the biggest names in house music. She praised Cortes' album, deeming it as one of the best that she has ever heard. One of the recipients was actress, model, and singer Samantha Fox, who had many chart-topping singles on the Billboard Hot 100 in the '80s. After engineering school, Cortes spent the early days of his career sending demos to various scouts to get his foot in the door. When he left school, Cortes attended the audio engineering school in Zurich, Switzerland, to learn music production. Before he found great success in Western Europe through house and pop music, Cortes developed a precocious talent for music while living in his Swiss hometown. Cortes admits that he still feels the goose bumps rising on his skin while playing his set. Soon after, the DJ experienced a surge in international bookings from places like Amnesia, one of the hottest dance clubs in Ibiza, Spain. His hit single, "Don't Leave Me," started gaining heavy rotation on MTV worldwide, attracting massive attention from the house music scene. 2004 was the start of a wild ride for Latino-Swiss DJ Santiago Cortes. Santiago Cortes is a Swiss-Colombian DJ & Music Producer.
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