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"Tubthumping"
TubthumpingHQ.jpg
Unmarried past Chumbawamba
from the album Tubthumper
B-side
  • "Goodbye to the Crown"
  • "Football Song" ("Shit Ground, No Fans...")
Released 11 August 1997 (1997-08-eleven)
Studio Woodlands (Castleford)
Genre
  • Dance-rock
  • alternative rock
  • dance-punk
Length
  • iv:38 (album version)
  • 3:33 (single version)
Characterization
  • EMI
  • Universal
  • Democracy
Songwriter(s)
  • Chumbawamba
Producer(s)
  • Chumbawamba
Chumbawamba singles chronology
"Just Expect at Me At present"
(1996) 		"Tubthumping"
(1997) 		"Amnesia"
(1998)
Audio sample
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Music video
"Tubthumping" on YouTube

"Tubthumping" is a song released by British stone ring Chumbawamba from their eighth studio album, Tubthumper (1997). It is the ring's most successful single, peaking at number two on the Great britain Singles Chart. It topped the charts in Australia, Canada, Republic of ireland, Italy, New Zealand and hit number six on the U.s.a. Billboard Hot 100[1] (although it topped the US Modernistic Rock and Mainstream Summit forty charts). At the 1998 Brit Awards, "Tubthumping" was nominated for the Brit Award for All-time British Unmarried. It sold 880,000 copies in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland.[2]

Groundwork [edit]

The song was the group'due south lead single from Tubthumper, their major-characterization debut.[3] Information technology was released on 11 August 1997.[4] [5] Vocalist Dunstan Bruce retrospectively observed that, before the group wrote it, they "were in a mess: nosotros had become directionless and disparate". He credited "Tubthumping" with changing that, telling The Guardian, "It'southward not our most political or best song, but information technology brought us back together. The vocal is about united states – as a grade and as a band. The dazzler of it was nosotros had no idea how big information technology would be."[vi]

Writing and composition [edit]

A Leeds pub called the Fforde Grene served as the grouping's inspiration for the song; guitarist Boff Whalley told The Guardian that it was written nigh "the resilience of ordinary people";[6] musically, "Tubthumping" is a dance-stone, alternative rock, and dance-punk song in D major.[7] [8] [9] [ten] [xi]

Critical reception [edit]

Larry Flick from Billboard wrote, "Some records simply need attention: 'Tubthumping' is one of the rare few. You lot can spend three times the track's running time plucking out the seemingly disparate sounds and contrasted genre references—starting with the forceful alterna-rock guitar scratches, the hip-hop-derived beats, and the swing-fashion horns. Holding it all together are the kind of rousing, gang-like chants that you hear at football games. Sounds odd, eh? Well, you won't soon forget this jam after first listen. And you lot'll likely be hearing it on pop and modern rock stations for months to come. If this gem is indicative of the tone of the act's forthcoming album, it should be quite a head trip."[12] A reviewer from Daily Record described information technology equally an "irritating catchy drinking anthem from the agitator ring".[13] It was also called a "raucous anthem".[14] Pan-European mag Music & Media said, "After a decade and a one-half spent every bit indie heroes this commonage is likely to intermission into the mainstream in a big way".[15] Ian Hyland of the Sunday Mirror rated information technology eight out of ten, writing, "Sing a terrace chant, mention lager and the rugby boys volition exist making boozed-up man pyramids on the dance flooring in seconds. And yous'll take a monster striking – proficient work, chum."[sixteen] Troy J. Augusto from Variety declared it as a "drinking-and-dancing anthem" and "the quirk hit of the season".[17]

In The Village Vox's Pazz & Jop poll for 1997, "Tubthumping" was voted the 2d-best single of the year.[xviii] Australian radio station Triple J ranked it No. 3 in its Triple J Hottest 100 for the aforementioned year.[19] Author Bruce Pollock included it in his 2005 book "The 7,500 Near Of import Songs of 1944-2000".[twenty] "Tubthumping" likewise placed at No. 12 in Rolling Rock 'southward 2007 list of the "20 Most Annoying Songs"[21] and at No. 8 in the magazine's 2011 list of the "Top 10 One-Striking Wonders of All Time".[22]

Commercial performance [edit]

Upon its release, the song became an international hitting.[23] On the United kingdom Singles Chart, it debuted at number two on the chart dated 23 August 1997; it spent three consecutive weeks at number two, held off the top spot by Volition Smith's "Men in Blackness."[24] [25] [26] The song spent 11 consecutive weeks in the top x, and 20 consecutive weeks on the top 100.[27] On the chart dated 24 January 1998, iii weeks after its last calendar week on the nautical chart, the song reentered the singles chart at number 88; the side by side week, it fell to number 96 earlier exiting the chart.[27]

In the U.S., the song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 dated 13 September 1997, at number 79.[28] The adjacent calendar week, it rose to number 63, attaining the calendar week's biggest gain in airplay.[29] Ii weeks later on, on the nautical chart dated 4 October 1997, the song was again the biggest airplay gainer of the week, inbound the top xl in its ascent from 47 to 35.[thirty] In its twelfth week on the chart, 29 Nov 1997, the song reached its height of number vi, where information technology spent ii weeks.[31] In total, it spent 31 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100.[32]

The single was also present on many year-end singles charts for 1997. In the U.One thousand., information technology ranked every bit the twelvemonth's seventh almost-popular single,[33] while it placed at number 3 on Australia's top 100 songs of the yr.[34] The unmarried as well placed in the top 20 of the twelvemonth-stop chart in Sweden[35] and in the top 100 of 1997 in Belgium, Canada, Germany, holland, New Zealand, and the United States.[36] [37] [38] [39] [forty] [41] In the U.S., it placed at number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100's year-terminate ranking for 1998.[42]

Rail listings and formats [edit]

Charts and certifications [edit]

Release history [edit]

"Tubthumping" (2003 Remix) [edit]

"Tubthumping (remix)"
Single by Chumbawamba
from the anthology Readymades and And then Some (Bonus DVD)
B-side
  • "Table salt Fare, Due north Ocean"
  • "Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name)"
Released 2003 (2003)
Label Koch
Chumbawamba singles chronology
"Jacob'southward Ladder (Not in My Proper noun)"
(2002) 		"Tubthumping (remix)"
(2003) 		"Home with Me"
(2003)

"Tubthumping (remix)" was released in 2003 every bit a promotional CD by Chumbawamba on Koch Records. The remixed version of the song was washed by The Flaming Lips and Dave Fridmann.[93]

The single was released promotionally by Mutt Records, with their previous single, "Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name)", as a B-side.[94] It was likewise included on the bonus DVD accompanying Readymades and Then Some, the rerelease of their 2002 album Readymades.[95] Stereogum also made the song available equally a complimentary MP3 download in June 2004.[96]

Track list [edit]

US promo CD [97]

  1. "Tubthumping" (remix) (by the Flaming Lips and Dave Fridmann) – 5:twenty
  2. "Salt Fare, North Sea" – four:28
  3. "Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name)" – 2:52

Legacy [edit]

I go knocked downwardly just I get upwardly over again

A neon sculpture on the Leeds Playhouse features the lyric "I get knocked down only I go up once more".[98] During the COVID-19 pandemic in Leeds, the vocal was given a remix past local young musicians and sportspeople.[99]

Run into also [edit]

  • List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1990s
  • List of RPM number-one alternative rock singles
  • List of number-ane singles of 1997 (Ireland)
  • List of number-i singles from the 1990s (New Zealand)
  • List of Billboard Mainstream Peak 40 number-one songs of the 1990s
  • List of Adult Top twoscore number-one songs of the 1990s

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External links [edit]

  • Song Review at AllMusic
  • They Might Be Giants cover "Tubthumping" for A.Five. Club Undercover

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