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The song was also popular in the United Kingdom, becoming their 8th hit single there. "Pump It" peaked at number 3 on the UK Singles Chart - only 5 sales behind the #2 song that week "It's Chico Time", [4] matching the chart success of previous single "My Humps". It was the first song ever to make the UK Top 40 on sales of downloads alone.
The music video was partially inspired by the 2002 film, The Ring, [citation needed] and begins with three women putting a videotape containing Pump It Up into a VCR player. Budden then appears on the television screen and eventually walks out of it, when the video cuts to him performing the song to a large crowd in a park.
The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".
The music video for "Pump It Up" was directed by Paul Flattery for Jon Roseman Productions. [19] Costello recalled the video as "cheaply produced" and noted the director's use of a fisheye lens that made him look "bug-eyed". [20] The video features Costello's signature jerky dancing. Costello explained,
More recently, they have reached into the top ten, and in 2019, for only the second time ever on the Hot 100 (the first since 1958), made it to number one. This has led to all-time records for dropping off the Hot 100, including from number one, as the songs depart regardless of their final chart positions during the season.
Walk Like an Egyptian" by The Bangles was the number one song of 1987. Madonna had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1987. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1987. [1] [2]
This is a list of songs that are featured in Andamiro's Pump It Up video game series.. Pump It Up's in-house musician group BanYa was responsible for original songs in the series under dance pop, rock, heavy metal, jazz, folk, progressive and house genres, including EDM remixes of classical pieces such as Canon in D, Turkey March and Moonlight.
The list differs from the 2004 version, with 26 songs added, all of which are songs from the 2000s except "Juicy" by The Notorious B.I.G., released in 1994. The top 25 remained unchanged, but many songs down the list were given different rankings as a result of the inclusion of new songs, causing consecutive shifts among the songs listed in 2004.