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Move Your Ass!

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{{Infobox song

| name = Move Your Ass!

| cover = Move_your_ass.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Scooter

| album = ... and the Beat Goes On!

| B-side = Back in Time

| released = 27 January 1995

| recorded =

| studio =

| genre = Acid techno{{cite web|last=Masterton|first=James|title=Week Ending October 21st 1995|url=https://chart-watch.uk/archives/1995/week-ending-october-21st-1995|website=Chart Watch UK|date=15 October 1995|access-date=25 September 2021|author-link=James Masterton}}

| length = 5:38

| label = Club Tools

| writer =

  • H. P. Baxxter
  • Rick J. Jordan
  • Jens Thele
  • Ferris Bueller

| producer =

  • H. P. Baxxter
  • Rick J. Jordan
  • Jens Thele
  • Ferris Bueller

| prev_title = Hyper Hyper

| prev_year = 1994

| next_title = Friends

| next_year = 1995

| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|2RneoccuJwY|"Move Your Ass!"}}}}

}}

"Move Your Ass!" is a song by German band Scooter, released in January 1995 as the second single from their first studio album, ...and the Beat Goes On! (1995). In October of the same year, a Move Your Ass EP was marketed in the United Kingdom and Ireland. This rave song was a hit in countries such as Austria, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland where it reached the top ten. In France, the song reached number 11.

"Move Your Ass" was the introduction to Scooter in the UK, being the first of their many releases to enter the UK top 40. It was first released there on 1 April 1995, but it stalled at number 98 on the chart before dropping out of the top 100 altogether. It saw a re-release on 21 October 1995, when it entered the UK top 40 and peaked at number 23. It remained in the UK top 100 for four weeks.

Critical reception

James Masterton for Dotmusic viewed "Move Your Ass!" as a "startlingly retrospective-sounding acid track".{{cite web|last=Masterton|first=James|title=Week Ending October 21st 1995|url=https://chart-watch.uk/archives/1995/week-ending-october-21st-1995|website=Chart Watch UK|date=15 October 1995|access-date=25 September 2021|author-link=James Masterton}} Pan-European magazine Music & Media commented, "Vrrrrrroooooommmmmmmm!!!!! There goes the Vespa again to deliver the follow-up to novelty hit Hyper Hyper. Once more the unchanged winning team performs in a fake live show setting."{{cite magazine|first= |last= |title= New Releases: Singles |magazine= Music & Media |date= 11 February 1995 |page= 10 |access-date= 17 May 2021 |url= https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1995/MM-1995-02-11.pdf}} James Hamilton from Music Week's RM Dance Update described it as a "rabble rousing phonetic exhortations shouted surging fantastically frantic 0–160 3-0bpm raver from Germany".{{cite magazine|first= James |last= Hamilton |title= Dj directory |magazine= Music Week, in Record Mirror (Dance Update Supplemental insert) |date= 8 April 1995 |page= 11 |access-date= 6 May 2021 |url= https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1995/Music-Week-1995-04-08.pdf |author-link= James Hamilton (DJ and journalist)}}

Music video

A music video was produced to promote the single, directed by Eric Will.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGu7WDKCztM |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/KGu7WDKCztM |archive-date=21 December 2021 |url-status=live|title=Scooter – Move Your Ass (viva tv 1994) HD Audio|publisher=YouTube|access-date=9 December 2018}}{{cbignore}}

Track listings

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=Original version=

  • CD single – France
  1. "Move Your Ass!" (Video edit) – 3:55
  2. "Move Your Ass!" – 5:50
  • CD maxi – Germany and France (CLU 6090–5)
  1. "Move Your Ass!" (Video edit) – 3:58
  2. "Move Your Ass!" – 5:50
  3. "Back in Time" – 7:04

=Remixes=

  • CD maxi – Australia
  1. "Move Your Ass!" (Video edit) – 4:00
  2. "Move Your Ass!" (Ultra-sonic remix) – 7:16
  3. "Move Your Ass!" (Mandala remix) – 6:28
  4. "Move Your Ass!" (Para-dizer remix) – 3:22
  5. "Move Your Ass!" (Alien Factory remix) – 5:33
  6. "Move Your Ass!" (Mega 'lo mania-acid mania mix) – 5:49
  7. "Move Your Ass!" (Men Behind remix) – 5:54
  • CD maxi – Germany (CLU 6105–5)
  1. "Move Your Ass!" (Ultra-sonic remix) – 7:15
  2. "Move Your Ass!" (Mandala remix) – 6:23
  3. "Move Your Ass!" (para-dizer remix) – 3:22
  4. "Move Your Ass!" (Alien Factory remix) – 5:30
  5. "Move Your Ass!" (Mega 'lo mania-acid mania mix) – 5:48
  6. "Move Your Ass!" (Men Behind remix) – 5:56
  7. "Move Your Ass!" (Matiz remix) – 5:26

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  • 2×12-inch maxi – Germany (CLU 6105–0)
  1. "Move Your Ass!" (Mandala remix) – 6:27
  2. "Move Your Ass!" (Mega 'lo mania-acid mania mix) – 8:02
  3. "Move Your Ass!" (Ultra-sonic remix) – 7:15
  4. "Move Your Ass!" (Mega 'lo mania-trance dub mix) – 8:23
  5. "Move Your Ass!" (Para-dizer remix) – 6:59
  6. "Move Your Ass!" (Men Behind remix) – 5:56
  7. "Move Your Ass!" (Alien Factory remix) – 5:31
  8. "Move Your Ass!" (Matiz remix) – 5:26

=EP=

  • CD maxi – UK
  1. "Move Your Ass!" (Video edit) – 3:55
  2. "Friends" – 4:40
  3. "Endless Summer" (Radio edit) – 3:55
  4. "Move Your Ass!" (Platinum People remix) – 7:46
  • 12-inch maxi – UK
  1. "Move Your Ass!" – 5:50
  2. "Friends" (Ramon Zenker club mix) – 5:32
  3. "Endless Summer" (Maxi version) – 5:14
  4. "Move Your Ass!" (Platinum People remix) – 7:46
  • Cassette – UK
  1. "Move Your Ass!" (Video edit) – 3:55
  2. "Endless Summer" (Radio edit) – 3:55
  3. "Move Your Ass!" (Video edit) – 3:55
  4. "Endless Summer" (Radio edit) – 3:55

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Charts

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=Weekly charts=

class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"

|+Weekly chart performance for "Move Your Ass!"

!Chart (1995)

!Peak
position

{{single chart|Austria|3|artist=Scooter|song=Move Your Ass!|rowheader=true}}
{{single chart|Flanders|16|artist=Scooter|song=Move Your Ass!|rowheader=true}}
{{single chart|Wallonia|16|artist=Scooter|song=Move Your Ass!|rowheader=true}}
scope="row"|Denmark (IFPI)Danish Singles Chart. 3 March 1995.

|align="center"|12

scope="row"|Europe (Eurochart Hot 100){{cite magazine|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Music-and-Media/90s/1995/MM-1995-03-18.pdf|title=Eurochart Hot 100 Singles|magazine=Music & Media|date=18 March 1995|access-date=14 July 2019}}

|align="center"|4

scope="row"|Europe (European Dance Radio){{cite magazine|title=European Dance Radio|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/90s/1995/MM-1995-04-29.pdf|work=Music & Media|date=29 April 1995|page=19|accessdate=20 April 2023}}

|align="center"|3

scope="row"|Finland (Suomen virallinen lista){{cite book | first= Jake | last= Nyman |year= 2005 | title=Suomi soi 4: Suuri suomalainen listakirja | edition= 1st | publisher=Tammi | location= Helsinki| isbn= 951-31-2503-3 | language= fi}}

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{{single chart|France|11|artist=Scooter|song=Move Your Ass!|rowheader=true}}
{{single chart|Germany|3|artist=Scooter|song=Move Your Ass!|songid=2949|rowheader=true}}
scope="row"|Ireland (IRMA){{cite web|url=http://www.irishcharts.ie/search/placement|title=Irish Singles Chart – Search for song|access-date=6 July 2011|publisher=Irish Recorded Music Association}}

|align="center"|15

scope="row"|Italy (Musica e dischi){{cite web|url=http://www.musicaedischi.it/classifiche_archivio.php|title=Classifiche|work=Musica e dischi|language=it|access-date=4 June 2022}} Set "Tipo" on "Singoli". Then, in the "Artista" field, search "Scooter".

|align="center"|5

{{single chart|Dutch40|4|artist=Scooter|song=Move Your Ass!|rowheader=true}}
{{single chart|Dutch100|5|artist=Scooter|song=Move Your Ass!|rowheader=true}}
{{single chart|Norway|6|artist=Scooter|song=Move Your Ass!|rowheader=true}}
{{single chart|Scotland|8|date=19951021|rowheader=true|access-date=3 April 2023|note=The Move Your Ass E.P.}}
scope="row"|Spain (AFYVE){{cite book |last=Salaverri|first=Fernando|title=Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002|edition=1st |date=September 2005|publisher=Fundación Autor-SGAE|location=Spain|isbn=84-8048-639-2}}

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{{single chart|Sweden|10|artist=Scooter|song=Move Your Ass!|rowheader=true}}
{{single chart|Switzerland|3|artist=Scooter|song=Move Your Ass!|rowheader=true}}
{{single chart|UK|23|date=19951021|rowheader=true|note=The Move Your Ass E.P.}}
scope="row"|UK on a Pop Tip Club Chart (Music Week){{cite magazine|url= https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1995/Music-Week-1995-04-08.pdf |title= The RM on a Pop Tip Club Chart |work= Music Week, in Record Mirror (Dance Update Supplemental insert) |date= 8 April 1995 |page= 8 |access-date= 2 September 2021}}

|align="center"|22

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=Year-end charts=

class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"

|+Year-end chart performance for "Move Your Ass!"

!Chart (1995)

!Position

scope="row"|Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40){{cite web|url=https://austriancharts.at/year.asp?cat=s&id=1995|title=Jahreshitparade Singles 1995|language=de|access-date=9 May 2025}}

|align="center"|20

scope="row"|Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders){{cite web|url=https://www.ultratop.be/nl/annual.asp?year=1995|title=Jaaroverzichten 1995|publisher=Ultratop|language=nl|access-date=9 May 2025}}

|align="center"|98

scope="row"|Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia){{cite web|url=https://www.ultratop.be/fr/annual.asp?year=1995|title=Rapports annuels 1995|publisher=Ultratop|language=fr|access-date=9 May 2025}}

|align="center"|80

scope="row"|Europe (Eurochart Hot 100){{cite magazine|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Music-and-Media/90s/1995/MM-1995-12-23.pdf|title=1995 Year-End Sales Charts: Eurochart Hot 100 Singles|date=23 December 1995|access-date=2 December 2019|magazine=Music & Media}}

|align="center"|39

scope="row"|France (SNEP){{cite web|url=https://snepmusique.com/les-tops/le-top-de-lannee/top-singles-annee/?annee=1995|title=Tops de L'année {{!}} Top Singles 1995|publisher=SNEP|language=fr|access-date=9 May 2025}}

|align="center"|74

scope="row"|Germany (Media Control){{cite web|url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/charts/single-jahr/for-date-1995|title=Top 100 Single–Jahrescharts 1995|publisher=GfK Entertainment|language=de|access-date=26 November 2019}}

|align="center"|56

scope="row"|Netherlands (Dutch Top 40){{cite web|url=http://www.top40.nl/pdf/Top%20100/top%20100%20-%201995.pdf|title=Single top 100 over 1995|publisher=Dutch Top 40|language=nl|access-date=17 April 2010}}

|align="center"|64

scope="row"|Netherlands (Single Top 100){{cite web|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/jaaroverzichten.asp?year=1995&cat=s|title=Jaaoverzichten – Single 1995|website=dutchcharts.nl|language=nl|access-date=4 December 2019}}

|align="center"|65

scope="row"|Sweden (Topplistan){{cite web|url=https://www.sverigetopplistan.se/chart/43?dspy=1995&dspp=1|title=Årslista Singlar, 1995|publisher=Sverigetopplistan|language=sv|access-date=23 November 2019}}

|align="center"|76

scope="row"|Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade){{cite web|url=http://swisscharts.com/charts/jahreshitparade/1995|title=Schweizer Jahreshitparade 1995|language=de|access-date=9 May 2025}}

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Certifications

{{Certification Table Top|caption=Certifications and sales for "Move Your Ass!"}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=Germany|type=single|artist=Scooter|title=Move Your Ass|award=Gold|relyear=1995|certyear=1995|access-date=3 April 2023}}

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Release history

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!scope="col"|Region

!scope="col"|Date

!scope="col"|Format(s)

!scope="col"|Label(s)

!scope="col"|{{abbr|Ref.|Reference}}

scope="row"|Germany

|27 January 1995

|{{hlist|12-inch vinyl|CD}}

|rowspan="2"|Club Tools

|{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}

scope="row"|United Kingdom

|20 March 1995

|{{hlist|12-inch vinyl|CD|cassette}}

|{{cite magazine|title=New Releases: Singles|magazine=Music Week|page=35|date=18 March 1995}}

References

{{Reflist}}

{{Scooter}}

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Category:1995 songs

Category:1995 singles

Category:Scooter (band) songs

Category:English-language German songs

Category:Music videos directed by Eric Will

Category:Songs written by H. P. Baxxter

Category:Songs written by Jens Thele

Category:Songs written by Rick J. Jordan

Category:Songs about dancing