Start the Commotion
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{{Infobox song
| name = Start the Commotion
| cover = Start the Commotion single.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = The Wiseguys
| album = The Antidote
| released = 1998
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Big beat
| length = 5:57
| label = Label Mammoth
| writer = Theo Keating
| producer = Touché
| prev_title = Ooh La La
| prev_year = 1998
| next_title = Dizzy Spell
| next_year = 2002
}}
"Start the Commotion" is a song by British electronic music duo The Wiseguys, from their second album The Antidote. It was released as a single in the UK in 1998,{{cite web|last1=Dangelo|first1=Joe|title=Commercial Causing a 'Commotion' for Wiseguys Song|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1448566/commercial-causing-a-commotion-for-wiseguys-song/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160608075346/http://www.mtv.com/news/1448566/commercial-causing-a-commotion-for-wiseguys-song/|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 8, 2016|website=MTV|publisher=MTV News|accessdate=September 14, 2016|date=August 31, 2001}} and peaked at #66 on the UK Singles Chart. A re-release the following year gave the song a higher chart placing, peaking at #47.{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/start-the-commotion/|title=Start the Commotion - Official Charts Company|website=Official Charts |publisher=}} It also peaked at #36 on the American dance charts in 2000.{{cite book |title= Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=282}} "Start the Commotion" has also been officially remixed by Eric Kupper and DJ Spinna.
Background
The song is built around a repeated sample from the 1966 song "Wild Child" by The Ventures.{{cite book |last1=Whitburn |first1=Joel |title=The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 9th Edition: Complete Chart Information about America's Most Popular Songs and Artists, 1955-2009 |date=18 July 2012 |publisher=Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed |isbn=978-0-307-98512-5 |page=714 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Bvm2rnwUDIC&pg=PA714 |access-date=30 September 2021 |language=en}}
Track listing
;UK CD single
- "Start the Commotion" (Radio edit)
- "Fatal Femme" (feat. Sense Live)
- "Start the Commotion" (Full length)
2001 re-release
After being used in a Mitsubishi Motors television commercial in the U.S. in 2001, the song gained a second life and significant radio airplay, reaching the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 and making it the Wiseguys' best known song.
Charts
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| Chart (1998–2001)
! Peak position |
|---|
| Canada CHR (Nielsen BDS){{cite web|url=http://www.crosscanadacountdown.com/pdfs/2001.pdf|title=Canadian Top 20 in 2001|website=Cross Canada Countdown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050407223203/http://www.crosscanadacountdown.com/pdfs/2001.pdf|archive-date=7 April 2005|access-date=April 11, 2024}}
|align="center|15 |
| UK Singles Chart
|align="center"|47 |
| U.S. Billboard Dance Music/Club Play Singles{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/the-wiseguys/chart-history/dsi/|title=The Wiseguys Start the Commotion Chart History (Dance Club Songs)|magazine=Billboard}}
|align="center"|36 |
| {{singlechart|Billboardhot100|31|artist=The Wiseguys}} |
| {{singlechart|Billboardadultpopsongs|14|artist=The Wiseguys}} |
| {{singlechart|Billboardpopsongs|11|artist=The Wiseguys}} |
Other uses in popular culture
- It was featured in the 2001 comedy Zoolander, where it was used to promote the film.
- It was also featured in the films Gun Shy (2000) and Kangaroo Jack (2003).
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