Europop (album)
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| Studio album by Eiffel 65 | ||||
| Released | 22 May 1999 | |||
| Recorded | 1998 – January 1999 | |||
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| Length | 65:26 | |||
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"Forever" cover
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| Allmusic |   |
| Entertainment Weekly | C+ |
| Los Angeles Daily News |  |
| PopMatters | (8/10) |
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Europop is the debut album by Italian electronic group Eiffel 65. The album was released in 1999 as under Bliss Corporation and Universal Records and Republic Music (Universal and Republic would merge to Universal Republic). The album is most notable for the group's two biggest hits: "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" and "Move Your Body", which topped the charts worldwide.
Jey said about the title of Europop:
"The meaning of Euro pop actually, you can split this into Euro and pop. With Euro, we're meaning a gathering of different dance, European cultures. So we're talking about trip hop coming from the U.K., techno from Germany, we're talking about dance from Italy. It's all blended together. In fact, the different tracks have a different kind of dance situation as a bottom arrangement. And pop means that there's always a song on it. So that's exactly what we're saying, Euro pop and songs put onto a European dance situation."
The album features pitch-corrected vocals and Euro disco beats throughout. Despite hailing from Italy, Eiffel 65 perform all the songs on this album in English.
The album peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 in the United States, and the song "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100, impressive for an EDM song at the time of its release. In February 2000, the album was certified two-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments of two million copies in the US. In a list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1990s by Channel 4, Europop came out at number 1 on the list.
^shipments figures based on certification alone
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