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Though the song was solely credited to "Hampton the Hampster", the band was later dubbed "Hampton and the Hampsters." [17] The song reached number one on the Canadian Singles Chart while peaking at number 32 on the RPM charts. In Australia, "The Hampsterdance Song" was released in 2001 and reached number five on the ARIA Singles Chart.
"The Hampsterdance Song" is a novelty song by Hampton the Hampster. The song's hook is based on a sped-up sample of "Whistle-Stop", a song from the 1973 Disney film Robin Hood . This sample was originally used for a 1998 web page called the Hampster Dance , created by Canadian art student Deidre LaCarte.
Hampsterdance: The Album (also referred to as The Hampsterdance Album) is the debut album by Hampton the Hampster, released on October 24, 2000, [1] through Koch Records.It was produced by the Canadian producer team the Boomtang Boys after the success of the novelty track "The Hampsterdance Song" featuring the hamster character Hampton, which was created by Canadian art student Deidre LaCarte ...
Hampton the Hampster performed a cover of the song on Hampsterdance Hits in 2001. It became Hampton's second top-20 hit in Australia, where it peaked at number 12 on the ARIA Singles Chart for two weeks in May and June 2001. [13] It was Australia's 81st-most-successful single of 2001. [14]
The Hampton version advertised itself as "The Real Hamster Dance" (with CvsI knock-off cover graphics no less), as whoever lashed it together managed to get clearance for the ACTUAL Whistlestop sample - though AFAIK the original Cuban Boys version also used this sample (in early versions played e.g. on the John Peel show MONTHS before release ...
Top 25 singles of 2001 < 2000 2002 > Other Australian top charts for 2001 top 25 albums Triple J Hottest 100 Australian number-one charts of 2001 albums singles dance singles The following lists the top 100 singles of 2001 in Australia from the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) End of Year singles chart. "Can't Fight the Moonlight" by LeAnn Rimes was the biggest song of the year ...
These tiny furballs with big personalities and cheeks full of nutty snacks are perfect meme material.We’ve hopped onto the hamster wheel to gather 30 of the funniest hamster memes we could find.
The song garnered extreme reactions. Music journalist Charles Shaar Murray said the song was "eloquent in its sheer vacuity" during a highbrow debate on Channel 4 News, and Cliff Richard, whose song "The Millennium Prayer", which had been number 1 in the three weeks before the chart debut of "Cognoscenti vs. Intelligentsia" and was released to very negative reviews, said the song was "awful ...