| "Dirty Dancing" | ||||
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| Single byNew Kids on the Block | ||||
| from the albumThe Block | ||||
| Released | December 19, 2008(Germany) | |||
| Recorded | 2008 | |||
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| Length | 3:37 | |||
| Label | Interscope | |||
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| Producer(s) | RedOne | |||
| New Kids on the Block singles chronology | ||||
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"Dirty Dancing" is the third overall single fromNew Kids on the Block's 2008 album,The Block. It was produced byRedOne. The lead vocals were sung byJordan Knight andDonnie Wahlberg.A new version of the song featuring South Korea boy bandSeventeen was released to coincide the fifteenth anniversary of their album release,The Block.[1]
"Dirty Dancing" was only released inGermany on December 19, 2008, as the second single from the album in that market.[2][3] However, the song has charted inCanada,Austria and on theEuropean Hot 100. It becameThe Block's most successful single inEurope.
BritishtabloidThe News Letter described the song as "more sophisticated than the blaring, synth-heavy pop of their classic years".[4]In its review ofThe Block, Sputnik Music said: "to the wafer-thin sexual metaphors of ‘Dirty Dancing’".[5]Slant Magazine said: "they show their age by pretending it's still 1987 on "Dirty Dancing" ("Ooh, it's so crazy/She's like Baby/I'm like Swayze")".[6] In its review ofThe Block,The A.V. Club stated that "in songs like "Dirty Dancing" they… well, they merely sound like a boy band, and pay for the simple incongruity of it all"[7]Now Magazine comments on the song: "Throwback references date their fan base, though, with songs like Dirty Dancing (“She’s like Baby, I’m like Swayze”)".[8]BritishnewspaperLisburn Today described it as "sexy".[9] In its review ofThe Block,Billboard declared: "They also turn an homage to "Dirty Dancing" into a bump and grind that is far, far from the innocence of the Patrick Swayze original, or the New Kids music, for that matter".[10]
New Kids On The Block sang an excerpt from the song at 2008American Music Awards[11] as well asGood Morning America.
Shot in amedieval background, the video, directed byTil Schweiger, intersperses scenes from the German film "The 1½ Knights - In Search of the Ravishing Princess Herzelinde" (German title: "1½ Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde"),[12][13] in which he appears, with footage of the band performing the song in front of a mostly all-female audience.[14]
Germany
Maxi Single
The song debuted at #92 on theGerman Singles Chart and peaked at #23.[15] On theCanadian Hot 100 it also debuted at #92 and is now at #31 and on the Hot Canadian Digital Singles Chart debuted at #72 and then rose to #59.[16] It debuted at #100 on theCanadian Airplay Chart and it peaked at #72.[17] The single debuted at #82 on theEuropean Hot 100. In its second week, it rose to #76. The song remained on chart for four weeks.[18] InAustria, the song debuted at #65 and after having fallen a week later, rose to #71 in its third week on the chart.
"Dirty Dancing" has gathered 17,577,000 audience impressions and 3,354 total spins in theUnited States of America to date, without being officially released.[19]
"Dirty Dancing" reached the #1 position on theCHUM chart in Toronto on February 21, 2009. "Dirty Dancing" has been on the CHUM Chart 12 weeks before reaching #1.[20]
| Chart (2008–2009) | Peak[21] position |
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| Austrian Singles Chart | 65 |
| Canadian Hot 100 | 31 |
| European Hot 100[22] | 76 |
| German Singles Chart[23] | 23 |