"Hips Don't Lie" is a song by Colombian singer-songwriterShakira, featuring Haitian rapperWyclef Jean, released byEpic Records in 2006. "Hips Don't Lie" is a reworking of Jean's earlier single "Dance Like This", therefore it features additional composing credits byOmar Alfanno, Duplessis,Luis Días, and LaTavia Parker. The song was released as the first single from the reissue of Shakira's seventh studio album,Oral Fixation, Vol. 2, and second overall. Shakira and Jean wrote the lyrics and jointly composed the music with additional co-writing by Shakira's percussionist Archie Pena. The song was produced by Shakira and Jean with additional co-production by Jerry Duplessis. The song incorporatessamples from "Amores Como el Nuestro" written by Alfanno, and "Carnaval (Baile En La Calle)" written by Días.
Upon its release, "Hips Don't Lie" received generally favorable reviews frommusic critics. It received several accolades, including aPeople's Choice Award, anMTV Latin America Video Music Award, and anMTV Video Music Award. "Hips Don't Lie" became a global success, reaching number one in 55 countries, including the U.S.Billboard Hot 100, becoming Shakira's first and only number one hit to date in the United States. It also broke the record for the most radio plays in a single week and the fastest-selling digital download song in the United States.[5] The song was eventually certifiedquadruple platinum by theRecording Industry Association of America (RIAA), where it has sold over 4 million digital copies and 2 million ringtones. It also topped the charts in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, among other countries. The song had amassed an estimated 13 million downloads by 2017, making itone of the best-selling singles of all time.[6]
In 2018, the song was selected as one of the greatest songs by 21st-century women, byNational Public Radio, ranked at 65.[7]
The idea of making a double project was never planned or premeditated, it just happened. I found myself writing 60 songs and put myself on the mission of selecting my favorite ones, which happened to be 20. And those 20 songs formed this project, Oral Fixation Vol. 1 and 2.
After attaining international success with her fifth studio effort,Laundry Service, in 2001, Shakira opted to create a two-part follow-up record. Having co-written nearly sixty songs, she put herself "on the mission of selecting [her] favorite ones" to record forOral Fixation, Vol. 2 and its predecessor, the Spanish-languageFijación Oral, Vol. 1.[8] While recording the project, Shakira worked with previous collaborators, and newer partners includingJerry Duplessis andWyclef Jean.[9]
After the moderate success of "Don't Bother" and of the album, her labelEpic Records askedWyclef Jean, in early 2006, to remake his song "Dance Like This" with Shakira, attempting to revive sales of the album. After that, "Hips Don't Lie" was released as the second single from the album (the first from the reissue) on 28 March 2006. The song debuted on the Los Angeles-based radio stationKIIS-FM (on theRyan Seacrest Morning Show) on 14 February 2006. A Spanish version of the same name was also released.[10] Shakira also sang another version (produced byRedOne) titled "Hips Don't Lie - Bamboo" at the closing ceremony of the2006 FIFA World Cup in Berlin, Germany. Two versions of the "Hips Don't Lie - Bamboo" remix were officially released, one in English and one in Spanish.
Criteria Studios (The Hit Factory Criteria Miami) was one of various studios where the song was recorded.
"Hips Don't Lie" was initially written and recorded by Wyclef Jean,Lauryn Hill andPras for theFugees reunion. The song was titled "Lips Don't Lie" at that point, but was never completed due to Hill's dissatisfaction with it.[12] Charlie Walk, who at the time was the President of Epic Records, called Pras to state he wanted to do a remix of the song with Shakira. Following the call, Hill left the group and the Fugee's reunion was over.[12] The song was then given to Shakira and along with Jean and long-time partner Jerry 'Wonder' Duplessis, they produced "Hips Don't Lie". According to another version of events, Jean was asked by Shakira's label to record a remix of "La Tortura" but refused stating he already had a record that Shakira would be perfect for. The record was Jean's own song "Dance Like This", which he recorded withClaudette Ortiz for theDirty Dancing: Havana Nights soundtrack.[13]
Shakira co-wrote the song withWyclef Jean,Jerry Duplessis,Omar Alfanno and LaTavia Parker, whilst production was handled by Shakira, Jean and Duplessis. Jean also served as the song's guitarist and programmer alongside Ramón Stagnaro (who also provided guitar), Hermides Benitez, Richard Bravo, Archie Pena and Roberto Cuao who all contributed the song's percussion, whilst Gustavo Celis and Jerry Duplessis added further programming.[14] The song's recording took place at various studios including Hit Factory Criteria, Miami, FL; La Marimonda Studios, Nassau, Bahamas; Olympic Studios, London, England; Platinum Sound Recording Studio, New York, NY; Sonido Azulado, Bogota, Colombia and The Warehouse, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.[14]
A reworking of Wyclef Jean's 2004 song "Dance Like This", "Hips Don't Lie" is aLatin pop andreggaeton song based onsamples from "Amores Como el Nuestro" written byOmar Alfanno and performed byJerry Rivera.
"Hips Don't Lie" reimagines Wyclef Jean's 2004 song "Dance Like This" as aLatin pop song with areggaeton beat.[1] This song, like "Dance Like This" before it, uses asampledsalsa trumpet line fromJerry Rivera's 1992Omar Alfanno-written song "Amores Como el Nuestro", a song previously sampled on "Deja Vu (Uptown Baby)" byLord Tariq and Peter Gunz. The use of the opening trumpets caused a small controversy, when Rivera openly accused Shakira of plagiarizing the opening trumpets without his knowing, unaware that rights had already been obtained from his former label Sony Discos.[15][16][17]
During an interview, Shakira explained that the song's lyrics were inspired by her ability to determine the release-readiness of a song by whether or not it motivates her to dance. She states that she used to tell her musicians, "My hips don't lie! Are they moving? They're not moving! So this is not ready."[19]
Since it has been digitally available in June 2006, the song has sold 4,100,000 downloads, and 685 million streams[20] and two millionringtones in the US alone.[21] The song had at least twice the weekly Hot 100 points of the runner-up title, "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire featuring Krayzie Bone.[22]
The song debuted at number 84 on theBillboard Hot 100 singles chart in the United States, based on airplay alone. For its 11th week in the chart, "Hips Don't Lie" reached number 9 based on heavy airplay rotation on American radio and received the "airplay gainer" title for three consecutive weeks. In the issue dated May 27, 2006, "Hips Don't Lie" ascended to number one on theBillboard Hot 100 Airplay chart, becoming her first number-one hit in the chart where it remained for three weeks. On the chart issue dated 17 June 2006, "Hips Don't Lie" reached number one on the multi-metric Hot 100 chart, becoming Shakira's first and her only number-one in the U.S. to date. Its number-one position was aided by 267,000 digital copies sold in its first week of availability in the digital stores and its number-one position on the Hot 100 Airplay chart. That sum also marks the biggest opening-week digital sales for a single in 2006, as well as the highest-selling song in its first week for a female artist in 2006. "Hips Don't Lie" spent two consecutive weeks at the top of the chart, and was the 5th most successful song of 2006, the second highest ranked song for a female artist behindNelly Furtado's "Promiscuous". To date, it is Shakira's most successful single in the United States.[citation needed]
In Canada, the song has been certified Diamond in 2024, being Shakira’s best selling single and one of thebest selling singles in Canada.
In the UK, it spent a total of five weeks at number one. After its initial one-week reign at number one, it returned to the top in its 8th week preventingChristina Aguilera's "Ain't No Other Man",Rihanna's "Unfaithful", as well asCascada's "Everytime We Touch" andChamillionaire's "Ridin'" from going to No. 1 until it was replaced byBeyoncé's "Déjà Vu". "Hips Don't Lie" broke the record for the most weeks for a song in a second run, staying four weeks during its second reign at number one, a record it now shares with "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Belgian-Australian singerGotye. The song remained in the top 10 for 16 weeks and then stayed within the top 75 for an additional 38 weeks. "Hips Don't Lie" finished the 2000s decade as the 11th best selling single by a female artist in the 21st century in the UK, and also the 10th best-selling collaboration.[23] It is also the 46th best-selling single of the 2000s decade in the UK.[24]
In Australia, the song debuted at No. 1 and remained at the top of the chart for 9 weeks. The song has been certified as six times platinum in the country, becoming one of the best selling 2000s singles. In Ireland, the single remained at the number one spot for a total of nine weeks throughout the summer. "Hips Don't Lie" was the most successful song of 2006 worldwide and it reached No. 1 in the majority of charting countries and territories around the world. It also reached number one on the USBillboardPop 100 andHot Latin Tracks charts, in Colombia, the Czech Republic, Belgium (Flanders and Wallonia), France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latin America, Lebanon, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Switzerland. The song peaked inside the top ten in Austria, Canada(on theCanadian Airplay Chart), Finland, Norway, Denmark and Russia. Furthermore, it reached the 94 position on theJapan International Singles chart. In Sweden, it peaked at number forty-five.[25] "Hips Don't Lie" was the number-two-year-end song in the Netherlands; it also finished number three in Germany and the UK,[26] and in the US it was number five.[27] In Germany, it is the fourth best-selling pop duet ever.[28] It was the best selling song of 2006 in Europe.[29]
The music video was directed by British directorSophie Muller and filmed in Los Angeles. The video begins with Shakira against a black backgrounddancing while Wyclef and a couple of other men are watching her. When Wyclef raps his first rap verse, it shows him following Shakira with pink curtains everywhere. It also shows them on the street along with different people. When the second verse begins, she is seen sitting in a chair while singing. It then cuts to an arena-like environment, where Shakira is dancing with other people. It ends with Shakira against the black background. The majority of the costumes and outfits featured in the video belong to theCarnaval de Barranquilla, some of which include the white dress Shakira dances in, and the colorfulflags.
"Hips Don't Lie" proved successful onLAUNCHcast's top-hundred most-watched videos of the week, where it spent four months at number one. Yahoo! had fans submit videos of themselves dancing to the song, which were edited into a "fans only" version, which has also proved to be one of the most popular videos on LAUNCH. The video for "Hips Don't Lie" ran in the number-one spot on iTunes (along with the single) for several weeks. As of 27 July 2022, it has received over 1.1 billion views on YouTube.[30] The video won theMTV Video Music Award forBest Choreography on 31 August 2006, and theMTV Latin Award for Song of the Year on 19 October 2006. The video also placed at number two onVH1's "Top 40 Videos of 2006".
Shakira and Wyclef Jean performed "Hips Don't Lie" at the short ceremony preceding the final World Cup game in Berlin in 2006, to worldwide TV audiences of over 700 million people. On 31 August 2006, it was performed by the duo on the2006 MTV Video Music Awards.[31] Shakira was given dancing lessons for the performance of the song by Indian choreographerFarah Khan.[32] They also performed the song on the49th Grammy Awards in 2007.[33]
When it was released in 2006, according to Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, "Hips Don't Lie" was the most-played pop song in a single week in American radio history. It was played 9,637 times in one week. Shakira became the first artist in the history of theBillboard charts to earn the coveted number one spots on both theTop 40 Mainstream andLatin Chart in the same week doing so with "Hips Don't Lie".[37] Additionally, she is the only artist from South America to reach the number-one spot on the U.S.Billboard Hot 100, the AustralianARIA chart, and theUK Singles Chart.[38] According toBillboard, "Hips Don't Lie" is one of the 23 most dominantBillboard Hot 100 number ones of the last 30 years, since it occupied the top spot with 2x the points of the weekly No. 2 song on 17 June 2006 chart.[39] In 2006, fan-made videos directed into one became the second most streamed song onYahoo only after Shakira's own video of it.Los Angeles Times credits the song for starting a shock wave, and called the action the "Hips Don't Lie Impact" starting a new era of fan-artist interactions. Furthermore, the song became the most streamed video of the year reported byNielsen Broadcast Data Systems tripling the views of the video in second place, which was Beyoncé's "Check on It".[40]
In 2017, the song ranked 93rd onBillboard's Greatest Pop Songs of All Time list.[41] In 2018, "Hips Don't Lie" was selected as one of the greatest songs by 21st-century women, byNational Public Radio, ranking at 65.[7] In 2021,Time Out New York picked "Hips Don't Lie" as the 11th best pop song of all time.[42] As of 2024, Hips Don't Lie is the most streamed 2000s female song of all time on Spotify.[43]
"Hips Don't Lie" was a critical success and was nominated for various awards; theAmerican Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) awarded the song the accolades of Ascap Latin Award – Pop/Ballad Winning Song and Ascap Pop Music Award – Most Performed Songs.[45] At theBillboard Music Awards the song was nominated for three awards; Pop Single of the Year, Top Hot 100 Single and Top Pop 100 Airplay Track.[46][47] In 2007, the song won at the Best Latin/Reggaeton Track at the International Dance Music Awards.[48]
* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. † Streaming-only figures based on certification alone.
^Peoples, Glenn (3 October 2017)."Inside the "Despacito" Hot Streak"."Listen to two crossover reggaeton hits, Daddy Yankee’s "Gasolina" from 2004 and Shakira’s "Hips Don’t Lie" from 2006, and you’ll hear traditional reggaeton beats that are loud and energetic."
^Molanphy, Chris (31 March 2020)."La Vida Loca Edición".Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia (Podcast).Slate. Retrieved1 December 2023.
