Rock DJ




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"Rock DJ"
RockDJ.jpg

Single by Robbie Williams
from the album Sing When You're Winning
B-side "Talk to Me"
Released 31 July 2000
Format

  • CD

  • cassette
Recorded 2000
Studio Hook End Manor
Genre

  • Dance-pop

  • pop-rap

  • pop rock
Length 4:15
Label Chrysalis
Songwriter(s)

  • Robbie Williams

  • Kelvin Andrews

  • Guy Chambers

  • Nelson Pigford

  • Ekundayo Paris
Producer(s)

  • Guy Chambers

  • Steve Power

Robbie Williams singles chronology





"Win Some Lose Some"
(1999)
 "Rock DJ"
(2000)
 "Kids"
(2000)

Music video

"Rock DJ" on YouTube


"Rock DJ" is a song by English singer and songwriter Robbie Williams, featured on his third studio album, Sing When You're Winning (2000). The song was released on 31 July 2000 as the lead single from the album. It samples the strings from Barry White's song "It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me" and also contains a sample of "Can I Kick It?" by A Tribe Called Quest and has a quote from "La Di Da Di" by Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh. It reached number one in Iceland, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom as well as the top 10 in Australia, Austria, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, and Switzerland.


"Rock DJ" was the fourth best-selling song of 2000 in the United Kingdom. The music video features Williams trying to impress a female DJ by stripping naked and eventually resorting to removing his skin and muscles, ending up as a skeleton. The song won British Single of the Year, and the video won British Video of the Year at the 2001 Brit Awards.




Contents






  • 1 Music videos


  • 2 Success


  • 3 Track listing


  • 4 Charts


    • 4.1 Charts


    • 4.2 Year-end charts


    • 4.3 Decade-end charts




  • 5 Certifications


  • 6 References


  • 7 External links





Music videos


The accompanying music video for "Rock DJ" was directed by Vaughan Arnell. It begins with Williams dancing on a roller disco with women skating around him. He wants to get the attention of the female DJ (played by Lauren Gold) standing above the stage, so he begins taking off his clothes. After he finally gets her attention he proceeds with stripping of his skin, muscles and organs, until the only thing left of him are his bones, which is performed by special effects. In the end, the DJ dances with his skeleton.


The video ends with the note, "No Robbies were Harmed During the Making of this Video", a pun on the "No animals were harmed" note. The skinless Robbie also appears on the single's cover art, as well as on the cover of the DVD release of In and Out of Consciousness: Greatest Hits 1990–2010 in 2010. Another video shows Williams in a studio recording the song.[1]


The video's ending (beginning with Williams taking off his skin) was cut by most music channels around Europe, including VIVA, MCM, MTV, The Box and VH1 Europe. However, in the recent years, some of the music channels in Europe (including MTV Classic and VH1 Europe) airs the "studio recording" version of the music video, even on late night, which made the edited version of the music video fall into obscurity.


Examples of TV stations that still play the full video are Bulgarian channel MM, former German located channel B.TV (often in daytime) and Canadian channel MusiquePlus, some channels ran the edited video during the day and the unedited one overnight, while The Hits played a version which cut from Williams dancing in his underwear to dancing as a skeleton, filling the gap by repeating previous footage. This is the version that is currently played on channels owned by The Box Plus Network. In 2001, "Rock DJ" won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Special Effects. In 2006, it was voted by viewers as the seventh Most Groundbreaking Video Ever on MTV and in 2007 it was ranked at number 48 on MuchMusic's 50 Most Controversial Videos. The video was banned in Dominican Republic due to allegations of Satanism.[2]


The video has been shown numerous times on Fuse's Pants-Off Dance-Off, despite its gory content. Toward the end of the dancer's dancing/stripping to it when the video is shown in the background like any other, they only show Williams, briefly, ripping and throwing his skin, and dancing in muscle form before cutting to the hostess of the show.



Success


The song became Williams' third number-one solo single in the United Kingdom, going on to sell over 600,000 copies being certified Platinum by the BPI.[3] The song also became a smash hit around Europe, charting inside the top ten in most countries and it became his first number-one single in New Zealand, Argentina and Mexico. The song also became a top five hit in Australia, where it went on to sell over 70,000 copies being certified Platinum by the ARIA.[4] However, success in the United States was limited, reaching number 24 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play but failing to chart inside the Hot 100. "Rock DJ" went on to sell almost 4 million copies worldwide. The song was named the Best Song of 2000 at the MTV Europe Music Awards and Best Single and Best Video at the Brits 2001.



Track listing


UK CD single



  1. "Rock DJ" – 4:15

  2. "Talk to Me" – 3:28

  3. "Rock DJ" (Player One Remix) – 5:34


UK DVD single



  1. "Rock DJ" (music video)

  2. "Rock DJ" (The Making Of)



Charts











Certifications
Region
 Certification
Certified units/Sales
Australia (ARIA)[4]
 Platinum
 70,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[36]
 Gold
 5,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[3]
 Platinum
 674,000[37]

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone


References





  1. ^ "ROCK DJ: MUSIC VIDEO". RobbieWilliams.com. Retrieved 4 June 2015. The video's ending was cut by most music channels around Europe, including VIVA, MCM and MTV with VH1 Europe decided to use its own video for the song, created from studio footage..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ "Robbie video banned for 'Satanism'". BBC News. 2000-10-19. Retrieved 2014-04-01.


  3. ^ ab "British single certifications – Robbie Williams – Rock DJ". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
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  4. ^ ab "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2000 Singles". Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 5 July 2018.


  5. ^ "Australian-charts.com – Robbie Williams – Rock DJ". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 26 December 2018.


  6. ^ "Austriancharts.at – Robbie Williams – Rock DJ" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Retrieved 26 December 2018.


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  9. ^ "Top RPM Singles: Issue 3992." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 26 December 2018.


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  11. ^ http://artisteschartsventes.blogspot.fr/2014/04/robbie-williams-veritable-star-mondiale.html


  12. ^ "Robbie Williams: Rock DJ" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved 26 December 2018.


  13. ^ "Lescharts.com – Robbie Williams – Rock DJ" (in French). Les classement single. Retrieved 26 December 2018.


  14. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Robbie Williams – Rock DJ". GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 26 December 2018.


  15. ^ "Music & Media: Hungary" (PDF). Music & Media. Retrieved May 1, 2018.


  16. ^ "Íslenski Listinn Topp 40 (Vikuna 16.9. - 23.9. 2000 37. Vika)" (PDF). Dagblaðið Vísir (in Icelandic). Retrieved 15 July 2018.


  17. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Rock DJ". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 26 December 2018.


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  19. ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – week 33, 2000" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40 Retrieved 26 December 2018.


  20. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Robbie Williams – Rock Dj" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 26 December 2018.


  21. ^ "Charts.nz – Robbie Williams – Rock DJ". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 26 December 2018.


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  23. ^ "Music & Media: Portugal" (PDF). Music & Media. Retrieved May 1, 2018.


  24. ^ "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 26 December 2018.


  25. ^ "Spanishcharts.com – Robbie Williams – Rock DJ" Canciones Top 50. Retrieved 26 December 2018.


  26. ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Robbie Williams – Rock DJ". Singles Top 100. Retrieved 26 December 2018.


  27. ^ "Swisscharts.com – Robbie Williams – Rock DJ". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved 26 December 2018.


  28. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 26 December 2018.


  29. ^ "Robbie Williams Chart History (Dance Club Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved 26 December 2018.


  30. ^ "ARIA Charts - End Of Year Charts - Top 100 Singles 2000". ARIA. Retrieved 7 July 2018.


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  33. ^ "Swiss Year-End Charts 2000". Swiss Music Charts. Retrieved November 22, 2017.


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  35. ^ "Chart of the Decade". Chart of the Decade. 29 December 2009. BBC Radio 1.


  36. ^ "New Zealand single certifications – Robbie Williams – Rock DJ". Recorded Music NZ. Retrieved 5 July 2018.


  37. ^ Myers, Justin (6 August 2015). "Robbie Williams' Rock DJ was Number 1 15 years ago". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 6 August 2015.




External links




  • Robbie Williams - Rock DJ on YouTube


  • Robbie Williams - Rock DJ - Studio version on YouTube










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