‘MURDER ON THE DANCEFLOOR’
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Sophie Ellis-Bextor charted at #2 in the UK Singles Chart last week with one of her most loved and successful songs ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’, matching the chart position it achieved 22 years ago.
After featuring in the epic final scene of Emerald Fennell’s recently released & much talked about film ‘Saltburn’, Sophie’s popular 2001 hit ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’ has seen a huge resurgence. Old and new fans are streaming the track, and the song is being used as a trending audio for millions of videos on both Instagram and TikTok. The song continues to mark new achievements, including 39M global Spotify streams in the past 30 days with a daily streaming peak of 2.92M, and 3.6B Tikok views with over 1.1M TikTok total creations using the song. The track is also #2 on the UK Spotify charts and #19 in the Global Spotify Top 200, #1 on the UK TikTok charts and #3 on Youtube Music Video charts, and charted in the Billboard Top 100 for the first time where it is currently at#58.
‘Murder on the Dancefloor’ became a Top Ten hit worldwide on release 22-years ago, charting at #2 in the UK, within the Top Three in Australia, New Zealand and four European countries and reaching #9 in the US Billboard Maxi-Singles sales chart. The iconic video, which is now available in 4K for the first time, sees a cunning Sophie compete in a dance competition and deceptively get rid of her fellow contestants. The video was filmed by Sophie Muller and was one of their first videos together, beginning a long working relationship that still continues today.
Sophie recently announced she would be releasing the song on 7″ vinyl for the first time as a limited edition red 7″ and will also release a limited-edition red CD single. Both are available to pre-order here released on 16th February through Polydor/Universal Music Recordings.
She also shared a 7-track ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’ EP, featuring ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’ alongside the original B-Side ‘Never Let Me Down’, the Extended Album Version and remixes from Jewels & Stone, Danny D, Hq and Twin Murder. All tracks were originally released in 2001 but the majority are brand new to streaming services.
