Tubthumping
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"Tubthumping" is a song by British rock band Chumbawamba, released in August 1997 by EMI Records as the first single from their eighth studio album, Tubthumper (1997). Written and produced by the band, it is their most successful single, peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart and topping the charts of Australia, Canada, Ireland, Italy and New Zealand. In the United States, it reached number six on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped three other Billboard charts. At the 1998 Brit Awards, "Tubthumping" was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Single. It sold 880,000 copies in the UK
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- Song.name
- Tubthumping
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- TubthumpingHQ.jpg
- Song.border
- yes
- Song.type
- single
- Song.artist
- Chumbawamba
- Song.album
- Readymades and Then Some
- Song.B side
- "Salt Fare, North Sea" "Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name)"
- Song.studio
- Woodlands (Castleford)
- Song.genre
- Dance-rock alternative rock dance-punk
- Song.length
- (album version) (radio edit/video version)
- Song.label
- Koch
- Song.writer
- Chumbawamba
- Song.producer
- Chumbawamba
- Song.chronology
- Chumbawamba
- Song.prev_title
- Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name)
- Song.prev_year
- 2002
- Song.next_title
- Home with Me
- Song.next_year
- 2003
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- first line
- I get knocked down
- publication date
- 1997-08-11
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17 sectionsContents
- Background
- Writing and composition
- Music video
- Critical reception
- Commercial performance
- Personnel
- Track listings and formats
- Charts
- Weekly charts
- Year-end charts
- Certifications
- Release history
- "Tubthumping" (2003 remix)
- Legacy
- See also
- References
- External links
"Tubthumping" is a song by British rock band Chumbawamba, released in August 1997 by EMI Records as the first single from their eighth studio album, Tubthumper (1997). Written and produced by the band, it is their most successful single, peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart and topping the charts of Australia, Canada, Ireland, Italy and New Zealand. In the United States, it reached number six on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped three other Billboard charts. At the 1998 Brit Awards, "Tubthumping" was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Single. It sold 880,000 copies in the UK.
==Background== The song was the group's lead single from Tubthumper, their major-label debut. It was released on 11 August 1997. Vocalist Dunstan Bruce retrospectively observed that, before the group wrote it, they "were in a mess: we had become directionless and disparate". He credited "Tubthumping" with changing that, telling The Guardian, "It's not our most political or best song, but it brought us back together. The song is about us – as a class and as a band. The beauty of it was we had no idea how big it would be."