Calabria (song)

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“Calabria”
“Calabria” cover
Single by Rune
Released 2003
Format 12 inch single, CD single
Genre House
Length 7:45 (original)
3:35 (radio edit)
Label Credence
Writer(s) Rune Reilly Kolsch, Johannes Torpe
Producer Rune Reilly Kolsch, Johannes Torpe
Rune singles chronology
"Calabria"
(2003)		 "Nothing New"
(2003)
“Calabria”
“Calabria” cover
Single by Drunkenmunky
B-side "Das Bass"
Released 2004
Format 12 inch single, CD single
Genre Euro House
Length 5:41 (euro mix)
2:45 (radio mix)
Label D'n'A
Writer(s) Rune Reilly Kolsch, Johannes Torpe
Producer Klubbheads
Drunkenmunky singles chronology
"Yeah!"
(2003)		 "Calabria"
(2004)		 "Geht's Noch"
(2004)
“Calabria 2007”
“Calabria 2007” cover
Single by Enur featuring Natasja
from the album Enur: The Album
Released 2007
Format 12 inch single, CD single
Genre House, Ragga, Hip hop
Length 6:25 (club mix)
3:51 (radio mix)
Label Ministry of Sound
Writer(s) Rune Reilly Kolsch, Johannes Torpe
Producer Rune Reilly Kolsch, Johannes Torpe
Enur singles chronology
You Got Me EP
(2005)		 "Calabria 2007"
(2007)		 "Yesteryear/Run In"
(2007)

"Calabria" is a house music single by Danish producer Rune. It was co-produced by Rune's half-brother Johannes Torpe and originally released in 2003 by Credence, a sublabel of Parlophone Records.

The track was originally conceived as an instrumental, but in spite of being licensed to several other labels outside Denmark, it received more airplay after being used by Ronnie Milani and Maurizio Nari to create a mash-up with Alex Gaudino's and Crystal Waters' "Destination Unknown", matching Rune's instrumental to Waters' vocals. It was released as "Destination Calabria" in 2005 by Rise.

The year before, Dutch group Drunkenmunky and German project Raker had produced a cover of the instrumental.

Rune re-released the track once more in 2007, having remixed it with ragga/dancehall beats, and adding vocals by Danish reggae singer Natasja Saad. This version gained popularity in the United States, particularly New York, in mid-late 2007, where it got heavy club play, eventually entering the playlist of major Top-40/Dance radio stations such as Z100 and KTU, placing at #80 on Z100's top 100 songs of 2007[1]. In 2008 the song hit the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 at number forty-eight. There is also another remix featuring Mims ([1]) and a Dominican rap remix featuring Dominican artist Punto Rojo [2]. On January 16, 2008 the song reached number one on Billboard's Hot Dance Airplay chart and in the process gave Saad the chart's first number one single by a posthumous artist, as Saad tragically was killed in an automobile accident in June 2007. It reached 46 on the Billboard Hot 100[2].

The 2007 remix with Natasja Saad is on radio charts along with "The Anthem" by Pitbull and "Defense" by Machel Montano (album: Flame on), which both sample the famous riff.

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[edit] "Calabria 2007"

Chart (2007-2008) Peak
position
Billboard Canadian Hot 100 21
Billboard Hot 100 [3] 46
Billboard Hot Dance Airplay 1
Billboard Top 40 Mainstream 28
Chilean Singles Chart[4] 51

[edit] Sources

[edit] References

  1. ^ Z100 - New York's Hit Music Station
  2. ^ - Billboard Hot 100
  3. ^ Billboard Magazine. Billboard.com.
  4. ^ Chilean Singles Chart
Preceded by
"In My Arms" by Plumb (Second run)		 Billboard Hot Dance Airplay number-one single
January 26, 2008		 Succeeded by
"What Hurts the Most" by Cascada