It spent 5 weeks at #1 in the UK in total in two separate runs, and broke the record for most weeks at number in a second run with 4, a record now tied with Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know. The reached number 1 for 2 weeks in June 2006, and had more than twice the number of points than the runner up song, becoming both Shakira’s and Wyclef Jean’s first solo #1 song in the US. They also recorded and released a Spanish version of the song, Será Será (Las Caderas No Mienten). The trumpets at the beginning are sampled from Amores Como El Nuestro and are a tribute to Jerry Rivera. Shakira and Jerry Duplessis then rewrote some of the lyrics and production, along with Wyclef. The song was Wyclef’s earlier song, Dance Like This, with Claudette Ortiz from Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights.
Wyclef was originally asked to do a remix for La Tortura, but he refused stating that he already had the perfect song for her. Hips Don’t Lie was originally written by Wyclef Jean, Lauren Hill, and Pras for a Fugees reunion that never happened and was originally called Lips Don’t Lie, although their version was never finished. It is also one of the highest streamed female songs of the 2000s, with over 730 million streams on Spotify.Īfter the first single, Don’t Bother, didn’t do as well as the label hoped, they reached out to Wyclef Jean to remake his song, Dance Like This, to add to the to reissue of Oral Fixation Vol.
2! It reached number 1 in 55 countries, including Shakira’s first and only #1 single in the United States and is one of the best selling songs of all time. This week 15 years ago, Hips Don’t Lie was released as the second single from Oral Fixation Vol.