Blue (Da Ba Dee)

"Blue (Da Ba Dee)"
Single by Eiffel 65
from the album Europop
ReleasedOctober 1998
GenreEurodance[1][2]
Length
  • 4:43 (album version)
  • 3:39 (video edit)
  • 3:29 (US radio edit)
LabelSkooby
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Eiffel 65 singles chronology
"Blue (Da Ba Dee)"
(1998) 		"Too Much of Heaven"
(1999)
Music video
"Blue (Da Ba Dee)" on YouTube

"Blue (Da Ba Dee)" is a song by Italian music group Eiffel 65. It was first released in October 1998 in Italy by Skooby Records and became internationally successful the following year.[3] It is the lead single of the group's 1999 debut album, Europop.

"Blue (Da Ba Dee)" was developed before the formation of the group by its future members Jeffrey Jey (Gianfranco Randone), Maurizio Lobina and Gabry Ponte and producer Massimo Gabutti, while working at Bliss Corporation in Turin. It was inspired by a piano hook composed by Lobina, and written by Randone, Lobina and Gabuti, with Ponte working on the beats and final arrangement. When released in 1998, it achieved little success, but became very popular globally the following year once it was broadcast on the radio.

The song is the group's most popular single and among the biggest-selling songs of 1999, reaching number one in at least 18 countries, charting at number three in Italy, and peaking at number six on the US Billboard Hot 100 in January 2000. In the United Kingdom, the song initially entered the top 40 purely on import sales; it was only the third single to do this.[4] The song also received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Dance Recording at the 2001 Grammy Awards.[5] "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" has also been heavily sampled and remixed in later years.

  1. ^ Wilton, Lisa (25 March 2000). "Forgotten song became hit for Eiffel 65". Canoe.ca. Archived from the original on 30 March 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2014.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ "Considering the Eternal Significance of Eiffel 65's "Blue (Da Ba Dee)"". Vice. 9 February 2016.
  3. ^ Taylor, Chuck (22 January 2000). "Italian Threesome Eiffel 65 Is on a 'Blue' Streak with International Hit". Billboard. Vol. 112, no. 4. p. 114. Archived from the original on 26 August 2022. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  4. ^ "Blue (Da Ba Dee)". Songfacts. Archived from the original on 2 May 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2009.
  5. ^ "2000 Grammy Awards". Grammy Awards. Archived from the original on 14 July 2022. Retrieved 20 April 2022.