Get Ready for This

"Get Ready for This"
One of European cover arts
Single by 2 Unlimited
from the album Get Ready!
Released23 September 1991[1]
Recorded1991
Genre
Length3:46
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • Phil Wilde
  • Jean-Paul de Coster
  • Ray Slijngaard
Producer(s)
  • Phil Wilde
  • Jean-Paul de Coster
2 Unlimited singles chronology
"Get Ready for This"
(1991) 		"Twilight Zone"
(1992)
Audio sample
Music video
"Get Ready for This" on YouTube

"Get Ready for This" is a song recorded by Belgian/Dutch music group 2 Unlimited.[4] It was released in 1991 as the lead single from their debut album, Get Ready! (1992). Originally, the single was produced as an instrumental, titled the "Orchestral Mix". It became a hit and conscious of their popularity, Wilde & De Coster wanted a more accessible, formatted formula for their project to grow. Ray was then asked to write lyrics and add a rap to the track. On Ray Slijngaard's suggestion, Anita Doth joined as the female vocalist.

The single was an immediate success throughout Europe with notable peaks worldwide, including Australia and the US. It is arguably the most famous of the band's singles in the United States having charted at number 14 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, number 17 on the Billboard Top 40 Mainstream and number 38 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it the band's only top-40 hit in the US. In the UK, the single went to number two on the UK Singles Chart.

The song is one of the most frequently played songs at sporting events around the world.[5] It earned one of BMI's Pop Awards of 1996,[6] and in 2010, Pitchfork included it in their list of "Ten Actually Good 90s Jock Jams".[7]

  1. ^ "New Releases > Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 21 September 1991. p. 21. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  2. ^ Birchmeier, Jason. "Culture Beat – Artist Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
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  6. ^ "BMI > Pop Awards" (PDF). Music Week. 9 November 1996. p. 25. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  7. ^ "A Feature About Nothing > The 1990s in Lists > Ten Actually Good 90s Jock Jams". Pitchfork. 2010. Retrieved 8 December 2022.