"1001 Arabian Nights"
Single by Ch!pz
from the album The World of Ch!pz
Released2004 (2004)
GenreBubblegum
Length3:07
LabelUniversal
Songwriter(s)Tony Cornelissen, Allan Eshuijs
Producer(s)Jay Vandenberg
Ch!pz singles chronology
"Captain Hook"
(2004) 		"1001 Arabian Nights"
(2004) 		"One, Two, Three"
(2005)

"1001 Arabian Nights" is a song by Dutch band Ch!pz, from their 2005 album The World of Ch!pz. The song remained at number one on the Dutch singles chart for four weeks. It reached number two in Austria, and number three in Germany and Switzerland.[1][2]

In November 2022, the song received renewed attention as a result of a TikTok trend.

Music video

Filmed on location in India, the band travel to a Middle Eastern city where a magic lamp has been stolen by a thief who wished to become the richest man in the world. They battle the bodyguards finding the thief, and while Rachel and Cilla distract the thief that just turned a jester into a goat (who has wished to become the world's richest man) by dancing for him, Kevin and Peter steal the lamp and the band escapes. The city is then restored with the return of the lamp and the thief is arrested and been put away by the locals while the band bid farewell to the people.

Viral on TikTok

In November 2022, Ch!pz went worldwide viral on TikTok with the song 1001 Arabian Nights.[3] The song originally released in 2004 appeared in several videos on TikTok in October 2022 in which people performed a new dance to the song, in response to this, the pop group posted a video on 19 November 2022 on their account in which they performed the old and new dance to the song.[4] They then went worldwide viral; their video was viewed more than 15 million times in nine days,[5] and more than 2.6 million new videos with their song were posted on the platform in eleven days.[6] This brought a revival of the song and it reached the top spot on the Viral charts on Spotify in Australia, Austria, Singapore, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Poland.[5]

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Netherlands (NVPI)[20] Platinum 60,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ^ "Ch!pz - 1001 Arabian Nights Lyrics". Artists.lets sing it.com. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  2. ^ "Ch!pz - 1001 Arabian Nights (Music Video)". YouTube. Archived from the original on 20 December 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  3. ^ "Overal klinkt weer 1001 Arabian Nights van Ch!pz, en dat komt door TikTok". NOS.nl (in Dutch). 28 November 2022. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
  4. ^ "De ontheiliging van mijn oude hymne 1001 Arabian nights". NRC (in Dutch). 1 December 2022. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
  5. ^ a b "CH!PZ gaat viral met '1001 Arabian Nights'". JanVis.nl (in Dutch). 28 November 2022. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
  6. ^ "Ch!pz is back, en wel dankzij de kracht van TikTok". RTL Nieuws (in Dutch). 30 November 2022. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
  7. ^ "Ch!pz – 1001 Arabian Nights" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  8. ^ "Ch!pz – 1001 Arabian Nights" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  9. ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – week 48, 2004" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  10. ^ "Ch!pz – 1001 Arabian Nights" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  11. ^ "Ch!pz – 1001 Arabian Nights". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  12. ^ "Top 100-Jaaroverzicht van 2004". Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  13. ^ "Jaaroverzichten – Single 2004". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  14. ^ "Top 100-Jaaroverzicht van 2005". Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  15. ^ "Jaaroverzichten – Single 2005". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  16. ^ "Jahreshitparade Singles 2006". austriancharts.at. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  17. ^ "Top 100 Single-Jahrescharts". GfK Entertainment (in German). offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  18. ^ "Schweizer Jahreshitparade 2006". hitparade.ch. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  19. ^ "Decennium Charts - Singles 2000-2009". MegaCharts (in Dutch). Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  20. ^ "Dutch single certifications – Ch!pz – 1001 Arabian Nights" (in Dutch). Nederlandse Vereniging van Producenten en Importeurs van beeld- en geluidsdragers. Enter 1001 Arabian Nights in the "Artiest of titel" box. Select 2005 in the drop-down menu saying "Alle jaargangen".


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