“Satisfaction” by Benny Benassi Presents The Biz

Italian DJ Benny Benassi introduced himself with "Satisfaction", released at home in June 2002 under the Benny Benassi Presents The Biz banner as the first single from his album Hypnotica, with Benassi producing. Nobody human sings on it: the vocals come from MacinTalk, two synthesized speech voices, one male and one female, repeating the same come-on over and over until it sounds like a machine in heat.

Dumb as it looks on paper, it turned out to be a blueprint, the record widely credited with dragging electro house into the mainstream. It reached number two in the UK, went gold in Australia, Belgium, France and the US, and by August 2014 had sold 382,000 units in France alone, enough to rank 54th among that country's best-selling singles of the century. It is still Benassi's biggest song.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.