“Macarena” by Los Del Rio

"Macarena" started out on A mí me gusta, the 1993 album by the Spanish pop duo Los del Río, a song by Antonio Romero that the pair produced themselves, and it took remixers to carry it around the planet. Fangoria, an electropop group, gave it a dance remix that hit in Spain first. Then the Miami-based producers the Bayside Boys grafted on a section in English, and their mix crept to 45 on the Hot 100 late in 1995 before returning the next year to sit at number one for fourteen weeks, August to November 1996, powered by a dance craze that ran on into early 1997.

All versions together have sold more than 14 million copies. VH1 crowned Los del Río the greatest one-hit wonder of all time in 2002, and Billboard later put the song at number 7 on its All Time Top 100.

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