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“The Salmon Dance” by The Chemical Brothers featuring Fatlip
From the album We Are the Night (2007) Featuring Fatlip
“The Salmon Dance” by The Chemical Brothers featuring Fatlip appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2007 and 2008. It was first released in 2007 on the album We Are the Night. Its best result is #4 on the WBER Listener Countdown 2008. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #168 alternative song of 2008.
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"The Salmon Dance" sits seventh on We Are the Night, the Chemical Brothers' 2007 album, and it's the duo at their most gleefully daft. Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons wrote it with Fatlip, who takes the vocal, and Cort Pfister adds spoken lines. Virgin sent it out as the album's second single that September, and it made the top ten in New Zealand.
The video stole the show. Directed by Dom and Nic, it follows a boy, played by Rory Jennings, gazing into his fish tank, where Fatlip the Piranha holds court alongside Sammy the Salmon (really a squirrelfish) and Puffa the beatboxing pufferfish. It earned an MTV Europe Music Award nomination in 2007. As of 2026 it is still the pair's last top-40 hit in the UK.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 21 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2007 | 100 |
| 2008 | 4 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2008 | 136 |
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