“We No Speak Americano” by Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP

Yolanda Be Cool and producer DCUP dropped "We No Speak Americano" on 27 February 2010, through the Australian indie Sweat It Out, and its secret weapon is a sample of Renato Carosone's 1956 Neapolitan-language song "Tu vuò fà l'americano", which he wrote with Nicola Salerno. Laid over an electro house thump with an electro swing wink, the loop sounds like a joke for ten seconds and then refuses to leave your skull.

It went big across Europe, Australia and South America, where it also answers to "Pa-Panamericano", cracked the top 40 in the U.S. and Canada, and won the ARIA for Best Dance Release that year; by April 2011 it had sold past 1 million downloads in the States alone. Then it turned up everywhere: The Inbetweeners Movie, Madagascar 3, Just Dance 4, a Pitbull track called "Bon, Bon", even Gabby Douglas's gold-medal floor routine at the 2012 London Olympics.

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