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Eiffel 65   (Italy)

EuroPop group
Added : 19/08/2000
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Europop
Contact
Eiffel 65
Blue (Da Ba Dee)
Move Your Body
My Console
Back In Time
One Goal
Too Much Of Heaven
Losing You
Lucky In My Life
80s Stars
Cosa Resterá (In A Song)
Quelli Che Non Hanno Età
Viaggia Insieme A Me
Una Notte E Forse Mai Più
Voglia Di Dance All Night
Panico
Movie Star
G Nel Body
Heaven
98 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

Latest Eiffel 65 news

13/07/2023 : The melody of Eiffel 65's hit Blue was once again interpolated, this time by Lil Uzi Vert and Nicki Minaj on their single Endless Fashion

27/05/2023 : Eiffel 65 won an ASCAP Pop Music Award for the cover that David Guetta & Bebe Rexha did of their hit Blue

26/02/2023 : Eiffel 65 reached the finals of Una Voce per San Marino, the show to choose who would represent San Marino at Eurovision Song Contest with their new song Movie Star, but did not win. The song was a demo which had been waiting on their hard disk since 2009

05/12/2022 : Eiffel 65 teamed with Italian reggae band Boomdabash to record single Heaven, to be released on December 9th. It is based on a sample of Too much of Heaven

27/08/2022 : The melody from Eiffel 65's hit Blue (Da Ba Dee) was covered by David Guetta & Bebe Rexha in their single I'm Good (Blue)

11/09/2021 : Starix, FanEOne & Diana Astrid will soon release a cover of Eiffel 65's hit Blue (Da Ba Dee)

12/02/2021 : Alien Cut teamed with Eiffel 65 and Zighi to record single G Nel Body, inspired from Eiffel 65' hit Move Your Body.

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Eiffel 65 albums

Europop Europop 30th Nov 1999
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Contact Contact 24th Jul 2001
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Eiffel 65 Eiffel 65 2 CDs 2003
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Eiffel 65 singles

Blue (Da Ba Dee) Blue (Da Ba Dee) 29th Apr 1999  
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Move Your Body Move Your Body Aug 1999  
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My Console My Console (Spain only) 2000  
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Back In Time Back In Time 2000  
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One Goal One Goal May 2000  
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Too Much Of Heaven Too Much Of Heaven 11th May 2000  
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Losing You Losing You (Canada only) 2001  
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Lucky In My Life Lucky In My Life 5th Jun 2001  
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80s Stars 80s Stars (Italy only) 22nd Oct 2001  
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Cosa Resterá (In A Song) Cosa Resterá (In A Song) 29th May 2002  
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Quelli Che Non Hanno Età Quelli Che Non Hanno Età 2003  
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Viaggia Insieme A Me Viaggia Insieme A Me 2003  
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Una Notte E Forse Mai Più Una Notte E Forse Mai Più Nov 2003  
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Voglia Di Dance All Night Voglia Di Dance All Night 2004  
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Panico Panico 26th May 2016  
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Movie Star Movie Star Feb 2023  
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Eiffel 65 remixes

Blue (Da Ba Dee) Blue (Da Ba Dee) 1999  
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Una Notte E Forse Mai Più Una Notte E Forse Mai Più 2003  
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Viaggia Insieme A Me Viaggia Insieme A Me 2003  
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A Decade In Blue (Da Ba Dee) 2009 Remixes A Decade In Blue (Da Ba Dee) 2009 Remixes 2009  
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Move Your Body: Golden Remixes Move Your Body: Golden Remixes 31st May 2010  
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Blue (Da Ba Dee) Bottai Remix Blue (Da Ba Dee) Bottai Remix 15th Dec 2017  
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Featurings and collaborations

G Nel Body Alien Cut - G Nel Body 19th Feb 2021  
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Heaven Boomdabash - Heaven 9th Dec 2022  
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Eiffel 65 biography

Label : Bliss Corporation. Eiffel 65 was formed by Jeffrey Jey (who also wrote the lyrics), Maurizio Lobina and Gabry Ponte.

Maurizio Lobina was a gifted musician and also directed A/R Dept in Bliss Co. Gabriele was a professionnal DJ, he mixed the tracks for the group (under the name of DJ Gabry Bridge) and appeared on the stage.

The project's name was chosen by chance. They entered many words they liked in a software that allowed to create names from words according to the coincidence principle. Eiffel came out, and the number 65 was added by mistake afterwards. The '65' was part of a phone number that was inadvertently scribbled next to the name 'Eiffel' when the text was submitted for printing. 'To find a name of a group it is always a delicate process, in how much it would have to represent the artist or the music'.

Their debut single, Blue (Da Ba Dee), with its vocoder-enhanced vocals, topped the charts in England (where it 2nd best selling single for the year 1999), Germany, France, Canada, Australia, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Greece, Belgium, Holland, and Ireland, and became a long-lasting number one. In Italy it was ran every 150 seconds according to statistics and went Platinum. In Israel it was number 1 and reached # 6 in the USA.

Once it's heard, it's never forgotten, as its lasting hook, uplifting verses and body-rocking rhythem are pure energy shot straight to the heart. It's inception began with Maurizio's piano riff before Jeffrey wrote the lyrics. 'Maurizio said 'come up with strange lyrics,'' explains Jeffrey. 'I started thinking about the way people are and about lifestyles-the way you buy your house, pick your girlfriend, your job, or the neighborhood in which you live. Then I came up with a color, a color that describes someone's lifestyle.' The text of Blue is based on the persons and as they are made. 'That is, everyone of we has of the ideas, opinions and a style of life that prefers. I identify this with a color, in the case of Blue the crowds are alive, a funny protagonist in a way that it wants to paint with the blue color. Blue like the sky, the sea, the Earth seen from the space and beautiful the Corvettes of years 70.' they explain.

Blue was also released, almost at the same time, by twenty 4 Seven rapper Stay C Paton in the Netherlands.

The debut album of the  band, Europop, contains 13 tracks, all kind of music in the limits of Eiffel 65, and went double Platinum. In Findance Awards '99, Eiffel 65 was chosen for the second best band of the year, the best newcomer band and their song, Blue (Da Ba Dee), was the second best song of the year. The music video of Blue was the second best music video of the year.

'It's important that people get a positive message,' says Jeffrey about Eiffel 65's music. 'We don't throw something down and criticize. We want to think and use our minds to fix things. Things should be built rather than taken apart. There should be something to be happy about.' Blue (Da Ba Dee) is a mix of dance and English pop, a song with a disco beat. 'We're more like an old-fashioned Depeche Mode, a solid structure, but more futuristic,' he says. 'We are electronic, but we look for new sounds like The Chemical Brothers. It's easy to sing to and to dance to.'

Meanwhile, they remixed Kim Lukas' single All I Want and a single of Ann Lee. Their second single, Move Your Body, was also quite successful since it went number one in 7 countries. It reached # 24 in Israel, # 3 in UK. It was followed by Too Much Of Heaven, a more low-tempo track, saying that the people are only thinkin' about money, forgeting about what's  really important : love, friendship. It went # 1 in Israel and # 1 in Italy. Their following release was entitled One Goal (for the Euro 2000 football championship). During the Summer 2000, Eiffel 65 toured in the whole United States, from New York (in May) to San Francisco (in July).

While the latest statistics are saying that Europop sold in over 10.000.000. copies all over the world, they already talk about the second album for winter 2001. It will be entitled Contact. Maurizio explains : "We like this title because it is inspired by the movie, and it talks about the contact with an alien civilization, which is a fascinating matter. We mainly consider Contact as the perfect word to describe the meeting point of our musical experiences and growth…". Jeffrey says : "It makes me think about the forgotten great space…which means that is incredible to understand how small we are compared to the great space that surrounds us and where it ends and where it begins".

Eiffel 65 participated at the Los Angeles Grammy Awards 2001, where they received a nomination as Best Dance Group, together with Baha Man, Jennifer Lopez, Moby and Enrique Iglesias. On the 2nd of May, 2001 they participated in the World Music Awards in Monte Carlo, as award presenters. On the 15 of May, 2001, they went to Los Angeles to receive an award from B.M.I. U.S.A. for the hit Blue. This prize was being awarded for the "most played song of U.S. radio during the year 2000".

2 singles have already been released from this forthcoming album. The first one is Back In Time, released in the beginning of 2001, the seoncd one is Lucky (In My Life), to be released after the 20th of May. It has been chosen as a single because of its sunny and summery style. Eiffel 65 will participate at Festivalbar, where they will be introducing the new single. They will be singing 4 times, including the final evening.

The new album, released in 2001, was entitled Contact. Then a new single came out in 2002 : it was called Cosa Resterá (In A Song). The track Elephants In Amsterdam was not released as single, it was going to be included in the album Contact. Bliss Corporation gave it as award to the winners of one online contest on July 19th of 2002.

Eiffel 65's third album was at first planned for October 2002 but it was delayed.

2003 : Eiffel 65 took part to San Remo awards contest with their freshly released single Quelli Che Non Hanno Eta. It was their first "totally italian spoken" song... The record appeared to work good. Meanwhile DJ Gabry Ponte's new single was De Musica Tonante which contained a remix of Geordie which is also a radio single by Londonbridge. He also has been playing a remix of The Man In The Moon in his DJ sets.

2004 : their new single was entitled Tu Credi / Voglia Di Dance All Night.

2006 : After Gabry Ponte left the group, Jeff and Maury created a new project called Bloom 06.

2009 : Bloom 06 contributed to a remake of Alexia's song Il Branco. The new version is in English, entitled "We" is the power. It was included on her new album Ale & C.

2010 : They released Golden mixes of their hit Move Your Body

2012 : Michael Mind Project feat. Dante Thomas' single Feeling So Blue was inspired from Eiffel 65's hit.

2013 : Blue was covered by JLL & Afterman.

2016 : After 12 years of silence, Eiffel 65 released a new single entitled Panico. Blue was covered by Sound Of Legend.

2018 : Bottai recorded a remixes package for Blue.

2020 : DJ Nicolas, NaXwell & DJ Combo in May, Stefy de Cicco in July released a cover of Blue. Its chorus was also used in Nea's single Some Say

2021 : Luis Rodriguez did a remix of Too Much Of Heaven. German rappers RAF Camora feat. Bonez MC covered the melody of Blue in their single Blaues Licht.

 

Remixes done by Eiffel 65

883 - La Regina Del Celebrita, Viaggio AlCentro Del Mondo
Alex Party - U Gotta Be
Alphaville - Big In Japan
Andreas Johnson - Glorious
Ann Lee - Ring My Bell
Anna Bettz - Black & White
Anna Vissi - Everything I Am
Aqua - Freaky Friday
Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch
Cool & The Gang - Get Down On It
Gala - Everyone Has Inside
Jane Birkin - Je T'aime
Jean Michele Jarre - Tout Est Bleu
Kim Lukas - All I really want
Laura Pausini - Il Mio Sbaglio Piu Grande
Love Inc. - Here Comes The Sunshine
Lutricia Mc Neal - Fly Away
Mr. Lilu - Little Girl
Nek - La Vita E' Rmx
Piero Pelu - Toro Loco
Regina - You & Me
S Club 7 - Reach
Simon J - Paradise
Supereva - I'm Thinkin' Of You
Superpop - Anywhere
Toni Braxton - Spanish Guitar
Unique - Forever

Bliss Corporation
Eiffel 65 on the Top
Eiffel 65 homepage by Dangerous Minds
Sephiroth's Eiffel 65 Page
Eiffel 65 Center
Thanks to Shimon O'Hana for the charts positions
Thanks to Queen of Lullaby from Eiffel 65 Spain
Thanks to David Hurt, Vincenzo Roselli and Ben Smith for the latest informations

Eiffel 65 biography was last updated Sat, July 2nd 2022

Charts (singles)

Australia Austria Belgium Finland France Germany Italy Netherlands New Zealand Norway Spain Sweden Switzerland
Blue (Da Ba Dee) #1 #1 #1 #1 #1 #1 #1 #1 #1 #1 #1 #1
Move Your Body #4 #1 #4 #10 #1 #4 #5 #19 #6 #20 #3 #8 #2
Back In Time #12 #11
Too Much Of Heaven #50 #30 #20 #35 #2 #49 #11 #52 #22
Lucky In My Life #23 #68 #57 #13 #56 #74
80s Stars #22
Cosa Resterá (In A Song) #12
Quelli Che Non Hanno Età #5
Viaggia Insieme A Me #13
Una Notte E Forse Mai Più #10
Voglia Di Dance All Night #24


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