Bangarang

"Bangarang"
Single by Skrillex featuring Sirah
from the album Bangarang
Released	January 16, 2012
Format	CD digital download
Recorded	June – August 2011
Genre	Complextro moombahcore electronic rock
Length	3:35
Label	Big Beat Atlantic OWSLA
Writer(s)	Sonny Moore
Producer(s)	Skrillex
Skrillex singles chronology "Breakn' a Sweat" (2012) "Bangarang" (2012) "Make It Bun Dem" (2012) Music video "Bangarang" on YouTube

"Bangarang" is a song by American electronic music producer Skrillex. It was released as a single from his EP of the same name. It features guest rap vocals from Sirah. "Bangarang" uses Sirah's "chopped-up" rap vocals throughout the song.^[1]

The song received generally positive reviews from critics, who enjoyed its fun-nature sound. It has since become one of his most commercially successful singles to date, charting within the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Austria, France, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden. A music video for the song premiered on February 16, 2012 via his official YouTube channel.^[2] "Bangarang" received airplay on some modern rock radio stations.^[3] The song can be heard in commercials and trailers for the film The Watch, the video game Sonic Boom and in promos for the 2013 X Games. The song also appears in the video game Guitar Hero Live. It is also the theme music of the mobile game Gangstar Vegas.

The title is a reference to the 1991 film Hook, in which the Lost Boys' catch cry is "bangarang!"^[4]

Critical reception

Jon Dollan from Rolling Stone noted 'the laser-blasting inanity of the title track, which ends with someone bragging, "I'm eating Fun Dip right now/Not givin' a fuck." Not a bad credo for music that makes a disco sugar high feel downright pornographic'.^[1] Garret Kamps from Spin gave the song a positive review, calling it a "massively enjoyable, massively concussive collection of blips and bursts that sounds like something Moby might hear in his head during a heart attack, so thoroughly and dyspeptically is dubstep's characteristic bass wobble distorted and pushed into the red. That remains [his] signature trick...." ^[5]

Rolling Stone named the song the 22nd-best song of 2012.^[6]

Music video

A music video for the song premiered via YouTube on February 16, 2012. Like the title of the song, it references Peter Pan, with an ice cream man having a hook in place of his right hand, just like Captain Hook.

Track listing

Promo CD[7] / digital download
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Bangarang" (featuring Sirah)	3:35

Charts and certifications

Commercial performance

The song has charted in multiple countries worldwide, including the Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. In Australia, the song has become a commercial success, reaching the top 5 within the ARIA Charts whilst spending more than 20 weeks within the top 50. It has also been certified 4x Platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA).^[8]

In the United States, the song entered the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart at number 4 due to strong digital downloads. However, on the issue date of March 3, 2012, the song debuted at number 95 on the Billboard Hot 100,.^[9] It has since reached a peak of number 72 and spent more than 20 weeks on the chart. It has sold over 1 million copies in the US as of January 2013.^[10] In the United Kingdom, the song reached a peak of number 24 and spent a total of 16 weeks inside the UK Top 40.

Weekly charts Chart (2012) Peak position scope="row" Australia (ARIA)[11] 4 Australia Dance (ARIA)[12] 1 scope="row" Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[13] 25 scope="row" Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[14] 9 scope="row" Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)[15] 2 Belgium Dance (Ultratop Flanders)[14] 1 scope="row" Belgium (Ultratip Wallonia)[16] 9 Belgium Dance Bubbling Under (Ultratop Wallonia)[16] 2 scope="row" Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[17] 26 scope="row" Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[18] 12 scope="row" France (SNEP)[19] 63 scope="row" Germany (Official German Charts)[20] 55 scope="row" Ireland (IRMA)[21] 50 scope="row" Netherlands (Single Top 100)[22] 59 scope="row" Norway (VG-lista)[23] 16 scope="row" New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[24] 14 Romania (Romanian Top 100)[25] 70 scope="row" Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[26] 25 scope="row" Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[27] 61 scope="row" UK Dance (Official Charts Company)[28] 3 scope="row" UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[29] 24 scope="row" US Billboard Hot 100[30] 72

Year-end charts Chart (2012) Peak position scope="row" Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[17] 74 UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[31] 73 Certifications Region Certification Sales/shipments Australia (ARIA)[32] 4× Platinum 280,000 Belgium (BEA)[33] Gold 15,000 Italy (FIMI)[34] Gold 15,000 Mexico (AMPROFON)[35] Platinum 60,000 New Zealand (RMNZ)[36] Platinum 15,000 Sweden (GLF)[37] Platinum 40,000 United Kingdom (BPI)[38] Gold 400,000 United States (RIAA)[39] 2x Platinum 2,000,000[10] ^*sales figures based on certification alone ^^shipments figures based on certification alone ^xunspecified figures based on certification alone

References

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2. "SKRILLEX - Bangarang Official Music Video". YouTube. 2012-02-16. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
3. "The Naked And Famous Regain Top Spot, Skrillex’s "Bangarang" Added To KROQ Playlist". KROQ. 2012-01-10. Retrieved 2013-07-17.
4. Wolk, Douglas (December 4, 2012). "Top 10 Everything of 2012: 6. Skrillex, 'Bangarang'".
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29. "Archive Chart: 2012-06-02" UK Singles Chart. Retrieved May 27, 2012.
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32. "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2013 Singles". Australian Recording Industry Association.
33. "Ultratop − Goud en Platina – 2012". Ultratop & Hung Medien / hitparade.ch.
34. "Italian single certifications – Skrillex feat. Sarah – Bangarang" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Select Online in the field Sezione. Enter Skrillex feat. Sarah in the field Filtra. The certification will load automatically
35. "..:Certificaciones Mensuales 2015:..". Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. Facebook. 13 March 2015. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
36. THE FIELD id (chart number) MUST BE PROVIDED for NEW ZEALAND CERTIFICATION.
37. "Sverigetopplistan: Skrillex – Bangarang" (To access certification, one must search (Sök) for "Bangarang" or "Bangarang Skrillex" and click the "Visa" button.) (in Swedish). Sverigetopplistan. Grammofonleverantörernas förening. Retrieved 2012-12-25.
38. "British single certifications – Skrillex feat. Sarah – Bangarang". British Phonographic Industry. Enter Bangarang in the field Keywords. Select Title in the field Search by. Select single in the field By Format. Select Gold in the field By Award. Click Search
39. "American single certifications – Skrillex feat. Sarah – Bangarang". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Single, then click SEARCH