Let’s Dance" is the title album track on David Bowie's album Let's Dance. It was also released as the first single from that album in 1983, and went on to become one of his biggest-selling tracks.
The single was one of Bowie’s fastest selling to date, entering the UK singles chart at number five on its first week of release, and deposing Duran Duran’s “Is There Something I Should Know?” two weeks later, staying at the top of the charts for three weeks. Soon afterwards, the single would top the Billboard Hot 100, Bowie’s only single to reach number one on both sides of the Atlantic. It narrowly missed topping the Australian charts, peaking at number two. Let's Dance is the fourth best-selling single of 1983 in the UK, selling over 500,000 copies.
Heavily influenced by producer Nile Rodgers work with his band Chic, "Let’s Dance" features a thumping bassline, and was arguably Bowie’s most commercial record up to that point.
“Let’s Dance” would introduce Bowie to a new younger audience oblivious to his former career in the '70s. The track was a regular on the Serious Moonlight Tour (the name derived from a lyric in “Let’s Dance”), the 1987 Glass Spider Tour and the 1990 Sound + Vision Tour, and was then reworked for the 2000 tour. Most recently a remix version of it appears on a commercial for the March 22, 2010 episode of the ABC television show Dancing With The Stars.
INTERNATIONAL CHART PEAKS
Australian Singles Chart #2
Austrian Singles Chart #2
Canadian Singles Chart #1
Dutch Singles Chart #1
Irish Singles Chart #1
New Zealand Singles Chart #1
Norwegian Singles Chart #1
Swedish Singles Chart #1
Swiss Singles Chart #1
German Singles Chart #2
U.K. Singles Chart #1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 #1
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play #1
U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks #8
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs #14
video link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4d7Wp9kKjA&ob=av2e
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