^ ': Top 100 Single Official Media Control ()'.^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. * Sales figures based on certification alone. Year-end charts Original version Chart (1990) US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks ( Billboard) US Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales ( Billboard) US Dance Music/Club Play Singles ( Billboard) Weekly charts Original version Chart (1990) He would also direct the video for the group's next song, 'Cult of Snap'. The accompanying music video for 'Ooops Up' was directed by Liam Kan and is in both black-and-white and colours. He called it 'a sort of cover of the Gap Band's 'Ooops Upside Your Head' mixed with a dodgy reinterpretation of ' Little Miss Muffet'.' Music video Tom Doyle from Smash Hits declared it as 'one of the best attempts' in matching the brilliance of their debut, 'The Power'. Already one of the most danced to songs in the country.' A reviewer from Newcastle Evening Chronicle named 'Ooops Up' one of the best songs of the World Power album. ĭavid Giles from Music Week felt it has 'a shuffling rhythm distinctive enough to earn them another big success.' Gene Sandbloom from The Network Forty described it as a 'powerful bass busting track combining rap and song. Another editor, Andrew Smith, called it 'juddery funk'. Bill Coleman from Billboard commented, 'Sizzling hip-hop jam should help act maintain ' the power' over club and radio jocks.' Dave Sholin from the Gavin Report wrote that 'reaching into The Gap Band songbook, this powerhouse outfit comes up with the perfect remake, giving it a glowing nineties treatment.' Push from Melody Maker remarked that the song 'was an attempt at something a little different' than sticking around with the same formula as ' The Power'. The song was awarded with a gold record in Australia (35,000), Austria (25,000), Sweden (25,000) and the US (500,000), and a silver record in the United Kingdom (200,000).ĪllMusic editor Andrew Hamilton noted that the song is a 'remake/takeoff' of the Gap Band's nonsensical funk riff ' Oops Upside Your Head'. On the Billboard Dance/Club Play Songs chart, it peaked at number four. Outside Europe, 'Ooops Up' reached number-one on the RPM Dance/Urban chart in Canada, number four in Australia, number five in Zimbabwe, number eight in New Zealand and number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. It stayed at that position for two weeks. In the latter, the single peaked at number five in its third week on the UK Singles Chart, on 24 June 1990. It entered the top 10 also in Belgium (4), Denmark (10), Finland (4), Italy (3), Spain (6) and the UK. And it reached the number two position in Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and West Germany. Like its predecessor, 'Ooops Up' was very successful on the charts on several continents, peaking at number-one in Greece. Its music video was directed by Liam Kan. The narrator talks about it and everything that went wrong during his day.

Lyrically the song is about Murphy's Law. The single was a world-wide hit and reached number-one in Greece. The song is a re-working of ' I Don't Believe You Want to Get Up and Dance (Ooops!)' a 1980 hit by The Gap Band, with which band member Penny Ford was a former backing singer.

' Ooops Up' is a song by German Eurodance group Snap!, released in June 1990 as the second single from their debut studio album, World Power (1990).

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