"Antmusic" was the third single released in the UK in 1980, from the Adam and the Ants

Adam and the Ants

Adam and the Ants were a British rock band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The original group, which existed from 1977 to 1980, became notable as a cult band marking the transition from the late-1970s punk rock era to the post-punk and New Wave era...

 album Kings of the Wild Frontier

Kings of the Wild Frontier

Kings of the Wild Frontier is a New Wave album by Adam and the Ants, released in 1980 . This album introduced the new Burundi drum sound. After having his previous backing band wooed away by producer Malcolm McLaren, who used them to form Bow Wow Wow, Adam Ant recorded Kings of the Wild Frontier...

. The first single from the album Kings of the Wild Frontier

Kings of the Wild Frontier

Kings of the Wild Frontier is a New Wave album by Adam and the Ants, released in 1980 . This album introduced the new Burundi drum sound. After having his previous backing band wooed away by producer Malcolm McLaren, who used them to form Bow Wow Wow, Adam Ant recorded Kings of the Wild Frontier...

, was the title track, making number 48 (although it re-entered the charts in early 1981 peaking at number 2). The follow-up "Dog Eat Dog" made number 4 on the UK charts

UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

. "Antmusic" peaked at #2 in January 1981, being held off the top by the re-release of John Lennon

John Lennon

John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...

's "Imagine

Imagine (song)

"Imagine" is a song written and performed by the English musician John Lennon. It is the opening track on his album Imagine, released in 1971...

" after his murder in New York City in December 1980.

The video to "Antmusic" featured the group playing in a discothèque with a giant juke box, and persuading the young audience to turn away from disco music and dance to the new-styled 'Ant-Music'.

The single in Australia spent five weeks at No. 1, and earned the band platinum certification

Music recording sales certification

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 for sales of over 100,000. Adam and the Ants toured Australia in 1981 and appeared on influential TV pop show Countdown.

Covers

• Robbie Williams
  Robbie Williams
  Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams is an English singer-songwriter, vocal coach and occasional actor. He is a member of the pop group Take That. Williams rose to fame in the band's first run in the early- to mid-1990s. After many disagreements with the management and certain group members, Williams...
  
   recorded a cover version on the B-side of his single "No Regrets" in 1998.
• OK Go
  OK Go
  OK Go is a rock band originally from Chicago, Illinois, USA, now residing in Los Angeles, California, USA. The band is composed of Damian Kulash , Tim Nordwind , Dan Konopka and Andy Ross , who joined them in 2005, replacing Andy Duncan...
  
   released a cover version of it on the B-side of the single "Get Over It
  Get over It (OK Go song)
  "Get Over It" is the first single released by OK Go from their self-titled debut album. It was released as a promotional single in the US in 2002 and was released in the UK in March 2003 which got the band their first Top of the Pops performance on April 4, 2003."You're So Damn Hot" appeared on...
  
  ".
• Hyper recorded a cover featuring Leeroy Thornhill
  Leeroy Thornhill
  Leeroy Thornhill is a British electronic music artist and formerly a rave dancer and live keyboardist of the British rave act The Prodigy. He has produced solo work under the names Longman and Flightcrank. He was born in Barking but raised in Rayne near Braintree in Essex, and grew up as a...
  
   for their album We Control.
• The Charlatans and Dirty Pretty Things
  Dirty Pretty Things (band)
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   covered it live on Transmission
  Transmission (TV series)
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  on 5 September 2008
• Rogue Traders
  Rogue Traders
  Rogue Traders are an Australian electronic pop rock band fronted by Melinda "Mindi" Jackson with James Ash on keyboards, Tim Henwood on guitars and Peter Marin on drums. The group's original members met in London in 1989. Before forming Rogue Traders, Ash and Davis worked together on many...
  
   recorded a song called Would You Raise Your Hands which contained samples from Antmusic including the lyrics "So unplug the Jukebox, and do us all a favour".
• The Quakes
  The Quakes
  The Quakes are a psychobilly band from Buffalo, NY. They were formed in 1986. They are considered very influential to the current American psychobilly scene, but in the late 80's, there was no scene to speak of in the United States...
  
   recorded a cover version on the album Psyops where it is a ghost track. Psyops/Orrexx records 2005.

External links

• Music video for "Antmusic" on YouTube