"Bounce" is the tenth single released by Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 recording artist Calvin Harris

Calvin Harris

Calvin Harris is a Scottish singer-songwriter, record producer and DJ. His gold-selling debut album, I Created Disco, was released in 2007 and contained the top ten singles "Acceptable in the 80s" and "The Girls"...

 and is the first from his upcoming third studio album, premiering on Annie Mac's show on 29 April 2011. The song features Kelis

Kelis

Kelis Rogers Kelis Rogers Kelis Rogers (born August 21, 1971 is an American musical artist. She is a BRIT Award, Q Award and NME Award winner and has been nominated for two Grammy Awards. She has had nine top 10 singles on the UK Singles Chart...

 and is a move away from Harris singing, concentrating more on production. It was released on 12 June 2011 as a digital download

Music download

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Critical reception

"Bounce" has received generally positive reviews from contemporary critics. Lewis Corner from Digital Spy

Digital Spy

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 noted the successful transition of Harris' lack of vocals for the song saying "Kelis purrs over a midi-fied melody reminiscent of a classic Gameboy

Game Boy music

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, before Harris takes the reins on the vocal-less chorus complete with bang-on-trend squiggly synths and head-bopping beats". Michael Cragg from The Guardian

The Guardian

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noted the club effect of the track saying "Opening with a pinging keyboard riff and Kelis intoning "bounce", it soon morphs into a hands-in-the-air-ideally-holding-a-glow-stick dance monster, with Kelis's effortless cool keeping it's just the right side of parody." Sarah Deen from Metro noted the "hands-in-the-air chorus" but added "a marked improvement from his first single Merrymaking At My Place but it's no I'm Not Alone."

Music video

The video premiered on Harris' Vevo

Vevo

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 channel in May 2011. The video features American model AJ English and was filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada

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, USA.

Chart performance

"Bounce" first appeared on the UK Singles Chart

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 ...

 at number 2 on 25 June 2011, behind British

British people

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 rapper Example

Example (rapper)

Elliot John Gleave , better known by his stage name Example, is an English singer and rapper signed to Data Records. His name arose due to his initials being E.G., which is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase "exempli gratia", which means, "for example".Example's third album Playing In The Shadows...

's "Changed the Way You Kiss Me

Changed the Way You Kiss Me

"Changed the Way You Kiss Me" is a song by British recording artist Example from his third studio album, Playing in the Shadows. It was released on 5 June 2011 as the album's lead single, after it had premiered on BBC Radio 1 as Zane Lowe's 'Hottest Record In The World' on 24 March 2011. The trance...

" - despite appearing at number 1 on the midweek update. This would be its highest chart position. The single marks Harris' sixth top 10 single in the UK and the third most successful of these - behind "I'm Not Alone" and "Dance wiv Me

Dance Wiv Me

Dance wiv Me is a single by Ghanaian British rapper Dizzee Rascal, from his fourth studio album Tongue n' Cheek. It was released on 22 June 2008 and features guest vocals from Scottish DJ Calvin Harris and English R&B singer Chrome...

"; both of which reached number-one. "Bounce" also marks the tenth top 10 single for Kelis

Kelis

Kelis Rogers Kelis Rogers Kelis Rogers (born August 21, 1971 is an American musical artist. She is a BRIT Award, Q Award and NME Award winner and has been nominated for two Grammy Awards. She has had nine top 10 singles on the UK Singles Chart...

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Track listing

CD single

1. "Bounce" (featuring Kelis) (Radio edit) – 3:42
2. "Bounce" (featuring Kelis) (R3hab Remix) – 5:23
3. "Bounce" (featuring Kelis) (Michael Woods
   Michael Woods (producer)
   Michael Woods is a UK producer and remixer of various dance music genres, including electronic, trance and jazz. He has worked under the monikers Warrior, Accadia, M1 and M3.-History:...
   
    Remix) – 5:36

Digitial download

1. "Bounce" (featuring Kelis) (Radio edit) – 3:42
2. "Awooga" – 7:13
3. "Bounce" (featuring Kelis) (Extended Mix) – 6:00

Digitial download - Remixes

1. "Bounce" (featuring Kelis) (Michael Woods
   Michael Woods (producer)
   Michael Woods is a UK producer and remixer of various dance music genres, including electronic, trance and jazz. He has worked under the monikers Warrior, Accadia, M1 and M3.-History:...
   
    Remix) – 5:36
2. "Bounce" (featuring Kelis) (R3hab Remix) – 5:23
3. "Bounce" (featuring Kelis) (Sandro Silva Remix) – 6:43
4. "Bounce" (featuring Kelis) (Fly Eye Club Mix) – 6:06

Charts

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Chart (2011)	Peak position
Australian Dance ARIA ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...	1
Poland (Dance Top 50 Polish Music Charts The Polish Music Charts are two official album charts and seven singles charts in Poland, provided by ZPAV, the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry . The first, the Top 100, is a monthly chart based on data received from the album companies... )	30
US Hot Dance Club Songs	22

Certifications

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Label
Australia	10 June 2011	Digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...	Sony Music Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment ' is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation....
Ireland
United Kingdom	12 June 2011
	13 June 2011	CD single CD single A CD single is a music single in the form of a standard size Compact Disc, not to be confused with the 3-inch CD single, which uses a smaller form factor. The format was introduced in the mid-1980s, but did not gain its place in the market until the early 1990s...
Germany	17 June 2011	Digital download