Déjà Vu (Inna song)
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"Déjà Vu" is a song by Romanian DJ Bob Taylor (real name Bogdan Croitoru), featuring Romanian female recording artist Inna
, and was released in the summer of 2009 in Romania
. The song officially appeared on Taylor's second album but was also used for Inna's debut album, Hot
. The song was originally sang by Taylor and the Romanian newcomer, Alessia. Released as Inna's third single from "Hot", it reached the top ten of the Romanian Top 100
, peaking at number seven. The music video was shot in June 2009 and premiered in the same month on MTV Romania. In the Netherlands, it was released as Inna's second single (following her debut single "Hot
"). Credited as Inna featuring Bob Taylor "Déjà Vu" was released in the U.K. and France
as the third single taken from her debut album.
In the U.K. the radio edit of the song appeared on the British dance compilation album "Clubland 18" on November 7, 2010 and then was released as a Digital EP on November 14, 2010.
This song is Inna's third successful single worldwide, only beyond "Hot" and "Amazing". In Romania it is her second least successful song, being one of her only two singles not to enter the top 5.
they confirmed officially they are the performers of the song. Inna posted an entry on her blog about the release of "Déjà Vu" stating that "A good track must be promoted and listened without knowing who wrote it or who are the vocals."
The song became imidiately an ultrahit in Eastern Europe, reaching number seven on the Romanian Top 100
and peaking in the top twenty on the Airplay chart in Czech Republic
(number sixteen) and the Dance Chart in Hungary
(number twelve).
The song then was released in the Netherlands
and Belgium
as the second, in Spain
, France
and the U.K. as the third single release from Inna's debut album "Hot".
showing Bob Taylor performing in a club. Inna did not take part in the filming and does not appear in this video.
For the commercial release of the song in Europe
, an alternative video has been released featuring Inna. It uses footage of Inna's photoshooting in Nessebar, a major seaside resort on the Black Sea
coast of Bulgaria.
This video was later edited for the U.K. release and is credited as Inna featuring Bob Taylor. On October 1, 2010 the music video was released to U.K. music channels to support the digital and physical release of "Déjà Vu".
" and "Love
" "Déjà Vu" was Inna's third top ten success in her home country Romania
. The song entered the Romanian Top 100
on June 17, 2009 and peaked at number seven on August 21, 2009.
In early 2010, after the success of her debut song "Hot" on the U.S. Billboard
Hot Dance Airplay
chart, where the song peaked at number one, "Déjà Vu" entered several European charts including the Dutch Single Top 100 and the Belgium Singles Chart.
On the Spanish Singles Chart it debuted at number thirty-one on May 2, 2010 and peaked at number fifteen on August 15, 2010. With a total of twenty-six non-consecutive weeks, "Déjà Vu" became Inna's longest charting song on the top fifty.
In France "Déjà Vu" became yet another smash hit for Inna as the song debuted on the French Singles Chart at number six on September 11, 2010 while the predecessors "Amazing
" and "Hot" simultaneously sat at number eight and thirty-nine respectively.
In the UK, "Déjà Vu" was on the compilation Clubland 18
a week before its release; therefore people were buying it digitally on iTunes
a week earlier than its release date, so it only reached number 62 in the UK Singles Chart
and 8 on the Dance Chart. A week later on its official release it only climbed two places to 60. So you have Clubland 18 to blame for the low chart position.
In the beginning of 2011, the song entered the Ö3 Austria Top 40
, debuting at number twenty-five. This scores Inna's biggest debut in the chart, her first top forty to date and, so far, her second song to enter the chart, after "Amazing". The next week it dropped many positions, after just two weeks leaving the chart. But in late January the song re-entered the top forty, climbing towards the top thirty.
, where she accepted the platinum disc for her album "Hot". Inna performed the track live with and without Bob Taylor trought Romania, Eastern Europe
and even Mainland Europe. She sung "Deja Vu" live on Fama Revolution, in Spain
. She performed it live in the same country, at the Los 40 Principales
awards. She has sang a short part of the chorus as an acceptance of her "Zece Pentru Romania" award. On December 28, 2010 she performed "Deja Vu" on Kasho Club, Braşov
. She had also performed the song "Deja Vu" on her own at the Stage B of the NRJ Music Awards
, on January 22, 2011, in Cannes
, France
. There she was nominated for the Révélation internationale de l'année (so the Best New Act). She lost to Justin Bieber
. There, she sang "Deja Vu" along with all her previous and upcoming hits ("Hot", "Love", "Amazing", "Sun Is Up", "10 Minutes" and "Got Me Goin'").
Inna
Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu , best known as Inna, is a Romanian dance music singer. On November 12, 2008, she released her debut single "Hot", which was produced by Play & Win, a Romanian dance music trio and one of the leading music producers in Romania...
, and was released in the summer of 2009 in Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
. The song officially appeared on Taylor's second album but was also used for Inna's debut album, Hot
Hot (Inna album)
- Weekly charts :- Certifications :- Year-end charts :*"Very Hot" Version-All-time charts:- Release history :...
. The song was originally sang by Taylor and the Romanian newcomer, Alessia. Released as Inna's third single from "Hot", it reached the top ten of the Romanian Top 100
Romanian Top 100
The Romanian Top 100 is the national airplay-based singles chart of Romania. It is weekly and it started running in 1996. It is recognized as an official chart by the European division of Billboard, Music & Media....
, peaking at number seven. The music video was shot in June 2009 and premiered in the same month on MTV Romania. In the Netherlands, it was released as Inna's second single (following her debut single "Hot
Hot (Inna song)
"Hot" is a song by Romanian recording artist Inna from her debut studio album, Hot. It was released on November 12, 2008 by Roton Records as the lead single from the album. Produced and written by Sebastian Barac, Radu Bolfea and Marcel Botezan of Play & Win, "Hot" is an uptempo electro house song...
"). Credited as Inna featuring Bob Taylor "Déjà Vu" was released in the U.K. and France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
as the third single taken from her debut album.
In the U.K. the radio edit of the song appeared on the British dance compilation album "Clubland 18" on November 7, 2010 and then was released as a Digital EP on November 14, 2010.
This song is Inna's third successful single worldwide, only beyond "Hot" and "Amazing". In Romania it is her second least successful song, being one of her only two singles not to enter the top 5.
Background
In the spring of 2009, Inna collaborated with the Romanian DJ Bogdan Croitoru for his still untitled second studio album. They decided to promote the song "Déjà Vu" undercover and sent their song to the mainstream radio under the names of Anni (backwards to Inna) and Bob Taylor. After the song became a hit in RomaniaRomania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
they confirmed officially they are the performers of the song. Inna posted an entry on her blog about the release of "Déjà Vu" stating that "A good track must be promoted and listened without knowing who wrote it or who are the vocals."
The song became imidiately an ultrahit in Eastern Europe, reaching number seven on the Romanian Top 100
Romanian Top 100
The Romanian Top 100 is the national airplay-based singles chart of Romania. It is weekly and it started running in 1996. It is recognized as an official chart by the European division of Billboard, Music & Media....
and peaking in the top twenty on the Airplay chart in Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
(number sixteen) and the Dance Chart in Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
(number twelve).
The song then was released in the Netherlands
Netherlands
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and Belgium
Belgium
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as the second, in Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
and the U.K. as the third single release from Inna's debut album "Hot".
Music video
The music video for "Déjà Vu" was shot in early 2009 in ConstanţaConstanta
Constanța is the oldest extant city in Romania, founded around 600 BC. The city is located in the Dobruja region of Romania, on the Black Sea coast. It is the capital of Constanța County and the largest city in the region....
showing Bob Taylor performing in a club. Inna did not take part in the filming and does not appear in this video.
For the commercial release of the song in Europe
Europe
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, an alternative video has been released featuring Inna. It uses footage of Inna's photoshooting in Nessebar, a major seaside resort on the Black Sea
Black Sea
The Black Sea is bounded by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean and the Aegean seas and various straits. The Bosphorus strait connects it to the Sea of Marmara, and the strait of the Dardanelles connects that sea to the Aegean...
coast of Bulgaria.
This video was later edited for the U.K. release and is credited as Inna featuring Bob Taylor. On October 1, 2010 the music video was released to U.K. music channels to support the digital and physical release of "Déjà Vu".
Chart performance
After "HotHot (Inna song)
"Hot" is a song by Romanian recording artist Inna from her debut studio album, Hot. It was released on November 12, 2008 by Roton Records as the lead single from the album. Produced and written by Sebastian Barac, Radu Bolfea and Marcel Botezan of Play & Win, "Hot" is an uptempo electro house song...
" and "Love
Love (Inna song)
"Love" is a song performed by female Romanian recording artist Inna. The song was written and produced by native dance music trio Play & Win. It acts as her second single released from her debut studio album, Hot. It was released on digital format through Roton and Ultra Records and across various...
" "Déjà Vu" was Inna's third top ten success in her home country Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
. The song entered the Romanian Top 100
Romanian Top 100
The Romanian Top 100 is the national airplay-based singles chart of Romania. It is weekly and it started running in 1996. It is recognized as an official chart by the European division of Billboard, Music & Media....
on June 17, 2009 and peaked at number seven on August 21, 2009.
In early 2010, after the success of her debut song "Hot" on the U.S. Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Hot Dance Airplay
Hot Dance Airplay
Dance/Mix Show Airplay is a monitored electronic dance music radio chart that is featured weekly in Billboard magazine. The chart came about as a result of the small but influential impact of electronic dance music on the radio in the United States and the stations that program it...
chart, where the song peaked at number one, "Déjà Vu" entered several European charts including the Dutch Single Top 100 and the Belgium Singles Chart.
On the Spanish Singles Chart it debuted at number thirty-one on May 2, 2010 and peaked at number fifteen on August 15, 2010. With a total of twenty-six non-consecutive weeks, "Déjà Vu" became Inna's longest charting song on the top fifty.
In France "Déjà Vu" became yet another smash hit for Inna as the song debuted on the French Singles Chart at number six on September 11, 2010 while the predecessors "Amazing
Amazing (Inna song)
"Amazing" is an electro-house song by Romanian recording artist Inna, from her debut album "Hot". The song debuted on Radio 21 FM on August 6, 2009, and was released in October 2009. It brought Inna the first number-one single in her home country Romania. It was released as her fourth single in...
" and "Hot" simultaneously sat at number eight and thirty-nine respectively.
In the UK, "Déjà Vu" was on the compilation Clubland 18
Clubland 18
Clubland 18 is a dance compilation album from the Clubland series. The album was released on November 8, 2010.- Disc 1 :# Barbra Streisand - Duck Sauce# Night Nurse - Cascada# Déjà Vu - Inna Feat. Bob Taylor...
a week before its release; therefore people were buying it digitally on iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
a week earlier than its release date, so it only reached number 62 in 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 ...
and 8 on the Dance Chart. A week later on its official release it only climbed two places to 60. So you have Clubland 18 to blame for the low chart position.
In the beginning of 2011, the song entered the Ö3 Austria Top 40
Ö3 Austria Top 40
Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the name of the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it, aired Fridays on Hitradio Ö3. The show presents the Austrian singles, ringtones and downloads chart. It premiered on 26 November 1968 as Disc Parade and was presented by Ernst Grissemann...
, debuting at number twenty-five. This scores Inna's biggest debut in the chart, her first top forty to date and, so far, her second song to enter the chart, after "Amazing". The next week it dropped many positions, after just two weeks leaving the chart. But in late January the song re-entered the top forty, climbing towards the top thirty.
Live performance
Inna performed "Déjà Vu" live on several dates in Romania and Dubai. She has also performed the song at the Starfloor festival in FranceFrance
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, where she accepted the platinum disc for her album "Hot". Inna performed the track live with and without Bob Taylor trought Romania, Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
and even Mainland Europe. She sung "Deja Vu" live on Fama Revolution, in Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
. She performed it live in the same country, at the Los 40 Principales
Los 40 Principales
Los 40 Principales is the main musical radio station in Spain with more than 4,000,000 listeners. The station was founded in 1966 and in 2006 the station celebrated its 40th anniversary...
awards. She has sang a short part of the chorus as an acceptance of her "Zece Pentru Romania" award. On December 28, 2010 she performed "Deja Vu" on Kasho Club, Braşov
Brasov
Brașov is a city in Romania and the capital of Brașov County.According to the last Romanian census, from 2002, there were 284,596 people living within the city of Brașov, making it the 8th most populated city in Romania....
. She had also performed the song "Deja Vu" on her own at the Stage B of the NRJ Music Awards
NRJ Music Awards
The NRJ Music Awards, created in 2000 by the radio station NRJ in partnership with the television network TF1 takes place every year in mid-January at Cannes as the opening of MIDEM...
, on January 22, 2011, in Cannes
Cannes
Cannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. It is a Commune of France in the Alpes-Maritimes department....
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. There she was nominated for the Révélation internationale de l'année (so the Best New Act). She lost to Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber
Justin Drew Bieber is a Canadian pop/R&B singer, songwriter and actor. Bieber was discovered in 2008 by Scooter Braun, who came across Bieber's videos on YouTube and later became his manager...
. There, she sang "Deja Vu" along with all her previous and upcoming hits ("Hot", "Love", "Amazing", "Sun Is Up", "10 Minutes" and "Got Me Goin'").
Peak positions
| Chart (2009/2010/2011) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Eurochart Hot 100 Singles Eurochart Hot 100 Singles The European Hot 100 Singles has been compiled by Billboard and Music & Media magazine since March, 1984. The chart is based on national singles sales charts in 15 European countries: Austria, Belgium , Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden,... |
23 |
| Poland (ZPAV) | 24 |
| Romania (Romanian Top 100 Romanian Top 100 The Romanian Top 100 is the national airplay-based singles chart of Romania. It is weekly and it started running in 1996. It is recognized as an official chart by the European division of Billboard, Music & Media.... ) |
7 |
| UK Singles (The Official Chart Company) | 60 |
Year-end charts
| Chart (2010) | Position |
|---|---|
| Belgian Singles Chart (Flanders) | 75 |
| Belgian Singles Chart (Wallonia) | 41 |
| French Singles Chart | 99 |
| French Airplay Chart | 72 |
| Netherlands (Dutch Top 40 Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting... ) |
39 |
| European Hot 100 Singles | 100 |
Release history
| Region | Date | Format | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romania | June 2, 2009 | Airplay | Roton Records |
| United States | December 1, 2009 | Digital | Ultra Records Ultra Records Ultra Records is an American independent electronic dance music record label. Ultra was formed in New York City in 1995 by former Polygram and Virgin Records executive Patrick Moxey, who is still currently the owner... |
| France | September 6, 2010 | CD Single | Universal |
| United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
November 14, 2010 | Digital EP | 3 Beat 3 Beat Records 3 Beat Records is a British record shop and independent record label which was founded by Jon Barlow in 1989.-History:3 Beat Records was founded as a dance music record shop in 1989 by Jon Barlow, Dave Nicholl, Phil Southall and later joined by Phil Beddard and Hywell Williams who were students at... , All Around the World |