"Fever" is a single released by Cascada

Cascada

Cascada is a German Eurodance act most famous for their hit singles "Everytime We Touch", "What Hurts the Most", and "Evacuate the Dancefloor"...

 from their album Evacuate the Dancefloor

Evacuate the Dancefloor (album)

Evacuate the Dancefloor is the third studio album from German eurodance group Cascada, consisting of DJ Manian, Natalie Horler, and Yanou, first released on July 3, 2009. Recording sessions for the album took place during 2008 to 2009 at Plazmatek Studio, Yanou Studio 1...

. It was released as the second single from the album, inititally in Germany on October 9, 2009, with various other countries following suit. In the United Kingdom it served as the third single from the album (following 'Dangerous', which was selected as the second single there).

Music structure

"Fever", by Cascada, is an uptempo electropop song that displays Cascada

Cascada

Cascada is a German Eurodance act most famous for their hit singles "Everytime We Touch", "What Hurts the Most", and "Evacuate the Dancefloor"...

's transition into the electropop music field featuring a standard dance music

Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...

 beat with electropop synths. It is also the only song on the Evacuate The Dancefloor

Evacuate the Dancefloor (album)

Evacuate the Dancefloor is the third studio album from German eurodance group Cascada, consisting of DJ Manian, Natalie Horler, and Yanou, first released on July 3, 2009. Recording sessions for the album took place during 2008 to 2009 at Plazmatek Studio, Yanou Studio 1...

 album that has profanity

Profanity

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, though the one occasion where this happens is bleeped out. It has a moderate dance groove and it is composed in the key of D minor

D minor

D minor is a minor scale based on D, consisting of the pitches D, E, F, G, A, B, and C. In the harmonic minor, the C is raised to C. Its key signature has one flat ....

 with a tempo

Tempo

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 of 128 beats per minute.

Music video

It was mentioned on the Official Cascada Twitter page that a video was shot at the end of July, but the identity of the track was kept secret at the time. The video was finally revealed as "Fever" and had its official premiere on German TV station Viva on September 17, 2009.

The video begins with several still shots of an office building, and singer Natalie Horler

Natalie Horler

Natalie Christine Horler is an English-German singer and television presenter born in Bonn, Germany. She is known internationally as the lead singer of Eurodance/Eurotrance group Cascada. She is popular in Europe and America, as well as in several Asian countries. Cascada consists of Horler and...

 and two entourage walking inside. Horler, wearing a navy blazer with a pink corset, stockings and pink ballerina-style black high heels and holding a cane, and her two backup dancers walk past a businesswoman who is having trouble holding several books and papers. Horler knocks over what she is carrying, and her papers flutter down several flights of stairs. She walks into a business meeting, and angrily hits her cane on the table while her entourage destroy several posters of Horler labeled "beauty" and "princess". She crawls across the table, and the video cuts to Horler and her two dancers on a stage in the office lobby, dancing while attracting the attention of everyone passing through the room. This scene is shown throughout the video. Horler is also shown in several scenes chair dancing with her backup dancers and also lying on pink chiffon. In the meeting room, Horler continues to crawl across the table, grabbing a businessman by his tie and pushing him back in his chair and also throwing a glass of water into the face of one businesswoman. Horler then takes a businessman's papers and throws them in the air while her backup dancers cause havoc by pouring a liquid on a man's head and begin to kiss one of the businesswomen. In the third verse of the song, the video cuts into slow motion, and towards the end of the verse, Horler pulls out a can of hairspray from a bag on the table and sets the scattered papers across the table and everything else in the room on fire while the businesspeople evacuate the room.

The video began to receive airplay on UK music channels on November 4, 2009.

Track listing and formats

• German CD Single

1. "Fever" (Radio Edit)
2. "Fever" (Ryan Thistlebeck Remix)

• German digital download

1. "Fever" (Radio Edit)
2. "Fever" (Ryan Thistlebeck Remix)
3. "Fever" (Extended Mix)
4. "Fever" (Ian Carey Remix)
5. "Fever" (D.O.N.S Remix)
6. "Fever" (Mowgli & Bagheera Remix)

• German digital download (Bonus iTunes tracks)

1. "Fever" (Radio Edit)
2. "Fever" (Ryan Thistlebeck Remix)
3. "Fever" (Extended Mix)
4. "Fever" (Ian Carey Remix)
5. "Fever" (D.O.N.S Remix)
6. "Fever" (Mowgli & Bagheera Remix)
7. "Fever" (Pasha Deluxe Remix)
8. "Fever" (Music Video)
   • UK digital download
9. "Fever" (Radio Edit)
10. "Fever" (Extended Mix)
11. "Fever" (Wideboys Radio Edit)
12. "Fever" (Wideboys Club Mix)
13. "Fever" (D.O.N.S Remix)
14. "Fever" (Ian Carey Remix)
15. "Fever" (Hypasonic Remix)

• US digital download

1. "Fever" (Radio Edit)
2. "Fever" (Album Version)
3. "Fever" (Wideboys Radio Edit)
4. "Fever" (Zac McCrack Bootleg Radio Edit)
5. "Fever" (Ryan Thistleback Radio Edit)
6. "Fever" (Pasha Deluxe Radio Edit)
7. "Fever" (Extended Mix)
8. "Fever" (Wideboys Remix)
9. "Fever" (Zac McCrack Bootleg Remix)
10. "Fever" (Ryan Thistleback Remix)
11. "Fever" (Pasha Deluxe Remix)
12. "Fever" (Ian Carey Remix)
13. "Fever" (D.O.N.S.Remix)
14. "Fever" (Mowgli & Bagheera Remix)
15. "Fever" (Hypasonic Remix)

• Australia digital download

1. "Fever" (Radio Edit)
2. "Fever" (Ryan Thistlebeck Remix)
3. "Fever" (Extended Mix)
4. "Fever" (Ian Carey Remix)
5. "Fever" (D.O.N.S Remix)
6. "Fever" (Mowgli & Bagheera Remix)
7. "Fever" (Pasha Deluxe Remix)
8. "Fever" (Music Video)

• Australia single

1. "Fever" (Radio Edit)
2. "Fever" (Wideboys
   Wideboys
   The Wideboys are UK house, Bassline and UK garage Record producers and remixers.The Wideboys are managed by Matt Waterhouse from MWR/Hyperactive. In 2008, they signed to Sony ATV Music Publishing. Prior to this, The Wideboys had been signed in various deals with the likes of Warner, Univeral and...
   
    Radio Edit)

Charts

The single was released on December 21, 2009 in the 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...

, but due to lack of airplay and no physical CD release, the single failed to make any impact on the charts. This marks the first time a Cascada single has failed to appear in the top 100 in the UK. The single did however chart at #36 on the UK Dance Chart. The song debuted at #31 in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 and #10 in 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...

. The single spent a total of 14 weeks on the US Hot Dance Airplay Chart with a peak of #14. The single stayed 27 weeks in the France Single Charts

Chart (2009/2010)	Peak position
Australian Singles Chart 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...	41
Austrian Singles Chart	38
Czech Airplay Chart Rádio Top 100 Oficiální Rádio Top 100 Oficiální is the name of the Czech national airplay chart published by the IFPI Czech Republic on a weekly basis.Besides the main Top 100 record chart, also two component charts are effective. While the Rádio CZ 50 Oficiální features songs released exclusively by Czech and/or Slovak...	27
Dutch Top 40	24
French Digital Singles Chart Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry...	30
French Physical Singles Chart Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry...	10
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,...	31
German Singles Chart	31
New Zealand Singles Chart Recording Industry Association of New Zealand The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand...	32
Slovak Airplay Chart Rádio Top 100 Oficiálna Rádio Top 100 Oficiálna is the name of the Slovakian national airplay chart published by the IFPI Czech Republic on a weekly basis since the cancellation of the Slovakian national section on December 31, 2009....	16
UK Dance Chart	36
US Billboard 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...	14

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Label
Germany, Austria, Switzerland	October 9, 2009	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... , 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...	Zooland
Netherlands	October 27, 2009	Digital download	Cloud 9
Australia	November 20, 2009	CD Single, digital download	Universal
United Kingdom	December 21, 2009	Digital download	All Around the World All Around The World (record label) All Around the World Productions Limited is a record label from Blackburn, England. The label specialises in Dance Music and most recently R&B.-History:AATW was founded by directors Matt Cadman & Cris Nutall in 1991....
France	January 18, 2010	CD Single, Digital download	Universal
United States	January 26, 2010	Digital Download	Robbins Robbins Entertainment Robbins Entertainment is an American dance music record label. It is owned by Cory Robbins and is responsible for releasing and promoting several new artists, such as Cascada, and their hit single "Everytime We Touch". It is also the company responsible for the Dance Party Like It's.... series and...
	February 16, 2010	Airplay