| Four to the Floor | |
| Cover: | Fourtothefloor.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Starsailor |
| Album: | Silence Is Easy |
| B-Side: | "Four to the Floor" (Thin White Duke mix) |
| Label: | EMI |
| Prev Title: | Born Again |
| Prev Year: | 2003 |
| Next Title: | In the Crossfire |
| Next Year: | 2005 |
"Four to the Floor" is a song by British band Starsailor. The song was released as the third and final single from the band's second album, Silence Is Easy (2003), and became a hit, peaking at number one in France and Wallonia, number five in Australia, and number 24 in the United Kingdom. The Thin White Duke remix of the song was ranked number 70 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2004 in Australia. As of July 2014, it was the 84th best-selling single of the 21st century in France, with 333,000 units sold.[1]
There are two different videos for "Four to the Floor." In the first one, the band played in a scenario accompanied by the members of a symphonic orchestra appearing and disappearing according to the development of the song and the instruments.
The second video features a genderless little person of unknown age in a hooded winter jacket spray-painting graffiti on public walls in or near the city of London. The band members of Starsailor are depicted as animated graffiti whilst playing the title song throughout. At the end of the video the faceless, anonymous elfin creature is caught while standing on a bridge and shaken down by the police. One of the scenes in the video can be seen as the art cover for the Hard-Fi single Hard to Beat. An shorter edit was also made, using the Thin White Duke remix of the song.
The video also shows the images of famous Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara and Ben Byrne wears a T-shirt with the word "socialism" though there is not a clear connection between those images and the concept of the video.
UK CD single[2]
UK 10-inch single[3]
A1. "Four to the Floor" (radio edit)
A2. "A Message"
B1. "Four to the Floor" (Thin White Duke mix)
German mini-CD single[4]
European maxi-CD single[5]
Australian maxi-CD single[6]
| Chart (2003–2005) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Club Chart (ARIA)[7] | 6 |
| Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)[8] | 8 |
| Romania (Romanian Top 100)[9] | 88 |
| Russia Airplay (TopHit)[10] | 24 |
| Chart (2003) | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| CIS (TopHit)[11] | 104 | |
| Russia Airplay (TopHit)[12] | 77 |
| Chart (2004) | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Australia (ARIA)[13] | 19 | |
| Australian Club Chart (ARIA)[14] | 14 | |
| France (SNEP)[15] | 16 |
| Chart (2005) | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[16] | 48 | |
| Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[17] | 21 | |
| Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)[18] | 71 | |
| France (SNEP)[19] | 78 | |
| Russia Airplay (TopHit)[20] | 200 | |
| Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[21] | 95 |