| Mambo! | |
| Cover: | Paparizou mambo greek.jpg |
| Caption: | Original Greek cover |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Helena Paparizou |
| Album: | , Iparhi Logos, The Game of Love |
| B-Side: | You Set My Heart on Fire |
| Released: | November 2005 |
| Recorded: | 2005 |
| Genre: | Pop, Dance |
| Length: | 3:06 |
| Label: | Sony BMG Greece/Columbia |
| Producer: | Alex Papaconstantinou, Marcus Englof |
| Prev Title: | A Brighter Day |
| Prev Year: | 2005 |
| Next Title: | Heroes |
| Next Year: | 2006 |
"Mambo!" is Helena Paparizou's fifth CD single and the first from her international album The Game of Love. There were two versions of the song; a Greek version and an English version. The Greek version was released in November 2005 in Greece and was a major hit going straight to number one for ten weeks including during Christmas. In total, the song charted for 23 weeks, leaving Helena with her most successful CD single to date. The single was released as a CD single and Sony BMG also re-released Helena's debut album Protereotita for a third time with her single under the name of Protereotita: Euro Edition + Mambo!.
In April 2006 it was announced that the English version of her song would be released across the globe in Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Turkey and Spain by Paparizou's own record company Sony BMG. Other record companies released her song in France, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Japan, Canada, South Africa, and Australia. Moda Records remixed the song with "My Number One" in the US.[1] [2] The song supposed to be included on the international re-release of “My Number One”, plans scrapped in favor of the new album.
"Mambo!" has been released in a number of countries throughout Europe including (in some of them the release was limited); Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. In some other countries, it hasn't been released physically but it has entered radio airplay charts: Estonia, France, Japan, Romania, Russia, Serbia and others.
The original video for "Mambo!" was released in Greece in February 2006. This video is filmed in Greeklish. In the video Paparizou is showing of her dancing skills throughout the video. The video has an office theme for most of the video and Paparizou enters the office and makes everyone in the building dance and have a good time. At the end of the video she and dancers dance together in a routine. The video of Paparizou has been well received in Greece and won 'most played video' in the 2006 MAD TV Music Awards. Throughout the video there are clips of Coca-Cola.
In Sweden, the original video was used but in this video it was all English. In this video there are no Coca-Cola adverts whereas in the Greeklish video filmed for Greece there are.
In May, due to Paparizou starting her international career, "Mambo!" got a new video filmed to be aimed at a more global audience. It took only a day to film on a small island in Greece. On the island there is a bar is in the center of the video with many people partying and dancing to "Mambo!" Towards the end of the video Paparizou is seen dancing in a night scene. In early June, this version of "Mambo!" premiered in France. It has been a hit in music channels in Poland, South Africa and Romania.
UK CD
Greek CD
Dutch CD
Scandinavian CD
Austrian/Belgian/Swiss CD
Italian Vinyl
Side A:
Side B:
The compilation called Dance Mania, where the "Mambo" [Dancing Dj Mix] is included, was number one in the UK Charts.
| Region | Date | Label | Format | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greece | 24 November 2005 | Sony BMG | CD single, Digital download | |
| Scandinavia | 20 March 2006 | Digital download | ||
| 12 April 2006 | Bonnier | CD single | ||
| Switzerland | Sony BMG | |||
| Belgium | 15 May 2006 | ARS/EMI | CD single, digital download | |
| Austria | May 2006 | Sony BMG | CD single | |
| France | July 2006 | Sony BMG | CD single, digital download | |
| Netherlands | 14 September 2006 | Digidance | CD single, digital download | |
| Ireland | 6 November 2006 | AATW | ||
| United Kingdom | ||||
| Canada | 15 August 2006 | Moda | Digital download | |
| United States | ||||
| Poland | September 2006 | Sony BMG | CD single | |
| Italy | 2006 | FMA/No Color | 12" vinyl |
| Chart (2005–2006) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| Greece (IFPI Greece)[3] | 1 | |
| UK (The Official Charts Company)[4] | 185 |
| Chart (2006) | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Belgium (Ultratop Flanders)[5] | 60 | |
| Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[6] | 30 |
| Country | Certification | |
|---|---|---|
| Greece | Platinum | |
| Sweden | Gold |