{{Short description|2000 single by Mark McCabe}} {{Use dmy dates |date=March 2022}} {{Infobox song | name = Maniac 2000 | cover = McCabe_-_Maniac_2000_single.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = [[Mark McCabe]] | album = | released = {{start date|2000|2|11|df=y}}<ref name="oggie">[https://909originals.com/2020/02/14/oggie-oggie-oggie-oi-oi-oi-maniac-2000-was-released-20-years-ago-this-week/ 'Oggie, Oggie, Oggie! Oi, Oi, Oi!' Maniac 2000 was released 20 years ago this week...] 909originals.com</ref> | recorded = November 1999<ref name="oggie"/> | studio = [[Clontarf Cricket Club]]<ref name="journal">{{cite web|url=https://www.thejournal.ie/maniac-2000-mark-mccabe-interview-1972681-Mar2015/|title="It was the total underdog": The real story behind Maniac 2000|website=[[TheJournal.ie]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028212917/https://www.thejournal.ie/maniac-2000-mark-mccabe-interview-1972681-Mar2015/|archive-date=28 October 2020|access-date=16 March 2021}}</ref> | venue = | genre = <!-- Do not add unsourced genres --> | length = 4:02 | label = Abbey Discs | writer = Al Gibbs, Simon Fitzpatrick,<ref name="Warner Chappell Publishing Splits">{{cite web|url=https://warnerchappell.com/browse-our-songs/?mode=track&trackId=a6a38da2-4363-46e8-85b8-16ca63f77dbe&sourceUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwarnerchappell.com%2Fbrowse-our-songs%2F%3Fmode%3Dsearch%26query%3Dmaniac%26sort%3D%26refiners%3D%257B%257D\https://warnerchappell.com/browse-our-songs/?mode=track&trackId=a6a38da2-4363-46e8-85b8-16ca63f77dbe&sourceUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwarnerchappell.com%2Fbrowse-our-songs%2F%3Fmode%3Dsearch%26query%3Dmaniac%26sort%3D%26refiners%3D%257B%257D|title="Warner Chappell Publishing Splits"}}</ref> Tim Hannigan, Mark McCabe, [[Michael Sembello]], Dennis Matkosky | producer = Simon Fitzpatrick, Tim Hannigan<ref>[http://www.hotpress.com/music/interviews/Triumph-Of-The-Underdog/392085.html Triumph of the Underdog]</ref> | next_title = Love Is in the Air 2001 | next_year = 2001 }} "'''Maniac 2000'''" is a song credited to [[Mark McCabe]], and released as a single in February 2000. It was produced by Simon Fitzpatrick and Tim Hannigan. The song consists of McCabe rapping over the 1995 track "Maniac (Sound Crowd Remix)" by Irish act 4 Rhythm, which itself [[Interpolation (popular music)|interpolates]] [[Michael Sembello]]'s 1983 hit "[[Maniac (Michael Sembello song)|Maniac]]". 4 Rhythm's "Maniac" was an Irish top 30 hit for Redeye Records, and was also produced by both Fitzpatrick and Hannigan.
"Maniac 2000" reached number one on the [[Irish Singles Chart]], staying at the top position for 10 weeks, from 4 March to 6 May 2000. It was Ireland's best-selling single of 2000 and is the fifth-best-selling single in the history of the chart. "Maniac 2000" has achieved cult status in Ireland.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Byrne|first1=Brian|title='Maniac 2000' rockets to Number One 15 years on|url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/music-news/maniac-2000-rockets-to-number-one-15-years-on-31047177.html|accessdate=9 March 2015|publisher=independent.ie|date=6 March 2015}}</ref> The song won best single at the national [[Meteor Music Awards]] in 2001.<ref name="journal"/> Despite the success the song experienced, it was not a hit in other countries, stalling at number 137 on the [[UK Singles Chart]] in late March. In 2015, on the 15th anniversary of its release, "Maniac 2000" re-entered the Irish Singles Chart at number 12.
==Background== {{unref section|date=May 2025}} Mark McCabe received his secondary education at [[Wesley College, Dublin|Wesley College Dublin]], this school allowed for his musical talent to flourish. McCabe was a DJ working at Dublin pirate radio station [[Pirate_radio_in_Ireland#Pulse_FM_103.2|Pulse FM]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Barry |first=Aoife |date=2015-03-04 |title="It was the total underdog": The real story behind Maniac 2000 |url=https://www.thejournal.ie/maniac-2000-mark-mccabe-interview-1972681-Mar2015/ |access-date=2025-10-10 |website=TheJournal.ie |language=en}}</ref> As part of his sets, he would rap over the instrumental Sound Crowd version of 4 Rhythm's "Maniac", which led to demands that he record his version. McCabe was told by a local record shop owner that customers would come in each day requesting a copy of the song. McCabe recorded the song in the [[Clontarf Cricket Club]] in front of a live audience<ref name=":0" />
==Charts== {{col-begin}} {{col-2}}
===Weekly charts=== {|class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" !Chart (2000) !Peak<br />position |- {{single chart|Ireland2|1|song=Maniac 2000|rowheader=true|accessdate=7 December 2018|refname="IRMA"}} |- !scope="row"|Ireland Dance ([[Irish Recorded Music Association|IRMA]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p%2Fmusicvideo%2Fmusic%2Farchive%2Findex_test.jsp&ct=240004&arch=t&lyr=2000&year=2000&week=7|title=Top 10 Dance Singles, Week Ending 17 February 2000|publisher=[[GfK Chart-Track]]|accessdate=19 May 2019|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190716122019/https://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p/musicvideo/music/archive/index_test.jsp&ct=240004&arch=t&lyr=2000&year=2000&week=7|archive-date=16 July 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> |1 |- !scope="row"|[[UK Singles Chart|UK Singles]] ([[Official Charts Company|OCC]])<ref name="zobbel">{{Cite web|url=http://www.zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK_M.HTM|title = Chart Log UK: M - My Vitriol}}</ref> |137 |} {|class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" !Chart (2007) !Peak<br />position |- !scope="row"|Ireland ([[Irish Recorded Music Association|IRMA]])<ref name="IRMA"/> |23 |} {|class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" !Chart (2015) !Peak<br />position |- !scope="row"|Ireland ([[Irish Recorded Music Association|IRMA]])<ref name="IRMA"/> |12 |} {{col-2}}
===Year-end charts=== {|class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" !Chart (2000) !Position |- !scope="row"|Ireland (IRMA)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/2fm/charts/top100_2000.html|title=Top 100 of 2000|publisher=[[Raidió Teilifís Éireann]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040602112628/http://www.rte.ie/2fm/charts/top100_2000.html|archive-date=2 June 2004|access-date=16 March 2022}}</ref> |1 |}
===All-time charts=== {|class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" !Chart !Position |- !scope="row"|Ireland (IRMA)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irishcharts.ie/top_twenty/toptwenty.htm|title=Top 20 of All Time|publisher=[[Irish Recorded Music Association]]|website=Irishcharts.ie|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322231931/http://irishcharts.ie/top_twenty/toptwenty.htm|archive-date=22 March 2019|access-date=8 July 2019}}</ref> |5 |} {{col-end}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.hotpress.com/music/interviews/Triumph-Of-The-Underdog/392085.html The real story behind Maniac 2000] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20150305200657/http://www.thejournal.ie/maniac-2000-mark-mccabe-interview-1972681-Mar2015/ (archive link)]
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