{{use British English|date=July 2025}} {{More citations needed|date=December 2009}} {{Infobox song | name = Start the Commotion | cover = Start the Commotion single.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = The Wiseguys | album = The Antidote | released = 1998 | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = Big beat | length = 5:57 | label = Wall of Sound<br>Mammoth (United States/Canada) | writer = Theo Keating | producer = Touché | prev_title = Ooh La La | prev_year = 1998 | next_title = Dizzy Spell | next_year = 2002 }}
"'''Start the Commotion'''" is a song by British electronic music duo The Wiseguys, from their second album ''The Antidote''. It was released as a single in the UK in 1998,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Dangelo|first1=Joe|title=Commercial Causing a 'Commotion' for Wiseguys Song|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1448566/commercial-causing-a-commotion-for-wiseguys-song/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160608075346/http://www.mtv.com/news/1448566/commercial-causing-a-commotion-for-wiseguys-song/|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 8, 2016|website=MTV|publisher=MTV News|accessdate=September 14, 2016|date=August 31, 2001}}</ref> and peaked at #66 on the UK Singles Chart. A re-release the following year gave the song a higher chart placing, peaking at #47.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/start-the-commotion/|title=Start the Commotion - Official Charts Company|website=Official Charts |publisher=}}</ref> It also peaked at #36 on the US dance charts in 2000.<ref>{{cite book |title= Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=282}}</ref> "Start the Commotion" has also been officially remixed by Eric Kupper and DJ Spinna.
==Background== The song is built around a repeated sample from the 1966 song "Wild Child" by The Ventures.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Whitburn |first1=Joel |title=The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 9th Edition: Complete Chart Information about America's Most Popular Songs and Artists, 1955-2009 |date=18 July 2012 |publisher=Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed |isbn=978-0-307-98512-5 |page=714 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Bvm2rnwUDIC&pg=PA714 |access-date=30 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
==Track listing== ;UK CD single # "Start the Commotion" (Radio edit) # "Fatal Femme" (feat. Sense Live) # "Start the Commotion" (Full length)
==2001 re-release== After being used in a Mitsubishi Motors television commercial in the US in 2001, the song gained a second life and significant radio airplay, reaching the top 40 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and making it the Wiseguys' best-known song in the US. It appeared on ''Now That's What I Call Music! 8'' released November 20, 2001.
==Charts== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Chart (1998–2001) ! Peak position |- |Canada CHR (Nielsen BDS)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crosscanadacountdown.com/pdfs/2001.pdf|title=Canadian Top 20 in 2001|website=Cross Canada Countdown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050407223203/http://www.crosscanadacountdown.com/pdfs/2001.pdf|archive-date=7 April 2005|access-date=April 11, 2024}}</ref> |align="center|15 |- | UK Singles Chart |align="center"|47 |- |U.S. ''Billboard'' Dance Music/Club Play Singles<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/the-wiseguys/chart-history/dsi/|title=The Wiseguys Start the Commotion Chart History (Dance Club Songs)|magazine=Billboard}}</ref> |align="center"|36 |- {{singlechart|Billboardhot100|31|artist=The Wiseguys}} |- {{singlechart|Billboardadultpopsongs|14|artist=The Wiseguys}} |- {{singlechart|Billboardpopsongs|11|artist=The Wiseguys}} |}
==Other uses in popular culture== *It was featured in the 2001 comedy ''Zoolander'', where it was used to promote the film. *It was also featured in the films ''Gun Shy'' (2000) and ''Kangaroo Jack'' (2003). It was also featured on the ''Lizzie McGuire'' soundtrack. *It was also featured in the 4,000th episode special of the syndicated game show ''Jeopardy!''.
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