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Dancemania ''Dancemania'' is a series of remix compilation albums by i-DANCE. The series deals primarily with dance music, especially Eurodance. Despite many of its tracks being made by various musicians from all over the world and mainly from the European ...

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series. This series features faster, further remixed versions of recordings from previously released ''Dancemania'' albums or faster remixed covers of various famous songs. Unlike the main series mostly consisting of Eurodance, this series largely consists of

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crews from the UK, the home of

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, and some

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Italians who are very much experienced in high BPM dance music.

History

The first issue, titled ''Dancemania Speed'', was released on 23 September 1998 with Chumbawamba's "

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" as its beginning track along with 24 other tracks including Bellini's "Samba de Janeiro",

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's "Together & Forever",

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Dub-I-Dub "Dub-I-Dub" is a song by Danish Eurodance act and sisters Me & My, released in September 1995 as the first single from their eponymous album (1995). It was successful on the charts in many countries, peaking at number-one in Denmark and Japan, ...

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E-Rotic E-Rotic are a Eurodance duo act formed in 1994 by German record producer David Brandes. The act is best known in Europe for the hits " Max Don't Have Sex With Your Ex" and "Fred Come to Bed". E-Rotic originally consisted of German born singer L ...

's "Willy Use A Billy...Boy". The second issue, ''Dancemania Speed 2'', was released on 3 March 1999 with tracks including "

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charts of best-selling albums since the first was released. ''Speed 1'' reached number 8 in the weekly album chart in October 1998, ''Speed 2'' reached number 7 in the same chart in March 1999 and ranked number 72 in the yearly Top 100 best-selling album chart in 1999 with 322,860 copies sold. ''Speed 3'' reached number 5 in the weekly album chart in September 1999.Oricon Database
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Several tracks from ''1'', ''2'', ''3'', ''4'', ''5'' were later included on the 2000

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compilation '' Best 2001 Hyper Nonstop Megamix''.

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History

Releases

Main series

G series

Others

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