"Hypnodancer" is a song by the
Russian
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punk-rave group
Little Big, released on 8 May 2020 via
Warner Music Russia
Warner Music Group's labels include the following.
Flagship labels
* Atlantic Records
* Elektra Records
*Parlophone Records
*Warner Records
Atlantic Records Group
* 1st & 15th Entertainment
* All Money In
* Artist Partners Group
* Asylum Re ...
and Little Big family.
It was the first song to be released by the group after the single "
Uno", which was going to go to
Eurovision 2020, before being cancelled due to the
COVID-19 Pandemic
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.
Music video
In addition to the usual group members, other celebrities took part in the video including: showman Alexander Gudkov, frontman of
The Hatters,
Yuri Muzychenko, vocalist of the Leningrad group Florida Chanturia,
bloggers
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Ruslan Usachev
and Danila Poperechny.
The video was shot in
St. Petersburg
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.
The plot of the video revolves around a group (Played by the members of Little Big), who visit various casinos, where the main character (
Ilya Prusikin
Ilya Vladimirovich Prusikin (russian: Илья́ Влади́мирович Пруси́кин, born 8 April 1985), is a Russian musician, singer, record producer, vlogger, video director and screenwriter. He is best known as the front person ...
) jumps on the table and begins to dance a hypnotic dance, while his accomplices collect money from other players, after which they leave together.
In one of the casinos, another hypnotist is found (Yuri Muzychenko) and a dance battle begins. The police arrive and they dance together called 'Super Hypnodancer' and quietly leave together.
Success
The music video hit
YouTube
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trends in 26 countries, and in
Russia
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,
Latvia
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,
Ukraine
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,
Estonia
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and
Belarus
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, it took 1st place in the charts.
In the first hour of the videos upload, it was viewed 473,000 times,
and 1 million times in the first three hours.
In the first two days, it had 12.5 million views, and in 10 days, it had 33 million views.
The music video was ranked #5 on the international weekly chart of the most watched video on YouTube on May 14, 2020.
References
External links
*{{Citation, title=Little Big – Hypnodancer, url=https://genius.com/Little-big-hypnodancer-lyrics, access-date=2022-01-14
Little Big (band) songs
2020 songs
Songs written by Ilya Prusikin