"Mambo!" is

Helena Paparizou Helena Paparizou (; ; born 31 January 1982) is a Swedish-Greek singer, and television personality. Born and raised in Sweden to Greek parents, she launched her singing career in Sweden in 1999 as a member of the laïko (Greek folk music) and Eur ...

'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 ''

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'' 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 "

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" in the US. ''

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'', August 16, 2006. Retrieved on April 23, 2008Mambo! to be Released in USA
''Paparizou-News'' The song supposed to be included on the international re-release of “My Number One”, plans scrapped in favor of the new album.

Releases

"Mambo!" has been released in a number of countries throughout Europe including (in some of them the release was limited);

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and

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. In some other countries, it hasn't been released physically but it has entered radio airplay charts:

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and others.

Music videos

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

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. 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

. It has been a hit in music channels in

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Track listings

UK CD # "Mambo!" adio edit– 3:06 # "Mambo!" lex K remix– 6:05 # "Mambo!" lip & Fill remix– 6:38 # "Mambo!" uff & Jam club mix– 7:42 # "Mambo!" ancing DJ's remix– 6:08 # "Mambo!" ugitive club mix– 6:35 Greek CD # "Mambo!" reek version– 3:05 # "Panta Se Perimena" (Idaniko Fili) – 3:50 # "I Agapi Sou Den Meni Pia Edo" (Aşkın Açamadığı Kapı) # "Asteria" – 3:52 # "Mambo!" nglish version– 3:06 Dutch CD # "Mambo!" nglish version– 3:06 # "You Set My Heart on Fire" – 3:13 # "Mambo!" reek version– 3:05 Scandinavian CD # "Mambo!" nglish version– 3:06 # "Mambo!" reek version– 3:05 Austrian/Belgian/Swiss CD # "Mambo!" nglish version– 3:06 # "You Set My Heart on Fire" – 3:13 Italian Vinyl
Side A: # "Mambo!" uff & Jam remix# "Mambo!" riginal version– 3:05 Side B: # "Mambo!" ikini extended mix# "Mambo!" uff & Jam radio edit

Remixes

;Official remixes * Dancing DJs remix * The Fugitives club mix * Todor Ivanov aka DJ AK47 * Flip & Fill remix * Ruff & Jam remix * Alex K remix ;Unofficial remixes * Extended version * Tech mix * Jay's Boost mix * Instrumental version The compilation called ''Dance Mania'', where the "Mambo" ancing Dj Mixis included, was number one in the UK Charts.

Release history

Charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

{{Elena Paparizou 2005 singles 2006 singles Dance-pop songs Helena Paparizou EPs Helena Paparizou songs English-language Greek songs Songs in Greek Songs written by Alex P Song recordings produced by Alex P Songs written by Marcus Englof Number-one singles in Greece 2005 songs