Jerusalema

By Samantha Hissong.

The upbeat gospel -influenced house song was initially released on 29 November after it garnered positive response online, with a music video following on 21 December. The music video of the song has generated half a billion views on YouTube. It was later included on Master KG's second album of the same title, released in January A remix featuring Nigerian singer Burna Boy was released on 19 June It reached number one in Belgium, Netherlands, Romania and Switzerland, while peaking in the top ten of multiple other European countries. The song was recorded on 11 August , and after being posted on social media, it received positive responses from fans. Master KG said he called "his sister Nomcebo to come so we can finish the song".

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South African music track and dance steps created in Angola have caught the imagination of politicians, priests and millions more. A song from South Africa that has gone around the world and been endorsed by presidents and priests has become the sound of the pandemic for millions across southern Africa. The simple dance routine to the hit Jerusalema by Master KG and Nomcebo Zikode has provided an uplifting soundtrack for difficult times and has now been streamed more than 60m times on Spotify. The upbeat song is a lamentation for God to take the singer to the heavenly city. The track topped the South African charts in December but in February, as lockdowns began to seem like a possibility, it was a group of friends in Angola who shot a video dancing to the song that sparked the global trend. In the video, over lunch, a group of young men holding plates of food start to demonstrate the dance routine to their female counterparts who then join in. It was followed by another video from Portugal, setting the tone for how international the JerusalemaDanceChallenge would prove to be. Clips of dancers across the globe now include nuns, construction workers, police officers, waiters and fuel attendants. Emotional videos of healthcare workers in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Italy, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the US, Australia and Puerto Rico have become an uplifting source of hope for patients fighting Covid, as some countries experience a second wave. South African police officers have joined in while army personnel in Ghana also strutted their stuff in their camouflage.

Jerusalema

The upbeat gospel -influenced house song was initially released on 29 November after it garnered positive response online, with a music video following on 21 December. The music video of the song has generated half a billion views on YouTube. It was later included on Master KG's second album of the same title, released in January A remix featuring Nigerian singer Burna Boy was released on 19 June It reached number one in Belgium, Netherlands, Romania and Switzerland, while peaking in the top ten of multiple other European countries. The song was recorded on 11 August , and after being posted on social media, it received positive responses from fans. Master KG said he called "his sister Nomcebo to come so we can finish the song". The finished version was then uploaded to YouTube in October and officially released on 29 November.

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The song received largely positive reviews from music critics. GfK Entertainment charts. Times Live. Retrieved 18 September Log In. Retrieved 30 March Retrieved 17 March Master KG said he called "his sister Nomcebo to come so we can finish the song". Toggle limited content width. The surge came partly from a viral event in Angola, where a group of friends choreographed a dance and uploaded it to YouTube. Sub Culture. Retrieved 2 October

Zikode spoke to the Guardian a month after the release of her solo album, Xola Moya Wam, on which the title track has gone platinum in South Africa. She says that last year, when Master KG called late one evening to ask her to come to his studio in Midrand immediately to listen to beats he had just written, she was close to giving up on her dreams of becoming a solo artist. But he was insistent.

This is a unity, formed like never before, for national and international people. Contents move to sidebar hide. Retrieved 1 March IFPI Austria. Archived from the original on 3 October Retrieved 19 February Retrieved 14 April Retrieved 23 September — via Apple Music. The finished version was then uploaded to YouTube in October and officially released on 29 November. Retrieved 26 July — via Apple Music. Retrieved 5 July Retrieved 19 August Bundesverband Musikindustrie.