Badabum Cha Cha is an Italian song by Sicilian

Sicily

Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,...

 rapper Marracash

Marracash

Fabio Rizzo , better known by his stage name Marracash, is an Italian rapper. He is also a member of the Milan-based rap group Dogo Gang.-Biography:...

. Released on April 18, 2008, the song is the album and rapper's lead single

Lead single

A lead single is usually the first single released by a musician or a band before the release of its home album.During the era of the grammophone record, all music arrived in the marketplace as what is now termed a single, one potential hit song backed by an additional song of generally less...

. The song was first released on Marracash

Marracash

Fabio Rizzo , better known by his stage name Marracash, is an Italian rapper. He is also a member of the Milan-based rap group Dogo Gang.-Biography:...

's official website and just in two days, the song had been listened 5.000 times. Due to high Italian airplay, and also due to high sales, the song from #31, reached a peak of #25.

Music video

The video of the song was shot in Barona, Milano, on March 2008. First the music video was released on official rapper's MySpace

MySpace

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 and subsequently released to MTV

MTV

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 from April 21. In the video also appears J Ax. A parody video, called "Badabum Qua Qua", was released on YouTube

YouTube

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Chart performance

The song has been listed for 18 weeks on the Italy Singles Top 50. It entered the chart on position 28 on week 20/2008, its last appearance was on week 37/2008. It peaked on number 25, where it stayed for 1 week.