How ‘Saltburn’ sent 23-year-old hit song ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’ back to the top of the charts
nypost.com“Murder on the Dancefloor” — a disco delight by British singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor — was released in 2001, it became a bit hit in the UK.
But the track from her debut album, “Read My Lips,” failed to slay the States.Twenty-three years and one full-frontal nude dancing scene later, all that has changed because of “Saltburn.”The euphoric victory boogie by Barry Keoghan’s coked-up character Oliver at the end of the buzzy black comedy psychological thriller is set to the bass-bumping groove of “Murder on the Dancefloor.”And after “Saltburn” went from its limited theatrical release in November to its streaming debut on Amazon Prime Video on Dec.
22, the song that inspired all that booty baring and shaking from Keoghan — and a TikTok trend with Oliver wannabes making like they’re cavorting through the Saltburn estate — has been heating up in the US and worldwide.In fact, on New Year’s Eve, “Murder on the Dancefloor” racked up its highest-ever single-day streams on Spotify globally.
The song’s 1.5 million streams worldwide marked a 340% increase over New Year’s Eve 2022.Previously, streams for the dance-pop bop had spiked Stateside by 360% in the first week after the film’s Nov.
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