Rihanna - Don t Stop The Music (Video clip)

"Don't Stop the Music" is a tune recorded by Barbadian artist Rihanna for her third studio collection, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007). Composed by Tawanna Dabney and delivered by StarGate, it was

discharged worldwide on September 7, 2007 as the collection's fourth single. The move melody, including cadenced gadgets utilized essentially as a part of hip bounce music, tests the line"Mama-say, mama-sa, ma-ma-ko-ssa" from Michael Jackson's 1983 single "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'". Rihanna and Jackson were sued by Cameroonian performer Manu Dibango, who asserted that the snare started in his 1972 melody "Soul Makossa".

"Don't Stop the Music" was widely praised, with numerous music columnists adulating its inspecting of the "Mama-say, mama-sa, ma-ma-ko-ssa" snare. It got various honors, including a Grammy Award designation for Best Dance Recording. The melody achieved number one in more than 10 nations, including Australia, France, Germany, and Switzerland. Achieving number four on the UK Singles Chart, it was ensured gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). The single crested at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the US Billboard Dance Club Songs graphs. Ensured four times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), it sold more than 3.7 million duplicates in the US.

Anthony Mandler recorded the tune's music video in Prague. In the video, Rihanna and her companions sneak into the back of a confection store which contains a mystery club and she parties with club-goers. The artist performed "Don't Stop the Music" at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards and the NRJ Music Awards in 2008, and included it on her Good Girl Gone Bad, Last Girl on Earth, Loud and Diamonds World Tour set records. The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) remembered it as a standout amongst the most-performed tunes of 2009. English recording craftsman Jamie Cullum recorded a spread variant of the tune as the second single from his 2009 collection, The Pursuit.