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Shakira’s ‘Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)’ Named the ‘Catchiest’ Soccer Song of All Time
Shakira’s “Waka, Waka (This Time For Africa)” has been named “the catchiest soccer song,” according to new research obtained by SeatPick.
The Colombian singer’s trilingual bop featuring Freshlyground — which served as the official FIFA song for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa — earned an 8.4 of 10 score based on danceability, energy, speechiness (the number of spoken words), and valence (how positive the track is), in the report from the Israel-based event technology company. SeatPick conducted the research in honor of the upcoming UEFA European Football Championship taking place June 14 to July 14 in Germany. The methodology included: collating the top 25 World Cup songs from platforms Deezer, NME, ThisIsDig, and UDiscoverMusic; scraping data from the Spotify API; and views from YouTube videos were also considered.
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