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"Shake It Up", by American new wave rock band The Cars, is a track from their album of the same name. Although it was written years earlier, it was released for the first time in 1981. The song became one of the band's most popular songs hitting the #2 on the Billboard Top Tracks chart, #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and reached #14 on the Billboard Disco Top 80 chart. The recording primarily relies on dance-pop as its main genre along with pop rock elements making it a prime example of The Cars genre blending. The band hails from Boston, Massachusetts and have captured every stream of rock and roll from '78 to '84 in a catalog that includes four multi-platinum records among other awards. They were inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame in 2018.
"Shake It Up", by American new wave rock band The Cars, is a track from their album of the same name. Although it was written years earlier, it was released for the first time in 1981. The song became one of the band's most popular songs hitting the #2 on the Billboard Top Tracks chart, #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and reached #14 on the Billboard Disco Top 80 chart. The recording primarily relies on dance-pop as its main genre along with pop rock elements making it a prime example of The Cars genre blending. The band hails from Boston, Massachusetts and have captured every stream of rock and roll from '78 to '84 in a catalog that includes four multi-platinum records among other awards. They were inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame in 2018.
