"The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" (1990)
🎼 From the film MERMAIDS
🪄 First recorded by Merry Clayton (1963), later popularized by Betty Everett (1964)
🥇 IRE: #1 (6w)
🥇 UK: #1 (5w)
🥇 NOR: #1 (4w)
🥇 AUT: #1 (3w)
🥇 LUX: #1 (3w)
🥇 DNK: #1 (1w)
🥇 EUR: #1 (1w)
🥇 ZWE: #1 (1w)
🥇 UK Airplay: #1 (1w)
🥈 BEL Flanders: #2
🥉 FRA: #3
🥉 GER: #3
🥉 NZ: #3
🥉 POR: #3
🌟 AUS: #4
🌟 CAN AC: #4
🌟 SWI: #4
🌟 NLD: #5
🌟 US Radio Adds (BB): #6
🌟 ISL: #7
🌟 US AC (BB): #7
🌟 SWE: #10
🚀 CAN: #21
🚀 CAN Quebec: #25
🚀 US Billboard: #33
🪁 US Cash Box: #43
🪁 US Dance Sales (BB): #50
💿 AUS (ARIA): Platinum
📀 AUT (IFPI): Gold
📀 DNK (IFPI): Gold
📀 GER (BVMI): Gold
📀 NZ (RMNZ): Gold
📀 UK (BPI): Gold
🪙 FRA (SNEP): Silver
🏅 #615 on Max's "Top 1,000 Greatest Songs of All Time" (Australia, 2011)
🏅 Robert Dimery's "10,001 Songs You Must Download Before You Die" (UK, 2013)
🏅 #220 on Radio Złote Przeboje's "Top 500," the biggest hits list in Poland (2025)
✍🏻 BILLBOARD review (Nov 10, 1990): "Fun and faithful cover of Betty Everett's pop nugget is lifted from the soundtrack to Cher's new film, MERMAIDS. Truly irresistible."
📰 MUSIC WEEK—"Chart News" by Alan Jones (UK, May 11, 1991): "Cher's 'The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)' is the first No. 1 single not to be released on 12-inch since Band Aid II's 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' in December 1989. It's not Cher's first No. 1; she topped the chart first time out with former husband Sonny on 'I Got You Babe,' which nipped in for a fortnight at No. 1 between chart-toppers by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in 1965. But it is her first No. 1 solo. The interval of nearly 26 years that has elapsed between her first solo hit ('All I Really Want to Do') and her first solo No. 1 is the longest in chart history, with the exception of Jackie Wilson and Ben E. King ... but they both did it with reissued artefacts from their halcyon days, while Cher succeeded, much more credibly, with a brand new song and recording."
📰 BILLBOARD report by Larry Flick ("Dance Trax," Apr 12, 1997): "Geffen continues to infuse a little disco drama into its dominant alterna-rock sound with GLOBAL GROOVES, a collection of cuts yanked from the label's vaults and remixed to suit dancefloors. The set opens with a surprisingly rugged tribal reconstruction of the terminally kitschy 'Shoop Shoop Song' by Cher. Nicholas & Sibley and Ronnie Ventura each deliver mixes that makes this single essential to the turntables of any DJ who flexed Cher's recent Reprise hits 'One by One' and 'Paradise Is Here.'"
