2 in a Room was an American hip hop, freestyle and hip house duo. The group, active between 1987 and 1995, consisted of rapper Rafael "Dose" Vargas and producer/remixer Roger "Rog Nice" Pauletta.[1]
2 in a Room | |
|---|---|
 Rog Nice and Dose | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Washington Heights, New York City, New York |
| Genres | House, hip-hop, freestyle |
| Years active | 1987–1995 |
| Labels | Cutting/Charisma/Virgin/EMI Records |
| Members | Rafael "Dose" Vargas Roger "Rog Nice" Pauletta |
Musical career
editThey are best known for their 1990 hit single "Wiggle It", written and produced by George Morel and Rafael Vargas. It spent two weeks at number one on the US Hot Dance Club Play chart and number three on the UK Singles Chart,[2]) and then crossed over to mainstream radio, and climbed to number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100, eventually becoming a gold single. In early 1991 they released the album Wiggle It that Andrew Martin in Q Magazine called intelligent, modern hot-making".[1]
Before that, they were known for a track called "Do What You Want" (1990) that got a lot of club and DJ play in New York and Chicago. "El Trago (The Drink)" was a number 86 Billboard Hot 100 chart entry (the last of their pop hits), but they did chart several more singles on the dance chart through the 1990s. Their first release in the UK was "Somebody in the House Say Yeah!" in the late part of 1989. They later changed their name to Fulanito; and style of music to merengue. Vargas, also known under Dose Material, was also member of 740 Boyz from 1991.
Discography
editAlbums
edit| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUS [3] |
UK [2] | ||
| The Album Vol. 1 |
|
— | — |
| Wiggle It |
|
45 | 73 |
| World Party |
|
— | — |
Singles
edit| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
Album | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [4] |
US Dance [5] |
AUS [3] |
AUT [6] |
BEL (Fl) [7] |
FIN [8] |
GER [9] |
NLD [10] |
SWI [11] |
UK [2][12] | |||||||
| "Somebody in the House Say Yeah!" | 1989 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 66 | The Album Vol. 1 | ||||
| "Do What You Want" | 1990 | — | 9 | 120 | — | — | — | — | 25 | — | — | |||||
| "Take Me Away" (NED only) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "Wiggle It" | 15 | 1 | 3 | 30 | 39 | 19 | 17 | 24 | 14 | 3 | Wiggle It | |||||
| "She's Got Me Going Crazy" | 1991 | — | — | 72 | — | — | 30 | — | 40 | — | 54 | |||||
| "Body to Body" (ITA only) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "El Trago (The Drink)" | 1994 | 86 | 36 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 34 | World Party | ||||
| "Ahora Es (Now Is the Time)" | 1995 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 43 | |||||
| "Giddy-Up" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 74 | ||||||
| "Carnival" | 1996 | — | 24 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| "Get Up and Move" (SPA only) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. | ||||||||||||||||
In popular culture
editIn 1991, Alvin and the Chipmunks covered "Wiggle It" for their album The Chipmunks Rock the House.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Martin, Andrew (5 March 1991). "Wiggle It review". Q Magazine. 55: 80.
- ^ a b c Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 571. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ^ a b Australian (ARIA Chart) peaks:
- Top 50 peaks: "australian-charts.com > 2 in a Room in Australian Charts". Hung Medien. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- Top 100 peaks from January 1990 to December 2010: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 287.
- Do What You Want:"Bubbling Down Under Week Commencing September 16, 1991". Retrieved September 16, 2022.
- ^ "2 in a Room - Chart history | Billboard". Billboard.com.
- ^ "2 in a Room - Chart history | Billboard". Billboard.com.
- ^ "Das österreichische Hitparaden- und Musik-Portal". Austriancharts.at.
- ^ "ULTRATOP BELGIAN CHARTS". Ultratop.be.
- ^ Pennanen, Timo (2021). "2 in a Room". Sisältää hitin - 2. laitos Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla 1.1.1960–30.6.2021 (PDF). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p. 6. Retrieved June 12, 2022.
- ^ "Home - Offizielle Deutsche Charts". Offiziellecharts.de.
- ^ "Dutch Charts". Dutchcharts.nl.
- ^ "Die Offizielle Schweizer Hitparade und Music Community". Hitparade.ch.
- ^ "Official Charts > 2 in a Room". The Official UK Charts Company. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- ^ "1991 ARIA Singles Chart". ARIA. Retrieved 2016-03-12.
- ^ "Certified Awards Search: 2 in a Room". BPI. Archived from the original on 2011-05-11. Retrieved 2010-08-14.