Their version is called So Blue and it's out this Friday (Oct. Two decades on, the song has been reworked by production duo SONDR. The track has notched up 1.38 million chart sales in the UK, over a million of which are pure sales/downloads. Eiffel 65 - a trio of Italian producers - told the story behind Blue in great depth in this Vice documentary earlier this year. It was written in two hours, it was Europop and its music video featured strange-looking blue men.
20 years ago this month the story of a little guy that lives in a blue world became a surprise hit: Blue (Da Ba Dee) by relatively unknown group Eiffel 65 landed at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart and went on to sell over one million copies.īlue (Da Ba Dee) was somewhere between a novelty hit and a serious dance tune.