Twenty years ago today, a Colombian superstar pulled off something she has never managed to repeat.
On June 17, 2006, Shakira landed her first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Hips Don't Lie," the Wyclef Jean collaboration that became one of the defining pop songs of the 2000s. Two decades later, it is still the only time she has topped the chart.
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The song arrived on the reissue of her album Oral Fixation, Vol. 2, and it climbed fast. Once "Hips Don't Lie" was added to the record, the album jumped from No. 98 to No. 6 on the Billboard 200. The single held No. 1 on the Hot 100 for two weeks and racked up more than 2 billion in radio airplay audience, per Billboard.
Built on cumbia rhythms and Colombian folk instrumentation, the track leaned hard into Shakira's roots while Jean traded verses with her. It became one of the most-played pop songs in a single week in U.S. radio history, a crossover smash that ran on pop, Latin and rhythmic stations at the same time. The singer's tours have leaned on it as a closer ever since.
Still Her Only Trip to No. 1
For all the milestones that followed, from a Super Bowl LIV halftime set in 2020 to her record-breaking world tours and her status as a global stadium draw, "Hips Don't Lie" remains Shakira's sole Hot 100 chart-topper.
The track has never left her live sets, and the two reunited for a nostalgic performance of it on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in May 2025. Twenty years after it conquered the summer of 2006, the song still moves a crowd.
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