Reception The Time (Dirty Bit)

1 reception

1.1 critical response
1.2 comparisons deadmau5
1.3 commercial performance

reception
critical response

simon vozick-levinson of entertainment weekly praised song s catchiness, felt failed meet standards of previous singles boom boom pow , gotta feeling . franke previte, won academy award co-writing (i ve had) time of life , complimented black eyed peas sample usage, saying, reconfirms me song cross-generational. song has crossed on next generation in huge way. willa paskin of new york, however, criticized choice of sample , disappointed chorus, feeling shoehorned rest of song . todd martens of los angeles times called time (dirty bit) assertive party song of year . digital spy s nick levine gave review of 3 stars out of five, disliking many elements constituted song. independent s simon price criticized sampling on track, calling low quality attempt satisfy listeners.

comparisons deadmau5

after receiving twitter messages song similarity own work, deadmau5 compared song remix of song , medina. record producer spoke of similarities through official facebook account. likened black eyed peas song remix of , medina, song produced. know hi-hat... , pattern in... went masters folder, cracked open instrumental mix of , remix thing did medina... , there again, staring me in face . producer stated welcomed usage of sampling in electronic music, isn t calling black eyed peas out @ all. interesting factoid keep finding sampling , electronic music .

commercial performance

time (the dirty bit) debuted on canadian hot 100 @ number 87 week of november 5, 2010. song debuted @ number 40 on billboard pop songs chart next week , has peaked @ number 19. 2 weeks later, song climbed number 1 in canada, third time group has achieved this, selling 31,000 downloads week. song peaked @ number 1 2 weeks in row in new zealand, becoming 6th number 1 , 12th top 10 single in country. while song debuted @ number ten in australia, reached number 1 in second week. on singles chart ireland , netherlands song has peaked @ number two.

in united kingdom, time (dirty bit) climbed 5 places on uk singles chart previous highest peak of number 6 number 1 on december 12, 2010 ― week ending date december 18, 2010 ― beating whip hair willow smith summit of chart. song became group s fifth chart-topping song in britain, following 2003 s love? , 2009 s boom boom pow, gotta feeling , meet me halfway. debuted @ number 1 on uk dance chart.

in germany, song debuted @ no. 7 on german singles chart , reached no. 2 in 3rd week on german singles chart, stayed 3 consecutive weeks. in 6th week on chart, reached no. 1, breaking 12-week run of israel kamakawiwo ole s on rainbow . in february 2011, single certificated platinum in germany 300,000 copies sold, making third single (following shut , gotta feeling ). after 4 weeks @ top, song went down no. 4, making biggest fall pole position since mehrzad marashi did single don t believe in may 2010.

as of january 2011, single sold 3 million copies in us, making group s fourth so.