Shine On (R.I.O. song)

July 4, 2008

Shine On is a song by German dance project RIO Shine On is their first single. It was published on 4 July 2008 as a single and peaked in the Netherlands, southern Europe and the entire Middle East, the head of the official charts and top 20 rankings in most other European countries. Shine On was, inter alia, No. 1 of the charts of the year 2008 in Dubai and Israel. In Germany, the song was # 1 on the dance charts and # 99 of the German charts of the year 2008. The single is available on all albums by RIO to find and is also the title of their first studio album.

Music Video

The video for the single Shine On was uploaded on January 22, 2009 at the official YouTube channel of the label Kontor Records. Director of the music video is Dirk Hilger. The clip is 3:23 long. The whole video is about to see Tony T., the singer of the project. He goes through the water of a beach, stands on cliffs and runs through the streets of an island. It was called on YouTube over 30 million times.

Background

The refrain, Let Me Be The Love That Comes From The Sun I Wanna Be Your Love Light From Above Shine On, Shine On, Shine On! Says mainly that someone wants to be love and light of the sun and like to be as wants to spread a lot of love.

Contributors

The song was composed and written by Yanou, Manian and Andres Ballina. It was produced by Yanou and Manian and released on her own label Zooland Records and the label Kontor Records. Tony T. is the singer of the song. The song contains only instrumental synthesizer elements derived from Manian and Yanou.

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Chart positions

The song reached the charts all over Europe. In German-speaking Switzerland, he was in 17th place on the most successful. In Germany, it reached number 25 in Austria and # 21 in the Netherlands the Dutch Top 40 number 20