2011 Party Anthem Is Suddenly Climbing the Charts 15 Years Later

One of the biggest party anthems of the early 2010s is unexpectedly finding new life, as Jennifer Lopez’s 2011 smash hit “On the Floor” is climbing the charts again 15 years after it first dominated dance floors and club playlists.

The song — featuring Pitbull and built around a sample of the 1989 hit “Lambada” — has reentered Billboard rankings after experiencing a resurgence online after it was featured in the smash hit Off Campus, proving that some songs never really leave the party.

Lopez reacted to the surprising chart comeback in a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

“I just found out because my team, they called me, and they were like, ‘On the Floor’ has entered the charts for the first time in 15 years,” she told the host. “I was like, ‘What?’ It was just like out of the blue.”

She added, “But that’s the difference. It’s like the music business, everything has changed because people discover music — like my kids are listening to all kinds of music that
I’ve never even heard of, and some stuff that is classic like the Beatles. But great music lives forever, as we know, but it lives in a different way now because they can find it easily.”

Less than two weeks after Off Campus premiered on Prime Video, “On the Floor” landed at No. 117 on the Billboard Global 200 chart with 15.1 million streams worldwide.

When the song was released in 2011, it quickly became one of J.Lo’s 10 top 10 hits, peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.