Peak
13
Weeks
20
Score
2,933
Chart Year
2002
Scores & Rankings
Chart Performance
Peak Position13
Peak DateJun 29, 2002
Weeks at Peak1
Weeks Charted20
Weeks in Top 4015
Weeks in Top 100
Weeks at #20
Weeks at #10
Scoring
Summary Calc988
Weekly Calc1,945
Total Score2,933
Rankings
Year Ranking#65
Decade Ranking#650
Billboard Year#66
Top 5000#4,077
Details
- Album
- Rock Steady
- Label
- Interscope Records
- Genre
- Dance-punk
- Duration
- 2:00
- Composer(s)
- Chad Hugo;Tony Kanal;Gwen Stefan;/Williams, P.
- Entered Chart
- Apr 20, 2002
- Peak Date
- Jun 29, 2002
- Released
- Unknown
- Recorded
- Unknown
- Catalog #
- Interscope Album Cut
Music Video
The black-and-white music video was directed by Mark Romanek. Not following any plot, the video depicts the band as a group of punk rockers squatting in an abandoned ship while the rest are chasing Stefani throughout the ship. During the course of the video, the band members perform the song, using bodyboards to float electronic equipment, and they and their friends explore and dance throughout the ship. There are also sequences of people riding on personal water crafts, Stefani performing on a coiled rope, people playing Jet Set Radio Future, and Stefani broadcasting on a pirate radio station.[9] Romanek came up with the video's concept it and e-mailed it to the band. He based it on a black-and-white Italian Vogue fashion shoot from the mid-1990s which featured models on waverunners. The video was then filmed over three days in March 2002 in Long Beach, California. The scenes inside the ship were filmed from man-made sets at South Bay Studios.[9] The music video was moderately successful. Following a premiere on an episode of MTV's Making the Video, it reached number four on the network's video countdown Total Request Live.[37] The video debuted on MuchMusic's Countdown in April 2002 and peaked at number six, spending over four months on the program.[38] At the 2003 Music Video Production Association Awards, production designer Laura Fox won the Universal Studios Production Services Award for Best Art Direction for her work on this video
Notes
"Hella" was a popular saying in 2001, used as a modifier to indicate something even better than "super," but maybe not quite "uber." In this song, No Doubt is feeling hella good, so they're gonna keep on dancing. It the only hit song with that word in the title. Gwen Stefani and Tony Kanal of No Doubt teamed with Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams (The Neptunes) to write this song. The Neptunes didn't produce it though - Nellee Hooper did. The Neptunes had worked on a number of big songs by this point ("Got Your Money" by ODB, "The City Is Mine" by Jay-Z) but weren't yet hella famous. That changed soon after, when they lent their talents Nelly for "Hot In Herre" and Kelis for "Milkshake." As for Nellee Hooper, he was a member of Soul II Soul and produced Sinéad O'Connor's album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got. This was the second single from No Doubt's fifth album, Rock Steady, following "Hey Baby." They expanded their sonic palette a great deal on the album, working with a host of producers and songwriters. "Hella Good" is a voyage into modern electronic sounds and pop melodies, but they also have some songs with a ska influence, including "Underneath It All," written with Dave Stewart of Eurythmics. The music video, directed by Mark Romanek, looks like a cross between the movie Waterworld and various James Bond films. It finds the band at sea in a leaky vessel on some kind of mission, or possibly as pirates. The band members are all dressed quite fashionably considering they're on the water. "Hella Good" plays in the 2005 movie The Longest Yard in the opening scene, where it soundtracks a house party. The song also shows up in the movies Sweet Home Alabama (2002) and Don't Make Me Go (2022).
The waves keep on crashing on me for some reason But your love keeps on coming like a thunderbolt Come here a little closer 'Cause I wanna see you, baby, real close up (Get over here) You've got me feeling hella good So let's just keep on dancing You hold me like you should So I'm gonna keep on dancing Your performance deserving a standing ovation And who would have thought it'd be the two of us So don't wake me if I'm dreaming 'Cause I'm in the mood come on and give it up You've got me feeling hella good So let's just keep on dancing You hold me like you should So I'm gonna keep on dancing You've got me feeling hella good So let's just keep on dancing You hold me like you should So I'm gonna keep on dancing Ooh yeah yeah Ooh yeah yeah You've got me feeling hella good So let's just keep on dancing You hold me like you should So I'm gonna keep on dancing You've got me feeling hella good So let's just keep on dancing You hold me like you should So I'm gonna keep on dancing Keep on dancing Keep on dancing
Chart History (20 weeks)
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apr 20, 2002 | 63 | 63 |
| 2 | Apr 27, 2002 | 40 | 86 |
| 3 | May 4, 2002 | 25 | 101 |
| 4 | May 11, 2002 | 22 | 104 |
| 5 | May 18, 2002 | 22 | 104 |
| 6 | May 25, 2002 | 16 | 110 |
| 7 | Jun 1, 2002 | 16 | 110 |
| 8 | Jun 8, 2002 | 14 | 112 |
| 9 | Jun 15, 2002 | 15 | 111 |
| 10 | Jun 22, 2002 | 14 | 112 |
| 11 | Jun 29, 2002 | 13 | 113 |
| 12 | Jul 6, 2002 | 17 | 109 |
| 13 | Jul 13, 2002 | 22 | 104 |
| 14 | Jul 20, 2002 | 25 | 101 |
| 15 | Jul 27, 2002 | 33 | 93 |
| 16 | Aug 3, 2002 | 33 | 93 |
| 17 | Aug 10, 2002 | 41 | 85 |
| 18 | Aug 17, 2002 | 44 | 82 |
| 19 | Aug 24, 2002 | 47 | 79 |
| 20 | Aug 31, 2002 | 53 | 73 |