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"Upside Down"
#1 weeks: 4
weeks: 1980-09-06, 1980-09-13, 1980-09-20, 1980-09-27
genre: disco / funk
artist: Diana Ross
album: diana
writers: Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards
producers: Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards for Chic
label:
lengths: 4:05

"Upside Down" is a song by Diana Ross released on the Motown label. It was the first single taken from her 1980 album dianaand hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 6, 1980. It also hit number one on the Billboard Disco/Dance and R&B charts. The single was also a big hit internationally, topping the singles charts in Italy, Norway and Switzerland. It also rose to #2 on the UK Singles Chart, marking the highest peak performance from Ross as a solo artist since "I'm Still Waiting" in 1971.

The song listed at #62 on Billboard's "Greatest Songs of All Time"

The song was written by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers (of the band Chic) with (like all of the songs for the album diana) Aretha Franklin in mind to record. When Franklin turned the offer to record the album down Motown pass the material and project to Ross.

The song would be later covered and sampled by the likes of Salt-N-Pepa, Missy Elliott, Alcazar, Puff Daddy and MC Lyte and Jack Johnson, who had a hit under the "Upside Down" sample in Lyte's 1996 hit, "Cold Rock a Party".

The song was later covered by Destiny's Child during a tribute show honoring Ross and her career on a VH1 Divasspecial. Their version is featured on their album Single Remix Tracks.

In 1994, the song was used in Disney Sing Along Songs: Let's Go to the Circus.

In 1997, Ross performed the song live with British band Jamiroquai at "The Brit Awards" ceremony.

"Ain't No Mountain High Enough"  ·"Remember Me"  ·"I'm Still Waiting"  ·"Surrender"  ·"Touch Me in the Morning"  ·"All of My Life"  ·"You Are Everything"  ·"Theme from (Do You Know Where You're Going To)"  ·"Love Hangover"  ·" Upside Down "  ·"I'm Coming Out"  ·"My Old Piano"  ·"It's My Turn"  ·"Endless Love"  ·"Why Do Fools Fall in Love"  ·"Mirror, Mirror"  ·"Work That Body"  ·"Muscles"  ·"Missing You"  ·"Chain Reaction"  ·"When You Tell Me That You Love Me"  ·"One Shining Moment"  ·"Not Over You Yet"

Lady Sings the Blues(1972)  · Mahogany(1975)  · The Wiz(1978)  · Out of Darkness(1994)  · Double Platinum(1999)

Discography  ·The Supremes  ·Berry Gordy  ·Rhonda Ross Kendrick  ·Tracee Ellis Ross  ·Evan Ross  ·Arne Næss, Jr.  ·List of awards and nominations received by Diana Ross  ·Diana Ross Playground