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What was one of the songs Shakira sang at the FIFA World Cup celebration and is she bigger than Madonna?

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    Shakira's latest track"Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)", the official song for the 2010 FIFA World It was initially announced that Shakira would release a Spanish album in 2010 after the release of She Wolf, similar to what she did with Oral Fixation, but Shakira later stated that the album would instead be a bilingual project, which will contain Spanish and English songs. She also stated that it was due for a September, 2010 release.[65] Shakira collaborated with the South African group Freshlyground to create the official song of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)", which is based on a traditional Cameroonian soldiers' Fang song named "Zangalewa" by the group Zangalewa or Golden Sounds. The song was made popular in her native Colombia in 1987 through west African DJs in Colombia.[66] The single later reached the top 20 in Europe, South America and Africa and the top 40 in the U.S. and was performed by Shakira at the World Cup kick-off and closing. According to BMI, Shakira is the highest-selling Colombian artist of all time, having sold more than 50 million albums worldwide.[125] According to Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, "Hips Don't Lie" was the most-played pop song in a single week in American radio history. It was played 9,637 times in one week.[126] Shakira became the first artist in the history of the Billboard charts to earn the coveted number one spots on both the Top 40 Mainstream and Latin Chart in the same week doing so with "Hips Don't Lie".[126] "La Tortura" broke the record on the Billboard's Hot Latin Tracks chart, appearing at #1 more than any other single (a total of 25 non-consecutive weeks).[127] According to Yahoo!, "Hips Don't Lie" is the Best-Selling Single of the Last 10 Years, which is apparently the best-selling single since 2000.[128] According to Forbes Magazine, Shakira was the fourth highest-earning woman in music for 2008 behind Madonna, Barbra Streisand and Celine Dion.[129] According to Nokia, Shakira has topped up more music downloads in the last year than any other Latino artist, and She Wolf topped the Top 10 Latino downloads.[130] Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakira

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Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) Shakira collaborated with the South African group Freshlyground to create the official song of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)", which is based on a traditional Cameroonian soldiers' Fang song named "Zangalewa" by the group Zangalewa or Golden Sounds. The song was made popular in her native Colombia in 1987 through west African DJs in Colombia.[66] The single later reached the top 20 in Europe, South America and Africa and the top 40 in the U.S. and was performed by Shakira at the World Cup kick-off and closing. Sale el Sol will be released as Shakira's seventh studio album on October 19, 2010.[16] In June 2010, during an interview with Billboard magazine, Shakira announced that her new album would be released in September.[67] She stated in the magazine that "I see it [the new album] as having two currents," she stated. "One is a lot about love and love experiences and emotions. And the other side of it is very joyful, and upbeat." Shakira also revealed that the music on the album would reflect influences from both the Dominican Republic and Colombia. "It’s a little more Latin on one side and a little more rock ‘n roll on the other side," she stated. She later compared her new material to the Oral Fixation era's music, stating that she was "going back to basics" for the record.[68] The album has since been delayed to a November release with the lead single "Loca (Shakira song)", her version of the song "Loca con su tiguere" from El Cata[69], currently due for an early September release. She shot the video for the lead single in Barcelona in August [70], and is expected to be released sometime in September. Shakira unveiled the official album cover on September 1.[71] Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakira#2008.E2.80.93present:_She_Wolf.2C_2010_FIFA_World_Cup_and_Sale_El_Sol

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