Sophie Ellis-Bextor has launched back into the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart with Murder On The Dancefloor.
The 2001 classic – lifted from her debut solo album, ‘Read My Lips’ – returns to the countdown at No. 8 after going viral online thanks to its inclusion in ‘Saltburn’.
In doing so, it becomes her first Top 10 single since 2007’s Catch You, from her third album, ‘Trip The Light Fantastic’.
Speaking to OfficialCharts about the success, Sophie says: “I’m always very connected to my music, and one thing I’ve always loved about my work is its ability to surprise me. Murder On The Dancefloor is a song I’ve been singing for 20 years, and I’m on really good terms with it. I love singing it, I love performing it and what’s happening at the moment is kind of magical, actually.
“Thank you [to all the fans new and old streaming the song] for such a magical adventure. I’m so proud of Murder On The Dancefloor, but I also share it with everybody who has love for it. I’m just having so much fun. Thank you!”
The pop anthem features in the final scene of the movie, in which actor Barry Keoghan is seen dancing in the nude to the song.
And Sophie’s already working on new music, according to her husband Richard Jones, who responded to a fan’s calls on X to “come back with disco dance”.
He teased: “Don’t you worry. Sophie’s been talking about this way before what’s happening with Murder.. weeks before Saltburn we’ve already had CD [Cathy Dennis] and RX [Richard X] in our house.
“Bangers are incoming!”
Dennis co-wrote Sophie’s 2007 single Catch You, while Richard collaborated with her on the 2011 single Starlight.
