Billy Crawford - Trackin

What this video is

Released in 2001 as the lead single from Billy Crawford's second album Ride on V2 Records, 'Trackin'' was a pan-European commercial breakthrough for a Filipino-American performer who had trained at the Professional Performing Arts School in New York and served as a backup dancer at the 1995 MTV VMAs. The single achieved chart dominance in the Netherlands (#1), Belgium (#2), Switzerland (#3), and France (#5),…

Why it matters

A landmark crossover single bridging US-trained performance craft with the European teen-pop and dance-pop market, 'Trackin'' demonstrates the commercial viability of the diasporic pop artist model in early-2000s Europe. Its fast-cut choreography aesthetic and warm Y2K palette were genre-defining…