Many other bilingual and country-specific versions were released. A version of the song featuring will.i.am and David Guetta was targeted for international markets. The Spanish cover featuring David Bisbal became very popular. Since its release on March 12, the song has spent seven straight weeks atop the radio. The English version was released as "Wavin' Flag (Celebration Mix)" by K'naan to differentiate it from the original Canadian hit or from the Canadian Haiti charity hit. The star-studded benefit single version of 'Wavin Flag' continues to fly on top of the charts. Recorded on February 1st, 2010, in the same studio as the original 25 years earlier (Henson Recording Studios, formerly A&M Recording Studios) 'We Are The Wo. This amended international version with additional lyrics reached the top ten in more than twenty different charts around the world. The song became a truly global hit when it was chosen as Coca-Cola's promotional anthem for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, hosted by South Africa. After a devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2010, a remake of the song by an ad hoc supergroup of Canadian artists, credited as Young Artists for Haiti, became a charity single in Canada, reaching #1 on the Canadian Hot 100 in its own right. During the Vancouver Olympics, he worked with other Canadian musicians and artists under the name Young Artists for Haiti to produce a charity version of Wavin. credited as Young Artists for Haiti was released as a charity single in the wake of the earthquake that devastated Haiti on January 12, 2010. WavinFlag debuted at number one on the Canadian Hot 100 on. The original single was a hit in Canada and reached #2 on the Canadian Hot 100 as the third official single from the album, after the singles "ABCs" and "Bang Bang", which were minor hits. Wavin Flag by KNAAN song meaning, lyric interpretation, video and chart position. The group sang the song WavinFlag, and raised over 1 million for Haitian disaster relief.
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The song was originally written for Somalia and aspirations of its people for freedom. "Wavin' Flag" is a song by Somali-Canadian artist K'naan from his album Troubadour.