I Wanna Be Your Slave

Template:Infobox song "**I Wanna Be Your Slave**" is a song by Italian rock band Måneskin, from their second studio album, *Teatro d'ira: Vol. I* released on 6 July 2021 by Sony as the album's second single. The song reached top-ten positions on charts across Europe, including number one in Finland, and went viral on the Spotify charts. It is the band's second song to reach the top 20 of the UK Singles Chart and the first to reach the top 10, and second to reach top 10 of *Billboard* Global Excl. U.S. chart. It was certified platinum by FIMI. The song was released as a radio single in Sweden on 18 June 2021, and in the UK on 2 July 2021.

## Background and composition

The song talks about duality in love relationships, the "obsession and how they're willing to enslave themselves if that's what it takes to win over that special someone." According to lyricist Damiano David, the song "crudely describes all the facets of sexuality and how they can be influential in everyday life. We have inserted some contrasts: 'I'm the devil, I'm a lawyer, I'm a killer, I'm a blonde girl', we want to convey the idea that we don't need to have a single identity, everyone can have many facets."

## Music video

In July 2021, the band announced a music video.

## Chart performance

After the band's win at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021, "I Wanna Be Your Slave" became viral on weekly charts and Spotify charts, in part thanks to their live performance recorded at the Acquapendente studio, and shared for Wiwi Jam at home concert by Wiwibloggs, where the band recorded their studio album *Teatro d'ira: Vol. I*. First by peaking at number 12 on the UK Singles Chart, the song surpassed the peak of the band's single "Zitti e buoni" (number 17), thus making Måneskin the first Eurovision winning act since Celine Dion to have two songs in the UK top 40. On 15 June 2021 the song peaked at number one on the UK's Official Trending Chart and gained four positions on the midweek singles chart passing from number 12 to number 8, peaking at number 7 on the weekly chart, becoming the band's first song to reach the UK top 10. In the next week it advanced to number 6. In its sixth charting week it became band's first UK top 5 hit.

The song reached number one in Finland and Slovakia, and also reached the top 10 in the band's native country of Italy as well as in Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. By 15 June 2021, the song was streamed 5.8 million times in the UK across both audio and video plays, and more than 61 million times on Spotify. On 21 June, the song became the band's second song to reach top 10 of the *Billboard* Global Excl. U.S. chart. It topped the *Billboard'*s US Hot Hard Rock Songs chart week of 26 June 2021. Besides becoming certified as platinum in Italy, gold in Austria and Greece, it was also certified gold in Ireland, Poland and Turkey.

## Charts

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Chart performance for "I Wanna Be Your Slave"
 US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs (*Billboard*) | 25

## Certifications

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## References

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10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 I Måneskin hanno raggiunto U2 e Metallica su Spotify (it) (15 June 2021).
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35. ↑ Hot Rock & Alternative Songs – The week of June 26, 2021. *Billboard*.