Dynamite (Asta song)

"Dynamite"
Single by Asta featuring Allday
ReleasedMarch 2015
Length3:57
LabelWarner Music Australia
SongwritersAsta Binnie-Ireland, Tomas Gaynor, Andrew Klippel
Asta featuring Allday singles chronology
"I Need Answers"
(2013)
"Dynamite"
(2015)
"Wild Emotion"
(2016)
Allday singles chronology
"Wolves"
(2014)
"Dynamite"
(2015)
"Grammy"
(2015)

"Dynamite" is a song by Australian singer song-writer, Asta featuring Australian rapper, Allday. It was released in March 2015.[1] and peaked at number 66 on the ARIA Charts in May 2015.[2]

Asta told The Guardian in May 2015, "The song was finished, I'd recorded my verses and I heard Allday on the radio and thought he would fit really well with the whole vibe of the song. We sent it to him and he did it overnight."[3]

In May 2015, Asta and AllDay performed "Dyanmite" and a over of Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)".[4]

Asta promoted the single with Dynamite tour around Australia June through August 2015 with Asta saying "I love performing because I can do whatever I want to do. Being on stage is just the best thing ever about the whole thing, I see myself as more of a performer-singer than a musician really."[5]

The song was voted number 47 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2015.

Reception

Hayden Davies from The Music called it a "bouncy, creamy pop song". Davies said "Allday adds an interesting dynamic to what would otherwise be a straight-out pop single that takes influence from the increasing merging of dance and hip hop... And it's all wrapped around a bounding bass line and chunks of piano that has a catchy atmosphere which is sure to bounce around in your head for days."[1]

Staff Writers from Scenestr called it an "80s-drenched collaboration".[5]

Track listing

digital single
  1. "Dynamite" - 3:57
Remixes - digital single
  1. "Dynamite" (original - edit) - 3:00
  2. "Dynamite" (Flashback remix) - 5:19
  3. "Dynamite" (Porsches remix) - 3:34

Charts

Weekly chart performance for "Dynamite"
Chart (2015) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[6][2] 66

References

  1. ^ a b Hayden Davies (20 March 2015). "Listen: Asta "Dynamite" feat. Allday". The Music (magazine). Retrieved 12 January 2026.
  2. ^ a b "ARIA Singles: Grace Sewell Has The New No 1 In Australia". noise11. 23 May 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2026.
  3. ^ "Asta: "I had the best childhood; Tasmania is an amazing place not to be influenced"". The Guardian. 23 May 2015. Retrieved 12 January 2026.
  4. ^ "Watch Asta & Allday Cover a Whitney Houston Classic for Like a Version". Music Feeds. 15 May 2015. Retrieved 12 January 2026.
  5. ^ a b "Little Dynamo Asta". Scenestr. 29 July 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2026.
  6. ^ "The ARIA Report Issue #1317" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. 25 May 2015. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 June 2015. Retrieved 26 January 2016.