This past weekend, this question came up in a chat with my friends and none of us could answer it. We couldn't find a proper answer online either, so we were all just throwing out guesses. We're ruling out Christmas, birthday, and that kind of songs. So, hit me with the song you know that's been translated into the most different languages. Not necessarily sung by the original artist.
Here's mine:
🇧🇷 [OG] Garota De Ipanema
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 The Girl From Ipanema
🇫🇷 La Fille d'Ipanema
🇩🇪 Der Boy von Ipanema
🇪🇸 La Chica de Ipanema
🇮🇹 La Ragazza di Ipanema
🇨🇳 伊帕内玛女孩
🇷🇺 Девушка из Ипанемы + 🇺🇦 Дівчина з Іпанеми
The song Gyöngyhajú lány written by Hungarian rock band Omega in 1969 has multiple “language” versions.
- Hungarian Gyöngyhajú lány by Omega
view on m.youtube.com- English Pearls in Her Hair by Omega
view on m.youtube.com- German Perlen im Haar still by Omega
view on m.youtube.com- Polish Dziewczyna o perłowych włosach by Kult
view on m.youtube.com- Czech Dívka s perlami ve vlasech by Aleš Brichta
view on m.youtube.com- Serbian Devojka biserne kose by
view on m.youtube.comGriva
- Lithuanian Meilės nėra by Keistuolių Teatras
view on m.youtube.comAnd, as a bonus, Kenya West used (without permission, so stole) the original song in his New Slaves song
view on m.youtube.comThe English version sounds familiar, but I'm not sure if I’d heard it before. Good song!!
https://m.stacker.news/109665
I like it too. I discovered the band and the song not long ago while visiting Hungary. I googled it a bit more and found out that other versions existed. This isn't so unusual for countries from the former Soviet bloc.
I don't know how many languages this song is in, but I know there are plenty of versions.
view on www.youtube.comview on www.youtube.comThe challenge is about songs in different languages.
English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYMLMj-SibU
Amazing Grace in Sioux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkL6ODtoPUk
Arabic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wWta-soTiQ
Russian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsTVQePeHjc
Hebraic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC04wUwgo0E
Cantonese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRFt2kdy5NI
Chinese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4Y074XekP0
Scottish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIFScwb153k
Française
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLNtPUJ5Isg
Portugues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks3eVxhXIb4
Spanish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc-8A7NA-Uk
I searched and found these languages, surely they could be found more
This track was cut because it was a religious song. But I'm gonna hook you up with 100 sats for the research work.