the right direction, suggesting that the best person to promote music from the southern bass genre was Stax Records mogul Al Bell. Glenn reached out to Bell, who agreed to sign Tag Team. Within months, "Whoomp!" reached the top position on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop chart, and Hot 100 Single Sales chart. The record held the #2 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for seven weeks straight and reached platinum status, signifying the sale of at least a million copies. In February 1994, it received its fourth platinum certification. The song came to be used at sports events and in motion picture productions, such as Elf, Shark Tale, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, and D2: The Mighty Ducks. A similar song, "Whoot, There It Is", was released by the Miami-based group 95 South a month prior to Tag Team's "Whoomp!" Both groups' record companies maintained that the similarities were a coincidence, as the phrase, "Whoomp (or whoot), there it is", was a common expression used by dancers in Atlanta and Miami nightclubs where members from both groups spent a lot of time. Arsenio Hall hosted both groups on his show to perform their versions of the songs and let viewers vote on their favorite by calling a 900 number to donate money to the relief effort for the 1993 Midwest Floods. Lyrically and musically, critics and listeners have pointed out the song's positive and uplifting vibe. The phrase "Whoomp! There it is!" has come to mean something similar to "Look at that!" It is intended to encourage "positive partying". In interviews, Glenn and Gibson have discussed the conversation in which they decided to use the phrase. Glenn said, "Oh, man, we need to do a song called, 'Whoomp, there it is". Gibson was on board immediately, replying simply, "How do you spell it?" Tag Team has explained that the phrase is about "anything that one agrees with on a positive level". "Whoomp! (There it is!)" also has a unique beat and bassline that fans sometimes refer to as "whoomping." "Whoomp" has been called "Da bomb party song" of the 90s by Atlanta Magazine and "among the country's most commercially successful singles of all time." Hiatus Tag Team's album, Whoomp! (There It Is), which spawned the eponymous single, was certified gold, and two more singles were released from it. However, neither could recapture the popularity of the four-times platinum "Whoomp!" single. Tag Team's