It peaked within the top 10 in at least 13 countries; Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

A model-dancer named Eliz Yavuz (Alice Montana) was hired to lip-sync Besic's vocals for the accompanying music video.

American magazine Billboard complimented the song as "quality dancefloor music", noting "its creative mixture of reggae, rap and speed muffin.

Just like Apache Indian's 'Boom-Shack-A-Lack' and Shaggy's 'Oh Carolina' before it, 'Get-A-Way' is a frenetic ragga track, enough to wear out even the most hardened dancer yet commercial enough for radio to love it to death.

"[4] Pan-European magazine Music & Media wrote, "This steaming houser has it all: A thumping beat that should get the crippled going, pulsating synthesizers that provide both the slightly ambient melody and the background, and a prominent rap to put the icing on the cake.

"[5] James Hamilton from Music Week's RM Dance Update described the song as a "ragga 'white man' and raucous girl chanted cheesy" 2 Unlimited-like galloper.

[7] "Get-A-Way" became a huge dancefloor hit in Europe, peaking at number eleven in Germany,[8] and within the top 5 in Austria (3), the Czech Republic,[9] Denmark (4), Finland (5), the Netherlands (3), Sweden (3) and the UK.

The single also became a top-10 hit in Flemish Belgium (8), Ireland (8), Norway (8), Scotland (6) and Switzerland (8),[11] as well as on the Eurochart Hot 100, where it reached number ten in June 1994.