"7 Days" is the second single from Craig David's

Craig David

Craig Ashley David is an English singer and songwriter. He has released five studio albums: Born to Do It, Slicker Than Your Average, The Story Goes..., Trust Me, Signed Sealed Delivered and a Greatest Hits album...

 debut album Born to Do It

Born to Do It

Born to Do It is the debut album by English singer Craig David, released in 2000 via Wildstar and 2001 via Atlantic Records. It is highly revered and acclaimed by R&B critics, and contains some of his highest charting singles. The album was a huge commercial success eventually selling over 8...

. It hit number one in the United Kingdom

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 and number ten in the United States

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. "7 Days" is David's biggest worldwide hit to date and received a Gold certification sale in Great Britain. The song was nominated for a Grammy in 2003 and was recently covered by Zoot Woman

Zoot Woman

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. The song was the 17th best selling of 2000 in Britain. There is also a remix

Remix

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 produced by DJ Premier

DJ Premier

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 which features Mos Def

Mos Def

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 and vocal samples from Nate Dogg

Nate Dogg

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's chorus in "Oh No."

The music video was directed by Max & Dania.

Formats and track listings

UK CD: 1

1. "7 Days" (radio edit)
2. "Stop Messing Around"
3. "Fill Me In" (acoustic)
4. "7 Days" (video)

UK CD: 2

1. "7 Days" (radio edit)
2. "7 Days" (Full Crew radio edit)
3. "7 Days" (Sunship remix)
4. "7 Days" (Full Crew remix) (featuring MDK)

Lyrics

The lyrics of "7 Days" mainly talk about what David does during a week with a girl. He meets a girl on Monday, and feels enough of a social connection to proceed by taking her out for a pint of mild on Tuesday. The night of alcoholic consumption results in a sexual relationship, causing David and his girl to have sexual intercourse on Wednesday. The sexual intercourse between the two results in further instances on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. By this time, such exertion takes its toll on the pair, who both decide to "chill" on Sunday, a day traditionally known for being one of rest.

Chart performance

The single reached number one in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

, spending fifteen weeks inside the country's top 75. It was also David's only top ten single in the United States

United States

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Chart	Peak Position
Australian Singles Chart Australian Recording Industry Association The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956...	4
Belgian Singles Chart	12
Dutch Singles Chart	6
Finnish Singles Chart	17
French Singles Chart	19
Italian Singles Chart	7
Irish Singles Chart Irish Singles Chart The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured...	3
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart	6
Norwegian Singles Chart	11
Swedish Singles Chart Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....	21
Swiss Singles Chart Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie...	20
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	10
U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...	52