All Night Long (Alexandra Burke song)
Encyclopedia
"All Night Long" is an uptempo song performed by British pop
/R&B
singer Alexandra Burke
taken from her debut studio album, Overcome
(2009). The song was written and produced by production team, The Runaways (Rico Love
, James Scheffer, Sam Watters
and Louis Biancaniello
). The single was released as a digital download
in the UK
on 16 May 2010 with the CD single
being released the following day, with remixes by Jason Nevins
and Cahill.
. "All Night Long" also serves as the album's second European single. The song was nominated for BRIT Award
for best British single of 2010.
magazine was shot in a Hertfordshire
mansion in the UK. The video follows the theme of a pool-side party and amongst the back-up dancers it features circus performers as well as appearances from Pitbull who is featured on the single remix. In one scene Burke is seen with "a mohawk, bejewelled eye-lids and long legs in a leather jock-strap". According to the Daily Mail
she asked family and friends to help film the clip using 100 pocket video cameras. The video was directed by Dale Resteghini aka RAGE and premiered on 27 April 2010 through Vevo
.
Australian TV channel Channel 7
created a new music video for the song which used excerpts from the actual music video and some new parts from Australian dance troupe and winner of Season 4 of Australia's Got Talent
, Justice Crew
.
ITV1 on 21 March 2010. and the National Lottery
on 5 May 2010. She also performed on Hey Hey It's Saturday
, an Australian television show, on 3 June 2010 to promote the single, and the release of the album there.
gave to the song 4 stars (out of 5) and says that: "Fortunately, the track - much like the video - is the very definition of a summer party stomper. Reswizzled with extra blips and beats from the album version, you'll barely have time to knock back your G&T before the urge to hit the dancefloor kicks in, largely thanks to a chorus that doesn't so much encourage you to raise your arms in the air as command it.". "Fraser McAlpine" from BBC
gave the song 5 stars (out of 5), saying that: "well it's just a brilliant song. It's sung brilliantly, with brilliant barking-angel harmonies and brilliant rumble-tum verses and brilliant cloudbustingly euphoric choruses. Alexandra sounds every inch the disco diva - by which I mean she sounds torn apart by the wonder of the emotions she is experiencing, even though lyrically, those emotions amount to nothing more than a simple description of meeting someone you fancy at a party. That Grape Juice said that "I'm still waiting to hear that 'mind-blowing' track I just know Ms. Burke has in her to deliver." and BBC Newsround
said that "Her voice is earthy and gravelly, and really cool on this single."
at #98 in October 2009 due to the release of "Overcome" before re-entering at #59 in March 2010, following strong digital downloads. After climbing up the chart throughout April and May 2010, the single entered the Top 10 on 16 May 2010 at #8, marking Burke's fourth consecutive Top 10 single. The following week the single climbed four places to its current peak of #4, beating Burke's previous single "Broken Heels
" which reached #8. The single has spent 25 weeks in the UK Top 100. The single entered the Irish Singles Chart
at number sixteen and has peaked at #1, making it her third number one single in Ireland. The single entered at #39 on the Dutch Top 40
and has so far peaked at #24. "All Night Long" first entered at #71 in the Australian Charts, 4 weeks later it reached a new peak of #48.
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
/R&B
Contemporary R&B
Contemporary R&B is a music genre that combines elements of hip hop, soul, R&B and funk.Although the abbreviation “R&B” originates from traditional rhythm and blues music, today the term R&B is most often used to describe a style of African American music originating after the demise of disco in...
singer Alexandra Burke
Alexandra Burke
Alexandra Imelda Cecelia Ewen Burke is a British R&B and pop recording artist who rose to fame after winning the fifth series of British television series The X Factor in 2008...
taken from her debut studio album, Overcome
Overcome (Alexandra Burke album)
Overcome is the debut studio album by British pop/R&B singer Alexandra Burke, released October 19, 2009 on Syco Music. The release of the album came a year after Burke won the British talent show, The X Factor, with the recording process taking place between 2008 and 2009...
(2009). The song was written and produced by production team, The Runaways (Rico Love
Rico Love
Richard Preston Butler, Jr. , better known by his stage name Rico Love, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Love wrote and produced hit records such as Usher’s "There Goes My Baby" and "Hey Daddy ”, Nelly's "Just a Dream" and "Gone", Beyoncé Knowles' "Sweet Dreams"...
, James Scheffer, Sam Watters
Sam Watters
Sam Watters is a Grammy nominated American songwriter, record producer, singer, and record executive. Watters was a member of the multi-platinum selling 1990’s R&B group Color Me Badd and co-authored many of their hits including “I Wanna Sex You Up”, “I Adore Mi Amor”, and “All 4 Love”...
and Louis Biancaniello
Louis Biancaniello
Louis John Biancaniello is a songwriter, record producer, and musician.-Background:Louis' skills were developed while working alongside producer Narada Michael Walden with whom he produced hits for Shanice "I Love Your Smile", Whitney Houston "I'm Every Woman" from the Grammy winning album The...
). The single was released as a digital download
Music download
A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...
in the UK
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...
on 16 May 2010 with the CD single
CD single
A CD single is a music single in the form of a standard size Compact Disc, not to be confused with the 3-inch CD single, which uses a smaller form factor. The format was introduced in the mid-1980s, but did not gain its place in the market until the early 1990s...
being released the following day, with remixes by Jason Nevins
Jason Nevins
Jason Nevins is an American DJ, producer and remixer, who is most widely known for his pop dance productions.-Career:In the early 1990s, Nevins began releasing singles under various monikers through various dance labels, but achieved global recognition in 1998 with his production of Run-DMC's...
and Cahill.
Background
For its release as the singer's third single from the album, it was remixed with new instruments and it now features vocals from Miami rapper PitbullPitbull (rapper)
Armando Christian Pérez , better known by his stage name Pitbull, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer. His first recorded performance was from the Lil Jon album Kings of Crunk in 2002, after which he released his debut album in 2004 titled M.I.A.M.I. under TVT Records...
. "All Night Long" also serves as the album's second European single. The song was nominated for BRIT Award
Brit Awards
The Brit Awards are the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards. The name was originally a shortened form of "British", "Britain" or "Britannia", but subsequently became a backronym for British Record Industry Trust...
for best British single of 2010.
Music video
According to a spread in LookLook Magazine (UK)
LOOK is a glossy high street fashion and celebrity weekly magazine for young women. Edited by Ali Hall, it focuses on up-to-the-minute and affordable fashion, high street shopping advice, celebrity style and news, and real life stories.-History:...
magazine was shot in a Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England. The county town is Hertford.The county is one of the Home Counties and lies inland, bordered by Greater London , Buckinghamshire , Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and...
mansion in the UK. The video follows the theme of a pool-side party and amongst the back-up dancers it features circus performers as well as appearances from Pitbull who is featured on the single remix. In one scene Burke is seen with "a mohawk, bejewelled eye-lids and long legs in a leather jock-strap". According to the Daily Mail
Daily Mail
The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982...
she asked family and friends to help film the clip using 100 pocket video cameras. The video was directed by Dale Resteghini aka RAGE and premiered on 27 April 2010 through Vevo
Vevo
Vevo is a music video website. It is a joint venture among Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, and Abu Dhabi Media with EMI licensing its content to the group without taking an ownership stake. The service was launched officially on December 8, 2009...
.
Australian TV channel Channel 7
Seven Network
The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...
created a new music video for the song which used excerpts from the actual music video and some new parts from Australian dance troupe and winner of Season 4 of Australia's Got Talent
Australia's Got Talent
Australia's Got Talent is an Australian reality television talent show which premiered on 18 February 2007 on the Seven Network. The show was based on the Got Talent series format that originated in the United Kingdom with Simon Cowell...
, Justice Crew
Justice Crew
Justice Crew are an all-male hip-hop dance and pop music group based in Sydney. They are most notable for winning the fourth season of Australia's Got Talent in 2010. The group consists of Emmanuel Rodriguez, Samson Smith, Len John Ruela Pearce, John Len Ruela Pearce, Lukas Bellesini, Paulie...
.
Live performances
Burke performed the new version (minus Pitbull's vocals) on the semi-final of Dancing On IceDancing on Ice
Dancing on Ice is a British television show co-hosted by Christine Bleakley and Philip Schofield, in which celebrities and their professional partners figure skate in front of a panel of judges. The format, devised by LWT and Granada Television, has been a prime-time hit in eight different...
ITV1 on 21 March 2010. and the National Lottery
National Lottery (United Kingdom)
The National Lottery is the state-franchised national lottery in the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man.It is operated by Camelot Group, to whom the licence was granted in 1994, 2001 and again in 2007. The lottery is regulated by the National Lottery Commission, and was established by the then...
on 5 May 2010. She also performed on Hey Hey It's Saturday
Hey Hey It's Saturday
Hey Hey It's Saturday was a long-running variety television program on Australian television. It initially ran for 27 years , debuting on the Nine Network on 9 October 1971 and broadcasting its last episode on 20 November 1999. Its host throughout its entire run was Daryl Somers, who would later...
, an Australian television show, on 3 June 2010 to promote the single, and the release of the album there.
Reception
Robert Copsey from the entertainment website Digital SpyDigital Spy
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gave to the song 4 stars (out of 5) and says that: "Fortunately, the track - much like the video - is the very definition of a summer party stomper. Reswizzled with extra blips and beats from the album version, you'll barely have time to knock back your G&T before the urge to hit the dancefloor kicks in, largely thanks to a chorus that doesn't so much encourage you to raise your arms in the air as command it.". "Fraser McAlpine" from BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
gave the song 5 stars (out of 5), saying that: "well it's just a brilliant song. It's sung brilliantly, with brilliant barking-angel harmonies and brilliant rumble-tum verses and brilliant cloudbustingly euphoric choruses. Alexandra sounds every inch the disco diva - by which I mean she sounds torn apart by the wonder of the emotions she is experiencing, even though lyrically, those emotions amount to nothing more than a simple description of meeting someone you fancy at a party. That Grape Juice said that "I'm still waiting to hear that 'mind-blowing' track I just know Ms. Burke has in her to deliver." and BBC Newsround
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
said that "Her voice is earthy and gravelly, and really cool on this single."
Track listings
-
- UK CD Single/ / Australian CD Single
- "All Night Long" (featuring PitbullPitbull (rapper)Armando Christian Pérez , better known by his stage name Pitbull, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer. His first recorded performance was from the Lil Jon album Kings of Crunk in 2002, after which he released his debut album in 2004 titled M.I.A.M.I. under TVT Records...
) (Richard ButlerRico LoveRichard Preston Butler, Jr. , better known by his stage name Rico Love, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Love wrote and produced hit records such as Usher’s "There Goes My Baby" and "Hey Daddy ”, Nelly's "Just a Dream" and "Gone", Beyoncé Knowles' "Sweet Dreams"...
, James Scheffer, Louis BiancanielloLouis BiancanielloLouis John Biancaniello is a songwriter, record producer, and musician.-Background:Louis' skills were developed while working alongside producer Narada Michael Walden with whom he produced hits for Shanice "I Love Your Smile", Whitney Houston "I'm Every Woman" from the Grammy winning album The...
, Sam WattersSam WattersSam Watters is a Grammy nominated American songwriter, record producer, singer, and record executive. Watters was a member of the multi-platinum selling 1990’s R&B group Color Me Badd and co-authored many of their hits including “I Wanna Sex You Up”, “I Adore Mi Amor”, and “All 4 Love”...
) - 3:48 - "All Night Long" (CahillCahill (band)Cahill are a dance group, based in Liverpool, UK consisting of producers Anton Powers, Tim Condran and Scott Rosser. They are best known for their 2008 single, Trippin' On You, which features vocals from Nikki Belle.-Background:...
Club Mix) - 5:56
-
- UK Digital Download
- "All Night Long" (featuring Pitbull) - 3:48
- "All Night Long" (featuring Pitbull) (Cahill Club Mix) - 5:56
- "All Night Long" (featuring Pitbull) (Jason NevinsJason NevinsJason Nevins is an American DJ, producer and remixer, who is most widely known for his pop dance productions.-Career:In the early 1990s, Nevins began releasing singles under various monikers through various dance labels, but achieved global recognition in 1998 with his production of Run-DMC's...
Remix) - 3:58
-
- German CD Single
- "All Night Long" (featuring Pitbull) - 3:48
- "All Night Long" (Album Version) - 4:23
-
- German Download
- "All Night Long" (featuring Pitbull) - 3:48
- "All Night Long" (Album Version) - 4:23
- "All Night Long" (Cahill Club Mix) - 5:56
Chart performance
"All Night Long" first entered the UK Singles ChartUK 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 ...
at #98 in October 2009 due to the release of "Overcome" before re-entering at #59 in March 2010, following strong digital downloads. After climbing up the chart throughout April and May 2010, the single entered the Top 10 on 16 May 2010 at #8, marking Burke's fourth consecutive Top 10 single. The following week the single climbed four places to its current peak of #4, beating Burke's previous single "Broken Heels
Broken Heels
"Broken Heels" is a song performed by British R&B/pop singer Alexandra Burke, released as the second single from her debut album, Overcome...
" which reached #8. The single has spent 25 weeks in the UK Top 100. The single entered the 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...
at number sixteen and has peaked at #1, making it her third number one single in Ireland. The single entered at #39 on the Dutch Top 40
Dutch Top 40
The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting...
and has so far peaked at #24. "All Night Long" first entered at #71 in the Australian Charts, 4 weeks later it reached a new peak of #48.
| Chart (2010) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australia (ARIA 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... ) |
48 |
| German Singles Chart | 60 |
| Scotland (The Official Charts Company) | 3 |
Year-end charts
| Chart (2010) | Position |
|---|---|
| Ireland (IRMA 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... ) |
|
| UK Singles Chart | 76 |
Chart procession and succession
Release history
| Region | Date | Format | Label | Catalogue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denmark | 3 May 2010 | Digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment... |
Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment ' is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation.... |
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| Mexico | ||||
| Ireland | 7 May 2010 | Syco Music | ||
| United Kingdom | 16 May 2010 | 88697686132 | ||
| 17 May 2010 | CD single CD single A CD single is a music single in the form of a standard size Compact Disc, not to be confused with the 3-inch CD single, which uses a smaller form factor. The format was introduced in the mid-1980s, but did not gain its place in the market until the early 1990s... |
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| Sweden | Digital download | Sony Music Entertainment | ||
| Australia | 4 June 2010 | CD, digital download | 88697686132 | |
| Germany | 11 June 2010 | |||
| Austria | ||||
| Switzerland |