"All Nite" is a song by American recording artist Janet Jackson

Janet Jackson

Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and actress. Known for a series of sonically innovative, socially conscious and sexually provocative records, as well as elaborate stage shows, television and film roles, she has been a prominent figure in popular culture for over 25 years...

, released as the third single

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 from her eighth studio album, Damita Jo.

Song information

The song contains a sample

Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song or piece. Sampling was originally developed by experimental musicians working with musique concrète and electroacoustic music, who physically...

 of Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...

's 1975 song "Hang up Your Hang Ups". It was the lead double A-side with "I Want You

I Want You (Janet Jackson song)

"I Want You" is a song by American singer–songwriter Janet Jackson from her eighth studio album, Damita Jo .-Song information:Released as the second single from Damita Jo, the song was written by Harold Lilly, Miri Ben-Ari, Kanye West, and John Stephens under the working title "Have Your Way with...

", released internationally in countries like the United Kingdom and Australia, and contains the B-side "Put Your Hands On", which appears as a bonus track

Bonus track

In terms of recorded music, a bonus track is a piece of music which has been included on specific releases or reissues of an album. This is most often done as a promotional device, either as an incentive to customers to purchase albums they might otherwise not, or to repurchase albums they already...

 on the Japanese edition of Damita Jo. The song "R&B Junkie

R&B Junkie

"R&B Junkie" is a song by American recording artist Janet Jackson from her eighth studio album, Damita Jo . Written by Jackson, James Harris III, Terry Lewis, and Tony "Prof T" Tolbert, the track was released as the album's fourth and final single in 2004.-Song information:The song was reported to...

" can be found on the promo

Promotional recording

A promotional recording, or promo, is an audio or video recording distributed for free, usually in order to promote a recording that is or soon will be commercially available...

 vinyl single

Gramophone record

A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...

 of "All Nite (Don't Stop)".

Jackson performed a medley of "All Nite (Don't Stop)" and "R&B Junkie" at the 2004 BET Awards

BET Awards

The BET Awards were established in 2001 by the Black Entertainment Television network to celebrate African Americans and other minorities in music, acting, sports, and other fields of entertainment over the past year. The awards are presented annually and broadcast live on BET...

, together with Elephant Man, who also remixed "All Nite (Don't Stop)". The pairing attracted some criticism in the LGBT

LGBT

LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...

 community, as Elephant Man had been previously known for homophobic

Homophobia

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 lyrics. Jackson had previously apologised to the gay community

Gay community

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 for her previous collaboration with Beenie Man

Beenie Man

Anthony Moses Davis , better known by his stage name Beenie Man, is a Grammy award winning Jamaican reggae artist. He is the self-proclaimed "King of the Dancehall".-Biography:...

, also known for his homophobic lyrics, on his 2002 single "Feel It Boy

Feel It Boy

- Song information :The song was written by Beenie Man and produced by award-winning duo The Neptunes. It was released as a single on September 16, 2002, peaking in the top 20's and 30's in most countries. It spent 12 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 peaking at #28...

".

Jackson performed the song on the Rock Witchu Tour

Rock Witchu Tour

The Rock Witchu Tour was the fifth concert tour by American singer-songwriter, Janet Jackson, in support of her tenth studio album Discipline. This was Jackson's first tour in nearly seven years. The tour visited North America...

. It was also included in her current 2011 world tour, Number Ones: Up Close and Personal

Number Ones: Up Close and Personal

Number Ones: Up Close and Personal is the sixth concert tour by American recording artist Janet Jackson. Described as her "largest world tour", the show is in support of her second compilation album, Number Ones...

.

Chart performance

The song peaked at number nineteen on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles

Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles

The Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It lists the top 25 singles below number 100 that have not yet charted on the Billboard Hot 100. Sometimes, however, singles halt their progress on this chart, and never appear on the Hot 100...

 chart. Although not her first single to miss the Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

, it was still a major disappointment. The song also failed to chart in Canada and missed the top thirty in most of European countries. It did, however, reach number twenty-four in Australia and number nineteen in the UK. Despite the single's rather poor sales, "All Nite (Don't Stop)" managed to top the Hot Dance Club Play chart, securing yet another chart-topping dance hit for Jackson.

In mid-March 2008, following the success of "Feedback

Feedback (song)

"Feedback" is a song by American singer Janet Jackson. The R&B/dance-pop song was written by Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, Dernst Emile, Tasleema Yasin, and LaShawn Daniels, and was produced by D'Mile and Jerkins. "Feedback" was released as the lead single from Jackson's tenth studio album,...

", the single re-entered the Hot 100 Singles Sales

Hot 100 Singles Sales

The Hot Singles Sales chart is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It measures sales of commercial singles and is one of three component charts, along with the Hot 100 Airplay and the Hot Digital Songs, that determine the chart positions of singles on the...

 at number forty, giving it a new peak.

Music video

The video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

 was directed by Francis Lawrence

Francis Lawrence

Francis Lawrence is an American music video and film director.-Life and career:Lawrence was born in Vienna, Austria. His father is a physicist who taught at California State University, Northridge and his mother is V.P. Technology at a PR agency. He moved to Los Angeles at the age of three...

 in June 2004 (who also directed 2001's "Someone to Call My Lover

Someone to Call My Lover

"Someone to Call My Lover" is a song by American recording artist Janet Jackson from her seventh studio album, All for You. Written and produced by Jackson and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, the song was released as the album's second single on June 26, 2001....

"). It was filmed at the El Dorado Hotel, an abandoned hotel in the Skid Row

Skid Row, Los Angeles, California

Skid Row, officially known as Central City East, is an area of Downtown Los Angeles. As of the 2000 census, the population of the district was 17,740.-Description:...

 neighborhood of Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

, during a blackout

Power outage

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. Gil Duldulao choreographed the video.

After the Super Bowl incident

Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy

Super Bowl XXXVIII, which was broadcast live on February 1, 2004 from Houston, Texas on the CBS television network in the United States, was noted for a controversial halftime show in which Janet Jackson's breast, adorned with a nipple shield, was exposed by Justin Timberlake for about half a...

, MTV

MTV

MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

 refused to air Jackson's new videos including "All Nite (Don't Stop)", thus resulting in the single's poor chart performance. The video could only be seen on MTV Hits

MTV Hits

MTV Hits is an American music video channel that debuted on May 1, 2002. The format of the network resembles that of the classic MTV before the additional of other programming to that network in the 1990s and their slow decline of music video programming...

 and MTV Jams

MTV Jams

MTV Jams is a Viacom-owned American hip-hop/urban music video channel that debuted on 1998 as MTVX, then was relaunched in 2002 under its current name...

. It aired regularly on BET

Black Entertainment Television

Black Entertainment Television is an American, Viacom-owned cable network based in Washington, D.C.. Currently viewed in more than 90 million homes worldwide, it is the most prominent television network targeting young Black-American audiences. The network was launched on January 25, 1980, by its...

 and VH1

VH1

VH1 or Vh1 is an American cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting's short-lived Cable Music Channel, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slightly...

. The video is featured on the 2004 video compilation From janet. to Damita Jo: The Videos.

Track listings

"All Nite (Don't Stop)" was released in certain countries as a double A-side with "I Want You

I Want You (Janet Jackson song)

"I Want You" is a song by American singer–songwriter Janet Jackson from her eighth studio album, Damita Jo .-Song information:Released as the second single from Damita Jo, the song was written by Harold Lilly, Miri Ben-Ari, Kanye West, and John Stephens under the working title "Have Your Way with...

".
UK 12" promo single (VUSTDJ 292)

1. Sander Kleinenberg Club Mix – 8:50
2. Low End Specialists Main Mix – 8:48

UK 12" single (VUST 292)

1. Album Version – 3:26
2. Sander Kleinenberg Everybody Club Mix – 8:50
3. "I Want You" – 4:12
4. So So Def Remix – 3:51

UK CD single (VUSCTX 292)

1. Album Version – 3:26
2. "I Want You" – 4:12
3. "Put Your Hands On" – 3:56
4. Sander Kleinenberg's Radio Mix – 4:14
5. "I Want You" (Ray Roc Radio Mix) – 4:18
6. "All Nite (Don't Stop)" (Video)
7. "I Want You" (Video)

U.S. 12" promo single (708761867411)

1. All Nite (Don't Stop) (So So Def Remix) – 3:51
2. All Nite (Don't Stop) (So So Def Instrumental) – 3:48
3. All Nite (Don't Stop) (A Cappella) – 3:51
4. R&B Junkie – 3:11
5. R&B Junkie (Instrumental) – 3:11
6. All Nite (Don't Stop) (Clean Version) – 3:28

U.S. double 12" promo single (7087 6 18665 1 3)

1. Sander Kleinenberg Everybody Remix – 8:40
2. Low End Specialists Main Mix – 8:48
3. Sander Kleinenberg Dub – 8:40
4. Low End Specialists Dub – 8:48

U.S. CD single (7243 5 49569 2 8)

1. Album Version – 3:26
2. "I Want You" – 4:12
3. "Put Your Hands On" – 3:56

European CD single (7243 5 49567 2 0)

1. Album Version – 3:26
2. "I Want You" – 4:12

Australian CD single (7243 5 49951 2 5)

1. Album Version – 3:26
2. "I Want You" – 4:12
3. "Put Your Hands On" – 3:56
4. Sander Kleinenberg's Radio Mix – 4:14

Japanese CD single (VJCP-12180)

1. Album Version – 3:26
2. Sander Kleinenberg Everybody Club Mix – 8:42
3. "I Want You" – 4:12
4. So So Def Remix – 3:51

Official remixes

• Original Version – 3:27
• Clean Version – 3:27
• So So Def Remix featuring Elephant Man – 3:51
• So So Def Instrumental – 3:48
• So So Def A Cappella featuring Elephant Man – 3:51
• Sander Kleinenberg Everybody Club Mix – 8:42
• Sander Kleinenberg Radio Mix – 4:19
• Sander Kleinenberg Dub – 8:41
• Low End Specialists Main Mix – 8:43
• Low End Specialists Radio Edit – 3:48
• Low End Specialists Dub – 8:43
• Low End Specialists Instrumental – 8:46
• Chris Cox
  Chris Cox (DJ)
  Chris Cox is a dance music producer, remixer, and DJ from USA and has worked on over 400 records. He has had a total of 40 Billboard dance chart number ones as part of the hitmaking remix team Thunderpuss, and others with Pusaka and as a solo artist. He was nominated for a Grammy in 2004 for his...
  
   Club Mix – 12:21

Peak positions

Chart (2004)	Peak position
Australian Singles Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...	24
Belgian Singles Chart Ultratop 50 Ultratop 50 singles, often just Ultratop 50, is the weekly chart of fifty best-selling singles in Flanders, Belgium, and is produced and published by the Ultratop organization. The chart has existed since March 31, 1995...  (Flanders)	21
Belgian Singles Chart Ultratop 40 Ultratop 40 singles, often just Ultratop 40, is the weekly chart of best-selling singles in Wallonia and Brussels Capital Region, the french-speaking parts of Belgium. Its equivalent covering the Flanders region is Ultratop 50. Both charts are produced and published by the Ultratop organization...  (Wallonia)	22
Dutch Single Top 100	35
German 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...	48
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...	26
Italian Singles Chart Federation of the Italian Music Industry The Federation of the Italian Music Industry is an umbrella organization that keeps track of virtually all aspects of the music recording industry in Italy....	30
New Zealand Singles Chart Recording Industry Association of New Zealand The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand...	39
Romanian Top 100 Romanian Top 100 The Romanian Top 100 is the national airplay-based singles chart of Romania. It is weekly and it started running in 1996. It is recognized as an official chart by the European division of Billboard, Music & Media....	21
Spanish Singles Chart	13
Swiss Singles Chart Swiss Music Charts The Swiss Music Charts are Switzerland's main music sales charts. The charts are a record of the highest-selling singles and albums in various genres in Switzerland.The Swiss Charts include:* Singles Top 75...	76
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 ...	19
U.S. Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles The Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It lists the top 25 singles below number 100 that have not yet charted on the Billboard Hot 100. Sometimes, however, singles halt their progress on this chart, and never appear on the Hot 100...	19
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,...	90
U.S. Hot Dance Club Play	1
Chart (2008)	Peak position
U.S. Hot 100 Singles Sales	40

Year-end charts

Chart (2004)	Position
U.S. Hot Dance Club Play	30

Chart procession and succession