Push (Enrique Iglesias song)
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"Push" is a song from the Enrique Iglesias
album Insomniac
. The song features the artist Lil Wayne
and is Iglesias's first collaboration with a rap artist.
. Two different versions of the song leaked onto the internet, an instrumental and an acapella version that featured an extended rap from Lil Wayne. The first signs that the song would not be released came during an appearance by Iglesias on MTV's Total Request Live
. The singer stated that either "Push" or "Somebody's Me" would be the next single for the US and that he and his management would be looking throughout the Internet to choose which would be the better choice. During a phone interview with KRQQ
in Tucson, Arizona
Iglesias stated that "Somebody's Me
" would be the second US single from Insomniac. The decision to not release the track met with some mixed reactions from fans. The song proved to be a favorite among fans who thought the song would be a good single in increasingly R&B and Hip Hop dominated music market. The choice proved confusing to many who observed that positive write ups from people on music forums, music blogs, YouTube posts and majority on his official message board stated they'd rather have "Push".
The full version of Lil Wayne's rap was used in a remix of Britney Spears
's song "Gimme More
". Despite it not being an official remix it was mistakenly viewed as such by magazines such as Blender
and received much exposure throughout the internet. A poll on Iglesias's MySpace had "Push" come second place to his 2001 hit "Hero
" in a list of songs to be added to the music player. Shortly after Iglesias's management decided to test the song on a number of radio stations throughout the US. A list of the eleven radio stations were the song has been added appeared on both Iglesias's official website as well as his MySpace. The song has once again been added to Iglesias Myspace page. The song was officially confirmed as the third US single on both Iglesias's website and his myspace page. The song was added to the soundtrack to the movie Step Up 2: The Streets. The version that appears on the film soundtrack did not feature Lil Wayne but rather Iglesias on his own. A limited release of the album did however feature a San Francisco-based rapper called Prophet. It was both these versions that were to released to as singles. Iglesias debuted the version of the song with Prophet on Ryan Seacrest
's radio show on KIIS-FM
on the 6th of February. The same week Iglesias performed the song on Live with Regis and Kelly
and The Tonight Show
, promoting the Step Up 2: The Streets soundtrack. The song debuted on Billboard
' s Pop 100
chart at 86. The song's video was rejected by MTV
due to its explicitness with the music station asking for a less gratutitous re-edit. The song and video was supposed to go for adds on radio and premiere on MTV on the February the 14th but this did not happen. The song was also removed from the list of official singles from the Step Up 2: The Streets soundtrack, suggesting the song was to longer be a single. The music video did eventually premiere on Yahoo! Music
on February 29 with an addition. With ties to movie cut they could once again use Lil Wayne's vocals despite him not being in the original video. The video has so far only been aired on the channel Mun2
on a week dedicated to iglesias. It has also aired on some foreign television channels. The original version which features Wayne features on some foreign versions of Iglesias's
Greatest Hits
album as well as being a bonus track on the digital release of Greatest Hits on the U.S. iTunes Store
.
and Briana Evigan
reprising their roles in an underground club setting. A preview of the video was put on Channing Tatum
's YouTube channel. Short clips were also shown during Iglesias's appearance on Regis and Kelly and Rachael Ray which featured clips of the movie and the audio was of the soundtrack version. When the full video appeared on Yahoo! as well as Universal Music
account the movie clips were no longer present and the audio was from Iglesias's album version with Lil Wayne. The video begins Hoffman and Evigan enticing each other down a hallway and entering a private room where they start to romantically interact. Iglesias follows them into the room where the couple hand him a camcorder and he records the two of them as they make out and caress each other. At the end of the video when the recording session is over he removes the memory card from the camcorder, hands it to the couple and walks away. Another part of the video has Iglesias sitting down watching an erotic dancer played by model Katrina Rafidi separated from him by a glass wall. As the video goes on he tries to get to her, the climax of the video has Iglesias picking up his chair and shattering the glass uniting both him and his dancer. The entire video is intercut with shots of Iglesias in the middle of a crowd of dancers as he performs the song to camera. A second version that was to feature the rapper Prophet has appeared on the internet and has the video intercut with shots a television screen mounted on the club wall showing Prophet rapping. Also, Lil Wayne is not shown during the video, but his verse is still heard.
Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Iglesias is a Spanish pop music singer, a son of singer Julio Iglesias.Enrique started his musical career on Mexican label Fonovisa...
album Insomniac
Insomniac (Enrique Iglesias album)
A Re-release in India came with a DVD containing music videos for the songs "Do You Know", "Somebody's Me", "Tired of Being Sorry" and "Push" .-Charts:-Release history:...
. The song features the artist Lil Wayne
Lil Wayne
Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. , better known by his stage name Lil Wayne, is an American rapper. At the age of nine, Lil Wayne joined Cash Money Records as the youngest member of the label, and half of the duo, The B.G.'z, with B.G.. In 1997, Lil Wayne joined the group Hot Boys, which also included...
and is Iglesias's first collaboration with a rap artist.
History
Insomniac, several articles about the album cited it as the second single and was confirmed by Iglesias in several interviews. The song was put on Iglesias's official Myspace, was sent to several clubs and was played during a broadcast on KTLAKTLA
KTLA, virtual channel 5, is a television station in Los Angeles, California, USA. Owned by the Tribune Company, KTLA is an affiliate of the CW Television Network. KTLA's studios are on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson...
. Two different versions of the song leaked onto the internet, an instrumental and an acapella version that featured an extended rap from Lil Wayne. The first signs that the song would not be released came during an appearance by Iglesias on MTV's Total Request Live
Total Request Live
Total Request Live is a television series on MTV that featured popular music videos. TRL was MTV's prime outlet for music videos as the network continues to concentrate on reality-based programming. In addition to music videos, TRL featured daily guests...
. The singer stated that either "Push" or "Somebody's Me" would be the next single for the US and that he and his management would be looking throughout the Internet to choose which would be the better choice. During a phone interview with KRQQ
KRQQ
KRQQ is an FM radio station in Tucson, Arizona, which is licensed to broadcast on the frequency of 93.7 MHz with a power of 96,000 watts, and is owned by Clear Channel Communications...
in Tucson, Arizona
Arizona
Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...
Iglesias stated that "Somebody's Me
Somebody's Me
"Somebody's Me" is the second single released from Enrique Iglesias's fourth UK studio album, Insomniac. The single was released in the UK on December 10, 2007. The single found success in the USA, Canada and Latin America, however, it failed to chart in the UK.-Song information:Iglesias debuted...
" would be the second US single from Insomniac. The decision to not release the track met with some mixed reactions from fans. The song proved to be a favorite among fans who thought the song would be a good single in increasingly R&B and Hip Hop dominated music market. The choice proved confusing to many who observed that positive write ups from people on music forums, music blogs, YouTube posts and majority on his official message board stated they'd rather have "Push".
The full version of Lil Wayne's rap was used in a remix of Britney Spears
Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album...
's song "Gimme More
Gimme More
"Gimme More" is a song by American recording artist Britney Spears from her fifth studio album, Blackout. It was released on September 27, 2007 by Jive Records as the lead single of the album. The song was written by Jim Beanz, Marcella "Ms. Lago" Araica, Nate "Danja" Hills and Keri Hilson...
". Despite it not being an official remix it was mistakenly viewed as such by magazines such as Blender
Blender (magazine)
Blender was an American music magazine that billed itself as "the ultimate guide to music and more". It was also known for sometimes steamy pictorials of celebrities....
and received much exposure throughout the internet. A poll on Iglesias's MySpace had "Push" come second place to his 2001 hit "Hero
Hero (Enrique Iglesias song)
"Hero" is a single released by Enrique Iglesias from his second English album Escape and was written for his good friend Simon Baxendale, by Iglesias, Paul Barry and Mark Taylor. Enrique first released the song to radio in early September 2001 to a positive critical and commercial reception...
" in a list of songs to be added to the music player. Shortly after Iglesias's management decided to test the song on a number of radio stations throughout the US. A list of the eleven radio stations were the song has been added appeared on both Iglesias's official website as well as his MySpace. The song has once again been added to Iglesias Myspace page. The song was officially confirmed as the third US single on both Iglesias's website and his myspace page. The song was added to the soundtrack to the movie Step Up 2: The Streets. The version that appears on the film soundtrack did not feature Lil Wayne but rather Iglesias on his own. A limited release of the album did however feature a San Francisco-based rapper called Prophet. It was both these versions that were to released to as singles. Iglesias debuted the version of the song with Prophet on Ryan Seacrest
Ryan Seacrest
Ryan John Seacrest is an American radio personality, television host, network producer and voice actor. He is the host of On Air with Ryan Seacrest, a nationally syndicated Top 40 radio show that airs on KIIS-FM in Los Angeles and throughout the United States and Canada on Premiere Radio Networks,...
's radio show on KIIS-FM
KIIS-FM
KIIS-FM is a Los Angeles, California, USA-based radio station with a partial Top 40 musical format. It is owned by Clear Channel Communications. KIIS is also simulcasted on KVVS in Rosamond, at 105.5 MHz...
on the 6th of February. The same week Iglesias performed the song on Live with Regis and Kelly
Live with Regis and Kelly
Live! with Kelly is a syndicated American television morning talk show, hosted by Kelly Ripa. The show has aired since 1983 in New York City and 1988 nationwide. Tony Pigg has been the show's announcer since its inception...
and The Tonight Show
The Tonight Show
The Tonight Show is an American late-night talk show that has aired on NBC since 1954. It is the longest currently running regularly scheduled entertainment program in the United States, and the third longest-running show on NBC, after Meet the Press and Today.The Tonight Show has been hosted by...
, promoting the Step Up 2: The Streets soundtrack. The song debuted on Billboard
Pop 100
The Pop 100 was a songs chart that debuted in February 2005 and was released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States until its discontinuation in 2009...
chart at 86. The song's video was rejected by 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....
due to its explicitness with the music station asking for a less gratutitous re-edit. The song and video was supposed to go for adds on radio and premiere on MTV on the February the 14th but this did not happen. The song was also removed from the list of official singles from the Step Up 2: The Streets soundtrack, suggesting the song was to longer be a single. The music video did eventually premiere on Yahoo! Music
Yahoo! Music
Yahoo! Music, owned by Yahoo!, is the provider of a variety of music services, including Internet radio, music videos, news, artist information, and original programming...
on February 29 with an addition. With ties to movie cut they could once again use Lil Wayne's vocals despite him not being in the original video. The video has so far only been aired on the channel Mun2
Mun2
mun2 is a national cable television broadcast network in the United States owned by NBC Universal and aimed at young Latinos. It is the sister network of Telemundo and was mostly digital television subchannels launched in 2001. The programming of mun2 is primarily music videos and shows designed...
on a week dedicated to iglesias. It has also aired on some foreign television channels. The original version which features Wayne features on some foreign versions of Iglesias's
Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits (Enrique Iglesias album)
-Special edition :# "Bailamos" – 3:31# "Rhythm Divine" – 3:30# "Hero" – 4:23# "Escape" – 3:32# "Love to See You Cry" – 3:52# "Addicted" – 4:42...
album as well as being a bonus track on the digital release of Greatest Hits on the U.S. iTunes Store
ITunes Store
The iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple. Opening as the iTunes Music Store on April 28, 2003, with over 200,000 items to purchase, it is, as of April 2008, the number-one music vendor in the United States...
.
Music video
The music video was directed by Billy Woodruff and features both Iglesias and the Step Up 2: The Streets main actors Robert HoffmanRobert Hoffman (actor)
Robert James Hoffman III is an American actor, dancer and choreographer.- Personal life :Robert James Hoffman III was born in Gainesville, Florida, the son of Charlotte and Robert Hoffman II, and moved with his family to Madison, Alabama when he was seven. He has one younger brother, Chris, and...
and Briana Evigan
Briana Evigan
Briana Barbara-Jane Evigan is an American actress and dancer. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Andie West in Step Up 2: The Streets and Cassidy Tappan in Sorority Row. She started dancing at the age of 9 and is still dancing as part of her career today.-Early life:Evigan was born in Los...
reprising their roles in an underground club setting. A preview of the video was put on Channing Tatum
Channing Tatum
Channing Matthew Tatum is an American actor and film producer. He began his career as a fashion model and appearing in television commercials for Pepsi and Mountain Dew before turning to film roles...
's YouTube channel. Short clips were also shown during Iglesias's appearance on Regis and Kelly and Rachael Ray which featured clips of the movie and the audio was of the soundtrack version. When the full video appeared on Yahoo! as well as Universal Music
Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations...
account the movie clips were no longer present and the audio was from Iglesias's album version with Lil Wayne. The video begins Hoffman and Evigan enticing each other down a hallway and entering a private room where they start to romantically interact. Iglesias follows them into the room where the couple hand him a camcorder and he records the two of them as they make out and caress each other. At the end of the video when the recording session is over he removes the memory card from the camcorder, hands it to the couple and walks away. Another part of the video has Iglesias sitting down watching an erotic dancer played by model Katrina Rafidi separated from him by a glass wall. As the video goes on he tries to get to her, the climax of the video has Iglesias picking up his chair and shattering the glass uniting both him and his dancer. The entire video is intercut with shots of Iglesias in the middle of a crowd of dancers as he performs the song to camera. A second version that was to feature the rapper Prophet has appeared on the internet and has the video intercut with shots a television screen mounted on the club wall showing Prophet rapping. Also, Lil Wayne is not shown during the video, but his verse is still heard.
Tracklisting
Digital Download- "Push" (Radio Edit) (Feat. Lil WayneLil WayneDwayne Michael Carter, Jr. , better known by his stage name Lil Wayne, is an American rapper. At the age of nine, Lil Wayne joined Cash Money Records as the youngest member of the label, and half of the duo, The B.G.'z, with B.G.. In 1997, Lil Wayne joined the group Hot Boys, which also included...
) - 3:48 - "Push" (Step Up 2: The Streets O.S.T Version) (Feat. Lil WayneLil WayneDwayne Michael Carter, Jr. , better known by his stage name Lil Wayne, is an American rapper. At the age of nine, Lil Wayne joined Cash Money Records as the youngest member of the label, and half of the duo, The B.G.'z, with B.G.. In 1997, Lil Wayne joined the group Hot Boys, which also included...
) - 4:06 - "Push" (Bimbo Jones Master Mix) (Feat. Lil WayneLil WayneDwayne Michael Carter, Jr. , better known by his stage name Lil Wayne, is an American rapper. At the age of nine, Lil Wayne joined Cash Money Records as the youngest member of the label, and half of the duo, The B.G.'z, with B.G.. In 1997, Lil Wayne joined the group Hot Boys, which also included...
& Flo-Rida) - 5:04 - "Push" (Full Radio Edit) - 4:14
- "Push" (Bump & Grind Mix) - 5:17
- "Push" (Video) - 4:06
Charts
The single went 2x platinum in Russia with 400,000 copies sold.| Chart (2007) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Romanian Top 100 | 3 |
| Turkish Top 20 Chart | 10 |
| Russia Top Hit 100 | 82 |
| Slovakia Top 100 | 91 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100 Pop 100 The Pop 100 was a songs chart that debuted in February 2005 and was released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States until its discontinuation in 2009... |
86 |