Work (Kelly Rowland song)
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"Work" is a song recorded by American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 singer-songwriter Kelly Rowland
Kelly Rowland
Kelendria Trene "Kelly" Rowland is an American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, and television personality. She rose to fame as one of the founding members of the American girl group Destiny's Child...

. It was written by Rowland, Scott Storch
Scott Storch
Scott Storch is an American record producer. He produces a variety of music, particularly hip hop, reggaeton, and R&B. His label, Storch Music Company responsible for signing Brooke Hogan and Nox...

 and [Jason "Poo Bear" Boyd|Jason Boyd]] and co-produced by Storch and Boyd for Rowland's second studio album, Ms. Kelly
Ms. Kelly
Ms. Kelly is the second solo studio album by American R&B singer Kelly Rowland. It was released by Columbia Records in collaboration with Music World Entertainment and Sony Music during the third quarter of 2007, beginning with most European territories on June 22...

(2007). The full track was leaked
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 on May 31, 2007 onto the internet. Although Columbia Records
Columbia Records
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 intended to release "Work" as Ms. Kellys lead single
Lead single
A lead single is usually the first single released by a musician or a band before the release of its home album.During the era of the grammophone record, all music arrived in the marketplace as what is now termed a single, one potential hit song backed by an additional song of generally less...

, "Like This
Like This (Kelly Rowland song)
"Like This" is a R&B song by American singer Kelly Rowland. It features guest vocals by rapper Eve and was written by Sean Garrett, Rowland, Eve, Jamal Jones, Elvis "BlacElvis" Williams, and Jason Perry and co-produced by Polow da Don, S-Dot, Garrett, Perry, and Williams for Rowland's second studio...

" was eventually chosen as Rowland, who was influenced by the negative feedback the song received from blog
Blog
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s after the leaked snippets, began to think that that "Work" had no commercial potential. Freemasons
Freemasons (band)
Freemasons are an English dance band from Brighton, East Sussex, England. The act consists of producers Russell Small and James Wiltshire .-2005-2007: Early Career:Their name is taken from the Brighton pub, Freemasons Tavern, Hove, which they frequently...

, later remixed "Work", which according to Rowland, gave it "new life".

"Work" is an up-tempo composition which displays elements of funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 music and go-go. Composed in the key
Key (music)
In music theory, the term key is used in many different and sometimes contradictory ways. A common use is to speak of music as being "in" a specific key, such as in the key of C major or in the key of F-sharp. Sometimes the terms "major" or "minor" are appended, as in the key of A minor or in the...

 of D#minor, the song lyrically speaks of a woman who affirms to her man that actions speak louder than words and that she is not a woman who is easy to get to. Following the less successful chart performances of previous singles "Like This" and "Ghetto", the record was released as the album's second single during the first quarter of 2008 (see 2008 in music
2008 in music
2008 was a huge year in music history with the emergence of pop superstars Lady Gaga and Katy Perry into the mainstream. Also, this is the year that is widely agreed upon by critics as the start of the fall of hip hop from the mainstream and the rise of Synthpop into the mainstream due to acts such...

) in most international music markets, excluding parts of North America
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.

Prominently pushed by a re-arranged remix by British producer duo Freemasons
Freemasons (band)
Freemasons are an English dance band from Brighton, East Sussex, England. The act consists of producers Russell Small and James Wiltshire .-2005-2007: Early Career:Their name is taken from the Brighton pub, Freemasons Tavern, Hove, which they frequently...

, "Work" enjoyed major commercial success and eventually became Rowland's best-charting solo single since her 2002 song "Stole
Stole (song)
"Stole" is a song by American singer Kelly Rowland. It was written and co-produced by Dane Deviller, Sean Hosein and Steve Kipner and recorded for Rowland's solo album Simply Deep...

", reaching the top ten in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, Finland
Finland
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, France
France
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, Greece
Greece
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, Italy
Italy
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, Switzerland
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, Turkey
Turkey
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, and the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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. The music 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...

 for "Work" was filmed in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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, California
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 and was directed by Philip Andelman. The video shows Rowland and her dancers posed in silhouette and shot against backdrops of vivid color and beam lighting. The beam lighting is used throughout the video to create a kaleidoscope effect which is used to break up each scene.

Writing and recording

"I had a good time… I was in the studio with Scott Storch and we wanted to have a party record, a record that'd make you get up and dance. So we literally went out and we went to a club and partied and we got a little inspiration."

Kelly Rowland

Kelly Rowland
Kelendria Trene "Kelly" Rowland is an American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, and television personality. She rose to fame as one of the founding members of the American girl group Destiny's Child...

, I Like Music


"Work" is one out of two tracks Scott Storch
Scott Storch
Scott Storch is an American record producer. He produces a variety of music, particularly hip hop, reggaeton, and R&B. His label, Storch Music Company responsible for signing Brooke Hogan and Nox...

 contributed to Ms. Kelly and was among eight new songs Rowland recorded near completion in 2006 for the revamped version of My Story, the album's actual version. Conceived during a booked studio session in Miami, Florida
Miami, Florida
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; Rowland, Storch and his protégé Pooh Bear began to work on melodic ideas for the song over an instrumental track by Storch. With most of its lyrics being written after returning from a night out in the city, composing for "Work" (tentatively entitled "Put It in" back then) was eventually finished in "like twenty minutes," according to Rowland. The team returned the next day for vocal recording.

Although Columbia Records
Columbia Records
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 intended to release "Work" as Ms. Kelly’s lead single in the beginning, Polow da Don
Polow Da Don
Polow-Freache Jamal Fincher Jones , better known by known by professional name Polow da Don or Awesome Jones, is an American record producer, songwriter, rapper, and singer. His cousin is Atlanta singer Monica. He has produced for a variety of artists including Usher, Nelly, Christina Aguilera, T.I...

-produced "Like This" eventually replaced the original album's lead single "Gotsta Go" in early 2007, as Rowland thought the song had no hit potential, influenced by negative blog
Blog
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s she read after snippets of "Work" had leaked. The full track was leaked on May 31, 2007 onto the internet, and since remixed by several producers and DJs, among spawning official versions by duos Steve Pitron and Max Sanna, and the more prominent Freemasons
Freemasons (band)
Freemasons are an English dance band from Brighton, East Sussex, England. The act consists of producers Russell Small and James Wiltshire .-2005-2007: Early Career:Their name is taken from the Brighton pub, Freemasons Tavern, Hove, which they frequently...

, whose remix Rowland said gave the song new life. "I'm really grateful to the Freemasons for coming along [...], because it's something that I could have got. You always need an extra brain there and they just gave it a new vibe."

The track is an up-tempo composition featuring funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 production and go-go elements. It is composed in the key
Key (music)
In music theory, the term key is used in many different and sometimes contradictory ways. A common use is to speak of music as being "in" a specific key, such as in the key of C major or in the key of F-sharp. Sometimes the terms "major" or "minor" are appended, as in the key of A minor or in the...

 of D#minor and moves at a moderate empo] of 104 beats per minute. Set in common time
Common Time
"Common Time" is a science fiction short story written by James Blish. It first appeared in the August 1953 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly and has been reprinted several times: in the 1959 short-story collection Galactic Cluster; in The Testament of Andros ; in The Penguin Science Fiction...

, "Work" is written in the common verse-chorus form
Verse-chorus form
Verse-chorus form is a musical form common in popular music and predominant in rock since the 1960s. In contrast to AABA form, which is focused on the verse , in verse-chorus form the chorus is highlighted...

. The singer has described the song as "actually very innocent [but] a little aggressive maybe:" "All I'm saying is don't come around if you're not going to live up to all your talk and as you know, some guys are just full of talk," Rowland said in a 2008
2008 in music
2008 was a huge year in music history with the emergence of pop superstars Lady Gaga and Katy Perry into the mainstream. Also, this is the year that is widely agreed upon by critics as the start of the fall of hip hop from the mainstream and the rise of Synthpop into the mainstream due to acts such...

 interview with Popjustice
Popjustice
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. "It's just a woman saying you can't catch me easy and you have to put in the work. It's about putting in work – that's it, of course."

Critical reception

While most of the tracks featured on Ms. Kelly are mid-tempo
Downtempo
Downtempo is a laid-back electronic music style similar to ambient music, but usually with a beat or groove unlike the beatless forms of Ambient music. The beat is sometimes made from loops that have a hypnotic feeling...

, "Work" was well received by critics for its beat-driven melody. Mark Edward Nero of About.com
About.com
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 called "Work" an "excellent, Destiny's Child
Destiny's Child
Destiny's Child was an American R&B girl group whose final line-up comprised lead singer Beyoncé Knowles alongside Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. Formed in 1997 in Houston, Texas, Destiny's Child members began their musical endeavors in their pre-teens under the name Girl's Tyme...

-type song that [...] minimizes Kelly's vocal shortcomings behind an attention-catching beat." For a review for the BBC
BBC
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, Gemma Padley also compared the track to Rowland's former band’s singles "Bug a Boo
Bug a Boo
"Bug a Boo" is a song by Destiny's Child, which appears on their second album The Writing's on the Wall. It peaked at number thirty-three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart...

" and "Lose My Breath
Lose My Breath
"Lose My Breath" is an R&B song performed by the American group Destiny's Child. It was written by Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams, Rodney Jerkins, LaShawn Daniels, Fred Jerkins III, Sean Garrett, and Shawn Corey "Jay-Z" Carter for Destiny's Child's fourth studio album, Destiny...

" due to "its jagged vocal and hip shaking beat." Rewind Magazine
Rewind Magazine
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writer Emmanuel Ezugwu found "Work" a "high energy track that will undoubtedly be a future club banger
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...

. The constant cow bells adds to the frenzied pace of the record and Kelly’s vocals are fast and stuttered."

Spence D. of IGN
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 observed that the song flipped the early musical script of the album "for a hot minute, going for a more driven, throbbing thrust over which Rowland's flitters and flirts." He further said that "it showcases her strengths, but also still highlights her delicate vocal limitations. It's a sticky wicket
Sticky wicket
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 that bumps while breaking down." In a preview, ThatGrapeJuice.net called "one of many highlights; with a pulsating beat and deliberately suggestive lyrics, Rowland doesn’t hold back."

However, San Francisco Weekly writer Dan Leroy was less empathic with "Work", calling it "derivative," while Dotmusic
Dotmusic
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's Jaime Gill considered the track a mis-step: "'Work' is a clear attempt to encroach on her old band mates' hyper-sexual territory, although it's hard to imagine Beyoncé
Beyoncé Knowles
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles , often known simply as Beyoncé, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child...

 resorting to as crass a single entendre as repeatedly demanding "put it in!" like a hooker on crystal meth
Methamphetamine
Methamphetamine is a psychostimulant of the phenethylamine and amphetamine class of psychoactive drugs...

."

Music video

The music 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...

 for "Work" was filmed in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

, 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...

 on July 26, 2007 and shot back to back with the video for "Comeback" with director Philip Andelman.

"Work" was originally set to premiere during the September 10, 2007 episode of BET's Access Granted
Access Granted
Access Granted is an American television series that features an in depth look at the planning and production of R&B and hip hop music videos. Each week, a different artist and their new music video are featured, with the video premiering at the end of the episode. The series began airing in 2001...

, along with "Ghetto", however, this did not materialize as there was confusion over which would be Rowland's next single, as the artist now had three videos shot. After her record label rescheduled the air date to October 22, 2007, the release was further pushed back, and the video finally premiered on the December 5, 2007 at SoUrban.com, the record label website for the Sony Urban Music division in the United Kingdom.

The imagery used in this video can be described as Rowland and her dancers posed in silhouette and shot against backdrops of vivid color and beam lighting. The beam lighting is used throughout the video to create a kaleidoscope effect which is used to break up each scene. During the last part of the clip the lighting schemes are reversed to show Rowland and her four dancer’s out of silhouette and performing a choreographed bollywood
Bollywood
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 style routine against a black backdrop.

The video has also been edited to fit the Freemasons'
Freemasons (band)
Freemasons are an English dance band from Brighton, East Sussex, England. The act consists of producers Russell Small and James Wiltshire .-2005-2007: Early Career:Their name is taken from the Brighton pub, Freemasons Tavern, Hove, which they frequently...

 remix. Recently, debate has grown on the Internet about whether the Freemasons' remix sample sound was taken, without permission, from Pakistani pop star Haroon's song "Yara" (2000). The video has been sent out to music channels in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 and Eurasia
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Eurasia is a continent or supercontinent comprising the traditional continents of Europe and Asia ; covering about 52,990,000 km2 or about 10.6% of the Earth's surface located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres...

. This version is available on the European Single as an enhanced video element.

Chart performance

First released on January 21, 2008 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...

, "Work" debuted at number 56 on the 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 ...

 based on digital sales alone, two weeks prior to the song's physical release. On January 26, 2008, it rose twenty-four places to number 7, making it both the biggest-moving single of the week and Rowland's fifth non-consecutive top 10 entry. On February 3, "Work" reached its peak position at number 4 on that particular chart. It then spent six weeks within the top 10, the longest stay of any of Rowland's singles.

In Australia
Australia
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, it reached number 6 on the ARIA Singles Chart and went on to be certified Platinum for sales of 70,000 copies. It also reached the top ten of the singles charts in Estonia
Estonia
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, Finland
Finland
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, France
France
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, Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

, Italy
Italy
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, Switzerland
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 and Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. It reached #1 in Bulgaria
Bulgaria
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, Poland
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, UK R&B and Germany Black Chart
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

.

Following the less successful chart performances of "Like This
Like This (Kelly Rowland song)
"Like This" is a R&B song by American singer Kelly Rowland. It features guest vocals by rapper Eve and was written by Sean Garrett, Rowland, Eve, Jamal Jones, Elvis "BlacElvis" Williams, and Jason Perry and co-produced by Polow da Don, S-Dot, Garrett, Perry, and Williams for Rowland's second studio...

" and "Ghetto", "Work" widely exceeded the success of its predecessor. It has since become the third highest-charting single of Rowland's solo career, behind her 2002 collaboration "Dilemma
Dilemma (song)
"Dilemma" is a song by the American rapper Nelly, featuring R&B singer Kelly Rowland. The single was released in 2002 from the Nelly's album Nellyville, and Rowland's album Simply Deep...

" and subsequent "Stole
Stole (song)
"Stole" is a song by American singer Kelly Rowland. It was written and co-produced by Dane Deviller, Sean Hosein and Steve Kipner and recorded for Rowland's solo album Simply Deep...

," entering foreign music markets where previous efforts failed to chart on. When asked why the song was not released in the US, Rowland answered: "I don't know, seriously, I feel like I didn't have anything to do with the success of 'Work' in Europe. The Freemason remix took the song to the next level, fans kept requesting it on the radio. Look at Destiny's Child
Destiny's Child
Destiny's Child was an American R&B girl group whose final line-up comprised lead singer Beyoncé Knowles alongside Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. Formed in 1997 in Houston, Texas, Destiny's Child members began their musical endeavors in their pre-teens under the name Girl's Tyme...

's 'Say My Name
Say My Name
"Say My Name" is a song by American R&B group Destiny's Child. The song was the third single from the group's 1999 album The Writing's on the Wall, released through Columbia label in 2000 . The single is the most successful of the four releases from the album and is considered to be one of their...

,' the fans in the U.S. made it a single, they made it happen, I didn't have that little extra with 'Work' over there."

Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single-releases of "Work".
European CD Maxi Single
  1. "Work" (Freemasons
    Freemasons (band)
    Freemasons are an English dance band from Brighton, East Sussex, England. The act consists of producers Russell Small and James Wiltshire .-2005-2007: Early Career:Their name is taken from the Brighton pub, Freemasons Tavern, Hove, which they frequently...

     Radio Edit) - 3:11
  2. "Work" (Album Version) - 3:28
  3. "Work" (Steve Pitron & Max Sanna Radio Edit) - 3:33
  4. "Work" (Freemasons Dub Mix) - 7:11
  5. "Work" (Freemasons Radio Remix Video) - 3:11


European Basic single / Australian Single
  1. "Work" (Freemasons Radio Edit) - 3:11
  2. "Work" (Album Version) - 3:28

U.S. digital EP
  1. "Work" (Freemasons Radio Edit) - 3:11
  2. "Work" (Steve Pitron & Max Sanna Radio Edit) - 3:33
  3. "Work" (Edit) - 3:28
  4. "Work" (Freemasons Club Mix) - 10:37
  5. "Work" (Steve Pitron & Max Sanna Club Mix) - 7:59
  6. "Work" (AJ Bhandary Remix) - 3:10


Credits and personnel

  • Vocals: Kelly Rowland
  • Writers
    Songwriter
    A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...

    : Jason "Pooh Bear" Boyd, Scott Storch and K. Rowland
  • Producers: S. Storch
    • Co-production: J. Boyd
  • Vocal production: K. Rowland, S. Boyd


  • Engineering: Conrad Golding, Rommel Nino Villanueva
    • Assistants: Vadim Chislov
  • Mixing
    Audio mixing (recorded music)
    In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...

    : Jason Goldstein
    • Assistant: Christian Baker


Charts

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|align="left"|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...


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|align="left"|Austrian Singles Chart
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|Belgium Tip Chart
Ultratop
Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium, and it is also the name of most of those charts...

 (Flanders)
|align="center"|3
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|align="left"|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)
|align="center"|37
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|align="left"|Dutch Single Top 100
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|align="left"|Eurochart Hot 100 Singles
Eurochart Hot 100 Singles
The European Hot 100 Singles has been compiled by Billboard and Music & Media magazine since March, 1984. The chart is based on national singles sales charts in 15 European countries: Austria, Belgium , Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden,...


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|Finnish Singles Chart
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|French Singles Chart
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|align="left"|German Singles Chart
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|Greek Singles Chart
Billboard charts
The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States. The results are published in Billboard magazine...


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|Hungarian Airplay Chart
Mahasz
Mahasz is the Hungarian music industry association, founded in 1992. Mahasz hands out the Hungarian Music Awards and maintains the music charts for Hungary....


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|align="left"|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...


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|Italian Singles Chart
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|align="left"|New Zealand Singles Chart
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Russian Music Charts
The Russian Music Charts are Russian music industry standard popularity rankings compiled weekly by 2M and Tophit . Albums and tracks rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through retail data captured electronically each week from Russian music retailers...


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|align="left"|Swiss Singles Chart
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Billboard Türkiye
Billboard Türkiye is the official Turkish chart magazine and was founded in November 2006. Also the "Billboard Radio" is on the 87.7 FM in the Turkish radios.-Charts:Billboard Charts are accepted as Turkey's official charts...


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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 ...


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UK R&B Chart
The Official UK R&B Chart is a forty-position R&B/Hip-Hop chart compiled by The Official UK Charts Company. Although the chart does not receive any airplay, its compilation is viewed on BBC Radio 1's website and publications such as ChartsPlus and Music Week...


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