Get Up (Ciara song)

"Get Up"
Song

"Get Up" is a song, recorded by R&B singer, Ciara, and rapper Chamillionaire for the Step Up soundtrack, and the first single from Ciara's second studio album, The Evolution.

Song Information

"Get Up" is from the soundtrack of Step Up, which is a new dance/romance film directed by Anne Fletcher. The film is set to be released sometime in the summer of 2006, preferably August. Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan's characters are dancers —- he's a rebel street dancer, she's a privileged ballerina —- their scenes take place in a club aptly named Step Up. The two dance at opposite ends of the club's roof, using choreography from the movie, until they finally get together.

The Jazze Pha produced song was leaked onto the internet on June 15, 2006.

Music Video

Director Joseph Kahn describes the look as "black-on-black futuristic". In the video, Ciara's story line follows the singer as she goes out street dancing. Her apartment is black and reflective, as is the scant clothing she's wearing. She gets dressed (in yet more black), hops out of her building window and climbs down the fire escape. Ciara meets male dancers and do choreography on the street. Female dancers take over during the second verse and throughout the chorus of the song. On the bridge of the song, Ciara lays on her back with her legs on a pole and then Chamillionaire performs his rap verse with a camera rotating around him. When everyone gets to the roof, Ciara and the dancers have a dance breakdown. After that, the stars of the movie Step Up see each other and begin to dance together. A downpour by lighting the rain with Unilux strobes, which are usually used to make water look crisp for product shots of beer and soda bottles begins. The camera sweeps in and slides over Ciara's body in single-shot takes and creates an effect using macro lenses on real bodies, intermediate CGI bodies and 2-D wipes and morphs. The lights of the cityscape pulse to the music until fire alarms ring and rain falls on the crowd. At the end, Ciara flops on her bed in the apartment, finished for tonight.

The video premiered on AOL Music on July the 17th, then on both TRL and 106 & Park on the 18th. On July 24th the video premiered on MTV's TRL at #9. Then on July 25th the video premiered at #10 on BET's 106 & Park, and in ten days the video is at #2. The video was also MTV Jams "Jam of the Week" for the week of 7/24-7/31. The Video peaked at #2 of Aol's Top 100 Videos.

Chart Performance

When "Get Up" leaked onto the radio, Get Up had been played on the radio several times and had just leaked onto the America's Radio & Records Urban Chart at #44 and had gained 415 plays on several different radio stations who had played "Get Up" over the week. With its strong airplay count, Ciara debuted on the chart at #93 on U.S Billboard Hot 100. As it had climbed to #80 after strong airplay. In its third week, the single had moved up as massive 59 positions to #21 with high sales of digital downloads and strong ariplay. "Get Up" had charted #1 because of high sales to digital downloads and had made the U.S iTunes Singles Chart and U.S iTunes Soundtrack Singles Chart [1]

Chart (2006)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	21
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay
U.S. Billboard Pop 100	32
U.S. Billboard Pop 100 Airplay
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs	18
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay	18
U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Songs	17
U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Tracks	17

U.S Billboard Hot 100
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Chart position	93	80	21

References

Ciara MTV News Article