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Disturbia (song)

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For the movie, see Disturbia (film).
"Disturbia"
Song

"Disturbia" is a song written by Andre Merritt, Chris Brown,[3] and Robert Allen for the re-release of Rihanna's third studio album, Good Girl Gone Bad, and is the third single from the re-release, following "Take a Bow" and "If I Never See Your Face Again". The song was produced by Brian Kennedy with background vocals by Chris Brown who also co-wrote the track.

Song information

The song was originally written by Chris Brown and his team and was considered for the re-release of his album Exclusive. However, Brown felt that the song would be better suited for a female singer. He then forwarded the song to Rihanna. Def Jam had considered saving the track for Rihanna's next album in 2009, because she had already recorded "Take a Bow" for the re-release of Good Girl Gone Bad. However, Rihanna and her team felt that the song was a summer single and needed to be recorded and released as soon as possible. The decision was finally made to release the song as the follow up to "Take a Bow".

The song follows in the footsteps of Rihanna's "Don't Stop the Music" by being a fast and upbeat pop/dance-rhythmic song. However in contrast to the upbeat music of "Don't Stop the Music", it is lyrically dark in tone, being about a state of mental anguish and confusion.

Music video

The music video for "Disturbia" was filmed during the last weekend of June 2008. The director of the video is famed photographer/director David LaChapelle.

Chart performance

In the UK, despite not officially being released as a single, "Disturbia" managed to debut on the UK Singles Chart at number forty-seven. It also debuted at number forty-five in Ireland.

After being released to iTunes on June 17, 2008, "Disturbia" has peaked at number two on the U.S. and Canadian iTunes Top 100 Songs charts.

On June 26, 2008, "Disturbia" debuted at number eighteen on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Rihanna's highest debut on the chart to date, as well as her sixth top twenty from Good Girl Gone Bad.[citation needed] It also makes Rihanna only the third female artist to have six or more top forty Hot 100 hits from one album (Janet Jackson and Shania Twain being the other two), and the first time since Shania Twain did it with her 1997 album, Come on Over. The song has so far peaked at number eleven.

Chart (2008) Peak
position
Canadian Hot 100[4] 6
Billboard Hot 100[5] 11
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart[6] 18
United World Chart[7] 29
Bulgarian National Top 40[8] 40
Irish Singles Chart[9] 43
UK Singles Chart[10] 47
Euro 200 Bubbling Under[11] 35

References

  1. ^ Disturbia Single on Amazon.com. Amazon.com.
  2. ^ http://top40.about.com/od/singles/gr/rihanndisturbia.htm
  3. ^ [1]
  4. ^ "Billboard Magazine". Billboard.biz. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
  5. ^ "Billboard Magazine". Billboard.com. Retrieved 2008-12-01.
  6. ^ "Rianz". rianz.org.nz. Retrieved 2008-07-07.
  7. ^ "Global Music Chart". mediatraffic.de. Retrieved 2008-12-07.
  8. ^ "Bulgaria Top 40". acharts.us. Retrieved 2008-27-07. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  9. ^ "Irma". irma.ie. Retrieved 2008-26-06. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  10. ^ "aCharts". ACarts. Retrieved 2008-14-04. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  11. ^ Euro 200 Bubbling Under

[Preview of "Disturbia" music video]

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