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"Damaged"
Song

"Damaged" is a dance-pop song by American R&B group Danity Kane. It was written by Justin Walker, Micayle "Mack" McKinney, Shannon "Slam" Lawrence, Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulos, James Smith, Rose-Marie Tan, and Jonathan Yip and produced by the Stereotypes for the band's second studio album, Welcome to the Dollhouse (2008).

Released as the album's lead single on January 29, 2008 stateside, the song reached the top 10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, where it became the band's the second non-consecutive top 10 entry and hit platinum status. Damaged has sold over 1,500,000 digital downloads (Platinum Status) and in addition, "Damaged" reached the top 30 on the Canadian Hot 100.

Release and promotion

In January 2008, Danity Kane posted a bulletin on their official MySpace page expressing that they were giving their fans a chance to vote for one of two new songs that they thought were appropriate to become the lead single, with "Damaged" and "Pretty Boy" being the two choices for online voters to choose from. However, "Damaged" overshadowed the competition, consequently becoming Danity Kane's first single off the group's sophomore album. On January 28, 2008, group members Aubrey O'Day and Dawn Angelique Richard posted bulletins on their respective MySpace sites stating that "Damaged" was indeed the first single from their most recent album. Danity Kane eventually performed "Damaged" for the very first time at Spotlight on Bad Boy R&B Night.[1]

The production of the song is featured on the seventh episode of the second seaspn of MTV's Making the Band series. For promotion, the band performed "Damaged" on television shows such as the The Tyra Banks Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet, Nashville Star, and MTV's Total Request Live.

The song has been used on the TV shows America's Best Dance Crew and So You Think You Can Dance.

Music video

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Danity Kane in the video for "Damaged" (2008).

The music video for "Damaged" was directed by Syndrome and premiered on March 11, 2008 on MTV's TRL, where it peaked at number 3 on its countdown. In its entirety it premiered on MTV.com.[2] The video also premiered as the 'New Joint' on BET's 106 & Park on March 20, 2008.

The video features the members of Danity Kane in a futuristic theme. The pink special effects are used to represent the setting of being within an actual heart. Throughout the video, choreography is done along with the music and the girls are shown in a futuristic room with screens of them performing the choreography, which they see while laying down on a futuristic bed. Towards the end of the music video, the bed that the girls is laying on closes to form a heart, which happens to be the heart of a man on a stretcher in a hospital. Here he is trying to be revived by the operators who turns out to be Danity Kane. The music video then transitions to a setting where the man is in his bedroom with a note on him saying "Tired of the damage - DK".

  • On YouTube, the video has attracted over 12 million views, counting duplicates. Which makes it Danity Kane's most viewed music video on the website.

Track list

Australian Single

  1. "Damaged" - Album Version - 4:09
  2. "Damaged" - Global Factory Radio Edit - 3:25
  3. "Damaged" - DJ Richie Rich X-Mix Remix - 4:21

Official versions and remixes

  • DJ Richie Rich X-Mix Remix - 4:21
  • Friscia & Lamboy Radio Edit - 4:44
  • Friscia & Lamboy Dub - 8:55
  • Friscia & Lamboy Club Mix - 9:05
  • Friscia & Lamboy Club Mix #2 - 6:33
  • Global Factory Radio Edit - 3:25
  • Global Factory Mix Club Mix - 7:49

Chart performance

The song was released to legal digital download sites on January 29, 2008 in the United States,[3] where the song peaked at number ten for two weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song is also the second by Danity Kane to enter the United World Chart, where it debuted at number thirty-seven and has so far peaked at number twenty-three.

In the UK, despite their album being giving an advertising campaign in the UK iTunes store, the song failed to chart on the top 100 songs or the top 100 pop songs. However, it has debuted on the Canadian Hot 100 at number seventy-two and has so far peaked at number twenty-six.

In Australia, despite a total lack of promotion, the song continues to climb the iTunes top 100 songs charts, currently sitting at number 79. The physical CD single is released on August 23rd.

Charts

Chart (2008) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard ARIA Physical singles[4] 25
U.S. iTunes Top 100 1
Canadian Hot 100[5] 6
France Airplay Chart[6] 4
Global Dance Tracks 8
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[7] 8
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay 2
U.S. Billboard Pop 100[8] 3
U.S. Billboard Pop 100 Airplay 3
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs 10
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Airplay[9] 1
U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Songs[10] 2
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play[11] 1

Awards

2008

Awards Ceremony Award Results
MTV Video Music Awards Best Dancing in a Video TBA[12]
MTV Video Music Awards Best Pop Video[13] TBA

References

  1. ^ "Danity Kane - Damaged" (YouTube). Bad Boy Records. 2008-03-12. Retrieved 2008-07-09.
  2. ^ "Trl Schedule". MTV. Retrieved 2008-04-09.
  3. ^ "MTV's "Making The Band" Returns With Three New Albums From the Series' Stars; New Singles From Danity Kane and MTB4 Finalists Arrive at Online Retailers Tomorrow; Full-Length Collections to Follow in March". Yahoo Finance. 2008-01-28. Retrieved 2008-04-09.
  4. ^ Top Music Charts - Hot 100 - Billboard 200 - Music Genre Sales
  5. ^ http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/images/pdf/canadian_20080620.pdf
  6. ^ "France Airplay Chart". Retrieved 2008-06-26.
  7. ^ "Billboard Hot 100 (Singles)". Billboard Magazine. 2008-04-05. Retrieved 2008-09-04.
  8. ^ "Billboard Pop 100 Singles". Billboard Magazine. 2008-04-05. Retrieved 2008-04-09.
  9. ^ Top Music Charts - Hot 100 - Billboard 200 - Music Genre Sales
  10. ^ Top Music Charts - Hot 100 - Billboard 200 - Music Genre Sales
  11. ^ Top Music Charts - Hot 100 - Billboard 200 - Music Genre Sales
  12. ^ "2008 MTV Video Music Awards". MTV Music Television. MTV Video Music Awards Show. 2008. Retrieved 27-07-2008. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  13. ^ http://hyper-stars.blogspot.com/2008/08/britney-pcd-up-for-vma-video-of-year.html