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"Gives You Hell"
Song

"Gives You Hell" is the first single from The All-American Rejects' 2008 album, When the World Comes Down. It was first streamed on The All-American Rejects website on September 21 at 12:01 AM. It was released as a digital song on September 30, 2008. November 7, 2008.[1] The video was also number 38 on VH1's Top 40 of 2008. It also debuted #14 on Vh1s Top 20 Countdown and also peaked #1. It has briefly reached #1 on iTunes. Ever since its release, it has been in the iTunes top 10 most bought songs, as of April 11, 2009. It is their first #1 on Mainstream Top 40 radio. It peaked at #4 on Billboard Hot 100 making it the most successful All-American Rejects song. It was released in the UK through the label Polydor on February 2, 2009 and will be available on 7" picture disc and CD single.

Chart Performance

The song entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number sixty nine. It climbed the chart steadily for seven weeks before breaking into the top ten at number ten[2], giving the band their third top ten hit on the chart. The next week the song rose to number six where it stayed for five consecutive weeks before rising to peak at number four, making it the band's most successful single to date and their first to break into the top five. The song hit number one on the US Airplay Chart and held the position for three weeks[3]. The song was certified two times platinum in the US for sales of over two million copies and was the band's third single to sell over two million copies[4], making the All American Rejects as the only group in US chart history to have three singles with over two million sales each. The song made an impressive performance and stayed on the Billboard top 10 charts for over 13 weeks

The song was a success internationally and became the All-American Rejects best selling single worldwide. The track peaked in the top five in Canada and Australia and in the top twenty in the UK, Ireland and New Zealand.

Music video

A total of three videos were released on the band's YouTube account.

The music video for the single, directed by Marc Webb, is somewhat unorthodox for a Rejects video, as it is the first in which band members portray characters other than themselves. Lead vocalist Tyson Ritter plays dual roles as a traditional family man and his rowdy next-door neighbor who fronts a noisy garage band. When the rocker Tyson's nocturnal racket keeps the family-man Tyson awake nights, it sets off a prank war between the two rivals. The conflict comes to a head one evening as the neighbors confront each other on the rockers' lawn, where the musician and his band has set up loud outdoor concert. As the twin Tysons bicker, their wives quietly propose swapping spouses. The family man seems oddly intrigued by the offer, and the two men have switched homes by the video's end, with the family man singing with the garage band, and the rocker feeding the fish with his rival's wife. The second version of the video shows a traditional band performance of the song.

The third version, called the "Narrative Version", is more story-oriented than the other two. The family-man is found singing with the band, encouraged by the rocker's girlfriend, and the rocker sliding into bed with the family-man's wife at the conclusion of the video.

Charts

Chart (2009)[5] Peak
position
Australian Singles Chart[6] 3
Canadian Hot 100[7] 4
Ireland Singles Chart[8] 16
New Zealand Singles Chart[5] 18
Turkey Top 20 Chart[9] 20
UK Singles Chart[10] 18
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[11] 4
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks[12] 3
U.S. Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks[13] 25
U.S. Billboard Pop 100[14] 2

Certifications

Country Certification Sales
Australia Gold[15] 35,000+
United States Platinum x2 2,528,826

Remixes

Many remixes for the song are due to be released. Four of which were released as a digital only EP named Gives You Hell: The Remixes on February 3, 2009 in the US.[16] Here's a list of the remixes so far (* = EP Tracks).

  1. "Gives You Hell" (Ocelot Remix)
  2. "Gives You Hell" (Bloody Beetroots Remix)
  3. "Gives You Hell" (The Limousines Extended Remix)
  4. "Gives You Hell" (El-P Remix)
  5. "Gives You Hell" (The Limousines Remix) (Only on UK iTunes)

References

  1. ^ http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001GPV746
  2. ^ http://acharts.us/song/40483
  3. ^ http://acharts.us/song/40483
  4. ^ http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/29509/week-ending-march-15-2009-the-idol-with-the-most/
  5. ^ a b http://acharts.us/song/37243
  6. ^ http://acharts.us/australia_singles_top_50
  7. ^ http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/chart_display.jsp?f=Canadian+Hot+100&pageNumber=Top+11-50&g=Singles
  8. ^ http://acharts.us/uk_singles_top_75
  9. ^ Turkey Top 20 Chart Retrieved on 2009-03-02
  10. ^ http://acharts.us/uk_singles_top_75
  11. ^ http://www.atrl.net/?p=2597277
  12. ^ http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=343&cfgn=Singles&cfn=Hot+Adult+Top+40+Tracks&ci=3105944&cdi=10125397&cid=02%2F07%2F2009
  13. ^ http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=377&cfgn=Singles&cfn=Hot+Modern+Rock+Tracks&ci=3105987&cdi=10126942&cid=02%2F07%2F2009
  14. ^ http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/chart_display.jsp?g=Singles&f=Pop+100
  15. ^ http://ariacharts.com.au/pages/charts_display_singles.asp?chart=1U50
  16. ^ http://www.amazon.com/Gives-You-Hell-Remixes/dp/B001QPCPFQ
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