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| Artist = [[Rihanna]] |
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Revision as of 08:11, 30 November 2008
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"Rehab" is the eighth single taken from Rihanna's third studio album, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007) in the US and the UK.[1][2] It was written by Justin Timberlake, Timbaland and Hannon Lane, with Timberlake and Timbaland contributing backing vocals in its bridge. As of November 25, the song has officially entered the Top 20 on pop radio.[3] On November 23 2008, she preformed this song at the 2008 American Music Awards.
Release
"Rehab" was released to radio on October 7, 2008.[4] "Rehab" had already been slated for release in August, 2008 in the UK but was pushed back due to the digital release of "Disturbia". Even without the official release yet, the song has been starting to pick up on pop radio as of the end of September. It has been played on New York City's Z100 late September. It was the fifth most added song to radio in Australia, on its first week of release.[5]
Critical reception
The song has received generaly negative reviews from critics. Bill Lamb from About.com was not impressed with the song, calling it "somewhat disappointing ... 'Rehab' simply sounds too much like "What Goes Around..." Part 2."[6]
Entertainment Weekly magazine gave the song a negative review, saying its "a joyless overdose of midtempo melodrama".[7]
Pitchfork Media called it a "slight but solid entry into the rapidly-expanding Timbalake catalog" though considered that "it's tough not to speculate how it might sound if Timberlake sang the whole thing rather than just the backing vocals. His falsetto is perfectly equipped to convey the track's plaintive, regretful sentiment. Rihanna, meanwhile...not so much".[8]
Music video
Rihanna and Justin Timberlake have filmed a music video for the song "Rehab" at Vasquez Rocks Park outside of Los Angeles on October 21, 2008. The director is Anthony Mandler. The video premiered on November 17th on MTV.com. The video uses the Radio Edit of the song.
The video starts with Rihanna on the hood of a car in the desert with a trailer near by, and Timberlake speeding towards her on a motorcycle. It proceeds to show Rihanna and Timberlake in several scenes together in the desert and inside the trailer. There are night and day scenes in the video, and different lighting and lens effects are used throughout, such as green and pink tints, and black and white scenes. The scenes with Timberlake and Rihanna are often conveyed as though Rihanna is seeing her ex (Timberlake) everywhere and all the time.
Track listing
- CD promo
- "Rehab" (Radio Edit) — 4:05
- "Rehab" (Instrumental) — 4:55
Chart performance
"Rehab" made its first impact on the charts on Billboard's Pop 100, entering at number 73 the chart week of October 18, 2008, and has risen to number 33 so far. The song charted for five weeks on the Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles in September 2007 and peaked at number 108. On the issue of the November 8, the single debuted at number 20 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles and rose to number 10 on this chart.[9] It officially debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 91, jumping to #61 in it's second week and #34 in its third week, giving Rihanna her 14th overall Top 40 hit. Also on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs it debuted at #89. It is the eighth single from Good Girl Gone Bad to enter that chart. It is the first time an artist has placed eight singles from one album on the Hot 100 chart since Shania Twain did so with Come On Over from 1997 to 2000.
"Rehab" debuted at number 24 on the New Zealand RIANZ chart and moved to number 19 the following week, giving Rihanna her seventh consecutive top twenty hit there from Good Girl Gone Bad. It has since peaked at #15 there. In Australia, "Rehab" debuted at number 62 on the ARIA Singles Chart based on downloads and since risen to number 37.
Despite there being no confirmed physical release, on November 23 2008, the song entered the UK Singles Chart at #51 on downloads alone.
In Canada it debuted #56 on the Canadian Hot 100 based on downloads.
Charts
| Chart (2008) | Peak position |
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| Australian Singles Chart[10] | 37 |
| Canadian Hot 100 | 56 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 27 |
| New Zealand Singles Chart[11] | 15 |
| UK Singles Chart | 51 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[12] | 34 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100[13] | 25 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs[14] | 85 |
References
- ^ Rehab is the eighth single from Good Girl Gone Bad
- ^ "Rihanna's gone and done it again" Digital Spy
- ^ Mediabase
- ^ Rehab released on Radio
- ^ Rehab on Australian Radio
- ^ Review of Rehab on about.com
- ^ Entertainment Weekly review of Rehab
- ^ Review of Rehab on Pitchfork Media
- ^ Billboard Bubbling under Hot 100 singles
- ^ ARIA Singles Chart
- ^ RIANZ Singles chart
- ^ Rehab on Hot 100 - Rihanna Billboard. Accessed November 22, 2008.
- ^ Rehab on Pop 100 - Rihanna Billboard. Accessed November 29, 2008.
- ^ Rehab on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop songs - Rihanna Billboard. Accessed November 29, 2008.
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