Walk Away (Kelly Clarkson song)

"Walk Away"
Song

"Walk Away" is the fifth and last official single release from American singer Kelly Clarkson's second album Breakaway.

Song information

Following in the vein of her previous down-with-love singles "Since U Been Gone" and "Behind These Hazel Eyes," "Walk Away" finds Kelly reprimanding her boyfriend for letting her down in various ways and not devoting himself to the relationship. She demands that if he can't give her what she needs, that he should "just walk away".

Initially, "Addicted" had been planned for release as a fifth single, but was cancelled when RCA deemed its dark tone and message too similar to that of her previous two singles, "Behind These Hazel Eyes" and "Because of You". "Gone" was then picked as the replacement, only to be dropped due to similarities to "Since U Been Gone." Finally, after two months of U.S. pop airplay, "Walk Away" was released as the fifth single from Breakaway in 2006. By that point, however, "Gone" had already amassed considerable airplay on popular radio stations in major markets such as Atlanta, Boston, and New York City. Some speculate that this may have negatively affected "Walk Away"'s performance in the US. "Walk Away" fell out of the Billboard Top 50 on August 10, 2006.

Music video

Music Video

The music video for "Walk Away" was shot February 4-5th in Los Angeles with the treatment written by Clarkson herself. It was intended to be released on February 25th, at the TRL Awards, but was taken out because director Joseph Kahn said it needed some "touching up". The video premiered on TRL and MuchOnDemand on March 7, 2006, and on British music channels on March 6. The music video is simple. An alarm clock wakes up several different people. Kelly is on the radio station singing Walk Away live. Various people, including a man in the shower, a woman working at an office, twin brothers, a football player, and a man vacuuming his house, are all singing along. One man, played by Kelly's brother Jason, is discovered singing the song in a public restroom. As soon as he is found, he runs out in embarrassment. In his place, the man who found him begins singing along. Yet another man sings along in his car, becoming so involved in his performance that he eventually gets out of his car to dance, holding up traffic. Scenes of Kelly performing the song with a band are interspersed among these various scenes.

A song can only be on TRL 50 days. The song's last day on TRL was June 1,2006 where it was #1. Out of the fifty days it was on TRL it was at #1 19 times.

Remixes

Walk Away has been remixed by DJ's in the music industry such as Chris Cox, Ralphi Rosario and Craig J. Here are all the official remixes of "Walk Away".

1. Chris Cox Radio Remix 3:30
2. Chris Cox Full On Club Mix 10:12
3. Chris Cox Mixshow 5:51
4. Chris Cox Tweaked Dub 6:30
5. Ralphi Rosario Main Club 7:30
6. Ralphi Rosario I Want a Man Dub 10:14
7. Ralphi Rosario Run Don't Walk Dub 8:28
8. Ralphi Rosario Walk Away Beats 4:02
9. Craig J's Radio Mix 3:29
10. Craig J's Big Love Club 6:32
11. Craig J's Big Love Mixshow 5:23
12. Craig J's Paddapella 3:45
13. Craig J's Big Love Acapella 5:52

And the unofficial professionnal ones:

1. Vibelicious Club Away Mix
2. Vibelicious Club Away Edit
3. Ander Standing Radio Remix
4. Ander Standing Club Remix
5. Ander Standing Dub
6. Edson Pride Remix
7. Edson Pride Club Remix
8. DJ Laz Radio Remix
9. DJ Laz Club Remix
10. DJ Laszlo Radio Edit
11. Tyler Nelson Back the F**k Off Club Mix

Chart performance

"Walk Away" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number ninety-seven on the chart dated January 21, 2006. The single premiered on the Canadian BDS Airplay charts on January 28, 2006, at number one-hundred.

"Walk Away" performed fairly well in the North American market. While it became "Breakaway"'s first release to fail to achieve Top 10 status on the Billboard Hot 100, the song still managed to peak at a respectable #12. It also became a top 10 hit in Canada. The song performed much less successfully in the international market. In the UK, the song topped out at its debut position of #21, while in Australia the song could only manage to hit #27.

Chart (2006)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	12
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay	15
U.S. Billboard Hot Singles Recurrents	1
U.S. Billboard Pop 100	6
U.S. Billboard Pop 100 Airplay	6
U.S. Hot Digital Songs	12
U.S. Hot Digital Tracks	10
U.S. Top 40 Mainstream	5
U.S. Adult Top 40	3
U.S. Adult Contemporary	19
U.S. Dance Radio Airplay	2
U.S. Dance Club Play1	5
U.S. ARC Weekly Top 40	3
Australian Singles Chart	27
Canadian BDS Airplay Chart	4
Indonesia Singles Chart	2
Irish Singles Chart	10
South African Singles Chart	2
Mexican Top 100 Airplay	15
Mexican Digital Sales Chart	4
UK Singles Chart	21
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Charts	19
United World Chart	16
World Chart Show	8
MuchMusic Countdown	6
Total Request Live	1
VH1 Top 20 Countdown	1

Billboard Hot 100 Chart trajectory
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29
Chart position	97	78	66	55	41	33	32	27	26	19	16	15	13	12	14	14	14	18	22	21	23	24	31	33	35	36	40	40	47

Canadian BDS Airplay Chart trajectory
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33
Chart position	100	72	47	26	19	11	10	8	7	5	4	5	5	4	4	6	6	5	7	10	14	15	31	41	44	41	50	51	62	63	75	79	79

UK Top 75 Chart trajectory
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08
Chart position	21	27	34	33	37	41	55	66

Australian ARIA Singles Chart
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09
Chart position	29	28	33	27	31	35	37	47	50 (re)

MuchMusic Countdown chart trajectory
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10
Chart position	29	22	17	12	9	8	7	6	16	26

United World Chart
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13
Chart position	22	19	17	16	18	20	19	21	24	26	27	30	37

External links

• Official Kelly Clarkson website
• Watch the video to Walk Away.
• Walk Away Lyrics.
• Kelly Clarkson Video