The track was made available as a digital download after the album’s release, and in its first week of digital sales it went up from the thirty-fourth position to the first, becoming one of the biggest leaps in history. In the United States, “SOS” reached the top of some Billboard charts, such as Hot 100, Billboard Pop 100, Hot Dance Music / Club Play, Hot Dance Airplay, Digital Songs and Hot Digital Tracks, the song also reached number two on Pop 100 Airplay. It also advertises the Nokia 3250 mobile phone. The official video disc, was directed by Chris Applebaum, where it shows Rihanna doing the belly dance while the lights go on and off, and says she will call and ask a boy for help. It reached number one on the Total Request Live position chart on April 14, 2006, and remained on the chart for twenty days. The official version was recorded to be made available on television, where he debuted in the program Total Request Live and MuchOnDemand of MTV and MuchMusic, respectively, on day 23 of March of 2006. Another promotional video was made by Nike, where the artist danced in a gym with ballerinas. The song had around three music videos one of them was produced by Agent Provocateur, as a promotional video that contained the singer walking in a hotel that was transformed into a nightclub. At Virgin Media they concluded that “Rihanna has to show commitment to make more impact, if she wants to reign in a world of” Britneys “and” Beyoncés “. īill Lamb of said it was a “good return for Rihanna on the dancefloor”. Rihanna performed the song, in 2006, on the CD: USA and also at the Video Music Awards, from Japan, on MTV. The song was also used on the soundtrack of the True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet film. Some remixes were made by Jason Nevins, who produced other mixes of songs by various artists. The song’s theme is based around the protagonist crying for help. The line, “Just hold me close boy cos I’m your tiny dancer” is referenced from Elton John’s 1971 song, “Tiny Dancer”.

The part “You got me tossin ‘and turnin’ and I can’t sleep at night” in the chorus, is one of the grooves of the 1964 song ” Tainted Love “, where it continues “And I’ve lost my light for I toss and turn – I can’t sleep at night “. Milian commented that the track was too “pop” for his track record as an R&B artist. Publisher colleague Christina Milian asked if she could record the song for her third album, So Amazin ‘, but the singer later refused, and Island Def Jam immediately offered it to Rihanna. The song was written primarily by producer JR Rotem and Evan “Kidd” Bogart, later with co-help from Casablanca Records founder Ed Cobb. It also reached the first position in Australia and Brazil. It was also the singer’s first single to reach the top of the Billboard Hot 100. It was released in 2006 as the first single on the album, and features demonstrations of the cover song ” Tainted Love ” (originally recorded by American soul singer Gloria Jones ) from the British group Soft Cell. The reason being that many follow-up vinyl releases were inferior to the first vinyl release (or at least lacked some of the extras found in the first release - such as postcards, posters, lyric sheets etc).” SOS ” (also called ” SOS (Rescue Me) “) is a song of Rihanna written by Evan Kidd Bogart and Jonathan Rotem, for the second studio album from Rihanna, A Girl like Me.

In many cases the packaging is superior to, or at least more elaborate than the majority of vinyl releases. They are also known as LP replicas as they tend to exactly replicate the original packaging of the first vinyl release. What is a Mini-LP CD?Ī Mini-LP is a CD version of something that was originally released as a 12' (12 inch) vinyl LP. However, as the format became more popular and began to be used by more manufacturers, the generic 'digipack' came to be used to describe all soft CD packaging. Digipacks were first created by MeadWestvaco, and their product, called Digi-Pak, is trademarked. Usually, the portion of the digipack that hold the CD is made of plastic like a traditional jewel case CD - the plastic part is simply attached to the paper background. Digipacks can flip open like a book, or it can have three parts, so that one portion of the packaging opens to the right and one to the left, with the CD in the center portion. Digipacks are a type of CD packaging made out of card stock or other heavy paper/cardboard material.

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