"Burning Star" is a pop

Pop music

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 duet recorded by Belgian singer Natalia and American

United States

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 singer Anastacia

Anastacia

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, used to promote their concert series Natalia Meets Anastacia. The single was produced by Hans Francken and written by Luke Boyd

Luke Boyd

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, Micah Otano and Mike Barkulis. The song premiered on 17 September 2010 on Q-Music Radio. It peaked at #45 on the Swiss Singles Chart on the week of release.

Background

The single was released on September 17, 2010, as a special gift for Anastacia

Anastacia

Anastacia is an American singer-songwriter. Anastacia has been highly successful in Europe, Asia, South Africa and South America, but has had only minor success in her native United States...

's birthday. She commented, "The song I did with Natalia called Burning Star airs around September 17th... It is not a bad b-day gift for me! Eh! Eh! Eh! I really like this song! It's a track that's on my next album, so I hope you guys like it!" On September 20, Natalia was a guest on the Q-Music radio show Ornelis en Rogiers Ochtendshow, where she promoted the single. Anastacia joined her by a phone call directly from her home in United States. The song is due to appear on Anastacia's upcoming fifth studio album, meaning chronologically, it will be the third single from it.

Track listing

• Digital Download

1. "Burning Star" — 3:33

• German CD Single

1. "Burning Star" - 3:33
2. "Burning Star" (Demo) - 3:18

Charts

Chart (2010)

Peak position

Belgian Singles Chart Ultratop 50 Ultratop 50 singles, often just Ultratop 50, is the weekly chart of fifty best-selling singles in Flanders, Belgium, and is produced and published by the Ultratop organization. The chart has existed since March 31, 1995...  (Flanders Flanders Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp... )

45

Release history

Date	Country	Label	Format
September 17, 2010	Europe Europe Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...	Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment ' is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation....	Digital Download
September 20, 2010	Scandinavia Scandinavia Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...
September 24, 2010	Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...		CD Single CD single A CD single is a music single in the form of a standard size Compact Disc, not to be confused with the 3-inch CD single, which uses a smaller form factor. The format was introduced in the mid-1980s, but did not gain its place in the market until the early 1990s...