Get Back (ASAP)
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"Get Back" is an up-tempo song by Romanian
recording artist Alexandra Stan
, released in 2011. It serves as her third single in Romania and as her second single in countries such as Belgium
, France
or Italy
. It is the follow-up to "Mr. Saxobeat
" which was Alexandra Stan's first hit outside Romania, topping the Italian charts and being a Top 3 hit in the UK as well. The song and accompanying video relates the resuming of the happenings from "Mr. Saxobeat". The video was shot in April and May and premiered on June 6, 2011 on YouTube
. It was filmed in a Mexican saloon and Stan changes three outfits troughout the video.
"Get Back (ASAP)" is due to be released in the UK shortly. The song has peaked at number-eighteen on the French Singles Chart
after a run of almost twenty weeks aboard the chart. In Romania the song peaked at number four within the Romanian Top 100
. It has also charted in Belgium
, Czech Republic
and Slovakia
.
chart. The next week, April 2, 2011 it has entered the French Singles Chart at number forty-two, becoming that week's second highest debut. Meanwhile, the song had already spent more than five weeks within the French Airplay chart, where it has eventually peaked at number sixteen, spending twenty-five weeks inside the top 250. In the Singles Chart it continued its ascension, reaching the peak of number-nineteen in the sixth week aboard the top. After spending only two weeks in the top twenty, "ASAP" fell to number thirty-three and downward to number ninety-nine, in its twenty-first week in the chart. The song had also entered the Romanian Radio Airplay Chart
in early April and it has also managed to enter the official Romanian Top 100
, peaking at number-four for two non-consecutive weeks and spending nine weeks within the top ten of the chart. The song reached the charts in other European countries like Slovakia
, Czech Republic
, Poland
, Bulgaria
or Belgium
(Flanders
and Wallonia). On the issue-dated September 2, 2011 charts, "Get Back (ASAP)" opened at number sixteen on the Finland's Official List, at number twenty-two on the Danish Tracklisten
and at number thirty-six on the Dutch Top 40
. The song had also received airplay in Spain
and Italy
.
) while the special effects were put together by 1QSapro. The shootings were drawn somewhere nearby Bucharest
, at Castel Film Romania
Studios. The adjacent scenes were all cut off, apart of the scenes showing Stan in a dark wardrobe, changing her outfits and dancing in a corner.
The music video was uploaded onto Ego Italy's Youtube account on June 7, 2011. The video shows Stan changing from the police outfit she ended up with in the Mr. Saxobeat video into a red dress. Then she walks down a staircase into a saloon bar and sings in front of the bar's crowd. Afterwards, a man enters the bar and starts to play cards with Stan. Then, the police who arrested Stan and her friends looking for Stan in the bar, then they eventually find her. Before trying to arrest her again, the men defend her and the police end up bar-fighting with them. After the police win, they sit on the bar stool next to the bar man. Then, in sepia, it shows a flashback of Stan grabbing the money from the cards and running out the bar, fleeing away from the police. At the end, the man on the right punches the bar man. The policemen have a flashback, like a camera-taped video in which Stan gets away with all the money the clients plaid for.
Romanians
The Romanians are an ethnic group native to Romania, who speak Romanian; they are the majority inhabitants of Romania....
recording artist Alexandra Stan
Alexandra Stan
Alexandra Stan is a Romanian singer-songwriter. She released her debut single in late 2009. The song impacted Romanian mainstream radios in early 2010, peaking at number-eighteen. Her sophomore release, "Mr...
, released in 2011. It serves as her third single in Romania and as her second single in countries such as Belgium
Belgium
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, France
France
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or Italy
Italy
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. It is the follow-up to "Mr. Saxobeat
Mr. Saxobeat
"Mr. Saxobeat" is an eurodance —Hi-NRG song by Romanian recording artist Alexandra Stan taken off her debut studio album Saxobeats . "Mr. Saxobeat" is an up-tempo Eurodance song with house elements. The song contains a love message, where Stan speaks of a man she is attracted to and the way he...
" which was Alexandra Stan's first hit outside Romania, topping the Italian charts and being a Top 3 hit in the UK as well. The song and accompanying video relates the resuming of the happenings from "Mr. Saxobeat". The video was shot in April and May and premiered on June 6, 2011 on YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
. It was filmed in a Mexican saloon and Stan changes three outfits troughout the video.
"Get Back (ASAP)" is due to be released in the UK shortly. The song has peaked at number-eighteen on the French Singles Chart
Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique
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after a run of almost twenty weeks aboard the chart. In Romania the song peaked at number four within the Romanian Top 100
Romanian Top 100
The Romanian Top 100 is the national airplay-based singles chart of Romania. It is weekly and it started running in 1996. It is recognized as an official chart by the European division of Billboard, Music & Media....
. It has also charted in Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
, Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
and Slovakia
Slovakia
The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...
.
Track listing
- France digital download
- "Get Back (ASAP)" – 3:29
- Digital download single
- "Get Back (ASAP)" [Radio edit] – 3:30
- "Get Back (ASAP)" [Extended version] – 4:26
Credits and personnel
- Lead vocals – Alexandra Stan
- ProducerRecord producerA record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
s – MAAN STUDIO - Music – André Nemirschi, Marcel Prodan
- LyricsLyricsLyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of...
– André Nemirschi, Marcel Prodan - LabelRecord labelIn the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
– Play On / Jeff Records
Chart performance
"Get Back (ASAP)" firstly charted in the French Singles Chart, due to the high number of digital downloads. On the week-ending of March 25, 2011 the song entered the French iTunesITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
chart. The next week, April 2, 2011 it has entered the French Singles Chart at number forty-two, becoming that week's second highest debut. Meanwhile, the song had already spent more than five weeks within the French Airplay chart, where it has eventually peaked at number sixteen, spending twenty-five weeks inside the top 250. In the Singles Chart it continued its ascension, reaching the peak of number-nineteen in the sixth week aboard the top. After spending only two weeks in the top twenty, "ASAP" fell to number thirty-three and downward to number ninety-nine, in its twenty-first week in the chart. The song had also entered the Romanian Radio Airplay Chart
Romanian Radio Airplay Chart
The Romanian Top 100 is the national airplay-based singles chart of Romania. It is weekly and it started running in 1996. It is recognized as an official chart by the European division of Billboard, Music & Media...
in early April and it has also managed to enter the official Romanian Top 100
Romanian Top 100
The Romanian Top 100 is the national airplay-based singles chart of Romania. It is weekly and it started running in 1996. It is recognized as an official chart by the European division of Billboard, Music & Media....
, peaking at number-four for two non-consecutive weeks and spending nine weeks within the top ten of the chart. The song reached the charts in other European countries like Slovakia
Slovakia
The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...
, Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
or Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
(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...
and Wallonia). On the issue-dated September 2, 2011 charts, "Get Back (ASAP)" opened at number sixteen on the Finland's Official List, at number twenty-two on the Danish Tracklisten
Tracklisten
Tracklisten is a Danish top 40 record chart that is presented every Thursday midnight at .The weekly Danish Singles Chart also known as Track Top-40 combines the 40 best selling tracks from legal music downloads and the sales of music singles on either CD or vinyl...
and at number thirty-six on the Dutch Top 40
Dutch Top 40
The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting...
. The song had also received airplay in Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
and Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
.
Music video
Alexandra Stan started filming the music video for "Get Back (ASAP)" in late May, 2011. On May 25, 2011 the video was concluded with the scenes from the Mexican saloon. The director of the video was Iulian Moga (brother to Marius MogaMarius Moga
Marius Moga is a Romanian producer, composer and singer, famous in Eastern and Central Europe. He writes and produces music in various styles and genres, especially pop, R'n'B and club music.-Biography:...
) while the special effects were put together by 1QSapro. The shootings were drawn somewhere nearby Bucharest
Bucharest
Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....
, at Castel Film Romania
Castel Film Romania
Castel Film Romania was started in 1993 by Romanian film producer Vlad Paunescu and Hollywood producer Charles Band. Many Full Moon films were created at Castel including the Josh Kirby series, Trancers 4 and Hideous....
Studios. The adjacent scenes were all cut off, apart of the scenes showing Stan in a dark wardrobe, changing her outfits and dancing in a corner.
The music video was uploaded onto Ego Italy's Youtube account on June 7, 2011. The video shows Stan changing from the police outfit she ended up with in the Mr. Saxobeat video into a red dress. Then she walks down a staircase into a saloon bar and sings in front of the bar's crowd. Afterwards, a man enters the bar and starts to play cards with Stan. Then, the police who arrested Stan and her friends looking for Stan in the bar, then they eventually find her. Before trying to arrest her again, the men defend her and the police end up bar-fighting with them. After the police win, they sit on the bar stool next to the bar man. Then, in sepia, it shows a flashback of Stan grabbing the money from the cards and running out the bar, fleeing away from the police. At the end, the man on the right punches the bar man. The policemen have a flashback, like a camera-taped video in which Stan gets away with all the money the clients plaid for.
Charts
| Chart (2011) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Poland (Dance Top 50 Polish Music Charts The Polish Music Charts are two official album charts and seven singles charts in Poland, provided by ZPAV, the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry . The first, the Top 100, is a monthly chart based on data received from the album companies... ) |
14 |
| Romania (Romanian Top 100 Romanian Top 100 The Romanian Top 100 is the national airplay-based singles chart of Romania. It is weekly and it started running in 1996. It is recognized as an official chart by the European division of Billboard, Music & Media.... ) |
4 |
| UK Bubbling Under Top 100 Singles UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... (The Official Charts Company) |
79 |
Release history
| Regione | Date | Format | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... |
March 28, 2011 | Digital download | Play On, Jeff |
| Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula... |
May 17, 2011 | Blanco y Negro | |
| Belgium Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many... |
May 20, 2011 | MediaPro Music, ARS | |
| Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and... |
July 5, 2011 | EGO Italy | |
| August, 30 2011 | CD single Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... |
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| USA | October 10, 2011 | Digital download | Ultra Records Ultra Records Ultra Records is an American independent electronic dance music record label. Ultra was formed in New York City in 1995 by former Polygram and Virgin Records executive Patrick Moxey, who is still currently the owner... |
| UK United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
December 18, 2011 | All Around the World Records AATW AATW may refer to:* All Along the Watchtower, a song written by Bob Dylan* All Along the Watchtower, a British sitcom* All Around the World , a record company* Anarchists Against the Wall, an Israeli direct action group... |
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| Germany | 2 December 2011 | CD single | Sony Music |