Show Stopper

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"Show Stopper"

Single by Danity Kane
from the album Danity Kane
Released	August 4, 2006 (U.S.) October 20, 2006 (EU)
Format	CD single, vinyl single, digital download
Recorded	The Hit Factory, New York City; 2006
Genre	R&B, snap
Length	3:49
Label	Bad Boy/Atlantic
Writer(s)	Angela Hunte, Krystal Oliver, Calvin Puckett, Frank Romano, James Scheffer
Producer(s)	Jim Jonsin
Chart positions
#8 (United States) #27 (Germany) #61 (Austria)
Danity Kane singles chronology
	"Show Stopper" (2006)	"Ride for You" (2006)

"Show Stopper" is an R&B-snap song written by Angela Hunte, Krystal Oliver, Calvin Puckett, Frank Romano, and James Scheffer for Danity Kane's debut album Danity Kane (2006). It features rapper Yung Joc and it received a mixed reception from music critics. Produced by Jim Jonsin, the song was released as the album's lead single on August 4, 2006 in the United States and on October 20, 2006 in Germany. While "Show Stopper" peaked at number 8 on the official Billboard Hot 100 chart, it managed to enter the top 30 on the German Singles Sales chart and on the Lithuanian Airplay chart. It was also the first single to top the Piczo Top 40 Songs that wouldnt get released in the uk. It was featured as the unrealsed single of the week. The next week, It topped the chart for 2 weeks.

1 Music video
2 Chart performance
3 Charts
4 Formats and track listings
5 External links

[edit] Music video

Danity Kane in the music video for "Show Stopper" (2006).

The music video for "Show Stopper" was directed by Jessy Terrero (director of the movie Soul Plane and many of G-Unit's videos), and was filmed in various locations throughout Los Angeles, California between June 27 and 28, 2006. Apart from rapper Yung Joc whose part was filmed inside his van while he was on his way back to the airport because of a lack of time, Diddy also recorded a sequence with his verse in the song which appears in the remix version of the music video and features only the girl's full dance portion of the original version.

Thematically, the video starts with the band members in the recording studio listening to their album cut "Want It" with Diddy as he tells them to go straight to bed and not go out and club hop. Then the girls go into a van and get "made up" and then go out on the town in expensive cars, looking for boys and flirting. The video ends with the girls dancing on the Hollywood Boulevard.

The final version of the video premiered at the end of Making the Video on MTV on August 4, 2006. It reached a peak position of number two on TRL on September 8, 2006. The video also finished #6 on MTV's top videos of 2006 countdown.

[edit] Chart performance

The single was released on the U.S. iTunes Music Store on August 15, 2006, and peaked at number two on the top 100 songs after two days of downloading only. The following week "Show Stopper" instantly debuted at number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the third highest debut of 2006 behind only Taylor Hicks's "Do I Make You Proud" and Beyoncé's "Ring the Alarm". While the song reached its peak position of number 8 in its second week, radio play and popularity on iTunes declined and it eventually fell out of the top 25. However, about 5 weeks after the radio release, the song finally started gathering airplay and subsequently moved back up the Hot 100, again peaking at number 12.

While the song failed to chart or sell noticeably in Austria, the song became a top 30 success in Germany with a peak position of number 27. "Show Stopper" also enjoyed airplay success in the Philippines and Laithuania, and peaked at number 27 on the World R&B Top 30 and at number 34 on the World Top 40 Singles chart.

[edit] Charts

Chart (2006)	Peak Position
Austrian Top 75	61
German Top 100	27
Lithuania Airplay Chart	15
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	8
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs	33
U.S. Billboard Pop 100	14
U.S. ARC Weekly Top 40	10
World R&B Top 30 Singles	27
World Top 40 Singles	34