U + Ur Hand

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"U + Ur Hand"
Single by Pink
from the album I'm Not Dead
Released	August 28, 2006 (UK) October 31, 2006 (U.S.)
Format	Digital download, CD single, maxi single
Recorded	Conway Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA
Genre	Pop rock
Length	3:34
Label	LaFace
Writer(s)	Luke Gottwald, Max Martin, Pink, Rami
Producer(s)	Luke Gottwald and Max Martin
Certification	Gold (Australia (ARIA))
Chart positions
#1 (U.S. Hot Dance Airplay, Czech Republic) #3 (Austria, Romania) #4 (Germany, Denmark) #5 (Australia, Switzerland, Sweden) #7 (Russia) #19 (U.S. Hot 100)
Pink singles chronology
"Who Knew" (2006)	"U + Ur Hand" (2006)	"Nobody Knows" (2006)

"U + Ur Hand" is the third single released from Pink's fourth album, I'm Not Dead (2006). The song was one of the five album tracks that leaked onto the internet in July 2005.^[1] In an email from Pink's website, "U + Ur Hand" was released as a single in Europe, Australia and other selected countries on August 28, 2006.

Contents 1 Release and reception 2 Music video 3 Track listings and formats 4 Charts 5 Notes

[edit] Release and reception

In Australia the song peaked at number five on the ARIA Singles Chart and is certified gold for sales of 35,000 copies. It was ranked at number twenty-five on ARIA's Top 100 Singles of 2006.

It was released in the United States on October 31, and two months later it debuted on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, which lists the most popular songs yet to enter the main Billboard Hot 100. In January 2007 "U + Ur Hand" debuted on the Hot 100 at number ninety-four,^[2] and it has since peaked at number nineteen. It has so far not matched the peak of the album's first single, "Stupid Girls", but its performance is a considerable improvement over that of the second single, "Who Knew", which initially failed to chart.^[3] It is currently inside the top ten on Top 40 radio, Pink's first top-ten hit on Top 40 since her 2002 single "Family Portrait".^{[citation needed]} Billboard magazine credited the single with causing an increase in the U.S. sales of I'm Not Dead, which returned to the Billboard 200 albums chart in the same period the single entered the Hot 100.^[4]

Rolling Stone said in their review of I'm Not Dead that Pink "...sets a proudly bitchy tone in the song",^[5] and All Music Guide described Pink as "taunting and teasing" in "U + Ur Hand".^[6] British newspaper The Guardian wrote, "the pithy put-downs of ["U + Ur Hand"] make bearable the sudden shift from classy beats to lumpen power pop".^[7]

[edit] Music video

Pink shot videos for both "U + Ur Hand" and "Stupid Girls" at the same time, but decided to release the latter as her first single. Both videos were directed by Dave Meyers. Pink stated that in the "U + Ur Hand" video she was "glammed" up and that it took four hours of make-up and one hour of shooting for every different look in the video.^[8] The music video for "U + Ur Hand" premiered on Canada's MuchMusic network on July 18, 2006, and in the United States on MTV's Total Request Live on September 29 as the "First Look" for that day. The video reached number one on TRL six days after its debut, Pink's second video to reach the top on the countdown after the video for her 2003 single "Trouble".

The video, released in Europe at the end of August, features Pink posing as several of New Zealand artist Martin Emond characters, including "Baby Red Knuckles", "Rocker Bikerboy" and "Hard Candy". Pink's character is named "Lady Delish". The use of these characters was uncredited and unauthorised. At the time of the video release Illicit Streetwear and the Martin F. Emond estate were reviewing their options to take action.^[9]

[edit] Track listings and formats

CD single

1. "U + Ur Hand"
2. "Crash & Burn"

Maxi CD single

1. "U + Ur Hand"
2. "Crash & Burn"
3. "U + Ur Hand" (BeatCult remix)
4. "U + Ur Hand" (Bimbo Jones remix)
5. "U + Ur Hand" (CD-ROM video)

(Other official remixes of the song include the Junior Vasquez remix.)

[edit] Charts

Chart (2006) Peak position Australian ARIA Singles Chart [10] 5 Austrian Singles Chart[10] 3 Belgian Singles Chart[10] 20 Brazilian Singles Chart 23 Canadian BDS Airplay Chart 20 Czech Singles Chart 1 Polish Singles Chart 20 Danish Singles Charts 4 Dutch Top 40[10] 31 European Singles Chart[11] 7 France Singles Chart[10] 11 Finnish Singles Chart[10] 14 German Singles Charts[10] 4 Greek Singles Chart 19

Chart (2006/07) Peak position Irish Singles Chart[10] 13 New Zealand Singles Chart 10 Romanian Singles Chart 3 Russian Singles Chart 7 Swedish Singles Chart[10] 5 Swiss Singles Chart[10] 5 UK Singles Chart[10] 10 United World Chart[10] 15 U.S. ARC Weekly Top 40[12] 15 U.S. Billboard Hot 100[10] 19 U.S. Billboard Pop 100[3] 13 U.S. Billboard Adult Top 40[13] 23 U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream[13] 14 U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Airplay[3] 1

[edit] Notes