Damaged (Danity Kane song)

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“Damaged”
“Damaged” cover
Single by Danity Kane
from the album Welcome to the Dollhouse
Released Flag of the United States January 29, 2008 (Digital Release)

Flag of the United States March, 2008 (Radio)
Flag of Canada April 15, 2008

Format CD single, CD maxi single, digital download
Recorded 2007
Genre Dance pop, R&B
Length 4:04 (album version)
3:36 (radio edit)
Label Bad Boy, Atlantic
Writer(s) Shannon "Slam" Lawrence, Micayle McKinney, Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulos, James Smith, Rose-Marie Tan, Wal, Jonathan Yip
Producer Stereotypes
Danity Kane singles chronology
"Ride for You"
(2006)
"Damaged"
(2008)
"Bad Girl"
(2008)

"Damaged" is a dance-pop song recorded by American R&B group Danity Kane. It was written by Shannon "Slam" Lawrence, Micayle McKinney, Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulos, James Smith, Rose-Marie Tan, Wal, Jonathan Yip and produced by the Stereotypes for the band's second studio album, Welcome to the Dollhouse. Released as it's lead single, the song reached the top ten of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

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[edit] History

In January 2008, Danity Kane posted a bulletin on their official MySpace page expressing that they were giving their fans a chance to vote for one of two new songs that they thought were appropriate to become the lead single. "Damaged" and "Pretty Boy" were the two choices for online voters to choose from. "Damaged" overshadowed the competition, consequently becoming Danity Kane's first single off the group's sophomore album. On January 28, 2008, group members Aubrey O'Day and Dawn Angelique Richard posted bulletins on their respective MySpace sites stating that "Damaged" was indeed the first single from their most recent album. Danity Kane performed "Damaged" for the very first time at "Spotlight on Bad Boy R&B Night".[1] The production of the song is featured on the seventh episode of MTV's Making the Band 4, Season 2. Damaged is also the first single to feature all members singing lead, also it is the first single that Shannon has lead vocal, although Shannon had a proeminent role on Show Stopper on the hook, it is not shown in its music video or in any live performance of the song.


[edit] Release

The song was released to legal digital download sites on January 29, 2008.[2] The song is currently at number seven on the Mediabase chart which tabulates the most played songs on American radio stations.[3] In the United States, the song has peaked at number ten for two weeks on The Billboard Hot 100. The song is also the second by Danity Kane to enter the United World Chart, where it debuted at number thirty-seven and has so far peaked at number twenty-three.

In the UK, despite their album being giving an advertising campaign in the UK iTunes store, the song failed to chart on the top 100 songs or the top 100 pop songs. However, it has debuted on the Canadian Hot 100 at number seventy-two and has so far peaked at number thirty-seven

To date, the single has sold 740,984 legal digital downloads so far.[4]

[edit] Music video

Danity Kane in the video for "Damaged".
Danity Kane in the video for "Damaged".

The "Damaged" music video premiered on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 on MTV's TRL and since has peaked at number 3 on TRL. It premiered in its entirety on TRL and on MTV.com.[5] Within 24 hours after its premiere on MTV's TRL, the video was charted as number one in Most Viewed Music Video. The video also premiered as the New Joint on BET's 106 & Park on March 20, 2008. The video was directed by Syndrome, who also directed Day26's video for "Got Me Going".

The video features the members of Danity Kane in a futuristic theme. The pink special effects are used to represent the setting of being within an actual heart. Throughout the video, choreography is done along with the music and the girls are shown in a futuristic room with screens of them performing the choreography, which they see while laying down on a futuristic bed. Towards the end of the music video, the bed that the girls is laying on closes to form a heart, which happens to be the heart of a man on a stretcher in a hospital. Here he is trying to be revived by the operators who turns out to be Danity Kane. The music video then transitions to a setting where the man is in his bedroom with a note on him saying "Tired of the damage - DK".

The video peaked at #1 on the iTunes Music Video chart.

To date the video has approx. 8 million views on youtube.com counting duplicates.

[edit] Chart performance

Chart (2008) Peak
position
AT40[6] 8
Philippines Hot 100[7] 36
Bulgarian National Top 40[8] 60
Croatia Singles Chart[9] 9
Canadian Hot 100[10] 37
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[11] 10
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay[12] 8
U.S. Billboard Pop 100[13] 9
U.S. Billboard Pop 100 Airplay[14] 5
U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Songs[15] 12
Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles[16] 10
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Airplay[17] 4
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream 9
U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 40 9
Singapore Singles Chart[18] 5
United World Chart[19] 23

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