Helpless When She Smiles

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“Helpless When She Smiles”
“Helpless When She Smiles” cover
Single by Backstreet Boys
from the album Unbreakable
Released December 10, 2007 (CD format)
January 11, 2008 (GER)
January 15, 2008 (U.S. radio)
Recorded 2006-2007
Genre Pop, pop rock, piano pop
Length 4:04
Label Jive/Zomba
Writer(s) Brett Cornelius, Christopher Lindsey, Aimee Mayo, Thomas Verges
Producer John Shanks
Backstreet Boys singles chronology
"Inconsolable"
(2007)		 "Helpless When She Smiles"
(2008)		 "Everything But Mine"
(2008)

"Helpless When She Smiles" is the second single from the Backstreet Boys' 6th studio album Unbreakable, which was released on October 30, 2007. The single, produced by John Shanks, was released on January 15, 2008.

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[edit] Music video

Backstreet Boys video for "Helpless When She Smiles"
Backstreet Boys video for "Helpless When She Smiles"

The video for "Helpless When She Smiles" was filmed November 15 in Joshua Tree National Park, California. It is directed by Bernard Gourley.

The music video premiered on December 12 on Yahoo! Music.

The video was filmed in color, but then stripped to appear black and white, depicting the Boys standing in a spacious corn field. It features helicopter shots, and is only one of two Backstreet Boys videos to do so, the other one being More Than That.

The video peaked at #1 on Much More Music's Top 10 Countdown.




[edit] Track listing

  1. "Helpless When She Smiles" - Album Version - 4:04
  2. "Helpless When She Smiles" - Radio Mix 4:04
  3. "There's Us" - 4:10
  4. "Nowhere To Go" - 2:48
  5. "Satellite" - 3:29

[edit] Charts

In the United States, Helpless When She Smiles only managed to chart of the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks, peaking at 52. The single failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100.

Country Peak
position
Italy [1] 4
Germany 34
US Adult Contemporary 52
New Zealand 34
Netherlands 83
Russia 3
Luxembourg 17

[edit] Trivia

  • It was leaked on the Internet back in May 2007 along with "Happily Never After" which never made the album.


[edit] References

  1. ^ Italian Signles Cahrt, retrieved by Radio 2 - RAI on 23rd February 2008
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