Hit Me Up

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“Hit Me Up”
“Hit Me Up” cover
Single by Gia Farrell
from the album Happy Feet (Movie Soundtrack)
Released November, 2006 (Europe)
January 29, 2007 (AUS), (U.S.)
Format CD single / Digital download
Genre Dance-pop, R&B
Length 3:15
Label Atlantic Records
Writer(s) Brian Kierulf, Gia Farrell, Josh Schwartz.
Producer Josh Schwartz , Polow Da Don
Gia Farrell singles chronology
... "Hit Me Up"
(2006)		 "TBA"
(2008)

"Hit Me Up" is the first single by American singer Gia Farrell. The song is included on the Happy Feet movie soundtrack.[1]

This song was featured in Wheat Thins's new commercial for their garden vegetable flavored crackers, and gained attention again when it was performed in May 2008 by Syesha Mercado on American Idol's seventh season at the top three stage.

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[edit] Song information

The song is about a confident girl who gets attention everywhere she goes. She sings to a guy telling him to "hit me up". "To hit up", a term popularized by users of the social networking website MySpace, refers to contacting a person via electronic means. In this case there is a romantic interest for the person being "hit up".

In the video the main basis is on the Happy Feet theme with Gia appearing in three different sets with dancers in the background while singing the song. The only indications of the song being on the Happy Feet soundtrack is when Gia is singing out in the front of a theatre and above her on the movies showing list is "Happy Feet", and also when in the middle of the video her backup dancers are seen in tuxedos and wearing costume penguin masks as they all dance in an arctic scene.

"Hit Me Up" was used as the opening theme for Germany's Next Topmodel, Cycle 2.

[edit] Track listing

CD Single
  1. "Hit Me Up"
  2. "Hit Me Up" (no taps version)
  3. "Hit Me Up" (Matt The Bratt radio edit)

[edit] Peak Positions

[edit] Chart Performance

The song has charted in several European countries, but failed chart in the U.S. It's highest peak position was in Hungary at #1. In Germany the song reached a good position at #29.

[edit] Charts

Chart (2007) Peak
position
Australia Singles Chart[2] 6
Austria Singles Chart[3] 67
Belgium Singles Chart[4] 17
Billboard Top 40 Mainstream[5] 40
Europe Singles Chart[6] 136
Finland Singles Chart[7] 8
Germany Singles Chart[8] 29
Hungary Singles Chart[9] 1
Indonesia Singles Chart[10] 3
Portugal Top 50 Singles Chart[11] 49
Turkish Top 20 Chart[12] 12
Netherlands Singles Chart[13] 17

[edit] References

  1. ^ [1] Tracklisting of Happy Feet
  2. ^ ARIA Top 50 Singles Chart
  3. ^ [2] Hit Me Up peak position Austraian Singles Chart
  4. ^ [3]Belgium Singles Chart week 8, February 24 2007
  5. ^ Interview Billboard
  6. ^ Europe Singles Chart
  7. ^ [4] Hit Me Up peak position Finnish Singles Chart
  8. ^ German Singles Chart
  9. ^ Hungary Singles Chart
  10. ^ Indonesia Singles Chart
  11. ^ [5]
  12. ^ Turkish Airplay Chart
  13. ^ [6] Dutch Top 40 week 6