Hot (song)

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“Hot”
“Hot” cover
Single by Avril Lavigne
from the album The Best Damn Thing
Released October 2, 2007 (2007-10-02)
(see release history)
Format CD, digital download
Genre Pop rock
Length 3:23
Label RCA
Writer(s) Avril Lavigne, Evan Taubenfeld
Producer Dr. Luke
Avril Lavigne singles chronology
"When You're Gone"
(2007)
"Hot"
(2007)
"The Best Damn Thing"
(2008)

"Hot" is a song by Avril Lavigne produced by Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald, and is the third single from Lavigne's third album, The Best Damn Thing. During an interview at the 2007 MuchMusic Video Awards,[1] Lavigne implied that she planned to shoot a video for the song, which premiered on Yahoo on October 5. She performed the song on the 2007 MTV Europe Music Awards and on the July 6 episode of The Friday Night Project. It was played on the fourth episode of season three of MTV's The Hills. A Japanese version of the song was released as a ringtone in Japan, with the Japanese lyrics replacing the chorus. In China, a Mandarin version of the song was released which replaced the chorus and the introduction with Mandarin lyrics.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

Japanese and Australian CD single
  1. "Hot"
  2. "When You're Gone" (acoustic version)
  3. "Girlfriend" (Dr. Luke remix feat. Lil Mama)
UK CD single
  1. "Hot"
  2. "I Can Do Better" (acoustic version)
Japanese iTunes Single
  1. "Hot"
  2. "I Can Do Better (Acoustic Version)
  3. "Hot" (Japanese Version)

[edit] Music video

Lavigne in music video.
Lavigne in music video.

In a recent article it was revealed that Lavigne had shot a music video at the Beacon in Remote land, a representative for the development announced. The 23-year-old singer was at the complex -- the former Jersey City Medical Center -- on Saturday night. The video was directed by Matthew Rolston and is shot in Murdoch Hall. At the beginning of the video, Lavigne is greeted by paparazzi and fans, where she then enters a dressing room to prepare for a performance, which is also shown. At the end of the video, Lavigne leaves in the same car she arrived in. The video premiered on Yahoo! Music, VIVA and MTV. "Hot" music video debuted at #1 in Spain in its first week on the video download chart and reached #1 in the Australian iTunes music video chart too.[2]

[edit] Chart performance

"Hot" peaked at #82 on the U.S. iTunes Store. It debuted at #95 on the Billboard Hot 100 over two months after its release, and fell off the chart the following week, becoming Avril's second weakest single in the U.S. to date (her weakest being "Fall to Pieces", which peaked at #6 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100). It failed to chart on the United World Chart, although its video on YouTube has generated over 8 million views.

"Hot" was a huge hit in Canada for Avril. "Hot" debuted at #24 on the Canadian Top 40 Radio Chart and at #87 on the Canadian Hot 100. It was the most added song to radio in that week. It has peaked at #10 on the Canadian Hot 100 and #3 on the Canadian Top 40 Radio Chart.[3] It ended as 59th biggest-selling single as of 2007.

In Australia, "Hot" has received high radio airplay and has circulated around the top ten in interactive radio chart shows. It debut at #42 on the ARIA Singles Chart with no physical single release and gradually climbed to #24 a few weeks later. After its physical single release, the song rose to its peak of #14. It has been certified Gold for sales of 35,000 units.

"Hot" debuted at #51 on UK Singles Chart and later peaked at #30 on its release date, but fell to #33 the week after, and has not yet been able to climb any higher. This is now Lavigne's lowest-charting UK single since "Nobody's Home", which peaked at #24.

"Hot" debuted on Top 40 radio charts in America in January 2008. On The ARC Charts it was #39 the first week and then moving up 2 spots to #37 the second week (www.rockonthenet.com). It has since dropped out of the chart.

[edit] Charts

Chart (2007)[4] Peak
position
Argentinian Singles Chart[5] 4
Australian ARIA Singles Chart[6] 14
Austrian Singles Chart[7] 17
Canadian Hot 100[8] 10
Chile Singles Chart 8
Dutch Tipparade 15
Euro 200[9] 78
France Airplay Top 100[10] 49
Germany Singles Top 100 26
Irish Singles Chart[11] 19
Israeli Singles Chart[12] 3
Mexican Singles Top 100</ref> 3
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart[13] 30
Polish National Top 50[14] 38
Sweden Singles Chart 53
Switzerland Singles Chart[15] 61
Turkish Top 20 Chart [16] 8
UK Singles Chart[17] 30
U.S Billboard Hot 100 95
U.S Billboard Pop 100 64
U.S ARC Weekly Chart 37

[edit] Release history

Region Date
Canada October 2, 2007[18]
United States
Japan October 10, 2007
Brazil October 29, 2007
United Kingdom
Europe November 2, 2007
Australia December 15, 2007[19]

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