Hot Summer (song)

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“Hot Summer”
“Hot Summer” cover
Single by Monrose
from the album Strictly Physical
B-side "Scream"
Released Flag of Germany June 29, 2007
Flag of Sweden July 18, 2007
Flag of the Netherlands July 30, 2007
Format CD single, ring tone,
digital download
Recorded 2007 at Weryton Studios
(Munich, Bavaria)
Genre Dance-pop
Length 3:28
Label Starwatch
Writer(s) Remee, Thomas Troelsen
Producer Remee, Thomas Troelsen
Certification Gold (Germany, Austria)
Monrose singles chronology
"Even Heaven Cries"
(2007)		 "Hot Summer"
(2007)		 "Strictly Physical"
(2007)

"Hot Summer" is a dance-pop [1] song written and co-produced by Danish songwriters Remee and Thomas Troelsen for German pop band Monrose's second studio album, Strictly Physical (2007). It was released as the album's lead single on June 29, 2007 (see 2007 in music) in German-speaking Europe and became the band's second non-consecutive number-one hit, reaching the top of the charts in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. The song also entered the charts in Finland, the Netherlands and Slovenia, where it served as the band's debut, and won Monrose a Comet for Best Song.

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[edit] Writing and recording

"Hot Summer" was one of the first collaborations producers Remee and then-new partner Thomas Troelsen worked on in the Delta Lab White recording studios in Copenhagen, Denmark in fall 2006.[2] The song was selected out of a total of three hundred songs as the album's lead single unanimously, aiming to break away from the ballad stereotype associated with the group.[3] The band has described the up-tempo track as a perfect "good mood song":[3] "The song is cool and sexy and goes straight into your dancing legs, [it's] our contribution to great summer parties," Monrose member Senna Guemmour said in an interview with the band's official website. She also discussed the 1980s and house music elements incorporated into the recording.[3] Mandy Capristo called the song a "promise": "It instantly raises your spirits, no matter if you're sitting in your car, dancing on the floor or eating ice-cream - 'Hot Summer' is just brimful of life."[3]

Although a twenty-second clip of "Hot Summer" was previewed on the ProSieben network's daily gossip television magazine taff on May 24, 2007, the band officially premiered the song during the season finale of the second cycle of Germany's Next Topmodel. Officially released on June 29, 2007, both the CD and digital single contain remixes by Tai Jason, Beathoavens and Patrick Flo Macheck of production team Mozart & Friends[4].

Later in 2007 the single's bonus track "Scream" was covered by Korean band Anyband in Korean under the name "Daydream".

[edit] Music video

Senna, Bahar and Mandy in the music video for "Hot Summer" (2007).
Senna, Bahar and Mandy in the music video for "Hot Summer" (2007).

The music video for "Hot Summer" was directed by Bernard Wedig and shot on June 18, 2007 in Berlin, Germany. It premiered on June 26, 2007 on the band's official website, and received its first official airing on German music television network VIVA's show VIVA Live by June 28, 2007.

The video does not have a substantial plot but. The band is primarily shown dancing in front of white, black, blue and red backgrounds, intercut by several sequences of three male dancers. The camera work is hectic. In the middle of the video the black bars that appear on a 4:3 television at the top and bottom of the screen are displayed as video footage. The group members are able to interact with these bars and climb outside the screen. Media sources compared it with Dolce & Gabbana's 2006 television commercial "Dancefloor."

[edit] Chart performance

"Hot Summer" was released on June 29, 2007,[5] debuting on the German Media Control Singles Chart at number two due to strong first week sales of Mark Medlock's simultaneouly-released single "You Can Get It."[5] It climbed to number one the next week, becoming the band's second number-one hit within a period of seven months,[5] and also reached the top of the national download chart and number eight on the German Dance Chart. One of the biggest-selling songs of the year on German online music stores,[6] it was eventually certified gold by the IFPI Germany[7] and ranked fifteenth on the German year-end chart.[8]

In Austria, "Hot Summer" instantly debuted at on top of the charts, leading to a Gold certification by the IFPI Austria.[9], and in Switzerland, the charts were topped in its fifth week of release. Receiving increasing airplay at some international radio stations, "Hot Summer" also entered the top 30 of the Airplay charts in Lithuania and Slovenia.

[edit] Charts

Chart (2007) Peak
position
Austrian Singles Chart 1 [10]
Euro 200 Chart 10 [11]
Euro Digital Tracks 4 [12]
Eurochart Hot 100 Singles 6 [13]
Czech IFPI Radio Chart 32 [14]
Dutch Singles Chart 68 [15]
German Singles Chart 1 [16]
German Dance Chart 8 [17]
Finnish Singles Chart 19 [18]
Lithuania Airplay Chart 22 [19]
Polish Singles Chart 58 [20]
Slovenian Airplay Chart 3 [21]
Slovenian Singles Chart 4 [22]
Swiss Singles Chart 1 [15]

[edit] Formats and tracklistings

These are the formats and track listings of major single-releases of "Hot Summer".

[edit] CD single
  1. "Hot Summer (Radio Edit)" - 3:28
  2. "Hot Summer (Tai Jason Remix)" - 3:38
  3. "Hot Summer (Beathoavenz Club Remix)" - 3:42
  4. "Hot Summer (Mozart & Friends PFM House Mix)" - 3:58
  5. "Hot Summer (Nachtwandler Remix)" - 4:05 (Hidden Track)
  6. "Scream (Album Version)" - 3:10

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dxftxzlhldhe
  2. ^ "Monrose". Delta Lab Studios. Retrieved on 2007-06-21.
  3. ^ a b c d "Veröffentlichung der neuen Single 'HOT SUMMER'" (German). Monrose.de. Retrieved on 2007-05-26.
  4. ^ "Monrose Hot Summer Remix Production". Mozart & Friends. Retrieved on 2007-07-28.
  5. ^ a b c Chart Archive. Chartsurfer. Retrieved on 2008-01-01.
  6. ^ "37 Prozent mehr legale Musikdownloads". Media Control. Retrieved on 2007-10-08.
  7. ^ Database Search. IPI Germany. Retrieved on 2007-06-26.
  8. ^ Jahrescharts - Singles 2007. Plattentest. Retrieved on 2008-01-01.
  9. ^ Database Search. IPI Austria. Retrieved on 2008-08-10.
  10. ^ "Hot Summer" Chart History (German). Austrian Charts. Retrieved on 2007-07-11.
  11. ^ European Top 200. APC Chart. Retrieved on 2008-03-02.
  12. ^ Digital Tracks&model.chartId=3084813 Euro Digital Tracks 2007-07-14. Billboard.biz. Retrieved on 2008-03-02.
  13. ^ Hot 100 Singles&model.chartId=3090410 European Hot 100 Singles 2007-07-28. Billboard.biz. Retrieved on 2008-03-02.
  14. ^ Čns Ifpi
  15. ^ a b Chart History (German). Swisscharts. Retrieved on 2007-07-11.
  16. ^ "News-Meldung vom16.07.2007" (German). Official Website. Retrieved on 2007-07-16.
  17. ^ Danceclub Chart (German). OLJO. Retrieved on 2007-07-11.
  18. ^ Singlet - Viikko 29/2007 (Finnish). YLE.
  19. ^ Airplay Charts (English/Lithuanian). LCC. Retrieved on 2007-07-24.
  20. ^ Polish Singles Chart
  21. ^ Airplay Charts (Slovenian). Radio NET FM. Retrieved on 2007-07-11.
  22. ^ Nationwide Charts. Euro200. Retrieved on 2007-07-11.

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Preceded by
"Umbrella" by Rihanna
"Umbrella" by Rihanna		 Austrian number-one single
July 11, 2007 - July 19, 2007
July 25, 2007 - August 16, 2007		 Succeeded by
"Umbrella" by Rihanna
"Big Girls Don't Cry" by Fergie
Preceded by
"You Can Get It" by Mark Medlock & Dieter Bohlen		 German number-one single
July 19, 2007 - July 26, 2007		 Succeeded by
"You Can Get It" by Mark Medlock & Dieter Bohlen
Preceded by
"Umbrella" by Rihanna		 Swiss number-one single
August 12, 2007-August 25, 2007		 Succeeded by
"Vayamos Compañeros" by Marquess
v • d • e
Monrose
Mandy Capristo · Senna Guemmour · Bahar Kızıl
Studio albums
Temptation (2006) · Strictly Physical (2007)
Singles
"Shame" · "Even Heaven Cries" · "Hot Summer" · "Strictly Physical" · "What You Don't Know"  · "We Love"  · "Strike the Match"
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