Get Back (ASAP)

"Get Back (ASAP)"
Single by Alexandra Stan
from the album Saxobeats
Released 19 March 2011
Format CD, digital download
Recorded 2011
Genre Dance, house, electropop
Length 3:29 (radio edit)
2:12 (UK radio edit)
Label Play On / Jeff Records
Writer(s) Andrei Nemirschi, Marcel Prodan[1]
Producer(s) MediaPro Music Entertainment, Mediascope
Alexandra Stan singles chronology
"Mr. Saxobeat"
(2011)		 "Get Back (ASAP)"
(2011)		 "1.000.000"
(2011)
Alternative cover
UK edition artwork
Music video
"Get Back (ASAP)" on YouTube

"Get Back (ASAP)" is an up-tempo song by Romanian singer Alexandra Stan, released in 2011. It serves as her third single in Romania and as her second single in countries such as Belgium, France and Italy. It is the follow-up to "Mr. Saxobeat" which was Stan's first hit outside Romania, topping the Italian charts and being a Top 3 hit in the UK as well. The song and accompanying video relates the resuming of the events from "Mr. Saxobeat". The video was shot in April and May and premiered on June 6, 2011 on YouTube. It was filmed in a Mexican saloon. In the video, Stan changes between three outfits throughout the video. The song has peaked at number-eighteen on the French Singles Chart after a run of almost twenty weeks aboard the chart. In Romania the song peaked at number four within the Romanian Top 100. It charted in Belgium, Czech Republic, Slovakia and the United Kingdom. The song is known as "Mr. Saxobeat 2" for the strong similar parts between the two songs.

Track listing

  1. "Get Back (ASAP)" – 3:29
  2. "Mr. Saxobeat (Radio Edit)" - 3:16
  1. "Get Back (ASAP)" – 3:29
  1. "Get Back (ASAP)" [Radio edit] – 3:30
  2. "Get Back (ASAP)" [Extended version] – 4:26
  1. "Get Back (ASAP)" [UK Radio Edit] - 2:12
  2. "Get Back (ASAP)" [Extended Version] – 4:26
  3. "Get Back (ASAP)" [Rudedog Main Mix] - 6:19
  4. "Get Back (ASAP)" [Rudedog Rude Mix] - 6:23
  5. "Get Back (ASAP)" [Frisco Remix] - 5:17
  6. "Get Back (ASAP)" [Studio Club Radio Edit] - 3:21
  7. "Get Back (ASAP)" [Studio Club Mix] - 4:15

Credits and personnel

Chart performance

"Get Back (ASAP)" firstly charted in the French Singles Chart, due to the high number of digital downloads. On April 2, 2011 it entered the French Singles Chart at number forty-two, becoming that week's second highest debut.[4] Meanwhile, the song had already spent more than five weeks within the French Airplay chart, where it has peaked at number sixteen, with twenty-five weeks inside the top 250. In the Singles Chart it continued its ascension, reaching the peak of number-nineteen in the sixth week aboard the top. After only two weeks, "ASAP" fell to number thirty-three and downward to number ninety-nine, in its twenty-first week in the chart. The song had then entered the Romanian Radio Airplay Chart in early April and it has managed to enter the official Romanian Top 100, peaking at number-four for two weeks and spending nine weeks within the top ten of the chart. The song reached the charts in other European countries like Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Bulgaria or Belgium (Flanders and Wallonia). "Get Back (ASAP)" opened at number sixteen on the Finland's Official List, at number twenty-two on the Danish Tracklisten and at number thirty-six on the Dutch Top 40. The song had also received airplay in Italy. Finally, "Get Back" attained its first number-one position in Slovakia, while in Czech Republic stopping at number-five, and in the Hungarian Airplay Chart at number-eleven. On the Spanish Singles Chart the song jumped from number forty-seven right to number-fourteen after its performance at the Los Premios 40 Principales. The song was released in Germany together with Mr. Saxobeat on a digital EP, so the song couldn't chart, being not an independent.

Music video

Stan started filming the music video for "Get Back (ASAP)" in late May, 2011. On May 25, 2011 the video was concluded with the scenes from the Mexican saloon. The director of the video was Iulian Moga (brother to Marius Moga) while the special effects were put together by 1QSapro.[5][6] The shootings were drawn somewhere nearby Bucharest, at Castel Film Romania Studios. The adjacent scenes were all cut off, apart from the scenes showing Stan in a dark wardrobe, changing her outfits and dancing in a corner.[5] The music video was uploaded onto Ego Italy's YouTube account on June 7, 2011. The video shows Stan changing from the police outfit she ended up with in the "Mr. Saxobeat" video into a red dress. Then she walks down a staircase into a saloon bar and sings in front of the bar's crowd. Afterwards, a man enters the bar and starts to play cards with Stan. Then, the police who arrested Stan and her friends looking for Stan in the bar, if they eventually find her. Before trying to arrest her again, the men defend her and the police end up bar-fighting with them. After the police win, they sit on the bar stool next to the bar man. Then, in sepia, it shows a flashback of Stan grabbing the money from the cards and running out of the bar, fleeing away from the police. The policemen have a flashback, like a camera-taped video in which Stan gets away with all the money the clients paid for. At the end, the man on the right punches the bar man. In the second video of the remixed song version, Stan shows her provocant body in a lot of outfits, walked in different Landscapes.

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2011) Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[7] 27
Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)[8] 10
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[1] 28
Czech Republic (Rádio Top 100)[9] 5
Denmark (Tracklisten)[10] 20
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[11] 8
France (SNEP)[12] 18
Hungary (Dance Top 40)[13] 20
Hungary (Rádiós Top 40)[14] 8
Israel (Media Forest)[15] 10
Italy (FIMI)[16] 35
Lebanon (The Official Lebanese Top 20)[17]
18
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[18] 18
Slovakia (Rádio Top 100)[19] 1
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[20] 25
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[21] 23
UK Dance (Official Charts Company)[22] 8
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[23] 56

Year-end charts

Chart (2011) Position
Hungarian Airplay Chart[24] 77
Polish Dance Singles Chart[25] 41
Romanian Top 100[26] 41
Chart (2012) Position
Hungarian Airplay Chart[27] 98

Release history

Regione Date Format Label
France[28] March 28, 2011 Digital download Play On, Jeff
Spain[29] May 17, 2011 Blanco y Negro
Belgium[30] May 20, 2011 MediaPro Music, ARS
Italy July 5, 2011[31] EGO Italy
August 30, 2011[32] CD single
USA[33] October 10, 2011 Digital download Ultra Records
UK December 18, 2011 All Around the World Records
Germany[34] 2 December 2011 CD single Sony Music

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Ultratop.be – Alexandra Stan – Get Back (ASAP)" (in French). Ultratop 50.
  2. ↑ http://itunes.apple.com/be/album/get-back-asap-single/id437529193
  3. ↑ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Get-Back-Asap/dp/B006EKFB2W/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325493040&sr=301-1
  4. ↑ "France Singles Top 100 (April 2, 2011) - Music Charts". Acharts.us. 2011-04-02. Retrieved 2011-09-26.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Demographia World Urban Areas & Population Projections" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-04-14.
  6. ↑ Poze filmari videoclip Alexandra Stan - Get Back (ASAP)
  7. ↑ "Austriancharts.at – Alexandra Stan – Get Back (ASAP)" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40.
  8. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Alexandra Stan – Get Back (ASAP)" (in Dutch). Ultratip.
  9. ↑ "ČNS IFPI" (in Czech). Hitparáda – Radio Top 100 Oficiální. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: insert 201146 into search. Retrieved August 26, 2011.
  10. ↑ "Danishcharts.com – Alexandra Stan – Get Back (ASAP)". Tracklisten. Retrieved September 3, 2011.
  11. ↑ "Alexandra Stan: Get Back (ASAP)" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved September 8, 2011.
  12. ↑ "Lescharts.com – Alexandra Stan – Get Back (ASAP)" (in French). Les classement single.
  13. ↑ "Archívum – Slágerlisták – MAHASZ" (in Hungarian). Dance Top 40 lista. Magyar Hanglemezkiadók Szövetsége. Retrieved November 17, 2011.
  14. ↑ "Archívum – Slágerlisták – MAHASZ" (in Hungarian). Rádiós Top 40 játszási lista. Magyar Hanglemezkiadók Szövetsége. Retrieved December 21, 2011.
  15. ↑ "Media Forest: Airplay chart". mediaforest.biz. 2011-08-27.
  16. ↑ "FIMI: Classifica settimanale WK 34 (dal 2011-08-22 al 2011-08-28)". FIMI. Federation of the Italian Music Industry. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  17. ↑ http://www.olt20.com/Alexandra-Stan#fragment-2
  18. ↑ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Alexandra Stan search results" (in Dutch) Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 2011-09-04.
  19. ↑ "SNS IFPI" (in Slovak). Hitparáda – Radio Top 100 Oficiálna. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: insert 201145 into search.
  20. ↑ "Spanishcharts.com – Alexandra Stan – Get Back (ASAP)" Canciones Top 50.
  21. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – Alexandra Stan – Get Back (ASAP)". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
  22. ↑ "Archive Chart: 2011-12-31" UK Dance Chart.
  23. ↑ "Alexandra Stan: Artist Chart History" UK Singles Chart. Retrieved 2013-04-12.
  24. ↑ "MAHASZ Rádiós TOP 100 2011" (in Hungarian). Mahasz. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
  25. ↑ ""Loca People" - Hit of the Year 2011 in Poland!". ZPAV. Dj Promotion. 2011. Retrieved 2012-01-07.
  26. ↑ "ROMANIAN TOP 100 – clasamentul anului 2011". Retrieved 2012-01-01.
  27. ↑ "MAHASZ Rádiós TOP 100 2012" (in Hungarian). Mahasz. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  28. ↑ "Get Back (ASAP) by Alexandra Stan on iTunes Store France". Retrieved 2011-09-15.
  29. ↑ "Get Back (ASAP) by Alexandra Stan on iTunes Store Spain". Retrieved 2011-09-30.
  30. ↑ "Get Back (ASAP) by Alexandra Stan". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
  31. ↑ "Get Back (ASAP) by Alexandra Stan on iTunes Store Italy". Retrieved 2011-09-15.
  32. ↑ "Compra Get Back (ASAP) di Alexandra Stan su self.it". Retrieved 2011-09-15.
  33. ↑ "Get Back - Alexandra Stan - buy it on Amazon". Amazon.com. Retrieved 07/10/2011. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  34. ↑ http://www.sonymusic.de/Alexandra-Stan/Get-Back-Asap-Mr-Saxobeat/P/2613903/B/88691917302