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Damaged (Danity Kane song)
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| “Damaged” |
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Single by Danity Kane
from the album Welcome to the Dollhouse |
| Released |
 January 29, 2008 (Digital)
 April 15, 2008
 August 18, 2008 |
| Format |
CD single, CD maxi single, digital download |
| Recorded |
2007 |
| Genre |
Dance-pop, R&B |
| Length |
4:04 (album version)
3:36 (radio edit)
4:13 (video verison) |
| Label |
Bad Boy, Atlantic |
| Writer(s) |
Leke Adekanbi, Shannon "Slam" Lawrence, Micayle "Mack" McKinney, Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulos, James Smith, Rose-Marie Tan, Justin Walker, Jonathan Yip |
| Producer |
Stereotypes |
| Certification |
2x Platinum (RIAA) |
| Danity Kane singles chronology |
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"Damaged" is a dance-pop song by American R&B group Danity Kane. It was written by Justin Walker, Micayle "Mack" McKinney, Shannon "Slam" Lawrence, Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulos, James Smith, Rose-Marie Tan, and Jonathan Yip and produced by the Stereotypes for the band's second studio album, Welcome to the Dollhouse (2008).
Released as the album's lead single on January 29, 2008 stateside, the song reached the top 10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, where it became the band's second non-consecutive top 10 entry and hit double-platinum status. Damaged has sold just about 2,000,000 digital downloads (Double-Platinum Status) and in addition, "Damaged" reached the top 30 on the Canadian Hot 100.
In addition to this on the week of August 31, 2008, "Damaged" reacked 25 on the Official Australian Physical Single Chart. This is without any Promotion, the single has also peaked at 64 on the Australian I-Tunes.[1]
Release and promotion
In January 2008, Danity Kane posted a bulletin on their official MySpace page expressing that they were giving their fans a chance to vote for one of two new songs that they thought were appropriate to become the lead single, with "Damaged" and "Pretty Boy" being the two choices for online voters to choose from. However, "Damaged" overshadowed the competition, consequently becoming Danity Kane's first single off the group's sophomore album. On January 28, 2008, group members Aubrey O'Day and Dawn Angelique Richard posted bulletins on their respective MySpace sites stating that "Damaged" was indeed the first single from their most recent album. Danity Kane eventually performed "Damaged" for the very first time at Spotlight on Bad Boy R&B Night.[2]
The production of the song is featured on the seventh episode of the second season of MTV's Making the Band series. For promotion, the band performed "Damaged" on television shows such as the The Tyra Banks Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet, Nashville Star, and MTV's Total Request Live.
The song has been used on the TV shows, The 2008 VMA's Pre-Show, America's Best Dance Crew [x2] , So You Think You Can Dance and "MTV's Top Pop Group".
As of September 21, 2008 the song still sits on Itunes top 100 downloads at position #90. Thus making it 8 full months on the Top 100 Downloads of Itunes music library. The song has peaked at position #1 and has not left the charts since it's appearance on January 28, 2008. In the pop 100 downloads, it still sits in the top 30 of that chart.
Music video
Danity Kane in the video for "Damaged".
The music video for "Damaged" was directed by Syndrome and premiered on March 11, 2008 on MTV's TRL, where it peaked at number 3 on its countdown. In its entirety it premiered on MTV.com.[3] The video also premiered as the 'New Joint' on BET's 106 & Park on March 20, 2008. The Song Peaked at #6.
The video features the members of Danity Kane in a futuristic theme. The pink special effects are used to represent the setting of being within an actual heart. Throughout the video, choreography is done along with the music and the girls are shown in a futuristic room with screens of them performing the choreography, which they see while laying down on a futuristic bed. Towards the end of the music video, the beds that the girls are lying on close to form a heart, which happens to be the heart of a man on a stretcher in a hospital. Medical staff, who turn out to be the members of Danity Kane, try to revive him. The music video then transitions to a setting where the man is in his bedroom with a note on him saying "Tired of the damage - DK".
- On YouTube, the video has attracted over 15 million views, counting duplicates. Which makes it Danity Kane's most viewed music video on the website.
Track list
Australian Single
- "Damaged" - Album Version - 4:09
- "Damaged" - Global Factory Radio Edit - 3:25
- "Damaged" - DJ Richie Rich X-Mix Remix - 4:21
Official versions and remixes
- DJ Richie Rich X-Mix Remix - 4:21
- Friscia & Lamboy Radio Edit - 4:44
- Friscia & Lamboy Dub - 8:55
- Friscia & Lamboy Club Mix - 9:05
- Friscia & Lamboy Club Mix #2 - 6:33
- Global Factory Radio Edit - 3:25
- Global Factory Mix Club Mix - 7:49
Chart performance
The song was released to legal digital download sites on January 29, 2008 in the United States,[4] where the song peaked at number ten for two weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song is also the second by Danity Kane to enter the United World Chart, where it debuted at number thirty-seven and has so far peaked at number twenty-three.
In the UK, despite their album being giving an advertising campaign in the UK iTunes store, the song failed to chart on the top 100 songs or the top 100 pop songs. However, it has debuted on the Canadian Hot 100 at number seventy-two and has so far peaked at number twenty-six.
In Australia, despite a total lack of promotion, the song continues to steadily climb the iTunes top 100 songs charts, and has peaked at 52. The physical CD single was released on August 23rd, and subsequently Damaged debuted on the official Australian ARIA Urban charts at number 12.
Charts
Awards
2008
References
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