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"Hot n Cold"
Song

"Hot N Cold" is the second single from Katy Perry's album, One of the Boys.

Song information

Blender Magazine calls the track a “spunky, climate-controlled kiss-off,” and Entertainment Weekly agrees, “It’s damn fun.” The song went for adds on the North-American radios on September 9 and remained the song with one of the biggest bullets of the entire mediabase for weeks. Perry made the live television premiere performance of “Hot N Cold” on NBC’s Today show outdoor concert series on August 29th. Katy revealed in an interview with Radio 1 that "Hot N Cold" would in fact be the follow up single to her number one hit "I Kissed a Girl" in the United Kingdom and Australia. There are currently three radio edits. One being where the word "bitch" is replaced with the word "chick", being "You PMS, Like A Chick, I would know". The second mostly used on radio program Open House Party, this version uses "girl" instead of "bitch" or "chick". The final one was once played on Ryan Seacrest's American Top 40 radio show. In this version Perry sings "You PMS, I would know."

Remixes

  • "Hot N Cold" (Jason Nevins Radio Edit)
  • "Hot N Cold" (Jason Nevins Extended Mix) (7:20)

Music video

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Perry getting married in the music video.

The video was shot in Los Angeles early in September. It premiered at MySpace on October 1, 2008. The video was added to iTunes on October 10, 2008.

The music video begins at a wedding, as the vows are said between Katy and her soon-to-be husband, Alexander. However, he backs out, and the song is performed as Katy chases him across town and mentally brutalizes him for having cold feet. The song ends with Katy standing over the groom with a zebra standing beside her, and revealing this was all a 'what-if' vision the groom was having if he had refused. He accepts, and the video ends with the two running down the aisle to a cheering, crowded church. As of October 13th, the song has received more than 2 million views on YouTube.

Chart performance

"Hot N Cold" debuted on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard's Canadian Hot 100 on June 26, 2008, due to digital downloads after the album's release. It debuted on the Hot 100 at number 88 and fell off the next week. In Canada, the song debuted at number 73 and peaked at number 66 the following week. It re-entered the Hot 100 on August 14, 2008, again at number 88. It has currently peaked at number 2 on iTunes virtual store Top Songs and is currently charting at number 6 on the Hot 100, making it her 2nd top 10 hit. In the UK, despite no physical release yet, due to the release of One of the Boys, the song has peaked at 63. In Ireland, despite no physical release until November the song has peaked at 15.

Charts

Chart (2008) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart[2] 6
Canadian Hot 100[3] 4
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart[4] 11
UK Singles Chart 63[5]
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[6] 6
U.S. Billboard Pop 100[7] 4[8]
U.S. Billboard Mainstream Top 40[9] 9
Irish Singles Chart 15

Notes

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ Top 50 Singles Chart - Australian Recording Industry Association
  3. ^ Canadian Hot 100
  4. ^ http://www.rianz.org.nz/rianz/chart.asp
  5. ^ http://uk.launch.yahoo.com/c/uk/single_charts.html UK Top 75
  6. ^ Billboard Hot 100
  7. ^ Billboard Pop 100
  8. ^ http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/chart_display.jsp?g=Singles&f=Pop+100
  9. ^ http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts/chart_display.jsp?g=Singles&f=Mainstream+Top+40


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