Call Me Maybe
September 20, 2011 (see publications)
Call Me Maybe (English Call me perhaps ) is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen. In Canada, the song appeared on 20 September 2011 as the lead single of their first EP Curiosity. In addition, the tracks on her second studio album Kiss is included. After Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez had tweeted something about the song, Jepsen got international attention, which earned her a recording contract with the label Schoolboy Records. Then the title was released on 22 February 2012 as a download in the United States.
With "Call Me Maybe" Jepsen international breakthrough. Worldwide, the song reached the top ten of the singles charts, including Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. In Australia, Finland, Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, Poland, Scotland, Switzerland, Czech Republic and the United States the title even reached the top position of the single charts.
- 3.1 chart positions
- 3.2 Awards for music sales
Background and composition
Was written "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen, Josh Ramsay and Tavish Crowe and of the latter also produced. In Canada, the song appeared on 20 September 2011 as the first single from the EP Curiosity, by the record label 604 in January 2012 were the pop singer Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez in Canada, where they heard the title of the radio. Then they tweeteten this on their official Twitter accounts, which Jepsen international attention and earned a contract with the record label Schoolboy Records. Bieber's manager Scooter Braun said that Bieber 've never promoted a musician like now. Worldwide, the single was released by Interscope Records. "Call Me Maybe" is a dynamic titles with influences from the genres dance-pop and R & B.
Music Video
Produced by Ben Knechtel music video was released on 1 March 2012. It starts so that Jepsen, observed from the window of her neighbor, played by Holden Nowell when mowing the lawn. After he has taken off his shirt, he looks out the window, whereupon Jepsen feared he had noticed it, and then reflexively hidden below the window. Then she sings with her band in their garage. Then her band members urging them to wash the car in order to make Nowell attention, the next door repaired his car. Jepsen shows when washing full body use, lies down on the car and smiles at him. However, they lose their footing and fall off. While she dreams of a daze to kiss Nowell, he comes to her rescue, she gets up and goes back into the garage, in order to play him the song. In the end she will give him her phone number, but he gives his phone number to the guitarist of the band. So, finally, it turns out that he is gay and not interested in Jepsen.
On YouTube, the video reached over 420 million views.
Viral video
In February 2012, Carlos published Pena of Big Time Rush, along with Ashley Tisdale, Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez a viral video for the song. In this YouTube reached over 50 million views. On April 19, 2012, Katy Perry released a viral video for the song on YouTube, along with her friends to hit a 3.2 million clicks. This cover version reached as "Tribute Team" for a week number 49 of the UK Singles Chart.
Cover versions and parodies
The Baseballs who covered the song in 2012 as a rock and roll version. Alex Goot, Chad Sugg and Dave Days released a cover version on YouTube that has been viewed more than 6.5 million times. Cookie Monster issued July 10, 2012 under the title " Share It Maybe" a parody on YouTube reached nearly 1 million people and more than 12 million views on the first day. At 1:43 the original video appears on a computer screen. The style goes back to Carly Rae Jepsen's turn version of the video from the Jimmy Fallon show. The German Comedy Trio Y- Titty also published a parody to the song, which has been viewed over 9.0 million times already. A lewd English-language parody of the song reached more than 21.8 million viewers on YouTube. Another parody of the American comedy duo wassabi reached over 43 million views in YouTube. Furthermore, the song by The Key of Awesome was! parodies. This version has been viewed over 20.3 million times. Also, a cover version of the song with Barack Obama was released, which was viewed over 6.1 million times. In this he gives his phone number to an Arab at the end of the song, which is the guitarist. Also in the television series Glee, the song has been covered.
In addition to cover versions of some videos acquired great fame, in which the performers to the original song only move their lips and dance. The U.S. swimming national team published in advance of the Olympic Summer Games 2012 in London 2012 is also such a " Cover Video". In it occur sports stars like Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps. Especially famous were also a video of the cheerleaders of the Miami Dolphins and a reaction to this video, in the stationed in Afghanistan U.S. soldiers readjust the cheerleader movie frame by frame.
Commercial success
In the Australian Singles Chart, the song debuted on March 18, 2012, position 39 Four weeks later, the song reached number 1 in Australia. With over 630,000 copies sold, the song got nine times awarded the platinum record. In New Zealand, the song reached the maximum position after 4 weeks after the title debuted at number 22. In Canada, the title reached the highest position in February 2012, which Jepsen is the sixth Canadian woman who has ever had a number one hit in Canada. Also in Finland, Ireland, Scotland and Great Britain reached "Call Me Maybe" the top position. In the United States the title reached the top position on the Billboard Hot 100, where he was able to hold nine weeks continuously. In the German singles chart debut " Call Me Maybe " on the 12th position after a week the song rose by 4 places to eighth position in the third week, the song climbed into the Top 3.
By the end of 2012, 12.5 million digital copies of the songs were sold worldwide.