Put Your Records On

Infobox Single
Name = Put Your Records On


Caption = CD single cover
Artist = Corinne Bailey Rae
Album = Corinne Bailey Rae
Released = 20 February 2006
Format = CD single, DVD single, digital download, 7" single
Recorded = 2005
Genre = Soul, acoustic
Length = 3:35
Label = EMI
Writer = Corinne Bailey Rae, John Beck, Steve Chrisanthou
Producer = Steve Chrisanthou
Certification =
Last single = "Like a Star"
(2005)
This single = "Put Your Records On"
(2006)
Next single = "Trouble Sleeping"
(2006)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate covers
Type = single


Lower caption = DVD single cover Extra album cover 2


Lower caption = 7" single cover

"Put Your Records On" is a soul–acoustic song written by English singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae, John Beck, and Steve Chrisanthou for Rae's debut album, "Corinne Bailey Rae" (2006). Released as the album's second single in February and early March 2006 throughout Europe and as the lead single in North America, the track received two nominations at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year, losing both to Dixie Chicks's "Not Ready to Make Nice."

ong information

Produced by Steve Chrisanthou, the song crashed into the UK Singles Chart at number two and was only kept off the top spot by Madonna's "Sorry." The carefree, chilled-out style of both the song and the video—set in South Africa—caught people's imagination and created hype around Rae that a British urban music artist has not enjoyed since Craig David and Ms. Dynamite's emergence in 2000 and 2002 respectively.Fact|date=February 2007 The song's opening line, "Three little birds sat on my window/And they tell me I don't need to worry," is a reference to Bob Marley & The Wailers's 1977 hit song "Three Little Birds."

"Put Your Records On" enjoyed a wealth of critical and commercial acclaimFact|date=February 2007 which helped rocket the album to number one in its first week of release. The track topped the UK Official Download Chart and the UK R&B Singles Chart; it was also a smash hit on radio reaching at least number two on the UK Airplay Chart. However, the single did not fare as well in the United States, peaking at number sixty-four on the "Billboard" Hot 100. As of March 1 2006, Rae became only the second female solo act to top the UK Official Download Chart in history.

The acoustic version of this song was a featured Free Single of the Week at the Canadian and the U.S. iTunes Store. On 7 March 2007, contestant Antonella Barba sang this song for her Top 16 performance.

The song earned a 2007 Grammy Award nomination for Song of the Year. [ [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,235200,00.html "FOX Facts: Complete List of Grammy Award Nominations"] . Associated Press. December 7 2006. Retrieved December 9 2006.]

This song was covered three times in reality television programmes in 2007. On the sixth season of "American Idol", semi-finalist Antonella Barba performed this song during the Top 16 week. Also, on the fourth season of the UK's "The X Factor", finalist Alisha Bennett performed this song during the Top 8. Carly Rae Jepsen sang it on the fifth season of "Canadian Idol" during the Top 22 week.

The song appears on the 2007 video game "".

Track listings and formats

;UK CD single
#"Put Your Records On"
#"Another Rainy Day"

;International CD single
#"Put Your Records On"
#"Another Rainy Day"
#"Since I've Been Loving You"

;DVD single
#"Put Your Records On"
#"Put Your Records On" (Video)
#"Put Your Records On" (Live at Bush Hall)
#"Since I've Been Loving You"

;7" vinyl single
#"Put Your Records On"
#"Since I've Been Loving You"

*Digital download
#"Put Your Records On" (Acoustic)

Credits

*Written by Corinne Bailey Rae, John Beck and Steve Chrisanthou
*Produced and recorded by Steve Chrisanthou
*Additional production by Jimmy Hogarth
*Lead vocals performed by Corinne Bailey Rae
*Backing vocals by Corinne Bailey Rae and Cara Robinson
*Acoustic guitar performed by Corinne Bailey Rae
*Percussion performed by Corinne Bailey Rae
*Electric guitar, Spanish guitar, horns and percussion by Steve Chrisanthou
*Keyboards performed by John Beck
*Hammond organ performed by Joe Tatton
*Alto Sax performed by Jason Rae
*Tenor Sax performed by Jim Corry
*Trumpet performed by Malcolm Strachan
*Bass performed by Sam Dixon
*Published by Global Talent Publishing and Good Groove Songs
*Recorded at The Idle Studio

Charts

{| class="wikitable"!align="center"|Chart (2006)!align="center"|Peak
position
-
align="left"|New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart
align="center"|6
-
align="left"|Romanian Top 100 [cite web |url=http://www.rt100.ro/top-100-edition.html?edition=530&go=Go |title=Romanian Top 100 – 19/2006 |accessdate=2008-03-07 |work=Vento Consultanta SRL |language=Romanian]
align="center"|60
-
align="left"|Swiss Singles Chart
align="center"|23
-
align="left"|UK Singles Chart
align="center"|2
-
align="left"|UK R&B Singles Chart
align="center"|1
-
align="left"|United World Chart
align="center"|15
-
align="left"|U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100
align="center"|64
-
align="left"|U.S. "Billboard" Smooth Jazz Songs [cite web |url=http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=409&cfgn=Singles&cfn=Smooth+Jazz+Songs&ci=3078727&cdi=9066773&cid=10%2F14%2F2006 |title=Smooth Jazz Songs |accessdate=2008-03-07 |work=Billboard]
align="center"|8
-
align="left"|U.S. "Billboard" Pop 100cite web |url=http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.vnuArtistId=711342&model.vnuAlbumId=903451 |title=Corinne Bailey Rae – "Billboard" Chart History |accessdate=2008-03-07 |work=Billboard]
align="center"|68
-!align="center"|Chart (2007)!align="center"|Peak
position
-
align="left"|U.S. "Billboard" Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks
align="center"|6

References

succession box
before = "Thunder in My Heart Again" by Meck featuring Leo Sayer
title = UK Official Download Chart number-one single
years = 1 March 2006 – 7 March 2006
after = "No Tomorrow" by Orson