Heartbreaker (will.i.am song)

Infobox Single
Name = Heartbreaker

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Artist = will.i.am featuring Cheryl Cole
from Album = Songs About Girls
B-side =
Released = May 5 2008 (UK)
Format = CD Single, Digital Download
Recorded = 2006/2007
Genre = Electro Pop
Length = 5:28 (Album Version) 3:15 (UK Single Version)
Label = will.i.am Music Group, A&M
Writer =
Producer = will.i.am
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = will.i.am singles
Type = singles
Last single = "We Are the Ones" (2008)
This single = "Heartbreaker" (2008)
Next single = "In the Ayer" (2008)Extra chronology 2
Artist = Cheryl Cole singles
Type = singles
Last single =
This single = "Heartbreaker" (2008)
Next single =

"Heartbreaker" is the second single from rap singer will.i.am's third album "Songs About Girls". The British single version features guest vocals from Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole. cite web | url=http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk/celeb_news/Cheryl_Cole_records_new_song_about_love_rats_article_195642.html | title=Cheryl Cole records new song about love rats | publisher="Now" magazine | date=2008-03-04 | accessdate=2008-04-02 ]

Release and reception

Cheryl Cole's vocals and appearance in the music video came as a result of the ITV2 television show "Passions of Girls Aloud". In the show, Cole learned the art of street dancing, and would ultimately audition for the will.i.am music video. She received the part and would also contribute guest vocals to the song, singing part of the chorus and a break down. will.i.am said the record company suggested Cole, and after meeting her, he felt the idea was perfect. [ cite web | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7373205.stm | title=Talking Shop: Will.i.am | publisher=BBC Music | date=2008-05-03 | accessdate=2008-05-04 ] The duo performed the song unedited on The Graham Norton Show on 24 April 2008. [youtube|ubEPTXzPFVg|Heartbreaker (Performance)] At a promotional appearance on GMTV, will.i.am said that Cheryl was "hotter than Nelly Furtado." [ cite web | url=http://www.gm.tv/index.cfm?articleid=29299 | title=Will.i.am reveals why he was Black Eyed-Pleased to collaborate with Cheryl Cole on his latest single | publisher=GM.tv | date=2008-04-25 | accessdate=2008-04-25 ]

Music video

The music video begins with various shots of will.i.am and Cheryl Cole in front of a black background with flashing lights. As the first verse begins, will.i.am sings in front of the black background while controlling and/or holding a glowing red ball a la telekinesis. He is also seen in a convertible with a girl, while they look at moving stars. will.i.am dances using the famous Michael Jackson slide from Billie Jean in front of the black, with a spotlight shining on one of various women posing next to him. One of the women is Cole, who can be seen with will.i.am or singing her lines in front of moving lights. The light turns off of her when her lines have finished, and shots of different women grinding on will.i.am are shown. He moves star-like lights with his hands, like the red ball from the beginning of the music video. The stars, which are people wearing black bodysuits with lights attached, mimic will.i.am's dancing. A number of clips of will.i.am and Cheryl singing and dancing, both together and separately, are shown throughout the remainder of the video.

The video quickly shot up to #1 on iTunes UK Top Videos.

Formats and track listings

;CD
# "Heartbreaker" (featuring Cheryl Cole (remix/edited super clean UK version)
# "Impatient (Gutter remix by Aaron Lacrate & Debonair Samir)

Download
# Heartbreaker (featuring Cheryl Cole) [Clean] [http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=279661989&s=143444]

Download, Pt.2
# Heartbreaker (featuring Cheryl Cole) [Explicit] [http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=279662329&s=143444]

Charts

The album version of the song entered the UK Singles Chart at number seventy-four on downloads alone, before rising to number forty-nine the next week. cite web | url=http://www.chartstats.com/songinfo.php?id=33735 | title=Heartbreaker | publisher=ChartStats.com | accessdate=2008-04-25 ] The song entered the top twenty two weeks later. After two weeks at number eight, "Heartbreaker" peaked at number four the week of its physical release. "Heartbreaker" also debuted at number forty-nine on the Irish Singles Chart, and has peaked at number seven after spending two weeks at number 10. cite web | url=http://acharts.us/song/34629 | title=Heartbreaker | publisher=aCharts.us | accessdate=2008-04-25 ] It is the artist's first hit single since he started his solo project. ECD:UK added two versions of the song but it reached no.1 by one video edit alone.

It also marks Cheryl's nineteenth consecutive top ten single in the UK, both as a solo act and as part of Girls Aloud.

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