Hit Me Up (Gia Farrell song)

"Hit Me Up" is the second single by American singer Gia Farrell. The song is included on the Happy Feet movie soundtrack.[1]

"Hit Me Up"
iTunes Cover
Single by Gia Farrell
from the album Happy Feet: Music from the Motion Picture
ReleasedJanuary 22, 2007 (CD Single)
January 29, 2007 (Digital Download)
GenreDance-pop, R&B
Length3:15
LabelAtlantic
Songwriter(s)Brian Kierulf, Gia Farrell, Josh Schwartz.
Producer(s)Josh Schwartz , Polow da Don
Gia Farrell singles chronology
"Christmas Everyday"
(2006)		 "Hit Me Up"
(2007)		 "New Religion"
(2009)
Alternative cover
CD cover

Music video

In the video the main basis is on the Happy Feet theme with Gia appearing in three different sets with dancers in the background while singing the song. A cameraman's hand gives Gia a spin before each transition. The only indications of the song being on the Happy Feet soundtrack is when Gia is singing out in the front of a theatre and above her on the movies showing list is Happy Feet, and also when in the middle of the video her backup dancers are seen in tuxedos and wearing costume penguin masks as they all dance in an arctic scene.

Song information

The song is about a confident girl who gets attention everywhere she goes. She sings to a guy telling him to "hit me up". "To hit up", a term popularized by users of the social networking website MySpace, refers to contacting a person via electronic means. In this case there is a romantic interest for the person being "hit up".

"Hit Me Up" was used as the opening theme for Germany's Next Topmodel, Cycle 2 and as an official song for the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer tournament. It was featured in a Wheat Thins's commercial for garden vegetable flavored crackers, and gained attention again when it was performed in May 2008 by Syesha Mercado on American Idol's seventh season at the top three stage. The song was also in an episode of Gossip Girl Season 1 Episode 2, The Wild Brunch, when the cooks are getting ready for Bart Bass Brunch.

Track listing
CD Single
  1. "Hit Me Up" (original version)
  2. "Hit Me Up" (no taps version)
  3. "Hit Me Up" (Matt The Bratt radio edit)

Peak positions

Chart performance

The song charted in several countries around the world, and barely made the top 40 in the U.S. Its highest peak position was in Hungary at #1. In Germany the song reached a good position at #29.

Charts
Chart (2007) Peak
position
Australian Singles Chart[2][3] 6
Austrian Singles Chart[2] 67
Belgian Singles Chart[2][4] 17
European Singles Chart[5] 136
Finland Singles Chart[6] 8
German Singles Chart[2] 29
Hungary (Rádiós Top 40)[7] 1
Indonesian Singles Chart 3
Netherlands Singles Chart[8] 17
Portugal Top 50 Singles Chart[9] 49
Turkey Top 20 Chart[10] 12
US Billboard Pop Songs[11] 40

References
  1. Track listing of Happy Feet.
  2. "Hit Me Up peak position, various singles charts". AChartsUS. Archived from the original on April 15, 2012. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  3. "ARIA Top 50 Singles Chart". Archived from the original on March 5, 2007. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  4. "Belgium Singles Chart week 9, March 3, 2007". Archived from the original on November 13, 2011. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  5. "Europe Singles Chart". Euro 200. Archived from the original on April 30, 2007. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
  6. "Hit Me Up peak position Finnish Singles Chart". finnishcharts.com. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
  7. "Archívum – Slágerlisták – MAHASZ" (in Hungarian). Rádiós Top 40 játszási lista. Magyar Hanglemezkiadók Szövetsége.
  8. Dutch Top 40 week 6
  9. Gia Farrell - Hit Me Up - Music Charts Archived 2012-04-15 at the Wayback Machine
  10. Billboard Turkey Top 20 Chart Archived March 5, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  11. Interview Billboard
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