This article is about the single by Jamelia. For the Lil' Bow Wow album, see "Beware of Dog

Beware of Dog

Notes*Track 9, "Ghetto Girls" featured uncredited vocals by Jagged Edge.Sample credits*Track 4, "Puppy Love" samples "Kanday" as performed by LL Cool J, and written by Dwayne "Muffla" Simon, Daryl "Big Dad" Pierce, Bobby "Bob Cat" Erving and James Smith....

"; for the short-lived television series presented by Animal Planet, see "Beware of Dog (TV series)

Beware of Dog (TV series)

Beware of Dog is the first situation comedy to be presented by the U.S. cable television channel Animal Planet. While it had two episodes broadcast consecutively on August 13, 2002, this was the only time that the series made it to the air.-Synopsis:...

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"Beware of the Dog" is a song written by Jamelia

Jamelia

Jamelia Niela Davis , best known mononymously as Jamelia, is an English singer-songwriter, model, entertainer, television presenter and actress. She is most famous for her use of a cappella and prolific work in the R&B genre...

, Stuart Crichton, Tommy Lee James, Karen Poole

Karen Poole

Karen Poole is an English songwriter and singer, who gained initial fame with her younger sister, Shelly Poole, as the duo / band, Alisha's Attic.-List of compositions:...

 and Martin Gore

Martin Gore

Martin Lee Gore is an English songwriter, lyricist, singer, guitarist, keyboardist, remixer and DJ. He is a founding member of Depeche Mode and has written the vast majority of their songs...

, produced by Crichton for Jamelia's third album Walk with Me (2006). The single is notable for its sample of Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke...

's song "Personal Jesus

Personal Jesus

"Personal Jesus" is Depeche Mode's 23rd UK single, released on August 29, 1989, and the first single from the album Violator. The single reached No. 13 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100...

" and was the second single released from the album, except for New Zealand

New Zealand

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 where it was released as the only single.

Background

"Beware of the Dog" was the second single from Jamelia to enter the UK top forty on downloads alone. It was also the highest download only entry of the week and the only song to reach the top forty. The single has also been an airplay hit, reaching BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock...

's A-list and peaking inside the top twenty of both the TV airplay and radio airplay charts. Upon its physical release, "Beware of the Dog" peaked at number ten in its second week on the charts, Jamelia's second top ten hit from Walk with Me and her seventh UK top ten hit in total. The single made its debut in Australia on 21 May 2007 at number fifty-one due to low digital downloads but on its second week it moved up to its peak position of fifty.

Jamelia has performed the track with UK rock band Feeder

Feeder

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, at their 9 November 2006 gig at the London Coronet

The Coronet

The Coronet Theatre is a large live music and night-club venue with a 2,600 capacity located at 28 New Kent Road in Elephant and Castle, south central London, England...

. "Beware Of The Dog" has also been used in the advertisement for UK television network's Channel 4

Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

 show, Goldplated

Goldplated

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. The song was also used as one of the catwalk tracks for the 2006 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.

In July 2007, the track was shortlisted for the Popjustice £20 Music Prize

Popjustice £20 Music Prize

The Popjustice £20 Music Prize is an annual prize awarded by a panel of judges organised by music website Popjustice to the singer of the best British pop single of the past year....

, a prize which recognizes the best British pop single over the past year. Popjustice praised the single by proclaiming that it "sounds like a Number One single to this very day." It peaked at #10 on the UK charts.

The song was featured in the 2008 movie Make It Happen

Make It Happen (film)

Make It Happen is a 2008 dance film directed by Darren Grant and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead. The screenplay was co-written by Duane Adler, who was a screenwriter for Save the Last Dance and Step Up, films that also involved dancing.-Plot:...

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Track listings

UK & Dutch CD

1. "Beware of the Dog"
2. "Thank You (Radio Edit)"

UK DVD

1. "Beware of the Dog" (extended version)
2. "Tripping Over You"
3. "Real Love"
4. "Beware of the Dog" (video)

UK 12" vinyl

1. "Beware of the Dog" (Alavi ReroX remix)
2. "Beware of the Dog" (Radio Slave instrumental)

Australian CD single

1. "Beware of the Dog"
2. "Something About You" (single edit)
3. "Beware of the Dog" (Steve Lawler's Sesso Oscurita mix
4. "Beware of the Dog" (Radio Slave instrumental)
5. "Beware of the Dog" (Alavi ReroX remix)

Music video

The video for the single was premiere

Premiere

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d in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 on 21 October 2006. Shot in a black-and-white

Black-and-white

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 format, the video was filmed by Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 director Ray Kay

Ray Kay

Ray Kay is a Norwegian director and photographer, based in Los Angeles.He is one of the most sought-after music video & commercial directors in the world now, and has directed the most watched video on YouTube, Justin Bieber's "Baby" . All in all, his videos have been viewed more than 1 billion...

, who had previously worked with Destiny's Child

Destiny's Child

Destiny's Child was an American R&B girl group whose final line-up comprised lead singer Beyoncé Knowles alongside Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. Formed in 1997 in Houston, Texas, Destiny's Child members began their musical endeavors in their pre-teens under the name Girl's Tyme...

 ("Soldier"), Stacie Orrico

Stacie Orrico

Stacie Joy Orrico is a Contemporary Christian and R&B singer-songwriter and occasional actress. In 1998, she signed to ForeFront Records when she was 12 years old, and recorded her first album Genuine , which sold 13,000 in the first week of release.After her first album she signed to a new record...

 ("So Simple

So Simple

* Not to be confused with the song So Simple by Alicia Keys"So Simple" is the second single and track one of Stacie Orrico's third studio album Beautiful Awakening. It was produced by Dwayne Bastiany.-Song information:...

"), Melanie C ("Yeh Yeh Yeh

Yeh Yeh Yeh

"Yeh Yeh Yeh" is a song by Melanie C, and was the third and final single from Chisolm's second solo album, Reason , as a double A-side with "Melt". The original plan was to release "Yeh Yeh Yeh" as the third single, but shortly before this could happen, Chisolm injured her knee in TV show The...

", "Next Best Superstar

Next Best Superstar

"Next Best Superstar" was the first single from Melanie C's third solo album, "Beautiful Intentions". Released on 4 April 2005, this was first single that Melanie released where she didn't have a writing credit, as this song was penned by Adam Argyle...

") and Monica

Monica (singer)

Monica Denise Brown , and professionally known as Monica, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Born and raised in College Park, Georgia, Monica began performing as a child and became part of a traveling gospel choir, by the time she was ten...

 ("Everytime tha Beat Drop

Everytime tha Beat Drop

"Everytime tha Beat Drop" is a song by American R&B singer Monica, composed by Johnta Austin, Jermaine Dupri, Robert Hill, Charles Hammond, Deangelo Hunt, James Phillips, and Dem Franchize Boyz for Monica's fifth studio album, The Makings of Me...

").

The video is set in central London

London

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 and features Jamelia being driven at high speed through Soho

Soho

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 before arriving at a nightclub

Nightclub

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 and performing to a crowd.

Big Brother UK Series 8

Big Brother 2007 (UK)

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 housemate Nabeel "Billi" Bhatti starred in the video.

Chart performance

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Chart (2006)	Peak Position
Ireland (IRMA Irish Recorded Music Association Irish Recorded Music Association is the Irish record industry association. IRMA is a non-profit association set up to manage and control the music industry in the Republic of Ireland.-Goals and activities:... )	48
United Kingdom (Official Charts Company)	10
Chart (2007)	Peak Position

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalogue
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	2006-12-04	Parlophone Records	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...	162453
Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...	2007-05-12	Capital Records	CD	3845122