SOS (Jonas Brothers song)
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"S.O.S" is a song by American
pop
band Jonas Brothers
. The song was released as the band's second single from Jonas Brothers
, their second studio album, in 2007. It was also their debut single in Europe
in May 2008 and in UK in early June 2008. S.O.S is featured on the album Now: The Hits of Winter 2008
in Australia and Now That's What I Call Music! 70 in the UK.
, Nick said that SOS was one of the songs that came to him in the middle of the night. He wrote the song in ten minutes.
. In the week following its debut, the song rose to #17 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's first single to reach the Top 20.
The single sold very well digitally, having peaked at #4 on Billboard's Hot Digital Songs
chart for two consecutive weeks in September 2007.
In Australia
, "S.O.S" debuted inside the Top 50 at #48 on the ARIA Charts
on April 13, 2008. It has thus far peaked at #47.
On January 3, 2008, the single gained a dramatic rise from #85 to #40 increasing album sales in the past few weeks. The video was also premiered on Disney Channel Asia
on February 13 2008.
"S.O.S" premiered on the German charts for the week of June 17, 2008. It is currently the #38 song in Germany. In Spain, it peaked at #4 on October 4 on Los 40 Principales
(Top 40 Spain). On iTunes Spain, it peaked the #7 at the Top 100 Songs.
In the UK, "S.O.S" was a moderate success, entering the UK Singles Chart at #16 and rose the next week to #13. However, despite large amounts of video airplay, it fell 11 places to #24 the following week. In the fourth week on the UK Singles Chart, the single dropped another eight places to #32.The song sold 2,000,000 copies worldwide becoming one of the best selling songs of 2007.The song was later used used as the b-side to When You Look Me in the Eyes
UK CD
Europe Maxi-CD
a superliner
believed by some to be haunted, located in Long Beach
, California
. It premiered in early August on the Disney Channel. It also features a cameo by Moises Arias. The Jonas Brothers have said that the boat was "kind of creepy" and that they liked to try and scare each other while aboard it. The song is about having troubled relationships with girlfriends. In the video, Moises Arias appears and waves to Joe's ex-girlfriend. He then joins her and they walk off.
The band and crew said the ship was peaceful and calm during the day shots, but when it came time for the performance shots at night, things got eerie. The performance was supposed to be shot completely at dusk, but extras were complaining of being hit, pushed, and even having their hair pulled out of nowhere, but never seeing who did it. A camera man's lens cracked suddenly while filming the boat's deck and he never found an explanation for it. Joe recalls feeling a hand drag along his shoulder blades as he was taking a break in the ship's dining room, but withheld it until they were done shooting. The giant "S.O.S." behind the band kept flickering and would go completely out for 5-10 minutes, but the technicians could never find any problems with the circuitry. Fans who took pictures during the performance scenes claimed to see floating orbs of lights all around. Upon packing up and leaving the set, crew members claimed that the ship's horn sounded numerous times, but when they went to check the control room no one was there.
Since the video was uploaded on to the Jonas Brothers' official YouTube account in the beginning of August 2007, it has currently received over 90,680,000 views as of August 2011 making it the 1st most viewed video on their account.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
band Jonas Brothers
Jonas Brothers
The Jonas Brothers are an American boy band. The band gained its popularity from the Disney Channel children's television network. From the shore region of New Jersey, the band consists of three brothers: Paul Kevin Jonas II , Joseph Adam Jonas , and Nicholas Jerry Jonas...
. The song was released as the band's second single from Jonas Brothers
Jonas Brothers (album)
Jonas Brothers is the self-titled second studio album and the international debut album released by the Jonas Brothers and their first album to be released under Hollywood Records. The album was released on August 7, 2007. "Hold On" was the album's second single, followed by "SOS" as the third...
, their second studio album, in 2007. It was also their debut single in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
in May 2008 and in UK in early June 2008. S.O.S is featured on the album Now: The Hits of Winter 2008
Now: The Hits of Winter 2008
Now: The Hits of Winter 2008 is the 21st album of the Australian Now! series.- Track listing :# Madonna Featuring Justin Timberlake & Timbaland – "4 Minutes"# Gabriella Cilmi – "Sweet About Me"# Flo Rida featuring T-pain – "Low"...
in Australia and Now That's What I Call Music! 70 in the UK.
Song information
In an interview with Elvis CostelloElvis Costello
Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...
, Nick said that SOS was one of the songs that came to him in the middle of the night. He wrote the song in ten minutes.
Chart performance
In August 2007, "S.O.S" debuted at #65 on the Billboard Hot 100Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
. In the week following its debut, the song rose to #17 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's first single to reach the Top 20.
The single sold very well digitally, having peaked at #4 on Billboard's Hot Digital Songs
Hot Digital Songs
The Hot Digital Songs chart ranks the best-selling digital singles in the United States, according to Billboard.Beginning in February 2005, digital sales have been incorporated into many of Billboards music single charts. It was decided to do so mainly because of the dramatic rise in popularity of...
chart for two consecutive weeks in September 2007.
In 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...
, "S.O.S" debuted inside the Top 50 at #48 on the ARIA Charts
ARIA Charts
The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...
on April 13, 2008. It has thus far peaked at #47.
On January 3, 2008, the single gained a dramatic rise from #85 to #40 increasing album sales in the past few weeks. The video was also premiered on Disney Channel Asia
Disney Channel Asia
Disney Channel Asia, a franchise of Disney Channel, airs in most parts of Southeast Asia.- Programming :Disney Channel Asia airs a variety of shows, aimed particularly at children and teenagers. Most of the programming is similar to the American counterpart with some shows exclusive to the Asian...
on February 13 2008.
"S.O.S" premiered on the German charts for the week of June 17, 2008. It is currently the #38 song in Germany. In Spain, it peaked at #4 on October 4 on Los 40 Principales
Los 40 Principales
Los 40 Principales is the main musical radio station in Spain with more than 4,000,000 listeners. The station was founded in 1966 and in 2006 the station celebrated its 40th anniversary...
(Top 40 Spain). On iTunes Spain, it peaked the #7 at the Top 100 Songs.
In the UK, "S.O.S" was a moderate success, entering the UK Singles Chart at #16 and rose the next week to #13. However, despite large amounts of video airplay, it fell 11 places to #24 the following week. In the fourth week on the UK Singles Chart, the single dropped another eight places to #32.The song sold 2,000,000 copies worldwide becoming one of the best selling songs of 2007.The song was later used used as the b-side to When You Look Me in the Eyes
When You Look Me in the Eyes
"When You Look Me in the Eyes" is a song by the American pop-rock band Jonas Brothers. The song was released as the band's third single from their self-titled second album, Jonas Brothers, in 2007...
Track Listing
UK Promo- S.O.S. (Album Version) 2:33
UK CD
- S.O.S. (Album Version) 2:33
- Hello Beautiful (Live) 3:22
Europe Maxi-CD
- S.O.S (Album Version) 2:33
- Hello Beautiful (Live) 3:22
- Year 3000 (Album Version) 3:21
- Video S.O.S 2:33
Music video
The video was filmed in June 2007 on the RMS Queen MaryRMS Queen Mary
RMS Queen Mary is a retired ocean liner that sailed primarily in the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line...
a superliner
Superliner (passenger ship)
A superliner is an ocean liner of over 10,000 gross tons. The term was coined in the late 19th century, when ocean liners were rapidly increasing in size and speed...
believed by some to be haunted, located in Long Beach
Long Beach, California
Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. It premiered in early August on the Disney Channel. It also features a cameo by Moises Arias. The Jonas Brothers have said that the boat was "kind of creepy" and that they liked to try and scare each other while aboard it. The song is about having troubled relationships with girlfriends. In the video, Moises Arias appears and waves to Joe's ex-girlfriend. He then joins her and they walk off.
The band and crew said the ship was peaceful and calm during the day shots, but when it came time for the performance shots at night, things got eerie. The performance was supposed to be shot completely at dusk, but extras were complaining of being hit, pushed, and even having their hair pulled out of nowhere, but never seeing who did it. A camera man's lens cracked suddenly while filming the boat's deck and he never found an explanation for it. Joe recalls feeling a hand drag along his shoulder blades as he was taking a break in the ship's dining room, but withheld it until they were done shooting. The giant "S.O.S." behind the band kept flickering and would go completely out for 5-10 minutes, but the technicians could never find any problems with the circuitry. Fans who took pictures during the performance scenes claimed to see floating orbs of lights all around. Upon packing up and leaving the set, crew members claimed that the ship's horn sounded numerous times, but when they went to check the control room no one was there.
Since the video was uploaded on to the Jonas Brothers' official YouTube account in the beginning of August 2007, it has currently received over 90,680,000 views as of August 2011 making it the 1st most viewed video on their account.
Charts
| Chart (2007-2008) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian ARIA Singles Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June... |
47 |
| Austrian Singles Chart | 33 |
| Belgian Singles Chart Ultratop 50 Ultratop 50 singles, often just Ultratop 50, is the weekly chart of fifty best-selling singles in Flanders, Belgium, and is produced and published by the Ultratop organization. The chart has existed since March 31, 1995... (Flanders) |
8 |
| Belgian Singles Chart Ultratop 50 Ultratop 50 singles, often just Ultratop 50, is the weekly chart of fifty best-selling singles in Flanders, Belgium, and is produced and published by the Ultratop organization. The chart has existed since March 31, 1995... (Wallonia) |
9 |
| Canadian Hot 100 Canadian Hot 100 The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart debuted in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007... |
49 |
| Danish Singles Chart | 28 |
| Dutch Top 40 Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting... |
32 |
| European Hot 100 Singles | 24 |
| French SNEP Singles Chart | 15 |
| German Singles Chart Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie... |
26 |
| Irish Singles Chart Irish Singles Chart The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured... |
14 |
| Italian FIMI Federation of the Italian Music Industry The Federation of the Italian Music Industry is an umbrella organization that keeps track of virtually all aspects of the music recording industry in Italy.... Singles Chart |
21 |
| Norwegian Singles Chart | 2 |
| Swedish Singles Chart Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association .... |
28 |
| Swiss Singles Chart | 66 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
17 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100 Pop 100 The Pop 100 was a songs chart that debuted in February 2005 and was released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States until its discontinuation in 2009... |
5 |
| UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
13 |