"Timber" is a song by American rapper Pitbull featuring American recording artist Ke$ha from Pitbull's Extended Play (EP) Meltdown. The song was released on October 7, 2013 and as the album's lead single . The song was produced by Dr. Luke, Cirkut, and Sermstyle, with additional production by Nick Seeley. The song interpolates "San Francisco Bay" (1979) by Danish harmonica player Lee Oskar, which was written by Lee Oskar, Keri Oskar, and Greg Errico.
"Timber" features harmonica player Paul Harrington of Rockwall, Texas, who plays through the entire song. He was told to emulate harmonica playerLee Oskar of the band War. "Timber" peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for three consecutive weeks, and has also topped the charts in Canada where it has stood at number one for eight consecutive weeks.
Background[rocyoufm]
In an interview in December 2013, Pitbull revealed that the featured artist on "Timber" was originally supposed to be Rihanna. At the time, however, he stated that Rihanna was already asked to be the featured artist on "Can't Remember to Forget You", the lead single from Shakira's upcoming album and did not have time to record "Timber".
Kesha's vocals span from G#3 to Eb5.
Chart performance[rocyoufm]
"Timber" made its first chart appearance on October 7, 2013, in the Republic of Ireland, where it debuted at number 67 on the Irish Singles Chart.The following week, the song climbed to number 19. In Austria, "Timber" debuted at number 69 on the Austrian Singles Chart on October 18, 2013 and has now peaked at number 1. In Germany, the song debuted at number 90 on October 18, 2013 on the German Singles Chart and has since peaked at number 1.
Timber debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 on October 26, 2013 at number 49, and topped the chart on January 18, 2014, giving Kesha her fourth number 1 single after "Right Round", "Tik Tok" and "We R Who We R" as well as earning Pitbull his second number 1 single, after 2011's "Give Me Everything". Before topping the Hot 100, it had been stuck at number 2 for 4 weeks, behind "The Monster" by Eminem featuring Rihanna. "Timber" is Kesha's eleventh top 10 song on the Hot 100 chart. "Timber" peaked at number 1 on the US Hot Digital Songs, and is Pitbull's first song to do so. "Timber" also peaked at number 1 on the USRap Songs chart. It is the first #1 single of 2014 in the US, and stood at number one for three consecutive weeks. In the Bilboard Hot 100 has been 4 consecutive weeks at the number two, three consecutive week at the number one, then again at the number two for one week. It has sold over 3.5 million digital copies in the US as of March 2014.
In Canada, the song debuted at number 17 on the Canadian Hot 100 as the week's highest debut and climbed steadily to number 1, where it has stood for eight consecutive weeks.
In Chile, Timber reached the number 1 in the week of February 6, while in Argentina has been at number 2 in the first week of february.
In the United Kingdom, "Timber" debuted at the top of the UK Singles Chart on January 5, 2014―for the week ending date January 11, 2014―shifting 139,000 copies in its first week. This gave both artists their third chart-topping singles in Britain.
In South Korea, "Timber" debuted at number 16 on Gaon International Chart, but it debuted at number 13 on Gaon Download International Chart with 6,522 downloads. In its second week it reached number 2 on the International Chart. On the download chart, it jumped to number 3, selling another 15,276 copies. "Timber" sold 68,321 copies during 2013 in South Korea. During January 2014, the single sold other 16,515 copies.
Music video[rocyoufm]
Kesha filmed her scenes on November 5, 2013 while Pitbull filmed his scenes one week later on November 12, 2013. The video also features a cameo by The Bloody Jug Band, an Orlando-Based Americana Group, who perform on stage as the bar's house band. The music video also features the Italian model Raffaella Modugno and first premiered on Pitbull's official Facebook page on November 24, 2013.
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