![]() “What About Now” also happens to be the first single on Westlife’s album “Who We Are.” David also won a BMI Pop award for this song.ĭavid wrote the first single “Crush” for American Idol’s David Archuleta, which had the highest chart debut of any single since January 2007. The 4x platinum Daughtry to date is credited as the fastest selling debut rock album in Soundscan history. Hodges also penned the single, “What About Now”, which appears on American Idol Chris Daughtry’s debut album Daughtry. The song was covered by Reba McEntire as the first single off her Duets album, and quickly rose up the country charts in 2007 becoming McEntire’s 30th Top 2 country single. Evanescence’s debut album Fallen has sold over 15 million copies worldwide.ĭavid went on to write and produce Kelly Clarkson’s biggest worldwide single to date, “Because Of You”, which appeared on Clarkson’s 11 million-selling album Breakaway and garnered him the 2007 BMI Song Of The Year honor. Charts Chart (2008) ĭavid Hodges is a Grammy award-winning writer/producer/artist hailing from Little Rock, AR.Īs the former writer and keyboardist of the band Evanescence, he and his band mates took home Best New Artist as well as the Best Hard Rock Performance trophy for their hit “Bring Me To Life” in 2004. It also received ‘BMI Pop Award’ in 2010. “Crush” was awarded for Choice Music Love Song, in Teen Choice Awards 2009. “Crush” was released digitally in UK on February 23, 2009, although no physical CD single was released. The single has sold 2,082,000 copies as of October 2012 according to Nielsen SoundScan. The song entered the Canadian Hot 100 at number seven in the same week. “Crush” entered the Billboard Pop 100, at number 93 and peaked at number12 it also made the top ten on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart. ![]() This was the highest entry for a song on the Hot 100 in 2008 and the highest for any song on this chart since Fall Out Boy‘s “ This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race“, which also entered the chart at number two in the chart week of February 3, 2007. Chart performanceĪfter being released digitally in the U.S., “Crush” entered at the Billboard Hot 100 at number two in the week of August 21, 2008, with 166,000 copies sold in its first week. Archuleta is also shown playing the piano near a lake throughout the video. At the end, Archuleta goes out on the deck of the cabin, and the girl follows him out, showing that she shares his feelings. Another scene shows the group by a campfire with several of them paired off into couples. The group is also shown in a cabin playing a game involving post its, while Archuleta is also shown playing his guitar in the cabin. After they have finished swimming, the guy runs off, while Archuleta stays behind to help the girl out of the lake. At the beginning, several teens go swimming in the lake near their summer house, with one of the guys flirting with the girl in the water. It consists of Archuleta on a vacation trying to get the attention of a girl (played by Hagood Coxe) on whom he apparently has a crush. The video now has over 30 million hits on YouTube. The music video was first leaked on September 7, 2008, through AOL, initially restricted to Canada and then released on September 16, 2008, on iTunes. The music video was directed by Declan Whitebloom. Ken Barnes of USA Today liked the “effortless glides into falsetto and some rousing moments in the bridge and chorus”, but also said it “tends to plod”, and “could become pretty tedious with repetition.” Music video ![]() Michael Slezak of Entertainment Weekly called the song “surprisingly good!” as well as “hip and contemporary.” He stated, “David adroitly walks the line between giving his core fans their fill of vocal runs while showing enough restraint that he won’t automatically alienate non-Idol-loving listeners.” īlender Magazine also praised the song, giving it three and a half out of five stars and claiming to have “just listened to the thing six times in a row and we’re not terribly angry about spin seven.” They also liked that the song seemed perfectly crafted for radio, saying, “Songs like “Crush” are great because they sound as if the radio immaculately conceived them.” “Crush” was met with positive reviews by many critics.Ĭhuck Taylor of Billboard praised it for being a suitable match for Archuleta, citing it as a “hummable, age-appropriate midtempo pop ditty for the 17-year-old, showcasing his fine mass-appeal vocal stylings with creamy harmonies and some nice falsetto effects.” He also predicted chart success for the song, saying “‘Crush’ is likely to put its money where its title is on the charts.” ![]()
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