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For The album by Aberfeldy, see Young Forever (album).
"Young Forever"
Song

"Young Forever" is the fifth single by American hip hop-rapper Jay-Z from his album The Blueprint 3 (2009) off of the Roc Nation label. Featuring vocals from Mr Hudson, "Young Forever" was released as the third official single in the United Kingdom ("Death of Auto-Tune" was never officially released there). In the UK, the song was originally scheduled to be released on the same day as Mr Hudson's other collaboration with N-Dubz, "Playing with Fire", but the single was pushed back until January 25, 2010. The song is a re-work of Alphaville's 1984 "Forever Young", with Mr Hudson singing Alphaville's vocals and Jay-Z rapping original lyrics between.

Music video

The music video was released on December 22, 2009 on Jay-Z's official YouTube channel.[3][4] Directed by Anthony Mandler, the video is black-and-white and shows various aspects of youth across America, intercut with scenes of Jay-Z and Mr Hudson performing the song, sometimes in concert. Video produced by Andrew Listermann of Riveting Entertainment.

Chart performance

After a strong amount of coverage on the radio throughout December 2009 and January 2010, "Young Forever" began to receive increasing digital downloads.

The single first entered the Irish Singles Chart at #36, on January, 1 2010. On the January 8, "Young Forever" climbed five places in the Irish Chart, reaching #31. On January 15, the single climbed to its current peak of #14.

The single first entered the UK Singles Chart at #27 on January, 3 2010. On January 10, 2010, "Young Forever" climbed eight places in the UK Singles, reaching #19. On January 17, the single climbed six places to reach #13. On January 24, the song remained at #13, despite managing to peak at #8 on the UK iTunes. On January 31, the song peaked at number #10.

Following the release of the album, the song debuted at #75 on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached #41 due to strong digital downloads. Following its release as a single, the song re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 at #97 and so far reached #10.

Chart (2009-2010) Peak
position[5]
Australian Singles Chart 28
Canadian Hot 100 29
Eurochart Hot 100[6] 28
Irish Singles Chart 11
Italian Singles Chart[7] 5
New Zealand Singles Chart[8] 32
Polish Singles Chart[9] 15
Swedish Singles Chart[10] 40
Swiss Singles Chart 44
UK Singles Chart 10
UK R&B Chart 2
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 10
U.S. Billboard Rap Songs 16

References

  1. ^ http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=74389#210
  2. ^ http://www.allaccess.com/top40-mainstream/future-releases
  3. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1nbvplgElw
  4. ^ http://www.rap-up.com/2009/12/22/video-jay-z-f-mr-hudson-young-forever/
  5. ^ http://acharts.us/song/49582
  6. ^ http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100#/artist/jay-z/chart-history/167256?f=349&g=Singles
  7. ^ http://www.fimi.it/classifiche_digital.php
  8. ^ http://www.rianz.org.nz/rianz/chart.asp
  9. ^ POLISH NATIONAL TOP 50 Chart
  10. ^ Swedish Singles Chart Sverigetopplistan
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