For the week of July 20, 2008, the song moved up to number 19 on the UK Singles Chart, several months after its official release. The physical release of the single occurred in the UK for the week of March 24, 2008. The song sold over six million in digital sales by August 7, 2011, and reached its seven millionth sales mark in sales in June 2014. It was best-selling digitally-downloaded song of all time until it was surpassed by The Black Eyed Peas' " I Gotta Feeling" in May 2010. For the week of June 29, 2008, it became the first song ever to sell four million digital copies in the US, and then for the week of June 21, 2009, the first to sell over five million copies. Īs the first number one on the Hot 100 of 2008, "Low" held the top position longer than any song did in 2008 (see List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2008), and was the longest-running Hot 100 number one single since Beyoncé's " Irreplaceable." The song is also the longest-running number one single in the history of the Billboard Digital Songs chart, topping the chart for 13 weeks, and also on the now-defunct Pop 100 chart, where it ruled for 12 weeks. The song stayed on the Hot 100 for 39 weeks, before dropping out in June 2008. "Low" was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for ten weeks and remained in the top ten of the chart for 23 weeks, making it both T-Pain and Flo Rida's most successful single to date. The song generated the second greatest one-week digital sales in the history of Billboard 's Digital Songs chart (behind Flo Rida's " Right Round"), with 467,000 digital copies in one week. Billboard Hot 100 for the week of November 6, 2007, and reached number one for the week of December 30, 2007. The song debuted at number 91 on the U.S. The music video was also nominated at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Male Video and Best Hip-Hop Video, but lost to Chris Brown's " With You" (Best Male Video) and Lil Wayne's " Lollipop" (Best Hip-Hop Video) music videos. The music video reached the number one spot on 106 & Park for five days and 22 days on TRL. Also, T-Pain and Flo Rida are in a nightclub in a few scenes. It also contains cameos from Rick Ross, DJ Khaled, Cool & Dre, Briana Evigan, Torch and Gunplay of Triple C's and Jermaine Dupri. The music video of "Low" was directed by Bernard Gourley and contains certain clips from Step Up 2: The Streets. "Low" is written in common time with a moderate tempo of 128 beats per minute while T-Pain's vocal range spans nearly two octaves from B♭ 2 to F ♯ 4. Flo Rida uses a style that is common in 1990s hip-hop party music. A harmonic minor melody is played over the E♭ minor, and at different times different instrumentation cycles, i.e., sometimes only the synthesizer plays, sometimes only the bass, sometimes only the vocals. The song is written in the key of E♭ minor. T-Pain also relies heavily on synthesizers. Flo Rida has sexually charged (but not explicit) lyrics, for example he refers to a woman's buttocks as "birthday cakes" which "stole the show". It contains electronic elements featuring 808-style drums and an arpeggiated note sequence instead of a chord progression. Several of T-Pain's stylistic effects are present in this song, including Auto-Tune and call and answer during the chorus. Problems playing this file? See media help. įlo Rida featuring T-Pain's "Low" from Mail on Sundayand Step Up 2: The Streets The song was named third on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs of the Decade. With over seven million digital downloads, it has been certified Diamond by the RIAA, and was the most downloaded single of the 2000s decade, measured by paid digital downloads. The song was a massive success worldwide and was the longest-running number-one single of 2008 in the United States, spending ten consecutive weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100.
The song peaked at number one on the U.S. An official remix was made which also features Pitbull. " Low" is the debut single by American rapper Flo Rida featuring fellow American rapper T-Pain, featured on the former's debut studio album Mail on Sunday and also featured on the soundtrack to the 2008 film Step Up 2: The Streets. From the album Mail on Sunday and Step Up 2: The Streets