Push the Button (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Push the Button

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Artist = Sugababes
from Album = Taller in More Ways
B-side = "Favourite Song",
"Like the Weather"
Released = September 26, 2005
Format = CD single, digital download, digital single
Recorded =
Genre = Pop, dance-pop
Length = 3.39
Label = Island
Writer = Dallas Austin, Keisha Buchanan, Mutya Buena, Heidi Range
Certification = Silver (BPI) [ [http://www.bpi.co.uk/platinum/platinumright.asp?rq=search_plat&r_id=32374 "British silver certification for "Push the Button""] . British Phonographic Industry. 26 September 2005. Retrieved 10 July 2008.] , Gold (AUT) (GER) [ [http://www.ifpi.at/?section=goldplatin Austrian Certification] ] [ [http://www.musikindustrie.de/gold_platin_datenbank.html German certification] ] , Platinum (SWE) (DEN) (ARIA) [ [http://d12753932.u160.foretag.surftown.se/wp-content/uploads/ar-2007.pdf PDF Format, Swedish certification] ] [ [http://www.ifpi.dk/index.php?pk_menu=172 Danish Certifications, 2006] ] [ [http://www.aria.com.au/pages/ARIACharts-Accreditations-2006Singles.htm Australian Awards] ]

Producer = Dallas Austin
Reviews = | Last single = "Caught in a Moment" (2004)
This single = "Push the Button"
(2005)
Next single = "Ugly"
(2005)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album =
Type = compilation
prev_track = "Hole in the Head"
prev_no = 14
this_track = "Push the Button"
track_no = 15
next_track = | next_no = Extra album cover
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Background = khaki

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Lower caption = UK CD 2 coverAudiosample | Upper caption = Audio sample | Name = Push the Button
Audio file= PushTheButtonSample.ogg"Push the Button" is a pop song written by Dallas Austin, Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan, and Heidi Range for the Sugababes' fourth studio album "Taller in More Ways" (2005). Produced by Dallas, the song was released to positive reaction from music critics as the album's lead single in September 2005. It reached number one in Austria, Ireland, Poland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, becoming the group's fourth number one single domestically. Thematically, the electro influenced pop song focuses upon how a girl tries to wrap a man around the little finger, prompting him to "push the button" instead of hesitating any longer.

In the UK the maxi CDs release was on September 26 2005. The single was featured on the soundtrack for the 2006 romantic comedy "It's a Boy/Girl Thing", and in a commercial for Tassimo coffee machines.

Music video

.cite web | title="News from Mutya"| work=sugababes.com
url=http://www.sugababes.com/site/article/40/news-from-mutya| accessdate=2007-03-02] The video primarily focuses around Buena, Buchanan and Range dancing in an elevator for an extremely tall (and computer animated) building. "So there's Keisha, Heidi in a lift and on each floor that the lifts stops at, a different guy gets in, one for each of us," Mutya Buena told in an interview with the band's official website. "We end up with Mr 'Too Cool', Mr 'Perfect' and Mr 'Shy Guy' and of course we flirt with them, tease them and push them away... all in a fun way."

Chart performance

"Push The Button" has become the Sugababes' most successful single to date worldwide peaking at #1 the singles charts in the UK, Republic of Ireland, New Zealand,Croatia,Serbia, Austria and Poland. "Push the button" also peaked at #2 in Germany with sales over 150,000 and also peaked at #2 in Norway, and #3 in Switzerland. The girls received their second 'best British single' nomination at the 2006 BRIT Awards, but lost the award to Coldplay's Speed of Sound.

"Push the Button" debuted at #24 and peaked at #3 in Australia, making it their highest charting Australian single and biggest hit. It was certified Platinum by ARIA making it their best selling Australian single ahead of "Round Round" which peaked at #13 in 2002, which was certified gold. The single was also a club hit in the United States. The song was also successful in France, a difficult market for the group in the past, peaking at #17 and where it is their highest peaking single to date. Also in Sweden, "Push the Button" peaked at #4 to become the Sugababes' most successful single to date. In the Netherlands, "Push the Button" peaked at #3 spending 23 weeks on the chart, and is tied with "Hole in the Head" as their biggest hit, which peaked at #3 in 2003.Song also topped MTV Adria top 20 Chart.

On the united world chart, "Push the button" reached #6 becoming the group's biggest worldwide hit to date, ahead of "Round Round" and "Hole in the Head" which peaked at #8 and #7 respectively. On October 16 2005, the girls celebrated being at the top of the singles, airplay, album and download charts simultaneously. This feat was also accomplished with the release of "About You Now" in 2007, which also surpassed the success of "Push The Button" in UK when the song managed 4 weeks at #1 and reached sales of 300,000+ while "Push The Button" stayed on top of the UK charts for 3 weeks with total sales of 386,000. However, "About You Now" has now become the girls biggest selling single in the UK with sales over 410,00. In Denmark and Sweden, the single has since been certified Platinum, according to the IFPI. [ [http://www.ifpi.dk/index.php?pk_menu=172 Danish Certifications, 2006] ] [ [http://d12753932.u160.foretag.surftown.se/wp-content/uploads/ar-2007.pdf PDF Format, Swedish certification] ] Also in Germany and Austria, the single has been certified with Gold status. [ [http://www.musikindustrie.de/gold_platin_datenbank.html German certification] ] [ [http://www.ifpi.at/?section=goldplatin Austrian Certification] ] In Australia, the song has been certified Platinum by the ARIA [ [http://www.aria.com.au/pages/ARIACharts-Accreditations-2006Singles.htm Australian Awards] ]

Track listings and formats

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Push the Button."

; UK CD single 1
# "Push the Button" - 3:39
# "Favourite Song" (Jonathan Lipsey, K. Buchanan, M. Buena, H. Range, Cameron "Booga Bear" McVey) - 3:46

; UK CD single 2
# "Push the Button" - 3:39
# "Like the Weather" - 3:46
# "Push the Button" [DJ Prom Remix] - 8:13

; International CD single
# "Push the Button" - 3:39
# "Like the Weather" (Cathy Dennis, Guy Sigsworth, Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan, Heidi Range) - 3:46
# "Push the Button" [DJ Prom Remix] - 8:13
# "Push the Button" [video] - 3:39

Credits and personnel

* Lead vocals: Keisha Buchanan, Mutya Buena, Heidi Range
* Engineered by Rick Sheppard
* Midi & sound design by Rick Sheppard
* Assistant recording engineers: Graham Marsh, Ian Rossiter, Owen Clark
* Audio mixing - Jeremy Wheatley
* Assisted by Richard Edgeler
* drums - Dallas Austin
* Guitar, bass guitar - Tony Reyes
* Mastered by Chris Parmenidis

Charts

References