About You Now

For the Miranda Cosgrove EP, see About You Now (EP).

"About You Now"
Single by Sugababes
from the album Change
B-side
Released24 September 2007 (2007-09-24)
Genre
Length
  • 3:09 (radio edit)
  • 3:32 (album version)
LabelIsland
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Dr. Luke
Sugababes singles chronology
"Walk This Way"
(2007) 		"About You Now"
(2007) 		"Change"
(2007)
Music video
"Sugababes - About You Now" on YouTube

"About You Now" is a song by British girl group Sugababes from their fifth studio album, Change (2007). Written and produced by Dr. Luke along with Cathy Dennis and Steven Wolf, it was released on 24 September 2007 by Island Records as the lead single from the album, the first to feature Amelle Berrabah on all tracks. An uptempo pop track that combines heavy elements of pop rock and dance-pop, it infuses light electronic sounds. Lyrically, "About You Now" finds the protagonist thinking deeply over her relationship with her love interest from whom she parted.

The song was generally well received by music critics, who complimented its genre mixing production as well as its US pop influence. The song has been described as a "pop-electro-rock masterpiece" and the best Sugababes single in years. Upon its release, "About You Now" became the group's sixth UK number one hit and highest-charting single since 2005's "Push the Button". It remained atop the UK Singles Chart for four weeks. It also reached the top of the charts in Hungary, as well as the top ten in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Norway, and Spain. It is Sugababes' highest-selling single to date, having sold more than 1 million units in the UK alone.[2]

"About You Now" was nominated for a 2008 BRIT Award for Best British Single. In the 2009 edition of Guinness World Records, "About You Now" was listed as the "first track by a British pop act to top the singles chart solely on downloads". The song was also named as the "biggest chart mover to the number one position in the UK".[3] In December 2009, it was revealed by BBC that "About You Now" was the UK's fifth most-played song of the decade (2000–09).[4] An acoustic version of the song appears as a bonus track on the group's sixth studio album Catfights and Spotlights (2008).

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference popjustice was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Myers, Justin (24 October 2015). "Quiz: Who sold more?". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
  3. ^ "Amy Winehouse, Leona Lewis, Sugababes and Paul McCartney Down a Guinness Record - Undercover.fm News". Undercover.fm. 15 September 2008. Archived from the original on 16 September 2011. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
  4. ^ "Snow Patrol's Chasing Cars is most played of decade". BBC. 30 December 2009. Retrieved 17 April 2012.