One Week (song)

"One Week"
Single by Barenaked Ladies
from the album Stunt
B-side"When You Dream"
ReleasedSeptember 15, 1998 (1998-09-15)[1]
Genre
Length2:48
LabelReprise
Songwriter(s)Ed Robertson
Producer(s)
Barenaked Ladies singles chronology
"Brian Wilson (2000)"
(1997) 		"One Week"
(1998) 		"It's All Been Done"
(1998)
Music video
"One Week" on YouTube

"One Week" is a song by Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies released as the first single from their 1998 album, Stunt. It was written by Ed Robertson, who is featured on the lead vocal of the rapped verses. Steven Page sings lead on the song's chorus, while the two co-lead the prechoruses in harmony. The song is notable for its significant number of pop culture references and remains the band's best-known song in the United States, where it topped the Billboard Hot 100. Coincidentally, when the song reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, it remained in the top spot for one week.

In Canada, "One Week" reached No. 3 on the RPM 100 Hit Tracks Chart, while worldwide, the song peaked within the top 10 of the charts in Iceland and the United Kingdom. The band has not equaled this level of US chart success since, though singles "It's All Been Done", from the same album, and "Pinch Me", from their subsequent album Maroon, both broke the top 50 of the US Hot 100. Apple used the song at MacWorld 1999 for presenting Mac OS X Server on a wall of 50 iMacs.[8][9]

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  5. ^ Pelley, Rich (August 16, 2021). "Barenaked Ladies: how we made One Week". The Guardian. Retrieved October 21, 2022.
  6. ^ Schonfeld, Zach (July 23, 2018). "Barenaked Ladies on 20 Years of 'Stunt' and Why They Stopped Recording Songs Naked". Newsweek. Retrieved November 1, 2021.
  7. ^ Cridlin, Jay (July 11, 2012). "Barenaked Ladies bassist talks fame, ice cream before gig at Gary Amphitheatre". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved November 1, 2021.
  8. ^ "Mac OS X Server at Macworld SF '99". Archived from the original on December 12, 2021 – via YouTube.
  9. ^ "Macworld 1999 - all about Steve Jobs.com". January 7, 1999. Retrieved October 3, 2018.