Rehab (song)

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"Rehab"
"Rehab" cover
Single by Amy Winehouse
from the album Back to Black
Released Flag of the United Kingdom Flag of Ireland 23 October 2006
Flag of the United States 22 May 2007
Format CD single, digital download
Recorded 2006
Genre Soul, jazz, R&B
Length 3:36
Label Island
Writer Amy Winehouse
Producer Mark Ronson
Amy Winehouse singles chronology
"Pumps"/"Help Yourself"
(2004)		 "Rehab"
(2006)		 "You Know I'm No Good"
(2007)
Amy Winehouse American singles chronology
"You Know I'm No Good"
(2007)		 "Rehab"
(2007)		 "Tears Dry on Their Own"
(2007)

"Rehab" is a soul/jazz/R&B song written by English singer Amy Winehouse for her second studio album, Back to Black (2006).

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"Rehab" was produced by Winehouse and Mark Ronson and released as the album's lead single in October 2006 (see 2006 in music) in the UK and January 2007 (see 2007 in music) elsewhere. The song was written about Winehouse's refusal to attend an alcohol rehabilitation centre after her management team encouraged her to go. "I asked my dad if he thought I needed to go. He said no, but I should give it a try. So I did, for just 15 minutes. I went in said 'hello' and explained that I drink because I am in love and have fucked up the relationship. Then I walked out."[1] Winehouse later changed her management company.[2]

In November 2006, an early demonstration version lacking the horn section and originally played on Mark Ronson's East Village Radio show was released in the iTunes Store. Girls Aloud performed a cover version of the song on Radio 1's Live Lounge (with Jo Whiley) on 10 November 2006. Paolo Nutini performed his own cover on the same show on 6 December 2006. Nutini also covers the song during his live gigs. Justin Timberlake sang "Rehab" during his tour [3]. During live performances, Taking Back Sunday tend to sing the chorus of a popular song during A Decade Under The Influence & Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From The Team)'s breakdown, and more recently "Rehab" has been used.

In July 2007, the track was shortlisted for the Popjustice £20 Music Prize. The prize recognizes the best British pop singles over the past year. The track is up against singles by Robbie Williams, Girls Aloud, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, and Jamelia among others. "Rehab" won the award, making Winehouse only the third act to win the award, after Girls Aloud and Rachel Stevens.

Ironically on 14 August 2007, Amy Winehouse checked into a rehabilitation centre. [4]

The music video was directed by Phil Griffin and released in September 2006. It features Winehouse's band playing their instruments while she sings to the camera. The band is dressed in gowns throughout the video. It begins with Winehouse rising from bed and then moving to the bathroom. For the second verse, Winehouse is on a chair in a psychiatrist's office, presumably explaining herself to an unseen psychiatrist. The video ends with Winehouse on a bed in a white-tiled clinical ward room with her band around her. On May 31, "Rehab" debuted on Total Request Live and later peaked at number one on June 7.[5]

Critical response to "Rehab" was glowing. Rolling Stone called it a "must hear song" and a "Motown-style winner with a banging beat and a lovesick bad girl testifying like Etta James."[6] People magazine called the track "instantly memorable."[7] Billboard remarked that Winehouse's vocals on the song were "Shirley Bassey-meets-Ella Fitzgerald" and called the track "a better buzz than a double-gin martini."[8]

The song won an Ivor Novello Award for "Best Contemporary Song" for songwriting in late May 2007. In December 2007, "Rehab" was nominated for three Grammy Awards in the categories of "Record of the Year","Song of the Year", and "Best Female Pop Performance"[9].

The song entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 91 on the chart dated 31 March 2007 without an official single release. Winehouse's current single at the time, "You Know I'm No Good", entered one spot above, at number 90, on the same week.[10] After lingering in the bottom portions of the Hot 100 for several months, the song jumped a massive 38 spots to number ten on the 23 June chart[11], mainly due to digital sales following Winehouse's live performance of the song on the MTV Movie Awards on 3 June 2007; sales of a new remix featuring rapper Jay-Z also had a small effect on the chart position, peaking in the seventies on the iTunes top 100 in the United States. After a change of rules in the UK allowing all digital downloads to be counted for the singles chart, "Rehab" re-entered the chart at number 20 for the week ending 13 January 2007, whilst "You Know I'm No Good" occupied the number 40 spot as a new entry on downloads alone.

The first single released from Back to Black on 23 October 2006, the Ronson-produced "Rehab" On October 22, 2006, based solely on download sales, it entered the UK Singles Chart at #19 and when the physical single was released the following week, it climbed to #7, at the time making it Winehouse's highest chart position by more than 50 places. By 25 October the album was approaching 5x platinum in the UK, making it the best selling album of 2007.[12] The song won the Ivor Novello award for best contemporary song on May 24, 2007.[13]

The song peaked at number-one on the Norwegian singles chart. As of December 2007, the single has sold 212,063 copies in the UK commercially and on downloads. Between October 2006 and June 2007, the single spent 34 consecutive weeks on the UK Singles Chart, and has since re-entered the charts, giving the single a total of 51 non-consecutive weeks on the UK Singles Chart to date. It also became her first top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number nine.

Chart (2006) Peak
position
UK R&B Chart 3
UK Singles Chart[14] 7
Irish Singles Chart[14] 21
Chart (2007) Peak
position
Italian Airplay Chart[14] 1
Norwegian Singles Chart[14] 1
Hungarian Airplay Chart[15] 3
Taiwan Top 10 Singles Chart 3
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[14] 9
Belgian Singles Chart[14] 10
World Singles Chart 10
Canadian Hot 100 10
Swiss Singles Chart[14] 11
France Singles Top 100[14] 11
Japanese Top 20 Singles Chart 11
New Zealand Singles Chart[14] 12
U.S. Billboard Pop 100 12
Dutch Singles Chart[14] 14
Finnish Singles Chart 15
Austrian Singles Chart[14] 21
Polish National top 50[16] 21
U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks 32
Europe Top 200 (EU)[17] 37
Brazilian Hot 100[18] 41
German Singles Chart[14] 51
Australian ARIA Singles Chart[19] 60
Swedish Singles Chart[14] 60
México Top 100 Singles Chart[20] 61
Argentina Singles Chart 99

During August and September 2007, WGN, the Chicago CW station, and other stations, used it in commercials for Family Guy, which premiered in syndication on September 10.

In October, Seether covered the song for Yahoo Music. Professional wrestler Santino Marella did a parody of the song attacking "Stone Cold" Steve Austin on the October 8, 2007 episode of WWE Monday Night Raw.

  1. "Rehab" (Album Version)
  2. "Do Me Good"

  1. "Rehab" (Album Version)
  2. "Close to Front"
  3. "Rehab" (Ded Remix)

  • Album Version - 3:36
  • Demo Version - 3:38
  • Instrumental - 3:35
  • Desert Eagle Discs Vocal - 5:00
  • Hot Chip Vocal Remix - 6:58
  • Napster Live - 3:30
  • Remix featuring Pharoahe Monch - 3:39
  • Remix featuring Jay-Z - 3:54
  • Interface Studio Session - 3:41


  1. ^ Wine, Woman and Song The Sun 27 October 2006. Accessed 15 November 2006
  2. ^ Wine and Poses The Glasgow Daily Record 27 October 2006. Accessed 15 November 2006
  3. ^ http://youtube.com/watch?v=zcVflqSIdWY&mode=related&search=
  4. ^ http://thesuperficial.com/2007/08/amy_winehouse_in_rehab.php
  5. ^ http://www.atrl.net/?t=45797
  6. ^ Hoard, Christian (2007-02-22), "Back to Black". Rolling Stone (1020):76
  7. ^ Arnold, Chuck (2007-11-26), "Amy Winehouse". People. 68 (22):48
  8. ^ Taylor, Chuck (2007-05-12), Rehab. Billboard. 119 (19):38
  9. ^ The Envelope Please Los Angeles Times 6 December 2007
  10. ^ Katie Hasty, "Fergie Scores Second 'Glamorous' Week At No. 1", Billboard.com, 22 March 2007.
  11. ^ Cohen, Jonathan. "Rihanna's 'Umbrella' Reigns Again Atop Hot 100", Billboard magazine, 2007-06-14. Retrieved on 2007-06-14. 
  12. ^ Amy Winehouse - I Told You I Was Trouble - Documentary & Live Concert DVD ilikemusic.com 25 October, 2007
  13. ^ Winehouse wins best contemporary song ninemsn 2007-05-27. Accessed 2007-05-27
  14. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Song Performance. aCharts.us. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
  15. ^ Hungary Top40. Retrieved on December 9, 2007.
  16. ^ Song Performance. apcchart.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-21.
  17. ^ http://www.euro200.eu
  18. ^ Brazilian Hot 100 Songs & Tracks. Hot100Brasil. Retrieved on October 8, 2007.
  19. ^ Australian ARIA Chartifacts
  20. ^ Song Performance. AmericaTop100.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-17.


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Amy Winehouse
Albums Frank · Back to Black
Singles "Stronger Than Me" · "Take the Box" · "In My Bed"/"You Sent Me Flying" · "Pumps"/"Help Yourself" · "Rehab" · "You Know I'm No Good" · "Back to Black" · "Tears Dry on Their Own" · "Valerie"  · "Love Is a Losing Game" · "B Boy Baby"
DVDs I Told You I Was Trouble: Live In London
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