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Rita Coolidge came up with the song idea, based on observing the relationships of female groupies with rock stars in the late 1960s. [1]In its first recorded incarnation, the song was called "Groupie (Superstar)", and was released in December 1969 as the B-side of the Delaney & Bonnie single "Comin' Home".
"Superstar" peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Pop Charts, and number ten on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Lupe Fiasco's first top ten song on the chart. [10] It also surpassed the success of his first single on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, peaking at number 19, and was his first song to appear on the Rhythmic Top 40, peaking at number eight.
"Superstar" is a song written by Mich Hansen, Joe Belmaati, and Remee and performed by Danish pop singer Christine Milton. It was released in January 2003 as the lead single from Milton's debut studio album, Friday (2004), and spent seven weeks at number one on the Danish Singles Chart .
Reviewer Hamilton was cautiously saying that the song was the first female answer to "Billie Jean". The reviewer also said that the song was surprisingly rather good, and it had a nice story line. [4] Directly underneath was the review of "Valley Style" by T-Ski Valley which was a rap track also based on the same song. [5]
The song's intro was used several times as an entrance theme for various professional wrestlers such as Superstar Billy Graham, Don Muraco and Stone Cold Steve Austin. On the eighth episode of the fourth season of Orphan Black, "The Redesign of Natural Objects", the song is sung by Tatiana Maslany, Terra Hazelton, Barbara Johnston, and Anika ...
The song goes on to ask the "superstars" (who are never named in the song) "do you know who your real friends are?" and to "remember how you got where you are." [4] The Funk Brothers, Motown's in-house studio band, backed "Superstar" with a funk instrumental track highlighted by Earl Van Dyke's piano chords.
Coinciding with the release of "Superstar" as a single, a lyric video using a looped clip of Marina in a black dress while floating in a pool of water, was released on 1 March 2019. [11] [28] A music video for the acoustic version of the song was later released to Marina's YouTube channel on 13 September of that same year. [29]
Superstar is the first Japanese extended play by South Korean boy group Shinee. It was released digitally on June 28, 2021, through EMI Records, with its physical release following a month later on July 28. The EP contains five songs including the lead single, "Superstar". It reached number one on Oricon's weekly album chart.