"I want to do my best to represent the UK in America and let people really understand that it doesn't matter if we're from a little place called Hounslow. The BBC reported in 2009 that Jay Sean became "The Most Successful Male U.K. According to Sean, "Wayne heard it, fell in love and dropped a verse on it," which resulted in the up-tempo summer record peppered with Wayne's gritty pipes. Why don't we write a song to take everyone's mind away from being down?'" explains Sean about how the track came about during a late night recording session in Miami's Hit Factory studio. "The news was on, everything was depressing and we were like 'look at this man – everything's so down in the dumps. What's going on? Right! That's Lil Wayne on my song right now!' That day was brilliant." All of a sudden I heard Wayne's Auto-Tune stuff, and I'm like, 'OK. He recalled: "Slim called me up and was like, 'Yo, man, there's something wrong on the second verse that just doesn't sound right.' I was like, 'Really? What?' He played the song. Sean told MTV News that he recorded this song in 90 minutes, after which he received a call from Ronald "Slim" Williams. The CEO of Cash Money Ronald "Slim" Williams liked the track, played it to Wayne and wanted Wayne to be on the track Wayne loved it and added a new verse on the track. The track was originally for My Own Way: Deluxe Edition without Lil Wayne, alongside "War". It was also produced by J-Remy and Bobby Bass. Jay Sean and Lil Wayne co-wrote the song with Jared Cotter, Jonathan Perkins, J-Remy, and Bobby Bass. In fact, a remix had not been produced, but the song "Down" which originally began recording in December 2008. It was rumoured that his first single in the US would be a remix of the single, " Tonight" featuring Lil Wayne. And it's great to be accepted by the best in the game." He explained, "It's always been a dream for me to sign to an American label. On 15 October 2008, at the MOBO Awards, Jay Sean announced that he had signed with the American hip hop record label Cash Money Records. It was also the best-selling single by a British and European male artist in North America since Elton John's " Candle in the Wind" in 1997, and the first by a British Asian artist since Freddie Mercury in 1980. The song also made him "the first UK urban act ever to top Billboard's Hot 100", and the first British act to have reached number one in the United States and not in the United Kingdom with a song since Seal's " Kiss from a Rose" in 1995.
This made Jay Sean the first British act to score a Billboard Hot 100 number-one single since Coldplay's " Viva la Vida" in 2008, and the fourth British act overall in the 2000s decade. "Down" hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the issue dated 17 October 2009, unseating " I Gotta Feeling" by The Black Eyed Peas after their 14-week reign at number one. The track was released to US radio on and digital retailers on 30 June 2009. The song went on to sell six million copies in the United States and received a large airplay on radio worldwide. "Down" is the seventh-best selling single of 2009 and has been certified Platinum in several countries.
The single features American rapper and label mate Lil Wayne and is produced by J-Remy and Bobby Bass.
In other markets, including the United Kingdom, the song serves as Jay Sean's lead single from his third studio album. The song was released in North America as his debut single from his first album there, All or Nothing. Bm D G A You oughta know, tonight is the night to let it go, Put on a show, i wanna see how you lose control, (Bridge) So leave it behind cause we, have a night to get away, So come on and fly with me, as we make our great escape." Down" is a song by British singer Jay Sean.
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