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"Good Girl" is a song by American recording artist Alexis Jordan, taken from her self-titled debut album. It was released as the album's second single on February 18, 2011. The dance-pop song was written by Autumn Rowe, Stargate, Sandy Vee and Espionage, and it was produced by Stargate and Sandy Vee. Jordan has said the song is a "girl’s anthem" about how "you can better yourself, even if your past isn’t as good as your present."[2] "Good Girl" debuted at number six in the United Kingdom, and charted at number fifteen in Ireland. In the United States, the song peaked at the top of the Hot Dance Club Songs chart.

"Good Girl"
Single by Alexis Jordan
from the album Alexis Jordan
Released	February 18, 2011
Recorded	Westlake Studios (California, United States) Roc The Mic Studios (New York City, United States)
Genre	Dance-pop[1]
Length	3:56 (album version) 3:40 (radio edit)
Label	StarRoc Roc Nation Columbia
Songwriter(s)	Autumn Rowe Mikkel S. Eriksen Tor Erik Hermansen Sandy Wilhelm Espen Lind Amund Björklund
Producer(s)	Stargate Sandy Vee
Alexis Jordan singles chronology
"Happiness" (2010) "Good Girl" (2011) "Hush Hush" (2011)

Critical reception

Nick Levine of Digital Spy awarded the song four out of five stars, and wrote "Call us naive, but with beats this struttable, verses so irresistibly bop-friendly and that, ahem, killer chorus, who wouldn't want to take a chance on her?"[1]

Chart performance

On February 24, 2011 "Good Girl" debuted at number eighteen in Ireland, and has since peaked at number fifteen.[3] In the United Kingdom, the song debuted at number six for the week ending date March 5, 2011, becoming Jordan's second top-ten single in the UK.[4] In the United States, the song debuted at number fourteen on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Songs chart on the issue dated March 19, 2011. It reached the top of the chart on the issue dated April 30, 2011, becoming Jordan's second consecutive number-one hit in the US.[5]

Music video

The music video was directed by Erik White, it premiered on 25 January 2011 and was filmed late December 2010. The video commences with Jordan walking down a street wearing sunglasses, which is followed by the first scene in which Jordan begins to sing. The singer is shown dancing in an eccentrically choreographed scene; one of which is with her back-up dancers, and the other, which was with a male dancer Hefa Leone Tuita, in which Jordan and the male dancer were dancing in sync. Scenes also included Jordan dressed as a high-school girl eating an apple, and Jordan wearing an outfit consisting of PVC on a motorbike chewing bubble-gum. The video ends with screen-shots from different scenes in the video, followed by Jordan ruffling her hair, in which the camera zooms out and the text reads "ALEXIS JORDAN".

Track listing

• UK digital EP[6]

1. "Good Girl" – 3:56
2. "Good Girl" (Freemason's Radio Edit) – 3:31
3. "Good Girl" (Kim Fai Radio Edit) – 3:55
4. "Good Girl" (Freemason's Club Edit) – 8:47
5. "Good Girl" (Kim Fai Club Edit) – 6:52

• Australian digital download[7]

1. "Good Girl" – 3:56
2. "Good Girl" (Freemason's Radio Edit) – 3:31
3. "Good Girl" (Kim Fai Radio Edit) – 3:55

Credits and personnel

• Autumn Rowe – songwriter
• StarGate (Mikkel S. Eriksen and Tor Erik Hermansen) – songwriter, producer and instrumentation
• Sandy Vee – songwriter, producer and instrumentation
• Espionage (Espen Lind and Amund Björklund) – songwriter
• Mikkel S. Eriksen – recording
• Miles Walker – recording assistant
• Antonio Resendiz – recording assistant
• Phil Tan – mixing
• Damien Lewis – additional and assistant engineering
• Espen Lind – guitar
• Tom Coyne – mastering

Credits adapted from Alexis Jordan album booklet.[8]

Charts

Chart (2011)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA)[9]	40
Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)[10]	9
Belgium (Ultratip Wallonia)[11]	46
Ireland (IRMA)[3]	15
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[12]	25
Poland (Dance Top 50)[13]	42
Scotland (OCC)[14]	3
Slovakia (Rádio Top 100)[15]	49
UK Singles (OCC)[4]	6
US Hot Dance Club Songs (Billboard)[5]	1

• "Good Girl" charted on the Ultratip Flanders chart in Belgium and peaked 9, which is the same as charting on the Ultratop 50 at 59.

Year-end charts

Chart (2011)	Position
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[16]	94
US Hot Dance Club Songs (Billboard)[17]	25

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[18]	Silver	200,000*
* Sales figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Region	Date	Format
United Kingdom[6]	February 18, 2011	Digital download
Ireland[19]
Australia[7]	March 4, 2011
Japan	May 29, 2011

See also

• List of number-one dance singles of 2011 (U.S.)

References

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