Back It Up | |
Cover: | Back-It-Up-Spanish-Version.jpg |
Border: | yes |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Prince Royce featuring Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull |
Album: | Double Vision |
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Label: | RCA |
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Chronology: | Prince Royce |
Prev Title: | Que Cosas Tiene el Amor |
Prev Year: | 2015 |
Next Title: | Culpa al Corazón |
Next Year: | 2015 |
"Back It Up" is a 2015 song by American singer Prince Royce, featuring Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull. The song was released on May 4, 2015, as the second single taken from Royce's fourth studio album, Double Vision.[1]
There are three versions available, a Spanglish version and a Spanish version, with both making chart appearances, and the original English version, featuring only Pitbull.[2]
"Back It Up" marks as the eighth of nine collaborations between Lopez and Pitbull, in lined with "Fresh Out the Oven" in 2009, "On the Floor" in 2011, "Dance Again" in 2012, "Live It Up" in 2013, "We Are One (Ole Ola)" in 2014 with Claudia Leitte, "Booty" in 2014, a song entitled "Drinks for You (Ladies Anthem)" from Pitbull's Global Warming album in 2012 and followed by "Sexy Body" off his album Climate Change released in 2017.
The music video was filmed in Miami and directed by Colin Tilley. It was released on June 9, 2015[3] The Spanglish version (included as the Album version) was used for the music video.
Prince Royce performed the song live on American Idol, along with Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull, on 13 May, Good Morning America on 27 July and The View on 28 July.
The Spanish-language version of "Back It Up" debuted on the US Hot Latin Songs chart at number 27 for the week of May 30, 2015. Total sales for the week were 23,000 downloads.[4]