Rain Over Me


"Rain Over Me" is a song by American singer and rapper Pitbull from his sixth studio album, Planet Pit. It features vocals from American-Puerto Rican singer Marc Anthony. The Eurodance song was written by Pitbull, RedOne, Marc Anthony, Bilal "The Chef" Hajji, AJ Janussi and Rachid "Rush" Aziz, and it was produced by RedOne, Rush and Jimmy Joker. It was released on June 10, 2011 as the third promotional single from the album and received a full release as the album's third official single on July 19, 2011.
It charted at number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. The song became Pitbull's second number one single on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart as well his first number-one single on the Tropical Songs. In addition, it is Marc Anthony's sixth number-one single on the Hot Latin Songs and twentieth number-one single on the Tropical Songs, reclaiming his position as having the artist with the most number-one Tropical Songs chart after a two-year tie with Víctor Manuelle. The music video was directed by David Rosseau, who also directed a previous Pitbull single, "I Know You Want Me " in 2009. The song is featured on the dance rhythm game, Just Dance 2020.

Background and composition

"Rain Over Me" is a Eurodance song produced by RedOne, David Rush and Jimmy Joker. It contains dramatic "disco-rave" synths. According to Robert Copsey of Digital Spy the song is "a step outside his usual robotic sound. Bill Lamb of About.com noted that both Pitbull and Marc Anthony are of Latin Caribbean descent, referring to the song as a "superstar Latin Caribbean duet".

Music video

The music video was released onto Pitbull's official Vevo channel on July 22, 2011. The video was directed by David Rousseau. It features both Pitbull and Marc Anthony in the desert along with actress Natalie Martinez, with many water effects.
On April 13, 2020, the video surpassed the 1 billion views mark, thus making it in the first 200 YouTube videos to reach this milestone. This is the third and second video to accomplish this feat for Pitbull and Marc Anthony in that order respectively.

Track listing

  1. "Rain Over Me" – 3:51
  1. "Rain Over Me"
  1. "Rain Over Me" – 5:16
  2. "Rain Over Me" – 2:53
  3. "Rain Over Me" — 6:15

    Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from Planet Pit album liner notes.

Charts

Weekly Charts

Chart Peak
position
Spanish Airplay Chart 33

Year-end charts

Chart Position
Hungary 76
Poland 26
Spain 39

All-time charts

Certifications

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Release history