Sucker (song)

"Sucker" is a song by American pop rock band Jonas Brothers. The song was released on March 1, 2019, through Republic Records. It is the group's first single released together in six years, since their reunion a day before the song was released. Ryan Tedder wrote and produced the song alongside the group co-writing with Louis Bell, Mustafa Ahmed and Homer Steinweiss. The song was also co-produced by Frank Dukes. The Jonas Brothers appeared on The Late Late Show with James Corden each night from March 4 to 7 to promote the track. It became the brothers' biggest hit single to date, reaching number one in several countries, including Australia, Canada, Latvia, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Slovakia and the United States.

The official music video for "Sucker" featured their wives: Priyanka Chopra Jonas (Nick's wife), Sophie Turner (Joe's then-fiancée) and Danielle Jonas (Kevin's wife). The song was nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards and in four categories at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards, including Video of the Year, winning for Best Pop Video.

Background and composition The group had blacked out their social media prior to announcing the release on February 28. Us Weekly had also revealed the title of the song before the announcement. On The Late Late Show with James Corden, Nick Jonas stated that "We've kept this a secret now for almost seven, eight months." In terms of musical notation, the song is composed in time and the key of C♯ minor with moderately fast tempo of 138 beats per minute. The band's vocals span a range of B3 to C♯5.

Commercial performance

In North America, "Sucker" debuted at number one on both the Canadian and US Billboard Hot 100 and the US Hot Digital Songs chart, with 88,000 copies sold in its first week. It was the thirty-fourth song to debut atop the Billboard Hot 100. "Sucker" became the Jonas Brothers' first number-one song and the first number one by a boy band on the chart since 2003's "Bump, Bump, Bump" by B2K featuring P. Diddy. It became the band's first entry on the chart since 2013's "Pom Poms" and their first top 10 since 2008's "Tonight". The Jonas Brothers also became the second group in a lead role in history to have a song debut at number one after Aerosmith's Armageddon theme song "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" and the first group in this century to achieve this. It fell to number six the following week, but as airplay continued to rise the song was able to return to the top five in May and reached as high as number three on May 27, while also reaching the top of the Radio Songs chart. The song ultimately spent 22 weeks in the top ten of the chart before falling 9–12 on August 17, 2019. In the April 20, 2019 issue of Billboard's Dance/Mix Show Airplay Chart, "Sucker" became the Jonas' first number one, surging to the top spot within four weeks."Jonas Brothers' 'Sucker' Jumps to No. 1 on Dance/Mix Show Airplay Chart" from Billboard (April 17, 2019)

"Sucker" debuted at number two in Ireland, remaining at that position for four weeks; it was blocked from number-one by Lewis Capaldi's "Someone You Loved" for all of these weeks. Top-ten debuts were seen on the singles charts for Austria, Australia and New Zealand, and in the latter two, the song went to number-one the next week. The song had three weeks at number one in Australia. "Sucker" also had a number-six debut on the UK Singles Chart, that week's highest, although it peaked at number four on the fourth week. While it was their first top-ten and top-five hit on the chart as a group, individual members previously made the top-five with DNCE's "Cake By The Ocean" and Nick's "Jealous". The song also debuted on top of the country's Official Trending Chart and Video Streaming Chart, a consequence of 42 million views of the music video. Jack White, writing an article for the Official Charts website in December 2020, remembered "Sucker" as one of 2019's biggest comeback singles.

Top-ten runs lasted for months in Ireland and the UK (8 weeks), New Zealand (9 weeks), and Australia (15 weeks). "Sucker" was the 19th best performer on the singles chart for the first three quarters of 2019. In both the UK and Ireland, "Sucker" was the 37th most-popular song of the summer.

By May 8, 2019, within two months of its release, the song had amassed over 630 million global streams.

Music video The music video was directed by Anthony Mandler and premiered showcasing the brothers with each of their significant others: Kevin's wife Danielle (née Deleasa), Nick's wife Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and Joe's then–fiancée Sophie Turner. It was filmed in Hertfordshire at Hatfield House, the home of the Marquess of Salisbury, where Elizabeth I grew up and featured corgis, which are the favorite breed of Queen Elizabeth II.

Their outfits were designed by Prabal Gurung, from his debut menswear line.

The video cites The Blue Angel with Sophie Turner smoking in blue négligée and top hat as Lola Lola (Marlene Dietrich) while Joe Jonas embarrasses himself in a bondage position as Professor Immanuel Rath (Emil Jannings).

Awards and nominations {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |- ! Year ! Organization ! Award ! Result ! Ref. |- ! scope="row" rowspan="16"| 2019 | rowspan=2| Teen Choice Awards | Choice Song: Group | | align="center" rowspan=2 | |- | Choice Pop Song

| Best Pop Video

| Song of the Summer

| rowspan=2| LOS40 Music Awards | Best International Song

| Best International Video

| MTV Millennial Awards | Global Hit

| MTV Millennial Awards Brazil | Global Hit

| Nickelodeon Mexico Kids' Choice Awards | Favorite Hit

| Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards | Favorite Song

| People's Choice Awards | Song of the Year

| rowspan=3 | TeleHit Awards | Best Anglo Video

| Best Anglo Song

| People's Best Video

| Billboard Music Awards | Best Radio Song

| BMI Pop Awards | Most Performed Song of the Year

| rowspan=3 | iHeartRadio Music Awards | Song of the Year

| Best Music Video

| Titanium Award

Live performances On March 7, 2019, the Jonas Brothers performed the song for the first time on The Late Late Show with James Corden. On May 2, 2019, they performed the song at the Billboard Music Awards along with Nick's debut hit Jealous and Joe's hit song Cake by the Ocean with his band DNCE. On May 11, 2019, they performed the song again on Saturday Night Live as the musical guests. They also performed the song on the first episode of All That's revival on June 15, 2019 but some of the lyrics had been changed for the episode. The Jonas Brothers performed "Sucker" along "X" (without Karol G) and "What A Man Gotta Do" as Exclusive 'home' sessions recorded especially for BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend.

Plagiarism allegations American rock band, Portugal. The Man accused the Jonas Brothers' song as copying their 2017 single, "Feel It Still". Portugal. The Man tweeted: "To be fair, the chorus of Feel It Still sounds very similar to Please Mister Postman by the Marvelettes... Which we respectfully cleared and thanked them for every chance we got. As one does. @jonasbrothers" The band later clarified saying that they were "not mad at all", and that they "actually dig a lot of their music and Nick's solo records".

Credits and personnel Credits adapted from Tidal.

Nick Jonas – vocals, songwriter Joe Jonas – vocals, songwriter Kevin Jonas – vocals, songwriter Louis Bell – songwriter, bass guitar Ryan Tedder – background vocals, producer, songwriter, programmer, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drum programmer Frank Dukes – co-producer, songwriter, guitar Homer Steinweiss – drums, songwriter Mustafa Ahmed – songwriter Andrew DeRoberts – guitar Randy Merrill – mastering engineer Serban Ghenea – mixer John Hanes – assistant mixer

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2019–2020) Peakposition Argentina (Argentina Hot 100) 54 Bolivia (Monitor Latino) 6 China Airplay/FL (Billboard) 3 Colombia (National-Report) 30 Costa Rica (Monitor Latino) 6 Croatia (HRT) 3 Ecuador (National-Report) 22 El Salvador (Monitor Latino) 9 Greece (IFPI) 3 Guatemala (Monitor Latino) 16 Iceland (Tónlistinn) 34 Israel (Media Forest) 2 Latvia (LAIPA) 3 Lithuania (AGATA) 2 Malaysia (RIM) 2 Mexico Airplay (Billboard) 3 Mexico Ingles Airplay (Billboard) 1 Panama (Monitor Latino) 10 Puerto Rico (Monitor Latino) 10 Romania (Airplay 100) 15 Singapore (RIAS) 1 Slovenia (SloTop50) 6 South Korea (Gaon) 162 US Rolling Stone Top 100 15 Venezuela (National-Report) 12

Year-end charts Chart (2019) Position Argentina Airplay (Monitor Latino) 43 Australia (ARIA) 13 Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) 26 Belgium (Ultratop Flanders) 22 Belgium (Ultratop Wallonia) 24 Bolivia Airplay (Monitor Latino) 34 Canada (Canadian Hot 100) 12 CIS (Tophit) 33 Costa Rica Airplay (Monitor Latino) 20 Denmark (Tracklisten) 28 El Salvador Airplay (Monitor Latino) 39 France (SNEP) 144 Germany (Official German Charts) 51 Guatemala Airplay (Monitor Latino) 43 Honduras Airplay (Monitor Latino) 58 Hungary (Rádiós Top 40) 24 Hungary (Single Top 40) 45 Iceland (Tónlistinn) 35 Ireland (IRMA) 25 Latvia (LAIPA) 29 Mexico Airplay (Monitor Latino) 6 Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) 42 Netherlands (Single Top 100) 47 New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) 22 Nicaragua Airplay (Monitor Latino) 94 Panama Airplay (Monitor Latino) 37 Peru Airplay (Monitor Latino) 97 Poland (ZPAV) 33 Portugal (AFP) 47 Puerto Rico Airplay (Monitor Latino) 50 Romania (Airplay 100) 63 Russia Airplay (Tophit) 33 Slovenia (SloTop50) 16 Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) 31Tokyo (Tokio Hot 100) 43 Ukraine Airplay (Tophit) 156 UK Singles (Official Charts Company) 29 US Billboard Hot 100 10 US Adult Contemporary (Billboard) 9 US Adult Top 40 (Billboard) 1 US Dance/Mix Show Airplay (Billboard) 2 US Mainstream Top 40 (Billboard) 2 US Rolling Stone Top 100 14

Chart (2020) Position Hungary (Rádiós Top 40) 90 US Adult Contemporary (Billboard) 6

Chart (2022) Position Hungary (Rádiós Top 40) 52

Chart (2023) PositionHungary (Rádiós Top 40) 51

Chart (2024) PositionHungary (Rádiós Top 40) 60

Chart (2025) Position Hungary (Rádiós Top 40) 66

Decade-end charts Chart (2010–2019) Position US Billboard Hot 100 88

Certifications

See also List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2019 List of Canadian Hot 100 number-one singles of 2019 List of number-one songs of 2019 (Singapore) List of Billboard Adult Contemporary number ones of 2019 and 2020 (U.S.) List of airplay number-one hits of the 2010s (Argentina)

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