Pink Non-Stop

Musical career
2000–2001: Can’t Take Me Home
Pink debut album, Can’t Take Me Home, was co-produced by Babyface, Steve Rhythm, and Pink. As well as being an item, Rhythm and Pink were making music under the production name The Specialist, where she and Rhythm produced the title track “Can’t Take Me Home” as well as “Hiccup” and “Is It Love,” released in April 2000. A substantial success, it went double platinum in the U.S., sold four million copies worldwide and produced two U.S. top ten singles: “There You Go” and “Most Girls” (which reached number one in Australia). The album’s third single, “You Make Me Sick”, became a smaller U.S. top forty hit and UK top ten hit in early 2001 and was featured in the film Save the Last Dance. Pink later acknowledged, in regard to Can’t Take Me Home, that she chose to relinquish creative control to her record label and that she did not like the music she made at this time or her image,which included bright pink hair.
In 2001 she collaborated with Christina Aguilera, rapper Lil’ Kim and Mýa on a cover of Labelle’s 1975 single “Lady Marmalade” recorded for the soundtrack of the film Moulin Rouge!. Produced by hip-hop producers Rockwilder and Missy Elliott, the song topped the charts in countries including the U.S. (where it became the most successful airplay-only single in history), the UK and Australia. The success of the single was helped by its music video, which was popular on music channels[citation needed] and featured the four singers dressed in sexually suggestive burlesque[citation needed] outfits. The song won a Grammy Award — Pink’s first — for “Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals”, and the video won the MTV Video Music Award for “Video of the Year”.

2001–2002: M!ssundaztood
Tired of being marketed as another cookie-cutter pop act and eager to become a more serious songwriter and musician,Pink took her sound in a new direction and sought more creative control during the recording of her second album. She recruited former 4 Non Blondes vocalist Linda Perry, and together they wrote most of the tracks on M!ssundaztood, which was released via Arista Records in November 2001, and the title of which was a reference to Pink’s belief that people had a wrong image of her.Perry co-produced the album with Dallas Austin and Scott Storch. According to VH1 Driven, Antonio “LA” Reid of LaFace Records wasn’t initially content with the new music Pink was making.Its lead single, “Get the Party Started” (written and produced by Perry), went top five in the U.S. and many other countries, and number one in Australia. The album’s other singles — “Don’t Let Me Get Me”, the Dallas Austin-produced “Just like a Pill”, and “Family Portrait” — were also radio and chart successes, with “Just like a Pill” becoming Pink’s first solo UK number-one hit. The singles were substantial hits on Adult Top 40 radio and the United World Chart, and “Family Portrait” became a theme song for many children whose parents were divorced (according to MTV Diary). In 2002, after opening for ‘N Sync on their American tour, Pink started a headlining American, European and Australian tour, the Party Tour; later, she became a supporting act for Lenny Kravitz’s American tour. The 2002 Faith Hill album Cry features a song co-written by Pink and Perry called “If You’re Gonna Fly”.M!ssundaztood was certified gold or platinum status in more than twenty countries, with worldwide sales of twelve million.It was the second-best-selling album in the UK during 2002, and Pink was the best-selling female artist globally.[citation needed] As of 2007, it is the best-selling album of her career. At the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards, “Get the Party Started” won in the categories of “Best Female Video” and “Best Dance Video”. M!ssundaztood and “Get the Party Started” earned nominations at the 2003 Grammy Awards for “Best Pop Vocal Album” and “Best Female Pop Vocal Performance”, respectively.

2003–2004: Try This
In mid-2003 Pink contributed the song “Feel Good Time” to the soundtrack of the film Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, in which she had a cameo appearance as a motorcross race ramp owner/promoter. “Feel Good Time” was co-written by singer Beck, produced by electronic music artist William Orbit and based on the song “Fresh Garbage” by 60s band Spirit. It became Pink’s first single to miss the top forty on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, although it was a hit in Europe and Australia.”Feel Good Time” was included on non-U.S. editions of Pink’s third album, Try This, which was released on November 11, 2003. Eight of the thirteen tracks were co-written with Tim Armstrong of punk band Rancid, and Linda Perry was featured on the album as a writer and musician. Though Try This reached the top ten on album charts in the U.S., Canada, UK and Australia, sales were considerably lower than those of M!ssundaztood; it went platinum in the U.S. and sold over three million copies worldwide,a commercial flop compared to M!ssundaztood.The singles “Trouble” and “God Is a DJ” did not reach the U.S. top forty but went top ten in other countries, and “Last to Know” was released as a single outside North America. “Trouble” earned Pink her second Grammy Award (for “Best Female Rock Vocal Performance”) at the 2004 Grammy Awards, and “Feel Good Time” was nominated in the category of “Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals”. Pink toured extensively on the Try This Tour through Europe and Australia, where the album was better received.

2006–present: I’m Not Dead
Pink took a break to write the songs for her fourth album, I’m Not Dead, which she said she titled as such because “It’s about being alive and feisty and not sitting down and shutting up even though people would like you to.”Pink worked with producers Max Martin, billymann, Christopher Rojas, Butch Walker, Lukasz Gottwald and Josh Abraham on the album. It was released in April 2006 through LaFace Records and reached the top ten in the U.S., the top five in the UK and number one in Australia and Germany. It was a substantial success throughout the world, particularly in Australia,but it was Pink’s lowest seller in the U.S. until the success of the single “U + Ur Hand” in early 2007. I’m Not Dead is Pink’s second biggest seller worldwide.Lead single “Stupid Girls” gave Pink her biggest U.S. hit since 2002 and earned a Grammy Award nomination for “Best Female Pop Vocal Performance”. Its controversial video, in which she parodies celebrities such as Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton,won the MTV Video Music Award for “Best Pop Video”. Subsequent singles “Who Knew” and “U + Ur Hand” were substantial hits in Australia and Europe, but “Who Knew” didn’t reach the top forty in America; “U + Ur Hand”, however, became the album’s biggest hit in the U.S. The non-U.S. singles were “Nobody Knows”, a minor hit in the UK, Australia and Germany; “Dear Mr. President”, an open letter to American President George W. Bush; and “Leave Me Alone (I’m Lonely)”, which reached the UK top forty single, the top five in Australia and number one in Belgium.

Pink performing in 2006.
Pink has toured around the world during 2006 and 2007 on her I’m Not Dead Tour, for which ticket sales in Australia were particularly high, with Pink performing seven sell-out shows in Sydney alone. Pink sold approximately 307,000 tickets in Australia, giving her the record for the biggest concert attendance for an arena tour by a female artist. She performed thirty-five shows in Australia alone, breaking a record previously held by Kylie Minogue.One of the shows on the tour was taped and released as a DVD in 2007, Pink: Live from Wembley Arena. In 2007 she opened for Justin Timberlake on the American leg of his FutureSex/LoveShow Tour.In 2006 Pink was chosen to sing the theme song for NBC Sunday Night Football, “Waiting All Day for Sunday Night”, which is a take on “I Hate Myself for Lovin’ You” by Joan Jett. She contributed a cover of Rufus’s “Tell Me Something Good” to the soundtrack of the film Happy Feet, and lent her name to PlayStation to promote the PSP, a special pink edition of which was released.Pink recorded a song with Annie Lennox for Lennox’s fourth solo studio album, which is scheduled for release in 2007.She co-wrote the 2006 India.Arie song “I Am Not My Hair”, and a remix featuring Pink was featured in the Lifetime television film Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy. She wrote a song (I Will) for Natalia’s third album Everything & More. “Outside of You”, another song co-written by Pink, was recorded by dance-pop singer Hilary Duff and released on her 2007 album Dignity.