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"Misery Business" is the first single from Paramore's second album, RIOT!. "Misery Business" was the third Paramore video to be directed by Shane Drake, and was nominated for the "Best Video" award at the Kerrang! Awards 2007, but lost to Fall Out Boy's "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race".[1] "Misery Business" is also featured on the soundtrack to the EA Sports video game NHL 08.

chart performance...

On the week ending June 21, 2007, "Misery Business" managed to debut at #99 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Misery Business" is the first charting single for the group in the United States. In the following week the song went up 13 positions to reach #86. Due to increased digital downloads during the month of August 2007, most notably during the latter half of the month, it re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 during the chart week of September 1, 2007 at number #34, which was its peak until the chart week of January 5, 2008, when the song reached #31. Its current peak is #26. It also peaked at #3 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart. On the iTunes chart it has reached 7th (as of August 18th) The single will be re-released in the UK according to Record Store, it was re-released February 11, 2008 and includes 3 vinlys.

The single, to date, has peaked at #17 on the UK Singles Charts. It is also the group's first charting single in the UK as well.

"Misery Business" has also debuted on the Dutch Top 40 peaking at #28 and in Finlands top 30 at #23. It peaked in the German Top 40 at #12 which was the band's highest chart performance in Germany.

music video...

A music video was filmed on April 15, 2007 in Los Angeles, and features a school and a band performance. It is directed by Shane Drake who also directed the videos for "Pressure" and "Emergency".

The music video starts out with the band playing the song with an assortment of "RIOT!"s in the background. It switches from the band playing to a high school, where a girl in a blue dress and heavy makeup walks in. The girl pushes the school cheerleaders aside her as she walks into the hallway. She cuts off a girl's braid with scissors, grinning at the girl while showing it to her. Later, as she is walking down the hall, a boy comes out of the Nurse's Station with his arm in a sling. She proceeds to push him into the wall, further injuring him. The band plays more, and the girl walks up on a girl and a boy together, obviously in love. She pushes the girl's face out of the way, and goes into a passionate kiss with the boy, then leaves, smiling. It switches again to the band playing, then the band comes out of a classroom together. Hayley (Williams) and the girl confront each other in the hall. Hayley reaches into the girl's bra and pulls out silicon pads, then uses a towel and wipes the girl's makeup off, exposing her for what she is. The video ends as the band finishes the song.

FBR+ also released an alternate cut of the video that removes the high school clips and features only performance segments.[2]

The music video has over 22 million views on Youtube and had great success on TRL.

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