Help Me Out

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"Help Me Out"
Promotional single by Maroon 5 and Julia Michaels
from the album Red Pill Blues
ReleasedOctober 6, 2017 (2017-10-06)
RecordedJuly August 2017
Studio Conway Recording Studios (Los Angeles, California)
Genre
Length3:13
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Maroon 5 promotional singles chronology
"It Was Always You"
(2014)
"Help Me Out"
(2017)
"Whiskey"
(2017)
Lyric video
"Help Me Out" on YouTube

"Help Me Out" is a song by American band Maroon 5 and American singer-songwriter Julia Michaels. The song was released on October 6, 2017, [2] as the first promotional single from the band's sixth studio album Red Pill Blues (2017), also as included the sixth track on the record.

Contents

Composition

"Help Me Out" is a length of 3 minutes and 13 seconds. It was written and composed by Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine, Julia Michaels, Thomas Wesley Pentz, King Henry and Justin Tranter. It was produced by Diplo and King Henry with Sam Farrar and Noah Passovoy as co-producers.

Lyric video

On October 23, 2017, a lyric video was released on the band's official YouTube channel. It features the words flashing across the screen in neon lights. [3]

Track listing

Digital download [4]
No.TitleLength
1."Help Me Out" (with Julia Michaels)3:13

Personnel

Maroon 5

Additional personnel

Charts

Chart (2017)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [5] 83
Canada (Canadian Hot 100) [6] 80
Canada (Canadian Digital Song Sales) [7] 23
Croatia (HRT) [8] 99
Czech Republic (Singles Digitál Top 100) [9] 58
Ireland (IRMA) [10] 86
New Zealand Heatseekers (RMNZ) [11] 3
Portugal (AFP) [12] 73
Slovakia (Singles Digitál Top 100) [13] 70
South Korea International Chart (Gaon) [14] 7
Sweden Heatseeker (Sverigetopplistan) [15] 8
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles ( Billboard ) [16] 18
US Digital Song Sales (Billboard) [17] 46
Venezuela Pop General (Record Report) [18] 41
Venezuela Rock General (Record Report) [18] 10
Venezuela Anglo (Record Report) [19] 22

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