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{{Infobox Single <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Songs -->
| Name           = Burnin' Up
| Cover          = Burnin' Up Single Cover.JPG
| Cover size     = 
| Border         = 
| Caption        = 
| Artist         = [[Jonas Brothers]] featuring Big Rob
| Album          = [[A Little Bit Longer]]
| A-side         = "[[When You Look Me in the Eyes]]" <small>(UK)</small>
| B-side         = "Burnin' Up (No-Rap)"
| Released       = {{Start date|2008|6|19}}
| Format         = CD, Digital download
| Recorded       = 2008
| Genre          = Pop, teen pop, electropop
| Length         = 2:54 <small>(album version)</small><br />2:37 <small>(no rap version)</small>
| Label          = Hollywood Records
| Writer         = Nicholas Jonas, Joseph Jonas, Kevin Jonas II
| Producer       = John Fields
| Certification  = 2× Platinum (RIAA)
| Chronology     = [[Jonas Brothers]] singles
| Last single    = "[[When You Look Me in the Eyes]]"<br />(2008)
| This single    = "'''Burnin' Up'''"<br/>(2008)
| Next single    = "[[Lovebug (song)|Lovebug]]"<br/>(2008)
| Misc           =
}}

"'''Burnin' Up'''" is the first single of American pop band the [[Jonas Brothers]] to be released from their third studio album, ''[[A Little Bit Longer]]''.

It was officially released via Radio Disney on June 19, 2008 as well as other radio stations, and on iTunes on June 20, 2008. In the United Kingdom, it was released as a AA side with "[[When You Look Me in the Eyes]]".

==Song information==
The band first performed this song on their [[Jonas Brothers tours#When You Look Me in the Eyes Tour|When You Look Me in the Eyes Tour]] as well as at the [[Disney Channel Games#Disney Channel Games 2008|2008 Disney Channel Games]]. Their summer tour, titled the [[Jonas Brothers Tours#Burning Up Tour|Burning Up Tour]], is named after this song. The song also features a rap from their bodyguard, Robert "Big Rob" Feggans.

The iTunes Store named this single as #1 on their "Best of the Store" Playlist on June 24, 2008, the date of the single's digital release.

''Entertainment Weekly'' stated that the song "was inspired by [[Jonas Brothers]]' unlikely appreciation for the work of babe magnet Prince."<ref name="EW">{{cite journal|title=Summer Music Preview: Jonas Brothers |publisher=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=May 30, 2008}}</ref> Nick Jonas also stated that the song is "about this girl — maybe she's at a party — and you feel that immediate connection [and] both know it's there."<ref name="EW"/>

==Music video==
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The music video for "Burnin' Up" premiered after the premiere of the [[Disney Channel Original Movie]] ''[[Camp Rock]]'' on [[Disney Channel]] as well as [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] on June 21, 2008. In the video, the brothers read over a potential video treatment and imagine how the video would play out, in which they are portrayed as action stars. Nick as James Bond, Joe as a Sonny Crockett parody, and Kevin as a Kung Fu master. Cameos in the video include [[Selena Gomez]], David Carradine, Robert Davi, and Danny Trejo. The video was directed by The Malloys.

==Charts==
With strong digital sales, "Burnin' Up" debuted at #5 on the US Billboard Hot 100, making it the band's most successful single, with more than 183,000 downloads and sold the single for the first week it went on sale and 2,000,000 copies sold it became their second multi-platinum song behind SOS.<ref>{{cite web|author=David Jenison |url=http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b147740_jonas_brothers_pushin_record_books.html |title=Jonas Brothers Pushin' the Record Books |publisher=[[E!|E! Online]] |date=July 24, 2008 |accessdate=2008-07-31}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Chart (2008){{Fact|date=June 2009}}
!Peak<br />position
|-
|align="left"|Australian ARIA Singles Chart
|align="center"|31
|-
|align="left"|Ö3 Austria Top 40
|align="center"|39
|-
|align="left"|Canadian Hot 100
|align="center"|14
|-
|align="left"|Danish Singles Chart
|align="center"|39
|-
|align="left"|Irish Singles Chart
|align="center"|21
|-
|align="left"|Italian FIMI Singles Chart
|align="center"|16
|-
|align="left"|Norweigan Singles Chart
|align="center"|12
|-
|align="left"|UK Singles Chart
|align="center"|30
|-
|align="left"|U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100
|align="center"|5
|-
|align="left"|U.S. ''Billboard'' Pop 100
|align="center"|9
|}

==Critical reception==
''Time'' critic Josh Tyrangiel named this the sixth best song of 2008.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Time |date=December 22, 2008 |pages=47-48}}</ref>

==References==
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