wrote ‘Over to You Now’ for Britney Spears

Heap wrote and provided additional vocals on the Britney Spears song “Over to You Now”, a bonus track from her 2005 extended play (EP) Britney & Kevin: Chaotic , which was released to accompany Spears’s reality television series of the same name . She co-wrote the song with Robyn and Sigsworth, who produced it. In May 2005, Heap released ” Hide and Seek “, the lead single from her forthcoming album, with a music video directed by Joel Peissig. The song began gaining traction in the UK when it received praise from radio DJs Jo Whiley and Zane Lowe . It brought her to fame internationally after it was used to soundtrack the season two finale of the Fox teen drama television series The O.C. on the same day as its release; it was also included as the closing track of The OC Mix 5 , a soundtrack album for the series released by Warner Bros. Records in November 2005. Its appearance in the series caused it to become especially popular on the iTunes Store and it peaked in the top-40 of the Billboard Digital Songs chart, eventually receiving a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and a silver certification from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). A Saturday Night Live parody of the scene in 2007 that featured the song brought it to further prominence and made it into a meme online. It also received critical praise, with Kelefa Sanneh calling it “the best thing” on her second studio album for The New York Times and Margaret Farrell of Stereogum listing it as Heap’s best song in 2018. It went on to be sampled in the 2009 song ” Whatcha Say ” by American singer Jason Derulo , which topped the Billboard Hot 100 .