WFH was awarded Best Collaboration video at the VMAs, beating out both "Work" and "This Is What You Came For", Rihanna's and Calvin Harris' Nils Sjöberg-penned summer 2016 hit.
This may be the only instance in which Fifth Harmony triumphs over Rihanna. "Work" is said 94 times in this song averaging out to roughly once every 2.28 seconds, whereas Rihanna and Drake's "Work" contains a meager 77 "work" utterances. This would end up being the highest-charting single for all credited artists on the track, until Camila Cabello had #1 hits with "Havana" and "Señorita" in 20 respectively, and Ty was featured on Post Malone's "Psycho", going #1 in 2018 as well. This made Fifth Harmony the highest-charting girl group since The Pussycat Dolls' "Buttons" featuring Snoop Dogg peaked at #3 back in 2006. The song would rise up to #4 on the Hot 100, dating the week of June 11th, 2016. Speaking of "Worth It", the song's #12 peak on the Billboard Hot 100 was matched by WFH after it's first week of tracking, the week of March 5th, 2016. Work from Home was actually 5H's 2nd video to reach 1 billion, after "Worth It" with Kid Ink did so in July 2016. By comparison, One Direction's only video with 1b+ views is "What Makes You Beautiful", only crossing the threshold in 2018, 7 years after the song's release. Over half of those views came from 2016 alone, as Billboard declared Work from Home the most-viewed video of 2016, clocking in the first billion in October of 2016. Largely because of the eye candy on display, as well as the song's catchy hooks and melodies, WFH was able to rack up an astounding 2.4 billion views. The song premiered on the Elvis Duran Show on February 26th, 2016, with the Director X-led video also premiering that day, showing the girls and Ty at a construction site, alongside a selection of hunky gentlemen as well, namely Elando Baltimore and notable #FreeBritney activist Sam Asghari. Well, supposedly there wouldn't be as MUCH confusion between the two songs as Epic would've hoped, but still, two female-led, rap-assisted songs, both of which incessantly repeat the term "work" throughout? This was probably as close as Fifth Harmony would get to Rihanna, so I consider it divine intervention that just so happened to come their way. The first tracking week for "Work From Home". Well, as it just so happened, Rihanna and Drake put out the lead single to Rih's ANTi album, coincidentally entitled "Work", which peaked at #1 the week of March 5th. Hmm, it'd be funny if another act had released a collaboration called "Work" that same week, huh? Initially, the song was both supposed to be called "Work" and release on January 26th.
Also credited is Daniel Bedingfield, as the beat heavily samples his 2001 hit "Gotta Get Thru This". The song was written by Jude Demorest, Brian Lee, Ty, Eskeerdo, DallasK and Ammo, being produced by the latter two. It was on this day five years ago that "Work From Home", a collaboration between Fifth Harmony and Ty Dolla $ign, was released as the lead single from the band's sophomore album, 7/27. Personal note, fuck Epic for this single cover