The song was produced by ARK Music Factory, a company owned by Clarence Jey and Patrice Wilson. The video for “Friday” jumped from 3000 views to over 30 million less than 2 weeks later.

The song was release on iTunes and within 2 days it reached into the Top 100 songs.

There were many parodies and covers of the “Friday” on YouTube within days of its rise in popularity; Videos that slow down or speed up the vocals, musicians singing their own versions, remixes, parodies of the video itself, and even video bloggers posting their reactions to the video.