It was originally released on October 11, 2013, as a promotional single and then re-released on February 24, 2014, by Sony Music Entertainment.

The official remix for the song features Kid Ink and Ty Dolla Sign, with Blink-182 member Travis Barker on the drums.

The song peaked at number six on the Canadian Hot 100 and internationally topped the charts in the United States and the United Kingdom and peaked within the top ten of the charts in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden.

"Rude" was the ninth best-selling song of 2014, with global sales of 8.6 million units, and won the Juno Award for Single of the Year.

[9] Renowned for Sound gave "Rude" a 4 out of 5 star rating, calling the track "lighthearted fun.

[11] It features the band singing the song in a garage while scenes show Nasri in a relationship with a woman played by model Ayla Parker.

[21] On July 15, 2015, Postmodern Jukebox released a cover version of the song on YouTube,[22] featuring Von Smith.

In September 2015, American singer Selena Gomez covered the song on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge.

[23] On 2 September 2014, Russian-German DJ and record producer Zedd released a remix of the song through Sony Music Entertainment lasting 4 minutes and 33 seconds.

This is the first time since The Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" that a song fell all the way to the number 5 spot after spending as many as six weeks atop the chart.

[30] The song was certified three-times Platinum by the RIAA in September 2014 and has sold 3 million copies in the US, as of January 2015.