 "The Sweet Escape" premiered on MTV's top-10 video chart program "Total Request Live" at number seven January 16, 2007, and it peaked at number two the next month.The video was nominated for Most Earthshattering Collaboration, one of four categories created for the reinvented 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, but lost to Beyoncé and Shakira's "Beautiful Liar".After its January 20 debut on MuchMusic's "Countdown", it reached number one for two weeks in March 2007.