Boy (I Need You)

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"Boy (I Need You)"
Single by Mariah Carey featuring Cam'ron
from the album Charmbracelet
Released March 24, 2003 (2003-03-24)
Format CD single, 12" single
Genre Pop, R&B, hip hop
Length 5:14
Label Island
Writer(s) Mariah Carey, Justin Smith, Cameron Giles, Norman Whitfield
Producer Mariah Carey, Just Blaze
Mariah Carey featuring Cam'ron singles chronology
"The One"
(2002)		 "Boy (I Need You)"
(2003)		 "I Know What You Want"
(2003)
Alternate cover
Mexico promo single cover

"Boy (I Need You)" is a song co-written and co-produced by Mariah Carey and Just Blaze for Carey's twelfth album Charmbracelet (2002). It features a sample of the Rose Royce song "I'm Going Down" that is also sampled in the same fashion as used in rapper Cam'ron's "Oh Boy". Cam'ron himself provides verses for the song. Its protagonist tells a boy how she needs him and is daydreaming about him all day, and it was released as the album's second single in 2003.

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[edit] Commercial release

During promotion for "Through the Rain" (the first single from Charmbracelet), a 12" vinyl maxi-single titled "MC... Move the Crowd" was released in the U.S. in November 2002 and featured three tracks from Charmbracelet alongside their instrumental versions: "Boy (I Need You)", the G-funk-inspired jam "Irresistible (Westside Connection)" (featuring Ice Cube, Mack 10 and WC), and "You Got Me" with Jay-Z and Freeway. It was solicited to hip hop/R&B radio to test how listeners would respond to the songs and help producers select the album's second single. Few radio stations in the U.S. received the promo, and none of the songs attracted substantial airplay (though "Irresistible (Westside Connection)" peaked at 81 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs). A separate promo released for the song "The One" ultimately received the greatest airplay and was chosen as the album's second single instead. After the failure of "Through the Rain" in the U.S., Carey and her record music label MonarC Entertainment wanted to steer away from releasing a slow jam, and promotion for "The One" was consequently directed to the uptempo and hip hop-oriented "Boy (I Need You)."

"Boy (I Need You)" was marketed as Carey's comeback single in the U.S. after the intended comeback single "Through the Rain" had failed. "Boy (I Need You)" was even less popular: it failed to chart on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and became Carey's first single not to appear on Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart. It performed marginally better elsewhere, reaching 17 in the United Kingdom and the top forty in Canada and Australia, but it failed throughout most of Europe.

[edit] Music video and remixes

The single's music video, directed by Joseph Kahn, was largely influenced by Japanese culture. It features anime renditions of Carey and Cam'ron, cameos by Godzilla, cyber Japanese space cars, ninjas, Japanese symbols, and crowds of Japanese fans. Bianca, Carey's alter ego who previously appeared in the videos for "Heartbreaker" (1999), tries to run Carey off a Japanese highway, but Carey is able to evade her and she falls off the highway. In Cam'ron's opening dialogue Carey is publicly referred to as "Mimi" for the first time, a nickname that she used for the title of her fourteenth album, The Emancipation of Mimi (2005). Actor Will Yun Lee is featured in the music video as well.

Like "Through the Rain", the main remix for "Boy (I Need You)" was not accompanied by a video. The remix emphasizes a sample from "Make The Music With Your Mouth Biz" by Biz Markie and featured raps by Cam'ron, Juelz Santana, Jim Jones, and Freeway. The Copenhaniacs, Topnotch, the Panjabi Hit Squad, Duke & MVP from Disco Montego, Agent X / Dutti Boy, and others created remixes of the song.

[edit] Formats and track listings

Canadian/European CD single

  1. "Boy (I Need You)" (Album Version)
  2. "Boy (I Need You)" (Street Remix Radio Edit featuring Cam'ron, Juelz Santana, Jimmy Jones & Freeway)

Japanese CD single

  1. "Boy (I Need You)" (Radio Edit featuring Cam'ron)
  2. "Boy (I Need You)" (w/o Rap)

Australian CD maxi-single

  1. "Boy (I Need You)" (Album Version)
  2. "Boy (I Need You)" (Remix by the Duke & MVP from Disco Montego)
  3. "Boy (I Need You)" (Radio Edit feat Cam'ron, Juelz Santana, Jimmy Jones & Freeway)
  4. "Through the Rain" (Maurice Joshua Remix)
  5. "Boy (I Need You)" (Video)

European CD maxi-single #1

  1. "Boy (I Need You)" (w/o Rap)
  2. "Boy (I Need You)" (Panjabi Hit Squad Mix)
  3. "Boy (I Need You)" (Copenhaniacs Remix)
  4. "Boy (I Need You)" (Video)

European CD maxi-single #2

  1. "Boy (I Need You)" (Album Version)
  2. "Boy (I Need You)" (Street Remix)
  3. "Boy (I Need You)" (Topnotch L8 Mix)
  4. "Boy (I Need You)" (Topnotch Tox Mix)

European CD maxi-single #3

  1. "Boy (I Need You)" (Album Version)
  2. "Boy (I Need You)" (Radio Edit Without Rap)
  3. "Boy (I Need You)" (Topnotch Tox Remix)
  4. "Through the Rain" (Video)

European CD maxi-single #4

  1. "Boy (I Need You)" (Album Version)
  2. "Boy (I Need You)" (Radio Edit featuring Cam'ron, Juelz Santana, Jimmy Jones & Freeway)
  3. "Boy (I Need You)" (Copenhaniacs Remix)
  4. "Boy (I Need You)" (Video)

[edit] Charts

Chart (2003) Peak
position
Australian Singles Chart[1] 29
Dutch Singles Chart[2] 35
European Singles Chart[3] 44
French Singles Chart[4] 51
German Singles Chart[5] 73
Irish Singles Chart[6] 40
New Zealand Singles Chart[7] 45
Swiss Singles Chart[8] 78
UK Singles Chart[9] 17
U.S. Billboard Hot Singles Sales[10] 57
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs[11] 68

[edit] References

  1. ^ Australian Singles Chart
  2. ^ Dutch Singles Chart
  3. ^ European Singles Chart
  4. ^ French Singles Chart
  5. ^ German Singles Chart
  6. ^ Irish Singles Chart
  7. ^ New Zealand Singles Chart
  8. ^ Swiss Singles Chart
  9. ^ UK Singles Chart
  10. ^ Hot 100 Singles Sales
  11. ^ Artist Chart History - Mariah Carey
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Mariah Carey
Studio albums
Mariah Carey (1990) · Emotions (1991) · Music Box (1993) · Merry Christmas (1994) · Daydream (1995) · Butterfly (1997) · Rainbow (1999) · Glitter (2001) · Charmbracelet (2002) · The Emancipation of Mimi (2005) · E=MC² (2008) · Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel (2009) · Angels Advocate (2010)
Compilations
Live albums
Video compilations
Concert tours
Notable performances
Mariah's Thanksgiving NBC Special (1993) · Fantasy: Mariah Carey at Madison Square Garden (1995) · VH1 Divas Live (1998) · Mariah Carey's Homecoming Special (2000) · VH1 Divas 2000: A Tribute to Diana Ross (2000) · Live 8 (2005) · Live at The Pearl (2009)
Selected filmography
The Bachelor (1999) · Glitter (2001) · WiseGirls (2002) · Ally McBeal (2002) · State Property 2 (2005) · You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008) · Tennessee (2008) · Precious (2009)
Charities
Related articles
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Mariah Carey singles
Mariah Carey
Emotions
"Emotions" · "Can't Let Go" · "Make It Happen" · "Till the End of Time"
MTV Unplugged
Music Box
Merry Christmas
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" · "Miss You Most (At Christmas Time)" · "Joy to the World" · "Jesus Born On This Day" · "O Holy Night"
Daydream
"Fantasy" · "One Sweet Day" · "Open Arms/El Amor Que Soñé" · "Always Be My Baby" · "Forever" · "Underneath the Stars"
Butterfly
"Honey" · "Butterfly" · "Breakdown" · "The Roof" · "My All" · "Whenever You Call"
#1's
Rainbow
Glitter
Charmbracelet
The Remixes
"U Like This (Megamix)" · "Miss You"
The Emancipation of Mimi
E=MC²
Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
Angels Advocate
Other releases
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