She Will Be Loved

"She Will Be Loved"
Single by Maroon 5
from the album Songs About Jane
Released	July 27, 2004
Format	CD single
Recorded	Los Angeles, California, 2002
Genre	Pop rock
Length	4:17
Label	Octone Records
Writer(s)	Adam Levine James Valentine
Producer	Matt Wallace
Certification	Platinum (RIAA)
Maroon 5 singles chronology
"This Love" (2004) "She Will Be Loved" (2004) "Sunday Morning" (2004)

"She Will Be Loved" is the third single from the Californian band Maroon 5's 2002 debut album, Songs About Jane. Released in 2004, the single peaked at #5 in the United States and has sold over 2,178,000 downloads since release; it also peaked at #4 in the United Kingdom. The song reached #1 in Australia and remained at the top for 5 non-consecutive weeks. The single is noted for its music video which stars Kelly Preston.

When the band was commissioned to perform at the AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony for George Lucas, this song was chosen in tribute to Lucas' children, mainly his oldest daughter.

The song is also playable in rhythm game Band Hero in addition Levine also appears as a playable avatar in the game. It also appears in the film, The Last Song (2010), and was included as track 10 of the films soundtrack.

Music video

The music video for "She Will Be Loved" features a young man (played by lead singer Adam Levine) who falls into a swimming pool to commit suicide. As he falls into the pool, flashbacks are seen. The music video details his in love for the socialite mother (played by Kelly Preston) of his girlfriend (played by Corinne Carrey). The mother is not receiving love from her wealthy husband and turns to Levine for comfort after he discovers her unconscious.

Throughout the song, it is assumed he sings about the mother and his feelings of sympathy towards her. Not until the end is it revealed, through the closing lyrics, that he is actually singing about his girlfriend, who discovers the affair. We now discover why Adam Levine is seen falling into a swimming pool at the start of the video.

The video uses the "radio edit", an alternate and slightly slower take of the song which only appears on promotional CDs.

Produced by Oil Factory, "She Will Be Loved" was directed by Sophie Muller.

Track listing

German CD Single
No.	Title	Length
1.	"She Will Be Loved" (Album version)
2.	"This Love" (Kanye West remix)
3.	"Closer" (Live acoustic version (Nine Inch Nails Cover))

European CD Single
No.	Title	Length
1.	"She Will Be Loved" (Album version)
2.	"She Will Be Loved" (Live acoustic version)	4:36

Chart positions

Chart (2004)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA)	1
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 75)	27
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)	27
Belgium (Ultratip Wallonia)	1
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)	10
France (SNEP)	23
Germany (Media Control AG)	25
Hungary (Rádiós Top 40)	9
Ireland (IRMA)	3
Italy (FIMI)	3
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)	6
New Zealand (RIANZ)	18
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)	18
UK Singles (The Official Charts Company)	4
US Billboard Hot 100	5
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)	4

Preceded by "My Place / Flap Your Wings" by Nelly	ARIA (Australia) number one single September 5, 2004 - September 26, 2004	Succeeded by "Out with My Baby" by Guy Sebastian
Preceded by "Out with My Baby" by Guy Sebastian	ARIA (Australia) number one single October 10, 2004	Succeeded by "Out of the Blue" by Delta Goodrem

American Idol

Blake Lewis, the runner-up on the sixth season of American Idol, performed the song on the show on May 23, 2007. The original version of the song re-entered Billboard's Hot Digital Songs chart at #45 that week. After the finale of Idol, the singer sang the song on various television shows, including The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet (combined with a snippet of U2's "With or Without You"), The Today Show, Live with Regis and Kelly and The Early Show. A remix of this song also appears on the nonprofit collaborative album Rhythms del Mundo, which fuses an all-star cast of Cuban musicians with tracks from US, UK and Irish artists.

Other cover version(s)

• "She Will Be Loved" was performed by the Kidz Bop Kids on Kidz Bop 7.
• Chuck Wicks and Julianne Hough performed "She Will Be Loved" on the eighth season of Dancing with the Stars.
• It featured briefly in an episode of season five of The Sopranos.
• The song is played over the first almost-love scene between Lucas and Peyton in One Tree Hill's season 1 episode "Life in a Glass House".
• It also plays when Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams win the MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss in The Notebook.
• The song was remixed on the tropical album, Rhythms del Mundo.
• The song was parodied in the YouTube sensation "You Will Be Mugged."
• There is another cover from the band Runner Runner on their CD Under The Covers from 2009.
• The song is featured in the movie The Last Song which stars Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth alongside Kelly Preston who appeared in the original music video for this song.
• In 2011, Reece Mastin, X Factor Australia winner, covered this song for his album Reece Mastin (album).