I'm Yours (Jason Mraz song)

"I'm Yours"
Song

"I'm Yours" is the first single released by Jason Mraz from his third studio album We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. The song was originally released on a limited edition EP called Extra Credit as a demo in 2005 to promote his second studio album Mr. A-Z. It was performed in his 2006 gigs and already became a crowd favorite before its release. "I'm Yours" was nominated for Grammy Award for Song of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 51st Grammy Awards. It was used for the Seven Network's promotion of the season premiere of Packed to the Rafters

Chart performance

The single was made available through digital stores on February 12, 2008. Throughout 2008, "I'm Yours" would slowly increase in airplay and digital sales to become Mraz's biggest hit. It has become his first top ten single in the U.S., peaking at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 and number five on the Pop 100. On the Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks chart the song was number one for a total of 16 weeks, tying it with Avril Lavigne's "Complicated" as the sixth longest running number one ever on the chart. The single later received Mainstream Top 40 airplay, eventually topping that chart as well.

Due to its gradually building crossover appeal, the song has had extremely unusual longevity, not reaching number one on the Mainstream Top 40 until December 2008, ten months after its release and seven months after it debuted on the VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown. In fact, VH1 had already retired the song in early October, 2008 after a 20-week run. The song returned to the top ten of the Hot 100 for the third time in its 38th week on the chart. The song has shown record longevity on the charts, currently in its 70th week on the Hot 100. It is now the longest running Hot 100 single of all time with 100 Weeks, surpassing; LeAnn Rimes' "How Do I Live".

A year into its release, it topped another chart for the first time, when it hit number one on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks during the week of February 5, 2009. This marked 11 months since the song had topped its first chart in the U.S., when it reached number one on the Triple A chart in March, 2008. In addition, after topping the Adult Contemporary chart, "I'm Yours" became the first song to top the Triple A, Adult Top 40, Mainstream Top 40, and Adult Contemporary charts. Despite weak initial download sales, it has gone onto sell over 4,292,000 paid digital downloads to date in the U.S., becoming the fourth best selling digital song in the United States.

It is Mraz's most successful global single to date, reaching number one in Sweden and Norway, and the top ten in Canada, United States, Austria, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Italy. It was also able to reach number one on the Top 40 Digital Track Chart in Australia. In Hawaii, radio stations do play the original version, along with a Hawaiian remix of the song. "I'm Yours" has also been a huge hit in New Zealand where it peaked at number one, knocking off "Poker Face" which spent ten consecutive weeks at number one. It was certified Gold after nine weeks selling over 7,500 copies and then certified Platinum after fourteen weeks selling over 15,000 copies.

"I'm Yours" made its debut on the British singles chart on December 12, 2008, at number 78 and then slowly climbed up the chart until it peaked at number 11. The song has now spent 31 weeks on the chart.

Music video

Jason Mraz in the music video for "I'm Yours".

The music video debuted in March 2008. I'm Yours was later featured as the Record of the Week on Scott Mills's BBC Radio One show on November 10, 2008. Since being added to YouTube it has been viewed over 43 million times before being taken down by YouTube authorities as a violation of copyright. It was filmed in Hawaii (Oahu and Kauai) in 2008 with veteran music video director Darren Doane.

• Private jet, Kauai (0:00)

The video’s opening scene is an overhead shot of a private jet at Lihue Airport on Kauai. It sets up the next scene where Mraz is seated, supposedly, in that same airplane.

• Apartment interior, Oahu (0:07)

After gazing thoughtfully into a fish tank and putting on a backpack, Mraz’s video self departs an apartment, leaving the unit’s key behind. The location was an actual occupied apartment unit on the North Shore of Oahu. All furnishings belonged to the occupants.

• Taxi ride, H-1 Freeway, Oahu (0:33)

Mraz sits in the backseat of a taxi. The scene was filmed the morning after completion of Oahu shooting. Doane hunkered down next to Mraz on the same seat. A CD with “I’m Yours” played on the cab’s stereo for Mraz to sing along to.

• Banzai Skate Park, Oahu (1:06)

Mraz thumbs a ride from a couple of guys in a pick-up truck who take him to the little-known skateboard park on Oahu’s North Shore.

• Maunawili Falls, Oahu (1:45)

Mraz hops in the back of yet another late model pick-up truck, this time with a trio of girls. The waterfall, on Oahu's windward side, was suggested by the girl he's seen conversing with at the skate park—a North Shore resident he and Doane had just met.

• Kapaa, Kauai (2:30)

After a plane ride from Oahu, Mraz catches a shuttle at the Lihue Airport and winds up in the east-side Kauai town, which he simply explores on foot.

• Mokuauia (Goat Island), Oahu (2:55)

While it appears in the video as if Mraz hasn’t left Kauai, these water shots were filmed in real surf off Mokuauia Island (a.k.a. Goat Island) on Oahu’s windward coast the day before leaving for Kauai shooting.

• Post-sunset backyard party, Oahu (3:05)

Mraz sings at an evening backyard jam with longtime percussionist Toca Rivera. Hanalei Pier, Kauai (3:21 and final shot) The final shot of Mraz kicking back on the Hanalei Bay landmark is actually the final shot of the “I’m Yours” shoot.

Cover versions and other uses

• The song was covered in 2007, prior to when Mraz had released it as a single, by Sindre Dybvikstrand as his debut single. Sindre was a contestant on Idol (Norway) who performed the song in the Top 24, failing to advance to the finals.
• In the spring of 2009, the song was used in a Verizon Hub commercial.
• This song was spoofed on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on June 11, 2009. It was performed with a guy sitting in a chair playing the chair, and a man in a BDSM outfit dancing and singing, and later with Ferguson walking in, in his work attire and joining in on the dancing with sock puppets.
• Alexander Rybak did a cover on the Norwegian children's programme "Fin Fridag", starting out playing his violin normaly then progressing to strumming.
• A remix of the song was produced by Lu Diaz of the Diaz Brothers and it features Lil Wayne and Jah Cure. It has been played on many radio stations across the country, mostly rhythmic stations.
• The instrumental of the song has also been used to promote the thriller 2009 film A Perfect Getaway.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"I'm Yours" (Radio edit)	3:35
2.	"I'm Yours" (Album version)	4:03

UK CD

No.	Title	Length
1.	"I'm Yours"
2.	"If It Kills Me"

UK re-release CD

No.	Title	Length
1.	"I'm Yours"
2.	"Winter Wonderland"
3.	"If It Kills Me" (from the Casa Nova Sessions)
4.	"I'm Yours" (video)

Charts

Chart (2008)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart	3
Austrian Singles Chart	2
Belgian Ultratop 50 (Flanders)	27
Canadian Hot 100	3
Danish Singles Chart	3
Dutch Singles Chart	9
European Hot 100 Singles	17
Finnish Singles Chart	11
German Singles Chart	8
Italian FIMI Singles Chart	4
Norwegian Singles Chart	1
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart	1
Spanish Singles Chart	6
Swedish Singles Chart	1
Swiss Singles Chart	6
Turkish Singles Chart	7
UK Singles Chart	11
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	6
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks	1
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks	1
U.S. Billboard Pop 100	5
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream	1

Year-end charts

2008	Position
Italian FIMI Singles Chart	2
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	27