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"What's So Different?"
Single by Ginuwine
from the album 100% Ginuwine & Greatest Hits
ReleasedFebruary 16, 1999
Recorded1998
GenreR&B
Length4:00
Label550 Music/Epic
666920
Songwriter(s)Thomas Boyce, Bobby Hart, Elgin Lumpkin, Tim Mosley
Producer(s)Timbaland
Ginuwine singles chronology
"Same Ol' G"
(1998)
"What's So Different?"
(1999)
"So Anxious"
(1999)

"What's So Different?" is a song by R&B singer Ginuwine. It was the second single for his second album 100% Ginuwine. The song peaked one position below the Top 20 as an R&B hit and peaked within the Top 50 portion as a pop hit. "What's So Different" lyrically describes the narrator questioning his lover who is cheating on her boyfriend to be with him. He claims that if she is cheating on another man to be with him, she may also cheat on him to be with someone else. The music video was directed by Francis Lawrence. "What's So Different" samples the Monkees 1968 #3 U.S. single, "Valleri".

Single track listing

CD single[1]

  1. "What's So Different?" (Album Version) 4:00
  2. "What's So Different?" (Instrumental) 4:00
  3. "What's So Different?" (Club Asylum Classic Vocal Mix) 6:12
  4. "What's So Different?" (C.A.P. Dub) 5:34

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1999) Peak
position
Invalid chart entered Germany2 50
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[2] 16
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[3] 43
UK Singles (OCC)[4] 10
US Billboard Hot 100[5] 49
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[6] 21
US Rhythmic (Billboard)[7] 3

Year-end charts

Chart (1999) Position
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[8] 82

References

  1. ^ allmusic (What's So Different > Overview) allmusic.com. Retrieved October 18, 2008
  2. ^ "Ginuwine – What's So Different?". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  3. ^ "Ginuwine – What's So Different?". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  4. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  5. ^ "Ginuwine Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  6. ^ "Ginuwine Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  7. ^ "Ginuwine Chart History (Rhythmic)". Billboard. Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  8. ^ "Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs – Year-End 1999". Billboard. Retrieved May 17, 2020.