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You Make Me Wanna...

August 24, 2023

For other uses, see You Make Me Wanna (disambiguation).

"You Make Me Wanna..." is a song by American recording artist Usher. It was released on August 5, 1997, by LaFace Records and Arista Records as the lead single from Usher's second studio album, My Way (1997). "You Make Me Wanna..." was written by Usher along with Jermaine Dupri and Manuel Seal, who both produced the tune. An R&B, soul and pop song in C minor, it makes use of acoustic guitar, hi-hat and bell instrumentation. The song focuses on a love triangle relationship, with the protagonist wishing to leave his girlfriend for his erstwhile best friend, with a hook in which Usher states, "You make me wanna leave the one I'm with and start a new relationship with you". The record won a Billboard Music Award, a Soul Train Music Award, and a WQHT Hip Hop Award, and was nominated for a Grammy Award.

"You Make Me Wanna..."
Single by Usher
from the album My Way
ReleasedAugust 5, 1997
Recorded1996
StudioKrosswire (Atlanta, Georgia)
GenreR&B, soul, pop
Length
  • 3:39
  • 5:20 (extended version)
LabelLaFace, Arista
Songwriter(s)Usher, Jermaine Dupri, Manuel Seal
Producer(s)Jermaine Dupri, Manuel Seal
Usher singles chronology
"The Many Ways"
(1995) 		"You Make Me Wanna..."
(1997) 		"Nice & Slow"
(1998)
Music video
"You Make Me Wanna..." on YouTube
Remix cover

"You Make Me Wanna..." appeared on several record charts, topping the UK Singles Chart and the US Hot R&B Singles, logging the second-longest run by a male artist on the latter. It also reached the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100, US Pop Songs, Canadian Singles Chart, Dutch Top 40 and ARIA Singles Chart. An accompanying music video, directed by Bille Woodruff, shows Usher dancing in various colored rooms and backgrounds, and uses an effect which creates several clones of Usher.

Background and composition

 
"You Make Me Wanna..."
The song makes heavy use of the acoustic guitar.
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Usher wrote "You Make Me Wanna..." with Jermaine Dupri and Manuel Seal, who also produced and played musical instruments on the tune. Phil Tan was in charge of recording the song at the Krosswire Studio, in Atlanta, Georgia in 1996. Tan and Dupri mixed the record with assistance from John and Brian Frye at Studio LaCoCo, in Atlanta, Georgia.[1] "You Make Me Wanna..." draws from the genres of R&B, soul and pop,[2] and heavily utilizes the acoustic guitar,[3][4] while also incorporating hi-hat and bell instrumentation.[5] According to Universal Music Publishing Group's sheet music published at Musicnotes.com, "You Make Me Wanna..." is written in the key of C Minor with a moderate tempo of 88 beats per minute. Usher's voice extends from the low note of B♭3 to the high note of C6.[2] The song[6] has a basic sequence of Cm–Fm7–A♭–G–G/B as its chord progression.[2] In the song, Usher attempts to seduce his partner's best friend, whom he finds irresistible,[7] creating a love triangle.[8] The song's lyrics are written in second-person narrative,[2][7] and its hook is the pick-up line, "You make me wanna leave the one I'm with and start a new relationship with you".[9] Usher told Rolling Stone that the song was inspired by one of his own memories of "juggling three women".[10]

Release

"You Make Me Wanna..." was distributed by LaFace Records and Arista Records. In the United States, it was serviced to rhythmic contemporary radio on July 15, 1997.[11] The song was then released via maxi single on August 5, 1997.[12][13] On September 9, 1997, the track was added to US contemporary hit radio.[14] "You Make Me Wanna..." was released via cassette single, CD single, and 12-inch vinyl in the UK on January 19, 1998.[15] The vinyl was made available in the US on April 24, 2001.[16] Unauthorized copies of the song were distributed in Europe before its release, due to its popularity.[17] "You Make Me Wanna..." serves as the opening track to Usher's second studio album, My Way, while an extended version concludes the album.[18]

Critical reception

BBC Music's Christian Hopwood stated that "You Make Me Wanna..." had "universal appeal".[19] Larry Flick from Billboard wrote, "Vocally strumming his notes as gently and powerfully as the guitar player who accompanies him, Usher makes no enemies by professing an attraction to a friend while being involved with another. The track promises to be a hit among all generations and genders as his loyal young female fan base will eagerly jump aboard. Older women will easily fall prey to the very thought of his musings, while men now have an interesting avenue to express similar feelings."[20] Robert Christgau noted "You Make Me Wanna..." as one of the best tracks from My Way.[21] Entertainment Weekly's Whitney Pastorek gave it an A− rating, and complimented its minimal production.[5] The Daily News reviewer called the single "very wonderful".[3] Alan Jones from Music Week viewed it as "a superbly sublime and soulful semi-acoustic debut which recalls similarly styled singles from Tony Rich and Babyface. It actually has a very complex vocal, with Usher singing in and around the gaps on his own chorus. A very promising cuitain-raiser."[22] According to Ann Powers of The New York Times, the song "put the spice back in the word 'relationship'."[23] David Fricke from Rolling Stone said it is one thing: "tiptoe love funk with a spare, gangsta air and Usher doing overdubbed ensemble singing like a one-man Blackstreet."[24] When reviewing My Way, Ian Hyland from Sunday Mirror stated that, "Tracks like 'You Make Me Wanna...', 'Nice And Slow' and 'Slow Jam' should put you in the mood".[25] A writer for The Vindicator wrote, "The song is a melodic blend of Usher's smooth, youthful voice and a strong, upbeat rhythm track.[26] Billy Johnson Jr. of Yahoo! Music commended the production on "You Make Me Wanna...", along with that of "Nice and Slow" and "My Way", the second and third singles from My Way, respectively.[27] On Valentine's Day 2004, VH1 listed the song at number six on its "Top 10 Sexy Tunes" for the holiday.[28]

"You Make Me Wanna..." won Usher the Billboard award for Pop Singer of the Year,[29] and the Best R&B/Soul Single, Male category at the 1998 Soul Train Music Awards.[30] Radio station WQHT awarded it the title of Best R&B Song at its inaugural Hip Hop Awards.[31] The singer also received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for the song at the 40th Grammy Awards,[32] but lost to R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly".[33] In the 1997 Pazz & Jop critics' poll administered by The Village Voice, "You Make Me Wanna..." tied for thirtieth place in the singles category with Radiohead's "Paranoid Android".[34]

Commercial performance

"You Make Me Wanna..." debuted at number twenty-five on the Billboard Hot 100 on the chart dated August 23, 1997. The track peaked at number two for seven consecutive weeks, from October 25 to December 6, 1997. After seven weeks at number two, the song fell into number three, replaced at the runner-up spot by LeAnn Rimes' "How Do I Live", which had also spent seven weeks at number three. In November 1998, the song fell off the chart after forty-six charting weeks.[35] On the Hot R&B Singles component chart, "You Make Me Wanna..." debuted at number four on August 23, 1997, before topping the chart two weeks later. In its first week of release, "You Make Me Wanna..." received 1,329 spins,[36] and by early October 1997, the song had made fifty million listener impressions on US R&B radio.[26] The record spent a total of eleven weeks atop the R&B/Hip Hop Songs, and seventy-one weeks within the chart's 100 positions.[37] "You Make Me Wanna..." stood as the song with the longest run on the genre chart by a male artist until K'Jon's "On the Ocean" lasted longer in 2010.[38] It also spent twenty-nine weeks on the Pop Songs chart, peaking at number seven.[39] On September 3, 1997, "You Make Me Wanna..." received a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting 500,000 shipments, and later that month it was upgraded to platinum status for shipments exceeding one million copies.[40] Though its certification status was not further renewed, it ultimately went on to sell over two million copies domestically.[41] The song ranked at number eighty-eight on the Billboard Hot 100 "All-Time Top Songs", published in July 2008.[42]

"You Make Me Wanna..." entered the UK Singles Chart at number one, on the chart dated January 31, 1998.[43] That same week the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) awarded the song a silver certification for shipping 200,000 units.[44] It only spent one week on top of the chart, being replaced by Aqua's "Doctor Jones".[45] "You Make Me Wanna..." slipped off the chart in May 1998, having had thirteen charting weeks.[46] The BPI has since re-certified the single gold for shipping over 400,000 copies.[44] The song entered the Canadian Singles Chart at number eighty-six on November 10, 1997.[47] It peaked at number six,[48] lasting twenty-two weeks in the chart.[49] In Europe, the song reached the top twenty in France, Germany, Norway and Switzerland, and peaked at number seven in the Netherlands.[50][51][52] It spent sixteen weeks in the Australian Singles Chart, climaxing at number six,[50] and was certified Platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), having sold 70,000 copies.[53] "You Make Me Wanna..." reached number fifteen on the New Zealand Singles Chart, occupying twenty-six weeks in the chart.[50] The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand certified the song gold.[54]

Music video

 
Usher as he appears in the music video.

The accompanying music video for "You Make Me Wanna..." was directed by Bille Woodruff.[55] It starts with Usher sitting in an orange wall recess, reaching for a guitar, before cutting to a scene of him standing in a white-and-purple circular room, wearing an open shirt. It moves to a blue backdrop where Usher advances, flanked by four dancers. The scene is replaced by five clones of Usher dancing and sitting on chairs.[5][7] The video continues with the singer performing dance routines throughout; interspersed are scenes of Usher singing the song on a background of blue pipes. Toward the end of the video, he takes off his shirt in the circular room, and finally Usher and his backup dancers step out of their shoes and walk away.[56]

Track listings

Charts

Certifications

Certifications and sales for "You Make Me Wanna..."
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[99] Platinum 70,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ)[54] Gold 5,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[44] Platinum 600,000‡
United States (RIAA)[40] 2× Platinum 2,000,000[41]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

See also

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For other uses see You Make Me Wanna disambiguation You Make Me Wanna is a song by American recording artist Usher It was released on August 5 1997 by LaFace Records and Arista Records as the lead single from Usher s second studio album My Way 1997 You Make Me Wanna was written by Usher along with Jermaine Dupri and Manuel Seal who both produced the tune An R amp B soul and pop song in C minor it makes use of acoustic guitar hi hat and bell instrumentation The song focuses on a love triangle relationship with the protagonist wishing to leave his girlfriend for his erstwhile best friend with a hook in which Usher states You make me wanna leave the one I m with and start a new relationship with you The record won a Billboard Music Award a Soul Train Music Award and a WQHT Hip Hop Award and was nominated for a Grammy Award You Make Me Wanna Single by Usherfrom the album My WayReleasedAugust 5 1997Recorded1996StudioKrosswire Atlanta Georgia GenreR amp B soul popLength3 39 5 20 extended version LabelLaFace AristaSongwriter s Usher Jermaine Dupri Manuel SealProducer s Jermaine Dupri Manuel SealUsher singles chronology The Many Ways 1995 You Make Me Wanna 1997 Nice amp Slow 1998 Music video You Make Me Wanna on YouTubeRemix cover You Make Me Wanna appeared on several record charts topping the UK Singles Chart and the US Hot R amp B Singles logging the second longest run by a male artist on the latter It also reached the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 US Pop Songs Canadian Singles Chart Dutch Top 40 and ARIA Singles Chart An accompanying music video directed by Bille Woodruff shows Usher dancing in various colored rooms and backgrounds and uses an effect which creates several clones of Usher Contents 1 Background and composition 2 Release 3 Critical reception 4 Commercial performance 5 Music video 6 Track listings 7 Charts 7 1 Weekly charts 7 2 Year end charts 7 3 Decade end charts 7 4 All time charts 8 Certifications 9 See also 10 ReferencesBackground and composition Edit You Make Me Wanna source source The song makes heavy use of the acoustic guitar Problems playing this file See media help Usher wrote You Make Me Wanna with Jermaine Dupri and Manuel Seal who also produced and played musical instruments on the tune Phil Tan was in charge of recording the song at the Krosswire Studio in Atlanta Georgia in 1996 Tan and Dupri mixed the record with assistance from John and Brian Frye at Studio LaCoCo in Atlanta Georgia 1 You Make Me Wanna draws from the genres of R amp B soul and pop 2 and heavily utilizes the acoustic guitar 3 4 while also incorporating hi hat and bell instrumentation 5 According to Universal Music Publishing Group s sheet music published at Musicnotes com You Make Me Wanna is written in the key of C Minor with a moderate tempo of 88 beats per minute Usher s voice extends from the low note of B 3 to the high note of C6 2 The song 6 has a basic sequence of Cm Fm7 A G G B as its chord progression 2 In the song Usher attempts to seduce his partner s best friend whom he finds irresistible 7 creating a love triangle 8 The song s lyrics are written in second person narrative 2 7 and its hook is the pick up line You make me wanna leave the one I m with and start a new relationship with you 9 Usher told Rolling Stone that the song was inspired by one of his own memories of juggling three women 10 Release Edit You Make Me Wanna was distributed by LaFace Records and Arista Records In the United States it was serviced to rhythmic contemporary radio on July 15 1997 11 The song was then released via maxi single on August 5 1997 12 13 On September 9 1997 the track was added to US contemporary hit radio 14 You Make Me Wanna was released via cassette single CD single and 12 inch vinyl in the UK on January 19 1998 15 The vinyl was made available in the US on April 24 2001 16 Unauthorized copies of the song were distributed in Europe before its release due to its popularity 17 You Make Me Wanna serves as the opening track to Usher s second studio album My Way while an extended version concludes the album 18 Critical reception EditBBC Music s Christian Hopwood stated that You Make Me Wanna had universal appeal 19 Larry Flick from Billboard wrote Vocally strumming his notes as gently and powerfully as the guitar player who accompanies him Usher makes no enemies by professing an attraction to a friend while being involved with another The track promises to be a hit among all generations and genders as his loyal young female fan base will eagerly jump aboard Older women will easily fall prey to the very thought of his musings while men now have an interesting avenue to express similar feelings 20 Robert Christgau noted You Make Me Wanna as one of the best tracks from My Way 21 Entertainment Weekly s Whitney Pastorek gave it an A rating and complimented its minimal production 5 The Daily News reviewer called the single very wonderful 3 Alan Jones from Music Week viewed it as a superbly sublime and soulful semi acoustic debut which recalls similarly styled singles from Tony Rich and Babyface It actually has a very complex vocal with Usher singing in and around the gaps on his own chorus A very promising cuitain raiser 22 According to Ann Powers of The New York Times the song put the spice back in the word relationship 23 David Fricke from Rolling Stone said it is one thing tiptoe love funk with a spare gangsta air and Usher doing overdubbed ensemble singing like a one man Blackstreet 24 When reviewing My Way Ian Hyland from Sunday Mirror stated that Tracks like You Make Me Wanna Nice And Slow and Slow Jam should put you in the mood 25 A writer for The Vindicator wrote The song is a melodic blend of Usher s smooth youthful voice and a strong upbeat rhythm track 26 Billy Johnson Jr of Yahoo Music commended the production on You Make Me Wanna along with that of Nice and Slow and My Way the second and third singles from My Way respectively 27 On Valentine s Day 2004 VH1 listed the song at number six on its Top 10 Sexy Tunes for the holiday 28 You Make Me Wanna won Usher the Billboard award for Pop Singer of the Year 29 and the Best R amp B Soul Single Male category at the 1998 Soul Train Music Awards 30 Radio station WQHT awarded it the title of Best R amp B Song at its inaugural Hip Hop Awards 31 The singer also received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Male R amp B Vocal Performance for the song at the 40th Grammy Awards 32 but lost to R Kelly s I Believe I Can Fly 33 In the 1997 Pazz amp Jop critics poll administered by The Village Voice You Make Me Wanna tied for thirtieth place in the singles category with Radiohead s Paranoid Android 34 Commercial performance Edit You Make Me Wanna debuted at number twenty five on the Billboard Hot 100 on the chart dated August 23 1997 The track peaked at number two for seven consecutive weeks from October 25 to December 6 1997 After seven weeks at number two the song fell into number three replaced at the runner up spot by LeAnn Rimes How Do I Live which had also spent seven weeks at number three In November 1998 the song fell off the chart after forty six charting weeks 35 On the Hot R amp B Singles component chart You Make Me Wanna debuted at number four on August 23 1997 before topping the chart two weeks later In its first week of release You Make Me Wanna received 1 329 spins 36 and by early October 1997 the song had made fifty million listener impressions on US R amp B radio 26 The record spent a total of eleven weeks atop the R amp B Hip Hop Songs and seventy one weeks within the chart s 100 positions 37 You Make Me Wanna stood as the song with the longest run on the genre chart by a male artist until K Jon s On the Ocean lasted longer in 2010 38 It also spent twenty nine weeks on the Pop Songs chart peaking at number seven 39 On September 3 1997 You Make Me Wanna received a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA denoting 500 000 shipments and later that month it was upgraded to platinum status for shipments exceeding one million copies 40 Though its certification status was not further renewed it ultimately went on to sell over two million copies domestically 41 The song ranked at number eighty eight on the Billboard Hot 100 All Time Top Songs published in July 2008 42 You Make Me Wanna entered the UK Singles Chart at number one on the chart dated January 31 1998 43 That same week the British Phonographic Industry BPI awarded the song a silver certification for shipping 200 000 units 44 It only spent one week on top of the chart being replaced by Aqua s Doctor Jones 45 You Make Me Wanna slipped off the chart in May 1998 having had thirteen charting weeks 46 The BPI has since re certified the single gold for shipping over 400 000 copies 44 The song entered the Canadian Singles Chart at number eighty six on November 10 1997 47 It peaked at number six 48 lasting twenty two weeks in the chart 49 In Europe the song reached the top twenty in France Germany Norway and Switzerland and peaked at number seven in the Netherlands 50 51 52 It spent sixteen weeks in the Australian Singles Chart climaxing at number six 50 and was certified Platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association ARIA having sold 70 000 copies 53 You Make Me Wanna reached number fifteen on the New Zealand Singles Chart occupying twenty six weeks in the chart 50 The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand certified the song gold 54 Music video Edit Usher as he appears in the music video The accompanying music video for You Make Me Wanna was directed by Bille Woodruff 55 It starts with Usher sitting in an orange wall recess reaching for a guitar before cutting to a scene of him standing in a white and purple circular room wearing an open shirt It moves to a blue backdrop where Usher advances flanked by four dancers The scene is replaced by five clones of Usher dancing and sitting on chairs 5 7 The video continues with the singer performing dance routines throughout interspersed are scenes of Usher singing the song on a background of blue pipes Toward the end of the video he takes off his shirt in the circular room and finally Usher and his backup dancers step out of their shoes and walk away 56 Track listings EditMaxi single 57 You Make Me Wanna 3 39 You Make Me Wanna JD remix 3 39 You Make Me Wanna Lil Jon s Eastside Remix 4 26 You Make Me Wanna Timbaland Remix 3 58 You Make Me Wanna instrumental 3 17 You Make Me Wanna Lil Jon s Eastside remix instrumental 3 57CD single 58 You Make Me Wanna You Make Me Wanna Tuff Jam Classic Garage Mix You Make Me Wanna Tuff Jam Classic Garage instrumental You Make Me Wanna Tuff Jam UVM Dub Mix You Make Me Wanna instrumental Dub Mix 12 inch vinyl 59 You Make Me Wanna 3 39 You Make Me Wanna JD s Remix 3 39 You Make Me Wanna Lil Jon s Eastside Remix 3 58 You Make Me Wanna Timbaland s Remix 4 26 You Make Me Wanna a cappella 3 39 You Make Me Wanna instrumental 3 17Charts EditWeekly charts Edit Weekly chart performance for You Make Me Wanna Chart 1997 1998 PeakpositionAustralia ARIA 50 6Belgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 60 42Belgium Ultratop 50 Wallonia 61 30Canada Top Singles RPM 62 17Canada Dance Urban RPM 63 1Canada Nielsen SoundScan 64 6Europe Eurochart Hot 100 65 8France SNEP 66 20Germany Official German Charts 51 18Ireland IRMA 67 9Netherlands Dutch Top 40 68 7Netherlands Single Top 100 69 6New Zealand Recorded Music NZ 70 15Norway VG lista 71 12Scotland OCC 72 13Spain AFYVE 73 10Sweden Sverigetopplistan 74 24Switzerland Schweizer Hitparade 75 12UK Singles OCC 46 1UK Dance OCC 76 17UK Hip Hop R amp B OCC 77 1US Billboard Hot 100 35 2US Hot Dance Singles Sales Billboard 48 1US Hot R amp B Hip Hop Songs Billboard 78 1US Mainstream Top 40 Billboard 39 7US Rhythmic Billboard 79 1 Year end charts Edit 1997 year end chart performance for You Make Me Wanna Chart 1997 PositionNetherlands Dutch Top 40 80 61Netherlands Single Top 100 81 43UK Urban Music Week 82 10US Billboard Hot 100 83 14US Hot R amp B Singles Billboard 84 51998 year end chart performance for You Make Me Wanna Chart 1998 PositionAustralia ARIA 85 47Canada Top Singles RPM 86 37Canada Urban RPM 87 46Europe Eurochart Hot 100 88 70Germany Official German Charts 89 100Netherlands Single Top 100 90 95UK Singles OCC 91 42UK Urban Music Week 92 6US Billboard Hot 100 93 15US Hot R amp B Singles Billboard 94 15US Mainstream Top 40 Billboard 95 24US Rhythmic Billboard 96 8Decade end charts Edit Decade end chart performance for You Make Me Wanna Chart 1990 1999 PositionUS Billboard Hot 100 97 45All time charts Edit All time chart performance for You Make Me Wanna Chart 1958 2018 PositionUS Billboard Hot 100 98 114Certifications EditCertifications and sales for You Make Me Wanna Region Certification Certified units salesAustralia ARIA 99 Platinum 70 000 New Zealand RMNZ 54 Gold 5 000 United Kingdom BPI 44 Platinum 600 000 United States RIAA 40 2 Platinum 2 000 000 41 Sales figures based on certification alone 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