What Took You So Long?

Infobox Single
Name = What Took You So Long?


Artist = Emma Bunton
Album = A Girl Like Me
B-side = "Merry-Go Round", "(Hey You) Free Up Your Mind"
Released = 2 April 2001 (UK)
Format = CD single
Recorded = Biffco Studios
(Dublin)
Genre = Pop rock, acoustic
Length = 3:59
Label = Virgin
Writer = Emma Bunton, Richard Stannard, Julian Gallagher, Martin Harrington, John Themis, Dave Morgan
Producer = Richard Stannard, Julian Gallagher
Certification = Gold (ARIA)
Last single = "What I Am"
(1999)
This single = "What Took You So Long?"
(2001)
Next single = "Take My Breath Away"
(2001)
Misc = Audiosample
Upper caption = Audio sample
Name = What Took You So Long?
Audio file = WhatTookYouSoLongSample.ogg

"What Took You So Long?" is a pop rock–acoustic song written by English singer-songwriter Emma Bunton, Richard Stannard, Julian Gallagher, Martin Harrington, John Themis, and Dave Morgan for Bunton's debut solo album, "A Girl Like Me" (2001). Released as the album's lead single in April 2001 in the United Kingdom, it debuted and peaked at number one for two weeks on the UK Singles Chart, making it her first—and so far only—number-one single. It sold 76,000 copies in its first week, and 250,367 copies altogether. "What Took You So Long?" was the UK's forty-first best seller of 2001. The music video for the song, directed by Greg Masuak, was shot in the Mojave Desert in California.

Track listing

;UK CD single
#"What Took You So Long?" – 3:59
#"(Hey You) Free Up Your Mind" – 3:21
#"Merry-Go Round" – 3:54
#"What Took You So Long?" (Video)

;European CD single
#"What Took You So Long?" - 3:59
#"Merry-Go Round" - 3:54

Charts

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