Nobody's Supposed to Be Here

"Nobody's Supposed to Be Here"
Single by Deborah Cox
from the album One Wish
Released	September 22, 1998
Format	CD single
Genre	R&B
Label	Arista
Writer(s)	Montell Jordan, Anthony "Shep" Crawford
Producer	Anthony "Shep" Crawford
Certification	2x Platinum (US)
Deborah Cox singles chronology
"Things Just Ain't the Same" (1997) "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" (1998) "It's Over Now" (1999)

"Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" is a single written by Montell Jordan and Anthony "Shep" Crawford. Canadian R&B singer Deborah Cox released the song in 1998 from her second album One Wish.

Chart performance

The song reached the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 on September 29, 1998. It then peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 24, 1998 and spent eight weeks there, making it one of the longest stays at #2 for any single in the chart's history and the highest-peaking single of Cox's career (the next single, "We Can't Be Friends", was her only other top ten hit on the chart, peaking at #8). "Nobody's Supposed To Be Here" also peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart on October 27, 1998, where it remained for a record-breaking 14 weeks. This record was tied in 2005 by Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" and broken in 2006 by Mary J. Blige's "Be Without You", which spent 15 weeks at #1. The song reached number-one on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart on October 13, 1998. It only reached as high as #55 on the UK Singles Chart. The dance remix was also a hit on the dance charts. The single reached number nine on the 1999 Billboard year-end chart.^[1]

End of year charts

End of year chart (1998)	Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[2]	99
End of year chart (1999)	Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[3]	9

End of decade charts

Chart (1990-1999)	Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[4]	60

Track listing

1. "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" (Hex Hector's Club Mix) (10:07)
2. "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" (Dance Radio Mix) (4:13)
3. "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" (Hex's Dub) (6:17)
4. "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" (Original Version) (4:21)
5. "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" (Original Version Instrumental) (4:21)

Other versions

"Nobody's Supposed To Be Here" (Special Slow-To-Fast Version) (3:42) *Found on the 2004 compilation album Ultimate Deborah Cox.

Awards

• 1998: Soul Train Award for Best R&B/Soul Single - Female
• 1999: Soul Train Lady of Soul Award for Best R&B/Soul Song of the Year

References

1. ^ ""The Billboard Hot 100" on billboard.com". http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=411&cfgn=Year-end+Singles&cfn=The+Billboard+Hot+100&ci=3077256&cdi=9016284&cid=12%2F31%2F1999. Retrieved 1999-12-31. ^{[dead link]}
2. ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 1998". http://longboredsurfer.com/charts.php?year=1998. Retrieved 2010-08-28. 
3. ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 1999". http://longboredsurfer.com/charts.php?year=1999. Retrieved 2010-08-28. 
4. ^ Geoff Mayfield (December 25, 1999). "1999 The Year in Music Totally '90s: Diary of a Decade - The listing of Top Pop Albums of the '90s & Hot 100 Singles of the '90s". Billboard. http://books.google.co.kr/books?id=9w0EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&lr&rview=1&pg=RA1-PA4#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved October 15, 2010. 

See also

• R&B number-one hits of 1998 (USA)
• R&B number-one hits of 1999 (USA)
• Number-one dance hits of 1998 (USA)