You Had Me

Infobox Single
Name = You Had Me


Artist = Joss Stone
Album = Mind, Body & Soul
B-side = "Holding Out for a Hero"
Released = 13 September 2004 (UK)
16 November 2004 (U.S.)
Format = CD single, DVD single, digital download
Recorded = Chung King Studios
(New York City, New York)
Mojo Studios
(Torquay, Devon)
Right Track Recording
(New York City, New York)
Genre = Soul, funk rock
Length = 3:59
Label = Relentless, S-Curve, Virgin
Writer = Joss Stone, Francis White, Wendy Stoker, Betty Wright
Producer = Mike Mangini, Steve Greenberg, Betty Wright
Certification =
Last single = "Super Duper Love"
(2004)
This single = "You Had Me"
(2004)
Next single = "Right to Be Wrong"
(2004)
Misc = Extra track listing
Album = Mind, Body & Soul
Type = studio
prev_track = "Jet Lag"
prev_no = 2
this_track = "You Had Me"
track_no = 3
next_track = "Spoiled"
next_no = 4 Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = single


Lower caption = U.S. promo DVD single cover

"You Had Me" is a soul–funk rock song written by English singer-songwriter Joss Stone, Francis White, Wendy Stoker, and Betty Wright for Stone's second studio album, "Mind, Body & Soul" (2004). It was released in September 2004 in the United Kingdom and November 2004 in the United States as the album's lead single.

The song was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2005 for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, but lost out to Norah Jones's "Sunrise". It also appears on the UK version of "Now That's What I Call Music! 59".

Chart performance

"You Had Me" was the first song with a writing credit from Stone to be eligible to chart, and remains as her highest-peaking and -debuting single in the UK to date; it debuted and peaked at number nine on the UK Singles Chart the week of 26 September 2004, spending eight weeks altogether on the chart and eventually becoming the UK's one hundred and forty-ninth best-selling single of 2004 with 40,000 copies sold. [cite web |url=http://top40-charts.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3224 |title=UK best selling artists 2004 |accessdate=2008-02-07 |date=5 May 2005 |work=Top40-Charts.com] It saw similar success in the rest of Europe, where it reached number four in the Netherlands (the single's highest peak position), number fifteen in Italy, and number twenty-one in Belgium, having an altogether peak of number twenty-nine on the Euro 200. It was also Stone's first single to chart in Canada, reaching number twenty-nine. However, like Stone's previous efforts, "You Had Me" did not chart on any U.S. "Billboard" chart, though it did manage to chart on the non-"Billboard" ARC Weekly Top 40 at number thirty-five. [cite web |url=http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/2004/10-30.htm |title=The ARC Weekly Top 40 Archives: October 30, 2004 |accessdate=2008-01-14 |work=Rock On The Net]

Music video

The music video for the song, shot in New York City, was directed by Chris Robinson and released in August 2004. It opens with a man (called Anthony) arriving at his flat and calling Joss's name. He suddenly takes notice of a note stuck on the refrigerator. Then, the video shows what had happened thirteen minutes earlier: Stone at the flat, sitting next to the window, anguishedly writing down things on a paper. During this scene, there are flashbacks showing that Anthony had been partying out with other girls in a sort of bar. He suddenly gets angry and overthrows a table, causing him to be expelled from the bar. The video comes back to Stone. After she left a notice stuck on the refrigerator, she packed her things and left. In the corridor, the lift taking Anthony back to the floor opens just a few seconds after she passes by. Stone then heads for the Prince Street Station. Meanwhile, Anthony arrives at the flat and soon takes notice of the note on the refrigerator; he seems upset as he reads it. Soon after Stone leaves the underground, the video shows her walking through the city. She rings up a friend on a payphone, asking if she could come to her house; the friend answers that she "could always come over". The video ends with Stone singing the song's final lines while dancing on the roof of her friend's block of flats.

Track listings and formats

;UK CD 1
#"You Had Me" (Album Edit) – 3:37
#"Dirty Man" (Live at the House of Blues, Chicago) – 3:08

;UK CD 2
#"You Had Me" (Album Edit) – 3:37
#"Holding Out for a Hero" – 3:35
#"Fell in Love with a Boy" (Radio Version) – 2:55
#"Fell in Love with a Boy" (Video) – 3:00

;European CD single
#"You Had Me" (Album Edit) – 3:37
#"Holding Out for a Hero" – 3:35
#"Dirty Man" (Live at the House of Blues, Chicago) – 3:08
#"Super Duper Love" (Single Mix Edit) – 3:47

;Australian CD single
#"You Had Me" (Album Edit) – 3:37
#"Super Duper Love" (Single Mix Edit) – 3:47
#"Dirty Man" (Live at the House of Blues, Chicago) – 3:08
#"You Had Me" (Al B. Rich Mix)

;UK DVD single
#"You Had Me" (Video) – 3:37
#"Super Duper Love" (Video) – 3:47
#"Fell in Love with a Boy" (Acoustic Version) – 3:30

;UK, U.S., and Mexican promo CD single
#"You Had Me" (Radio Edit) – 3:35
#"You Had Me" (Album Version) – 3:59

;U.S. promo DVD single
#"You Had Me"

Personnel

Musicians

*Joss Stone – lead vocals, backing vocals
*Cindy Blackman – drums
*Jack Daley – bass
*Nile Rodgers – guitar
*Angelo Morris – Fender Rhodes
*Raymond Angry – clavinet, Hammond organ, Moog synthesizer
*Tom "Bones" Malone – baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone, trombone, trumpet
*Betty Wright – backing vocals
*Bombshell – backing vocals

Production

*Mike Mangini – producer, mixing, programming
*Steve Greenberg – producer
*Betty Wright – producer
*Steve Greenwell – engineer, mixing, programming
*John Angier – string arrangements

Charts

{| class="wikitable"!align="center"|Chart (2004)!align="center"|Peak
position
-
align="left"|Italian FIMI Singles Chart [cite web |url=http://italiancharts.com/showitem.asp?key=6278&cat=s |title=italiancharts.com – Joss Stone – You Had Me |accessdate=2008-09-18 |work=ItalianCharts.com |language=Italian]
align="center"|15
-
align="left"|New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart
align="center"|26
-
align="left"|Swiss Singles Chart
align="center"|40
-
align="left"|UK Singles Chart
align="center"|9
-
align="left"|United World Chart
align="center"|19
-!align="center"|Chart (2005)!align="center"|Peak
position
-
align="left"|Hungarian Mahasz Airplay Chart [cite web |url=http://www.mahasz.hu/m/?menu=slagerlistak&menu2=archivum&lista=radios&ev=2005&het=2&submit_=Keresés |title=Rádiós Top 40 játszási lista – 2005. 2. hét |accessdate=2008-02-24 |work=Mahasz |language=Hungarian]
align="center"|14

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