Thinking About You

Infobox Single
Name = Thinking About You
Artist = Norah Jones


from Album = Not Too Late
Released = December 5 2006 (U.S.) January 16, 2007 (Europe)
Format = CD single, digital download
Recorded =
Genre = Jazz/Pop
Length = 3:19
Label = Blue Note
Writer(s) = Norah Jones, Ilhan Ersahin
Producer(s) = Lee Alexander, Norah Jones
Last single = "Roll On"
(2004)
This single = "Thinking About You"
(2006)
Next single = "Not Too Late"
(2007)|"Thinking About You" is the first single from Norah Jones' third solo album, "Not Too Late" (2007). Jones wrote "Thinking About You" in 1999 with Ilhan Ersahin, her then-bandmate in Wax Poetic. She said the song had "always been in the back of my mind", but she thought it was too much of a pop song for her and preferred if someone else were to record it. She recorded a version of it for her second album, "Feels like Home" (2004), but according to her it sounded "too country-rock". She "found a way to make it work" during the recording of "Not Too Late". [ [http://www.ilikemusic.com/home/Norah_Jones_Not_Too_Late_Thinking_of_You-3343 "Norah Jones - Not Too Late / Thinking Of You"] . ilikemusic.com. Retrieved January 26 2007.]

Commercial release

Released in the United States on December 5 2006 (see 2006 in music), "Thinking About You" was one of the first songs by a major artist to be available for paid digital download in mp3 format. [Smith, Ethan and Wingfield, Nick. [http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116537603826741985-TfD3l60iYwyYgj2wH5P9gTDGDy0_20070105.html "In a Turnabout, Record Industry Releases MP3s"] . "The Wall Street Journal". December 6 2006, pg. B1. Retrieved February 5 2007.] The single entered the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 at number eighty-two in early February 2007, [Hasty, Kate. [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003543450 "Beyonce Makes It Ten Weeks At No. 1 With 'Irreplaceable'"] . "Billboard". February 8 2007. Retrieved February 8 2007.] becoming Jones's first chart entry since "Don't Know Why" (2002). It was also her first single to appear on the Pop 100 chart. [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:0hbsa9cgq23k~T51 All Music Guide] ] It peaked at number seventy in Germany and at number thirty-eight on the United World Chart.

The music video, directed by Ace Norton, was filmed on a soundstage at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn, New York with a cast of only eight people, including Jones. According to videostatic.com, it contains elements from some of Norton's previous videos — for Peter Walker's "What Do I Know" (the "within the within" effect), Death Cab for Cutie's "Someday You Will Be Loved" (the animated heart) and Death Cab for Cutie's "Crooked Teeth" (the Claymation). The video premiered on December 19 2006. [Napolitano, Meredith. [http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070126/MCTV/701260373/1004/LIFE "Video vision"] . "Daily Record". January 26 2006. Retrieved February 10 2007.] [ [http://www.videostatic.com/vs/2006/week51/index.html "NEW RELEASE: Norah Jones "Thinking About You""] . videostatic.com. December 19 2006. Retrieved February 10 2007.]

Charts

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