Thank God I Found You

Infobox Single
Name = Thank God I Found You

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Artist = Mariah Carey & Joe feat. 98 Degrees/Nas
Album = Rainbow and My Name Is Joe
Released = January 25 2000 (U.S.) February 28 2000 (UK)
Format = CD single, CD maxi single, cassette single, 7" single, 12" single
Recorded =
Genre = Pop, R&B
Length = 4:17
Label = Columbia
Writer = Mariah Carey, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
Producer = Mariah Carey, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis
Misc = Extra chronology
Artist = Mariah Carey
Type = singles
Last single = "Heartbreaker"
(1999)
This single = "Thank God I Found You"
(2000)
Next single = "Crybaby"/"Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)"
(2000)Extra chronology
Artist = Joe
Type = singles
Last single = "Still Not a Player"
(1998)
This single = "Thank God I Found You"
(2000)
Next single = "I Wanna Know"
(2000) Extra chronology
Artist = 98 Degrees
Type = singles
Last single = "This Gift"
(1999)
This single = "Thank God I Found You"
(2000)
Next single = "Give Me Just One Night (Una Noche)"
(2000)Extra tracklisting
Album = Rainbow
Type = studio
prev_track = "Rainbow (Interlude)"
prev_no = 13
this_track = "Thank God I Found You"
track_no = 14
next_track =
next_no = Extra tracklisting
Album = Greatest Hits (CD #2)
Type = compilation
prev_track = "Heartbreaker"
prev_no = 11
this_track = "Thank God I Found You"
track_no = 12
next_track = "Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)"
next_no = 13Extra tracklisting
Album = The Remixes (CD #2)
Type = remix
prev_track = "My All/Stay Awhile (So So Def Mix)"
prev_no = 3
this_track = "Thank God I Found You (Make It Last Remix)"
track_no = 4
next_track = "Breakdown"
next_no = 5

"Thank God I Found You" is a song written and produced by American singer Mariah Carey, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis for Carey's sixth studio album "Rainbow" (1999). It features Joe, and boyband 98 Degrees, and was inspired by Carey's boyfriend at the time, Luis Miguel. The romantic ballad provides a metaphorical closure for Carey's album "Rainbow", as it is the "rainbow" (happiness) that comes after the "storm" (relationship problems). It was released with a remix as the second single from the album in 2000 (see 2000 in music) and reached number one in the United States, but was only moderately successful in other countries.

Reception

"Thank God I Found You" reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts, and gave Carey the record for number-one singles in consecutive years fact|date=July 2008 — fifteen from 1990 (starting with her debut single "Vision of Love") to 2000. It also marked her seventh R&B chart topper. It spent one week at the top of the chart, temporarily displacing "I Knew I Loved You" by Savage Garden. The RIAA certified it gold in February 2000. "Thank God I Found You" was Carey's last number-one hit in the U.S. until "We Belong Together" (2005), the first U.S. number-one single for Joe and the only number-one single for 98 Degrees.

Outside the U.S., the single was most successful in Canada where it reached number two. It also reached the top ten in the United Kingdom, but only reached the top twenty in Brazil and the top forty in Australia, France and Germany.

The song was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for "Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals", losing to B. B. King & Dr. John for "Is You Is, or Is You Ain't (My Baby)".

Music videos and remixes

The song's main remix is titled "Thank God I Found You/Make It Last Forever", or "Thank God I Found You" (Make It Last Remix). Re-recorded with new vocals, it was created by interpolating the song with Keith Sweat's "Make It Last Forever" and bears few lyrical/melodic similarities to the original version of "Thank God I Found You". The remix again features Joe, but not 98 Degrees; Columbia Records labelmate Nas provides two rapped verses on the song instead. The remix was included on Joe's third album "My Name Is Joe" (2000). The British remix team Stargate produced the "U.K. Stargate" radio mix, which strips down the production and sythesizers of the clickity beat of the original to give it a more orchestral, organic feel. Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis also created the synthesizer-heavy "Celebratory Remix".

The single's video, directed by Brett Ratner, shows Carey performing the song with Joe and 98 Degrees at Minnesota radio station 101.3 KDWB's annual Last Chance Summer Dance summer music concert. The video shows saturated blue skies and behind the scenes footage of Carey carousing with her dog Jack and writing lyrics. Additionally, there is a video for the "Make It Last Remix" that features Carey with braids in a nightclub with Joe and Nas. Directed by Sanaa Hamri, the video is grainy and filmed to simulate a home video.

Charts

ee also

*Hot 100 number-one hits of 2000 (United States)
*R&B number-one hits of 2000 (USA)