All I Want Is You (album)
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All I Want Is You is the debut
After signing to ByStorm in 2007, Miguel recorded the album with producers Dre & Vidal, Fisticuffs, Happy Perez, State of Emergency, and Salaam Remi. It was shelved by Jive for two years after legal issues with the singer's former production company. Selling poorly upon its release, it became sleeper hit on the Billboard 200 with the help of singles such as the title track and "Sure Thing". By September 2012, it had sold 404,000 copies.
All I Want Is You received positive reviews; critics found some of the music inconsistent but praised Miguel's singing and songwriting abilities while drawing comparisons to
Background
As a burgeoning songwriter, Miguel had written the R&B song "
After signing in 2007 to Pitts' Jive Records-imprint label, ByStorm Entertainment,[2] Miguel began recording his first album, All I Want Is You.[2] Recording sessions took place at Black Mango Studios in Van Nuys, California, Germano Studios in New York City, Glenwood Studios and Instrument Zoo in Miami, Florida, Studio 609 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and The Gym in Los Angeles, California.[3]
Music and lyrics
According to Jason Newman from
According to
Marketing and sales
Though its poor initial showing on the charts seemed to affirm [Jive]'s lack of faith in it, the record gradually discovered an audience over the next year thanks to a trickle of ingratiating singles that established Miguel as one of radio’s rarest commodities: a new R&B star. With its splatters of off-kilter funk and mesmeric electro, All I Want Is You teased a unique vision without coloring too far outside the boundaries of popular R&B.
—Evan Rytlewski (The A.V. Club, 2012)[10]
After the recording's completion, legal issues with Miguel's former production company prevented the album from being released for two years.[2] During this period, Miguel continued working with various underground acts and writing songs for mainstream recording artists, including Johnson&Jonson, Asher Roth, Jaheim, and Usher.[11]
ByStorm Entertainment and Jive
According to Miguel, Jive marketed him as a "typical R&B artist" during their promotion of All I Want Is You: "That album was a huge learning experience. I left the marketing of my album and me as an artist up to the discretion of the label ... I can't really blame them for [that], because that's what they know. But that's not what my lifestyle was."
Critical reception
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Tom Hull – on the Web | B+ ()[8] |
Reviewing for
Writing in MSN Music a few years later, Robert Christgau said Miguel "front-loaded his Prince-channeling debut" with "five hooky tracks" that were "followed by six pleasant tracks and capped by two hooky novelties". He viewed the song "Teach Me" as "a treasure hidden in the middle" and "supplicant's" song, "unprecedented" in "a genre that makes its nut promising untold pleasures". He credited Miguel for "laying out the truth that, as Norman Mailer put it in one of the few useful sex tips in his orgasm-mad canon, 'the man as lover is dependent upon the bounty of the woman.' Who knows what pleases her? She does, she alone, and Miguel craves to be let in on that shifting and enthralling secret." He nonetheless critiqued that the song lacked a first-rate hook that would have made it an R&B classic in the vein of Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing" and "Use Me" by Bill Withers.[9]
Track listing
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[22]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | " Vidal Davis |
| 3:47 | |
11. | "Vixen" |
| Fisticuffs | 3:01 |
12. | "To the Moon" |
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| 3:23 |
13. | "My Piece" |
| Perez | 2:55 |
Total length: | 42:47 |
Personnel
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Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Certifications
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[34] | Gold | 10,000‡ |
United States (RIAA)[35] | Platinum | 1,000,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
References
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- ^ Miguel - All I Want Is You CD Album. Muze. CD Universe. Retrieved on June 8, 2011.
- MTV Networks. Retrieved November 9, 2011.
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- ^ About.com. Retrieved on March 17, 2011.
- ^ a b Hull, Tom (August 18, 2015). "Rhapsody Streamnotes". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
- ^ a b c Christgau, Robert (December 28, 2012). "Miguel". MSN Music. Microsoft. Archived from the original on January 8, 2013. Retrieved December 28, 2012.
- ^ a b Rytlewski, Evan (October 9, 2012). "Miguel: Kaleidoscope Dream". The A.V. Club. Chicago. Retrieved October 19, 2012.
- Rovi Corporation. Retrieved October 8, 2012.
- ^ a b c Jive Label Group (May 9, 2011). Singer/Songwriter Miguel's Hit Single "Sure Thing" No. 1 on the R&B Singles Chart Archived March 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Press release. Retrieved on July 22, 2011.
- ^ Album Cover + Tracklisting: Miguel – ‘All I Want Is You’. Rap-Up. November 8, 2010. Retrieved on July 22, 2011.
- ^ Concepcion, Mariel (December 8, 2010). Soulja Boy, Flo Rida Flop On Billboard Album Chart. Billboard. Retrieved on July 22, 2011.
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- ^ Muhammad, Latifah (July 1, 2011). Miguel to Release Two New Singles Simultaneously. TheBoombox. Retrieved on July 22, 2011.
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- ^ "American album certifications – Miguel – All I Want Is You". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved December 14, 2017.