You Don't Know My Name

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"You Don't Know My Name"
Single by Alicia Keys
from the album The Diary of Alicia Keys
B-side
ReleasedNovember 10, 2003 (2003-11-10)
Studio
  • Kampo
  • Quad (New York City)
Genre
Length
  • 6:06 (album version)
  • 4:26 (radio edit)
LabelJ
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Kanye West
  • Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys singles chronology
"Girlfriend"
(2002)
"You Don't Know My Name"
(2003)
"If I Ain't Got You"
(2004)
Music video
"You Don't Know My Name" on
YouTube

"You Don't Know My Name" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter

The Main Ingredient. It was released as the lead single from The Diary of Alicia Keys on November 10, 2003, by J Records
.

"You Don't Know My Name" became Keys' third top-ten hit in the United States, peaking at number three on the

Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single, Female. It was sampled on rapper Lil Wayne's 2008 song "Comfortable", featuring Babyface and produced by West. Blender placed the song at number 37 on its list of "The 100 Best Songs of 2004".[1]

Music video

Directed by

Mos Def plays Michael Harris, Alicia's love interest, and Keys plays a waitress at a restaurant. The music video follows Keys working as a waitress at a café. One day, Keys meets a man (played by Mos Def) in the café, and she falls in love with him. Later on, Keys is at a house party where she runs into that same man when a fight is about to break out, and the scene resembles the house party scene in the movie Cooley High
. Later in the video, Keys imagines getting the courage to call him and to tell him about her feelings. However, at the end of the movie, she remembers his order but there is no other recognition and the scene ends with his card still being in the bowl and Keys staring out the window since she will never be able to reveal her true feelings for the man.

Track listings and formats

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

Certifications and sales for "You Don't Know My Name"
Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[33] Silver 200,000
United States (RIAA)[34] Platinum 1,000,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release dates and formats for "You Don't Know My Name"
Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
United States November 10, 2003
  • urban contemporary radio
J [35]
November 18, 2003
Germany November 24, 2003 Maxi CD Sony Music
France November 25, 2003
United States December 1, 2003 Contemporary hit radio J [38]
United Kingdom December 8, 2003
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
RCA [39]
France March 2, 2004 CD Sony Music

See also

References

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