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"You Make Me Wanna..."
Atlanta, Georgia)
Genre
Length
  • 3:39
  • 5:20 (extended version)
LabelLaFace, Arista
Songwriter(s)Usher, Jermaine Dupri, Manuel Seal
Producer(s)Jermaine Dupri, Manuel Seal
Usher singles chronology
"The Many Ways"
(1995) 		"You Make Me Wanna..."
(1997) 		"Nice & Slow"
(1998)
Music video
"You Make Me Wanna..." on
YouTube
Remix cover

"You Make Me Wanna..." is a song by American recording artist

Grammy Award
.

"You Make Me Wanna..." appeared on several

Pop Songs, Canadian Singles Chart, Dutch Top 40 and ARIA Singles Chart. An accompanying music video, directed by Bille Woodruff
, shows Usher dancing in various colored rooms and backgrounds, and uses an effect which creates several clones of Usher.

Background and composition

"You Make Me Wanna..."
The song makes heavy use of the acoustic guitar.
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Rolling Stone that the song was inspired by one of his own memories of "juggling three women".[10]

Release

"You Make Me Wanna..." was distributed by

12-inch vinyl in the UK on January 19, 1998.[15] The vinyl was made available in the US on April 24, 2001.[16] Unauthorized copies of the song were distributed in Europe before its release, due to its popularity.[17] "You Make Me Wanna..." serves as the opening track to Usher's second studio album, My Way, while an extended version concludes the album.[18]

Critical reception

The Vindicator wrote, "The song is a melodic blend of Usher's smooth, youthful voice and a strong, upbeat rhythm track.[27] Billy Johnson Jr. of Yahoo! Music commended the production on "You Make Me Wanna...", along with that of "Nice and Slow" and "My Way", the second and third singles from My Way, respectively.[28] On Valentine's Day 2004, VH1 listed the song at number six on its "Top 10 Sexy Tunes" for the holiday.[29]

"You Make Me Wanna..." won Usher the

40th Grammy Awards,[33] but lost to R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly".[34] In the 1997 Pazz & Jop critics' poll administered by The Village Voice, "You Make Me Wanna..." tied for thirtieth place in the singles category with Radiohead's "Paranoid Android".[35]

Commercial performance

"You Make Me Wanna..." debuted at number twenty-five on the

Pop Songs chart, peaking at number seven.[40] On September 3, 1997, "You Make Me Wanna..." received a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting 500,000 shipments, and later that month it was upgraded to platinum status for shipments exceeding one million copies.[41] Though its certification status was not further renewed, it ultimately went on to sell over two million copies domestically.[42] The song ranked at number eighty-eight on the Billboard Hot 100 "All-Time Top Songs", published in July 2008.[43]

"You Make Me Wanna..." entered the

Recording Industry Association of New Zealand certified the song gold.[55]

Music video

Usher as he appears in the music video.

The accompanying music video for "You Make Me Wanna..." was directed by Bille Woodruff.[56] It starts with Usher sitting in an orange wall recess, reaching for a guitar, before cutting to a scene of him standing in a white-and-purple circular room, wearing an open shirt. It moves to a blue backdrop where Usher advances, flanked by four dancers. The scene is replaced by five clones of Usher dancing and sitting on chairs.[5][7] The video continues with the singer performing dance routines throughout; interspersed are scenes of Usher singing the song on a background of blue pipes. Toward the end of the video, he takes off his shirt in the circular room, and finally Usher and his backup dancers step out of their shoes and walk away.[57]

Track listings

Charts

Certifications

Certifications and sales for "You Make Me Wanna..."
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[101] Platinum 70,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ)[55] Gold 5,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[45] Platinum 600,000‡
United States (RIAA)[102] 3× Platinum 3,000,000‡

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

See also

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