I'll Make Love to You

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"I'll Make Love to You"
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Single by Boyz II Men
from the album  II 
ReleasedJuly 26, 1994 (1994-07-26)
Genre R&B
Length3:56
Label Motown
Songwriter(s) Babyface
Producer(s) Babyface
Boyz II Men singles chronology
"Let It Snow"
(1993)
"I'll Make Love to You"
(1994)
"On Bended Knee"
(1994)
Music video
"I'll Make Love to You" on YouTube

Certifications and sales

Certifications and sales for "I'll Make Love to You"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [42] Platinum70,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ) [62] Platinum10,000*
United Kingdom (BPI) [63] Platinum600,000
United States (RIAA) [64] Platinum1,000,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United StatesJuly 26, 1994
  • 7-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
Motown [ citation needed ]
United KingdomAugust 23, 1994 [65]
JapanSeptember 10, 1994Mini-CD [66]

In the 2020 Hulu series High Fidelity , actor Thomas Doherty sings a cover of the song in-character as Liam Shawcross, a musician who protagonist Rob (Zoë Kravitz) later has a one-night-stand with. [67]

In an episode of the Netflix comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Titus Andromedon (Tituss Burgess) sings the song at a funeral at the request of a Boyz II Men song by his landlady Lillian (Carol Kane), both realizing his mistake as he gets to the chorus.

In Series 2, Episode 5, of the BBC comedy series Ghosts, Julian Fawcett MP (Simon Farnaby), the trouser-less ghost of a Conservative MP who died in 1993, sings the song a cappella for the ghost's music club, much to the dismay of the less contemporary ghosts.

In the 2012 film Pitch Perfect, an a cappella version of two lines of the song is included in a medley performed by the Barden Bellas as part of the Riff-Off.

In Season 1 Episode 6 of That 90's Show, Bob Pinciotti sings the song to his granddaughter Leia

Boyz II Men created a parody of the song called "I'll Make Love to You (But We Don't Have To)" on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert .

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