"I'm Yours" | ||||
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Single by Jason Mraz | ||||
from the album We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. | ||||
Released | February 12, 2008 | |||
Recorded | 2007 | |||
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Label | Atlantic | |||
Songwriter(s) | Jason Mraz | |||
Producer(s) | Martin Terefe | |||
Jason Mraz singles chronology | ||||
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"I'm Yours" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Jason Mraz, released in 2008 as the first single from his third studio album We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. . The song was originally released on a limited edition EP called Extra Credit as a demo in 2005 to promote his second studio album Mr. A–Z . It was performed in his 2004 and 2005 gigs and already became a crowd favorite before its release. "I'm Yours" was nominated for Song of the Year [8] and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 51st Grammy Awards.
"I'm Yours" was a huge commercial success in the United States. The song peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100; and spent 76 weeks on the chart, breaking the record for the longest charting song on the chart, previously held by LeAnn Rimes' song "How Do I Live" with 69 weeks on the chart; this record has since been broken and is currently held by "Heat Waves" by Glass Animals, which spent 91 weeks on the chart. As of January 2013, it is the tenth best-selling digital song of all time in the US, selling over 6 million downloads, [9] and 12.2 million worldwide. It is also the most certified Reggae song in the US as of August 10, 2023. [10]
In July 2021, it surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify. [11] It remains Mraz's biggest US hit single to date. It was the only song to crack Billboard's top 600 of all time chart despite never cracking the top 5. [12]
Mraz first launched the song from the La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California, at Michele Clark's Sunset Sessions in 2008. He also sang a version on Sesame Street titled "Outdoors" and released a successful remixed version featuring Lil Wayne and Jah Cure. [13]
Sheet music for the song "I'm Yours" shows the key of C major with a moderate tempo of 70 beats per minute, and a chord progression of B-F#-G♯m-E. [14]
Throughout 2008, "I'm Yours" slowly increased in airplay and digital sales and would go on to become Mraz's biggest hit to date, charting higher than his previous pop hit, 2003's "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)". It became his first top ten single in the US, peaking at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 and number five on the Pop 100. On the Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks chart, the song was number one for a total of nine weeks. [15] The single later received Mainstream Top 40 airplay, eventually topping that chart as well. Due to its gradually building crossover appeal, the song has had extremely unusual longevity, not reaching number one on the Mainstream Top 40 until December 2008, ten months after its release and seven months after it debuted on the VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown. In fact, VH1 had already retired the song in early October 2008 after a 20-week run. The song returned to the top ten of the Hot 100 for the third time in its 38th week on the chart. "I'm Yours" would go on to chart for a total of 76 weeks, making this the longest chart run in Billboard magazine history, up until the 87-week run of Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive" and the 79-week run of AWOLNATION's "Sail", both set in 2014.
A year into its release, it topped another chart for the first time, when it hit number one on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks during the week of February 5, 2009. This marked 11 months since the song had topped its first chart in the US, when it reached number one on the Triple A chart in March 2008. "I'm Yours" spent 16 weeks at number one on the Adult Contemporary chart. In addition, after topping the Adult Contemporary chart, "I'm Yours" became the first song to top the Triple A, Adult Top 40, Mainstream Top 40, and Adult Contemporary charts. [16] Despite weak initial download sales, it became the eighth best-selling digital song in the United States by January 2012. [17] It has sold 6,837,000 copies in the US as of April 23, 2014. [18]
It is Mraz's most successful global single to date, reaching number one in Sweden and Norway, and the top ten in Canada, United States, Austria, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Italy. It was also able to reach number one on the Top 40 Digital Track Chart in Australia. In Hawaii, radio stations do play the original version, along with a Hawaiian remix of the song. "I'm Yours" was also a huge hit in New Zealand where it peaked at number one, knocking off "Poker Face" which spent ten consecutive weeks at number one. It was certified gold after nine weeks selling over 7,500 copies and then certified platinum after 14 weeks selling over 15,000 copies. [19] [20]
"I'm Yours" made its debut on the UK Singles Chart on December 12, 2008, at number 78 and then slowly climbed up the chart until it peaked at number 11. It spent the whole of 2009 on the chart apart from the final two weeks of the year, then re-entered in January 2010 and again in August, and has now clocked up 56 weeks on the official UK Top 75, making it currently the 15th longest runner of all time and the longest never to make the top 10, at 84 weeks on the top 100. [21]
The music video debuted on March 14, 2008. I'm Yours was later featured as the Record of the Week on Scott Mills's BBC Radio One show on November 10, 2008. Since being added to YouTube it has been viewed over 820 million times as of late September 2024. It was filmed in Hawaii (Oahu and Kauai) in 2008 with veteran music video director Darren Doane. [22]
The video's opening scene is an overhead shot of a private jet at Lihue Airport on Kauai. It sets up the next scene where Mraz is seated, supposedly, in that same airplane. [22]
After gazing thoughtfully into a fish tank and putting on a backpack, Mraz's video self departs an apartment, leaving the unit's key behind. The location was an actual occupied apartment unit on the North Shore of Oahu. All furnishings belonged to the occupants. [22]
Mraz sits in the backseat of a taxi. The scene was filmed the morning after completion of Oahu shooting. Doane hunkered down next to the big city of couple of guys in a pick-up truck who take him to the little-known skateboard park on Oahu's North Shore. [22]
Mraz hops in the back of yet another late model pick-up truck, this time with a trio of girls. The waterfall, on Oahu's windward side, was suggested by the girl he's seen conversing with at the skate park—a North Shore resident he and Doane had just met. [22]
After a plane ride from Oahu, Mraz catches a shuttle at the Lihue Airport and winds up in the east-side Kauai town, which he simply explores on foot. [22]
While it appears in the video as if Mraz hasn't left Kauai, these water shots were filmed in real surf off Mokuauia Island (Goat Island) on Oahu's windward coast the day before leaving for Kauai shooting. [22]
Mraz sings at an evening backyard jam with longtime percussionist Toca Rivera. [22]
The final shot of Mraz kicking back on the Hanalei Bay landmark is actually the final shot of the “I’m Yours” shoot. [22]
"I'm Yours" was featured in the episode "All About Appearances" from the television series Privileged . [23] It was also used for the Australian Seven Network's promotion of the season premiere of Packed to the Rafters .
Delta Air Lines regularly played "I'm Yours" on board their aircraft during boarding and while taxiing after landing during the summer of 2008.
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [94] | 3× Platinum | 210,000^ |
Austria (IFPI Austria) [95] | Gold | 15,000* |
Belgium (BEA) [96] | Gold | |
Canada (Music Canada) [97] | 4× Platinum | 160,000* |
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [98] | 3× Platinum | 270,000‡ |
France (SNEP) [99] | Gold | 150,000* |
Germany (BVMI) [100] | Gold | 150,000^ |
Italy (FIMI) [101] | 3× Platinum | 150,000‡ |
Japan (RIAJ) [102] | Gold | 100,000* |
Mexico (AMPROFON) [103] | Platinum | 60,000* |
New Zealand (RMNZ) [104] | 2× Platinum | 30,000* |
Norway (IFPI Norway) [105] | 4× Platinum | 40,000* |
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [106] | 4× Platinum | 240,000‡ |
Sweden (GLF) [107] | Gold | 10,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI) [108] | 4× Platinum | 2,400,000‡ |
United States (RIAA) [109] | 13× Platinum | 13,000,000‡ |
United States (RIAA) [110] Mastertone | Gold | 500,000* |
Streaming | ||
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [111] | Gold | 900,000† |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
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Given that his 2008 breakthrough was courtesy of the anaemic cod-reggae of "I'm Yours"...
Inspired, perhaps, by the massive success of his lite-reggae anthem "I'm Yours," "...
Mraz, well, he would never hurt you. That's been clear for years, but never more so than on his 2008 hit "I'm Yours," one of the most indelible pop songs of the last decade. "I'm Yours" found an unlikely counterpart in "Hey, Soul Sister," released the following year by the band Train. Both were expressions of fealty, and both indicated the continuing vitality of maligned soft rock.