Just Want You to Know

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"Just Want You to Know"
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Single by Backstreet Boys
from the album Never Gone
B-side "Larger than Life" (live)
ReleasedJuly 18, 2005 (2005-07-18)
Studio Maratone (Stockholm), Conway (Hollywood)
Genre Rock, [1] pop rock [2]
Length3:53
Label Jive
Songwriter(s) Max Martin, Lukasz Gottwald
Producer(s) Max Martin, Dr. Luke
Backstreet Boys singles chronology
"Incomplete"
(2005)
"Just Want You to Know"
(2005)
"Crawling Back to You"
(2005)
Music video
"Just Want You to Know" on YouTube

"Just Want You to Know" is a song performed by American vocal group Backstreet Boys. The song was released on July 18, 2005, as the second single from the group's fifth studio album, Never Gone (2005). The single performed well in European countries, reaching the top 10 in the United Kingdom. Spain, and Belgium and peaking within the top 20 in Germany, Ireland, and Italy.

Contents

Music video

The video for the song is based on the 1986 documentary Heavy Metal Parking Lot , and features the Backstreet Boys as fans in 1985 of the fictional heavy metal band "Sphynkter". [3] There were two videos for this song and both were directed by Marc Klasfeld and released worldwide on September 3, 2005.

Track listings

Personnel

Charts

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
United StatesJuly 18, 2005 Contemporary hit radio Jive [33]
August 15, 2005 Hot adult contemporary radio [34]
JapanAugust 24, 2005CD [35]
DenmarkSeptember 12, 2005 [36]
AustraliaSeptember 19, 2005 [37]
United KingdomOctober 24, 2005 [38]

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