Let's Get Married (Jagged Edge song)

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"Let's Get Married"
Let's Get Married.jpg
Single by Jagged Edge
from the album J.E. Heartbreak
ReleasedApril 11, 2000 (2000-04-11) [1]
Length4:23
Label
Songwriters
Producers
  • Jermaine Dupri
  • Bryan-Michael Cox
Jagged Edge singles chronology
"He Can't Love U"
(1999)
"Let's Get Married"
(2000)
"Promise"
(2000)

"Let's Get Married" is a song by American R&B group Jagged Edge from their second studio album, J.E. Heartbreak (1999). Released on April 11, 2000, the song spent three weeks atop the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart in 2000 and reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2001, the song was issued in Australia as a double A-side with "Promise" and reached number two on the Australian Singles Chart. The music video features Fredro Starr and Kent Masters-King as the fictional couple deciding on whether they should get married or not.

Contents

The song's official remix features DJ Run of Run-D.M.C. and samples the group's debut single "It's Like That". The official video for the remix was directed by Tim Story and Bryan Barber. The group performed the single at the kayfabe wedding of Theodore Long and Kristal Marshall on the September 21, 2007, episode of WWE Friday Night SmackDown. [2] Another "Reception" remix was produced by Kanye West and samples Hall & Oates' song "Grounds for Separation". [3]

Track listings

US maxi-CD single [3]

  1. "Let's Get Married" (album version) – 4:23
  2. "Let's Get Married" (Reception remix) – 3:50
  3. "Let's Get Married" (Remarqable remix featuring Run) – 4:09
  4. "Let's Get Married" (Metromix radio remix) – 3:31
  5. "Let's Get Married" (Metromix club remix) – 7:38
  6. "Let's Get Married" (Metromix dub) – 7:38

European CD single [4]

  1. "Let's Get Married" (album version) – 4:23
  2. "Let's Get Married" (Remarqable remix featuring Run) – 4:09

Australian CD single [5]

  1. "Let's Get Married" (Remarqable remix featuring Run)
  2. "Promise" (Cool JD remix featuring Loon)
  3. "Let's Get Married"
  4. "Promise"
  5. "Promise" (Speakeasy extended remix)

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for "Let's Get Married"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [21]
for remix version
2× Platinum140,000^
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [22] Gold4,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ) [23] Gold15,000
United Kingdom (BPI) [24]
for remix version
Silver200,000

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

References

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  5. Let's Get Married / Promise (Australian CD single liner notes). So So Def Recordings, Columbia Records. 2001. 671290 2.
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  16. "The Year in Music 2000: Hot Dance Maxi-Singles Sales". Billboard. Vol. 112, no. 53. 30 December 2000. p. YE-60.
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  22. "Guld og Platin 2001". IFPI Denmark (in Danish). Archived from the original on October 5, 2002. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
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