This I Promise You

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"This I Promise You"
ThisIPromiseYou.jpg
Single by NSYNC
from the album No Strings Attached
B-side
  • "I Thought She Knew"
  • "Yo te Voy a Amar"
ReleasedSeptember 19, 2000 (2000-09-19)
RecordedFebruary 1999 – 29 January 2000
Studio
Genre R&B, pop
Length
  • 4:44 (album version)
  • 4:27 (radio edit)
Label Jive
Songwriter(s) Richard Marx
Producer(s) Richard Marx
NSYNC singles chronology
"I'll Never Stop"
(2000)		"This I Promise You"
(2000)		"Pop"
(2001)
Music video
"This I Promise You" on YouTube

"This I Promise You" is a ballad by American boy band NSYNC. It was released in September 2000 as the third and final single in the United States and the fourth and final single in Europe from their third studio album, No Strings Attached , in 2000. The song is included on all three of the band's compilation albums: Greatest Hits (2005), The Collection (2010), and The Essential *NSYNC (2014). The single reached number five on the US Billboard Hot 100.

Contents

A Spanish language version of the song, titled "Yo te Voy a Amar", was recorded at the same time for Spanish-speaking countries.

Background

Richard Marx was asked by A&R executive David Novik if he had any songs that he could give to NSYNC. He specifically requested a ballad. [2] Initially, the song was written with a three-person girl group in mind. Marx quickly finished the song writing the harmonies specifically for NSYNC. [2]

Marx would later record the song twice, first for the Japanese release of his album Days in Avalon similar to the NSYNC version, and again as a rock song for the European version of his Stories to Tell album. Marx would later use the Days in Avalon version of "This I Promise You" for his Now and Forever: The Ballads album as a duet with Asian singer Sabrina.[ citation needed ]

Commercial performance

"This I Promise You" was the group's fifth top-ten single in the U.S., reaching number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the autumn of 2000. In addition, the song spent 13 weeks at number one on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, the group's first and only song to do so. [3] Internationally, the song reached number twenty-one on the UK Singles Chart.

Music video

The video was shot at Redwood National and State Parks. Redwood National Park, fog in the forest.jpg
The video was shot at Redwood National and State Parks.

Background

The music video was shot at Redwood National Park and San Francisco's Embarcadero in 2000 by Dave Meyers. During the video shoot, Justin Timberlake and Joey Fatone ended up exploring Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary without paying for tickets. Both members were eventually caught when they reached Al Capone's cell, and let off with a warning. [4]

It debuted on an episode of TRL on October 27, 2000.

Synopsis

The video shows the group members clad in turtlenecks singing in the Redwood National and State Parks, with different shots of different love relationships shown in bubbles floating around the forest. Footage of the San Francisco skyline appears at different intervals and at the key change towards the end of the song, the video pans to the members of NSYNC sitting at a table of an outdoor restaurant along the Embarcadero while eating and singing.

Cover versions

A Spanish language version of the song, titled "Yo te Voy a Amar" was recorded at the same time and released in Spanish-speaking countries such as Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Spain.

Irish Westlife lead singer Shane Filan included his version of this song on his third solo album Love Always in 2017. This served as a buzz single which was first released online and later released with a music video exclusively available in Europe. He dedicated this song to his wife Gillian. [5]

Track listing

Credits and personnel

Personnel [1]

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [44] Platinum80,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release dates for "This I Promise You"
RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
United StatesSeptember 19, 2000 Contemporary hit radio Jive [45]
United KingdomNovember 20, 2000
  • CD
  • cassette
 [46]

See also

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