Who Can I Run To

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"Who Can I Run To"
Song by The Jones Girls
from the album The Jones Girls
A-side "You Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else"
Released1979
Genre R&B, Philadelphia soul, soul
Length3:25
Label Philadelphia International
Songwriter(s) Alstin, Roebuck, Simmons
"Who Can I Run To"
Xscape - Who Can I Run To single cover.jpeg
Single by Xscape
from the album Off the Hook
ReleasedOctober 3, 1995
Genre R&B, soul
Length3:34
Label So So Def
Songwriter(s) Alstin, Roebuck, Simmons
Producer(s) Jermaine Dupri
Xscape singles chronology
"Feels So Good"
(1995)
"Who Can I Run To"
(1995)
"Do You Want To/Can't Hang"
(1996)

"Who Can I Run To" is a song written by Charles B. Simmons, Frank Alstin Jr, and Richard Roebuck, first released by the Jones Girls in 1979. The song was the B-side to "You Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else". After Xscape took the song to number 1 in 1995, Billboard named the song number 58 on their list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time. [1]

Contents

Xscape version and samples

Other versions

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [14] Platinum1,000,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

See also

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