Thank God I Found You

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"Thank God I Found You"

Single by Mariah Carey featuring Joe and 98 Degrees
from the album Rainbow
Released	January 25, 2000 (U.S.) February 28, 2000 (UK)
Format	CD single, CD maxi single, cassette single, 7" single, 12" single
Genre	Pop
Length	4:17
Label	Columbia
Writer(s)	Mariah Carey, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
Producer(s)	Mariah Carey, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis
Chart positions
#1 (U.S.) #2 (Canada, Singapore) #10 (UK, United World Chart) #27 (Australia)
Mariah Carey singles chronology
"Heartbreaker" (1999)	"Thank God I Found You" (2000)	"Crybaby"/"Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)" (2000)
Joe singles chronology
"Still Not a Player" (1998)	"Thank God I Found You" (2000)	"I Wanna Know" (2000)
98 Degrees singles chronology
"This Gift" (1999)	"Thank God I Found You" (2000)	"Give Me Just One Night (Una Noche)" (2000)

"Thank God I Found You" is a song written and produced by American singer Mariah Carey, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis for Carey's sixth studio album Rainbow (1999). It features Joe, boyband 98 Degrees and Nas, and was inspired by Carey's boyfriend at the time, Luis Miguel. The romantic ballad provides a metaphorical closure for Carey's album Rainbow, as it is the "rainbow" (happiness) that comes after the "storm" (relationship problems). It was released with a remix as the second single from the album in 2000 (see 2000 in music) and reached number one in the United States, but was only moderately successful in other countries. Morty Black did the bass on this song.

1 Reception
2 Music videos and remixes
3 Charts
4 See also

[edit] Reception

"Thank God I Found You" reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and gave Carey the record for number-one singles in consecutive years — fifteen from 1990 (starting with her debut single "Vision of Love") to 2000. However, radio airplay for the song was moderate and it relied on the airplay of the more popular "Make It Last" remix (featuring Joe and Nas) to reach a high peak in the U.S. It spent one week at the top of the chart, from February 13 to February 19, 2000, temporarily displacing "I Knew I Loved You" by Savage Garden. The RIAA certified it gold in February 2000, and it was ranked forty-fifth on the Hot 100 year-end charts in 2000. "Thank God I Found You" was Carey's last number-one hit in the U.S. until "We Belong Together" (2005), the first U.S. number-one single for Joe and the only number-one single for 98 Degrees.

Outside the U.S., the single was most successful in Canada where it reached number two. It also reached the top ten in the United Kingdom, but only reached the top twenty in Brazil and the top forty in Australia, France and Germany.

The song was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for "Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals", losing to B. B. King & Dr. John for "Is You Is, or Is You Ain't (My Baby)". In 2000 the R&B group Xscape sued Carey over "Thank God I Found You", citing the alleged melodic similarities between it and the song "One of Those Love Songs" from their album Traces of My Lipstick (1998). U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder said there was a "lack of melodic similarity between the two songs", and did not find any "similarity in key, harmonic structure, tempo or genre". Carey had included Xscape on the remix of her single "Always Be My Baby" (1996).

Subsequently, the Ninth Circuit, in a decision by Judge Canby, reversed summary judgment, holding that Judge Snyder ought to have allowed for Plaintiff Seth Swirsky [writer of Xscape's song] to have had his expert witness go before the jury and explain why the two choruses were substantially similar.

[edit] Music videos and remixes

The song's main remix is titled "Thank God I Found You/Make It Last Forever", or "Thank God I Found You" (Make It Last remix) (It was a Keith Sweat Classic). Re-recorded with new vocals, it was created by interpolating the song with Keith Sweat's "Make It Last Forever" and bears few lyrical/melodic similarities to the original version of "Thank God I Found You". The remix again features Joe, but not 98 Degrees; Columbia Records labelmate Nas provides two rapped verses on the song instead. The remix was included on Joe's third album My Name Is Joe (2000). The British remix team Stargate produced the "U.K. Stargate" radio mix, which strips down the production and sythesizers of the clickity beat of the original to give it a more orchestral, organic feel. Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis also created the synthesizer-heavy "Celebratory remix".

The single's video, directed by Brett Ratner, shows Carey performing the song with Joe and 98 Degrees at a Minnesota radio station's music fair. The video shows saturated blue skies and behind the scenes footage of Carey carousing with her dog Jack and writing lyrics. Additionally, there is a video for the "Make It Last" remix that features Carey with braids in a nightclub with Joe and Nas. Directed by Sanaa Hamri, the video is grainy and filmed to simulate a home video.

[edit] Charts

Chart (2000)	Peak position	No. of chart topper
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	1 (1 week)	15th
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks	1 (1 week)	7th
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Tracks	21	—
U.S. Billboard Mainstream Top 40	28	—
U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 40	9	—
U.S. ARC Weekly Top 40	2	—
Canadian Singles Chart	2	—
Singapore Airplay Chart	2	—
UK Singles Chart	10	—
United World Chart	10	—
Brazil Singles Chart	15	—
Switzerland Top 100 Singles	17	—
Netherlands Top 100 Singles	24	—
Australian ARIA Singles Chart	27	—
France Top 100 Singles	28	—
Germany Singles Chart	28	—
Sweden Top 60 Singles	43	—

Preceded by "I Knew I Loved You" by Savage Garden	Billboard Hot 100 number one single February 19, 2000	Succeeded by "Amazed" by Lonestar
Preceded by "Get It On Tonite" by Montell Jordan	Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number one single February 26, 2000	Succeeded by "Hot Boyz" by Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott featuring Nas, Eve and -Tip