Thinking About You

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"Thinking About You"
Single by Norah Jones
from the album Not Too Late
Released	December 5, 2006 (U.S.) January 16, 2007 (Europe)
Format	CD single, digital download
Genre	Jazz/Pop
Length	3:19
Label	Blue Note
Chart positions
#5 (Italy) #11 (Netherlands) #82 (U.S.)
Norah Jones singles chronology
"Those Sweet Words" (2004)	"Thinking About You" (2006)	"Not Too Late" (2007)

"Thinking About You" is the first single from Norah Jones' third solo album, Not Too Late (2007). Jones wrote "Thinking About You" in 1999 with Ilhan Ersahin, her then-bandmate in Wax Poetic. She said the song had "always been in the back of my mind", but she thought it was too much of a pop song for her and preferred if someone else were to record it. She recorded a version of it for her second album, Feels like Home (2004), but according to her it sounded "too country-rock". She "found a way to make it work" during the recording of Not Too Late.^[1]

[edit] Commercial release

Released in the United States on December 5, 2006 (see 2006 in music), "Thinking About You" was one of the first songs by a major artist to be available for paid digital download in mp3 format.^[2] The single entered the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 at number eighty-two in early February 2007,^[3] becoming Jones's first chart entry since "Don't Know Why" (2002). It was also her first single to appear on the Pop 100 chart.^[4] It peaked at number seventy in Germany and at number thirty-eight on the United World Chart.

The music video, directed by Ace Norton, was filmed on a soundstage at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn, New York with a cast of only eight people, including Jones. According to videostatic.com, it contains elements from some of Norton's previous videos — for Peter Walker's "What Do I Know" (the "within the within" effect), Death Cab for Cutie's "Someday You Will Be Loved" (the animated heart) and Death Cab for Cutie's "Crooked Teeth" (the Claymation). The video premiered on December 19, 2006.^[5][6]

[edit] Charts

Chart (2007)	Peak position
Austrian Singles Chart[7]	61
Dutch Singles Chart[8]	11
European Singles Chart[9]	40
German Singles Chart[10]	70
Italian Singles Chart[11]	5
Spanish Singles Chart[12]	9
Swiss Singles Chart[13]	51
U.S. Radio & Records Smooth Jazz Chart[14]	7
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[4]	82
U.S. Billboard Pop 100[4]	83
United World Chart[15]	38

[edit] Notes

1. ^ "Norah Jones - Not Too Late / Thinking Of You". ilikemusic.com. Retrieved January 26, 2007.
2. ^ Smith, Ethan and Wingfield, Nick. "In a Turnabout, Record Industry Releases MP3s". The Wall Street Journal. December 6, 2006, pg. B1. Retrieved February 5, 2007.
3. ^ Hasty, Kate. "Beyonce Makes It Ten Weeks At No. 1 With 'Irreplaceable'". Billboard. February 8, 2007. Retrieved February 8, 2007.
4. ^ ^{a b c} All Music Guide
5. ^ Napolitano, Meredith. "Video vision". Daily Record. January 26, 2006. Retrieved February 10, 2007.
6. ^ "NEW RELEASE: Norah Jones "Thinking About You"". videostatic.com. December 19, 2006. Retrieved February 10, 2007.
7. ^ Austrian Singles Chart
8. ^ Dutch Top 100
9. ^ Euro Top 200
10. ^ Norah Jones' charts
11. ^ Italian Top 50
12. ^ Spanish Top 20
13. ^ Norah Jones' charts
14. ^ R&R Smooth Jazz Chart
15. ^ United World Chart, week 10, 2007