Love @ 1st Sight

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“Love @ 1st Sight”
“Love @ 1st Sight” cover
Single by Mary J. Blige featuring Method Man
from the album Love & Life
Released 2003
Format Digital download
CD maxi single
12" Maxi Single
Genre Hip hop
Length 4:43 (Radio Edit w/ intro)
4:03 (Radio Edit w/o intro)
5:18 (LP Version)
Label Geffen
Writer(s) Mary J. Blige
Sean Combs
Mario Winans
Kamaal Fareed
Mechalie Jamison
Ali Jones-Muhammed
Clifford Smith
Malik Taylor
Producer Sean "P. Diddy" Combs & Mario Winans for The Hitmen
Mary J. Blige featuring Method Man singles chronology
"Rainy Dayz"
(2002)
"Love @ First Sight"
(2003)
"Ooh!"
(2003)

"Love @ 1st Sight" is the first single from Mary J. Blige's sixth studio album Love & Life, performed with rapper Method Man. Released in 2003, the P. Diddy and Mario Winans produced single reached #22 on the Billboard Hot 100, #10 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, #18 in the UK and #16 in Italy. "Love @ 1st Sight" samples the song "Hot Sex" performed by A Tribe Called Quest.

An iPod is featured prominently at the beginning of the single's music video, an instance of paid-for product placement on the part of Apple Inc..[1]

Contents

[edit] Formats and tracklistings

(UK CD Single)

  1. Love @ 1st Sight (Radio Edit With Intro)
  2. Love @ 1st Sight (Kurtis Mantronik's Rock Lobster Vocal Mix)
  3. Your Child (Kiyamma Griffin Uptempo Mix featuring Ghostface Killah)
  4. Love @ 1st Sight (Video)

(UK 12" Promo)

Side A

  1. Love @ 1st Sight (Rock Lobster Vocal Mix)
  2. Love @ 1st Sight (Vulcan Nerve Pinch Dub Mix)

Side B

  1. Love @ 1st Sight (Rishi Rich Vocal Remix) (featuring Juggy D)
  2. Love @ 1st Sight (Rishi Rich Vocal Remix) (featuring Method Man)

(UK 12" Single)

Side One

  1. Love @ 1st Sight (Radio Edit with Intro)
  2. Love @ 1st Sight (Rishi Rich Vocal Remix)

Side Two

  1. Love @ 1st Sight (Kurtis Mantronik's Rock Lobster Vocal Mix)

(US 12" Promo)

Side 1

  1. Love @ 1st Sight (Radio Edit)
  2. Love @ 1st Sight (Instrumental)
  3. Love @ 1st Sight (A Cappella)

Side 2

  1. Love @ 1st Sight (LP Version)
  2. Love @ 1st Sight (Instrumental)
  3. Love @ 1st Sight (A Cappella)

(US CD Single)

  1. Love @ 1st Sight (Radio Edit with Intro) (4:33)
  2. Love @ 1st Sight (Radio Edit) (4:00)

(AUS CD Single)

  1. Love @ 1st Sight
  2. Love @ 1st Sight (Rishi Rich Vocal Remix)
  3. Your Child (Remix) (featuring Ghostface Killah)
  4. Love @ 1st Sight (Video)

[edit] Misc./Other Mixes

  • Kurtis Mantronik's Vulcan Nerve Pinch Dub Mix
  • Rishi Rich Vocal Remix/Main Mix (featuring Juggy D)
  • Rishi Rich Vocal Remix/Main Mix (featuring Method Man)
  • DJ Premier Remix (unreleased)

[edit] Trivia

  • The album/LP version has an intro produced by Stevie J. The Radio Edit with Intro version was used for the video.
  • Method Man (who is featured on the song) appears in the video and P. Diddy makes a special cameo appearance.

[edit] Notes