All You Wanted

"All You Wanted"
Single by Michelle Branch
from the album The Spirit Room
Released January 22, 2002 (2002-01-22)
Recorded 2001
Genre Alternative rock, pop rock
Length 3:37
Label Maverick
Writer(s) Michelle Branch
Producer John Shanks
Michelle Branch singles chronology
"Everywhere"
(2001)
"All You Wanted"
(2002)
"The Game of Love"
(2002)
Alternative covers
Australian Cover

"All You Wanted" is a song by Michelle Branch, released as the second single from her debut album The Spirit Room. It has been her biggest hit to date as a solo artist, peaking at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, the week of May 25, 2002.

It is featured on the Karaoke Revolution video game.

Contents

Track listings

Australian CD Single[1]
  1. All You Wanted
  2. Everywhere (Acoustic Version)
  3. If Only She Knew

Music video

The music video was directed by Liz Friedlander. It begins with Branch entering a club where her boyfriend is. During the chorus, everything around her freezes, and she takes the opportunity to sing at him, "If you want to, I can save you, I can take you away from here..." assuming he cannot hear her. They then go on a bus together, she sits down, assuming he will sit next to her, but he runs into friends, and he ignores her.

She again sings at him during the chorus. After they exit the bus, it begins to rain and her surroundings are again, frozen, and she sings at him, but she then notices that her boyfriend's watch is still ticking. When she realizes this, her boyfriend looks at her, the rain is still stopped. She realizes he was able to hear everything she said before the rain begins to pour again, and she runs away.

In 2002, the video was nominated on MTV Video Music Awards in 2 categories: Best Female Video and Best Pop Video.

Charts

Year Chart Peak Position
2002 Australian ARIA Singles Chart 25[2]
UK Singles Chart 33
US Billboard Hot 100 6
Netherlands Single Charts 84[3]
New Zealand Singles Chart 3[4]
Indonesian Singles Chart 2
U.S. Billboard Mainstream Top 40[5] 2
Billboard AC US 30

End of year charts

Year Country Ranking
2002 Australia 87[6]
2002 United States 48

Other versions

Pop artist Bentley Jones covered the song for his 2011 album TRANS//LATION 2.

References