Give It to You (Jordan Knight song)

"Give It to You"
Single by Jordan Knight
from the album Jordan Knight
Released February 16, 1999
Format CD, 12", cassette, digital download
Recorded 1999
Genre Dance-pop, Teen pop, R&B, Freestyle
Length 4:49
Label Interscope
Writer(s) Jordan Knight, James Harris III, Terry Lewis, Robin Thicke
Producer Jimmy Jam
Terry Lewis
Certification Platinum
Jordan Knight singles chronology
"Give It to You"
(1999)		 "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man"
(1999)

"Give It to You" is Jordan Knight's solo debut single from his self-titled album, Jordan Knight. It is his most well-known single to date as a solo artist and got massive airplay due to the popularity of teen-pop at the time.

The song starts off with carnival music and then changes to teen-dance pop, with freestyle beats into the chorus.

Contents

Track listing

[1] US Single

  1. Give It To You [Single Edit] 4:20

US Maxi-CD

  1. Give It To You [Video Version] 4:29
  2. Give It To You [95 South Remix] 5:13
  3. Give It To You [Red Tacones Edit] 3:50
  4. Give It To You [Red Tacones Dark Dub] 7:15
  5. Give It To You [Fernando G's Radio Edit] 4:22

UK CD 1

  1. Give It To You [Radio Edit w/o Waltz] 3:49
  2. Give It To You [Red Tacones Edit] 3:50
  3. Finally Finding Out 4:03

Video Give It To You

UK CD 2

  1. Give It To You [10° Below Steelpan Vocal] 5:22
  2. Give It To You [10° Below Musique Vocals] 4:20
  3. Give It To You [Stepchild Radio Edit] 4:26
  4. Give It To You [95 South Remix] 5:13

Europe Single

  1. Give It To You 4:49
  2. Give It To You [Red Tacones Edit] 3:50

Europe Maxi-CD

  1. Give It To You 4:49
  2. Give It To You [Red Tacones Edit] 3:50
  3. Give It To You [Red Tacones Dark Dub] 7:15
  4. Give It To You (Fernando G's Edit] 3:28

Success

The single became Knight's first and only top ten in the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #10. It also hit #35 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play. It reached Platinum status soon afterwards.

Peak positions

Chart (1999)[1] Peak
position
U.K. Singles Chart 5
Canadian Singles Chart 11
Netherlands Mega Single Top 100 40
Australian ARIA Singles Chart 33
New Zealand Singles Chart 21
Swedish Singles Chart 55
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 10
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play 35
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales 9
U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 40 19
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream 13
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Tracks 25

End of year charts

End of year chart (1999) Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[2] 63

Music video

Directed by Darren Grant, the video starts off in an amusement park with Knight and his friends getting off by a Land Rover Defender. His friends start off with a ballroom dance and then move into hip-hop choreography.

The music video is based on the movie Grease, with the cool guy at first overlooking the "nerdy" girl. But when she shows up in a tight leather outfit and stubs out her cigarette (like Sandy does at the end of Grease), he finally notices her and they dance. Choreographer Darrin Henson makes a cameo appearances in the music video, on the left to Jordan Knight in the red. He was also the choreographer of the dance in the video.

The Miami bass break in the video was only heard on selected versions of the single

The video was nominated for "Best Dance Video" at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards, but was given to "Livin' La Vida Loca" by Ricky Martin.

References

  1. ^ http://swisscharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Jordan+Knight&titel=Give+It+To+You&cat=s
  2. ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 1999". http://longboredsurfer.com/charts.php?year=1999. Retrieved 2010-08-28. 

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