| "It's Like That" | |||||||||||
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| Single by Mariah Carey | |||||||||||
| from the album The Emancipation of Mimi | |||||||||||
| Released | January 7, 2005 | ||||||||||
| Format | Digital download, CD single, 12" single | ||||||||||
| Recorded | 2004 | ||||||||||
| Genre | R&B, pop, hip hop | ||||||||||
| Length | 3:23 | ||||||||||
| Label | Island | ||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Mariah Carey, Jermaine Dupri, Manuel Seal, Johntá Austin | ||||||||||
| Producer | Mariah Carey, Jermaine Dupri, Manuel Seal | ||||||||||
| Certification | Gold (Australia, U.S.) | ||||||||||
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"It's Like That" is a song written by Mariah Carey, Jermaine Dupri, Manuel Seal, and Johntá Austin, and produced by Carey, Dupri, and Seal for Carey's tenth studio album, The Emancipation of Mimi (2005). It borrows the hook "it's like that y'all" from the Run-D.M.C. tracks "Hollis Crew" (1984) and "Here We Go (Live)" (1983), and shares its name with another Run DMC song. It was the first single to be released from the album, in 2005. It was a top twenty hit in several countries, including the United States, and was nominated for a 2006 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
"Stay the Night" featuring Kanye West was originally planned to be the lead single from the album. Later, however, it was announced that "Say Somethin'" featuring Snoop Dogg would be the lead single. Eventually, however, plans were changed again, and "It's Like That" was chosen as the lead single.
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"It's Like That" was one of Carey's biggest commercial successes in years, reaching number 16 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The song's peak position on the Hot 100 contrasted with the chart performance of Carey's previous singles as a lead artist released between 2001 and 2004, most of which had failed to chart on the Hot 100 or even its Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart. It stayed in the top forty for fifteen weeks and was ranked 69 on the Hot 100 2005 year-end chart. It was certified gold by the RIAA, becoming Carey's first gold digital single.[1]
The single was slightly more successful outside the U.S. It reached the top twenty in Germany, France and Norway, the top ten in Australia and Italy and the top five in United Kingdom, where it peaked at number 4. It performed most successfully in Asia, where it peaked at number one in Taiwan, China, Japan, and topped multiple local charts in the Philippines.
An official remix produced by Scott Storch has a more Middle Eastern flavor and a rap by Fat Joe. Dance remixes, with re-recorded vocals by Carey, were produced by David Morales. Peter Rauhofer and Pound Boys (a.k.a. Mayhem & Craig C.) also remixed "It's like That", but their remixes were not released. Because many singles by 2005 did not have commercial CD single releases, the remixes were only released on twelve-inch vinyl maxi single. Two maxi singles were released.
The single's music video was directed by Brett Ratner, who directed some of Carey's other videos. The main setting of the video, which was shot on location at Greystone Park Mansion in Beverly Hills, California, is a party at a mansion turned nightclub on the night before Carey's character's wedding to Eric Roberts. Several guests are seen wearing masks, and there are celebrity cameo appearances by Brian McKnight, Randy Jackson, and the two featured rappers on the track, Dupri and Fatman Scoop. Carey is singing along to Fatman Scoop's outro rap when she sees a party guest (played by Wentworth Miller) taking off his mask and revealing himself to be an ex-lover of hers. The video ends on a cliffhanger, which leads to the video for the album's second single, "We Belong Together" (the two videos were filmed simultaneously).
European/UK CD single
Australian/European CD maxi-single
Japanese CD maxi-single
| Chart (2005) | Peak position |
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| Australian Singles Chart[2] | 9 |
| Austrian Singles Chart[3] | 33 |
| Belgian Flandres Singles Chart[4] | 29 |
| Belgian Wallonia Singles Chart[5] | 32 |
| China Singles Chart | 1 |
| Danish Singles Chart[6] | 19 |
| Dutch Singles Chart[7] | 13 |
| European Singles Chart[8] | 8 |
| French Singles Chart[9] | 16 |
| German Singles Chart[10] | 14 |
| Hungarian Singles Chart[11] | 3 |
| Irish Singles Chart[12] | 11 |
| Italian Singles Chart[13] | 7 |
| Japanese Singles Chart[14] | 1 |
| New Zealand Singles Chart[15] | 21 |
| Norwegian Singles Chart[16] | 13 |
| Swedish Singles Chart[17] | 47 |
| Swiss Singles Chart[18] | 10 |
| Taiwan Singles Chart | 1 |
| UK Singles Chart[19] | 4 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[20] | 16 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play[20] | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs[20] | 17 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Singles Sales[21] | 8 |
| Provider | Sales | Certification |
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| Australia | 35,000+ | Gold |
| United States | 500,000+ | Gold |
| Preceded by "Everything" by Kaskade featuring Gary Pine |
Billboard Hot Dance Club Play number-one single May 21, 2005 |
Succeeded by "Here I Am" by David Morales featuring Tamra Keenan |
| Preceded by "Candy Shop" by 50 Cent featuring Olivia |
China Singles Chart number-one single April 30, 2005 |
Succeeded by "Lonely No More" by Rob Thomas |
| Preceded by "No Doubt" by Co Co Lee |
Taiwan Singles Chart number-one single May 7, 2005 |
Succeeded by "Beautiful Soul" by Jesse McCartney |
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