I Know What You Did Last Summer (song)

"I Know What You Did Last Summer"
Single by Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello
from the album Handwritten Revisited
Released November 18, 2015 (2015-11-18)
Format Digital download
Recorded 2015
Genre Pop
Length 3:43
Label Island
Writer(s)
Producer(s)
  • Ido Zmishlany
  • Noel Zancanella
Shawn Mendes singles chronology
"Stitches"
(2015)		 "I Know What You Did Last Summer"
(2015)
Camila Cabello singles chronology
"I Know What You Did Last Summer"
(2015)
Music video
"I Know What You Did Last Summer" on YouTube

"I Know What You Did Last Summer" is a song by Canadian singer Shawn Mendes and Cuban-American singer Camila Cabello. It was released as the lead single from his 2015 revisited version of his debut studio album, Handwritten (2015) via Island Records on November 18, 2015.

Background and concept

"I Know What You Did Last Summer" was written backstage spontaneously on one of Taylor Swift's The 1989 World Tour stops, in which Mendes was an opening act and Cabello was the surprise guest together with her group Fifth Harmony. "We were just backstage. There were like 100 people in my dressing room at the time, and it was madness back there, but I had this guitar and I was just jamming out, and we basically wrote a pre-chorus and a chorus in like 30 minutes," Mendes said in a video released about the making of this song. "And we planned to go into the studio, and it was like an 11-hour studio session where we finished writing the song." After a live performance on Live with Kelly and Michael, Cabello said, "We were just kind of jamming out. We weren’t really consciously writing a song. We kind of started spitting out melodies and put lyrics to it; I don't think we knew we had a song."[1][2]

Cabello described "I Know What You Did Last Summer" as a "conversation between two people in a relationship where it's dying, but nobody wants to admit that it's dying."[1]

Composition

"I Know What You Did Last Summer" contains elements from Bill Withers' 1971 single "Ain't No Sunshine", thus songwriting credits was given to Withers. The song is sung in A minor, with a tempo of 112 bpm and a time signature of 4
4.[3]

Commercial performance

"I Know What You Did Last Summer" debuted at number ninety-seven on Billboard Hot 100 for the chart dated December 5, 2015 and jumped to number fifty-five on the following week. On the week ending January 9, 2016, the song jumped from number forty-six to number thirty-three. The song has since peaked at number twenty for the chart dated January 30, 2016, becoming Mendes' second top 20 single.

Music video

A music video for the song was released on November 20, 2015 and was directed by Ryan Pallotta. In the video, Mendes and Cabello are seen walking through a dark and desolated landscape. They keep trying to walk towards each other but aren't moving. They are seen weathering a sandstorm, followed by a snowstorm and a rainstorm which culminates in a standoff of sorts as they desperately attempt to repair their relationship.[2]

Live performances

Mendes and Cabello's first televised performance of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" was on Live with Kelly and Michael on November 20, 2015.[2] They also performed the song on The Late Late Show with James Corden on November 24, 2015,[4] and at Pitbull's New Year's Revolution on December 31, 2015 in Miami, Florida.[5] Mendes and Cabello performed the track again on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on January 4, 2016.[6]

Preceded by a performance of "Stitches", Mendes and Cabello sang "I Know What You Did Last Summer" at the 2016 People's Choice Awards.[7]

Charts and certifications

Chart (2015–16) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[8] 80
Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)[9] 24
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[10] 19
Canada AC (Billboard)[11] 18
Czech Republic (Singles Digitál Top 100)[12] 14
Denmark (Tracklisten)[13] 21
France (SNEP)[14] 192
Greece Digital Songs (Billboard)[15] 9
Hungary (Rádiós Top 40)[16] 32
Ireland (IRMA)[17] 48
Italy (FIMI)[18] 53
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[19] 12
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[20] 17
New Zealand Heatseekers (Recorded Music NZ)[21] 3
Norway (VG-lista)[22] 18
Slovakia (Singles Digitál Top 100)[23] 19
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[24] 24
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[25] 52
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[26] 97
US Billboard Hot 100[27] 20
US Adult Top 40 (Billboard)[28] 32
US Mainstream Top 40 (Billboard)[29] 10

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Canada (Music Canada)[30] Gold 40,000^
United States (RIAA)[31] Gold 500,000^

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

References

  1. 1 2 Garibaldi, Christina (November 16, 2015). "Exclusive: Get A Sneak Peek At Shawn Mendes And Camila Cabello’s New Video". MTV. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 Roth, Madeline (November 20, 2015). "Shawn Mendes And Camila Cabello Put Their Stormy Relationship To The Test In ‘IKWYDLS’ Vid". MTV. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Shawn Mendes "I Know What You Did Last Summer" Sheet Music - Download". Musicnotes.com. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello Perform 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' for 'Late Late Show'". Billboard. November 24, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello Perform On 'Pitbull's New Year's Revolution' & It's Super Sexy". Bustle. January 1, 2016. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello perform on "Tonight Show"". Headline Planet. January 4, 2016. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello Perform 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' at the 2016 People's Choice Awards". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. January 6, 2016. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
  8. ↑ Ryan, Gavin (February 13, 2016). "ARIA Singles: Flume 'Never Be Like You' Is No 1". Noise11. Retrieved February 13, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello – I Know What You Did Last Summer" (in Dutch). Ultratip. Retrieved February 12, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Shawn Mendes – Chart history" Canadian Hot 100 for Shawn Mendes. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
  11. ↑ "Shawn Mendes – Chart history" Billboard Canada AC for Shawn Mendes. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  12. ↑ "ČNS IFPI" (in Czech). Hitparáda – Digital Top 100 Oficiální. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: insert 20161 into search.
  13. ↑ "Danishcharts.com – Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello – I Know What You Did Last Summer". Tracklisten. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
  14. ↑ "Lescharts.com – Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello – I Know What You Did Last Summer" (in French). Les classement single. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
  15. ↑ "Greece Digital Songs". Billboard. Retrieved 29 January 2016. (subscription required)
  16. ↑ "Archívum – Slágerlisták – MAHASZ" (in Hungarian). Rádiós Top 40 játszási lista. Magyar Hanglemezkiadók Szövetsége. Retrieved February 13, 2016.
  17. ↑ "Chart Track: Week 5, 2016". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  18. ↑ "Top Digital - Classifica settimanale WK 5 (dal 2016-01-29 al 2016-02-04)". Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
  19. ↑ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Shawn Mendes search results" (in Dutch) Dutch Top 40. Retrieved January 16, 2016.
  20. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello – I Know What You Did Last Summer" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  21. ↑ "NZ Heatseekers Singles Chart". Recorded Music NZ. February 8, 2016. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
  22. ↑ "Norwegiancharts.com – Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello – I Know What You Did Last Summer". VG-lista. Retrieved January 23, 2016.
  23. ↑ "SNS IFPI" (in Slovak). Hitparáda – Singles Digital Top 100 Oficiálna. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: insert 20161 into search.
  24. ↑ "Swedishcharts.com – Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello – I Know What You Did Last Summer". Singles Top 100. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  25. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello – I Know What You Did Last Summer". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved February 1, 2016.
  26. ↑ "Archive Chart: 2016-02-11" UK Singles Chart. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  27. ↑ "Shawn Mendes – Chart history" Billboard Hot 100 for Shawn Mendes. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
  28. ↑ "Shawn Mendes – Chart history" Billboard Adult Pop Songs for Shawn Mendes. Retrieved February 12, 2016.
  29. ↑ "Shawn Mendes – Chart history" Billboard Pop Songs for Shawn Mendes. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
  30. ↑ "Canadian single certifications – Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello – I Know What You Did Last Summer". Music Canada. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
  31. ↑ "American single certifications – Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello – I Know What You Did Last Summer". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Single, then click SEARCH

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