This I Promise You

"This I Promise You"
Single by NSYNC
from the album No Strings Attached
B-side	"I Thought She Knew" "Yo te Voy a Amar"
Released	November 25, 2000
Format	CD single
Recorded	1999
Genre	Pop, R&B, soul
Length	4:44 (album version), 4:27 (radio version)
Label	Jive
Writer(s)	Richard Marx
Producer(s)	Richard Marx
NSYNC singles chronology
"I'll Never Stop" (2000) "This I Promise You" (2000) "Pop" (2001)

"This I Promise You" is a ballad by NSYNC, released as the third single in the United States and the fourth single in Europe from their second studio album, No Strings Attached, in 2000. The song was composed by pop singer Richard Marx, who would later record the song twice, first for the Japanese release of his album Days in Avalon similar to the NSYNC version, and again as a rock song for the European version of his Stories to Tell album. Marx would later use the Days In Avalon version of This I Promise You for his Now And Forever: The Ballads album as a duet with Asian singer Sabrina. "This I Promise You" was the group's fifth top-ten single in the U.S., reaching number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the autumn of 2000. In addition, the song spent 13 weeks at number one on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, the group's first song to do so.^[1] The single was less successful internationally, reaching number 21 on the UK Singles Chart and failing to make the top 20 in Australia. The album version of the song was also featured on the 2001 compilation album Now That's What I Call Music! 7. But the radio edit was featured on all the three compilation albums: Greatest Hits (2005), The Collection (2010), and The Essential *NSYNC (2014).

Music video

The video, directed by Dave Meyers, shows the group clad in turtlenecks singing in the Redwood National and State Parks, with different shots of different love relationships being shown in bubbles floating around the forest. Footage of the San Francisco skyline appears at different intervals and at the key change, the video switches to the group sitting at a table at an outdoor eatery along the Embarcadero, with little girls blowing bubbles around. The video debuted on TRL October 27, 2000. MadTV spoofed the video on December 16, 2000, with "This We Promise You", poking fun at the group's clean-cut image.

Track listing

• UK

CD single

1. "This I Promise You" (radio version) – 4:27
2. "It's Gonna Be Me" (Maurice Joshua Radio Remix) – 4:13
3. "I Thought She Knew" – 3:22

Cassette

1. "This I Promise You" (radio version) – 4:27
2. "This I Promise You" (Hex Hector Radio Mix) – 3:57
3. "I Thought She Knew" – 3:22

• Europe

CD1

1. "This I Promise You" (album version) – 4:43
2. "This I Promise You" (Hex Hector Radio Mix) – 3:57

CD2

1. "This I Promise You" (album version) – 4:43
2. "I Thought She Knew" – 3:22

Limited edition remix single

1. "This I Promise You" (album version) – 4:43
2. "This I Promise You" (Hex Hector Club Mix) – 9:10
3. "This I Promise You" (Hex Hector Radio Mix) – 3:57
4. "Yo te Voy a Amar"

• America

Making the Tour exclusive bonus disc

1. "This I Promise You" (live home video mix) – 5:10

Charts

See also

• List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 2000 and 2001 (U.S.)

References

External links

• "This I Promise You" Official music video on YouTube
• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics