If I Ain't Got You

If I Is not Got You is a Soul - Jazz - Ballad of American Soul / R & B - singer Alicia Keys from her second studio album The Diary of Alicia Keys from the year of 2003.

Creation and publication

Alicia Keys worked on this song all by herself, wrote it, produced it, recorded the song. The accompanying music video was shot under the direction of Diane Martel . It was shot in Manhattan , New York City . The rapper Method Man plays Keys' friend in the video.

The single was released in February 2004 as the second single on the album and quickly reached fourth place on the American Billboard Hot 100 . It became Keys' second number one hit on the R&B and hip-hop charts, where it was at the top for six weeks. The song reached third place on the American annual chart in 2004 and was the third highest-grossing single of the year in the United States. The song stayed on the Billboard Hot 100 for a total of 40 weeks and is Keys' longest-running single; it was the first single by a female artist to stay on the hot R & B / hip-hop charts for over a year.

The song won a Grammy at the 2005 Grammy Awards and was nominated in two categories.

There are three remix versions of the song, one with Usher , a radio mix with Kanye West and a Spanish-language version with Arturo Sandoval , which is included as a bonus song on The Diary of Alicia Keys .

On the cover picture for the single you can see keys against a brown background. You can see her back, she wears no top and she wears a turban on her head. The cover image is a re-enactment of Man Ray 's Le Violon d'Ingres from 1924.

Commercial win

The song reached third place on the Billboard Hot 100 on July 3, 2004 . It stayed on the US charts for a total of 46 weeks and is Keys' longest-standing single to date. In the Hot R & B / Hip-Hop charts, the single reached the top of the charts on May 1, 2004 and stayed there for six weeks. It became the first single by a female artist to stay in the local charts for over a year, a total of 56 weeks. The single reached ninth place on the US pop charts. In the UK , the single reached the top twenty at number 18.

Awards

• Grammy Awards
  • Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
• Billboard Music Awards
  • R & B / Hip-Hop Single of the Year
  • R & B / Hip-Hop Airplay Single of the Year
• MTV Video Music Awards
  • Best R&B video
• ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Awards
  • Top R&B / Hip-Hop Song of the Year
• ASCAP Pop Awards
  • Most Performed Song
• NAACP Image Awards
  • Outstanding Music Video
  • Outstanding song
• Soul Train Music Awards
  • Best R&B / Soul Single, Female
• Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards
  • Best R & B / Soul or Rap Song of the Year
• Vibe Awards
  • Best R&B song

Formats from If I Ain't Got You

CD maxi

1. "If I Ain't Got You" - 3:48
2. "If I Ain't Got You" (piano and vocal version) - 3:52
3. "You Don't Know My Name" / "Will Yo" (reggae mix) - 5:06

12 "-Maxi

1. "If I Ain't Got You" (Sir Piers 'Curious' main extended)
2. "If I Ain't Got You" (Sir Piers 'Curious' 70's dub)

Charts

Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	81 (7 weeks)	7th
Switzerland (IFPI)	35 (5 weeks)	5
United Kingdom (OCC)	18th (6 weeks)	6th
United States (Billboard)	4th (40 weeks)	40

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/alicia-keys/chart-history/433721?f=379&g=Singles
2. ↑ http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/alicia-keys/chart-history/433721?f=367&g=Singles
3. ↑ ^{a b} Patrick Huguenin: 'Secret Life of Bees' star Alicia Keys' hive of activity . In: New York Daily News . Mortimer Zuckerman . October 11, 2008. Retrieved December 4, 2008.
4. ↑ Le Violon d'Ingres (Ingres's Violin) . In: J. Paul Getty Museum . Retrieved January 1, 2009.
5. ↑ http://www.billboard.com/#/song/alicia-keys/if-i-ain-t-got-you/5053552
6. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/rnbsingles.shtml
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: DE CH UK US