I'm Yours (Jason Mraz Song)
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"I'm Yours" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter
Jason Mraz Jason Thomas Mraz ( ; born June 23, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He rose to prominence with the release of his debut studio album, ''Waiting for My Rocket to Come'' (2002), which spawned the single "The Remedy (I Won't Wo ...
, released in 2008 as the first single from his third studio album '' We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.''. The song was originally released on a limited edition EP called '' Extra Credit'' as a demo in 2005 to promote his second studio album '' Mr. A–Z''. It was performed in his 2004 and 2005 gigs and already became a crowd favorite before its release. "I'm Yours" was nominated for Song of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 51st Grammy Awards. "I'm Yours" was a huge commercial success in the United States. The song peaked at number 6 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100; and spent 76 weeks on the chart, breaking the record for the longest charting song on the chart, previously held by
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' song " How Do I Live" with 69 weeks on the chart; this record has since been broken and is currently held by "
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, which spent 91 weeks on the chart. As of January 2013, it is the tenth best-selling digital song of all time in the US, selling over 6 million downloads, and 12.2 million worldwide. It is also the most certified Reggae song in the US as of August 10, 2023. In July 2021, it surpassed 1 billion streams on
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. It remains Mraz's biggest US hit single to date. It was the only song to crack ''Billboard'''s top 600 of all time chart despite never cracking the top 5. Mraz first launched the song from the La Costa Resort and Spa in
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, at Michele Clark's Sunset Sessions in 2008. He also sang a version on ''
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'' titled "Outdoors" and released a successful remixed version featuring
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Composition

Sheet music for the song "I'm Yours" shows the key of
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with a moderate tempo of 70 beats per minute, and a chord progression of B-F#-G♯m-E.


Chart performance

Throughout 2008, "I'm Yours" slowly increased in airplay and digital sales and would go on to become Mraz's biggest hit to date, charting higher than his previous pop hit, 2003's " The Remedy (I Won't Worry)". It became his first top ten single in the US, peaking at number six on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and number five on the
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. On the ''Billboard'' Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks chart, the song was number one for a total of nine weeks. The single later received
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airplay, eventually topping that chart as well. Due to its gradually building crossover appeal, the song has had extremely unusual longevity, not reaching number one on the Mainstream Top 40 until December 2008, ten months after its release and seven months after it debuted on the VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown. In fact, VH1 had already retired the song in early October 2008 after a 20-week run. The song returned to the top ten of the Hot 100 for the third time in its 38th week on the chart. "I'm Yours" would go on to chart for a total of 76 weeks, making this the longest chart run in ''Billboard'' magazine history, up until the 87-week run of Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive" and the 79-week run of AWOLNATION's "Sail", both set in 2014. A year into its release, it topped another chart for the first time, when it hit number one on the ''Billboard''
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during the week of February 5, 2009. This marked 11 months since the song had topped its first chart in the US, when it reached number one on the Triple A chart in March 2008. "I'm Yours" spent 16 weeks at number one on the Adult Contemporary chart. In addition, after topping the Adult Contemporary chart, "I'm Yours" became the first song to top the Triple A, Adult Top 40, Mainstream Top 40, and Adult Contemporary charts. Despite weak initial download sales, it became the eighth best-selling digital song in the United States by January 2012. It has sold 6,837,000 copies in the US as of April 23, 2014. It is Mraz's most successful global single to date, reaching number one in
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, and the top ten in
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. It was also able to reach number one on the Top 40 Digital Track Chart in Australia. In Hawaii, radio stations do play the original version, along with a Hawaiian remix of the song. "I'm Yours" was also a huge hit in
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where it peaked at number one, knocking off " Poker Face" which spent ten consecutive weeks at number one. It was certified gold after nine weeks selling over 7,500 copies and then certified platinum after 14 weeks selling over 15,000 copies. "I'm Yours" made its debut on the UK Singles Chart on December 12, 2008, at number 78 and then slowly climbed up the chart until it peaked at number 11. It spent the whole of 2009 on the chart apart from the final two weeks of the year, then re-entered in January 2010 and again in August, and has now clocked up 56 weeks on the official UK Top 75, making it currently the 15th longest runner of all time and the longest never to make the top 10, at 84 weeks on the top 100.


Music video

The
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debuted on March 14, 2008. ''I'm Yours'' was later featured as the Record of the Week on Scott Mills's BBC Radio One show on November 10, 2008. Since being added to
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it has been viewed over 820 million times as of late September 2024. It was filmed in Hawaii (Oahu and Kauai) in 2008 with veteran music video director Darren Doane. *Private jet, Kauai (0:00) The video's opening scene is an overhead shot of a private jet at Lihue Airport on Kauai. It sets up the next scene where Mraz is seated, supposedly, in that same airplane. *Apartment interior, Oahu (0:07) After gazing thoughtfully into a fish tank and putting on a backpack, Mraz's video self departs an apartment, leaving the unit's key behind. The location was an actual occupied apartment unit on the North Shore of Oahu. All furnishings belonged to the occupants. *Taxi ride, H-1 Freeway, Oahu (0:33) Mraz sits in the backseat of a taxi. The scene was filmed the morning after completion of Oahu shooting. Doane hunkered down next to the big city of couple of guys in a pick-up truck who take him to the little-known skateboard park on Oahu's North Shore. *Maunawili Falls, Oahu (1:45) Mraz hops in the back of yet another late model pick-up truck, this time with a trio of girls. The waterfall, on Oahu's windward side, was suggested by the girl he's seen conversing with at the skate park—a North Shore resident he and Doane had just met. *Kapaa, Kauai (2:30) After a plane ride from Oahu, Mraz catches a shuttle at the Lihue Airport and winds up in the east-side Kauai town, which he simply explores on foot. *Mokuauia (Goat Island), Oahu (2:55) While it appears in the video as if Mraz hasn't left Kauai, these water shots were filmed in real surf off Mokuauia Island ( Goat Island) on Oahu's windward coast the day before leaving for Kauai shooting. *Post-sunset backyard party, Oahu (3:05) Mraz sings at an evening backyard jam with longtime percussionist Toca Rivera. *Hanalei Pier, Kauai (3:21 and final shot) The final shot of Mraz kicking back on the Hanalei Bay landmark is actually the final shot of the “I’m Yours” shoot.


In popular culture

"I'm Yours" was featured in the episode "All About Appearances" from the television series '' Privileged''. It was also used for the Australian
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's promotion of the season premiere of ''
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regularly played "I'm Yours" on board their aircraft during boarding and while taxiing after landing during the summer of 2008.


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See also

*” Introducing Me” *
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* List of best-selling singles in the United States * List of number-one hits in Norway * List of number-one singles of 2008 (Sweden) * List of Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks number-one singles of 2008 * List of Mainstream Top 40 number-one hits of 2008 (U.S.) * List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 2009 (U.S.) * List of number-one singles from the 2000s (New Zealand)


References


External links


Official Site
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