"Want to Want Me" is a song recorded by American singer

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for his fourth studio album, '' Everything Is 4'' (2015). It was released as the album's

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on March 9, 2015. The song was written by Derulo,

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Lindy Robbins Lindy Robbins is an American songwriter from Los Angeles, whose songs include Demi Lovato's "Skyscraper", Jason Derulo's "Want to Want Me", David Guetta's " Dangerous" featuring Sam Martin, MKTO's "Classic", Hot Chelle Rae's " Tonight, Tonigh ...

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, and its producer,

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. "Want to Want Me" peaked at number five on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, becoming Derulo's sixth top ten hit in the United States. The song topped the

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with first-week sales of 127,000 units. It marked Derulo's fourth number-one single in the United Kingdom, following " In My Head" (2010), " Don't Wanna Go Home" (2011) and " Talk Dirty" (2013). "Want to Want Me" remained at number one in the UK for four weeks.

Background

Derulo said that the song was the first one recorded for his album '' Everything Is 4'', and he decided to release it as the lead single after having several friends listen to it. According to some news reports,

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was originally going to release the song instead of

Jason Derulo Jason Joel Desrouleaux (born September 21, 1989), known professionally as Jason Derulo (; formerly stylized as Derülo), is an American singer and songwriter.

, but was forced to reject it as his voice wasn't high enough to reach the high notes, and it was decided that Olly Murs would be replaced by Jason Derulo as the singer of the song. Olly later admitted to regretting turning it down after seeing how popular of a smash hit it became. On June 3, 2016, Derulo performed the song at the Opening Ceremony of the

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in Santa Clara, California.

Music composition

The song is written and recorded in E♭

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, running at 112-116 beats per minute. It has a main chord progression of E♭-Cm.

Critical reception

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'' named "Want to Want Me" the third-best song of 2015.

Commercial performance

"Want to Want Me" debuted at number 45 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart on March 28, 2015. It jumped to number ten on the week of May 9, 2015, before reaching number five dated June 20.

Music video

The song's accompanying

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was directed by

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. It premiered on

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on March 23, 2015. The video features glamour model Tianna Gregory as Derulo's love interest in the video.

Track listing

;Digital download #"Want to Want Me" – 3:27 ;Digital download – Westfunk remix #"Want to Want Me" – 3:13 ;Other Versions *7th Heaven Radio Edit – 3:27

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from Tidal and the liner notes of ''Everything Is 4''. ''Note: Access the 'Credits' button.'' *Sam Martin – Backing Vocals *Nate Merchant – Engineer *Chris Gehringer – Mastering Engineer *John Hanes – Mixing Engineer *Serban Ghenea – Mixing Engineer *Frank Ramirez – Recording Engineer *JP Negrete – Recording Engineer

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications and sales

References

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