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“No One” Single by Alicia Keys from the album As I Am Released September 11, 2007 Format CD single, 12" single, digital download Recorded 2007 Genre R&B, soul Length 4:10 (Album Version) 4:16 (Radio Edit) Label J Writer(s) Alicia Keys, Kerry Brothers, Jr., George D. Harry Producer Alicia Keys, Kerry "Krucial" Brothers, Dirty Harry Certification 2× platinum (RIAA) Gold (IFPI – Belgium, Germany, Sweden) Platinum (ARIA) Alicia Keys singles chronology "Every Little Bit Hurts" (2005) "No One" (2007) "Like You'll Never See Me Again" (2007) As I Am track listing "Superwoman" (3) "No One" (4) "Like You'll Never See Me Again" (5) Audio sample file info · help "No One" is an R&B–soul song written and produced by American singer-songwriter Alicia Keys and American songwriter-producers Kerry Brothers, Jr. and George D. Harry for Keys' third studio album, As I Am (2007). Released as the album's lead single in September 2007, this is overall Keys' most successful song worldwide to date, having topped several singles charts, including the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for five consecutive weeks. "No One" was ranked number 42 on Billboard's Hot 100 Best Songs of All Time[1] and number 14 on Billboard's Best Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs of All Time[2]. "No One" won Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song at the 2008 Grammy Awards on February 10, 2008. During the ceremony, Keys performed the song in a duet with John Mayer.




1 Song information and release 2 Chart performances 3 Music video 4 Track listing 5 Personnel 5.1 Musicians 5.2 Production 6 Charts 7 References [edit] Song information and release Keys told MTV News Canada that the song "is really talking about the way that in relationships, the way that so many things are around you all the time to try to distract you. And even though people may talk and say whatever they may want to say, but then no one can get in the way of this."[3] The song was first heard in August 2007 after Keys included a clip of the song in a newsletter on her official website and fan club. It was released officially on September 10, 2007, and its radio premiere was on Atlanta's WVEE on August 29. Keys performed a medley of "No One" with George Michael's "Freedom! '90" at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards on September 9. Remixes of the song featuring Lil' Kim, Cassidy, Damian Marley, Junior Reid, Beenie Man, Barbee, and Kanye West exist. It was ranked at number three on the recap of The 10 Best Songs of 2007 by Entertainment Weekly.[4] [edit] Chart performances With only one full day of airplay, "No One" debuted at number sixty-five on the U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart the week of September 8, 2007. Seven weeks later, it reached the top position for ten weeks—becoming Keys' fifth number-one single on the chart—before being knocked out by her own song "Like You'll Never See Me Again" the first charting week of 2008. The song initially debuted at number fifteen on the Bubbling

Under Hot 100 Singles the week of September 15, 2007, and managed to jump to the Billboard Hot 100 at number seventy-one the following week without the benefit of download sales.[5] The following week, it rose to number fifteen because of digital downloads, and reached the top spot the charting week of December 1, 2007, staying atop for five weeks, preventing Timbaland and OneRepublic's hit "Apologize" from reaching the summit. It is Keys' first solo single to reach number one on the Hot 100 since her debut single "Fallin'" (2001) and her third single, to date, to top the chart. The song's success marked Keys' return to the top twenty of the Billboard Hot 100 in three years; her last appearance occurred with the number-twenty entry "Karma". Furthermore, "No One" went on to top eleven other Billboard charts: the Hot 100 Airplay (for an impressive fourteen straight weeks, the longest run atop the chart since Mariah Carey's 2005 hit "We Belong Together" spent sixteen weeks at number one), the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, the Hot Adult R&B Airplay, the Pop 100, the Pop 100 Airplay, the Top 40 Mainstream, the Rhythmic Top 40, the Hot Digital Songs, the Hot Digital Tracks, the Hot RingMasters, and the Hot Videoclip Tracks. "No One" was a massive success in Europe, reaching number two on the composite European Hot 100 Singles as well as topping the singles chart in Spain, Switzerland, Hungary, and Cyprus, while charting inside the top five in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Malta, Sweden, Slovakia, and Slovenia and the top ten in the United Kingdom (where the single became Keys' first solo top ten hit since "Fallin'", peaking at number six), Ireland, Denmark, and Norway. It also charted highly in Oceania, spending three consecutive weeks at number three in Australia and six non-consecutive weeks at number two in New Zealand. In the week between October 22 and 25, "No One" gained 14.3% in radio airplay and audience impressions which marks the single at number one.[6] As I Am was also at number one this week. [edit] Music video Keys in the music video for "No One".The song's music video, directed by Justin Francis, premiered on BET on September 24, 2007; it debuted on 106 and Park at number ten the following day, and has sinced peaked at number one. It premiered on Yahoo! Music on September 25 at number five and peaked at number one, and it premiered on Total Request Live on October 4 and peaked at number one. It debuted on VH1's VSpot Top 20 Countdown at number three, peaking at number one. The video was ranked number twenty-two on VH1's Top 40 Videos of 2007.[7] The video for "No One" consists of four scenarios: the first one shows Keys lying on a chair in an empty room; the second one is a musical instrument-decorated room in which Keys sings accompanied by a keyboard; in the third one Keys is initially alone, playing the piano on a rainy street, and she later finds herself surrounded with dozens of people; in the fourth and final one Keys is in a blue-lit nightclub. The video ends with a gear divided into four fractions, each one featuring a previously shown scenario, and with Keys lying on the chair in the same room shown at the very beginning of the video. As of September 2008, the official video alone has had over sixty-seven million views on YouTube, and eventually peaked at number six on the website's rank of all-time most viewed videos as well as number four on the rank of all-time most viewed videos in the music category.[8] [edit] Track listing CD single "No One" (Album Version) "No One" (Curtis Lynch Reggae Remix) "Superwoman" (Live) "No One" (Video) Two-track single "No One" (Album Version) "No One" (Curtis Lynch Reggae Remix) Japanese promo CD single "No One" (Curtis Lynch Reggae Remix) "No One" (Reggae Remix featuring Damian Marley) [edit] Personnel [edit] Musicians Alicia Keys – vocals, piano, Roland Jupiter-8, vocoder, mellotron Steve Mostyn – acoustic guitar, bass guitar [edit] Production Alicia Keys – producer, string programming Kerry "Krucial" Brothers – producer, drum programming Dirty Harry – co-producer Ann Mincieli – engineer Brendan Dekora – assistant engineer Zach Hancock – assistant engineer Stu White – assistant engineer Manny Marroquin – mixing Jared Robbins – mix assistant [edit] Charts Chart (2007)[9][10] Peak position Australian ARIA Singles Chart 3 Australian

ARIA Urban Singles Chart[11] 2 Ö3 Austria Top 40 3 Canadian Hot 100 2 European Hot 100 Singles[12] 2 Finnish Singles Chart 17 French SNEP Singles Chart 5 German Singles Chart 3 Deutsche Black Charts[13] 2 Irish Singles Chart 8 Italian FIMI Singles Chart[14] 2 New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart 2 Slovak IFPI Airplay Chart[15] 3 Swiss Singles Chart 1 UK Singles Chart 6 UK R&B Singles Chart[16] 3 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 1 U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs 1 U.S. Billboard Smooth Jazz Songs[17] 17 Chart (2007) Peak position U.S. Billboard Pop 100 1 U.S. Billboard Hot Latin Songs 22 Chart (2008) Peak position Belgian Ultratop 50 Singles (Flanders) 4 Belgian Ultratop 40 Singles (Wallonia)[14] 5 Chile Top 100[18] 25 Czech IFPI Airplay Chart[19] 13 Danish Singles Chart 7 Dutch Top 40 3 Estonian Airplay Chart[20] 12 Hungarian Mahasz Airplay Chart[21] 1 Latvian Airplay Top 50[22] 24 México Top 100[23] 11 Norwegian Singles Chart 8 Romanian Top 100[24] 12 Spanish Los 40 Principales[25] 1 Swedish Singles Chart 5 Turkey Top 20 Chart[26] 2 U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks 12 [edit] References ^ See [1] ^ See [2] ^ "Afternoon Fix: Celebrity Birthdays, the 'In the Valley of Elah' Movie Minute, the latest news, and more.". 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Billboard Türkiye. Retrieved on 2008-04-28. Preceded by "Bed" by J. Holiday U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number-one single October 27, 2007 – December 29, 2007 Succeeded by "Like You'll Never See Me Again" by Alicia Keys Preceded by "Don't Stop the Music" by Rihanna Swiss Singles Chart number-one single November 11, 2007 Succeeded by "Don't Stop the Music" by Rihanna Preceded by "Kiss Kiss" by Chris Brown featuring T-Pain U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one single December 1, 2007 – December 29, 2007 Succeeded by "Low" by Flo Rida featuring T-Pain Preceded by "Apologize" by Timbaland presents OneRepublic U.S. Billboard Pop 100 number-one single December 1, 2007 Succeeded by "Apologize" by Timbaland presents OneRepublic Preceded by "Me Enamora" by Juanes Spanish Los 40 Principales number-one single January 5, 2008 – January 19, 2008 Succeeded by "Sueños Rotos" by La 5ª Estación Preceded by "Don't Stop the Music" by Rihanna Hungarian Mahasz Airplay Chart number-one single March 10, 2008 Succeeded by "The Way I Are" by Timbaland featuring Keri Hilson [hide]v • d • eAlicia Keys Studio albums Songs in A Minor · The Diary of Alicia Keys · As I Am Other albums Unplugged Singles "Fallin'" · "A Woman's Worth" · "How Come You Don't Call Me" · "Girlfriend" · "You Don't Know My Name" · "If I Ain't Got You" · "Diary" · "Karma" · "Unbreakable" · "Every Little Bit Hurts" · "No One" · "Like You'll Never See Me Again" · "Teenage Love Affair" · "Superwoman" Other singles "Gangsta Lovin'" · "My Boo" · "Ghetto Story Chapter 2" · "Another Way to Die" Filmography Smokin' Aces · The Nanny Diaries · The Secret Life of Bees Related articles Discography · Awards and nominations Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_One_(Alicia_Keys_song)" Categories: 2007 singles | Alicia Keys songs | ARC Weekly Top 40 number-one singles | Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles | Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number-one singles | Billboard Pop 100 number-one singles | Music videos | Number-one singles in Bulgaria | Number-one singles in Croatia | Number-one singles in Portugal | Number-one singles in Spain | Number-one singles in Switzerland