Songoftheday 8/26/22 - All my girls at the party look at that body, shakin' that thing like you never did see...
"All For You" - Janet Jackson
from the album All For You (2001)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1 (seven weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 20
Today's song is from Janet Jackson, who had returned to #1 on Billboard magazine's pop Hot 100 chart in the summer of 2000 with "Doesn't Really Matter" from the movie Nutty Professor II: The Klumps that she starred in with Eddie Murphy. That song also appeared on Janet's seventh studio album All For You the following year. The title track was put out as a single in the spring of 2001. "All For You", written primarily by Jackson with producers Jimmy "Jam" Harris and Terry Lewis, sampled "The Glow Of Love" by Italo-disco group Change (which originally featured a young Luther Vandross on vocals), giving members Wayne Garfield, Mauro Malavasi, and David Romani deserved writing credit. And boy, does that sample carry its weight on the record, as Janet rides the groove with ease as she coos to a shy and unassuming would-be suitor in the club. She's encouraging him to shoot his shot, but warns "Can't be afraid or keep me waiting for too long, before you know it I'll be outta here, I'll be gone". The chorus offers herself for even a night of fun, making this a classic club track for the girls and the gheys. As always, Jackson offers up an iconic dance routine in the music video, as she travels between different flat-screen locations as she ends up leaving that shy guy in the dust anyways...
"All For You" became Janet's tenth (and so far most recent) #1 hit on Billboard's pop Hot 100 in April of 2001, spending seven weeks on top, the most of any single that year. The song also topped Billboard's R&B Singles chart for three weeks, as well as on the Dance Club Play list. On the radio, "All For You" took three weeks at the top of the Pop Airplay chart, while getting to #3 on the dance-oriented Rhythmic format, #5 on the R&B/Hip-Hop radio list, and #28 on the older-skewing Adult Top-40 format. Internationally, the single was a success, topping the charts in Canada and Poland and reaching the top ten in New Zealand (#2), the United Kingdom (#3), France (#3), Italy (#4), Spain (#5), Australia (#5), Finland (#5), Switzerland (#7), Hungary (#7), Belgium (#8F/#9W), Portugal (#8), Croatia (#8), and Denmark (#10). The All For You album, released in April as the single was cresting, spent a week at #1 on both the Billboard 200 and R&B-Hip-hop Albums sales tallies, going on to sell over three million copies. At the Grammy Awards in 2002, "All For You" won for Best Dance Recording, and the All For You album was nominated for Best Pop Album, losing to Sade for Lovers Rock. Both Janet and the album will be back to the series.
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Here's an edit of the remix by the Thunderpuss team that made the song top the dance charts for three weeks (an eternity on that list in those days)...
Janet premiered the song during MTV's tribute show to her that March on their MTV Icons series as the initial recipient...
Up tomorrow: Midwestern rapper wants you to go shotgun.
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