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"All You Wanted" - Michelle Branch

from the album The Spirit Room (2001)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #6 (one week)

Weeks in the Top-40: 21

 

Today's song comes from singer/songwriter Michelle Branch, whose debut single "Everywhere" placed in the top-20 on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 in the autumn of 2001. The second single from the album was "All You Wanted", written by Branch and produced by John Shanks. The song's lyrics has Michelle trying to reason to her partner in a dying relationship, pleading how much she was attempting to be their savior, but in return they only needed a companion. It's deliberately vague, and the adaptability to various love situations helped her audience click with the song, though it may not be as personal as say Alanis' more direct musings. The production was more like the male-led post-jangle pop hits of Matchbox 20 and Vertical Horizon. Nevertheless, the song did even better, becoming Branch's biggest pop hit...

"All You Wanted" became Branch's second top-40 pop hit and first and only to make the top ten on Billboard's Hot 100 in May of 2002. On the radio, the song peaked at #2 on the Mainstream Top-40 chart, #4 on the older-skewing Adult Top-40 format, and #30 on the Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") airplay list. Internationally, the single went to #3 in New Zealand, and reached the top-40 in Australia (#25) and the United Kingdom (#33).

Both Michelle and the album will be back to the series.

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Here's Branch appearing on the Rosie O'Donnell Show to promote the single...

Next up at a televised concert...

and lastly, an acoustic take on the song...

Up tomorrow: This fast-talking rapper wants some Cognac.