Songoftheday 2/29/24 -Baby when I think about the day that we first met, wasn't lookin for what I found...

 

 

"I'm Glad" - Jennifer Lopez

from the album This Is Me...Then (2002)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #32 (four weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 5

 

Today's song comes from Jennifer Lopez, whose album This Is Me...Then had already spun off one of the most self-serving songs to become a "hit", "Jenny From The Block", followed by her collab with rapper LL Cool J on "All I Have", which topped Billboard magazine's Hot 100 for a month at the beginning of 2003. The third single pulled from the album was "I'm Glad", written by Lopez (s) with producers Troy Oliver and Cory Rooney along with Andre Deyo and rapper Jesse "Schooly D" Weaver Jr., whose song "PSK What Does It Mean" was sampled for this record. The lyrics make this a gushy love song, which was on-brand at the time of her first highly-publicized romance with actor Ben Affleck. The production is lush and quite lovely, and they process her vocals enough to float over the beat adequately. The music video, though, is what got the most attention, as Lopez basically condensed the entirety of the Flashdance movie into four minutes and change...

"I'm Glad" became the third top-40 hit from the album in May of 2003. On the radio, the song peaked at #13 on the Mainstream Top-40 airplay chart, #34 on the Dance Airplay list, and #13 on the dance/R&B-oriented Rhythmic format. The remixes of the track, done by the likes of Paul Oakenfold and MURK! among others, helped it climb to #4 on Billboard's Dance Club Play chart. Internationally, the single reached the top ten in Canada (#8 Sales) and Australia (#10), and made the top-40 in the United Kingdom (#11), Switzerland (#12), Italy (#17), the Netherlands (#17), Spain (#19), Ireland (#19), New Zealand (#22), Belgium (#30 Flanders/#31 Wallonia), and Hungary (#37). 

A fourth single from the record, "Baby I Love U!", which sampled the theme from the movie Midnight Cowboy, didn't get much traction under the beginning of 2004, where it reached #72 on the Hot 100 and #55 on the R&B Singles chart. On the radio, it at least made the top-40 at Mainstream Top-40 stations at #26 and the Rhythmic format at #15. But it got a much better reception overseas, climbing to #3 in the UK and #16 in Ireland. 

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Here's the "Perfecto" remix from Paul Oakenfold that helped "I'm Glad" reach the top five on the dance chart...

and lastly, a short version of the song from the Global Citizen charity concert in 2021...

Up tomorrow: Aussie country star gets some weekend showers.