Īccording to Miguel, Jive marketed him as a "typical R&B artist" during their promotion of All I Want Is You: "That album was a huge learning experience. The album has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album became a sleeper hit, and by September 2012, it had sold 404,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. After falling off the chart for three weeks, it re-entered and climbed the Billboard 200 for 22 weeks, before peaking at number 37 on May 14, 2011. It sold poorly at first, with first-week sales of 11,000 copies and a chart debut of number 109 on the Billboard 200. īyStorm Entertainment and Jive eventually released the album on November 30, 2010. During this period, Miguel continued working with various underground acts and writing songs for mainstream recording artists, including Johnson&Jonson, Asher Roth, Jaheim, and Usher. Club, 2012) Īfter the recording's completion, legal issues with Miguel's former production company prevented the album from being released for two years. With its splatters of off-kilter funk and mesmeric electro, All I Want Is You teased a unique vision without coloring too far outside the boundaries of popular R&B. Though its poor initial showing on the charts seemed to affirm 's lack of faith in it, the record gradually discovered an audience over the next year thanks to a trickle of ingratiating singles that established Miguel as one of radio’s rarest commodities: a new R&B star. On "Sure Thing", Miguel sang about loyalty in a passionate committed relationship. Jeffries said the album featured Miguel's "sly sense of humor". The closing track "My Piece" uses a "piece"-"peace" homonym.
The album's first half features two romantic songs, an interlude, a song about a prostitute, and another about a quickie. Īccording to Tom Hull, the album is an attempt at R&B's "love man" archetype, set against "slinky, marginally funky rhythm". "Girls Like You" and "Hard Way" feature aggressive hip hop beats, while "Pay Me" and "To the Moon" explore European electronic music and EDM, respectively. Marc Hogan from Spin said it featured neo soul music, while AllMusic critic David Jeffries described it as a "slick" and "sexy" synthesis of influences from Prince, Kanye West, and electro. Music and lyrics Īccording to Jason Newman from MTV Buzzworthy, All I Want Is You is "a diverse album rooted in R&B and hip-hop, thoughtfully laced with elements of classic rock, funk and electro". Recording sessions took place at Black Mango Studios in Van Nuys, California, Germano Studios in New York City, Glenwood Studios and Instrument Zoo in Miami, Florida, Studio 609 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and The Gym in Los Angeles, California. With a little tweaking, this could be special." Īfter signing in 2007 to Pitts' Jive Records-imprint label, ByStorm Entertainment, Miguel began recording his first album, All I Want Is You. He was all over the place at the time, but it was just different. I loved him," Pitts later said of Miguel. "He came and performed and just had no fear. Pitts was impressed by both "Sure Thing" and " Quickie", as well as Miguel's performance in-person, and signed him to a recording contract instead of offering the songs to Usher. Mark Pitts (in 2018), the music executive who signed Miguel to his first record dealĪs a burgeoning songwriter, Miguel had written the R&B song " Sure Thing", which was pitched to music executive Mark Pitts as a candidate for the singer Usher's tentative album.
Miguel toured in promotion of the album as a supporting act for fellow R&B singers Usher and Trey Songz. By September 2012, it had sold 404,000 copies.Īll I Want Is You received positive reviews critics found some of the music inconsistent but praised Miguel's singing and songwriting abilities while drawing comparisons to Prince. Selling poorly upon its release, it became sleeper hit on the Billboard 200 with the help of singles such as the title track and " Sure Thing". It was shelved by Jive for two years after legal issues with the singer's former production company. It was released on November 30, 2010, by the Jive Records-imprint label ByStorm Entertainment, operated by music executive Mark Pitts, who had signed Miguel to the label.Īfter signing to ByStorm in 2007, Miguel recorded the album with producers Dre & Vidal, Fisticuffs, Happy Perez, State of Emergency, and Salaam Remi.
All I Want Is You is the debut studio album by American R&B singer and songwriter Miguel.
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