Thank God I Found You
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"Thank God I Found You" is a song written and produced by American singer Mariah Carey, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis for Carey's sixth studio album, Rainbow. It features Joe, boyband 98 Degrees and Nas, and was inspired by Carey's boyfriend at the time, Luis Miguel. The romantic ballad provides a metaphorical closure for Carey's album Rainbow, as it is the "rainbow" (happiness) that comes after the "storm" (relationship problems). It was released with a remix as the second single from the album in 2000 (see 2000 in music) and reached number one in the United States, but was only moderately successful in other countries.
The song was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, losing to B. B. King & Dr. John for "Is You Is, or Is You Ain't (My Baby)". In 2000 the R&B group Xscape sued Carey over "Thank God I Found You", citing the alleged melodic similarities between it and the song "One of Those Love Songs" from their album Traces of My Lipstick (1998). U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder said there was a "lack of melodic similarity between the two songs", and did not find any "similarity in key, harmonic structure, tempo or genre". Carey had included Xscape on the remix of her single "Always Be My Baby" (1996).
Chart performance
"Thank God I Found You" reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and gave Carey the record for number-one singles in consecutive years — fifteen from 1990 (starting with her debut single "Vision of Love") to 2000. However, radio airplay for the song was moderate and it relied on the airplay of the more popular "Make It Last" remix (featuring Joe and Nas) to reach a high peak in the U.S. It spent one week at the top of the chart, from February 13 to February 19 2000. It replaced "I Knew I Loved You" by Savage Garden, and was replaced by Lonestar's "Amazed". It was certified gold by the RIAA in February 2000, and was ranked forty-fifth on the Hot 100 year-end charts in 2000. "Thank God I Found You" was Carey's last number-one hit in the U.S. until "We Belong Together" (2005), the first U.S. number-one single for Joe and the only number-one single for 98 Degrees.
Outside the U.S., the single was most successful in Canada where it reached number two. It also reached the top ten in the United Kingdom, but only reached the top twenty in Brazil and the top forty in Australia, France and Germany.
Music videos and remixes
The song's main remix is titled "Thank God I Found You/Make It Last Forever", or "Thank God I Found You" (Make It Last remix). Re-recorded with new vocals, it was created by interpolating the song with Keith Sweat's "Make It Last Forever" and bears few lyrical/melodic similarities to the original version of "Thank God I Found You". The remix again features Joe, but not 98 Degrees; Columbia Records labelmate Nas provides two rapped verses on the song instead. The remix was included on Joe's third album, My Name Is Joe (2000). The British remix team Stargate produced the "U.K. Stargate" radio mix, which strips down the production and sythesizers of the clickity beat of the original to give it a more orchestral, organic feel. Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis also created the synthesizer-heavy "Celebratory remix".The single's video, directed by Brett Ratner, shows Carey performing the song with Joe and 98 Degrees at a Minnesota radio station's music fair. The video shows saturated blue skies and behind the scenes footage of Carey carousing with her dog Jack and writing lyrics. Additionally, there is a video for the "Make It Last" remix that features Carey with braids in a nightclub with Joe and Nas. Directed by Sanaa Hamri, the video is grainy and filmed to simulate a home video.
Charts
| Chart (2000) | Peak position | No. of chart topper |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 1 (1 week) | 15th |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales | 1 (2 weeks) | 9th |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay | 15 | — |
| U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks | 1 (1 week) | 7th |
| U.S. Billboard Top 40 Tracks | 21 | — |
| U.S. Billboard Mainstream Top 40 | 28 | — |
| U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 40 | 9 | — |
| U.S. ARC Weekly Top 40 | 2 | — |
| Canadian Singles Chart | 2 | — |
| Singapore Airplay Chart | 2 | — |
| UK Singles Chart | 10 | — |
| Brazil Singles Chart | 15 | — |
| Switzerland Top 100 Singles | 17 | — |
| Netherlands Top 100 Singles | 24 | — |
| Australian ARIA Singles Chart | 27 | — |
| France Top 100 Singles | 28 | — |
| Germany Singles Chart | 28 | — |
| Sweden Top 60 Singles | 43 | — |
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See also
| Mariah Carey |
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| Albums | Singles | Awards | |
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