Ain't No Other Man
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"Ain't No Other Man" is a song written by Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera
Christina María Aguilera is an American recording artist and actress. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994...

, Charles Roane, DJ Premier
DJ Premier
Christopher Edward Martin , better known by his stage name DJ Premier , is an American record producer and DJ, and was the instrumental half of the hip hop duo Gang Starr, together with emcee Guru...

, Harold Beatty, and Kara DioGuardi
Kara DioGuardi
Kara Elizabeth DioGuardi is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, music publisher, A&R executive, composer and TV personality. She writes music primarily in the light pop-rock, dance, and R&B genres. DioGuardi has worked with many popular artists; her songs have appeared on more than 159...

 for Aguilera's third studio album Back to Basics
Back to Basics (Christina Aguilera album)
Back to Basics is the third studio album by American recording artist Christina Aguilera, first released on August 10, 2006 by RCA Records...

 (2006). The song was released as the album's lead single
Lead single
A lead single is usually the first single released by a musician or a band before the release of its home album.During the era of the grammophone record, all music arrived in the marketplace as what is now termed a single, one potential hit song backed by an additional song of generally less...

 in June 2006 (see 2006 in music
2006 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2006.-January:*January 10 – Eric Burdon releases his album Soul of a Man and begins touring with a new band....

) and reached Top 10 in several countries; becoming the most successful single from Back to Bacics and most successful single of the year, as well as peaking at number 6 in the United States. The song is Aguilera's first top-ten since "Beautiful
Beautiful (Christina Aguilera song)
"Beautiful" is a song written by Linda Perry and recorded by American singer Christina Aguilera for Aguilera's fourth studio album, Stripped...

" (2002). Ain't No Other Man received general acclaim from critics and has been noted as one of Aguilera's strongest singles. The song won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance is the latest in a series of awards recognizing superior vocal performance by a female in the pop category, the first of which was presented in 1959. The award goes to the artist...

 at the 2007 ceremony.

Background

"Ain't No Other Man" is a funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 song written in the key of F♯ minor. It is written in common time
Common Time
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 and moves at a moderately fast tempo of 128 bpm. Most of the lines end in a sample of Dave Cortez & The Moon People's 1968 song "Happy Soul". The song also samples The Soul Seven's 1969 song "The Cissy's Thang". Aguilera's vocal range spans nearly two octave
Octave
In music, an octave is the interval between one musical pitch and another with half or double its frequency. The octave relationship is a natural phenomenon that has been referred to as the "basic miracle of music", the use of which is "common in most musical systems"...

s in the song, from G♯3 to F♯5.
The song was released to the iTunes Store
ITunes Store
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 on June 12, 2006.

At the MTV Movie Awards Christina said the following about the song:

Critical Reception

Bill Lamb from About.com gave the single a positive review saying "From the opening sax tones and vocal fanfare, we know we're in for a hot, funky ride. This is an invigorating, welcome return by Christina Aguilera. She has returned from some of the bewildering shifts in style of the album Stripped to a confident strut shamelessly showing off one of the most powerful set of pipes in the music business, and it's all in praise of her husband and life partner". Click-music gave the single a positive review saying "'Ain't No Other Man'. Based around a parping horn sample and filthy beats, it's Aguilera at her best - all vocal gymnastics, jazz-infused histrionics". Rolling Stone gave the single a positive review calling it a "zoot-suit riot of a song".

Chart performance

"Ain't No Other Man" debuted at number nineteen on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

 in the June 24, 2006, edition of Billboard Magazine
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

. It peaked at number six in its fourth week and dropped off the chart at number fifty-three, nineteen weeks after its debut. "Ain't No Other Man" is Aguilera's first Top 10 on Billboard Hot 100 since her 2002 single "Beautiful
Beautiful (Christina Aguilera song)
"Beautiful" is a song written by Linda Perry and recorded by American singer Christina Aguilera for Aguilera's fourth studio album, Stripped...

". The single had similar success in the mainstream market, reaching the top ten on the Top 40 Mainstream and Pop 100
Pop 100
The Pop 100 was a songs chart that debuted in February 2005 and was released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States until its discontinuation in 2009...

 charts. On the Billboard 2006 Hot 100 Year-End chart, "Ain't No Other Man" was ranked thirty-second. In February 2007, the Recording Industry Association of America
Recording Industry Association of America
The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States...

 certified "Ain't No Other Man" platinum for selling one million copies as a digital single. On the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

, the single debuted at number nineteen and reached number two the next week, just behind Shakira
Shakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll , known professionally as Shakira , is a Colombian singer who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s...

's "Hips Don't Lie
Hips Don't Lie
"Hips Don't Lie" is a Latin pop song based in a salsa and cumbia performed by Colombian singer Shakira and Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, released in 2006 as the second single from Shakira's second English album Oral Fixation Vol. 2...

" featuring Wyclef Jean
Wyclef Jean
Wyclef Jean is a Haitian musician, record producer, and politician. At age nine, Jean moved to the United States with his family and has spent much of his life in the country...

. It exited the chart in October 2006 with a one-week reappearance in January 2007. It was successful across Europe, reaching the top five in Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, Ireland
Ireland
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, Norway
Norway
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, and Switzerland
Switzerland
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 and the top fifteen in Austria
Austria
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, Belgium
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, the Netherlands
Netherlands
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, and Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

. In Canada the song was certified 2x Platinum for 20,000 digital downloads. "Ain't No Other Man" debuted at number six on the ARIA Singles Chart for two weeks and remained on the chart for sixteen weeks, with a one-week January 2007 re-appearance as it did in the UK. The single was listed at number thirty-four on the end of year chart, and the Australian Recording Industry Association
Australian Recording Industry Association
The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956...

 certified it gold.

Music video

In the song's music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

, Aguilera plays her alter ego
Alter ego
An alter ego is a second self, which is believe to be distinct from a person's normal or original personality. The term was coined in the early nineteenth century when dissociative identity disorder was first described by psychologists...

 Baby Jane. The video opens with Aguilera arriving to a club. Aguilera gets ready in the backstage area, and then comes up the stage performing along with the song. In between scenes, there are short vignettes that show Aguilera in gold and silver dresses, singing into a microphone, while photographers take pictures. The video opens and closes with clips from another Back to Basics song, entitled "I Got Trouble". The song is played as if it were on the radio with minor white noise.

The music video was directed by Bryan Barber
Bryan Barber
Bryan Barber is a music video and motion picture director. He has directed many music videos for popular artists.-Personal:Barber graduated from Sacramento, CA Hiram Johnson High School in 1988...

 and co-directed by Aguilera herself. Aguilera stated, "it intrigued me that this man, Bryan Barber, had been very locked into and had surrounded himself with this whole world of the '20s and '30s era," in response to Barber's film project, Idlewild
Idlewild (film)
Idlewild is an American musical film, released August 25, 2006, written and directed by Bryan Barber. The film stars André 3000 and Big Boi of the hip hop duo OutKast, and Idlewild features musical numbers written, produced, and chiefly performed by OutKast...

. Aguilera planned the original choreography, based on black-and-white films, and performed it in her living room for Barner and choreographer Jeri Slaughter. Aguilera's character is named after a nickname that rapper Nelly
Nelly
Cornell Iral Haynes, Jr. , better known by his stage name Nelly, is an Grammy Award winning American rapper and actor. He has performed with the rap group St. Lunatics since 1993 and signed to Universal Records in 1999. Under Universal, Nelly began his solo career in 2000 with his debut album...

 had given her, and her back-up dancers' characters were assigned by Slaughter. It was released exclusively to iTunes on June 20, 2006. It then premiered on MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

's Making the Video
Making the Video
Making the Video is an MTV show, consisting of half-hour episodes, which chronicles the process of filming various music videos. Usually the director outlines the concept of the video and the show often includes light-hearted and humorous moments. It always concludes with a premiere of the...

 on June 21.

Remixes

OutKast
OutKast
Outkast is an American hip hop duo based in East Point, Georgia, consisting of Atlanta native André "André 3000" Benjamin and Savannah, Georgia-born Antwan "Big Boi" Patton. They were originally known as Two Shades Deep but later changed the group's name to OutKast...

 member Big Boi
Big Boi
Antwan André Patton , better known by his stage name Big Boi, is an American rapper, song-writer, record producer and actor, best known for being a member of American hip hop duo OutKast alongside André 3000. His work in the duo has produced six studio albums. During the duo's hiatus, he and André...

 was originally to record a verse for the song's remix. Instead, a verse from rapper Chamillionaire
Chamillionaire
Hakeem Seriki , better known by his stage name Chamillionaire, is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Chamillitary Entertainment. Chamillionaire is also the founder and an original member of The Color Changin' Click...

 was used. About.com
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 gave the remixes a five-star rating.

Official remixes
  • "Ain't No Other Man" (Ospina & Sullivan Radio Mix) 3:44
  • "Ain't No Other Man" (Ospina & Sullivan Radio Mix - Vox Up) 3:44 - This is the version released on the main CD single.
  • "Ain't No Other Man" (Ospina & Sullivan Mixshow) 5:16
  • "Ain't No Other Man" (Ospina & Sullivan Club Mix) 7:11
  • "Ain't No Other Man" (Ospina & Sullivan Dub Mix) 5:38
  • "Ain't No Other Man" (Junior Vasquez Club Mix) 5:56
  • "Ain't No Other Man" (Junior Vasquez Radio Mix) 3:57
  • "Ain't No Other Man" (Jake Ridley remix) 6:00
  • "Ain't No Other Man" (Shapeshifters mixshow mix) 5:24
  • "Ain't No Other Man" (Official Remix) featuring Chamillionaire
    Chamillionaire
    Hakeem Seriki , better known by his stage name Chamillionaire, is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Chamillitary Entertainment. Chamillionaire is also the founder and an original member of The Color Changin' Click...

     4:13
  • "Ain't No Other Man" new remix sample featuring Lil' Jon 2:15

Unofficial remixes
  • "Luis Erre Tribe Babylon Mix" - 9.28
  • "DJ Paulinho Figueiredo Tribal Mix" - 9.20
  • "Amokk's Club Edit" - 3.39
  • "Amokk's Club Anthem - 7.04
  • "Axwell Sunrise Anthem - 7.24
  • "Dave Hansen Mix - 9.01

Track listings

American CD maxi single
  1. "Ain't No Other Man" – 3:48
  2. "Ain't No Other Man" (instrumental) – 3:57
  3. "Ain't No Other Man" (call out hook) – 0:10


European basic CD maxi single
  1. "Ain't No Other Man" - 3:48
  2. "Ain't No Other Man" (Radio Remix) - 3:36
  3. "Ain't No Other Man" (instrumental) – 3:47
  4. "Ain't No Other Man" (Video)

European premium CD maxi single
  1. "Ain't No Other Man" – 3:48
  2. "Ain't No Other Man" (Jake Ridley remix) – 6:01
  3. "Ain't No Other Man" (Ospina & Sullivan remix) – 3:45
  4. "Ain't No Other Man" (a cappella) – 3:30

Cover versions

  • The song was covered by the Swedish
    Sweden
    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

     singer Frida Sanden
    Frida Sandén
    Frida Sandén born 20 May 1994 is a Swedish singer who represented Sweden in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007 where she placed 8th. During 2008 and 2009 Frida has participated with a role in the musical Hujeda mej vá många sånger alongside her sister Mimmi Sandén and Hanna Hedlund amongst...

    .
  • The song was covered by singer Jordin Sparks
    Jordin Sparks
    Jordin Brianna Sparks is an American pop / R&B singer-songwriter and actress. She hails from Glendale, Arizona who rose to fame as the winner of the sixth season of American Idol. Sparks won when she was 17 years old, making her the youngest winner in Idol history...

     on tour Jesse & Jordin LIVE Tour
    Jesse & Jordin LIVE Tour
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    .
  • The song was covered by Portuguese
    Portugal
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     singer Carolina Deslandes on 4th season of Idolos
    Ídolos
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  • Raquel Castro
    Raquel Castro
    Raquel Castro is an American teen actress and singer. She is best known for her role in the 2004 film Jersey Girl as Gertie Trinké, the daughter of Ollie Trinké and Gertrude Steiney , the role for which Castro won the Young Artist Award for the Best Performance in a Feature Film - Young Actress...

    , a member of Aguilera's team on The Voice
    The Voice (U.S. TV series)
    The Voice is an American reality talent show that premiered on April 26, 2011 on the NBC television network. Based on the reality singing competition The Voice of Holland, the series was created by Dutch television producer John de Mol. It is part of an international series...

    , recorded a cover version of the song and posted it on YouTube
  • The song was covered by Stereo Hoggz on The X-Factor USA.

Charts

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Chart (2006) Peak
position


Year-end charts

Chart (2006) Rank
Australia 34
Austria 53
Netherlands 66
Switzerland 26
UK 33

Certifications

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Year-end charts

Country Position
Australia 34
Austria 53
Germany 53
Switzerland 26
Billboard Hot 100 Year-End Chart 32
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