And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
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"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" (also known in short as just "And I Am Telling You") is a torch song
from the Broadway musical Dreamgirls
, with lyrics by Tom Eyen
and music by Henry Krieger
. In the context of the musical, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" is sung by the character Effie White, a singer with the girl group
The Dreams, to her manager, Curtis Taylor Jr., whose romantic and professional relationship with Effie is quickly ending. The lyrics to "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going", often considered the show's signature tune, describe Effie's love for Curtis, both strongly devoted and defiant. She refuses to let Curtis leave her behind, and boldly proclaims to him, "I'm staying and you ... you're gonna love me."
In addition to its presence in the musical, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" is also notable as the debut single of two women who portrayed Effie. Jennifer Holliday
originated the role on Broadway in 1981 and won a Tony Award
for her performance. In 1982, Holliday recorded a number-one R&B hit version of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going". Jennifer Hudson
portrayed Effie in the 2006 film adaptation of Dreamgirls
, winning an Oscar
for the role. Hudson's version became a Top 20 R&B single, and a number-one dance hit.
production, released the song as a single. It was her first single release and it met with great success, topping the Billboard
R&B charts and attaining top forty positions on both the Billboard Hot 100
and the UK Singles Chart
. In 1983, Holliday won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female
for the single.
"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" was designed as the closing number of Dreamgirls first act. Holliday's performance of the song, in a style owing much to gospel music
singing traditions, was regularly staged to thunderous applause; it was hailed as the highlight of the show in several printed reviews of the musical. In his review of Dreamgirls' opening night performance, New York Times theatre critic Frank Rich
referred to Holliday's "And I Am Telling You" as "one of the most powerful theatrical coups to be found in a Broadway musical since Ethel Merman
sang "Everything's Coming Up Roses
" at the end of Act I of Gypsy
" "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" remains Holliday's signature song.
chart, peaking at number six. In 2007, it reappeared on the same chart, with additional, promotional-only remixes by Jody Den Broeder, and reached number 10 (this time credited to Jennifer Holliday with Rosabel). Coincidentally, the 2007 remix was climbing the U.S. dance chart at the same time as Jennifer Hudson's cover version with both songs appearing in the top ten simultaneously in February 2007.
Remixes:
contestant Jennifer Hudson
, who portrayed Effie White in the DreamWorks
/Paramount
motion picture adaptation of Dreamgirls
. Her recording of the song, the Dreamgirls film soundtrack's second single, peaked at number 60 on the Billboard Hot 100
chart, and number 14 on the R&B chart. Hudson won the 2006 Academy Award
for Best Supporting Actress
for her performance in Dreamgirls; she thanked Holliday in her acceptance speech. The song can be heard on her debut album Jennifer Hudson
(2008).
Hudson's version has been well-acclaimed, receiving outstanding reviews from multiple movie and music critics, which have highlighted her strength as both a vocalist and an actress. New York Observer
described Hudson's performance as "five mellifluous, molto vibrato minutes...." Newsweek
said that when moviegoers hear Hudson sing the song, she "is going to raise goose bumps across the land." Variety
wrote that Hudson's performance "calls to mind debuts like Barbra Streisand
in Funny Girl
or Bette Midler
in The Rose
, with a voice like the young Aretha
."
On June 26, 2007, the 7th Annual BET Awards
opened with Jennifer Holliday and Jennifer Hudson performing "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" live in their first duet together.
Although it in essence it is Hudson's first single release, it became her fourth top 75 hit in the United Kingdom after a performance on 2009's the X Factor
, sung by Danyl Johnson.
, and appears as a bonus track on the "Deluxe Edition" of the Dreamgirls soundtrack album. This version of Hudson's "And I Am Telling You" was a chart success, reaching the top of Billboard
's Hot Dance Club Play
songs chart in early 2007. A shortened edit of the full remix appeared on a Columbia Records
promotional-only CD accompanying the Jones & Kupper remix of another Dreamgirls song, the Beyoncé Knowles
/Anika Noni Rose
/Sharon Leal
/Tiffany Hudson rendition of "One Night Only"
. Also included were the Freemasons
remixes of Beyoncé's singles "Déjà Vu" and "Ring the Alarm
".
won the 1989 Asia-Pacific Singing Contest held in Hongkong with "You'll Never Walk Alone" from Carousel and "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from Dreamgirls.
Siobhan Fallon Hogan performed a snippet of the song as part of the 1992 Saturday Night Live
sketch, Chris Rock's White Person's Guide To Surviving The Apollo, to raucous applause from the "audience". Her character's original choice of "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
" merely got her booed at and pelted with various items.
Will Smith
lip-synched to Jennifer Holiday's version of "And I Am Telling You" in a 1995 episode of the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
. Jennifer Hudson says this was where she discovered the song.
In 1994, Donna Giles scored a minor club hit in the US and UK with her rendition of the song. The track remained a sleeper club hit in the UK throughout 1995, prompting a spate of re-releases and remixes, including Stonebridge
, culminating in a major release on Ore Records in 1996. This last release would finally take the track to number 27 on the UK Singles Chart
in February of that year. On November 20, 2007, the original master, Produced by critically acclaimed Eve Nelson, was released digitally by Breaking Records and is available on all major download sites.
Whitney Houston
performed this song at the 1994 American Music Awards
and as part of a medley during her Bodyguard World Tour.
On an episode of Martin
, Gina (Tisha Campbell-Martin
) performs "And I'm Telling You" on Martin's show Word on the Street. She and Pam (who sings the song "Home" from The Wiz
) are trying to win a chance to sing back up for The Notorious B.I.G.
, and nearly come to blows onstage while outsinging each other for the part. Ultimately, Biggie announces on television that Sheneneh has won the part, who then proceeds to exclaim her excitement, and then sings "And I'm Telling You", much to Gina's and Pam's disgust.
Jim Carrey
performed a version of the song in the final episode of The Larry Sanders Show
in 1998.
Comedienne Judy Gold
performed a conspicuously lip-synched version of the song as part of a closing gag for her 2000 standup comedy performance for Comedy Central Presents
. The song was played as if she were being "played off stage" as is done in awards shows, but she lip synched it and emphasized the lyrics that echoed her refusal to leave the stage.
In the 2001 comedy film Down to Earth
, Phil Quon, played by John Cho
, performed it at the Apollo Theater
on its closing night.
In a 2002 episode of Six Feet Under, the main character Nate (Peter Krause
) performs the song in a fantasy sequence, reflecting thoughts of his own mortality.
In 2002, American Idol
contestant Tamyra Gray
performed this song during the Top 30 and in an International H&M Commercial in 2005. Also, in 2007, contestant LaKisha Jones
performed this song during a Top 24 performance just days prior to Hudson's Academy Award bestowment. She received considerable praise for her performance, with judges Randy Jackson
and Simon Cowell
stating that her performance and musical talent was out of the league of fellow competitors that were on the program. Cowell's praise went so far as to practically predict her the winner of the season.
American Idol 7 runner up and Star Search
winner, David Archuleta
sang this song to the finalists of season one of American Idol. He was 11 years old at the time and got praise from Kelly Clarkson.
Also in 2002, Bonnie Tyler
recorded this on her album Heart Strings
.
In the 2003 musical drama Camp
, the character of Ellen Lucas (played by Joanna Chilcoat) sings a powerful (if visually comic) version of this song that unfortunately did not make it on the soundtrack.
In 2003, Darius McCrary
performs the song throughout much of a fourth season episode of the UPN
/CW
sitcom Girlfriends
(entitled "You Ain't Gotta Go Home but...You Know the Rest"). McCrary portrays Toni's (Jill Marie Jones
) brother Antoine, who has fallen in love with Maya (Golden Brooks
). Antoine locks himself in Maya's bathroom and continuously belts out the song after she rejects his request for a long-term commitment after a weekend together.
In 2004, Star Search
winner Tiffany Evans
recorded the song for her debut.
Rowetta
performs a dance version of the song on her self-titled 2005 debut album.
On the 2006 TV contest America's Got Talent
, eventual winner Bianca Ryan
sang this song as her audition performance. The song is also on Ryan's debut album
.
Southern hip hop group Da BackWudz
sampled Holliday's version for their hit song "You Gonna Luv Me". Their song uses the famous "You're gonna love me" lyric as a repeated loop through the song, which the duo raps over.
Jake Gyllenhaal
performed it on Saturday Night Live
shortly after the film's release in a mock performance of Jennifer Hudson. He wore a wig, black heels, and a black sequin dress. Three of the regulars on SNL were his "backup singers", also dressed in a black dress, heels, and wigs.
Jasmine Trias
performs the song at the Flamingo Hotel as the first American Idol
finalist to hold residency on the Las Vegas Strip
in 2007. Trias states that she was intimidated to take on the song after hearing Jennifer Hudson's version.
On December 19, 2007, 14 year old Filipino Charice Pempengco
performed the song on The Ellen DeGeneres Show
. She had also sang it earlier in the year in the Korean show Star King. In 2008, she flew to London, UK, she was given a standing ovation from the audience after performing the same song on Paul O'Grady
Show. This was her first performance and appearance on the show.
On Saturday 22 November 2008, X Factor
contestant Rachel Hylton performed the song in what was to be her final performance of the show, receiving a standing ovation and praise for her version of the song.
Nick Mitchell performed this song as Norman Gentle during the Season 8
semi-finals of American Idol
.
Kyla
performed this song at the TV program Sis
and made impressive reviews from David Archuleta
.
Shaheen Jafargholi
performed this song at the semi-finals of Britain's Got Talent
2009.
Danyl Johnson also performed this song at the first live final of X Factor 2009
, the song also proved a popular choice for several auditonees in the same season.
On the television show Glee
, the character Mercedes
(played by Amber Riley
) performs this song to the Glee Club before the Sectionals
competition.
Cleveland Brown
sings a part of the song in the Season 2 premiere episode of the sitcom The Cleveland Show
.
The song is referenced in the song "Forever" from Shrek the Musical.
Jack Vidgen
, the winner of Australia's Got Talent
2011, performed this song in the semi final to judges' applause and critical claim.
Rosabel with Jennifer Holliday version
Jennifer Hudson version
Torch song
A torch song is a sentimental love song, typically one in which the singer laments an unrequited or lost love, either where one party is oblivious to the existence of the other, where one party has moved on, or where a romantic affair has affected the relationship...
from the Broadway musical Dreamgirls
Dreamgirls
Dreamgirls is a Broadway musical, with music by Henry Krieger and lyrics and book by Tom Eyen. Based upon the show business aspirations and successes of R&B acts such as The Supremes, The Shirelles, James Brown, Jackie Wilson, and others, the musical follows the story of a young female singing trio...
, with lyrics by Tom Eyen
Tom Eyen
Tom Eyen was an American playwright, lyricist, television writer and theatre director.Eyen is best known for works at opposite ends of the theatrical spectrum...
and music by Henry Krieger
Henry Krieger
Henry Krieger is an American composer.Krieger wrote the music for the Broadway shows Dreamgirls , The Tap Dance Kid , and Side Show , as well as other works of musical theatre.He was nominated for the Tony Awards for Best Score for both Dreamgirls and Side Show, won a Grammy...
. In the context of the musical, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" is sung by the character Effie White, a singer with the girl group
Girl group
A girl group is a popular music act featuring several young female singers who generally harmonise together.Girl groups emerged in the late 1950s as groups of young singers teamed up with behind-the-scenes songwriters and music producers to create hit singles, often featuring glossy production...
The Dreams, to her manager, Curtis Taylor Jr., whose romantic and professional relationship with Effie is quickly ending. The lyrics to "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going", often considered the show's signature tune, describe Effie's love for Curtis, both strongly devoted and defiant. She refuses to let Curtis leave her behind, and boldly proclaims to him, "I'm staying and you ... you're gonna love me."
In addition to its presence in the musical, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" is also notable as the debut single of two women who portrayed Effie. Jennifer Holliday
Jennifer Holliday
Jennifer-Yvette Holliday is an African-American singer and Tony Award-winning actress. She started her career on Broadway in musicals such as Dreamgirls, and later became a successful recording artist...
originated the role on Broadway in 1981 and won a Tony Award
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
for her performance. In 1982, Holliday recorded a number-one R&B hit version of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going". Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Kate Hudson is an American recording artist, actress and spokesperson. She came to prominence in 2004 as one of the finalists on the third season of American Idol coming in seventh place...
portrayed Effie in the 2006 film adaptation of Dreamgirls
Dreamgirls (film)
Dreamgirls is a 2006 musical drama film, directed by Bill Condon and jointly produced and released by DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures. The film debuted in three special road show engagements beginning December 15, 2006 before its nationwide release on December 25, 2006...
, winning an Oscar
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...
for the role. Hudson's version became a Top 20 R&B single, and a number-one dance hit.
Jennifer Holliday version
In 1982, Jennifer Holliday, the actress who portrayed Effie in the original BroadwayBroadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
production, released the song as a single. It was her first single release and it met with great success, topping the Billboard
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...
R&B charts and attaining top forty positions on both 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...
and 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 ...
. In 1983, Holliday won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female
Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to female recording artists for quality R&B songs...
for the single.
"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" was designed as the closing number of Dreamgirls first act. Holliday's performance of the song, in a style owing much to gospel music
Gospel music
Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
singing traditions, was regularly staged to thunderous applause; it was hailed as the highlight of the show in several printed reviews of the musical. In his review of Dreamgirls' opening night performance, New York Times theatre critic Frank Rich
Frank Rich
Frank Rich is an American essayist and op-ed columnist who wrote for The New York Times from 1980, when he was appointed its chief theatre critic, until 2011...
referred to Holliday's "And I Am Telling You" as "one of the most powerful theatrical coups to be found in a Broadway musical since Ethel Merman
Ethel Merman
Ethel Merman was an American actress and singer. Known primarily for her powerful voice and roles in musical theatre, she has been called "the undisputed First Lady of the musical comedy stage." Among the many standards introduced by Merman in Broadway musicals are "I Got Rhythm", "Everything's...
sang "Everything's Coming Up Roses
Everything's Coming up Roses
"Everything's Coming Up Roses" is a song from the 1959 Broadway musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable, with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and music by Jule Styne in which it was introduced by Ethel Merman....
" at the end of Act I of Gypsy
Gypsy: A Musical Fable
Gypsy is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Gypsy is loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the famous striptease artist, and focuses on her mother, Rose, whose name has become synonymous with "the ultimate show business...
" "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" remains Holliday's signature song.
Rosabel remix
In 2001, Rosabel remixed the song and released their version (credited as Rosabel with Jennifer Holliday) as a single. It performed well on Billboard's Hot Dance Club PlayHot Dance Club Play
The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...
chart, peaking at number six. In 2007, it reappeared on the same chart, with additional, promotional-only remixes by Jody Den Broeder, and reached number 10 (this time credited to Jennifer Holliday with Rosabel). Coincidentally, the 2007 remix was climbing the U.S. dance chart at the same time as Jennifer Hudson's cover version with both songs appearing in the top ten simultaneously in February 2007.
Remixes:
- Rosabel Anthem Mix - 09:43
- Rosabel Attitude Mix - 10:27
- Rosabel Invasion Dub - 07:16
- Ralphi's Classic House Mix - 07:18
- Ralphi's Funky Underground Vox - 07:24
- Ralphi's Hard House Dub - 07:32
- Junior Vasquez Earth Club Anthem - 09:23
- Tranceuro Express Club Mix - 06:03
Jennifer Hudson version
"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" was recorded in 2006 by former American IdolAmerican Idol
American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
contestant Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Kate Hudson is an American recording artist, actress and spokesperson. She came to prominence in 2004 as one of the finalists on the third season of American Idol coming in seventh place...
, who portrayed Effie White in the DreamWorks
DreamWorks
DreamWorks Pictures, also known as DreamWorks, LLC, DreamWorks SKG, DreamWorks II Distribution Co., LLC, DreamWorks Studios or DW Studios, LLC, is an American film studio which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games and television programming...
/Paramount
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...
motion picture adaptation of Dreamgirls
Dreamgirls (film)
Dreamgirls is a 2006 musical drama film, directed by Bill Condon and jointly produced and released by DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures. The film debuted in three special road show engagements beginning December 15, 2006 before its nationwide release on December 25, 2006...
. Her recording of the song, the Dreamgirls film soundtrack's second single, peaked at number 60 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...
chart, and number 14 on the R&B chart. Hudson won the 2006 Academy Award
79th Academy Awards
The 79th Academy Awards ceremony , honored the best films of 2006 and took place on February 25, 2007 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on ABC. Ellen DeGeneres hosted the ceremony for the first time. The producer was Laura Ziskin. The announcers were Don LaFontaine and Gina Tuttle.The nominees were...
for Best Supporting Actress
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...
for her performance in Dreamgirls; she thanked Holliday in her acceptance speech. The song can be heard on her debut album Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Hudson (album)
Upon its release, Jennifer Hudson received mixed reviews from music critics. Sarah Rodman of The Boston Globe said that, "Despite its flaws, Hudson's debut comes on much like her Dreamgirls character, with admirable self-assurance and real-girl sensuality." Chris Willman of Entertainment Weekly...
(2008).
Hudson's version has been well-acclaimed, receiving outstanding reviews from multiple movie and music critics, which have highlighted her strength as both a vocalist and an actress. New York Observer
New York Observer
The New York Observer is a weekly newspaper first published in New York City on September 22, 1987, by Arthur L. Carter, a very successful former investment banker with publishing interests. The Observer focuses on the city's culture, real estate, the media, politics and the entertainment and...
described Hudson's performance as "five mellifluous, molto vibrato minutes...." Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
said that when moviegoers hear Hudson sing the song, she "is going to raise goose bumps across the land." Variety
Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...
wrote that Hudson's performance "calls to mind debuts like Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy,...
in Funny Girl
Funny Girl (film)
Funny Girl is a 1968 romantic musical film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Isobel Lennart was adapted from her book for the stage musical of the same title...
or Bette Midler
Bette Midler
Bette Midler is an American singer, actress, and comedian, also known by her informal stage name, The Divine Miss M. She became famous as a cabaret and concert headliner, and went on to star in successful and acclaimed films such as The Rose, Ruthless People, Beaches, and For The Boys...
in The Rose
The Rose (film)
The Rose is a 1979 American musical drama film which tells the story of a self-destructive 1960s rock star who struggles to cope with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager...
, with a voice like the young Aretha
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...
."
On June 26, 2007, the 7th Annual BET Awards
BET Awards
The BET Awards were established in 2001 by the Black Entertainment Television network to celebrate African Americans and other minorities in music, acting, sports, and other fields of entertainment over the past year. The awards are presented annually and broadcast live on BET...
opened with Jennifer Holliday and Jennifer Hudson performing "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" live in their first duet together.
Although it in essence it is Hudson's first single release, it became her fourth top 75 hit in the United Kingdom after a performance on 2009's the X Factor
The X Factor (UK series 6)
The sixth series of British television music competition The X Factor started on ITV on 22 August 2009 and was won by Joe McElderry on 13 December 2009. Cheryl Cole emerged as the winning mentor for the second consecutive year, the first time in the show's history that a mentor has won back-to-back...
, sung by Danyl Johnson.
Dance remix
A club remix was created for this single, engineered by Richie Jones and Eric KupperEric Kupper
Eric Kupper is an American keyboardist, arranger, songwriter, remix artist, DJ and record producer of French descent. Playing in bands in his formative years, he got his real start in the mid-1980s working as a keyboardist, guitarist, and songwriter for such producer/remixers as David Morales,...
, and appears as a bonus track on the "Deluxe Edition" of the Dreamgirls soundtrack album. This version of Hudson's "And I Am Telling You" was a chart success, reaching the top of Billboard
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...
's Hot Dance Club Play
Hot Dance Club Play
The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...
songs chart in early 2007. A shortened edit of the full remix appeared on a Columbia Records
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
promotional-only CD accompanying the Jones & Kupper remix of another Dreamgirls song, the Beyoncé Knowles
Beyoncé Knowles
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles , often known simply as Beyoncé, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child...
/Anika Noni Rose
Anika Noni Rose
Anika Noni Rose is an American singer and actress known for her Tony Award winning performance in the Broadway production of Caroline, or Change and her starring roles in the films Dreamgirls and The Princess and the Frog....
/Sharon Leal
Sharon Leal
Sharon Leal is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles in movies such as Dreamgirls, Why Did I Get Married?, Why Did I Get Married Too? and the televisions series Hellcats.-Personal life:...
/Tiffany Hudson rendition of "One Night Only"
One Night Only (song)
"One Night Only" is a song from the 1981 Broadway musical Dreamgirls, with lyrics by Tom Eyen and music by Henry Krieger. In the context of the musical, "One Night Only" is performed twice in succession, as differing versions of the song - a soul ballad by the character Effie White and a disco...
. Also included were the Freemasons
Freemasons (band)
Freemasons are an English dance band from Brighton, East Sussex, England. The act consists of producers Russell Small and James Wiltshire .-2005-2007: Early Career:Their name is taken from the Brighton pub, Freemasons Tavern, Hove, which they frequently...
remixes of Beyoncé's singles "Déjà Vu" and "Ring the Alarm
Ring the Alarm
"Ring the Alarm" is a song recorded by American R&B singer Beyoncé Knowles for her second studio album, B'Day . It was composed by Knowles, Kasseem "Swizz Beatz" Dean, and Sean Garrett...
".
Other performances
Regine VelasquezRegine Velasquez
Regina Encarnacion Ansong Velasquez , better known as Asia's Songbird, Regine Velasquez, is a Filipino singer, actress, record producer and TV host...
won the 1989 Asia-Pacific Singing Contest held in Hongkong with "You'll Never Walk Alone" from Carousel and "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from Dreamgirls.
Siobhan Fallon Hogan performed a snippet of the song as part of the 1992 Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...
sketch, Chris Rock's White Person's Guide To Surviving The Apollo, to raucous applause from the "audience". Her character's original choice of "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
"Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" is a popular country-pop music song by Crystal Gayle , younger sister of Loretta Lynn. The song was written by Richard Leigh and first appeared on Gayle's 1977 album, We Must Believe in Magic....
" merely got her booed at and pelted with various items.
Will Smith
Will Smith
Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. , also known by his stage name The Fresh Prince, is an American actor, producer, and rapper. He has enjoyed success in television, film and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him the most powerful actor in Hollywood...
lip-synched to Jennifer Holiday's version of "And I Am Telling You" in a 1995 episode of the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 10, 1990 to May 20, 1996. The show stars Will Smith as a fictionalized version of himself, a street-smart teenager from West Philadelphia who is sent to move in with his aunt and uncle in their...
. Jennifer Hudson says this was where she discovered the song.
In 1994, Donna Giles scored a minor club hit in the US and UK with her rendition of the song. The track remained a sleeper club hit in the UK throughout 1995, prompting a spate of re-releases and remixes, including Stonebridge
Stonebridge (DJ)
StoneBridge is the pseudonym for the Swedish DJ and record producer, Sten Hallström.-History:StoneBridge won international renown with the remix of the 1993 hit "Show Me Love" with Robin S. Until then, he had been running the Swedish DJ/remix outfit Swemix, formed at the end of the 1980s...
, culminating in a major release on Ore Records in 1996. This last release would finally take the track to number 27 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 ...
in February of that year. On November 20, 2007, the original master, Produced by critically acclaimed Eve Nelson, was released digitally by Breaking Records and is available on all major download sites.
Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston
Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an American singer, actress, producer and a former model. Houston is the most awarded female act of all time, according to Guinness World Records, and her list of awards include 1 Emmy Award, 6 Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards, among...
performed this song at the 1994 American Music Awards
American Music Awards
-Conception:The AMAs were created by Dick Clark in 1973 to compete with the Grammys after the move of that year's show to Nashville, Tennessee led to CBS picking up the Grammy telecasts after its first two in 1971 and 1972 were broadcast on ABC...
and as part of a medley during her Bodyguard World Tour.
On an episode of Martin
Martin (TV series)
Martin is an American sitcom produced by HBO Independent Productions that aired for five seasons, from August 27, 1992 to May 1, 1997 on Fox...
, Gina (Tisha Campbell-Martin
Tisha Campbell-Martin
Tisha Michelle Campbell-Martin is an American actress and singer, known for her starring roles in television series Martin and My Wife and Kids and now is starring in the new television series The Protector...
) performs "And I'm Telling You" on Martin's show Word on the Street. She and Pam (who sings the song "Home" from The Wiz
The Wiz
The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls and book by William F. Brown. It is a retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the context of African American culture. It opened on October 21, 1974 at the Morris A...
) are trying to win a chance to sing back up for The Notorious B.I.G.
The Notorious B.I.G.
Christopher George Latore Wallace , best known as The Notorious B.I.G., was an American rapper. He was also known as Biggie Smalls , Big Poppa, and The Black Frank White .Wallace was raised in the Brooklyn borough...
, and nearly come to blows onstage while outsinging each other for the part. Ultimately, Biggie announces on television that Sheneneh has won the part, who then proceeds to exclaim her excitement, and then sings "And I'm Telling You", much to Gina's and Pam's disgust.
Jim Carrey
Jim Carrey
James Eugene "Jim" Carrey is a Canadian-American actor and comedian. He has received two Golden Globe Awards and has also been nominated on four occasions. Carrey began comedy in 1979, performing at Yuk Yuk's in Toronto, Ontario...
performed a version of the song in the final episode of The Larry Sanders Show
The Larry Sanders Show
The Larry Sanders Show is a satirical television sitcom that aired from August 1992 to May 1998 on the HBO cable television network in the United States. It starred stand-up comedian Garry Shandling as vain, neurotic talk show host Larry Sanders, and centered on the running of his TV show, and the...
in 1998.
Comedienne Judy Gold
Judy Gold
Judy Gold is an American stand-up comic and actor. She won two Daytime Emmy Awards for her work as a writer and producer on The Rosie O'Donnell Show...
performed a conspicuously lip-synched version of the song as part of a closing gag for her 2000 standup comedy performance for Comedy Central Presents
Comedy Central Presents
Comedy Central Presents is a half-hour long stand-up show that features various stand-up comedians in each episode.-DVDs:Starting in 2008, Comedy Central started releasing "Best of" compilation DVDs, with uncensored audio...
. The song was played as if she were being "played off stage" as is done in awards shows, but she lip synched it and emphasized the lyrics that echoed her refusal to leave the stage.
In the 2001 comedy film Down to Earth
Down to Earth (2001 film)
Down to Earth is a 2001 comedy film directed by Chris and Paul Weitz. It is the third film adaptation based on Harry Segall's stageplay Heaven Can Wait, preceded by Here Comes Mr. Jordan and Heaven Can Wait . The film stars Chris Rock as Lance Barton, a comedian who is killed before his time on...
, Phil Quon, played by John Cho
John Cho
John Yohan Cho is an American actor and musician, best known for his roles in the American Pie films and the Harold & Kumar films . He also starred in the critically acclaimed hit film Better Luck Tomorrow...
, performed it at the Apollo Theater
Apollo Theater
The Apollo Theater in New York City is one of the most famous, and older, music halls in the United States, and the most famous club associated almost exclusively with Black performers...
on its closing night.
In a 2002 episode of Six Feet Under, the main character Nate (Peter Krause
Peter Krause
Peter William Krause is an American film and television actor and film producer. He is perhaps best known for his lead roles as Nate Fisher on Six Feet Under, Adam Braverman on Parenthood, and Casey McCall on Sports Night...
) performs the song in a fantasy sequence, reflecting thoughts of his own mortality.
In 2002, American Idol
American Idol
American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
contestant Tamyra Gray
Tamyra Gray
Tamyra Monica Gray is an American actress, singer and songwriter, who finished fourth place on the first season of the musical reality competition American Idol in 2002. Record and television executive Simon Cowell — who judged the show for nine seasons — was disappointed when she was voted off...
performed this song during the Top 30 and in an International H&M Commercial in 2005. Also, in 2007, contestant LaKisha Jones
LaKisha Jones
LaKisha Ann Jones is an American singer. She placed fourth on the sixth season of American Idol.-Personal life:Jones was born at Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan, to a teacher at the Flint Foundation Academy...
performed this song during a Top 24 performance just days prior to Hudson's Academy Award bestowment. She received considerable praise for her performance, with judges Randy Jackson
Randy Jackson
Randall Darius "Randy" Jackson is an American bassist, singer, record producer, music manager, A&R executive, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is best known as a judge on American Idol and executive producer for MTV's America's Best Dance Crew...
and Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell
Simon Phillip Cowell is an English A&R executive, television producer, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is known in the United Kingdom and United States for his role as a talent judge on TV shows such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and American Idol...
stating that her performance and musical talent was out of the league of fellow competitors that were on the program. Cowell's praise went so far as to practically predict her the winner of the season.
American Idol 7 runner up and Star Search
Star Search
Star Search is a television show that was produced from 1983-95, hosted by Ed McMahon, and created by Alfred Masini. A relaunch was produced in 2003-04. The show was originally filmed at the old Earl Carroll Theatre at 6230 Sunset Blvd...
winner, David Archuleta
David Archuleta
David Archuleta, is a former United States Air Force Airman of Okinawan stationary troops and is currently an American male kickboxer.-Biography:...
sang this song to the finalists of season one of American Idol. He was 11 years old at the time and got praise from Kelly Clarkson.
Also in 2002, Bonnie Tyler
Bonnie Tyler
Bonnie Tyler is a Welsh singer, most notable for her hits in the 1970s and 1980s including "It's a Heartache", "Holding Out for a Hero" and "Total Eclipse of the Heart".-Early life:...
recorded this on her album Heart Strings
Heart Strings (Bonnie Tyler album)
-Charts:-Personnel:*Keyboards - David Aspden*Producers - David Aspden, Matt Prior*Engineers - David Aspden, Helen Atkinson, Alan Darby, Jan Holzner, Richard "Dread" Mann, Morten Munch, Michael Wolff*Assistant Engineer - Philip Rose...
.
In the 2003 musical drama Camp
Camp (film)
Camp is a 2003 American independent musical film written and directed by Todd Graff, about an upstate New York performing arts summer camp. The film is based on Graff's own experiences at a similar camp called Stagedoor Manor. The film was released in 2003 by IFC Films.-Plot:The film centers on the...
, the character of Ellen Lucas (played by Joanna Chilcoat) sings a powerful (if visually comic) version of this song that unfortunately did not make it on the soundtrack.
In 2003, Darius McCrary
Darius McCrary
Darius Creston McCrary is an American film and television actor and singer. He is perhaps best known for his role as Eddie Winslow on the ABC/CBS television sitcom Family Matters...
performs the song throughout much of a fourth season episode of the UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
/CW
The CW Television Network
The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB...
sitcom Girlfriends
Girlfriends
Girlfriends is an American comedy-drama sitcom that premiered on September 11, 2000, on UPN and aired on UPN's successor network, The CW, before being cancelled in 2008...
(entitled "You Ain't Gotta Go Home but...You Know the Rest"). McCrary portrays Toni's (Jill Marie Jones
Jill Marie Jones
Jill Marie Jones is an African-American actress. She is best known for her role as realtor Toni Childs on the UPN/CW sitcom Girlfriends.-Biography:...
) brother Antoine, who has fallen in love with Maya (Golden Brooks
Golden Brooks
Golden Ameda Brooks is an American actress. She is best known for her nine-year role as Maya Wilkes on the UPN/CW comedy Girlfriends.-Biography:...
). Antoine locks himself in Maya's bathroom and continuously belts out the song after she rejects his request for a long-term commitment after a weekend together.
In 2004, Star Search
Star Search
Star Search is a television show that was produced from 1983-95, hosted by Ed McMahon, and created by Alfred Masini. A relaunch was produced in 2003-04. The show was originally filmed at the old Earl Carroll Theatre at 6230 Sunset Blvd...
winner Tiffany Evans
Tiffany Evans
Tiffany Evans is an American singer and occasional actress.-2003–2006: The Beginning:Evans was born in Bronx, New York and is the seventh of 10 children born to Carol and Lonnie Evans. Before she achieved success, she and her family were living in their van for years. She got her first break on...
recorded the song for her debut.
Rowetta
Rowetta
Rowetta Idah , also known as Rowetta or Rowetta Satchell, is an English singer. She was originally a backing vocalist for the Happy Mondays, recording and touring with the band from 1991-2000...
performs a dance version of the song on her self-titled 2005 debut album.
On the 2006 TV contest America's Got Talent
America's Got Talent
America's Got Talent is an American reality television series on the NBC television network, and part of the global British Got Talent franchise. It is a talent show that features singers, dancers, magicians, comedians, and other performers of all ages competing for the advertised top prize of...
, eventual winner Bianca Ryan
Bianca Ryan
Bianca Taylor Ryan is an American singer and guitarist, who won the debut season of NBC's America's Got Talent at age 11....
sang this song as her audition performance. The song is also on Ryan's debut album
Bianca Ryan (album)
Bianca Ryan is the debut album from America's Got Talent Season 1 winner Bianca Ryan.The album features cover versions of "The Rose" and "I Believe I Can Fly" and original songs like "I Wish That" and "Pray for a Better Day"...
.
Southern hip hop group Da BackWudz
Da BackWudz
Da BackWudz is a rap duo from Decatur, Georgia consisting of Marcus "Big Marc" Thomas and James "Sho Nuff" Redding.-Early Career:...
sampled Holliday's version for their hit song "You Gonna Luv Me". Their song uses the famous "You're gonna love me" lyric as a repeated loop through the song, which the duo raps over.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal
Jacob Benjamin "Jake" Gyllenhaal is an American actor. The son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, Gyllenhaal began acting at age ten...
performed it on Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...
shortly after the film's release in a mock performance of Jennifer Hudson. He wore a wig, black heels, and a black sequin dress. Three of the regulars on SNL were his "backup singers", also dressed in a black dress, heels, and wigs.
Jasmine Trias
Jasmine Trias
Jasmine Trias is an American singer-entertainer who was the third place finalist on the third season of American Idol, due in part to tremendous call-in support from California, New York, and her native state of Hawaii. She has released one album to date, Jasmine Trias...
performs the song at the Flamingo Hotel as the first American Idol
American Idol
American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
finalist to hold residency on the Las Vegas Strip
Las Vegas Strip
The Las Vegas Strip is an approximately stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada; adjacent to, but outside the city limits of Las Vegas proper. The Strip lies within the unincorporated townships of Paradise and Winchester...
in 2007. Trias states that she was intimidated to take on the song after hearing Jennifer Hudson's version.
On December 19, 2007, 14 year old Filipino Charice Pempengco
Charice Pempengco
Charmaine Clarice Relucio Pempengco , popularly known by the mononym Charice, is a Filipino recording artist and actress who rose to popularity through YouTube. Dubbed by Oprah Winfrey as the Most Talented Girl in the World, she released her first international studio album Charice in 2010...
performed the song on The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres. Debuting on September 8, 2003, it is produced by Telepictures and airs in syndication, including stations owned by NBC Universal. For its first five seasons, the show...
. She had also sang it earlier in the year in the Korean show Star King. In 2008, she flew to London, UK, she was given a standing ovation from the audience after performing the same song on Paul O'Grady
Paul O'Grady
Paul James Michael O'Grady MBE is an English comedian, television presenter, actor, writer and radio DJ. He is best known for presenting the daytime chat television series, The Paul O'Grady Show and, more recently, Paul O'Grady Live, as well as his drag queen comedic alter ego, Lily Savage, as...
Show. This was her first performance and appearance on the show.
On Saturday 22 November 2008, X Factor
The X Factor (UK)
The X Factor is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. Created by Simon Cowell, it began in September 2004 and is contested by aspiring singers drawn from public auditions. It is the originator of the international X Factor franchise. The seven series of the show to date...
contestant Rachel Hylton performed the song in what was to be her final performance of the show, receiving a standing ovation and praise for her version of the song.
Nick Mitchell performed this song as Norman Gentle during the Season 8
American Idol (season 8)
The eighth season of American Idol premiered on January 13, 2009, and concluded on May 20, 2009. Judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, and Randy Jackson continued to judge the show's contestants, along with Ryan Seacrest as host. The season introduced Kara DioGuardi as the fourth judge on the Idol...
semi-finals of American Idol
American Idol
American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
.
Kyla
Kyla
Melanie Hernandez Calumpad Alvarez , better known by her stage name Kyla, is an R&B singer, songwriter, producer, TV host, and occasional actress from the Philippines....
performed this song at the TV program Sis
Sis
- Places :* Sis * Sis, Armenia, a town* Sis, Azerbaijan, a village* Sis, Iran, a city* Kozan, Adana, Sis in Armenian* Mountains of Sis, a range of the Pre-Pyrenees- Other :...
and made impressive reviews from David Archuleta
David Archuleta
David Archuleta, is a former United States Air Force Airman of Okinawan stationary troops and is currently an American male kickboxer.-Biography:...
.
Shaheen Jafargholi
Shaheen Jafargholi
Shaheen Jafargholi is a Welsh teen actor and singer from Swansea, Wales. He is of Iranian and Welsh descent. He appeared on ITV's Britain's Got Talent show and sang "Who's Lovin' You" at Michael Jackson's globally televised public memorial service in July 2009...
performed this song at the semi-finals of Britain's Got Talent
Britain's Got Talent
Britain's Got Talent is a British television talent show competition which started in June 2007 and originated from the Got Talent series. The show is produced by FremantleMedia's TalkbackThames and Simon Cowell's production company SYCOtv. The show is broadcast on ITV in Britain and TV3 in Ireland...
2009.
Danyl Johnson also performed this song at the first live final of X Factor 2009
The X Factor (UK series 6)
The sixth series of British television music competition The X Factor started on ITV on 22 August 2009 and was won by Joe McElderry on 13 December 2009. Cheryl Cole emerged as the winning mentor for the second consecutive year, the first time in the show's history that a mentor has won back-to-back...
, the song also proved a popular choice for several auditonees in the same season.
On the television show Glee
Glee (TV series)
Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox in the United States, and on GlobalTV in Canada. It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues...
, the character Mercedes
Mercedes Jones
Mercedes Jones is a fictional character from the Fox popular musical comedy-drama series Glee. The character is portrayed by actress Amber Riley, and has appeared in Glee from its pilot episode, first broadcast on May 19, 2009. Mercedes was developed by Glee creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and...
(played by Amber Riley
Amber Riley
Amber Patrice Riley is an American actress and singer best known for her role on the series Glee as Mercedes Jones.-Early life and career:...
) performs this song to the Glee Club before the Sectionals
Sectionals
"Sectionals" is the 13th episode of the American television series Glee. It premiered on the Fox network on December 9, 2009. The episode was written and directed by series co-creator Brad Falchuk, and serves as the mid-season finale for the show's first season. "Sectionals" sees the glee club win...
competition.
Cleveland Brown
Cleveland Brown
Cleveland Orenthal Brown is a character from the animated television series Family Guy, and its spin-off series The Cleveland Show. He is voiced by Mike Henry. In the first seven seasons of Family Guy, Brown is a frequently recurring character. As one of Peter Griffin's neighbors and friends,...
sings a part of the song in the Season 2 premiere episode of the sitcom The Cleveland Show
The Cleveland Show
The Cleveland Show is an American animated television series that premiered on September 27, 2009, as a part of the "Animation Domination" lineup on Fox in the United States...
.
The song is referenced in the song "Forever" from Shrek the Musical.
Jack Vidgen
Jack Vidgen
Jack Vidgen is an Australian singer, best known for winning the fifth season of Australia's Got Talent. He subsequently signed a recording contract with Sony Music Australia. His debut single, "Yes I Am", was released for digital download on 3 August 2011...
, the winner of Australia's Got Talent
Australia's Got Talent
Australia's Got Talent is an Australian reality television talent show which premiered on 18 February 2007 on the Seven Network. The show was based on the Got Talent series format that originated in the United Kingdom with Simon Cowell...
2011, performed this song in the semi final to judges' applause and critical claim.
Chart positions
Jennifer Holliday version| Chart (1982) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. 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... |
22 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot R&B Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,... |
1 |
| 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 ... |
32 |
Rosabel with Jennifer Holliday version
| Chart (2001) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play | 6 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales Hot 100 Singles Sales The Hot Singles Sales chart is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It measures sales of commercial singles and is one of three component charts, along with the Hot 100 Airplay and the Hot Digital Songs, that determine the chart positions of singles on the... |
66 |
| Chart (2007) | Peak position |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Hot Dance Club Play The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs... |
10 |
Jennifer Hudson version
| Chart (2006/2007) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. 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... |
60 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,... |
14 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Hot Dance Club Play The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs... |
1 |
| U.S. Billboard 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... |
70 |
| Chart (2009) | Peak position |
| 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 ... |
32 |
| UK R&B Singles Chart UK R&B Chart The Official UK R&B Chart is a forty-position R&B/Hip-Hop chart compiled by The Official UK Charts Company. Although the chart does not receive any airplay, its compilation is viewed on BBC Radio 1's website and publications such as ChartsPlus and Music Week... |
12 |