Jason Mraz - I Won't Give Up

dauswq · Post time 14-1-2012 03:00 PM

Post Last Edit by dauswq at 14-1-2012 15:03

Another ballad coming...

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Jason Mraz's 'I Won't Give Up' Storms Hot 100's Top

   On the Hot 100, the track's launch is the highest for a male    pop/rock singer-songwriter since    David Cook burst in at    No. 3 with "The Time of My Life" the week of June 7, 2008,    after he was crowned "American Idol" champion.

   On Digital Songs, "Won't" marks the first No. 1 debut since    Lil Wayne's "She Will,"    featuring    Drake, bowed at the summit    the week of Sept. 3, 2011, with 254,000 downloads sold.

"Won't" is the lead single from    Mraz's as-yet-untitled fourth studio album, due May 8. The set    follows 2008's "We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.," which    debuted and peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and has sold    1.7 million copies in the U.S., according to SoundScan.

   Mraz premiered "Won't" live during his 2011 concert tour, well    before an official version was released. The buzz was so great    on the track that it quickly caught viral fire and, in the past    couple weeks, garnered cover versions by YouTube luminaries    Christina Grimmie and Tyler Ward.

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   Dane Venable, Atlantic Records senior VP/marketing, saw Mraz    perform "Won't" at Carnegie Hall in New York in late November    and recalls it as "absolutely breathtaking. It got a standing    ovation." Even though the song had already been laid down in    the studio with a full band, Atlantic then encouraged Mraz to    re-record it acoustically.

   Venable says that Atlantic "knew the emotional impact of the    song" and thought it would be a "great gift for the fans (for    us) to release it at the top of the year, to just kick off 2012    with this gift of hope."

   "I won't give up on us, even if the skies get rough," Mraz    sings in the song's chorus. "I'm giving you all my love. I'm    still looking up."

   As the tracklist for Mraz's forthcoming album is still being    finalized, Atlantic says that it's too early to confirm if both    the acoustic and full-band versions of "Won't" will appear on    the set.

   Last month, Mraz    told    Billboard.com that his new set will feature "less horns,    more piano and guitar textures (and) more vocal landscapes.    That, to me, has always been my favorite part of making music;    the singing and what voices can do and voices singing in    harmony."

   While the official lyric video for "Won't" has racked 2.5    million views since its upload to Mraz's YouTube channel Jan.    2, a proper video is on the way. Atlantic says that Mraz is    currently reviewing treatments and hopes to film the clip    before the end of the month. The label aims to release the    short by the second or third week of February.

   Also due next month: "Won't" will get its first TV performance    Feb. 16 when Mraz sings it on NBC's "Today." The gig is    scheduled two days after "Won't" earns a rare physical CD    single release Feb. 14 - not so coincidentally, Valentine's    Day. The single's tracklist isn't yet final but may include    both the acoustic and full-band versions of "Won't."

   Following the song's viral buzz and impressive sales start,    Atlantic will begin promoting "Won't" to radio, working the    song to Mraz's home bases of adult pop and adult alternative    Feb. 23. The label is likely to follow with a push to pop radio    shortly thereafter.

   "Won't" marks Mraz's second Hot 100 top 10, following his No.    6-peaking 2008 smash "I'm Yours." The latter song set the    record for most weeks (76) that a single has spent on the Hot    100 in the chart's 53-year history. At 5.9 million in digital    sales to-date, "Yours" is the eighth-best-selling download in    SoundScan history and the highest by a male pop/rock    singer-songwriter.