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| “All of Me” | |
|---|---|
| Single by John Legend | |
| from the album Love in the Future | |
| B-side | “Made to Love” |
| Released | August 12, 2013 |
| Format | CDdigital download |
| Recorded | 2013 |
| Genre | R&Bsoulpop |
| Length | 4:29 |
| Label | GOODColumbia |
| Songwriter(s) | John StephensToby Gad |
| Producer(s) | Dave TozerJohn Legend |
| John Legend singles chronology | |
| “Made to Love” (2013)”All of Me” (2013)”You & I (Nobody in the World)” (2014) |
“All of Me” is a song by American singer John Legend from his fourth studio album Love in the Future (2013). It is dedicated to Legend’s wife Chrissy Teigen. “All of Me” first aired on American mainstream urban radio as the album’s third single on August 12, 2013.
On the week ending May 16, 2014, it peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 becoming his first number-one single in the United States. It knocked off “Happy” by Pharrell Williams, which had spent 10 weeks at number one. The song peaked at number two in the United Kingdom and New Zealand and topped the charts in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and the Netherlands. It became the second best-selling song of 2014 in the United States with 4.67 million copies sold for the year,[ as well as the third best-selling song in the United Kingdom.
A remix of the song (Tiësto’s Birthday Treatment remix), featuring EDM artist Tiësto, was released in January 2014 and won the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical, while another remix was done in March of that year by trance artist Dash Berlin. A live version of the song was nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance, losing to Williams’ “Happy”.[
“All of Me” was the third best-selling song of 2014 with 12.3 million equivalent-units worldwide (sales plus streaming), according to the IFPI.[
“All of Me” is a tender piano power ballad, which was inspired by his then-fiancée, now wife, model Chrissy Teigen.[ The couple met in 2007 on the set of his video for “Stereo“. They were then married on September 14, 2013. The song was produced by Dave Tozer and Legend himself. It is a simple, modest proposal set against delicate keys.
Musically, according to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by Gad Songs and John Legend Publishing, “All of Me” is written in the key of A♭ major with a slow tempo of 63 beats per minute. Legend’s vocals span from F3 to B♭4.
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