What a Girl Wants (Christina Aguilera song)
November 13, 1999
3:20 (re -recorded radio edit)
What a Girl Wants is the second single from Christina Aguilera's debut album, Christina Aguilera. The piece was published in November 1999, the single reached on 15 January 2000 No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, which it held two weeks. Thus, What a Girl Wants was second number -one hit in the U.S. after Genie in a Bottle Aguilera. In the Billboard Hot 100, the song, the first number -one hit of the new millennium was. The single reached number 3 in the UK charts and # 5 in Australia. What a Girl Wants confirmed that Aguilera was not a one hit wonder. The single received five nominations at the MTV Video Music Awards, in the categories " Best Female Video ", " Best New Artist ", " Best Pop Video ", " Viewer 's Choice " and "Best Choreography ". In addition, the song had a Grammy nomination for " Best Female Pop Vocal Performance " in 2001.
Live version
Aguilera sang What a Girl Wants regular basis since 2002 at their concerts and released several live versions of the song. Most had live performances with What a Girl Wants during her Stripped World Tour, the end of 2002, also Aguilera What a Girl Wants sang on her Back to Basics world tour in 2006.
Music Video
The director for music video led Diane Martel, who already has directed for Aguilera's hit Genie in a Bottle. Josh Duhamel is a guest at the music video as Aguilera love partner. The video begins with Aguilera and her friends walking in a virtual space in which Aguilera dancing for a group of boys. The music video has a break in the scene in which Aguilera is with bathing suit on the ground, while a group of dancers dancing around Aguilera. Then you can see again the original scene, dancing in the Aguilera for the boys. The video got TRL the six most calls and spectators of all time. The video was shot in late 1999.
Commercial success
Although What a Girl Wants could not repeat the big success of debut single Genie in a Bottle, the single was a hit. The song reached # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and # 1 on the sales charts, became the What a Girl Wants Aguilera's second number-one hit in the U.S. for two weeks, the song was able to hold at # 1 and became the first number - one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in the new millennium. In the Hot 100 Airplay chart, the song reached # 2 The single was awarded in the U.S. with gold. Internationally, the song with # 3 in the UK charts and fifth place in the Canadian charts was successful.
It was a Maxi - CD single released along with the song Run by the CD at No. 2 on the Billboard charts could place.
In almost every country, the single reached the top 20 of the charts. In New Zealand, the song also reached # 1, where he could stay for five weeks. On 13 March 2000 Aguilera visited New Zealand, because their single had reached there the first place. With more than 7500 units sold What a Girl Wants Award New Zealand and Sweden with gold. The single reached number 19 of the year Scharts in the U.S. and number 32 in New Zealand.
The song is included on the game " Karaoke Revolution ".