Like You’ll Never See Me Again by Alicia Keys
“Like You’ll Never See Me Again” is a song by American R&B and soul singer–songwriter Alicia Keys from her third studio album, As I Am (2007). Written and produced by Keys and Kerry Brothers, Jr., it was released in November 2007 as the album’s second single. The song was first heard on October 25, 2007 on Atlanta’s V103 WVEE radio station. Keys performed this song on Good Morning America on November 13, 2007. A remix of the song featuring rapper Ludacris exists. The song was ranked number forty-seven on Billboard’s Top Hot 100 Hits of 2008.
In 2008 the song won two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Music Video and Outstanding Song and an ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Award for Top R&B/Hip-Hop Song.
In January 2008, it was used in advertisements for the ABC soap opera All My Children, hyping the return of supercouple Jesse Hubbard and Angie Baxter. The song was used once again in the February 15, 2008 episode of the series, when the couple was reunited after twenty years.
“Like You’ll Never See Me Again” debuted at number thirty-seven on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs as the Hot Shot debut of the week, jumping to number twenty-two in its second week, number fifteen in its third week, and to then number nine in its fourth. After climbing to number three in its fifth week, the song reached number two in its sixth week, and then rose to number one in its ninth week, beating off Keys’ own song “No One”—this made Keys the second artist since the R&B chart began using Nielsen SoundScan data in 1992 to succeed herself at number one, as “Like You’ll Never See Me Again” jumped from number two to number one and traded places with “No One”, which had ruled the chart for ten weeks.
Rapper Nelly accomplished this feat in 2002 with “Hot in Herre” and “Dilemma”. The song spent seven weeks atop the chart, after which it remained at number two for six weeks thereafter. As of the charting week of September 13, 2008, “Like You’ll Never See Me Again” has remained on the chart for forty-five consecutive weeks, all of them inside the top fifty. Billboard ranked it as the most successful song on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart of 2008.
On the Billboard Hot 100, it debuted at number ninety-three, jumped to number forty-five in its second week, and subsequently peaked at number twelve.
“Like You’ll Never See Me Again” was released on February 25, 2008 in the United Kingdom, peaking at number fifty-three, while “No One” was a non-mover at number twenty-six. It became her lowest-charting single there so far.
In Australia, it debuted and peaked at number seventy-seven on the ARIA Singles Chart, number forty-four on the Physical Singles Chart, and number nineteen on the Urban Singles Chart the week of April 14, 2008.
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