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The One (Backstreet Boys song)

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"The One"
Single by Backstreet Boys
from the album Millennium
ReleasedMay 1, 2000 (2000-05-01)
StudioCherion, Polar (Stockholm, Sweden)
Length3:46
LabelJive
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Backstreet Boys singles chronology
"Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely"
(1999) 		"The One"
(2000) 		"Shape of My Heart"
(2000)
Music video
"The One" on YouTube

"The One" is a song by American boy band Backstreet Boys. It was released on May 1, 2000, as the fourth and final single from their third studio album, Millennium (1999).[1] It reached the top 10 in Canada, Hungary, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and the United Kingdom, and it peaked at number 30 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song was used as the opening theme for the anime series Hanada Shōnen Shi.[2]

Background

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A sneak preview of the song was released on the Selections from A Night Out with the Backstreet Boys CD on November 17, 1998, and had a slightly different sound to it, while another preview was shown at the end of Britney Spears' album ...Baby One More Time (under the title "I'll Be the One") two months later.

In a 2001 interview on The View, the group stated they never really intended "The One" as their fourth single.[3] The group held a poll on TRL allowing fans to choose the next single from their album, and after Nick Carter himself called in and voted for "The One," his large fan-base followed. The rest of the group had preferred the song "Don't Want You Back," leading in votes up to that point.[3][4]

Music video

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Background

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The music video was directed by Chris Hafner and Kevin Richardson in April 2000.[5] Most of the video is in widescreen format, though the within letterboxed black area are pulses of color based on the brightness of the shots. The choruses mainly feature two different clips side-by-side, further letterboxing the video. During the breakdown before the final choruses, the standard letterboxed image is split horizontally into four segments, and different clips flash between them with camera flash effects on the borderlines.

Synopsis

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The video opened with a dedication to the Boys' fans, crew, band, and dancers. The video itself begins with a time-lapse shot of Gainbridge Fieldhouse (then named Conseco Fieldhouse), home of the Indiana Pacers, being converted from a basketball court to the band's stage for the Into the Millennium Tour, which is reversed at the end of the video. The remainder of the video comprises clips of performance footage from the tour and, less notably, several panned still images and off-stage clips from behind the scenes or other promotional appearances done for Millennium.

The footage is not specifically related to "The One," though a few clips of the band are synced to the lyrics. A soundtrack of screaming fans was added to the song's album version to give a live feeling to the song. The concert footage was from the entire tour, including a concert in the Bryce Jordan Center and the basketball arena at Penn State University. The video also shows a segment of the Backstreet Boys playing basketball in Michigan State jerseys. This is because concert footage was also taken from when the band played the Jack Breslin Center.[6]

Track listings

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Charts

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Certifications

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[47] Gold 40,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

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Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref(s).
United States May 1, 2000
Jive [48][49]
May 2, 2000
[50][51]
May 29, 2000
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United Kingdom June 12, 2000
  • CD
  • cassette
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Japan July 5, 2000 CD [54]

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