"I Need a Girl"
Single by Taeyang featuring G-Dragon
from the album Solar
ReleasedJuly 1, 2010 (2010-07-01)
GenreR&B
Length3:40
LabelYG
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Jeon Goon
Taeyang singles chronology
"Wedding Dress"
(2009)		 "I Need a Girl"
(2010)		 "I'll Be There"
(2010)
G-Dragon singles chronology
"Heartbreaker (Remix)"
(2010)		 "I Need a Girl"
(2010)		 "One of a Kind"
(2012)
Music video
"I Need a Girl" on YouTube

"I Need a Girl" is a song recorded by South Korean singer Taeyang for his first studio album Solar (2010) through YG Entertainment. It features rap by G-Dragon, who co-wrote the song with producer Jeon Goon. The song was released on July 1, 2010, as the lead single from Solar.

Composition

"I Need a Girl" is described as an R&B song and lyrically describes about Taeyang's ideal type. Some parts of “I Need a Girl” lyrics are taken from the lyrics of Byeon Jin-seop’s song “My Ideal Type” (1989).[1]

Commercial performance

"I Need a Girl" debuted at number seven on South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart in the chart issue dated June 27 – July 3, 2010;[2] on its component charts, the song debuted at number four on the Gaon Download Chart,[3] and number 25 on the Gaon Streaming Chart.[4] The following week, the song rose to number four on the Gaon Digital Chart.[5] Subsequently, "I Need a Girl" ranked at number thirty-nine on its annual chart and has sold 1,876,167 digital copies in South Korea as of 2010.[6]

In United States, "I Need a Girl" debuted at number seventeen on the Billboard World Digital Song Sales in the chart issue dated July 31, 2010.[7]

Charts

Accolades

Music program awards for "I Need a Girl"
Program Date Ref.
Inkigayo (SBS) July 18, 2010 [10]
July 25, 2010
M Countdown (Mnet) July 8, 2010 [11]
July 15, 2010
Music Bank (KBS) July 16, 2010 [12]

References

  1. ↑ "[태양 컴백③] '나만→눈코입→달링' 태양이 들려준 러브스토리" [[TAEYANG’s Comeback③] TAEYANG’s Love Story from “LOOK AT ME ONLY” to “EYES, NOSE, LIPS” and “DARLING”]. Osen (in Korean). Chosun. August 14, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
  2. ↑ "2010년 28주차 Digital Chart" [Week 28 of 2010 Digital Chart]. Gaon Music Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on September 28, 2015. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
  3. ↑ "2010년 28주차 Download Chart" [Week 28 of 2010 Download Chart]. Gaon Music Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on January 29, 2016. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
  4. ↑ "2010년 28주차 Streaming Chart" [Week 28 of 2010 Streaming Chart]. Gaon Music Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on June 13, 2015. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
  5. 1 2 "2010년 29주차 Digital Chart" [Week 29 of 2010 Digital Chart]. Gaon Music Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on February 17, 2015. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Gaon Download Chart of 2010". Gaon Music Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on February 28, 2014. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
  7. 1 2 "Billboard World Digital Songs: Chart Search". Billboard. July 31, 2010. Archived from the original on November 18, 2018.
  8. ↑ "2010년 07월 Digital Chart" [July 2010 Digital Chart]. Gaon Music Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on November 8, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Gaon Yearly Digital Chart of 2010". Gaon Music Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on October 18, 2013. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
  10. ↑ "태양, 2주 연속 '인기가요' 1위 등극" [Taeyang tops 'Inkigayo' for 2 weeks in a row]. My Daily (in Korean). Naver. July 25, 2010. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
  11. ↑ "태양, 2주 연속 '엠카' 1위" [Taeyang tops 'M Countown' for 2 weeks in a row]. Osen (in Korean). Naver. July 16, 2010. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
  12. ↑ 태양, 앨범 발표 2주만에 '뮤직뱅크' 1위 [Taeyang tops 'Music Bank' 2 weeks after album release]. Star News (in Korean). Naver. July 16, 2010. Archived from the original on May 12, 2021. Retrieved May 11, 2021.
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