"I Try"
File:Macygray-itry.jpg
Single by Macy Gray
from the album On How Life Is
B-side "Don't Come Around", "Rather Hazy"
Released June 27, 1999 See release history)
Format Digital download, CD single, 12" maxi single
Recorded 1997
Genre Soul
Length 3:59
Label Epic
Writer(s) Macy Gray, Jeremy Ruzumna, Jinsoo Lim, David Wilder
Producer Andrew Slater
Macy Gray singles chronology
"Do Something"
(1999)
"I Try"
(1999)
"Still"
(2000)

"I Try" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American musician Macy Gray. It was released in September 1999 as the second single from her debut album On How Life Is, released in North American in January 2000 (See release history). It was Gray's biggest hit to date. It peaked at number six in the United Kingdom, number five in the United States, and number one in Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland.

At the 2001 Grammy Awards, "I Try" won Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, the first to be awarded to a American artist winner in the category, since Toni Braxton's "Un-Break My Heart" in 1997, and was also nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. It remains Gray's biggest hit single in the USA to date, and her only one to reach the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. In 2010, the song was featured in an episode of The Office. It was also featured in the series 2 finale of Mrs Brown's Boys

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Music video [link]

The video for the song, directed by Mark Romanek, depicts Gray waking up in a hotel room, buying flowers, and traveling through New York City to meet a man in a park. At one point she is seen entering a Lexington Avenue subway entrance, which at the time served the 6, E, and F lines. The platform which her train arrives on, however, is the 63rd Street Connector which would indeed become the Lexington Avenue F line stop one year later.

At the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards, the video won Best New Artist and was nominated for Best Female Video.

Used in popular culture [link]

It was notably used on the television series Spin City, Daria, Tatort, Gilmore Girls and in the Series 2 finale of Mrs Brown's Boys, in the films Love Jones, Picture Perfect Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.

Track listing [link]

UK CD 1
  1. "I Try" (Album Version)
  2. "I Try" (Full Crew Mix)
  3. "Don't Come Around"
UK CD 2
  1. "I Try" (Album Version)
  2. "I Try" (JayDee Remix)
  3. "I Try" (Bob Power Remix)
European CD single
  1. "I Try"
  2. "Rather Hazy"
  3. "I Try" (Full Crew Mix - Extended 2 - No Vocoder)

Charts [link]

Peak positions [link]

Chart (1999-2000) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[1] 1
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 75)[2] 3
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[3] 23
Canada (RPM)[4] 2
France (SNEP)[5] 29
Germany (Media Control AG)[6] 16
Ireland (IRMA)[7] 1
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[8] 39
New Zealand (RIANZ)[9] 1
Norway (VG-lista)[10] 5
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[11] 52
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[12] 13
United Kingdom (The Official Charts Company)[13] 6
US Billboard Hot 100[14] 5
US Billboard Pop Songs[14] 1
US Billboard Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles[15] 21
US Billboard Adult Pop Songs[14] 2
US Billboard Adult Contemporary[14] 21

Release history [link]

Format Release Date
Worldwide September 27, 1999
North America January 25, 2000

End of year charts [link]

End of year chart (2000) Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[16] 26

References [link]

  1. ^ "Australian-charts.com – Macy Gray – I Try". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Hung Medien.
  2. ^ "Macy Gray – I Try – Austriancharts.at" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Hung Medien.
  3. ^ "Ultratop.be – Macy Gray – I Try" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Ultratop & Hung Medien / hitparade.ch.
  4. ^ Canadian peak
  5. ^ "Lescharts.com – Macy Gray – I Try" (in French). Les classement single. Hung Medien.
  6. ^ "Die ganze Musik im Internet: Charts, News, Neuerscheinungen, Tickets, Genres, Genresuche, Genrelexikon, Künstler-Suche, Musik-Suche, Track-Suche, Ticket-Suche – musicline.de" (in German). Media Control Charts. PhonoNet GmbH.
  7. ^ "The Irish Charts". IRMA. https://www.irishcharts.ie/search/placement. Retrieved 2008-03-18. 
  8. ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Macy Gray search results" (in Dutch) Dutch Top 40. Stichting Nederlandse Top 40.
  9. ^ "Charts.org.nz – Macy Gray – I Try". Top 40 Singles. Hung Medien.
  10. ^ "Norwegiancharts.com – Macy Gray – I Try". VG-lista. Hung Medien.
  11. ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Macy Gray – I Try". Singles Top 60. Hung Medien.
  12. ^ "Macy Gray – I Try – swisscharts.com". Swiss Singles Chart. Hung Medien.
  13. ^ "Chart Stats – Macy Gray – I Try". Chart Stats. https://www.chartstats.com/songinfo.php?id=27685. Retrieved 2008-03-18. 
  14. ^ a b c d "On How Life Is > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles". Allmusic. https://www.allmusic.com/album/r425324. Retrieved 2008-03-18. 
  15. ^ "Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles". Billboard. https://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=345&cfgn=Singles&cfn=Bubbling+Under+R%26amp%3BB%2FHip-Hop+Singles&ci=3037522&cdi=7568860&cid=04%2F29%2F2000. Retrieved 2008-03-18. [dead link]
  16. ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 2000". https://longboredsurfer.com/charts.php?year=2000. Retrieved 2010-08-31. 
Preceded by
"Everyday I Love You" by Boyzone
Irish Singles Chart number-one single
December 11, 1999
Succeeded by
"I Have a Dream"/"Seasons in the Sun" by Westlife
Preceded by
"Blue (Da Ba Dee)" by Eiffel 65
"Mascara"/"Leave Me Alone" by Killing Heidi
Australian ARIA Singles Chart number-one single
January 16, 2000 – January 23, 2000 (first run)
February 20, 2000 (second run)
Succeeded by
"Mascara"/"Leave Me Alone" by Killing Heidi
"Bloke" by Chris Franklin
Preceded by
"S Club Party" by S Club 7
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart number-one single
January 30, 2000
Succeeded by
"What a Girl Wants" by Christina Aguilera

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I Try

by: Nits

(Nits)
I tried to be afraid
But you said that it was too late
I tried to be alone
But you said that I wanted this home
I try I try I try
I try to be like you
But you never wanted that I
Wanted it too
But I try to be around
Somehow, sometime I was found
I try I try I try
I have seen mirrors black
In a room by the sea
When we came back
Sometimes it's a sunny day
You lift your head and walk away
I try I try I try
I tried to be afraid
But you said that it was too late
I tried to be alone




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