SONG & HIT DETAILS
Artist Name: BRANDY AND MONICA
Top Position (Australia): 6
Song Author: Brandy Norwood, LaShawn Daniels, Rodney Jerkins, Fred Jerkins III
Year Recorded: 1998
SONG PROFILE
“The Boy Is Mine”
Single by Brandy and Monica from the album Never Say Never and The Boy Is Mine
Released May 12, 1998
Format Vinyl single, cassette single, CD single
Recorded October—December 1997 in Los Angeles, California, Atlanta, Georgia
“The Boy Is Mine” is a song recorded by American R&B singers Brandy and Monica.
It was written by LaShawn Daniels, Fred Jerkins III, Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins and Brandy with co-production by Darkchild and Dallas Austin, and released as the lead single from both singers’ second albums during the second quarter of 1998.
The song’s lyrics tell a story about two women disputing the love of a man and were inspired by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson’s 1982 duet “The Girl Is Mine”.
“The Boy Is Mine” was the first number-one pop record for both artists, both stateside and internationally.
Exploiting the media’s presumption of a rivalry between the two young singers, the song became one of the most successful records of the year, spending a record-breaking thirteen weeks on top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 during the Summer of 1998, and it reached the top five on most of the other charts on which it appeared.
Australian ARIA Singles Chart – 6
Austrian Singles Chart -6