I Need a Dollar

"I Need a Dollar"
Single by Aloe Blacc
from the album Good Things
Released 16 March 2010[1]
Format CD single, digital download
Recorded Fall 2000
Genre Soul
Length 4:04[1]
Label Stones Throw Records, Sony Music Entertainment UK
Writer(s) Leon Michels, E. Nathaniel Dawkins, Nick Movshon, Jeff Dynamite
Producer(s) Leon Michels, Jeff Dynamite
Aloe Blacc singles chronology
"Get Down"
(2006)		 "I Need a Dollar"
(2010)		 "Loving You Is Killing Me"
(2011)

"I Need a Dollar" is a song performed by Panamanian-American rapper and singer Aloe Blacc. Blacc co-wrote the song with Leon Michels, Nick Movshon and Jeff Dynamite.[2]

It is the intro song for the HBO show How to Make It in America, and was featured as the iTunes Single of the Week.[3] It also featured in the game Fight Night Champion. Blacc has performed the song live on Later... with Jools Holland, The Graham Norton Show, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and Conan. In April 2011 it was featured in a commercial for Boost Mobile wireless services.

Music video

Two versions of the video have been released. The first, the "New York" version, features the screen being split in half. The right side shows Blacc singing inside an apartment while the left side shows a man walking through the streets of New York.

The second, the "Las Vegas" version directed by Derek Pike, shows Blacc walking alone along a highway in Nevada, and then hitching a ride to Las Vegas, where he finds a dollar coin on the casino floor, uses it to play a slot machine, and wins.

Formats and track listings

UK digital single[4]
  1. "I Need a Dollar" – 4:05
  2. "I Need a Dollar" (Radio Mix) – 3:22
  3. "I Need a Dollar" (Zinc Remix) – 5:48
  4. "I Need a Dollar" (Blue Fear Trance Remix) – 10:49
German digital single[5]
  1. "I Need a Dollar" – 4:02
  2. "I Need a Dollar" (Tensnake Remix) – 6:45
  3. "I Need a Dollar" (M.Arfmann & Chassy Wezar RMX) – 3:27

Charts

Peak positions

Chart Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[6] 11
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[7] 5
Czech Republic (Rádio Top 100)[8] 8
Europe (Hot 100)[9] 16
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[10] 1
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[11] 4
Denmark (Tracklisten)[12] 35
France (SNEP)[13] 52
Germany (Official German Charts)[14] 4
Hungary (Rádiós Top 40)[15] 18
Ireland (IRMA)[16] 2
Israel (Media Forest)[17] 1
Italy (FIMI)[18] 16
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[19] 20
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[20] 53
Scotland (Official Charts Company)[21] 2
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[22] 5
UK R&B (Official Charts Company)[23] 1
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[24] 2

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Australia Platinum[25] 210,000
Belgium Gold[26] 15,000
Denmark Gold[27]
Germany Gold[28] 200,000
Italy Gold[29] 15,000
New Zealand Gold[30] 7,500
Switzerland Platinum[31]
United Kingdom Platinum[32] 695,210[33]

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

Year-end charts

Year-end charts (2010) Position
Belgian Singles Chart (Flanders)[34] 18
Belgian Singles Chart (Wallonia)[35] 55
French Singles Chart[36] 86
Germany Singles Chart[37] 86
Swiss Singles Chart[38] 55
Year-end charts (2011) Position
Australian Singles Chart[39] 64
Swiss Singles Chart[40] 61
UK Singles Chart[41] 18

Samples and covers

Various hip-hop artists have sampled "I Need a Dollar" or freestyled over the instrumental, including Yelawolf, T.I., Wax, Dumbfoundead, Chris Webby, MGK, and Mac Miller, and Sammy Adams.

Australian artist Xavier Rudd covered "I Need a Dollar" on 'Like a Version', a segment on the Australian radio station 'Triple J'

References

  1. 1 2 "I Need a Dollar". Amazon.com. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
  2. ↑ "I Need a Dollar" (in Dutch). Dutch Charts. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
  3. ↑ Stanley, Alessandra. TELEVISION REVIEW | 'HOW TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA'; The Dream, Without The Drive. The New York Times. February 12, 2010.
  4. ↑ "I Need A Dollar". amazon.co.uk.
  5. ↑ "I Need A Dollar". amazon.de.
  6. ↑ "Australian-charts.com – Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 2011-09-08.
  7. ↑ "Austriancharts.at – Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
  8. ↑ "ČNS IFPI" (in Czech). Hitparáda – Radio Top 100 Oficiální. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: insert 201144 into search. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
  9. ↑ I Need a Dollar - Aloe Blacc. Billboard.
  10. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
  11. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar" (in French). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
  12. ↑ "Danishcharts.com – Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar". Tracklisten. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
  13. ↑ "Lescharts.com – Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar" (in French). Les classement single. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
  14. ↑ "Musicline.de – Blacc,Aloe Single-Chartverfolgung" (in German). Media Control Charts. PhonoNet GmbH. Retrieved 2011-03-30.
  15. ↑ "Archívum – Slágerlisták – MAHASZ" (in Hungarian). Rádiós Top 40 játszási lista. Magyar Hanglemezkiadók Szövetsége. Retrieved 2012-09-12.
  16. ↑ "Chart Track: Week 24, 2011". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 2011-06-19.
  17. ↑ "Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar Media Forest". Israeli Airplay Chart. Media Forest.
  18. ↑ "Italiancharts.com – Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar". Top Digital Download.
  19. ↑ "Charts.org.nz – Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 2011-06-27.
  20. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
  21. ↑ "Archive Chart: 2011-05-29". Scottish Singles Top 40.
  22. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar". Swiss Singles Chart.
  23. ↑ "Archive Chart: 2011-06-11" UK R&B Chart.
  24. ↑ "Archive Chart: 2011-06-11" UK Singles Chart.
  25. ↑ Archived September 2, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  26. ↑ "Ultratop − Goud en Platina – 2010". Ultratop & Hung Medien / hitparade.ch.
  27. ↑ "Certificeringer" (in Danish). IFPI Denmark. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
  28. ↑ "Bundesverband Musikindustrie: Gold-/Platin-Datenbank". Musikindustrie.de. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
  29. ↑ "FIMI - Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana - Benvenuto!" (PDF). Fimi.it. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
  30. ↑ "NZ Top 40 Singles Chart - The Official New Zealand Music Chart". THE OFFICIAL NZ MUSIC CHART.
  31. ↑ "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community". Hung Medien. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
  32. ↑ Archived September 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  33. ↑ Jones, Alan (7 April 2014). "Official Charts Analysis: Kaiser Chiefs almost double previous album's sales to hit No.1". Music Week. Intent Media. Retrieved 9 June 2015. (subscription required (help)).
  34. ↑ "Ultratop Belgian Charts". ultratop.be. Retrieved 2011-09-25.
  35. ↑ "Ultratop Belgian Charts". ultratop.be. Retrieved 2011-09-25.
  36. ↑ "BILAN ECONOMIQUE 2010" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-09-25.
  37. ↑ "VIVA Single Jahrescharts 2010 - 2010". Retrieved 2011-12-29.
  38. ↑ "Swiss Year-End Charts 2010". swisscharts.com. Retrieved 2011-09-25.
  39. ↑ "Adele’s “21” crowned ARIA’s highest selling album of 2011 LMFAO takes single honours with “Party Rock Anthem”" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-01-01.
  40. ↑ "SCHWEIZER JAHRESHITPARADE 2011". http://hitparade.ch. Retrieved 2012-01-02. External link in |publisher= (help)
  41. ↑ "The Top 20 biggest selling singles of 2011 revealed!". The Official Charts. 2012-01-02.

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