2010 single by Aloe Blacc
"I Need a Dollar " is a song performed by American singer
Aloe Blacc , written by Blacc, 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
The standard version of the song has two music videos. The first, released in 2010, was filmed in
New York , and 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. Once Aloe enters the left side after the line "Maybe it's inside the bottle" and performs at a bar, the song changes to "Life So Hard".
The second, released in 2011, was filmed in and around
Las Vegas and was directed by
Derek Pike . The video 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
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"I Need a Dollar" – 4:05
"I Need a Dollar" (Radio Mix) – 3:22
"I Need a Dollar" (
Zinc Remix) – 5:48
"I Need a Dollar" (Blue Fear Trance Remix) – 10:49
German digital single
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"I Need a Dollar" – 4:02
"I Need a Dollar" (
Tensnake Remix) – 6:45
"I Need a Dollar" (M.Arfmann & Chassy Wezar RMX) – 3:27
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Chart (2010)
Position
Austrian Singles Chart
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57
Belgian Singles Chart (Flanders)
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18
Belgian Singles Chart (Wallonia)
[27]
55
French Singles Chart
[28]
86
Germany Singles Chart
[29]
86
Swiss Singles Chart
[30]
55
Chart (2011)
Position
Australian Singles Chart
[31]
64
Irish Singles Chart
[32]
20
Swiss Singles Chart
[33]
61
UK Singles Chart
[34]
18
Certifications
‹See Tfd›
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 '
British artists
Ed Solo and
Deekline together remixed "I Need A Dollar" and released it as a single with the same name.
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"Italian single certifications – Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar" (in Italian).
Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana . Retrieved August 16, 2022 . Select "2018" in the "Anno" drop-down menu. Select "I Need a Dollar" in the "Filtra" field. Select "Singoli" under "Sezione".
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