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"I Need a Girl"
Single by Taeyang featuring G-Dragon
from the album Solar
ReleasedJuly 1, 2010 (2010-07-01)
Genre R&B
Length3:40
Label YG
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]

Accolades

Music program awards
Program Date Ref.
Inkigayo July 18, 2010 [8]
July 25, 2010
M Countdown July 8, 2010 [9]
July 15, 2010
Music Bank July 16, 2010 [10]

Charts

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. ^ a b "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. ^ a b "Billboard World Digital Songs: Chart Search". Billboard. July 31, 2010. Archived from the original on November 18, 2018.
  8. ^ "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.
  9. ^ "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.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ "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.
  12. ^ "Gaon Yearly Digital Chart of 2010". Gaon Music Chart (in Korean). Archived from the original on October 18, 2013. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
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