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| Single byDrake featuringLil Wayne | ||||
| from the albumThank Me Later | ||||
| Released | June 1, 2010 (2010-06-01) | |||
| Recorded | 2009 | |||
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"Miss Me" is the third single[1] by Canadian recording artistDrake from his debut albumThank Me Later. The hip hop song features labelmate andYoung Money founderLil Wayne. It was produced by Drake's long-time collaboratorsBoi-1da and40. It peaked at number fifteen on USBillboard Hot 100, becoming the third consecutive track to attain chart success from the album. It was certifiedplatinum by theRecording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[2]
The song was originally by rapperBun B featuring Drake for his 3rd album,Trill OG, with a different chorus, entitled "All Night Long."[3] This version was never released, but a version with Drake's and Bun B's verses and the final chorus was released as the "OG Mix", which is the official remix of the song, on September 13, 2010, on Bun B'sTwitter page. The song samples "Wildflower" byHank Crawford.[4]
Drake toldMTV News: "It's a song about being away from what you love and hoping that when you're gone, doing you, somebody out there misses you."[5]
The music video was directed byAnthony Mandler. Drake shot his scenes on July 15, 2010.[6] Shots of Lil Wayne were filmed in early 2010 by director David Rousseau before Wayne went to jail.[7] The video premiered at 8 PM Eastern Standard Time on August 19, 2010, on MTV.[8]
Mandler toldMTV that the video was a particular challenge because Lil Wayne's footage was shot prior to Mandler coming on board as director: "It wasn't shot the way I would have shot it, so I had to come up with a world where I had ultimate control. I think with Drake, we're always looking for overarching themes. We're always looking for bigger themes to hang our hat on. With 'Miss Me,' what was interesting to me was not the idea of 'miss me because Wayne was going to jail.' Because it was deeper than that. It was the attainability versus the unattainability. And how stars and people who are public figures are expected to sit on a platform and be grabbed and watched and photographed and controlled. The idea for me was, what happens if it's not that clear, everything is a click off, all these unrelated scenarios are related by a textual theme and trying to play that into that, rather than some straight narrative, because we didn't have control... 'cause we didn't have Wayne".
The director said he incorporated a set where everything was slightly off. The set was built with a converging ceiling, in order to appear smaller. The lead actress in the video was never fully shown. The Young Money star appears but then quickly disappears. The video closes with a memory of a lost friend.[9]
As a promotional single, "Miss Me" shot onto theBillboard Hot 100 at number 15 for its debut, making it his highest-charting U.S. debut offThank Me Later. It then fell to number 76 in the next several weeks, but once it was released as an official single it rebounded to number 39. The single was certifiedplatinum by theRecording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of a million digital copies in the United States.[10]
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| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United States (RIAA)[17] | Platinum | 1,000,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. | ||