Mariah Carey’s 2005 mega-hit “We Belong Together” was recently named the last decade’s most popular song, according to HitsDailyDouble.com.
The song, whose popularity was calculated by record sales, airplay and online streaming, was the second single of Carey’s comeback album, The Emancipation of Mimi.
Jermaine Durpi, who produced the song, spoke to HitsDailyDouble about the song’s popularity. “The first two [songs] we did, ‘It’s Like That’ and ‘Get Your Number,’ were more uptempo. When we got back together in the studio, my idea was, let’s try some ballads this time—let’s flip the switch. We put a condenser mic in the studio so we could record every idea we came up with. When we went to play it back, you could hear the song coming to life. I cut the vocal myself at first, and she followed my direction to a ‘T.’“
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Dupri also explained that he was “speechless” that the song crossed over so well. “My style of production does not sound like pop music when you first hear it. Fortunately, they end up going that way. I had no idea what it was going to do; I just knew it was a good Mariah record. In my mind, it doesn’t sound like the song of the decade—it’s too different. It doesn’t sound like anything else.“
