1995Released
4:41

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Interesting facts and trivia about One Sweet Day. By Songfacts®.

This is about death and wanting to be with a loved one after they passed. The lyric "I'll be with you that sweet day" means "when I die I will be with you then."

Mariah Carey wrote this with Boyz II Men. Carey said she wrote a song that was identical to a song Boyz II Men had written, so they combined the two. Mariah was in the middle of writing the poignant ballad with her longtime collaborator Walter Afanasieff when she had the idea to bring in the R&B group. "I just thought the chorus was crying out for the vocals that they do," she recalled in a 1999 interview. "We contacted them, we went through all the channels, this and that, and we finally got together, sang them the song and Nate had written a song that was basically identical to my song in the theme and melodically - he could actually sing it over my song and it was really bizarro, it was like fate, so we put the two songs together and came up with 'One Sweet Day.'"

This was #1 on the US Billboard charts for 16 weeks, which is longer than any other song. Boyz II Men had tremendous success on this chart, with "End of the Road" #1 for 13 weeks in 1992 and "I'll Make Love To You" #1 for 14 weeks in 1994. The song's long run at #1 was equaled by Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber's "Despacito," which also spent 16 weeks at the summit in 2017. Two years later, Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" broke their longstanding Hot 100 record when it spent its 17th week at #1 on the chart week dated August 3, 2019.

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of One Sweet Day.
C♯Key
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
128BPM

Album

The album One Sweet Day is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released One Sweet Day.
Columbia
(P) 1995 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment

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