When “All I Want Is You” was finally issued through ByStorm/Jive in December 2010, the album’s title track was still slowly growing at radio, and Miguel was finding his way as a performer, having recently joined Usher and Trey Songz on tour. “He’s got a great following, and he’s not selling sex per se-he’s selling romance,” Rouse adds.Īfter Mark Pitts, the then-president of urban music at Jive, signed Miguel to his ByStorm Entertainment imprint in 2007, the singer’s debut album sat completed and unreleased for more than two years due to legal issues with Miguel’s former production company. SiriusXM VP of music programming Dion Summers says that the song has amassed 1,600 spins and is still in power rotation, while R&B/hip-hop WVEE Atlanta PD Reggie Rouse says requests have been flooding in from men and women for the adoration anthem.
The album’s first single, “Adorn,” has sold 190,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan ascended to the top of Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs tally in its 19th week and is making inroads at top 40 as well, clocking in at No. 2 on ByStorm/RCA Records, to be “a reintroduction.” The new album is more daring in its synthesis of unfussy instrumentation and intimate songwriting - witness the careful guitar haze of “Use Me” or the falsetto-strewn metaphors of the title track. Miguel’s debut album, “All I Want Is You,” was released less than two years ago, but the singer considers follow-up “Kaleidoscope Dream,” due Oct. I wanted the music to stand out that way.” It was really important for me to stand out. I’ve been in the middle my entire life, having to make decisions as to who and what I am. “I’m Mexican and black - my father is Mexican, my mom is black. “Somewhere along the way… the genre became a stereotype, and I’ve never been one for stereotypes,” Miguel says.
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