Note: Change the chart to CZ – SINGLES DIGITAL – TOP 100 and insert 201749 into search. ^ "Jason Derulo Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)".^ "Jason Derulo – Tip Toe feat French Montana (Official Music Video)".French Montana – Tip Toe (version 1: Lyric Video)". "Skandal bei Echo 2018: Außenminister Maas meldet sich zu Wort – Farid Bang in Schlägerei verwickelt?". Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. At 21 I was a very different person and a different talent.Charts Weekly charts Chart (2017–18)Ĭzech Republic ( Singles Digitál Top 100) That’s very different from me being 27 and having dealt with a lot more in my life. That was the just-becoming-a-man 21-year-old being vulnerable. A song like “It Girl” – that was a younger version of what I’m doing now. I felt like I was getting pressed for marriage I let that out. No – on a song like “Marry Me,” I was putting my heart on my sleeve and letting people know how it felt. Is it hard for you to be vulnerable in your work? I’m always thinking about what’s next – what have people gotten from me, what do people like from me, and what haven’t people heard from me. When I bring people into the studio to listen, they’re like, “Fuck, the world needs to hear this.” That motivated me to do more of it, dive into myself and bring out that emotional side. There’s not that vulnerable vocal R&B-pop shit right now. I do feel like there’s a void for that on radio. Very vulnerable but also very vocal-centric music as well, which people haven’t gotten a huge taste of yet. It shows a totally different side people don’t know yet – a very vulnerable side. I feel like this album is my greatest work thus far. There’s so much shit that I want to release right now. Though I love my programmers, and that’s a part of it as well – “Swalla” is still a Top 20 record at radio – around the world, the song is Top Three on the planet.Īnd this is the lead single for your next album? The audience decides rather than a programmer. You don’t want to be reliant on one outlet. Times have changed.ĭo you view the change as beneficial for artists? In America, we’re at one-and-a-half million sales, and it was not a huge radio song. Nowadays, with Spotify and all of these new outlets, a hit is a hit if the audience says it’s a hit. If radio didn’t say it was a hit, then it wasn’t a hit. It’s 2017 – even when I was first coming out, we would totally be reliant on radio. I want things to stick out like a sore thumb. I never want to blend in with the mold – I want to create a trend, never join the trend. If it intrigues me, chances are it’ll stand out on the radio. That keeps me on my toes, always searching for a new sound, something that intrigues me. It comes easy because of the fact that I’m such a big fan of music. It’s a different sound from some of your previous hits. Timing is everything, and this is the perfect song for the Caribbean heads to come together. She did a remix of “In My Head” very early on in my career, and since then we’ve wanted to get together and do something special. Nicki’s of Caribbean descent as well, and she’s somebody I’ve been meaning to work with for a while now. On this album you’ll hear a lot of different people. How did you connect with Ty Dolla $ign and Nicki Minaj? There are a lot of those sounds on the radio, and I wanted to bring forth my roots. I really wanted to come out with a Caribbean sound that was my own. I knew this was going to be the next single. That was a huge homage to what I grew up on. I wanted to bring that out to the forefront. I wanted to create something that had a compas feel to it, which is Haitian music. It finally came out and it’s done amazing – we’re up to about three-and-a-half million sales across the world. But it was one of those joints I wanted the world to get its hands on for a long time. It’s been a long time coming I’ve been holding that song in my pocket for like a year. Rolling Stone caught up with Derulo to discuss his many projects and the success of “Swalla,” which sits at Number 26 on the most recent Billboard Pop Songs chart.