Lost Without U

Lost Without U

Robin Thicke

“Lost Without U” was released in January 2007 as the second single from Robin Thicke’s second album, The Evolution of Robin Thicke (2006). People magazine voted the ballad as 2007’s Sexiest Song of the Year.
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It was written after the release of Robin Thicke’s first album and while he was on tour. It was at a time he was feeling insecure and wasn’t having much commercial success with his music. Thicke said the following to MTV News about the inspiration for the song:

“I was going through an insecure period and wanted my lady to tell me how fabulous and how sexy and how wonderful I am.”

Thicke’s wife, actress Paula Patton, was featured in the song’s music video.

“Lost Without U” has been known as Thicke’s breakthrough single on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 14 on the chart and became his biggest hit until 2013’s “Blurred Lines”.

He also became the first white male artist to top the R&B table since George Michael and his song “One More Try” in 1988. A week later, on the March 3 issue of Billboard, the single also hit number one on two other charts; Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay and Adult R&B Airplay, simultaneously topping all three charts that week. The single eventually spent 11 consecutive weeks atop the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (the biggest hit of the year in that chart) and Adult R&B Airplay charts, and ten consecutive weeks atop the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart. The single was also popular in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number 11 in the UK Singles Chart in July 2007.

The song is a big reason The Evolution of Robin Thicke has sold over one million copies, while selling over 954,000 copies itself.