I Will Be Here

"I Will Be Here"
Single by Tiësto and Sneaky Sound System
from the album Kaleidoscope
Released28 July 2009
Recorded2009
Genre
Length
  • 3:50 (radio edit)
  • 3:25 (album version)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Tiësto singles chronology
"Ride"
(2008)
"I Will Be Here"
(2009)
"Escape Me"
(2009)
Sneaky Sound System singles chronology
"It's Not My Problem"
(2009)
"I Will Be Here"
(2009)
"We Love"
(2011)
Music video
"I Will Be Here" on YouTube

"I Will Be Here" is a song recorded by Tiësto and Sneaky Sound System with vocals from Sneaky Sound System's Connie Mitchell. Released on 28 July 2009, the song is the first single off the album Kaleidoscope.

Music video

The music video for "I Will Be Here" premiered on Tiësto's Myspace on 7 August 2009. Tiësto teamed up with acclaimed Japanese director Masashi Muto and dancer Mori Koichiro to create the music video for "I Will Be Here", a collaboration with Sneaky Sound System.[2] It begins with a man working on a single computer in a lab, while the screens begin to display Tiësto and Sneaky Sound System logos. He puts on a single speaker "backpack," hooked up to a "Tiësto" cassette player, and presses play. As the music starts, he begins to walk in a robotic fashion, as the computer screens all flicker and switch to the same logos as he leaves the lab. All the lights around him begin to pulsate he walks by, synchronized with the music, while the blue stripes on his white spacesuit outfit also show different light animations. Exiting through a parking deck, he eventually makes his way through Shibuya, Tokyo, and does one final dance in the middle of the famous intersection in front of the Hachiko exit at Shibuya Station, before going to the top of a building, where he "powers down" as the music ends.[1]

Chart performance

In the United States, the single became their first number one single for both acts on Billboard's Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart, where it reached that peak in its 21 November 2009 issue. The song also peaked at number 44 in the United Kingdom and number 33 in the Netherlands.[3]

Track listing

Digital download
No.TitleLength
1."I Will Be Here" (Album Version)3:25
2."I Will Be Here" (Radio Edit)3:50
3."I Will Be Here" (Wolfgang Gartner Remix)8:13

Charts

Chart performance for "I Will Be Here"
Chart (2009–2010) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[4] 59
CIS Airplay (TopHit)[5]
Wolfgang Gartner Remix
79
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[6] 33
Poland (Dance Top 50)[7] 6
UK Singles (OCC)[8] 44
US Dance/Mix Show Airplay (Billboard)[9] 1

References

  1. ^ a b "I Will Be Here" on Discogs
  2. ^ "Exclusive MySpace Worldwide Video Premiere "I Will Be Here"". Archived from the original on 2009-08-10. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
  3. ^ "Dutch Charts - dutchcharts.nl".
  4. ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 258.
  5. ^ Tiesto feat. Sneaky Sound System — I Will Be Here (Wolfgang Gartner Remix). TopHit. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  6. ^ "Tiësto feat. Sneaky Sound System – I Will Be Here" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
  7. ^ "Listy bestsellerów, wyróżnienia :: Związek Producentów Audio-Video". Polish Dance Top 50. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
  8. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
  9. ^ "Tiesto Chart History (Dance Mix/Show Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved 8 November 2021.