2010 single by Aloe Blacc
"I Need a Dollar " is a song performed by American singer Aloe Blacc , written by Blacc, Leon Michels, Nick Movshon and Jeff Dynamite.[ 2]
It is the intro song for the HBO show How to Make It in America , and was featured as the iTunes Single of the Week.[ 3] It also featured in the game Fight Night Champion . Blacc has performed the song live on Later... with Jools Holland , The Graham Norton Show , Late Night with Jimmy Fallon , and Conan . In April 2011, it was featured in a commercial for Boost Mobile wireless services.
Music video
The standard version of the song has two music videos. The first, released in 2010, was filmed in New York , and features the screen being split in half. The right side shows Blacc singing inside an apartment while the left side shows a man walking through the streets of New York. Once Aloe enters the left side after the line "Maybe it's inside the bottle" and performs at a bar, the song changes to "Life So Hard".
The second, released in 2011, was filmed in and around Las Vegas and was directed by Derek Pike . The video shows Blacc walking alone along a highway in Nevada , and then hitching a ride to Las Vegas, where he finds a dollar coin on the casino floor, uses it to play a slot machine, and wins.
UK digital single[ 4]
"I Need a Dollar" – 4:05
"I Need a Dollar" (Radio Mix) – 3:22
"I Need a Dollar" (Zinc Remix) – 5:48
"I Need a Dollar" (Blue Fear Trance Remix) – 10:49
German digital single[ 5]
"I Need a Dollar" – 4:02
"I Need a Dollar" (Tensnake Remix) – 6:45
"I Need a Dollar" (M.Arfmann & Chassy Wezar RMX) – 3:27
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Chart (2010)
Position
Austrian Singles Chart[ 25]
57
Belgian Singles Chart (Flanders)[ 26]
18
Belgian Singles Chart (Wallonia)[ 27]
55
French Singles Chart[ 28]
86
Germany Singles Chart[ 29]
86
Swiss Singles Chart[ 30]
55
Chart (2011)
Position
Australian Singles Chart[ 31]
64
Irish Singles Chart[ 32]
20
Swiss Singles Chart[ 33]
61
UK Singles Chart[ 34]
18
Certifications
Samples and covers
Various hip-hop artists have sampled "I Need a Dollar" or freestyled over the instrumental, including Yelawolf , T.I. , Wax , Dumbfoundead , Chris Webby , MGK , and Mac Miller , and Sammy Adams .
Australian artist Xavier Rudd covered "I Need a Dollar" on 'Like a Version ', a segment on the Australian radio station 'Triple J '
British artists Ed Solo and Deekline together remixed "I Need A Dollar" and released it as a single with the same name.[ 47]
References
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^ "I Need A Dollar" . amazon.co.uk .
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^ "Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar" . ARIA Top 50 Singles . Retrieved 2011-09-08.
^ "Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40 . Retrieved 2010-01-27.
^ "Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50 . Retrieved 2010-01-27.
^ "Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar" (in French). Ultratop 50 . Retrieved 2010-01-27.
^ "ČNS IFPI" (in Czech). Hitparáda – Radio Top 100 Oficiální. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: Select 44. týden 2011 in the date selector . Retrieved 9 November 2011.
^ "Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar" . Tracklisten . Retrieved 2010-01-27.
^ I Need a Dollar - Aloe Blacc . Billboard .
^ "Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar" (in French). Les classement single . Retrieved 2010-05-29.
^ "Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts . Retrieved 20 January 2020.
^ "Archívum – Slágerlisták – MAHASZ" (in Hungarian). Rádiós Top 40 játszási lista . Magyar Hanglemezkiadók Szövetsége. Retrieved 2012-09-12.
^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – I Need a Dollar" . Irish Singles Chart . Retrieved 20 January 2020.
^ "Media Forest Week 50, 2010 ". Israeli Airplay Chart. Media Forest .
^ "Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar" . Top Digital Download .
^ "Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar" . Top 40 Singles . Retrieved 2011-06-27.
^ "Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar" (in Dutch). Single Top 100 . Retrieved 2010-01-27.
^ "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100" . Official Charts Company .
^ "Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar" . Swiss Singles Chart .
^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100" . Official Charts Company .
^ "Official Hip Hop and R&B Singles Chart Top 40" . Official Charts Company .
^ "Jahreshitparade 2010" . Ö3 Austria Top 40. Retrieved September 25, 2022 .
^ "Ultratop Belgian Charts" . ultratop.be. Retrieved 2011-09-25 .
^ "Ultratop Belgian Charts" . ultratop.be. Retrieved 2011-09-25 .
^ "BILAN ECONOMIQUE 2010" (PDF) . Retrieved 2011-09-25 .
^ "VIVA Single Jahrescharts 2010 - 2010" . Archived from the original on 2011-12-08. Retrieved 2011-12-29 .
^ "Swiss Year-End Charts 2010" . swisscharts.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-12. Retrieved 2011-09-25 .
^ "Adele's "21" crowned ARIA's highest selling album of 2011 LMFAO takes single honours with "Party Rock Anthem" " (PDF) . Retrieved 2012-01-01 .
^ "Best of 2011" . IRMA. Retrieved September 2, 2018 .
^ "SCHWEIZER JAHRESHITPARADE 2011" . hitparade.ch. Archived from the original on 2013-08-15. Retrieved 2012-01-02 .
^ "The Top 20 biggest selling singles of 2011 revealed!" . Official Charts Company. 2012-01-02.
^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2011 Singles" (PDF) . Australian Recording Industry Association .
^ "Austrian single certifications – Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar" (in German). IFPI Austria. Retrieved December 23, 2022 .
^ "Ultratop − Goud en Platina – singles 2010" . Ultratop . Hung Medien.
^ "Canadian single certifications – Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar" . Music Canada . Retrieved September 30, 2021 .
^ "Danish single certifications – Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar" . IFPI Danmark .
^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Aloe Blacc; ' I Need a Dollar' )" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie . Retrieved November 30, 2023 .
^ "Italian single certifications – Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana . Retrieved August 16, 2022 . Select "2018" in the "Anno" drop-down menu. Type "I Need a Dollar" in the "Filtra" field. Select "Singoli" under "Sezione".
^ "New Zealand single certifications – Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar" . Recorded Music NZ . Retrieved 2024-11-20 .
^ "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (' I Need a Dollar' )" . IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien.
^ Jones, Alan (7 April 2014). "Official Charts Analysis: Kaiser Chiefs almost double previous album's sales to hit No.1" . Music Week . Intent Media. Retrieved 9 June 2015 .
^ "British single certifications – Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar" . British Phonographic Industry .
^ "Danish single certifications – Aloe Blacc – I Need a Dollar" . IFPI Danmark .
^ "I Need a Dollar - Single by Deekline & Ed Solo on Apple Music" . iTunes .
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