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You Rock My World
Lead vocals: Man
Taal: Engels
You Rock My World is een nummer van de zanger Michael Jackson. Het was de eerste single afkomstig van het album Invincible. In vele landen behaalde het lied de eerste plek in de hitlijsten. In Nederland kwam het tot nummer 3. Zijn eerste top 3-single sinds Scream uit 1995. Het nummer werd genomineerd voor een Grammy Award in 2002.
In het nummer worden alle instrumenten bespeeld door Michael Jackson en Rodney Jerkins en is voornamelijk geschreven door LaShawn Daniels. Het nummer werd opgenomen in een studio in Los Angeles in de periode juli-september in 2000.
"You Rock My World" is a song by American singer Michael Jackson from his tenth and final studio album, Invincible (2001). It was released as the lead single from the album on August 22, 2001, by Epic Records.
"You Rock My World" peaked at number 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and was Jackson's last top-10 song in the United States in his lifetime; the posthumously released "Love Never Felt So Good" peaked at number nine in 2014. The chart position of "You Rock My World"' was attained solely on airplay alone, as no commercial single was initially issued in the United States. The track reached number one in France, Poland, Portugal, Romania, South Africa, and Spain. It also peaked within the top 10 in Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 44th Grammy Awards.
As part of promotion for "You Rock My World", a music video was released. The video, which is thirteen-and-a-half minutes long, was directed by Paul Hunter and features Chris Tucker, Marlon Brando, and Michael Madsen. In the video, Jackson and Tucker portray men who are trying to gain a woman's affection. The video has been compared to Jackson's previous videos "Smooth Criminal" and "The Way You Make Me Feel".
"You Rock My World" was performed only twice by Jackson: at Madison Square Garden in New York City at concerts on September 7 and 10, 2001, to celebrate Jackson's career as a solo artist. Footage of the performance was shown in the two-hour CBS television special titled Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration.