Never Let You Go

Album: My World 2.0 (2010)
Charted: 21
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Songfacts®:

  • This love song is the second single from the second half of Justin's debut album, My World 2.0. The R&B production duo Johnta Austin and Bryan-Michael Cox wrote the tune. The duo's other credits include the Grammy-winning "We Belong Together" for Mariah Carey and Mary J. Blige's single "Be Without You."
  • The Colin Tilley-directed video for this song was shot in the Bahamas. Justin's love interest is played by Dallas-born actress Paige Hurd, whose best known role was portraying Tasha, the next door neighbor of Chris in the Chris Rock-produced TV series Everybody Hates Chris.
  • My World 2.0 debuted at #1 on the Billboard album chart making 16-year-old Justin Bieber the youngest solo male artist to achieve this feat since 1963 when Stevie Wonder, who was 13 at the time, topped the tally.

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