Jason Mraz shares his hit song 'I'm Yours' was never meant to be a single: 'I thought it was a novelty song'

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Jason Mraz shares his hit song 'I'm Yours' was never meant to be a single: 'I thought it was a novelty song'

BY MEGAN DAVIES

 

Image: SCOTT DUDELSON/GETTY IMAGES

 

If you've been to a wedding or, you know, listened to the radio at all in the last decade, chances are you're well aware of Jason Mraz's hit single 'I'm Yours'.

 

After its release in 2008, the track spent 76 weeks on the US Billboard chart's Hot 100 list, was nominated for a Grammy and went on to be certified 9x Platinum in the US (which is nine million certified units, both sales and streaming) and Platinum in the UK too and has been featured in countless films and TV shows ever since.

 

And all that for a song that Mraz didn't actually take all that seriously after he wrote it.

 

"I just thought it was a cute song, a novelty song," he told Sunday Brunch hosts Tim Lovejoy and Simon Rimmer (after they'd finished their ballet dancing) today. "Almost like a kids' song.

 

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