["If you didn't know the boy is mine","","It's not hard to see the boy is mine","","You keep on acting like a fool","You need to give it up, had about enough","","I'm sorry that you seem to be confused","","There is no way you could mistake","I'm sorry that you seem to be confused","He belongs to me, the boy is mine","You need to give it up, had about enough","","He is a part of my life","I'm sorry that you seem to be confused","","He belongs to me, the boy is mine","","He belongs to me, the boy is mine","But when will you get the picture","It's not hard to see the boy is mine","Yeah, you do too but, umm, I just wanted to know","","It's not hard to see the boy is mine","You need to know it's me not you","I know it's killing you inside","You need to give it up, had about enough","He belongs to me, the boy is mine","I just wanted to let you know he's mine","I'm sorry that you seem to be confused","I'm sorry that you seem to be confused","You can't destroy this love I've found","The boy is mine","He belongs to me, the boy is mine","","The boy is mine","Your silly games I won't allow","That his love is all in me","I didn't want to say what he told me","It's not hard to see the boy is mine","You might as well throw in the towel","But you're blind if you can't see","It's not hard to see the boy is mine","He was my love from the start","You need to give it up, had about enough","You need to give it up, had about enough","He belongs to me, the boy is mine","I'm sorry that you seem to be confused","Special places in my heart?","","","Him for your man, are you insane?","","You see I try to hesitate","And if you didn't know it girl, it's true","It through the day, ain't that a shame?","","You need to give it up, had about enough","Let's sit and talk face to face","","You see, I know that you may be","You're the past, I'm the future","'Cause I can't see how he could","Oh, yeah, definitely I know his name","The boy is mine","He belongs to me, the boy is mine","When I'm the one that brought him to","You can say what you want to say","Must you do the things you do?","From the truth you can't escape","I'm trying to understand why","Because my love was all it took","I think that you should realize","Get away, it's my time to shine","But maybe you misunderstood","It's not hard to see the boy is mine","I'm sorry that you seem to be confused","","He said without me he couldn't make","Excuse me, can I please talk to you for a minute?","I think it's time we got this straight","","You need to give it up, had about enough","Do you know somebody named, you, you know his name","The boy is mine, the boy is mine, the boy is mine","Uh, huh, sure, you know you look kinda familiar","Just a bit jealous of me","What makes you think that he wants you","Huh, no, no, he's mine","The boy is mine without a doubt","","What we have you can't take","","","Wanna change something that's so good","The boy is mine, the boy is mine","I can tell the real from the fake","It's not hard to see the boy is mine"]
Performed by: Brandy; Brandy & Monica
Written by: Lashawn Daniels; Bernard Edwards; Fred Jerkins; Rodney Jerkins; Brandy Norwood; Nile Gregory Rodgers; Japhe Tejeda
Credits: Daniels, Lashawn (Songwriter); Edwards, Bernard (Songwriter); Jerkins, Fred (Songwriter); Jerkins, Rodney (Songwriter); Norwood, Brandy (Songwriter); Rodgers, Nile Gregory (Songwriter); Tejeda, Japhe (Songwriter); BERNARD'S OTHER MUSIC (Publisher); EMI APRIL MUSIC INC. (Publisher); EMI BLACKWOOD MUSIC INC. (Publisher); FRED JERKINS III PUBLISHING (Publisher); HENCHI MUSIC (Publisher); LASHAWN DANIELS PRODUCTIONS, INC. (Publisher); RODNEY JERKINS PRODUCTIONS INC (Publisher); SONY/ATV MELODY (Publisher); SONY/ATV SONGS LLC (Publisher)
"The Boy Is Mine" was the first number-one pop record for both artists, both stateside and internationally. Exploiting the media's presumption of a rivalry between the two young singers,[2] the song became one of the most successful records of the year, spending a record-breaking thirteen weeks on top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and it reached the top five on most of the other charts on which it appeared.[2]
The video, shot in April 1998 and directed by Joseph Kahn, begins with the girls in their apartments, watching television. Brandy watches the The Jerry Springer Show (whose episode title is that of the song) but then Monica accidentally turns Brandy's TV to a romantic movie, in which Monica is watching on her own TV set. Whenever Brandy or Monica turns the channel, the other's TV stays on that channel and they grow sick of it. They then give up and start to sing. The next scene shows Brandy and Monica discussing their problem with their separate groups of friends. The video premiered on Wednesday, April 29, 1998. The "boy" himself (played by Mekhi Phifer, who played Brandy's boyfriend in the movie I Still Know What You Did Last Summer) then appears outside the two girls apartment, where all their friends walk by him as they exit their respective friends place.. The girls are in pajamas next, and then each one calls the man over to choose. After Brandy and Monica fight with words, the man comes to the apartment, frustrated over who to choose. The door opens, and only Brandy is shown. Then it swings a little wider and Monica comes. The man gets a startled expression, and the door is slammed in his face. The video was nominated for two 1998 MTV Video Music Awards, for Best R&B Video, and Video of the Year.
"The Boy Is Mine" topped the U.S. Hot 100 for thirteen weeks and the Canadian Singles Chart for fifteen weeks, which made it one of the biggest singles of the 1990s, selling over two million copies. The song became the first significant European success for Brandy and Monica and peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart at number three on the Swedish Singles Chart. "The Boy Is Mine" also charted at number three on the Australian Singles Chart. In the U.S. it ascended twenty-two positions from number twenty-three to number one the week of June 6, 1998, and became one of the biggest jumps to number one in the history of the Billboard Hot 100.
