Let's Wait Awhile
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| "Let's Wait Awhile" | ||
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| Image:Letswaitawhile.jpg | ||
| Single by Janet Jackson | ||
| from the album Control | ||
| Released | January, 1987 (U.S.) March 9, 1987 (U.K.) | |
| Format | 7" single, 12" single | |
| Recorded | 1985 | |
| Genre | Pop/R&B | |
| Length | 4:36 | |
| Label | A&M | |
| Writer(s) | Janet Jackson, James Harris, Terry Lewis, Melanie Andrews | |
| Producer(s) | Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis | |
| Certification | Silver (UK) | |
| Chart positions | ||
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| Janet Jackson singles chronology | ||
| "Control" (1986) | "'Let's Wait Awhile" (1987) | "Diamonds" (1987) |
"Let's Wait Awhile" is the fifth single from Janet Jackson's third album Control. Co-written with Melanie Andrews and produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Jackson talked of waiting until the right moment to make love "the right way". It can also be as a song dedicating abstinence.
The song was a precursor to the more sexually-liberated Jackson that was to emerge on the Rhythm Nation 1814's track "Someday Is Tonight". "Someday Is Tonight" can be looked at as Jackson's readiness to go further in their relationship. On Jackson's album 20 Y.O., the track "With U" is the follow-up to "Let's Wait Awhile". "With U" takes place after the act of intimacy the two have put off, which results, Jackson explains, in "romantic confusion".
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[edit] Music Video
When Janet and her boyfriend (played by Taimak Guarriello) go out for a magical night on the town, her boyfriend wants to end the evening by taking their relationship a step further, but Janet wants to wait until they're both ready.
[edit] Chart Performance
Released in 1987, the single peaked at two in the USA becoming Jackson's fifth Top 10 single on the Billboard Hot 100; it also hit one on the R&B singles chart becoming her fourth to top that chart. It was also Jackson's first number one single in South Africa. The single was the forty-eighth biggest Hot 100 single of 1987 and the forty-second biggest Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks single of 1987. The song was kept from number one with "Lean on Me" from Club Nouveau.
[edit] Charts
| Chart (1987) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 2 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks | 1 |
| U.S. Adult Contemporary | 2 |
| U.S. ARC Weekly Top 40 | 2 |
| ARIA Top 50 | 19 |
| Canadian Singles Chart | 14 |
| German Singles Chart | 34 |
| Holland Singles Chart | 16 |
| Japan Singles Chart | 1 |
| Official UK Singles Chart | 3 |
| South African Sales Chart | 1 |
| Switzerland Singles Chart | 27 |
[edit] Track listing
- UK 12" Vinyl maxi single
- Let's Wait Awhile (Remix) (4:30)
- Nasty (Cool Summer Mix Part 1) (7:57)
- Nasty (Cool Summer Mix Part 2) (10:12)
- US 7" vinyl single
- Let's Wait Awhile (Remix) (4:30)
- Pretty Boy (6:32)
- UK - 7" Vinyl single [LIMITED EDITION PICTURE DISC]
- Let's Wait Awhile (Remix) (4:30)
- Nasty (Cool Summer Mix Part 1) [Edit] (4:10)
- Nasty (Edit of Remix) (3:40)
- Control [Edit] (3:26)
[edit] Official versions/remixes
- Album Version (4:37)
- Remix (4:36)
| Preceded by: "Slow Down" by Loose Ends | Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks number one single March 14 1987 | Succeeded by: "Looking For a New Love" by Jody Watley |
| Janet Jackson |
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| Studio albums: Janet Jackson • Dream Street • Control • Rhythm Nation 1814 janet. • The Velvet Rope • All for You • Damita Jo • 20 Y.O. Other albums: Control: The Remixes • Janet. Remixed • Design of a Decade 1986/1996 |
| Discography • Singles • Videography • Filmography • Tours • Awards and accolades |
