"Call on Me" is a song by American R&B-pop; singer Janet Jackson and American rapper Nelly from Jackson's ninth studio album, 20 Y.O. (2006). Written by Jermaine Dupri, Johnta Austin, James "LRoc" Phillips, Nelly, James Harris III, and Terry Lewis, it was released as the album's lead single in mid-2006, peaking at number twenty-five on the Billboard Hot 100, her highest-charting single since "Someone to Call My Lover" hit number three in 2001. Ad...
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"Call on Me" is a song by American R&B-pop; singer Janet Jackson and American rapper Nelly from Jackson's ninth studio album, 20 Y.O. (2006). Written by Jermaine Dupri, Johnta Austin, James "LRoc" Phillips, Nelly, James Harris III, and Terry Lewis, it was released as the album's lead single in mid-2006, peaking at number twenty-five on the Billboard Hot 100, her highest-charting single since "Someone to Call My Lover" hit number three in 2001. Additionally, it spent two non-consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Songs chart, making it Jackson's sixteenth R&B; chart-topper.
"Call on Me" is a mid-tempo song which samples The SOS Band's 1983 song "Tell Me If You Still Care", written and produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. On the song, Jackson said, "It's really just a record about when you need a friend, somebody you need to talk to, just call on a person. It's a friend record. It really is not a boyfriend/girlfriend record. The way Nelly and Janet are...
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