:I Wanna Be with You (album)

Moore recorded four of the five new songs on I Wanna Be with You in the beginning of 2000. The album was quickly conceived following the recording of the title track and its inclusion on the Center Stage soundtrack. Scott Carter, senior director of product marketing for 550 Music said: "Instead of just releasing it on the soundtrack, we thought we'd like to do something special. We didn't feel like waiting the standard 18 months [to release another album]. With the remixes and the videos, we loaded up to bring more value to it. It happened very quickly."{{Cite web |title=Mandy Moore Grows Up On I Wanna Be With You |url=https://www.mtv.com/news/kuuqjm/mandy-moore-grows-up-on-i-wanna-be-with-you |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608173237/https://www.mtv.com/news/kuuqjm/mandy-moore-grows-up-on-i-wanna-be-with-you |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 8, 2023 |access-date=2023-06-08 |website=MTV |language=en}} The new track "Everything My Heart Desires" is a cover of the 1999 single originally by Adam Rickitt. Other tracks new to the release were "Want You Back", "The Way to My Heart", and "Your Face". "Let Me Be the One", which was previously included on So Real, is a cover of the 1985 single originally by Five Star and appears on the Japanese and Asian editions of I Wanna Be with You.

The album was intended to feature a more mature side to Moore. Moore explained: "I've grown as a person. Obviously, I'm a more confident person and performer, and I don't know if 'Candy' was representing me as well anymore. Maybe at that point it was. I still don't think it was where I wanted to go with my music."

I Wanna Be with You was released in numerous editions worldwide. In North America, the album followed the release of So Real five months prior. The album was marketed as "a new version of Mandy's debut", containing five new songs, three remixes, and four songs from So Real.[http://mandymooredirect.com/product_information.asp?PRODUCT=SNY62195&TYPE=Music/Videos "Moore, Mandy - I Wanna Be With You (Special Edition)"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000619182358/http://mandymooredirect.com/product_information.asp?PRODUCT=SNY62195&TYPE=Music/Videos |date=June 19, 2000 }} Internationally, I Wanna Be with You was released as Moore's debut album as opposed to So Real.{{cite web |last1=Scott |first1=Danny |title=Mandy Moore - I Wanna Be With You |url=http://www.qonline.co.uk/reviews/server.asp?id=18924 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001202130500/http://www.qonline.co.uk/reviews/server.asp?id=18924 |archive-date=2 December 2000 |website=Q Magazine}}{{cite web |last1=Roberts |first1=James |title=Mandy Moore - 'I Wanna Be with You' (EPIC) |url=http://www.dotmusic.com/reviews/Albums/May2000/reviews13857.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000620023407/http://www.dotmusic.com/reviews/Albums/May2000/reviews13857.asp |archive-date=20 June 2000 |website=Dotmusic}} These international editions omit the remixes and borrow more heavily from So Real but still contain the five new songs. The European and Australian editions of the album have an alternative track list and feature eight songs from So Real.{{cite AV media notes |date=May 9, 2000 |title=Mandy Moore – I Wanna Be With You |medium=CD |publisher=Epic |id=498276 2}}{{Cite web |title=I Wanna Be With You |url=http://www.sonymusic.com.au/artists/mandymoore/releases/home.do?catalogueNo=498238.2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040117025355/http://www.sonymusic.com.au/artists/mandymoore/releases/home.do?catalogueNo=498238.2 |archive-date=17 January 2004 |website=Sony Music Australia}} The Japanese edition of the album also has an alternate track list and features all of the songs from So Real except "Love Shot". A version distributed by Sony Music Asia in other Asian countries such as Taiwan and Malaysia feature the same initial track list as So Real and contain all of the songs originally featured on the album, but add the five new tracks at the end as bonus tracks.{{cite AV media notes |date=May 7, 2000 |title=Mandy Moore – I Wanna Be With You |medium=CD |publisher=Epic, Sony Music Asia |id=498545.2 |location=Taiwan}}{{cite AV media notes |date=May 7, 2000 |title=Mandy Moore – I Wanna Be With You |medium=CD |publisher=Epic, Sony Music Asia |id=498545.2 |location=Malaysia}} The Australian release of I Wanna Be with You has the same cover photograph as the one featured on So Real. Worldwide, releases that were issued on compact disc are enhanced CDs containing the music videos for "Candy" and "Walk Me Home" alongside an electronic press kit.

In the United Kingdom and Australia, where the So Real album was not released, "Candy" was marketed as the first single from I Wanna Be with You.{{cite AV media notes |date=May 9, 2000 |title=Mandy Moore – Candy |medium=CD |publisher=Epic |id=669345 2 |quote=Taken from the forthcoming EPIC release I Wanna Be With You}} The single peaked at number six on the UK Singles Chart and spent 14 weeks on the chart.{{Cite web |title=MANDY MOORE {{!}} full Official Chart History {{!}} Official Charts Company |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/9093/mandy-moore/ |access-date=2023-06-08 |website=www.officialcharts.com}} In Australia, the single spent 18 weeks on the ARIA charts, peaked at number two, and was certified Platinum.{{Cite web |title=2000s Singles Accreditations |url=http://www.aria.com.au/accreditationsintl.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011201101057/http://www.aria.com.au/accreditationsintl.htm |archive-date=December 1, 2001 |website=ARIA}}

In the United States, "I Wanna Be with You" was the first single released from the album and as a single from the soundtrack to the 2000 film Center Stage on April 3, 2000.{{cite AV media notes|title=I Wanna Be with You|others=Mandy Moore|year=2000|type=Australian maxi-CD single liner notes|publisher=Epic Records, 550 Music|id=FFM 669469 2}}{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0A4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA24|title=Reviews & Previews: Singles – Spotlight|editor-last=Taylor|editor-first=Chuck|editor-link=Chuck Taylor (music journalist)|magazine=Billboard|via=Google Books|volume=112|issue=15|page=24|date=April 8, 2000}} It spent 16 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at number 24 in its ninth week on the chart.[{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=mandy moore|chart=all}} I Wanna Be with You], Billboard.com In the UK, it was released as the second single from the album, spent five weeks on the chart, and peaked at number 21, becoming her second and final single to chart in the country. The single was more successful in Australia, where it was released as the third single from the album in September 2000. It spent 19 weeks on the ARIA charts, peaked at number 13, and was certified Gold.{{cite web |url=http://australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Mandy+Moore |title=Discography Mandy Moore |website=Australian-charts.com |access-date=2011-04-05 |archive-date=October 5, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005044315/http://www.australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Mandy+Moore |url-status=live }}

"So Real" was released as the second single from the album in Australia (but third single overall) on June 13, 2000. It spent 11 weeks on the ARIA charts and peaked at number 21.

"Walk Me Home" was first released on December 4, 1999, as the second single in the US from So Real, but did not chart. In October 2000, the song was re-released to promote I Wanna Be with You and peaked at number 38 on the Billboard Pop Airplay chart, spending two weeks on the chart.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QBIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA25|title=Billboard|page=25|website=Books.google.com|date=21 October 2000}}{{cite AV media notes |date=October 2000 |title=Mandy Moore – Walk Me Home |medium=CD |publisher=Epic |id=BSK 16170 |quote=Taken from the Epic/550 release I Wanna Be With You}}

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The album received generally mixed reviews from music critics. Many reviewers were critical of the album containing material from So Real, with Rickey Wright from Amazon writing that the album was released "mainly to ride the success of its title single" and Rolling Stone describing the album as "reconfigured, slightly improved reissue" of So Real.{{cite magazine|last1=Walters |first1=Barry |title=Mandy Moore - Mandy Moore |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/mandy-moore-20010724 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=July 24, 2001 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160428170024/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/mandy-moore-20010724 |archive-date=April 28, 2016 }} Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic called the album a "crass marketing move" and Linda Ryan of Rhapsody described the release as "ostentatious". Despite this, both Erlewine and Ryan described the album as stronger than its predecessor. Erlewine noted that the album contained "all [the] essential ingredients for a good teen pop album" and Ryan described the remixes on the album as "slick and radio-friendly". Wright was critical of the Wade Robson remixes, calling them "inferior", and described So Real as "the better of her releases".

Danny Scott from Q compared the album to works of Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears, describing it as "predictably polished and irrepressibly upbeat". Sean Richardson from The Boston Phoenix wrote "Moore’s vocals are both stronger and more understated than Britney’s, but her material has far less personality."{{cite magazine |last=Richardson |first=Sean |date=June 9, 2000 |title=Copycatting: Britney and Mandy |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_boston-phoenix_june-9-15-2000_29_23/page/n85/ |magazine=The Boston Phoenix}} James Roberts from Dotmusic described the production style on the album as being different from the works of Spears, writing "there is more to Mandy than most who heard 'Candy' would give her credit for."

I Wanna Be with You debuted at number 21 on the US Billboard 200, selling 58,000 copies in its first week.{{cite web | title=David Duchovny will return to The X-Files | website=EW.com | date=May 18, 2000 | url=https://ew.com/article/2000/05/18/david-duchovny-will-return-x-files/ | access-date=March 6, 2022}} In July 2000, it was certified gold in the US for shipments of 500,000 copies. By June 2009, it had sold over 805,000 copies in the country.{{cite magazine|url=http://login.vnuemedia.com/bbbiz/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003980937|title=Ask Billboard: The Black Eyed Peas, Linkin Park, Mandy Moore|last=Trust|first=Gary|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|date=June 5, 2009|access-date=April 5, 2011}}

In New Zealand, the album peaked at number six.

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| length8 = 3:53

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| extra9 = The Wasabees

| length9 = 3:50

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| writer10 = Battaglia, Obie Morant

| extra10 = The Wasabees

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| length12 = 3:22

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| title4 = Walk Me Home

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| extra4 = The Wasabees

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| title5 = Lock Me in Your Heart

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| title7 = Quit Breaking My Heart

| writer7 = Battaglia, Fisher

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| title10 = Love Shot

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| extra11 = Moran

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| extra13 = The Wasabees

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Credits for I Wanna Be with You adapted from AllMusic.{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/so-real-mw0000246504/credits|title=So Real - Mandy Moore - Credits - AllMusic|website=AllMusic}}

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• Mandy Moore – primary artist
• Tiffany Arbuckle – backing vocals
• Alan Armitage – assistant engineer
• Chris Athens – mastering
• Eric Bickel – assistant engineer
• Chris Braide – guitar
• Dakari – guest artist
• Jive – guest artist
• Billy Lawrence – guest artist
• Alice Butts – design
• Tom Coyne – mastering
• Richard Dodd – cello
• Fraser T. Smith – guitar
• Terry Glenny – violin
• Eric Gorfain – string arrangements, violin
• Kenny Greenberg – electric guitar
• David Guerrero – assistant engineer
• Bobby Guy – producer
• Roland Hartwell – violin
• José Juan Sánchez – assistant
• Shaun Shankel – digital editing, editing, production coordination
• Dan Shea – keyboards, producer, programming
• Roger Sommers – engineer, mixing
• Manelich Sotolong – assistant engineer
• Soul Solution – producer
• Tom Tally – viola
• Keith Thomas – arranger, bass, drum programming, acoustic guitar, producer, programming, synthesizer, synthesizer programming
• Nick Trevisick – producer, programming
• Marcy Vaj – violin
• Bill Whittington – engineer, mixing
• Robb Williams – engineer
• John Yoakum – flute, oboe
• Dan Muckala – programming
• David Palmer – drums
• Julian Peploe – art direction
• Wade Robson – producer, remix producer
• Corey Rooney – keyboards, mixing, producer, programming
• Ken Ross – executive producer
• Jose Sanchez – programming

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