Someone to Love (Jon B. song)

{{short description|1995 single by Babyface and Jon B.}}

{{Infobox song

| name = Someone to Love

| cover = Jon B. - Someone to Love.png

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Jon B. featuring Babyface

| album = Bonafide

| released = 1995

| recorded = 1994

| studio =

| genre = R&B

| length = 4:33

| label = {{hlist|Yab Yum|550 Music}}

| writer = Babyface

| producer = Babyface

| chronology = Jon B.

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| next_title = Pretty Girl

| next_year = 1995

| misc = {{Extra chronology

| artist = Babyface

| type = Singles

| prev_title = Dream Away

| prev_year = 1994

| title = Someone to Love

| year = 1995

| next_title = Slow Jams

| next_year = 1996

}}

}}

"Someone to Love" is a song by Jon B. from his debut album Bonafide. Released as the first single from the album in 1995, the song is a duet with Babyface that gained wide exposure on the Bad Boys soundtrack.

The song, with a style very much inspired by Babyface,{{cite journal|title=Vibe|journal=Vibe Vixen|date=June 2003|publisher=Vibe Media Group|issn=1070-4701|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_4CYEAAAAMBAJ|page=128|accessdate=2015-04-08}} peaked at number 10 on the US Hot 100 chart and at number 7 on the US R&B chart and was also certified gold by the RIAA.

The song received a Grammy Award nomination for the category Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals in 1996.{{cite news| url=http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Music/9601/grammy_noms/grammy_list.html | work=CNN | title=List of Grammy nominees}} The then 21-year-old Jon B. stated he felt the nomination was "an honor he could not have asked for."{{cite news | url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/1996/02/25/1996-02-25_jon_b___that_grammy___me_.html | location=New York | work=Daily News | title=Jon B: 'That Grammy & Me' | date=1996-02-25 }}{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}