It was later released on the group's greatest hits album, The Hits: Chapter One in 2001.Ĭritically, the song was met with positive reception, with many critics commending its catchiness, also calling it the pop ballad of the year. The song was heavily played on the radio, with the video (directed by Wayne Isham) also being heavily played. The pop ballad talks about a relationship strained by matters of emotional or physical distance. The song was written by Max Martin and Andreas Carlsson, with Martin and Kristian Lundin producing.
It was released on April 12, 1999, as the lead single from their third studio album, Millennium. Faced with these obstacles, in 2001, Ancient Future leader Matthew Montfort was involved as a proposed Class Representative for Independent Musicians in a lawsuit against Napster." I Want It That Way" is a song by the Backstreet Boys. Many other independent artists at mp3.com reported legal download to sales figures at more like 1 in 5000.
This doesn't include the many illegal downloads that also occurred. To the contrary, only 1 in 899 legal free promotional downloads of Ancient Future tracks could be matched with a sale anywhere in the distribution chain. For example, even legal downloads at mp3.com, complete with "buy now" links to purchase CDs, did not result in increased sales. It was widely alleged in the media that free downloads would be great publicity and result in more sales. However, rampant free file sharing resulted in the value of recorded music being reduced to zero in the minds of many.
Ancient Future had taken number one positions in nine categories (World, World Fusion, Irish, Indian, Asian, Arabic, Middle Eastern, Russian, and Indonesian) on mp3.com. By the year 2000, Ancient Future had established itself as the top world music group on the Internet. The band Ancient Future even beat The Backstreet Boys to become the number one major artist site. Ancient-Future.Com was the top world music web site 1999/2000 on the mPulse Internet Music Chart, which ranked music sites by numbers of daily unique visitors. The song "El Zaffa" was featured on and received top reviews in its category at before the popular site burned through its funding and folded in December 2000. Ancient Future songs were featured on many mp3 samplers from sites such as and mp3.com with a combined distribution of 750,000 units in 1999 alone.
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