to re-produce a track similar to the latter in terms of success, for Usher's 8701 (2001). Composition and release "U Got It Bad" is an R&B ballad. According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, it is written in the key of B minor and has a metronome of 66 beats per minute. Usher's vocal range spans from the low note of F4 to the high note of A5. The song is actually a semitone lower in the key of Bb minor, which would have the vocals span from F4 to Ab5. "U Got It Bad" is a slow jam, that makes use of "digi-coustic" guitars, a "slow-burning bass line" and "sex funk" drums. Usher's vocals "floats and runs" between the song's melody's, before intensifying when entering the chorus. The Neptunes produced track, "I Don’t Know," was initially intended as the album's second single. Rapper P. Diddy was to direct its music video in Los Angeles in July 2001. The song was receiving radio play prior to the release of 8701 first single "U Remind Me". However, Usher instead released "U Got It Bad" as the album's second single, as it presents his own unique sound, "If you wanna know what a Usher record is, then ["U Got It Bad" is] it," while using both Michael Jackson and Bobby Brown as examples of artists who "solidified" their music through their own unique music. "U Got it Bad" was released as a CD single in the US on December 18, 2001. Reception "U Got It Bad" won the 2002 Teen Choice Love Song award. In 2003, the song won an ASCAP Award for Publisher of the Year. In 2016, Complex ranked the song number eight on their list of the 25 greatest Usher songs, and in 2021, American Songwriter ranked the song number five on their list of the 10 greatest Usher songs. Chart performance "U Got It Bad" topped the US Billboard Hot 100 chart on the week of December 15, 2001, becoming Usher's third number-one song on the chart. It was his second Hot 100 number one from 8701 after "U Remind Me", which reached the position in July of the same year. "U Got It Bad" marked the first time he obtained two consecutive number one hits. In December 2001, Usher became one of the few Arista acts to have more than one Hot