Originally , the two artists recorded their vocals for the song together with Jerkins and his production team at the Record One Studios in North Hollywood . However , the joint recording was felt to be a failure so Monica re-recorded her vocals separately at the DARP Studios in Atlanta , Georgia with longtime contributor Dallas Austin and turned the song into a more mature pop sound . ( Thus , Austin would later share the main production credit alongside Jerkins . ) Though both Brandy and Monica repeatedly denied the song reflected any actual rivalry between them , tabloids began writing the opposite . There were claims that Monica was upset when Brandy performed the song solo on '' The Tonight Show with Jay Leno '' , and Brandy was reportedly miffed when Monica opted to take the name of the duet for the title of her second album . Following reports that the pair came to blows during a rehearsal for a performance at the MTV Video Music Awards in September 1998 , talk of the rivalry became so loud that the singers ' managers released a joint statement in which they called the press out for its " disturbing behavior " and called the " ongoing negativity as totally unfair . " As with " The Boy Is Mine , " Jerkins later claimed that both singers " did n’t get along " during production and that he and Dexter Simmons remixed the track seven times to keep everything even . In a 2012 interview with WZMX , Monica spoke about her past relationship with Brandy : " We were young . We could barely stay in the room with each other . By no means was it jealousy or envy . She and I are polar opposites and instead of embracing that , we used our differences as reasons not to be amongst each other . " On June 6 , 1998 , " The Boy Is Mine " became both singers ' first number-one hit and fifth top ten entry for each on the US '' Billboard '' Hot 100 . Bouncing from number 23 to the top spot , it became the second song in the history of the chart to ascend directly to number-one from a previous position beneath the Top 20 , following The Beatles and the 27 – 1 leap of their single " Ca n't Buy Me Love " in April 1964 . In addition , it was the first number-one collaboration between solo women since 1979 's two-weeks number-one run of " No More Tears ( Enough Is Enough ) , " performed by Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer . The same week , " The Boy Is Mine " also moved to number-one on the Hot R&B Singles , Hot 100 Singles Sales and Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales charts . Within the first month of its purchasable release the song went on to sell 605,000 units . It spent thirteen consecutive weeks atop the '' Billboard '' Hot 100 and has since been ranked among the longest running number-one songs in US chart history , sharing this record with Boyz II Men 's " End of the Road " ( 1992 ) . " The Boy Is Mine " was the best-selling single of 1998 in the US , with sales of 2,591,000 , with the second best-selling single being Next 's " Too Close " . It was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ) and was ranked eighth on '' Billboard '' s Decade-End Charts . The song spent 18 weeks in the top 10 and a total of 27 weeks in the Top 50
MTV Video Music Awards
1998 MTV Video Music Awards
The Boy Is Mine (song)