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I Don't Wanna Know (Mario Winans song)

"I Don't Wanna Know"
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Single by Mario Winans featuring Enya and P. Diddy
from the album Hurt No More
B-side "Pretty Girl Bullsh*t"
Released November 18, 2003
Genre R&B
Length 4:17
Label Bad Boy
Writer(s) Mario Winans, Sean Combs, Enya, Lo Down, Chauncey Hawkins, Erick Sermon, Parrish Smith
Producer(s) Mario Winans
Mario Winans singles chronology
"Crush on You"
(2003)
"I Don't Wanna Know"
(2003)
"Never Really Was"
(2004)
P. Diddy singles chronology
"Shake Ya Tailfeather"
(2004)
"I Don't Wanna Know"
(2004)
"Show Me Your Soul"
(2004)
Enya singles chronology
"May It Be"
(2002)
"I Don't Wanna Know"
(2004)
"Amarantine"
(2005)
Music video
"I Don't Wanna Know" on YouTube

"I Don't Wanna Know" is a song by American R&B artist Mario Winans, featuring a rap by P. Diddy, re-recorded background vocals by Enya and sampling the synthesizer riff from Enya's song "Boadicea". It reached number 1 in the United Kingdom and in Netherlands, and number 2 in the United States, stuck for eight consecutive weeks behind the Usher singles "Yeah" and "Burn", respectively. It remains Winans' only major success to date. As a result of its eight weeks at number 2, "I Don't Wanna Know" stands in joint fifth place for the most weeks at number 2 by a song which did not go to number 1, behind Foreigner's "Waiting for a Girl Like You", Missy Elliott's "Work It", Donna Lewis's "I Love You Always Forever" and Shania Twain's "You're Still the One".

The song is based on a sample of the Fugees' 1996 hit single "Ready or Not", which itself was based on a slowed-down sample of the instrumental track "Boadicea" by Enya from her 1987 album Enya. Winans said: "I first heard 'Boadicea' at the end of the movie Sleepwalkers about five or six years ago. It's something I always wanted to produce. Then when The Fugees did it, oh my God, I loved it."


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