"Right to Be Wrong" is a song by English soul

Soul music

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 singer-songwriter Joss Stone

Joss Stone

Jocelyn Eve Stoker , better known by her stage name Joss Stone, is an English soul singer-songwriter and actress. Stone rose to fame in late 2003 with her multi-platinum debut album, The Soul Sessions, which made the 2004 Mercury Prize shortlist...

 from her second studio album, Mind Body & Soul (2004). Written by Stone, Desmond Child

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 and Betty Wright

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Bessie Regina Norris, better known by her stage name, Betty Wright , is a Grammy winning Miami-based soul and R&B singer-songwriter, who won fame in the 1970s with hits such as "Clean Up Woman" and "Tonight Is the Night"...

, the track was released in the United Kingdom on 29 November 2004 as the album's second single

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. It peaked at number twenty-nine on the UK Singles Chart

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, where it stayed for six weeks. The song was covered

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 in Spanish

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 by Mexican rock

Rock music

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 singer Alejandra Guzmán

Alejandra Guzmán

Alejandra Gabriela Guzmán Pinal , better known as Alejandra Guzmán, is a Latin Grammy Award–winning Mexican rock singer and actress. She has had a dedicated fanbase throughout Latin America since the late 1980s, and is known as the "Queen of Rock" in the Hispanic world...

 on her 2004 album Lipstick

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, retitled "Tengo Derecho a Estar Mal" (meaning "I've Got the Right to Be Wrong").

Stone performed a folk

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 version of the song when she made a cameo appearance as herself in the third season of the American series American Dreams

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, in the episode "Starting Over", which aired on 30 January 2005.

The song was included on the international soundtrack of the Brazi

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lian soap opera Como uma Onda.

Critical reception

Entertainment Weekly

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's David Browne says that "Right to Be Wrong, [is] a weirdly defensive song given Stone's out-of-the-gate success". Yahoo's Music's Dan Gennoe called it "late night smoulder".

Track listings

UK CD 1

1. "Right to Be Wrong" – 4:40
2. "Jet Lag" (Acoustic Live Performance from Sessions@AOL
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   ) – 4:25

UK CD 2

1. "Right to Be Wrong" – 4:40
2. "The Player" – 4:41
3. "Don't Know How" (Acoustic Live Performance from Sessions@AOL) – 4:01

UK 7" single

A. "Right to Be Wrong" – 4:40

B. "Jet Lag" (Acoustic Live Performance from Sessions@AOL) – 4:25

UK and US promo single

1. "Right to Be Wrong" (Radio Edit) – 3:59

Musicians

• Joss Stone – lead vocals
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  , backing vocals
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• AJ Nilo – guitar
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• Jack Daley – bass
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• Cindy Blackman
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   – drums
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• Benny Latimore
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   – piano
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• Raymond Angry – Hammond organ
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• Tom "Bones" Malone
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   – flugelhorn
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• Angelo Morris – Fender Rhodes
• Betty Wright
  Betty Wright
  Bessie Regina Norris, better known by her stage name, Betty Wright , is a Grammy winning Miami-based soul and R&B singer-songwriter, who won fame in the 1970s with hits such as "Clean Up Woman" and "Tonight Is the Night"...
  
   – backing vocals
• Bombshell – backing vocals

Production

• Mike Mangini
  Mike Mangini
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   – producer
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  , mixing
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• Steve Greenberg
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  Steve Greenberg is a record producer currently heading the S-Curve Records label. He is noted for "discovering" popular musical acts such as Hanson, Baha Men, Jonas Brothers and Joss Stone. He received a 2000 Grammy Award in the "Best Dance Recording" category as a producer of "Who Let the Dogs...
  
   – producer
• Betty Wright – producer
• Steve Greenwell – engineer
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  , mixing

Charts

Chart (2004)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	29
Chart (2005)	Peak position
Belgian Tip Chart Ultratop 50 Ultratop 50 singles, often just Ultratop 50, is the weekly chart of fifty best-selling singles in Flanders, Belgium, and is produced and published by the Ultratop organization. The chart has existed since March 31, 1995...  (Flanders)	2
Belgian Tip Chart Ultratop 40 Ultratop 40 singles, often just Ultratop 40, is the weekly chart of best-selling singles in Wallonia and Brussels Capital Region, the french-speaking parts of Belgium. Its equivalent covering the Flanders region is Ultratop 50. Both charts are produced and published by the Ultratop organization...  (Wallonia)	16
Dutch Top 40 Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting...	14
Italian Singles Chart Federation of the Italian Music Industry The Federation of the Italian Music Industry is an umbrella organization that keeps track of virtually all aspects of the music recording industry in Italy....	30
Swiss Singles Chart Swiss Music Charts The Swiss Music Charts are Switzerland's main music sales charts. The charts are a record of the highest-selling singles and albums in various genres in Switzerland.The Swiss Charts include:* Singles Top 75...	46
US Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks Adult Top 40 is a variation on the United States Billboard charts...	27

Release history

Country	Date	Format	Label
United Kingdom	29 November 2004	CD single	Relentless Relentless Records Relentless Records, founded by Shabs Jobanputra and Paul Franklyn in 1999 is now a part of Sony Music based in London, UK. Having achieved large scale successes with Joss Stone, KT Tunstall and several urban artists such as Artful Dodger and So Solid Crew, the label is now building a small focused...
		7" single Gramophone record A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...