I Need a Girl (Taeyang song)

"I Need a Girl" is a song recorded by South Korean singer Taeyang for his first studio album Solar (2010) through YG Entertainment. It features rap by G-Dragon, who co-wrote the song with producer Jeon Goon. The song was released on July 1, 2010, as the lead single from Solar.

Composition
"I Need a Girl" is described as an R&B song and lyrically describes about Taeyang's ideal type. Some parts of “I Need a Girl” lyrics are taken from the lyrics of Byeon Jin-seop’s song “My Ideal Type” (1989).

Commercial performance
"I Need a Girl" debuted at number seven on South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart in the chart issue dated June 27 – July 3, 2010; on its component charts, the song debuted at number four on the Gaon Download Chart, and number 25 on the Gaon Streaming Chart. The following week, the song rose to number four on the Gaon Digital Chart. Subsequently, "I Need a Girl" ranked at number thirty-nine on its annual chart and has sold 1,876,167 digital copies in South Korea as of 2010. In United States, "I Need a Girl" debuted at number seventeen on the Billboard World Digital Song Sales in the chart issue dated July 31, 2010.