Gotta Be You is a track from the British band One Direction.
The song was written by August Rigo and Steve Mac after the band signed up with Syco Music and started working on their debut album.
The pop-rock free Gotta Be You piano sheets are composed in Ab major and have a tempo of 85 beats per minute.
The instrumental structure features a guitar, strings, and piano. It was produced by Steve Mac and it has a medium length of 4:01 minutes.
The band recorded the song in 2011 and released it on November 11th, 2011.
However, it was premiered three weeks earlier, on October 19th, 2011, at BBC Radio.
The B-side of the single is Another World. It served as the second single from their debut album, Up All Night, after What Makes You Beautiful, which was number one on the UK Singles Chart.
Gotta Be You received appreciation from the music critics, who praised the instrumentation, the vocal elements, and also the love lyrics.
It received four stars out of five from Robert Copsey from Digital Spy.
The critics also commented on the fact that the ballad addresses a more mature audience than the previous single, What Makes You Beautiful.
The free Gotta Be You piano sheet music is part of the Syco label and it was released for digital download as well as a CD Single, which contained the song, two more remixes, and Another World, its B-Side.
The music video was filmed in Lake Placid, New York, and also at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh.
It was directed by John Urbano and it gained more than 140 million views on YouTube since its release, on November 8th, 2011. The video was very well received by the critics and also by the public.
One Direction performed the single live on Children in Need 2011 telethon, at the talent show X Factor UK, at the O2 Arena and also at the Jingle Bell Ball show from BBC Radio.
Gotta Be You reached number three on the Irish Singles Chart, number one on the UK Singles Chart, and also number 24 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.
It also peaked at number two in Scotland and it was present in the chart from Italy.
Gotta Be You is one of the first songs from One Direction and a delight for the audience.
