

Vena also said that Bieber continues to have a talent similar to that of Michael Jackson in the dance part. Summing up the video, Jocelyn Vena of MTV News said: Actress Paige Hurd portrays Justin’s love interest in the video. In January 2010, Rolling Stone confirmed that the music video for the song had already been recorded by director Colin Tilley while Bieber was in the Bahamas. After the launch of My World 2.0, “Never Let You Go” reached number eighty-four on the UK Singles Chart. Internationally, the song reached number sixty-seven on the ARIA Charts, and reached sixteen on the New Zealand Singles Chart, where it stayed for three weeks. He debuted at fourteen in Canada, after spending four weeks on the Canadian Hot 100 left the charts. As a digital single the song appeared limited on the charts, and held the record as the second biggest of the week on the Hot 100. “Never Let You Go” debuted at number twenty-one in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100, and stayed on the chart for two weeks until it fell.

Lauren Carter of The Boston Herald stated that: Rolling Stone ‘s Jody Rosen used “Never Let You Go” and “Stuck In The Moment” as examples and said that “ballads” often have a record of a weakness in pop, but that they are fully realized, with a mixture of love and a lovely handwriting. Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly noted a similarity between “Never Let You Go” and the song “Forever” by Chris Brown, calling her the twin sister of Brown’s song. It was released as the second single, and the first digital only, from the second part of Justin’s debut album on March 2, 2010. The track was written by Bieber with Johnta Austin and Bryan-Michael Cox, who also produced it. ” Never Let You Go ” is a promotional single by Canadian artist Justin Bieber.
