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{{Single infobox | | Name = The First Night | Cover = nocover.gif | Artist = [[Monica (singer)|Monica]] | from Album = [[The Boy is Mine (album)|The Boy is Mine]] | Released = [[1998]] | Format = CD single | Recorded = 1998 | Genre = [[R&B]] | Length = ? | Label = [[Arista Records|Arista]]<br /> <small>13522</small> | Writer = [[Jermaine Dupri]] </br> Tamara Savage </br> Marilyn McLeod <br /> Pam Sawyer | Producer = Jermaine Dupri | Chart position = * #1 <small>([[Hot 100|US Billboard Hot 100]]) </small> | Last single = "[[The Boy Is Mine]]" (w/ [[Brandy Norwood|Brandy]]) <br /> 1998 | This single = "The First Night" <br /> 1998 | Next single = "[[Angel of Mine]]" <br /> 1998 }}