The track released as the album's fourth and final single outside the United States, where it charted at number eighty-two on the "Billboard" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart due to moderate airplay. Although "Girlfriend" managed to outpeak previous single "How Come You Don't Call Me" in the United Kingdom and Australia, it failed to make impact elsewhere. The song's KrucialKeys Sista Girl Mix, which appears on the re-release "Songs in A Minor: Remixed & Unplugged", is used in the video, directed by Patrick Hoelck, and was serviced to radio instead of its album version.