Love Song (Sara Bareilles song)
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"Love Song" is the first single released from Sara Bareilles's 2007 album Little Voice. It was written in response to her record label Epic requesting that she write a marketable love song. The song was also featured in a Rhapsody commercial along with "Bottle It Up", and in commercials for the TV show The Return of Jezebel James and the movies Made of Honor and Suburban Girl.
Many radio stations cut out the bridge of the song, shortening the track to 3:54 instead of the album length of 4:27.
Music video
Directed by Josh Forbes, the music video features a miniature Bareilles performing at the piano inside a coin-operated jukebox that plays love songs. A steady stream of men and women enter the booth and insert coins to hear Bareilles play, watching her through a pinhole as she plays the same song day after day. The lyrics express her growing frustration as she declares she is "not going to write you a love song today," and Bareilles grabs the next coin that rolls inside and jams the gears. The next morning, the owner of the booth who was seen at the beginning of the video enters and notices that the jukebox has gone dark, and looks amazed when he discovers the coin. He retrieves the coin from the gears and hands it to Bareilles, affirming her independence.
The video also stars Adam Campbell as the store owner.
Chart performance
Featured initially as the free iTunes song the week on June 16th, 2007, the song debuted a few months later at #100 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. After her appearance in a Rhapsody TV commercial, in which she performs the song, "Love Song" rocketed from #72 to #16 on Hot 100 and #32 to #5 on Hot Digital Songs.[1] It has gone on to sell more than 1.3 million copies.[2]
The song surfaced on the iTunes Top 100 around October, hovering between the top 50 to 60. The song's inclusion in the Rhapsody commercial boosted its popularity, resulting in 74,000 digital sales and a leap from #57 to #4 over the course of a few days. On Christmas Day 2007, the song was #2 on the iTunes chart, reaching the #1 spot on the iTunes Pop 100. In the first week of 2008, the song cracked Billboard's Hot 100 Chart, jumping to the number 9 spot where it peaked for four non-consecutive weeks before increasing to number 4. The single was recently certified 2x Platinum by the RIAA.
The song debuted on the UK Singles Chart at number 30 and has so far peaked at number 4.
The song debuted at #100 on the Canadian Hot 100 on the week of January 31, 2008. On the week of March 29, 2008, "Love Song" hit #1.
In Australia, "Love Song" peaked at #9 in its eighth week and peaked at #5 the next week. It is a growing hit in New Zealand, where it has peaked at #7 so far on the Top 40 singles chart but holds the #1 position on the Radio Airplay chart for six weeks and #1 on the country's iTunes Music Store.
In Spain, the song debuted at #33. The next week, it rose to #25. So far it has peaked at #13.
| Chart (2008) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian ARIA Singles Chart[3] | 4 |
| Brazilian Singles Chart | 29 |
| Canadian Hot 100 | 1 |
| Chilean Singles Chart[4] | 72 |
| Danish Singles Chart | 9 |
| Eurochart Hot 100 | 45 |
| Euro 200 | 22 |
| Colombia Top 100 | 84 |
| Italian Singles Chart | 7 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 5 |
| Israeli Singles Chart | 13 |
| Dutch Top 40 | 5 |
| New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart | 7 |
| Los 40 Chart | 18 |
| Polish National Top 50 | 36 |
| Sweden Singles Chart | 17 |
| UK Singles Chart | 4 |
| México Top 100 Singles Chart[5] | 70 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 4 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100 | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks | 1 |
| United World Chart | 7 |
References
- ^ Keys Rolls Into Holidays With No. 1 Hits
- ^ "On the Verge: Sara Bareilles is on her 'own route'"" "USA Today. Retrieved February 15 2008.
- ^ ARIA Top 50 Singles Chart. Australian Recording Industry Assocation. Retrieved on June 15, 2008.
- ^ Chilean Singles Chart. Issue date: July 12, 2008. Retrieved on July 2, 2008.
- ^ Mexico Top 100 - 26th May 2008
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