What is love

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What is love
Haddaway
publication December 1992
length 4:29
Genre (s) Eurodance , pop music
Author (s) Dee Dee Halligan ,
Junior Torello
music Dee Dee Halligan,
Junior Torello
album Haddaway / The Album
Cover versions
2010 Eminem feat. Lil Wayne - No Love ( Sample )
2014 Kiesza
2016 Lost Frequencies

What Is Love (English for: " Was ist Liebe ") is the title of a Eurodance song recorded in 1992 and number one hit by pop singer Haddaway from Trinidad and Tobago .

Creation and publication

The title was written and produced by "Dee Dee Halligan" and "Junior Torello", the pseudonyms for the successful German music producers and authors Tony Hendrik and Karin Hartmann-Eisenblätter. The simple text is about the question of what love is. The protagonist describes in the song that his feelings are not reciprocated, although he tries very hard to convey to his supposed partner that he desires her. In the chorus he repeatedly urges her not to hurt him any further. Haddaway's voice is underlaid with an unusually large amount of echo . Keyboards are played on the December 1992 recording Alex Trime (Alexander Strasser-Hain), Lisa Noya can be heard as the background voice.

The come in December 1992 in Germany on the market song was the team Hendrik / Hartmann in his own Coconut - recording studio in Hennef (Sieg) produces and as a 5 "Maxi-CD (Catalog No. 74321 12486. 2), 12" maxi-single (74321 12486 1) as well as 7 "single (74321 12486 7) published by Coconut Records . It reached number 2 on the charts in Germany and Great Britain and was able to occupy number 1 in 13 other countries, including Belgium , France , Italy , The Netherlands , Austria , Switzerland and Norway . 900,000 copies were sold in Germany alone and over 500,000 in the USA, a further 400,000 in Great Britain and 2.6 million copies worldwide. The title received two Echo Awards . What Is Love was particularly successful in Europe and Asia, and in the US , Haddaway made it to number 11 on the pop hit parade, and in 2008 PepsiCo used the title for the Pepsi commercial that aired during its annual Super Bowl broadcast.

Singles charts

year title Chart placements
DE AT CH UK US
1993 What is love 2 1 1 2 11
1993 What Is Love (Remix) - - 15th - -
2003 What Is Love (Reloaded) 51 49 92 - -
2009 What Is Love 2K9 (with Klaas ) 60 37 - - -

Annual charts

year title Chart positions
DE AT CH
1993 What is love 1 3 2

Awards

year country Award Sales figures
1993 Germany 1 × platinum 300,000
4 × gold
Austria 1 × gold 30,000
Sweden 1 × gold 10,000
United States 1 × gold 500,000

Cover versions

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release date "What Is Love"
  2. ↑ release date "What Is Love"
  3. ↑ Billboard Magazine, March 26, 1994, Casebook: Haddaway , p. 58
  4. ↑ Billboard Magazine, March 26, 1994, Echo Party Resounds With Excitement , p. 64
  5. ↑ Musikwoche.de: Preview: Haddaway is following in the footsteps of his hit "What Is Love". Accessed June 1, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Chart positions of What Is Love :
  7. ↑ Chart positions of What Is Love in the annual charts: DE , AT , CH
  8. ↑ Gold / platinum database Germany
  9. ^ Gold / platinum database Austria
  10. ↑ Gold / Platinum from 1987 to 1998 ( Memento of the original from August 7, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 643 kB), see page 12, number 638 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ifpi.se
  11. ↑ Gold / platinum database USA
  12. ↑ Chart statistics "No Love" on acharts.us; accessed on Nov. 27, 2014
  13. ↑ Press release on chart entries in week 47-2014 ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on musikmarkt.de on Nov. 18, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musikmarkt.de