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".
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.
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. As of Christmas Day 2007, the song is #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. Also notable, the single was recently certified platinum by the RIAA and has just knocked Flo Rida's monster hit single "Low" off the number-one spot on iTunes as well.
The song debuted at #100 on the Canadian Hot 100 on the week of January 31, 2008 then flew to #55 before skyrocketing to #27 and falling a bit to #28 then up to #21 and then #13 and geting into the top ten at #7. On the week of March 29, 2008, "Love Song" reached atop the Canadian Hot 100.
It is a growing hit in New Zealand, where it has peaked at #7 so far on the Top 40 singles chart but at #1 on the Radio Airplay chart for 6 weeks and at #1 on the country's iTunes Music Store.
| Chart (2008) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 4[3] |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100 | 1 |
| Australian ARIA Singles Chart | 92 |
| Brazil | 29 |
| Netherlands | 8 |
| New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart | 7 |
| Sweden | 19 |
| United World Chart | 9[3] |
| Canadian Hot 100 | 1[4] |
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.
- ^ a b "Sara Bareilles - Love Song worldwide chart positions and trajectories". aCharts.us. Retrieved December 22 2007.
- ^ Billboard.com - Charts - Singles - Canadian Hot 100
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