| "I'd Love You to Want Me" | ||||
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| Single by Lobo | ||||
| from the album Of a Simple Man | ||||
| B-side | "Am I True to Myself" | |||
| Released | September 1972 | |||
| Genre | Folk rock, soft rock[1] | |||
| Length | 4:04 | |||
| Label | Big Tree Records, UK Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Roland Kent LaVoie (Lobo) | |||
| Producer(s) | Phil Gernhard | |||
| Lobo singles chronology | ||||
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"I'd Love You to Want Me" is a song by American singer-songwriter Lobo. It was released in September 1972 as the second single from his second album Of a Simple Man.
The song was Lobo's highest-charting hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it spent two weeks at No. 2 in November.[2][3] The single was the second of four of his songs to hit No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart, where it had a one-week stay at that top spot in December 1972.[4] It became a gold record.
When released in the United Kingdom in 1972, the song failed to reach the UK Singles Chart; however, a re-release of the single in 1974, on the UK record label, peaked at No. 5.[5]
The song also topped the music charts in at least seven nations, including Australia (Kent Music Report, two weeks), Canada (RPM Magazine, one week), and Germany (Media Control Charts, 13 weeks in 1973–1974).
- ^ Artist Biography by Jason Ankeny (1943-07-31). "Lobo | Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-03-04.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
- ^ Bronson, Fred (2003). The Billboard Book of #1 Hits, 5th Edition (Billboard Publications)
- ^ Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications)
- ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 326. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.