Open My Heart

"Open My Heart"
Single by Yolanda Adams
from the album Mountain High... Valley Low
Released1999
Recorded1998
Genre
Length5:40
LabelElektra
Songwriter(s)
  • James Harris
  • James Q. Wright
  • Terry Lewis
  • Yolanda Adams
Producer(s)
Yolanda Adams singles chronology
"The Battle Is the Lord's"
(1996)
"Open My Heart"
(1999)
"Yeah"
(1999)

"Open My Heart" is a song by Yolanda Adams released in 2000. The song gained Adams great popularity in the secular audiences. Being the most groundbreaking single of her career, she won several awards for this song. "Open My Heart" helped her 1999 album Mountain High...Valley Low gain multi-platinum status and reach charts heights not often attained by artists of the gospel genre.

The song peaked at #10 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, and #57 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Remixes by Steve "Silk" Hurley and Junior Vasquez helped the song peak at #29 on the Hot Dance Club Play Chart.

The song was sampled by Nick Cannon on his single "Can I Live."[1]

  1. ^ "Nick Cannon feat. Anthony Hamilton's Can I Live? sample of Yolanda Adams's Open My Heart". WhoSampled.com. Retrieved 2012-11-24.