How Deep Is Your Love (Bee Gees song)

"How Deep Is Your Love"
Single by Bee Gees
from the album Saturday Night Fever
B-side"Can't Keep a Good Man Down"
ReleasedSeptember 1977 (US)
Recorded1977
Studio
Genre
Length4:02
LabelRSO
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Bee Gees singles chronology
"Edge of the Universe"
(1975)
"How Deep Is Your Love"
(1977)
"Stayin' Alive"
(1977)
Music video
"How Deep Is Your Love" on YouTube

"How Deep Is Your Love" is a pop ballad written and recorded by the Bee Gees in 1977 and released as a single in September of that year. It was ultimately used as part of the soundtrack to the film Saturday Night Fever. It was a number-three hit in the United Kingdom and Australia. In the United States, it topped the Billboard Hot 100 on 25 December 1977 and stayed in the Top 10 for 17 weeks. It spent six weeks atop the US adult contemporary chart. It is listed at No. 27 on Billboard's All Time Top 100.[2] Alongside "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever", it is one of the group's three tracks on the list. The song was covered by Take That for their 1996 Greatest Hits album, reaching No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks.[3]

"How Deep Is Your Love" ranked number 375 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In a British TV special shown in December 2011, it was voted The Nation's Favourite Bee Gees Song by ITV viewers.[4] During the Bee Gees' 2001 Billboard magazine interview, Barry said that this was his favourite Bee Gees song.[5]

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  2. ^ Bronson, Fred (2 August 2012). "Hot 100 55th Anniversary: The All-Time Top 100 Songs". Billboard. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
  3. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 591. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  4. ^ "ITV". ITV.com. Archived from the original on 19 October 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  5. ^ "The Bee Gees: 35 Years of Music". Billboard. 24 March 2001. p. 27. Retrieved 12 February 2015.