That's What Love Is For

"That's What Love Is For"
Single by Amy Grant
from the album Heart in Motion
B-side"Baby Baby" (No Getting Over You mix)
ReleasedSeptember 12, 1991
GenreCCM
Length4:17
LabelA&M
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Michael Omartian
Amy Grant singles chronology
"Every Heartbeat"
(1991)
"That's What Love Is For"
(1991)
"Ask Me"
(1991)
Music video
"That's What Love Is For" on YouTube

"That's What Love Is For" is a song by Christian music/pop music-crossover singer Amy Grant. It was written by three-time Grammy-Award winner Michael Omartian,[1] Mark Mueller and Amy Grant and produced by Omartian. It was the third Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 pop single [2] from her 5× platinum-selling album Heart in Motion [3] and the only one from the album to be released to both Pop and Christian radio.

The song topped Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and was No. 1 for three weeks, starting the week of November 29, 1991.[4] It spent a total of 13 weeks in the Top 10 and 32 weeks on the chart overall.[4] The song peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 the week of November 23, 1991 [5] and ultimately spent four weeks in the Top 10. It finished the 1992 Billboard Year-End Hot 100 Singles chart ranked at No. 91.[6] In Canada, the song also topped the charts, reaching No. 1 on the RPM Magazine Adult Contemporary Chart. It peaked at No. 7 on the Pop Chart and was No. 61 on the RPM Magazine's Canadian Top 100 Singles Year-End Chart for 1991.[7]

There are two versions of the song, the album cut and the pop radio edit. For pop radio airplay, the strings were removed and the song was remixed with a new rhythm track.

  1. ^ "Michael Omartian". GRAMMY.com. November 19, 2019.
  2. ^ "Amy Grant". Billboard.
  3. ^ "Gold & Platinum". RIAA.
  4. ^ a b "Amy Grant". Billboard.
  5. ^ "The Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.
  6. ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1992/Top 100 Songs of 1992". www.musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved June 23, 2021.
  7. ^ "Top 100 Singles of 1991 in Canada". March 17, 2016.