| "Your Love Is King" | ||||
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| Single by Sade | ||||
| from the album Diamond Life | ||||
| B-side | "Love Affair with Life" | |||
| Released | January 1984[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1983 | |||
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| Length | 3:42 (album version) 3:28 (promo version) | |||
| Label | Epic | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Robin Millar | |||
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| "Your Love Is King" on YouTube | ||||
"Your Love Is King" is a song by English band Sade from their debut studio album, Diamond Life (1984). The song was written by Sade Adu and Stuart Matthewman, and produced by Robin Millar. It was the album's lead single in the UK, released in January 1984,[5] and the third single in the US, released there circa June 1985.[6]
The song became the group's highest-charting single on the UK Singles Chart to date, peaking at number 6. In the US, it reached number 54 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, number 35 on Billboard's Hot Black Singles chart, and number eight on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. The B-sides of the 12-inch single were included on cassette versions of Diamond Life, with the extended "Smooth Operator/Snake Bite" replacing the original. The song is performed on the Live Aid concert.
English pop singer Will Young covered the song for the soundtrack to the 2004 film Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.
- ^ Great Rock Discography. 6 March 1995. p. 712. ISBN 978-0-86241-541-9.
- ^ a b Hamilton, Andrew. "Sade - Your Love Is King". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
- ^ Pitchfork Staff (10 September 2018). "The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s". Pitchfork. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
Diamond Life, the group's debut, is impeccably balanced between honeyed smooth jazz and gripping pop—as its blockbuster singles, "Smooth Operator" and "Your Love is King," demonstrate.
- ^ a b Wener, Ben (1 January 1998). "Sade". In Knopper, Steve (ed.). MusicHound Lounge: The Essential Album Guide. Detroit: Visible Ink Press. pp. 415–416.
- ^ "New Singles". Music Week: 14. 11 February 1984. This source mentions the 12" release date was 13 Feb 1984; the 7" was released earlier as the debut on the UK charts was 18 February; it debuted on airplay charts in the next issue.
- ^ Billboard Hot 100 debut: 22 June 1985