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"Open My Heart"
Single by Yolanda Adams
from the album Mountain High... Valley Low
ReleasedJuly 27, 1999 (1999-07-27)
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 1999. 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]

Track listings

US Promo CD Release (PRCD 1484-2)[2]
  1. Open Your Heart (Radio Edit) – 5:37
  2. Open Your Heart (Album Version) – 5:38
  3. Open Your Heart (Audio Bio – Song) – 1:05
  4. Open Your Heart (Call-Out Hook) – 0:13
US Promo Remix CD Release (PRCD 1556-2)[3]
  1. Open My Heart (Pound Boys Radio Edit)
  2. Open My Heart (Pound Boys Vocal)
  3. Open My Heart (Pound Boys Dub)
US Promo 12" Remixes (ED 6238)[4]
  1. Open My Heart (Silk's Spiritual Workout)
  2. Open My Heart (Silk's Open My Filter Disco Dub Instrumental)
  3. Open My Heart (Open My Filter Disco Dub)
  4. Open My Heart (Silk's Spiritual Workout Instrumental)
US Double Vinyl Junior Vasquez Remixes (ED 6261)[5]
  1. Open My Heart (Junior's Sunday Morning Club Mix)
  2. Open My Heart (Junior's Uplifting Mix)
  3. Open My Heart (Junior's Sunday Morning Instrumental)
  4. Open My Heart (Junior's Sunday Morning Beat)
  5. Open My Heart (Junior's Acapella)

Charts

References

  1. ^ "Nick Cannon feat. Anthony Hamilton's Can I Live? sample of Yolanda Adams's Open My Heart". WhoSampled.com. Retrieved 2012-11-24.
  2. ^ "Yolanda Adams – Open My Heart (PRCD 1484-2)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2012-11-24.
  3. ^ "Yolanda Adams – Open My Heart (PRCD 1556-2)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2012-11-24.
  4. ^ "Yolanda Adams – Open My Heart (ED 6238)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2012-11-24.
  5. ^ "Yolanda Adams – Open My Heart (ED 6261)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2012-11-24.
  6. ^ "Yolanda Adams Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  7. ^ "Yolanda Adams Chart History (Dance Club Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  8. ^ "Yolanda Adams Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  9. ^ "Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs – Year-End 2000". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  10. ^ "Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs – Year-End 2001". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-03-22.