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Blessed Are the Believers

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"Blessed Are the Believers"
Song
B-side"Only Love"

"Blessed Are the Believers" is a song written by Charlie Black, Rory Michael Bourke and Sandy Pinkard (of Pinkard & Bowden), and recorded by Canadian country music artist Anne Murray. It was released in March 1981 as the first single from Murray's Gold-certified Where Do You Go When You Dream album.

The single was Anne Murray's sixth number one on the Country chart, where it spent one week at number one and a total of twelve weeks on the country chart.[1] On the pop singles chart, "Blessed Are the Believers" peaked at number thirty-four on the Top 40.[2]

Charts

Chart (1981) Peak
position
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 1
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks 1
Canadian RPM Top Singles 13
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[3] 1
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[4] 10
US Billboard Hot 100[5] 34

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 243.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Eighth Edition. Record Research. p. 443.
  3. ^ "Anne Murray Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  4. ^ "Anne Murray Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard.
  5. ^ "Anne Murray Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
Preceded by Billboard Hot Country Singles
number-one single

June 27, 1981
Succeeded by
Preceded by RPM Country Tracks
number-one single

June 27-July 4, 1981
Succeeded by