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"I Honestly Love You"
Song
B-side"Home Ain't Home Anymore" (U.S.)
"Get Your Paper Dues" (UK)

"I Honestly Love You" (first released in Australia as "I Love You, I Honestly Love You", per its chorus) was a worldwide pop hit single for Olivia Newton-John in 1974. The song was Newton-John's first number-one single in the United States and Canada.

Released on the Long Live Love album in the United Kingdom by EMI, it was eventually released on the album If You Love Me, Let Me Know in the United States on MCA. The song was written by Jeff Barry and the Australian composer Peter Allen; the latter recorded it around the same time on his album Continental American. It also appears in the musical about Allen's life, The Boy from Oz. VH1 placed the song at No. 11 on its "40 Most Softsational Soft-Rock Songs" list.[2] The song won Newton-John both the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 17th Grammy Awards.[3] Andy Williams released a version in 1974 on his album, You Lay So Easy on My Mind.

Chart performance

The song topped the charts in the U.S. on 5 October 1974, and went on to sell over two million copies, being certified Platinum. It also reached number one (three weeks) on the Adult Contemporary charts.[4] and number six on the Country charts.[5] The song won Grammy Awards for Female Pop Vocal Performance and Record of the Year. The song's success also helped propel its parent album, If You Love Me, Let Me Know, to number one. By contrast, the single failed to reach the top-twenty in the United Kingdom (#22), although it did chart there in 1983 when it was re-released to promote a Newton-John greatest hits album.

Newton-John re-released the original hit version of the song in 1977, backed with "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" from her then-current album Making a Good Thing Better, and it reached number forty-eight Pop (outperforming the only single from Making a Good Thing Better, the title song, which stalled at number eighty-seven). The song also re-charted on the Adult Contemporary chart at No. 49.

1998 version

"I Honestly Love You"
Song

In 1998, Newton-John released a new version of "I Honestly Love You" from her album Back with a Heart, which featured Babyface on background vocals, and reached number sixty-seven on the Billboard Hot 100, her first U.S. charted single in six years. The 1998 version also charted on the AC chart at No. 18 and in Country Music Sales at No. 16.

Chart performance

Chart (1974) Peak
position
Australian Kent Music Report 1
Canadian RPM Top Singles 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 1
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks 1
Swedish Singles Chart 1
UK Singles Chart 22
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 1
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 6
U.S. Billboard Easy Listening 1
Chart (1977) Peak
position
Canadian RPM Top Singles 55
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 48
U.S. Billboard Easy Listening 49
Chart (1983) Peak
position
UK Singles Chart 52
Chart (1998) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart 88
U.S. Billboard Country Singles Sales 16
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 67
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks 18
Preceded by Billboard Easy Listening Singles number-one single
14 September 1974 - 28 September (three weeks) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Cashbox Top 100 number-one single
21 September 1974 (one week) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Cashbox Top 100 number-one single
19 October 1974 (one week) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
5 October 1974 - 12 October 1974 (two weeks) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by RPM Top Singles number-one single
5 October 1974 (one week) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by RPM Country Tracks number-one single
16 November 1974 - 23 November 1974 (two weeks) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Australian Kent Music Report number-one single
18 November 1974 - 9 December 1974 (four weeks) 		Succeeded by

References

  1. ^ "American single certifications – Olivia Newton-John – I Honestly Love You". Recording Industry Association of America.
  2. ^ "VH1's 40 Most Softsational Soft-Rock Songs". 31 May 2007.
  3. ^ "Past Winners Search | GRAMMY.com". grammy.com. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
  4. ^ Whit-burn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 181.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 248.
Awards
Preceded by Grammy Award for Record of the Year
1975 		Succeeded by
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
1975 		Succeeded by
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