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Everything Your Heart Desires

{{Infobox song

| name = Everything Your Heart Desires

| cover = Everything Your Heart Desires.jpeg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Hall & Oates

| album = Ooh Yeah!

| B-side = Realove

| released = April 16, 1988

| recorded =

| studio =

| genre =

| length = 5:17 (Video version)
5:00 (Album version)
4:26 (7" version)

| label = Arista

| writer = Daryl Hall

| producer = {{flatlist|

  • T-Bone Wolk
  • Hall & Oates}}

| prev_title = A Night at the Apollo

| prev_year = 1985

| next_title = Missed Opportunity

| next_year = 1988

| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|c-nErsGyiuY|"Everything Your Heart Desires"}}}}

}}

"Everything Your Heart Desires" is a song by American duo Hall & Oates, released as the lead single from their thirteenth studio album, Ooh Yeah! (1988). The song peaked at number three in the United States, their sixteenth (and final) top-ten hit on Billboard Hot 100. The 45 version was later included on their greatest hits album Playlist: The Very Best of (2008) while the video mix was included on VH1 Behind the Music: The Daryl Hall and John Oates Collection (2002) and on the box set Do What You Want, Be What You Are: The Music of Daryl Hall & John Oates (2009).

In the lyrics, the singer asks his lover why she wants someone else if she has "everything your heart desires." He explains that if she's happy now, he might really be the one she's looking for.

Release and reception

"Everything Your Heart Desires" entered the US Billboard Hot 100 in April 1988, reached number three in June, and spent 16 weeks on the chart, becoming their last top 10 hit.{{cite magazine | title = 'Everything Your Heart Desires' - Hall & Oates| url = {{BillboardURLbyName|artist=daryl hall & john oates|chart=all}}| magazine = Billboard (Nielsen Business Media, Inc.)| access-date = 2009-10-05}}

The song became their biggest hit to date on the Adult Contemporary chart, peaking at number two, a personal best for the duo that would stand until 2002, when "Do It for Love" reached number one.{{cite magazine | date = 2003-02-15 | title = Hall & Oates: 30th Anniversary | magazine = Billboard | publisher = Nielsen Business Media, Inc. | volume = 115 | issue = 7 | page = 42 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=AQ8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA42-IA5 | access-date = 2009-10-05}} The single reached the top 30 in New Zealand and number 50 in the Netherlands, but it was less commercially successful in the United Kingdom, peaking at number 81.{{cite web| url = https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/Turn%20It%20Up | title = The Official Charts Company - Hall & Oates - 'Everything Your Heart Desires' | publisher = Official Charts Company | access-date = 2009-10-05}}

Rolling Stone music critic Rob Hoerburger notes the song and album demonstrate that Hall & Oates have grown up, adding that the song is "more of a plea than an indictment – no "Maneater" misogyny here."{{cite web| date = 1988-06-30| last = Hoerburger| first = Rob| url = https://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/189809/review/5943755/oohyeah| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071103182142/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/189809/review/5943755/oohyeah| url-status = dead| archive-date = November 3, 2007| title = Ooh Yeah! - Hall & Oates - Review | publisher = Rolling Stone (Wenner Media) | access-date = 2009-10-05}}

Cash Box called it "a silky smooth and easy going tune that allows the guys to blend vocally and co-produce a really inviting and accessible track."{{cite magazine|title=Single Releases|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/80s/1988/CB-1988-04-16.pdf|magazine=Cash Box|date=April 16, 1988|accessdate=2022-12-21|page=8}}

Track listing

;7" single (US, UK, Germany)

  1. "Everything Your Heart Desires" (Hall) – 4:26
  2. "Realove" (Hall, Oates) – 5:14

;12" single (US)

  1. "Everything Your Heart Desires" (54th Street Extended Remix) – 9:12
  2. "Everything Your Heart Desires" (If You Want The World Extended Remix) – 7:53
  3. "Everything Your Heart Desires" (7th Avenue Remix) – 4:26
  4. "Everything Your Heart Desires" (No Words Can Help Dub Mix) – 5:57
  5. "Realove" (Hall, Oates) – 4:39

;12" single (UK)

  1. "Everything Your Heart Desires" (7th Avenue Remix) – 4:26
  2. "Everything Your Heart Desires" (No Words Can Help Dub Mix) – 5:57
  3. "Realove" (Hall, Oates) – 4:39

Chart performance

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!Chart (1988)

!Peak
position

Canada Top Singles{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.8714.pdf| title=RPM Top 100 Singles - June 25, 1988}}

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Netherlands (Dutch Top 40 Tipparade){{cite web |url=https://www.top40.nl/tipparade/1988/week-22|title=Tipparade-lijst van week 22, 1988| publisher=Dutch Top 40|access-date=March 13, 2023}}

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{{singlechart|Dutch100|50|artist=Daryl Hall / John Oates|song=Everything Your Heart Desires|accessdate=June 1, 2017}}
{{singlechart|New Zealand|28|artist=Daryl Hall / John Oates|song=Everything Your Heart Desires|accessdate=June 1, 2017}}
{{singlechart|UKsinglesbyname|81|artist=Daryl Hall & John Oates|song=Everything Your Heart Desires|accessdate=June 1, 2017}}
US Cash Box Top 100{{cite web|url=http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/19880625.html|title=Cash Box Weekly Chart 6-25-88|access-date=November 14, 2022|archive-date=October 7, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007030453/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/19880625.html|url-status=dead}}

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{{singlechart|Billboardhot100|3|artist=Daryl Hall & John Oates|accessdate=June 1, 2017}}
{{singlechart|Billboardadultcontemporary|2|artist=Daryl Hall & John Oates|accessdate=March 30, 2017}}
{{singlechart|Billboardrandbhiphop|13|artist=Daryl Hall & John Oates|accessdate=March 30, 2017}}

=Year-end charts=

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!align="left"|Chart (1988)

!align="center"|Position

United States (Billboard){{cite magazine |date=December 24, 1988 |title=1988 The Year in Music & Video: Top Pop Singles |page=Y-20 |magazine=Billboard |volume=100 |issue=52 }}{{cite web|url=http://longboredsurfer.com/charts/1988|title=Billboard Top 100 – 1988|access-date=October 3, 2016}}

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References

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{{Hall & Oates}}

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Category:1988 singles

Category:Hall & Oates songs

Category:Songs written by Daryl Hall

Category:1988 songs

Category:Arista Records singles

Category:Music videos directed by Wayne Isham