Got a Hold on Me

{{distinguish|Love's Gotta Hold on Me}}

{{Infobox song

| name = Got a Hold on Me

| cover = Got a Hold on Me.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Christine McVie

| album = Christine McVie

| B-side = Who's Dreaming This Dream

| released = January 1984

| recorded = 1983

| studio =

| venue =

| genre =

| length = 3:52

| label = Warner Bros.

| writer = Christine McVie, Todd Sharp

| producer = Russ Titelman

| prev_title = When You Say

| prev_year = 1969

| next_title = Love Will Show Us How

| next_year = 1984

| misc = {{External music video|header=Audio|{{YouTube|bpv0Hhn9Vt8|"Got a Hold on Me"}}}}

}}

"Got a Hold on Me" is a song by Christine McVie, released as the lead single from her eponymous second solo album in 1984.

The song reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and topped the Billboard Adult Contemporary and Rock Tracks charts for four and two weeks, respectively.Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 416. In the 10 March 1984 edition of Billboard, Paul Grein noted that it was the first time any member of Fleetwood Mac had achieved a number one hit on the Adult Contemporary chart.{{Cite magazine |last=Grein |first=Paul|date=10 March 1984 |title=Video Music Monitor |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/80s/1984/BB-1984-03-10.pdf|access-date=27 December 2024 |magazine=Billboard |page=43 |via=World Radio History}} In 1985, "Got a Hold on Me" received a most-performed-song citation at BMI's 33rd annual award dinner, which commemorated songs licensed by BMI that received heavy airplay in 1984.{{Cite magazine |date=29 June 1985 |title=Video Music Monitor |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/80s/1985/BB-1985-06-29.pdf|access-date=27 December 2024 |magazine=Billboard |page=43 |via=World Radio History}}

Synthesizers on the track were played by Steve Winwood, while the guitars were played by Todd Sharp (the song's co-writer) and McVie's Fleetwood Mac bandmate Lindsey Buckingham.{{Cite web|url=http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/qa/toddsharp_qa2.htm|title=Todd Sharp, January 18 - 31, 2000 - Section 2|website=The Penguin|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706172233/http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/qa/toddsharp_qa2.htm|archive-date=6 July 2015|access-date=13 July 2023}} George Hawkins handled some of the song's background vocals.{{Cite web|url=http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/qa/georgehawkins_qa1.htm|title=George Hawkins, Jr., April 4 - 19, 2000 - Section 1|website=The Penguin|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180325002023/http://www.fleetwoodmac.net/penguin/qa/georgehawkins_qa1.htm|archive-date=25 March 2018|access-date=3 January 2025}} Sharp recalled that he wrote the song with McVie section by section over the course of thirty minutes and had identified the song's commercial viability upon hearing the first verse.{{Cite web |last= Wittenberg |first=Ed |date=1 December 2022 |title=Former Cleveland guitarist Todd Sharp 'shocked', 'heartbroken' over Christine McVie's death |url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2022/12/former-cleveland-guitarist-todd-sharp-shocked-heartbroken-over-christine-mcvies-death.html |url-access=subscription|access-date=9 December 2024 |website=Cleveland.com |language=en}} McVie stated that the song's subject matter was fictional, saying that "at the time I wrote it, no one did have a hold on me."{{Cite web |last=Leech |first=Jeanette |date=27 January 2024 |title=Why Christine McVie's Self-Titled 1984 Album Was "More Sophisticated" Than Fleetwood Mac |url=https://www.thisisdig.com/feature/christine-mcvie-self-titled-1984-album-story/ |access-date=9 December 2024|website=Dig! |language=en-US}}

The video for the song was produced by Jon Roseman and directed by Mike Brady.{{Cite magazine |date=28 January 1984 |title=Video Music Monitor |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/80s/1984/BB-1984-01-28.pdf |access-date=9 December 2024 |magazine=Billboard |page=43 |via=World Radio History}} Shot in both black-and-white and color, it is a pseudo-performance video showing Christine McVie in a mansion-like room singing at her piano while a backup band appears in silhouette shadows on the walls around her.{{YouTube|EHYoq4f6sXM}}