I Want Your Love (Chic song)

{{Infobox song

| name = I Want Your Love

| cover = Chicwantyourlove.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Chic

| album = C'est Chic

| B-side = (Funny) Bone

| released = January 29, 1979

| recorded = 1978

| studio = Power Station, New York City

| genre = Disco

| length = 6:55 (LP version)
3:28 (7" edit)

| label = Atlantic

| writer = {{hlist|Bernard Edwards|Nile Rodgers}}

| producer = {{hlist|Nile Rodgers|Bernard Edwards}}

| prev_title = Le Freak

| prev_year = 1978

| next_title = Good Times

| next_year = 1979

}}

"I Want Your Love" is a song by American band Chic from their second studio album C'est Chic (1978). Featuring a solo lead vocal by Alfa Anderson, the song became a very successful follow-up to their hit single "Le Freak".{{cite web |title=I Want Your Love |url=http://www.allmusic.com/song/i-want-your-love-mt0011987039 |website=All Music}}

According to Kathy Sledge, the song was originally slated to be recorded by Sister Sledge; their background vocals were kept on the final track. Sister Sledge ended up recording "He's the Greatest Dancer", which was supposed to be recorded by Chic.

In the United States, "I Want Your Love" reached number one on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart in November 1978{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/dance-club-play-songs/1978-11-25|title = Dance Club Songs Chart| magazine=Billboard }} and number five on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in April 1979.{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/r-b-hip-hop-songs/1979-04-07|title=Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart|magazine=Billboard }} It also peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1979 and remained on the chart for 19 weeks.{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1979-05-05|title = The Hot 100 Chart| magazine=Billboard }} In the United Kingdom, it reached number four on the UK Singles chart (the highest position of any Chic singles) and spent 11 weeks on the chart.

In 2015, the song was performed in a new version by Lady Gaga for a fashion campaign by Tom Ford.{{cite web |title=Watch Lady Gaga, Nile Rodgers Update Chic's 'I Want Your Love' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/watch-lady-gaga-nile-rodgers-update-chics-i-want-your-love-186903/ |website=RollingStone |date=2 October 2015 |access-date=1 August 2024}}

Critical reception

"[The song] swirls around a tricky horn-and-strings riff that builds and builds until the track practically levitates", Rolling Stone wrote.{{cite magazine|title=Chic: C'est Chic: Music Review |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/chic/albums/album/117461/review/7567994/cest_chic |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=2003 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080316202856/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/chic/albums/album/117461/review/7567994/cest_chic |archive-date=March 16, 2008 }} AllMusic's Jason Birchmeier called the song a "timeless floor-filler" and a "dancefloor anthem."{{cite web|last1=Birchmeier|first1=Jason|title=I Want Your Love: Music Review|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/cest-chic-mw0000615011|website=All Music}} Amy Hanson of AllMusic described it as a "sonic masterpiece" that is often better than "Le Freak," dominated by a four note riff and a repeated "slightly melancholy refrain" of "I want your love, I need your love."{{cite web|last1=Hanson|first1=Amy|title=I Want Your Love: Music Review|url=http://www.allmusic.com/song/i-want-your-love-mt0011987039|website=All Music}}

Billboard rated the song as a strong follow-up to "Le Freak" with a "catchy, rhythmic hook."{{cite news|newspaper=Billboard Magazine|title=Top Single Picks|access-date=2020-07-09|page=86|date=February 3, 1979|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/70s/1979/Billboard%201979-02-03.pdf}} Cash Box said it has "funky rhythm guitar work, a sophisticated arrangement of horns, strings, piano and tubular bells, rippling bass work and excellent female vocals."{{cite news|title=CashBox Singles Reviews|date=February 3, 1979|page=18|newspaper=Cash Box|accessdate=2022-01-01|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1979/CB-1979-02-03.pdf}} Record World said it was "more laid back [than 'Le Freak'] without compromising [Chic's] distinctive sound."{{cite magazine|magazine=Record World|date=February 3, 1979|accessdate=2023-02-12|title=Hits of the Week|page=1|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Record-World/70s/79/RW-1979-02-03.pdf}}

Track listing and formats

;7" vinyl single

A. "I Want Your Love" – 3:28 (edit)
B. "(Funny) Bone" – 3:41

;12" vinyl single

A. "I Want Your Love" – 6:53
B. "(Funny) Bone" – 3:41

Charts

=Weekly charts=

Chart (1979) !Peak position
class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
scope="row"\| Australia (Kent Music Report) \| style="text-align:center;"\|81
{{singlechart\|Flanders\|21\|artist=Chic\|song=I Want Your Love\|access-date=August 15, 2016\|rowheader=true}}
scope="row"\| Canada Top Singles (RPM){{cite web\|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.4731a&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.4731a.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.4731a\|title=RPM 100 Singles - Volume 31, No. 6\|website=Library and Archives Canada\|date=17 July 2013 \|access-date=October 29, 2024}} \| style="text-align:center;"\|10
scope="row"\| Canada Top Disco Singles (RPM){{cite web\|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.4750b&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.4750b.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.4750b\|title=RPM Disco Singles - Volume 31, No. 8\|website=Library and Archives Canada\|date=17 July 2013 \|access-date=October 29, 2024}} \| style="text-align:center;"\|3
{{singlechart\|Germany\|27\|artist=Chic\|song=I Want Your Love\|songid=18866\|access-date=August 15, 2016\|rowheader=true}}
{{singlechart\|Ireland2\|20\|song=I Want Your Love\|access-date=August 15, 2016\|rowheader=true}}
{{singlechart\|Dutch40\|14\|artist=Chic\|song=I Want Your Love\|access-date=August 15, 2016\|rowheader=true}}
{{singlechart\|Dutch100\|14\|artist=Chic\|song=I Want Your Love\|access-date=August 15, 2016\|rowheader=true}}
{{singlechart\|New Zealand\|15\|artist=Chic\|song=I Want Your Love\|access-date=August 15, 2016\|rowheader=true}}
{{singlechart\|UKsinglesbyname\|4\|artist=Chic\|access-date=August 15, 2016\|rowheader=true}}
{{singlechart\|Billboardhot100\|7\|artist=Chic\|access-date=August 15, 2016\|rowheader=true}}
{{singlechart\|Billboardadultcontemporary\|9\|artist=Chic\|access-date=August 15, 2016\|rowheader=true}}
{{singlechart\|Billboarddanceclubplay\|1\|artist=Chic\|access-date=August 15, 2016\|rowheader=true}}
{{singlechart\|Billboardrandbhiphop\|5\|artist=Chic\|access-date=August 15, 2016\|rowheader=true}}

=Year-end charts=

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Chart (1979) ! style="text-align:center;"\|Rank
Canada Top Singles (RPM){{cite web\|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.6855a&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.6855a.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.6855a \|title=Top 100 Singles (1979)\|date=17 July 2013\|publisher=RPM \|access-date=2017-07-29}} \| style="text-align:center;"\|78
UK Singles (Official Charts Company){{cite magazine \|title=Top Singles 1979 \|magazine=Music Week \|publisher=Spotlight Publications \|location=London, England \|page=27 \|date=22 December 1979}} \| style="text-align:center;"\|40
US Billboard Hot 100[http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1979.htm Musicoutfitters.com] \| style="text-align:center;"\|62

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Chart (1979)

! style="text-align:center;"|Rank

Canada Top Singles (RPM){{cite web|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.6855a&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.6855a.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.6855a |title=Top 100 Singles (1979)|date=17 July 2013|publisher=RPM |access-date=2017-07-29}}

| style="text-align:center;"|78

UK Singles (Official Charts Company){{cite magazine |title=Top Singles 1979 |magazine=Music Week |publisher=Spotlight Publications |location=London, England |page=27 |date=22 December 1979}}

| style="text-align:center;"|40

US Billboard Hot 100[http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1979.htm Musicoutfitters.com]

| style="text-align:center;"|62

Certifications and sales

{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|artist=Chic|title=I Want Your Love|award=Silver|type=single|relyear=2006|certyear=2024|note=2006 release|access-date=April 20, 2024|id=19904-1185-1}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|artist=Chic|title=I Want Your Love|award=Gold|type=single|relyear=1979|certyear=1979|access-date=September 6, 2016}}

Jody Watley version

{{Infobox song

| name = I Want Your Love

| cover = Jody Watley I Want Your Love.jpg

| alt =

| caption = The Remixes cover.

| type = single

| artist = Jody Watley

| album = The Makeover

| released = May 4, 2007

| recorded = 2006

| studio =

| genre = Disco, house

| length = 4:20

| label = Avitone Records

| writer = Bernard Edwards, Nile Rodgers

| producer = DJ Spinna

| prev_title = Borderline

| prev_year = 2006

| next_title =

| next_year =

}}

Singer/musician Jody Watley recorded "I Want Your Love" as part of her 2006 album The Makeover. Watley's version was released as a single in 2007 and reached number 1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart for the week of June 16, 2007. The Watley cover was produced by DJ Spinna and featured Nile Rodgers on guitar. Bernard Edwards, Chic's co-founder (and co-writer of "I Want Your Love"), had previously produced a massive hit for Watley in the form of her 1987 single "Don't You Want Me".