Hooked on You (song) explained

Hooked on You
Cover:Hooked_on_You_-_Bread.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Bread
Album:Lost Without Your Love
B-Side:Our Lady of Sorrow
Released:March 1977
Genre:Soft rock
Length:2:18
Label:Elektra
Producer:David Gates
Prev Title:Lost Without Your Love
Prev Year:1976

"Hooked on You" is a song written and composed by David Gates, and originally recorded by the soft rock group Bread, of which Gates was the leader and primary music producer. It was the second single released from Bread's 1977 album Lost Without Your Love, and became their final charting hit.

The song reached No. 60 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 during the spring of 1977. In Canada, it reached No. 48.[1] "Hooked on You" was a much bigger Adult Contemporary hit, spending two weeks at number one on the Canadian Adult Contemporary chart[2] and three weeks at number two in the United States, where it was held off the top spot by Yvonne Elliman's "Hello Stranger".[3]

Chart performance

Chart (1977)Peak
position
Canada RPM Adult Contemporary1
Canada RPM Top Singles48
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[4] 60
U.S. Billboard Easy Listening[5] 2
U.S. Cash Box Top 100 72

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . 17 July 2013. 2017-06-11.
  2. Web site: Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . 1977-05-28 . 2019-06-12.
  3. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn . 1993 . Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993 . Record Research . 34.
  4. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 -
  5. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Joel Whitburn . 1993 . Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993 . Record Research . 34.