My World Is Empty Without You | |
Cover: | 1966 - My World Is Empty Without You.png |
Type: | single |
Artist: | the Supremes |
Album: | I Hear a Symphony |
B-Side: | Everything Is Good About You |
Released: | December 29, 1965 |
Recorded: | 1965 |
Studio: | Hitsville U.S.A. (Studio A) |
Genre: | Baroque pop, soul |
Length: | 2:33 |
Label: | Motown M 1089 |
Producer: | Brian Holland Lamont Dozier |
Prev Title: | I Hear a Symphony |
Prev Year: | 1965 |
Next Title: | Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart |
Next Year: | 1966 |
"My World Is Empty Without You" is a 1965 song recorded and released as a single by the Supremes for the Motown label.
Written and produced by Motown's main production team of Holland–Dozier–Holland, the song's fast tempo accompanies a somber lyric which delves into the feelings of depression which can set in after a breakup.
"My World Is Empty Without You" was one of the few songs written by the team for the Supremes to not reach number 1, peaking at number 5 on the US pop chart for two weeks in February 1966[1] and at number 10 on the R&B chart; the single failed to chart on the UK Singles Chart. The group performed the song on the CBS hit variety program The Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday, February 20, 1966.[2]
Billboard described the song as being "right in their pulsating rhythm groove of 'I Hear a Symphony' with even more excitement in the performance".[3] Cash Box described it as a "throbbing, rhythmic soulful tearjerker about a love-sick girl who spends her days carrying the torch for her ex-boyfriend".[4]
In the view of pop historian Andrew Grant Jackson, the Rolling Stones' later song "Paint It Black" bears a strong resemblance to "My World Is Empty Without You".[5]
Chart (1965–1966) | Peak position | |
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Australia (Kent Music Report)[7] | 88 | |
Canada (Billboard)[8] | 1 | |
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Singapore (Billboard) | 7 | |
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US Cashbox Top 100[9] | 5 | |
US Cashbox R&B[10] | 7 | |
US Record World 100 Top Pops[11] | 4 | |
US Record World Top 40 R&B[12] | 12 |
Chart (1966) | Rank | |
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US Billboard Hot 100[13] | 72 | |
US Cashbox Top 100[14] | 55 |