| Perfect Love | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Trisha Yearwood |
| Album: | (Songbook) A Collection of Hits |
| B-Side: | I Need You |
| Recorded: | 1997 |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 2:56 |
| Label: | MCA Nashville |
| Producer: | Tony Brown, Trisha Yearwood |
| Prev Title: | In Another's Eyes |
| Prev Year: | 1997 |
| Next Title: | There Goes My Baby |
| Next Year: | 1998 |
"Perfect Love" is a song written by Sunny Russ and Stephony Smith, and recorded by American country music artist Trisha Yearwood. It was released in January 1998 as the third and final single from her compilation album (Songbook) A Collection of Hits. The song reached the top of the US Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[1]
Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, calling it an "infectious, uptempo tune that celebrates the joys of being in love." She goes on to say that Yearwood delivers the song with "her usual passion and vibrancy."[2]
The music video was directed by Gerry Wenner and premiered in January 1998. It shows Yearwood performing the song in a vintage novelty shop, and a young couple, an elderly couple, and two kids walking through the shop, trying on clothes, dancing, and looking at the toys and pictures that eventually come to life.
"Perfect Love" debuted at number 61 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of January 17, 1998.
| Chart (1998) | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[3] | 27 | |
| US Country Songs (Billboard)[4] | 19 |
. The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 403.