Seasons Change (song) explained

Seasons Change
Cover:Expose - Seasons Change cover.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Exposé
Album:Exposure
B-Side:"December"
Released:November 1987
Recorded:October 1986January 1987
Genre:
Length:
  • 3:58 (single version)
  • 4:55 (album version)
Label:Arista
Producer:Lewis Martineé
Prev Title:Let Me Be the One
Prev Year:1987
Next Title:What You Don't Know
Next Year:1989

"Seasons Change" is a pop–R&B song written and produced by Lewis Martineé for the American girl group Exposé's debut album, Exposure (1987). It was the group's fifth single released. The song's lyrics describe relationships fading away due to the changes brought about by time (on both people and events). It is the group's biggest hit to date. Angie Vollaro of fellow Lewis A. Martineé group Sequal lent background vocals to this song; Steve Grove on saxophone.[4] Expose was an 80's rarity as one of the only female vocal groups to hit #1. (Bananarama being the other group) The music video features the group reminiscing in a beach house they are closing down for the summer.

Reception

Released at the end of 1987 as the album's fifth single, the ballad remains the group's biggest hit to date, as it went to number one on the Adult Contemporary chart and topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100[5] for one week on February 20, 1988. The single reached number 97 in the United Kingdom.

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1988)! scope="col"
Peak
position
Panama (UPI)[6] 7
US Cash Box Top 100 Singles[7] 4
US Top Black Contemporary Singles (Cash Box)[8] 34

Year-end charts

Chart (1988)! scope="col"
Position
US Billboard Hot 100[9] 16
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[10] 24
US Cash Box Top 100 Singles[11] 21

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tom . Breihan . The Number Ones: Exposé's "Seasons Change. . April 16, 2021. Jeanette Jurado has an appealingly raw and sentimental R&B delivery...I like the whole wistful-synthpop aesthetic a lot better than the somnambulant orchestral churn that Exposé’s Arista labelmate Whitney Houston was using.... November 10, 2023.
  2. Web site: Tom . Breihan . The Number Ones: Exposé's "Seasons Change. . April 16, 2021. Jeanette Jurado has an appealingly raw and sentimental R&B delivery...I like the whole wistful-synthpop aesthetic a lot better than the somnambulant orchestral churn that Exposé’s Arista labelmate Whitney Houston was using.... November 10, 2023.
  3. Point of No Return Edition. Hit Parade Music History and Music Trivia. Slate. Molanphy. Chris. July 16, 2022. March 30, 2024.
  4. Web site: Steve Grove – Credits . . . May 4, 2024 .
  5. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–2001. Joel Whitburn . 2002 . Record Research . 88.
  6. News: Las canciones más populares en Latinoamérica. La Opinión (Los Angeles). es. 26 October 2023. 25 March 1988. 11.
  7. Web site: Cash Box Top 100 Singles – Week ending February 20, 1988 . . April 16, 2021.
  8. Web site: Cash Box Top Black Contemporary Singles – Week ending March 5, 1988 . Cash Box . May 9, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220510001934/https://cashboxmagazine.com/archives-r/80s_files/19880305R.html . May 10, 2022 . live.
  9. Hot 100 Songs – Year-End 1988 . Billboard . May 9, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210314051551/https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1988/hot-100-songs . March 14, 2021.
  10. Adult Contemporary Songs – Year-End 1988 . Billboard . May 9, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210202134845/https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1988/adult-contemporary-songs . February 2, 2021.
  11. Web site: The Cash Box Year-End Charts: 1988 – Top 50 Pop Singles . Cash Box . December 31, 1988 . May 9, 2022.

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