You're Moving Out Today Explained

You're Movin' Out Today
Cover:You're_Moving_Out_Today_-_Bette_Midler.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Bette Midler
Album:Live at Last
B-Side:Let Me Just Follow Behind
Released:April 1977 (U.S.)
Genre:Pop
Length:3:00
Label:Atlantic
Producer:Tom Dowd
Prev Title:Old Cape Cod
Prev Year:1976
Next Title:Storybook Children (Daybreak)
Next Year:1978
You're Moving Out Today
Cover:You're Moving Out Today - Carole Bayer Sager.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Carole Bayer Sager
Album:Carole Bayer Sager
B-Side:Aces
Released:December 1976
Genre:Pop
Length:3:32
Label:Elektra
Producer:Brooks Arthur
Next Title:Stronger Than Before
Next Year:1981

"You're Moving Out Today" is a song written by Carole Bayer Sager, Bette Midler and Bruce Roberts.[1] It became an international hit in 1977, in two versions.

Both Sager and Midler recorded the song. The first U.S. release was by Bette Midler, in February 1977. It was the lead single from her LP Live at Last. Her version reached No. 42 on the Billboard Hot 100, and also charted in Canada. On the Adult Contemporary charts, the song reached No. 11 in the U.S. and No. 9 in Canada.

Carole Bayer Sager version

"You're Moving Out Today" became an international hit for Carole Bayer Sager during the fall of the year, reaching number six in the UK and spending four weeks at number one in Australia.

Although Sager is a prolific songwriter who is credited on many hit singles,[2] this was the first one that she performed herself.[3]

Chart history

Weekly charts

Chart (1977)! scope="col"
Peak
position
US Cash Box Top 100[4] 78
Chart (1977)! scope="col"
Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[5] 1
US Cash Box Top 100[6] 57

Year-end charts

Chart (1977)! scope="col"
Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)9

Notes and References

  1. Web site: You're Moving Out Today. musicnotes.com. 18 February 2011.
  2. Web site: Carole Bayer Sager. Jason Ankeny. Allmusic. 18 February 2011.
  3. Book: Dominic, Serene. Burt Bacharach: Song By Song. Schirmer Trade Books. 2003. 978-0857122599.
  4. Web site: CASH BOX Top 100 Singles (Week ending JUNE 18, 1977). December 20, 2022. October 3, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121003220047/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/70s_files/19770618.html.
  5. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 28.
  6. Web site: CASH BOX Top 100 Singles (Week ending NOVEMBER 19, 1977). December 20, 2022. February 22, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200222002259/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/70s_files/19771119.html.