Lost Without Your Love (song) explained

Lost Without Your Love
Cover:Lost_Without_Your_Love_-_Bread.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Bread
Album:Lost Without Your Love
B-Side:Change of Heart
Released:November 1976
Genre:Soft rock
Length:2:56
Label:Elektra
Producer:David Gates
Prev Title:Aubrey
Prev Year:1973
Next Title:Hooked on You
Next Year:1977

"Lost Without Your Love" 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 is the title track of Bread's last album which was released in 1976, and the song became their final top 10 hit.

The single lasted 16 weeks on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, longer than any of their other songs except their greatest hit, "Make It With You". It became their comeback hit after an absence from the chart of three and a half years, during which time Gates began his solo career.

In the US, "Lost Without Your Love" peaked at number 9, and number 3 on the Easy Listening charts. Outside the US, "Lost Without Your Love" spent two weeks at number 8 in Canada and number 1 on the country's Easy Listening chart.[1]

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1976–1977)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[2] 19
Canadian RPM Top Singles[3] 8
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary1
New Zealand (RIANZ)[4] 23
UK Singles Chart27
9
US Billboard Easy Listening[5] 3
US Cash Box Top 100 12

Year-end charts

Chart (1977)Rank
Canada RPM Top Singles[6] 86
US Billboard Hot 100[7] 70
US Billboard Easy Listening[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . October 12, 2016.
  2. Book: Kent, David . David Kent (historian) . . Australian Chart Book . St Ives, N.S.W. . 1993 . 0-646-11917-6.
  3. Web site: Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . October 12, 2016.
  4. http://www.flavourofnz.co.nz/index.php?qpageID=search%20rianz&qartistid=1008#n_view_location Flavour of New Zealand, 27 March 1977
  5. Web site: Adult Contemporary Music Chart . Billboard . February 5, 1977 . October 12, 2016.
  6. Web site: Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . November 4, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160927103049/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.5502a&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=nq255quff2tc0difhpmuv69ih2 . September 27, 2016 . dead .
  7. Web site: Top 100 Hits of 1977/Top 100 Songs of 1977 . Musicoutfitters.com . October 12, 2016.
  8. Book: Billboard . Front cover. December 24, 1977 . October 12, 2016.