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For the album by Boney James, see Send One Your Love (album). 1979 single by Stevie Wonder
"Send One Your Love"
Single by Stevie Wonder
from the album Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants"
B-side"Send One Your Love (Instrumental)"
ReleasedNovember 1979
Recorded1979
Genre
Length4:01
LabelTamla
Songwriter(s)Stevie Wonder
Producer(s)Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder singles chronology
"As"
(1977)
"Send One Your Love"
(1979)
"Black Orchid"
(1980)

"Send One Your Love" is a 1979 soul single by American and Motown musician and singer Stevie Wonder from his album Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants" (1979). Released in November 1979 as the album's lead single, the song reached number four on the US Billboard pop singles chart in 1979 The song also became Wonder's second single to top the adult contemporary chart, following 1973's "You Are the Sunshine of My Life", topping the chart for four weeks. On the soul charts, "Send One Your Love" went to number five.

Cash Box said that it has "an unusual sound that gets better each time you hear it," with an "off-beat percussive background and an unusual lyrical structure." Record World called it "an oldfashioned love song straight from the heart."

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1979-1980) Peak
position
Canada RPM Top Singles 7
Canada RPM Adult Contemporary 12
Germany 7
Netherlands 45
New Zealand 29
UK Singles (The Official Charts Company) 52
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 4
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary 1
U.S. Billboard R&B 5
U.S. Cash Box Top 100 5

Year-end charts

Chart (1979) Rank
U.S. Cash Box 75
Chart (1980) Rank
Canada 74
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 43

See also

References

  1. Considine, J.D. (2004). "Stevie Wonder". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 885–886. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
  3. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 636.
  4. "CashBox Singles Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. November 3, 1979. p. 22. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
  5. "Hits of the Week" (PDF). Record World. November 3, 1979. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
  6. Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada
  7. Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada
  8. "officialcharts.com". officialcharts.com. Retrieved October 5, 2021.
  9. Cash Box YE Pop Singles – 1979
  10. Top 100 Hits of 1980/Top 100 Songs of 1980

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