Songfotheday 4/20/19 - If you could give me one good reason why I should believe you, believe in all the things that you tell I would sure like to believe you...
from the album Toni Braxton (1993)
Billboard Hot 100 peak (for "You Mean The World To Me"): #7 (four weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40 (for "You Mean The World To Me"): 28
Billboard Hot 100 Airplay peak (for "Seven Whole Days"): #48
Today's songs of the day come from Toni Braxton, whose self-titled debut album had already spun off four top-40 pop hits in America with "Give U My Heart" with Babyface, "Love Shoulda Brought You Home", "Another Sad Love Song", and the ballad "Breathe Again". While the latter was climbing the charts, many R&B radio stations, and quite a few mainstream urban ones as well, started also to play the album track "Seven Whole Days". Written by L.A. Reid and Babyface, who produced the cut with Daryl Simmons, the slow soulful break-up song recalls the best of Anita Baker. Despite initially not being available as a single, the song spent five weeks at #1 on Billboard magazine's R&B Airplay chart, and made it to #48 on their pop airplay list as well....
Well, when "Breathe Again" was fading on the charts, her next physical single would be the midtempo ballad gem "You Mean The World To Me", written and produced by the same team. In this one, Toni is contemplating reuniting but needs him to know where she stands. And on almost all of the versions of the single, a live version of "Seven Whole Days" was put on as the "B-Side". But "You Mean The World To Me" became a much bigger hit with pop radio...
"You Mean The World To Me" became Toni's third top ten pop hit in the U.S. in May of 1994. The song also spent two weeks at #3 on Billboard's R&B chart, and crossed over to their Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio list at #4. Internationally, the single peaked at #6 in Canada, and was a top-40 hit in the UK at #30, and in New Zealand at #32.
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First, here's the live version of "Seven Whole Days" that appeared on the single in 1994...
Next up is Toni live on German television in 2010 singing "You Mean The World To Me"...
And then "Seven Whole Days" from that same show....
Here's Toni performing "You Mean The World To Me" live in concert in 2016...
And finally, a concert take on "Seven Whole Days" along with 2005 track "Please" from her Libra album..
Up tomorrow: You get the entire mulleted loverboy in this one.
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