Songoftheday 1/31/21 - Sometimes when all your dreams may have seen better days, and you don't know how or why but you've lost your way...
"I Will Come To You" - Hanson
from the album Middle Of Nowhere (1997)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #9 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 12
Today's song of the day comes from the pop trio Hanson, whose major label debut Middle Of Nowhere had already spun off two big hits with "Where's The Love" and the #1 single "Mmmbop". The third release from the record was the ballad "I Will Come To You". With songwriting credits to the Hanson brothers and iconic veterans Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil (which I am not sure if it was because it cribbed another older song which wouldn't surprise me), the totally by-the-numbers love ballad is earnestly sang by Taylor and Isaac, though the lyrics are so commonplace that I completely forgot it existed until I played it again.
"I Will Come To You" became Hanson's second top ten hit on Billboard magazine's official Hot 100 pop chart in December of 1997. Internationally, the single did quite well, topping the chart in Sweden for four weeks and making the top ten in Australia (#2), Finland (#2), New Zealand (#3), Belgium (#4F/#7W), Norway (#4), the UK (#5), Switzerland (#9), France (#10), and Austria (#10). It also peaked at #11 in Canada and #12 in the Netherlands.
A fourth track from the album, the Desmond Child co-penned "Weird" that sported a music video directed by Gus Van Sant, peaked at #4 in Belgium and Finland, nearly made the top ten at #11 in Canada, and got to #18 in the UK, but aside to going to #31 on the "Mainstream Top-40" radio chart, got nowhere in the States. (It's a better song than "IWCTY" even.) Lastly, the single "Thinking Of You" went top ten in Australia (#6), Finland (#6), and Canada (#10), and scored their fifth top-40 hit in the UK at #23.
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And on their Underneath Acoustic tour in 2003...
Up tomorrow: Speed metal titans are like elephants.
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