Songoftheday 12/10/21 - If tomorrow is judgment day and I'm standing on the front line, and the Lord asks me what I did with my life I will say I spent it with you...

"My Love Is Your Love" - Whitney Houston

from the album My Love Is Your Love (1998)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #4 (two weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 24

Today's song of the day comes from Whitney Houston, whose fourth album My Love Is Your Love had scored her a pair of top ten pop hits with "Heartbreak Hotel" and "It's Not Right, But It's Okay" in 1998, as well as a top-15 duet with Mariah Carey, "When You Believe", from the Prince Of Egypt soundtrack. The fourth single from the record was the reggae-tinged title track "My Love Is Your Love". Written and produced by Wyclef Jean from the Fugees and Jerry Duplessis, plays like a hymn as much as a love song, with the repeated phrases, especially the line "It would take an eternity to break us and the chains of Amistad couldn't hold us" being deceptively poignant. Whitney delivers a refreshingly restrained vocal that's her "loosest", for which the reggae beat helps dramatically. It may not be one of her most remembered hits, but it deserves notice for its range...

"My Love Is Your Love" became the third top ten pop hit from the album, peaking on New Year's Day in 2000. The song also spent two weeks at #2 on Billboard magazine's R&B Singles chart, as well as #21 on the Rhythmic radio format list. The house music rework of the song for the clubs helped it spent two weeks at #1 on the Dance Club Play chart. Internationally, the single topped the chart in New Zealand, and reached the top ten in the UK (#2), Germany (#2), the Netherlands (#2), Sweden (#2), Switzerland (#2), Ireland (#2), Austria (#2), Belgium (#3F/#9W), Norway (#4), Iceland (#4), Denmark (#5), Hungary (#7), France (#10), and Canada (#10). Both Whitney and this album will be back to the series for one final time.

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There were remixes of the song done by the likes of Thunderpuss and Jonathan Peters, which transformed the song into a club banger. Here's the one from the former...