100% Pure Love

"100% Pure Love"
Single by Crystal Waters
from the album Storyteller
Released February 17, 1994
Format
Recorded 1993
Genre
Length 4:40
Label Mercury
Writer(s)
  • Crystal Waters
  • Teddy Douglas
  • Thomas Davis
  • Jay Steinhour
Producer(s)
  • Teddy Douglas
  • Jay Steinhour
Certification Gold (US)
Crystal Waters singles chronology
"Gypsy Woman (Basement Boys "Strip to the Bone" Remix)
(1992)
"100% Pure Love"
(1994)
"What I Need"
(1994)

"100% Pure Love" is a 1994 single recorded by house musician Crystal Waters. It reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, number 38 on the US R&B chart, and number 15 in the UK. The single spent a total of 45 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming one of the longest charting singles in the US to date. The song won Waters a Billboard Award for Top-Selling Hot Dance Music Club Play Single at the 1994 Billboard Music Awards. The song was certified Gold in the United States. The music video, directed by Marcus Nispel and choreographed by Michael K. Williams (who later went on to star as Omar Little on The Wire), was also nominated for Best Dance Video at the 1994 MTV Video Music Awards.

Music video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQX2q6WCrbE

Track listings

Australian CD single

  1. "100% Pure Love" (Radio Mix) - 3:06
  2. "100% Pure Love" (Club Mix) - 8:04
  3. "100% Pure Love" (Gumbo Mix) - 5:22

Official versions

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1994) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[1] 2
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[2] 26
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[3] 31
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[4] 14
Germany (Official German Charts)[5] 33
Ireland (IRMA) 30
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[6] 15
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[7] 44
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[8] 20
UK Singles (The Official Charts Company) 15
US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play 1
US Billboard Hot 100 11
US Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales 1
US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales 2
US Billboard US Top 40 Mainstream 7
US Billboard Rhythmic Top 40 2

Year-end charts

Chart (1994) Position
US Billboard Hot 100[9] 46
Chart (1995) Position
US Billboard Hot 100[10] 82

References

External links

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