Love Will Lead You Back

"Love Will Lead You Back"
CD Single Cover
Single by Taylor Dayne
from the album Can't Fight Fate
B-side	"You Meant the World to Me"
Released	January 20, 1990
Format	Cassette single 7" single CD single
Recorded	1989
Genre	Pop, soul
Length	4:24 (Single Version) 4:39 (Album Version)
Label	Arista
Writer(s)	Diane Warren
Producer(s)	Ric Wake
Certification	Gold (US)
Taylor Dayne singles chronology
"With Every Beat of My Heart" (1989) "Love Will Lead You Back" (1990) "I'll Be Your Shelter" (1990)
Alternative cover

"Love Will Lead You Back" is a song performed by American singer Taylor Dayne. Released as the second single from Dayne's second album Can't Fight Fate (following the more uptempo "With Every Beat of My Heart"), the ballad debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on January 27, 1990. It reached number one on April 7 that same year and spent 15 weeks in the Top 40, becoming Dayne's only chart-topping hit. It also reached number one on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart^[1] and was certified Gold in the U.S. by the RIAA.

Diane Warren

The song, written by Diane Warren, is about a woman who is willing to set her lover free because she is confident that one day his love will lead him back to her: "Sometimes it takes some time out on your own now / to find your way back home". Warren has stated that she began writing the song while in a hotel in Russia, and that she had Whitney Houston in mind, but Arista Records president Clive Davis wanted to let Dayne record the song. It became Dayne's only number one single.

Music video

The video was very simple; it shows Dayne and her band in a studio performing the song. The video was released both in black-and-white and sepia tones. In the video, Dayne holds in her hand what seems to be the lyrics of the song, or possibly a letter from her lover.

Chart performance

Chart (1990)	Peak position
Australian Singles Chart[2]	11
Canadian Singles Chart[3]	2
French Singles Chart	9
Japanese Singles Chart (Tokyo)	3
New Zealand Singles Chart[4]	28
Polish Singles Chart	41
UK Singles Chart[5]	69
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[6]	1
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary Chart[6]	1

End of year charts

End of year chart (1990)	Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[7]	28

Covers

The song was covered by Brazilian singer Sandra de Sá, by Filipina singers Kyla and Nina, by Mexican pop singer Yuri for her 1990 Soy Libre LP, and Australian pop group Young Divas. In 2000, Grammy Award winning artist Patti LaBelle covered the composition for her album, When A Woman Loves. Dutch pop singer Gordon also covered the song in 1994 and American Crooner Johnny Mathis also covered his version of the song from his 1998 album, Because You Loved Me.

On American Idol it has been covered three times, by Carmen Rasmusen (season 2), Mikalah Gordon (season 4) and Karen Rodriguez (season 10). All three were eliminated the next night after their performances of that song.

See also

• List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1990

References

1. Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–2001. Record Research. p. 73.
2. Steffen Hung. "Taylor Dayne – Love Will Lead You Back". australian-charts.com. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
3. "Item Display – RPM – Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
4. Steffen Hung. "Taylor Dayne – Love Will Lead You Back". charts.org.nz. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
5. http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/24667/taylor%20dayne/
6. Taylor Dayne (1962-03-07). "Taylor Dayne – Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
7. "Billboard Top 100 – 1990". Retrieved 2009-09-15.

• The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition, 1996
• The Billboard Book of #1 Hits, 5th Edition, 2003

External links

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics