Love Takes Time
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| Single by Mariah Carey from the album Mariah Carey |
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| B-side | "Sent from up Above" (U.S.) "Vanishing" (UK) "You Need Me" (UK) |
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| Released | September 9, 1990 (North America) November 1990 (UK) |
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| Format | CD single, cassette single, 7" single | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Pop, R&B | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:49 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Columbia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Mariah Carey, Ben Margulies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Producer | Walter Afanasieff | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Certification | Gold (RIAA) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Love Takes Time" is a pop song written by Mariah Carey and Ben Margulies, and produced by Walter Afanasieff for Carey's debut album, Mariah Carey (1990). It was released as the album's second single in the third quarter of 1990 (see 1990 in music). It was the first of several adult contemporary-influenced Carey ballads to be released as a single, and its protagonist informs others to take things easy in a relationship as "love takes time". It became Carey's second number-one single in the United States and Canada, but was only a moderate success elsewhere.
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[edit] Commercial release
"Love Takes Time" was another success like Carey's debut single "Vision of Love" in the United States: it reached number one in its ninth week on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent three weeks at the top of the chart, from November 10 to November 24, 1990. It spent seventeen weeks in the top forty and the RIAA certified it gold. It topped every other Billboard chart for which it was eligible (including the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks and Adult Contemporary charts). Because its success was divided over two calendar years it did not rank high on Billboard's year-end charts, making seventy-sixth on the 1990 chart and sixty-ninth on the 1991 chart.
However, "Love Takes Time" failed to emulate it's US success in any other market except Canada, where it topped the singles chart for one week, and the Philippines, where it became Carey's second number-one single. It did not make much of an impact elsewhere, becoming a moderate top twenty hit in Australia, and almost failing to make the top forty altogether in the UK.
The song did not receive as many awards as "Vision of Love", but it too managed a BMI Pop Award for "Song of the Year". The single's video, directed by Jeb Bien and Walter Maser, features Carey walking around a beach after a man walks away with luggage. The video is not include on the DVD/home video #1's (1999).
[edit] Track listings
- U.S. CD single (cassette single/7" single)
- "Love Takes Time" (album version)
- "Sent from up Above" (album version)
- UK CD 5" single
- "Love Takes Time" (album version)
- "Vanishing" (album version)
- "You Need Me" (album version)
[edit] Charts
| Chart (1990) | Peak position |
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| Australia ARIA Singles Chart | 14 |
| Canadian Singles Chart | 1 |
| German Singles Chart | 57 |
| Israeli Singles Chart | 9 |
| New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart | 9 |
| UK Singles Chart | 37 |
| U.S. ARC Weekly Top 40 | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary | 1 |
[edit] See also
| Preceded by "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice |
Billboard Hot 100 number-one single November 10, 1990 – November 24, 1990 |
Succeeded by "I'm Your Baby Tonight" by Whitney Houston |
| Preceded by "So You Like What You See" by Samuelle |
Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks number-one single November 10, 1990 |
Succeeded by "B.B.D. (I Thought It Was Me)?" by Bell Biv Devoe |
