martha reeves sang now that we found love in 1976.
martha reeves sang now that we found love in 1976.
who sang now that we found love in 1976?
martha reeves
"now that we found love" (also known as "now that we've found love") is a song written by kenneth gamble and leon huff and originally recorded by the o'jays for their album "ship ahoy" (1973). cover versions have been an album track by martha reeves (1976), a reggae-disco hit by the reggae band third world (1978) and a breakthrough hit for heavy d & the boyz (1991). the third world version was released as a single in 1978 by island records and peaked at number 10 in the uk and #47 on the "billboard" hot 100. heavy d's version of the song can be heard during the end of the movie "hitch", as well as at the end of the episode "black cadillac" (season 1, episode 4) from the tv series "ray donovan".
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in harris's native united kingdom, "we found love" debuted at number one with 87,000 copies sold on the uk singles chart, uk dance chart and uk singles downloads chart on october 9, 2011, despite only having been on sale for four days. with "we found love" debuting atop the singles chart, the singer set a record by becoming the first female solo artist to top the chart six times in five consecutive years, having previously held pole position with "umbrella", "take a bow", "run this town", "only girl (in the world)" and "what's my name" between 2007 and 2011. the song retained its number-one position on all three charts for three consecutive weeks, selling 92,000 copies in its third week. total sales for "we found love" in the united kingdom stood at 372,268 after just 24 days. in its fifth week, the song climbed a place to number two but then in its sixth week, the song returned to number-one for a fourth non-consecutive week (the record would be broken three years later when pharrell williams' "happy" took a five-week break from the top-spot before returning to pole position) and eventually topped the chart for six weeks, resulting in rihanna overtaking adele as the artist with the most cumulutive weeks at number one of 2011, with a total of seven weeks between "we found love" and her january release "what's my name?". in addition, in its sixth week rihanna scored her second "chart double" of the year when "talk that talk" and "we found love" placed at number one on the albums and singles charts, respectively. this achievement had not been achieved since 1979 and made rihanna the first female artist in chart history to score two "chart doubles" in the same year, with the singer's previous album "loud" and its second single, 'what's my name?' topping both charts earlier in 2011. by february 2012, the single had racked up 1,006,460 copies in 19 weeks, making it rihanna's second solo track (third overall) to reach the million sales plateau since october 2011, following "love the way you lie" and "only girl (in the world)". in november 2012, it was included on 'the million sellers' list by the official charts company, consisting of the best-selling singles in the uk that have sold at least one million copies since 1952. it charted at number 76 out of a total 123, having sold 1.13 million copies. as of february 2016, the song has sold 1.39 million copies in the uk, making it rihanna's biggest-selling single there. the song debuted at number one in scotland on october 15, 2011. the single is the 9th best-selling song of all time by a female artist in the uk.
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