"I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" reached #2 on both the "Billboard" Hot 100 and its R&B charts in January 1969: the "Record World" 100 Top Pops ranked "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" at #1 for the three weeks of 4 January to 18 January 1969 while "Cash Box" ranked the single #1 on its chart for 25 January 1969. In the UK, the single peaked at number 3 in the Top 50, spending six weeks in the Top 10.