How Much Love (Leo Sayer song)

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"How Much Love"
How Much Love 45 RPM.jpg
Single by Leo Sayer
from the album Endless Flight [1]
B-side "I Hear the Laughter"
ReleasedMarch 1977
Genre Pop
Length3:38
Label Warner Brothers
Songwriter(s) Barry Mann and Leo Sayer
Producer(s) Richard Perry
Leo Sayer singles chronology
"When I Need You"
(1977)
"How Much Love"
(1977)
"Thunder In My Heart"
(1977)

"How Much Love" is a popular song from 1977 by the British singer Leo Sayer. It was the third of three single releases from Sayer's 1976 album, Endless Flight . The song was co-written by Sayer with Barry Mann.

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The song became an international Top 10 hit. Although it reached only number 17 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, it hit number 9 on the U.S. Cashbox Top 100, [2] and number 10 in the UK. [3]

"How Much Love" was a bigger hit in Canada, where it peaked at number 4 and was the 57th biggest hit of 1977. [4] [5] It also reached the Top 10 on the Canadian AC chart.

Chicago radio station WLS, which gave "How Much Love" airplay, ranked the song as the 62nd biggest hit of 1977. [6] It reached as high as number 5 on their weekly singles survey. [7]

Personnel

Chart performance

Cover version

"How Much Love" was covered by Maxine Nightingale on her 1977 LP Night Life . It was also included as the B-side of one of the singles from the LP. [20]

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