Love Ain't Gonna Wait for You

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"Love Ain't Gonna Wait for You"
S Club - Love Ain't Gonna Wait For you.jpg
Single by S Club
from the album Seeing Double and Best: The Greatest Hits of S Club 7
A-side "Say Goodbye"
B-side
  • "Special Kind of Something"
  • "Bittersweet"
Released26 May 2003 (2003-05-26)
Length3:48
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Simon Ellis
  • Dan Frampton
S Club singles chronology
"Alive"
(2002)
"Say Goodbye" / "Love Ain't Gonna Wait for You"
(2003)
"These Are The Days"
(2023)
Music video
"Love Ain't Gonna Wait For You" on YouTube

}} "Love Ain't Gonna Wait for You" is a song by British pop group S Club and was originally the last single by the band, released on their final studio album Seeing Double and included on the compilation Best: The Greatest Hits of S Club 7 . It was released in United Kingdom on 26 May 2003 as double A-side with "Say Goodbye". In other countries, only "Say Goodbye" was released as single. On 16 February 2024, the double A-side single was released with all the remixes on digital streaming platforms.

Contents

Music video

This video is a montage, incorporating scenes from the Seeing Double movie (which the song features in) along with shots from all their previous music videos, series of their TV show and the Carnival 2002 arena tour.

Track listings

  1. "Say Goodbye"
  2. "Love Ain't Gonna Wait for You" (Single remix)
  3. "Special Kind of Something"
  4. "Say Goodbye" (video)
  5. Goodbye messages from Rachel, Tina and Bradley (video)
  1. "Say Goodbye"
  2. "Bittersweet"
  3. "Love Ain't Gonna Wait for You" (video)
  4. Goodbye messages from Jon, Jo and Hannah (video)
  1. "Say Goodbye"
  2. "Love Ain't Gonna Wait for You" (Illicit vocal mix)
  1. "Say Goodbye"
  2. "Special Kind of Something"
  3. "Bittersweet"
  4. "Love Ain't Gonna Wait for You" (Singe remix)
  5. "Love Ain't Gonna Wait for You" (Illicit Vocal Mix)
  6. "Love Ain't Gonna Wait for You" (Illicit Dub Mix)
  7. "Love Ain't Gonna Wait for You" (Bimbo Jones Club Mix)
  8. "Love Ain't Gonna Wait for You" (Harry's Afro Hut 'Going Down' Mix)

Credits and personnel

Credits are lifted from the UK CD1 liner notes. [1]

Studios

Personnel

Charts

All entries charted with "Say Goodbye".

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United Kingdom26 May 2003
  • CD
  • cassette
[8]
Australia7 July 2003CD [9]

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