Love Long Distance

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"Love Long Distance"
Gossip LoveLongDistance.jpg
Single by Gossip
from the album Music for Men
ReleasedSeptember 13, 2009
Studio Shangri La (Malibu, California)
Length
  • 4:25 (album version)
  • 3:39 (radio edit)
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • Beth Ditto
  • Brace Paine
  • Hannah Billie
Producer(s) Rick Rubin
Gossip singles chronology
"Heavy Cross"
(2009)
"Love Long Distance"
(2009)
"Pop Goes the World"
(2010)

"Love Long Distance" is a song by American band Gossip, released as the second single from their album Music for Men . It was released on September 13, 2009, in the United States. It quotes the refrain from the song "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye. [1]

Contents

Track listings

  1. "Love Long Distance" (radio edit) – 3:39
  2. "Love Long Distance" (Fake Blood Remix) – 4:36
  3. "Love Long Distance" (Riva Starr Remix) – 5:56
  4. "Love Long Distance" (Riva Starr Radio Edit) – 3:34
  1. "Love Long Distance" – 4:24
  2. "Love Long Distance" (Fake Blood Remix) – 4:36

Charts

Chart (2009–2010)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [4] 49
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [5] 32
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia) [6] 36
Belgium Dance (Ultratop Flanders) [7] 6
Germany (Official German Charts) [8] 30
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) [9] 41

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