Love Will Save the Day (Boyzone song)

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"Love Will Save the Day"
Boyzone Love Will Save The Day.jpg
Single by Boyzone
from the album BZ20
Released8 November 2013
Recorded2013
Genre Pop
Length3:10
Songwriter(s) Jez Ashurst, Viktoria Hansen
Producer(s) Brian Rawling, Matt Furmidge, Paul Meehan
Boyzone singles chronology
"Love Is a Hurricane"
(2010)
"Love Will Save the Day"
(2013)
"Light Up the Night"
(2014)
Music video
"Love Will Save the Day" on YouTube

Love Will Save the Day is a song by Irish boy band Boyzone from their fifth studio album, BZ20 . The song was written by Jez Ashurst and Viktoria Hansen. The song has sold over 30,000 copies.

Contents

Background

On 24 September 2013, the band performed one of the new songs from their new album called "Love Will Save the Day" on The X Factor Australia .

It was announced on the same day that the new album will be released on 25 November 2013 and became available to pre-order from Amazon. The band premiered the song during a BBC Radio 2 broadcast on 11 October 2013 and the song will be available on download and CD on 17 November 2013. [1] [2]

Promotion

Boyzone performed the song on The X Factor Australia live results show on 24 September. [3]

Boyzone performed the song on The Jonathan Ross Show on 9 November. On 22 November, they performed on The Paul O'Grady Show. Further TV appearances include Loose Women and Lorraine. Boyzone sang two songs (‘Love Will Save The Day' and 'Everything I Own') from the new album on the Terry Wogan show on BBC Radio 2 on Sunday 17 November [4]

Music video

On 22 October 2013, the full video was uploaded to YouTube; it features footage from the group's Brother Tour along with a video shoot for the BZ20 album. [5]

Chart performance

In its first week in the UK Chart the song entered at number 39 with first week sales were at 7,118 followed by second week sales of 6,832, third week sales of 3,088 and fourth week sales of 3,343 totalling 20,381 copies. [6]

Track listing

  1. "Love Will Save the Day" - 3:10

Charts

Chart (2013)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [8] 156
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [9] 28
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia) [10] 46
Germany (Official German Charts) [11] 59
Ireland (IRMA) [12] 42
Scotland (OCC) [13] 28
UK Airplay (Official Charts Company) [14] 26
UK Singles (OCC) [15] 39

Release history

CountryDateFormatLabel
Australia [16] 8 November 2013 Digital download Rhino
Belgium [17]
Ireland [18]
Netherlands [19]
New Zealand [20]
United Kingdom [21]

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