Ready for Love (Adam Brand song)

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"Ready for Love"
Ready for Love by Adam Brand.jpg
Single by Adam Brand
from the album Hell of a Ride
ReleasedSeptember 2009 (2009-09)
Genre Country music
Length3:20
Label Compass Brothers (Australia)
Arista Nashville (USA)
Songwriter(s) Busbee, Travis Meadows, Bobby Terry
Producer(s) Richard Landis

"Ready for Love" is a song by Australian country singer Adam Brand. The song was released in September 2009 as the second single from Brand's eighth studio album Hell of a Ride . The song was released in the US in 2010 and peaked at number 46 on the US Hot Country Songs in November 2010. It is Brand's only US charting single. [1]

Contents

In September 2009, Brand performed a rumba and freestyle dance routine to the song during his final performance on Dancing with the Stars (Australian season 9), in which he went on to win. [2]

Music video

The music video was filmed on location on Sydney's northern beaches and released on 2 September 2009. [3]

Track listing

  1. "Ready for Love" - 3:17

Charts

Chart (2010)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)46

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