The Way to Your Love

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"The Way to Your Love"
Hearsay TWTYL 1.jpg
Single by Hear'Say
from the album Popstars
Released25 June 2001 (2001-06-25) [1]
Studio StarGate (Norway)
Length3:15
Label Polydor
Songwriter(s)
  • Mikkel SE
  • Hallgeir Rustan
  • Tor Erik Hermansen
Producer(s) StarGate
Hear'Say singles chronology
"Pure and Simple"
(2001)
"The Way to Your Love"
(2001)
"Everybody"
(2001)
Alternative cover
Hearsay TWTYL 2.jpg
CD 2 single cover

"The Way to Your Love" is the second single from British pop group Hear'Say, the winners of the UK version of Popstars . The song was written and produced by Norwegian production team StarGate and was released as the second and final single from Hear'Say's debut studio album, Popstars (2001), on 25 June 2001.

Contents

"The Way to Your Love" debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart with first-week sales of 75,514 copies. [2] Despite the success of the group's debut single, "Pure and Simple", "The Way to Your Love" spent only one week at the top of the chart and sold only a tenth of their first record's sales; [3] it was the second-lowest-selling number-one single of 2001 that did not reach number one in 2000. [4]

Track listings

UK CD1 [5]

  1. "The Way to Your Love" (Jiant radio edit)
  2. "Look Inside Yourself"
  3. "Pure and Simple" (Jewels & Stone remix)
  4. "The Way to Your Love" (video CD ROM)

UK CD2 [6]

  1. "The Way to Your Love" (Jiant radio edit)
  2. "Boogie Wonderland"
  3. "Brand New Day"

UK cassette single [7]

  1. "The Way to Your Love" (Jiant radio edit)
  2. "Pure and Simple" (karaoke version)

Credits and personnel

Credits are lifted from the Popstars album booklet. [8]

Studios

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [15] Silver200,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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