When You Love Someone (James TW song)

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"When You Love Someone"
James TW - When You Love Someone.png
Single by James TW
from the EP First Impressions and the album Chapters
Released19 August 2016
Genre Pop
Length3:36
Label Island Records
James TW singles chronology
"Black & Blue"
(2015)
"When You Love Someone"
(2016)
"Crazy"
(2016)
Music video
"When You Love Someone" on YouTube

"When You Love Someone" is a song performed by British singer and songwriter James TW. The song was released as a digital download on 19 August 2016 by Island Records as the lead single from his second extended play First Impressions (2016).

Contents

Live performances

On 23 January 2017, James TW performed "When You Love Someone" on The Ellen DeGeneres Show . [1]

Context

James TW explained in a 1:12 minute YouTube video that he came up with the song during the time he was teaching some children to play musical instruments. He found out that the parents of one of the children he was teaching were getting divorced. The child was 11 years old at the time, and James thought that he would write a song showing how the parents would explain to their son in a way he would understand, and put in a positive way the separation of a child's parents. James wanted a song that his music student and other children passing through a similar situation could listen to, to give them hope and make them realise that "what happened in life was perhaps for the best". [2]

Music video

A music video to accompany the release of "When You Love Someone" was first released onto YouTube on 19 February 2016 at a total length of three minutes and forty-six seconds. [3]

Track listing

Album version
No.TitleLength
1."When You Love Someone"3:36
Digital download [4]
No.TitleLength
1."When You Love Someone" (Acoustic)3:30

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for "When You Love Someone"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil) [12] Gold30,000
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [13] 3× Platinum270,000
France (SNEP) [14] Gold100,000
Italy (FIMI) [15] Gold25,000
Norway (IFPI Norway) [16] 2× Platinum120,000
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [17] Gold30,000
Sweden (GLF) [18] Platinum40,000
United Kingdom (BPI) [19] 2× Platinum1,200,000
United States (RIAA) [20] Platinum1,000,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabel
United Kingdom 19 August 2016 [4] Digital download Island Records

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