Without Your Love (Toto song)

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"Without Your Love"
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Single by Toto
from the album Fahrenheit
B-side "Can't Stand It Any Longer"
ReleasedDecember 1986
Recorded1985
Genre
Length4:33
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) David Paich
Producer(s) Toto
Toto singles chronology
"Till the End"
(1986)		"Without Your Love"
(1986)		"Lea"
(1987)

"Without Your Love" is a single by the American rock band Toto, released in December 1986 as the third single from their sixth studio album, Fahrenheit . The song was written by David Paich and features lead vocals by Steve Lukather.

Contents

The single debuted at No.77 on the US Billboard Hot 100 for the week dated December 27, 1986. [1] It was the third most added song to playlists from radio stations reporting to Billboard for the week dated January 10, 1987. [2] The song later went on to peak at No. 38 in February 1987. "Without Your Love" was one of Toto's most successful adult contemporary hits of the 1980s and peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in March 1987.

A music video was produced for the song, which was produced by Eric Wooster and directed by Tommy Chong. [3]

Critical reception

Billboard characterized the song as a "slow rhythmic rock ballad with [a] big spacious sound" that was "produced with a rumbling resonance that recalls 1982's smash, "Africa". [1] Cashbox called the song a "soulful midtempo ballad" with "sterling production". [4]

Personnel

Toto

Additional musicians

Charts

Chart (1987)Peak
position
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [5] 64
US Billboard Hot 100 [6] 38
US Adult Contemporary ( Billboard ) [7] 7

References

  1. 1 2 "Singles: Pop Picks" (PDF). Billboard . December 27, 1986. pp. 81, 85. Retrieved August 2, 2025– via World Radio History.
  2. ↑ "Hot 100 Singles Action" (PDF). Billboard . January 10, 1987. p. 67. Retrieved September 11, 2025– via World Radio History.
  3. ↑ "New Video Clips" (PDF). Billboard . January 31, 1987. p. 68. Retrieved September 11, 2025– via World Radio History.
  4. ↑ "Single Releases" (PDF). Cashbox . January 17, 1987. p. 9. Retrieved August 2, 2025– via World Radio History.
  5. ↑ "Toto – Without Your Love" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  6. ↑ "Toto Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved July 25, 2025.
  7. ↑ "Toto Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved July 25, 2025.


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